PARIS: The French Open showdown between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic might lack some sizzle because it's a semifinal and not the final.

NEW DELHI: The passport of Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra has been seized and he has been asked not to leave the country till the IPL spot-fixing probe is over, a Delhi Police official said on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Rhiti Sports Management and its main promoter, Arun Pandey, might deny that Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni

CARDIFF: The city of London plays host to the annual conference of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at the end of this month.

PARIS: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga sent Roger Federer crashing out of the French Open quarterfinals Tuesday to take a step closer to ending France's 30-year wait for a men's champion at Roland Garros.

CARDIFF: At the start of the 17th over of India's innings against Australia on a bright but windy Tuesday morning, the scoreboard read 55-5. All the five wickets fallen were starkly different from each other, either shattered by pace or done in by the short ball or swing, or the comfort of the pleasant sun letting carelessness creep in.

MUMBAI: Vindu Dara Singh boasted to CSK principal Gurunath Meiyappan that he had moles in almost all the IPL franchisees including Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

KOLKATA: When he was run out on the very first ball he faced in international cricket, little did anyone realise that the stockily built lad from Jharkhand with long locks would lead India in all three forms of the game in four years'

PARIS: Defending champion Maria Sharapova returned to the French Open quarterfinals by beating 17th-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States 6-4, 6-3 on Monday.

CARDIFF: How well does it all augur for a tournament gearing up for its last edition, being played in the underlying fear of having to sustain a dwindling format and in the aftermath of a Twenty20 overdose?