Olympic champion Kirani James lit up the Commonwealth Games with a devastating and graceful run to win gold in the men’s 400 metres on Wednesday.In a Games hampered by big-name withdrawals and weakened fields, the arrival of the powerful Grenadian was a welcome sight at a wet and...
A Scottish court has ordered an Australian medal winner to pay compensation to a Welsh weightlifter after he admitted head-butting him in the athletes’ village. Francois Etoundi, also a weightlifter, assaulted Gareth Evans early on Wednesday after a verbal exchange relating to the Welshman’s girlfriend.At Glasgow Sheriff Court,...
Yogeshwar Dutt (R) performs the move ‘Fitele’ against Canadian opponent Jevon Balfour to win gold in the final of the men’s 66kg category. (source: AP)It was almost a reproduction from a giddy evening two years back. The mood was almost the same, the crowd waited in anticipation and...
Karmakar performed the double twist at a difficulty level of 7.0.Dipa Karmarkar’s father, a weightlifting coach, served half a decade in the Andaman islands, training little-known athletes at the SAI facility there. At the time of the Delhi Games, when his daughter was 17 and the baby of...
Vikas gowda celebrates his win at Hampden Park ,GlasgowVikas Gowda gave its first athletics gold medal of the 20th Commonwealth Games by winning the men’s discuss throw event, in Glasgow on Thursday.The 31-year-old US-based Indian pocketed the gold with an effort of 63.64m, way below his personal best...
Wicket-keeper batsman Naman Ojha will replace an injured Wriddhiman Saha in the India squad for remainder of the five-match Test series in England, the BCCI said on Thursday.“The All-India Senior Selection Committee has picked Naman Ojha as his (Saha’s) replacement. Ojha will join the squad at the earliest,”...
Indian shuttlers Parupalli Kashyap, R M V Gurusaidutt and P C Thulasi entered the quarterfinals of badminton competition at the 20th Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Thursday.Delhi Games bronze medallist, Kashyap took just 24 minutes to end the misery of his rival Jeff Tho of Australia 21-7 21-8,...
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MSD criticized the batsman for “soft dismissal.”(Source: AP)India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday blamed his batsmen for the “soft dismissals” which saw them suffer an embarrassing 266-run defeat in the third cricket Test and said they would need to discuss their four-bowler strategy ahead of the fourth...
SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 31 (Reuters) - England captain Alastair Cook was pleased with the way he handled the huge pressure he felt under to make his first significant scores of the year and set his team on their way to a first win in 11 tests against India...
Wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal and spinner Ajantha Mendis were left out of the Sri Lanka squad of 15 named for the two-Test series against Pakistan starting at Galle next week.Chandimal lost his place to Niroshan Dickwella who made his Test debut in the second test against South Africa in...
India’s Yogeshwar Dutt qualified for the finals in men’s 65 kg freestyle wrestling. (Source: PTI)Three Indian grapplers, including Olympic bronze medallist Yogeshwar Dutt, qualified for the finals in their respective weight categories to ensure at least three silver for India on the third and final day of the...
COLOMBO, July 31 (Reuters) - Wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal and spinner Ajantha Mendis were left out of the Sri Lanka squad of 15 named for the two-test series against Pakistan starting at Galle next week. ...
SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 31 (Reuters) - Spinner Moeen Ali claimed six wickets to inspire England to a crushing 266-run win over India on Thursday to level an absorbing series at 1-1 with two matches to play. ...
SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 31 (Reuters) - Moeen Ali claimed six wickets as England beat India by 266 runs to win the third test on Thursday and level the series at 1-1 with two to play. ...
SOUTHAMPTON, England, July 31 (Reuters) - Scoreboard on the final day of the third test between England and India on Thursday. England won by 266 runs. England first innings 569-7 declared (I. Bell 167, G. Ballance 156, A. Cook 95, J. Buttler 85, B. Kumar 3-101) & 205-4...
July 31 (Reuters) - England beat India by 266 runs to win the third test in Southampton on Thursday and level the five-match series at 1-1. ...
Live Cricket Score, India vs England 3rd Test Day 5: India take on England on Day 5 of the third Test on Thursday (Source: AP)India have a mountain to climb on Day 5 against England. The visitors need 333 runs with only six wickets in hand. ( Full...
(From left) Ganesh Mali, Chandrakant Mali and Omkar Otari with their bronze medals at the Glasgow Games. Source: Express PhotoAs the bright red band bearing the bronze disc settled around Chandrakant Mali’s neck in Glasgow, a 55-year-old man seated in his village thousands of miles away in Maharashtra...
No spoken exclamations or gushing and no uttered consternation or chiding in Scotland would be complete without the delightfully emphasised adjective ‘wee’ for little Scots – mostly tiny, though not always young. Angus war veteran Andy Coogan, 97, could call his great-grand-nephew, the great Sir Chris Hoy, wee.You...
Bajrang Kumar’s entry into the SECC wrestling arena was greeted with bout of praise from the television commentator. The World Championship bronze medallist was due to fight David Tremblay of Canada for the gold medal in the 61 kg category.The commentator elaborated on Bajrang’s dominating performance all through...
Jacques Kallis retired from all international cricket Wednesday, as one of the game’s greatest allrounders admitted that a swansong at the World Cup next year was “a bridge too far.’’The 38-year-old Kallis retired from tests and Twenty20s in December, but remained available for one-day internationals in the hope...
