Cricket: India to take on Zimbabwe in first T20 encounter tomorrow

India will face Zimbabwe in the first Twenty 20 International Cricket match at Harare tomorrow. The key to India's success is batting and the line-up is desperately missing the heavyweights, who were rested from the series. Dinesh Karthik and M Vijay are not exactly the ideal opening pair f...

Ganguly to lead MCC against Pakistan in Lord's T20

Sourav Ganguly will have Brian Lara playing under him when the former India captain leads a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) team in a Twenty20 match against Pakistan at Lord's on 27th June. Apart from Ganguly and Lara, other players who have confirmed their availability for the tie include Sr...

New Zealand's first batch of athletes for New Delhi CW games announced

Beijing Olympics gold medalist and reigning world champion shot-putter Valerie Vili was on Friday named in New Zealand's first batch of athletes for this year'sCommonwealth Games in New Delhi. The 26-year-old Villi holds the New Zealand, Oceanian and Commonwealth records for the sh...

FIFA Football World Cup begins in South Africa today

Gerry Weber Open Tennis: Rohan and Qureshi bow out of tournament

Indian Davis Cupper Rohan Bopanna and his partner Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi bowed out of the Gerry Weber Open Tennis Tournament in Halle, Germany following a straight set defeat against Marx Philipp and Igor Zelenay.The Indo-Pakistani pair lost 2-6, 6-7 to the German-Slovakian combination in the first ro...

Football fever catches, FIFA opens in South Africa tomorrow

Football fever catches on across the world as the count down begins in South Africa for the opening of the FIFA World Cup tomorrow. An expectant South Africa began counting down the hours as it readied to kick off a historic world cup. The last of the 32 teams have arrived ahead of the opening game ...

Football fever catches world cup FIFA opens in South Africa tomorrow

Football fever catches on across the world as the count down begins in South Africa for the opening of the FIFA World Cup tomorrow. An expectant South Africa began counting down the hours as it readied to kick off a historic world cup. The last of the 32 teams have arrived ahead of the opening game ...

Karnataka, Chandigarh qualify for Natl Jr football quarters

Reigning champions Karnataka and Chandigarh qualified for the quarterfinal league of the National Junior Football Championship for Dr B C Roy Trophy in Kolkata on Wednesday. Meghalaya held in-form Karnataka to a goalless draw at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan (YBK) in Salt Lake to see both the teams top...

Indian men's team in final, Dola in semis

The Indian men's recurve team on Wednesday entered the second successive final of the World Cup archery series while ace women archer Dola Banerjee entered the semifinals in the individual section in Antalya, Turkey. The crack combination of Mangal Singh Champia, Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul ...

Tri nation final: Lanka defeat Zimbabwe by 9 wickets

Sri Lanka posted a comfortable 9 wicket victory over hosts Zimbabwe in final of the Tri-nation cricket series at Harare today.Chasing the victory target of 200 runs, the Sri Lankan players completed the job in only 34.4 overs. Tilak Ratne Dilshan was the top scorer who made 108 runs not out.Earlier,...