ATP South Africa Tennis Open: Somdev, Martin enter doubles quarter-finals

Somdev Devvarman and David Martin have stormed into the doubles quarter-finals of the ATP South Africa Tennis Open tournament. In the opening round of the doubles event at Johannesburg, the Indo-American pair carved out a 6-3, 6-4 win over Austria's Martin Fischer and Rainer Schuettler of G...

Federation Cup Tennis: Uzbekistan defeat India

In the Asia Oceania Group I Federation Cup tennis tournament, India on Thursday suffered a 1-2 defeat against Uzbekistan. At Nonthaburi in Thailand, Commonwealth Games bronze medalist pair of Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi lost the decisive doubles rubber in three sets 6-2 3-6 3-6 against Nigin...

The ICC World Cup 2011 trophy was handed over to the Bangladesh Cricket Board Thursday evening at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur on the outskirts of Dhaka. The cup which arrived in Dhaka by a special flight from India was taken around the city in a colourful road show before being handed over t...

Pak clinch 6-match ODI series against New Zealand

Pakistan have clinched the six-match one-day cricket series against New Zealand. In the 5th match at Hamilton on Thursday, they beat the hosts by 41 runs and took a three-one winning lead. Put in to bat, Pakistan posted 268 for 9 in their 50 overs. Chasing the victory target of 269, the Kiwis were a...

ATP South Africa Tennis Open: Somdev, Martin enter doubles quarter-finals

Somdev Devvarman and David Martin have stormed into the doubles quarter-finals of the ATP South Africa Tennis Open tournament. In the opening round of the doubles event at Johannesburg, the Indo-American pair carved out a 6-3, 6-4 win over Austria's Martin Fischer and Rainer Schuettler of G...

Somdev Devvarman enters quarter-finals of ATP SA Tennis Open

In Tennis, India's Somdev Dev varman progressed to the singles quarter-finals of the ATP South Africa Open with a straight-set win over Netherland's, Jesse Huta Galung at Johannesburg on Wednesday. Somdev defeated the giant killer 6-3, 6-4. This was the first meeting between the 11...

ICC confirms Bangalore as India-England match venue

The ICC approved BCCI's proposal to hold the India-England Cricket World Cup tie at Bangalore after Eden Gardens was stripped of the right to host it and said the match will be held on the scheduled date of 27th February.The Indian Cricket Board had on Sunday recommended Bangalore as the al...

ICC Cricket World Cup inaugural match: Davis, Dharmasena to be on-field umpires

England's Steve Davis and Sri Lanka's Kumar Dharmasena will be the on-field umpires during the inaugural match of the ICC Cricket World Cup between India and Bangladesh. The match will be played in Mirpur in Bangladesh on February 19. Billy Doctrove and Asad Rauf, both from the eli...

Australia win after record ODI run chase

Australia conjured up their biggest ever successful run chase to beat England by two wickets in a thrilling sixth one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground in Sydney.After a Jonathan Trott century helped England post their highest ever ODI score against Australia of 333-6, the home side bat...

India's Somdev Devvarman enters quarter-finals of ATP SA Tennis Open

In Tennis, India's Somdev Dev varman progressed to the singles quarter-finals of the ATP South Africa Open with a straight-set win over Netherland's, Jesse Huta Galung at Johannesburg on Wednesday. Somdev defeated the giant killer 6-3, 6-4. This was the first meeting between the 11...