INDIAN WELLS: World number three Roger Federer defeated Thomaz Bellucci of Brazil 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the fourth round of the ATP/WTA Indian Wells tournament on Wednesday.

MIRPUR: Too much cricket is taking its toll on Sri Lanka and the unit that looked so competitive in Australia is struggling at the Asia Cup.

New Delhi: Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing chemotherapy in Boston for a rare germ cell cancer, is in the last leg of his treatment and is eagerly waiting for it to end in the next four days.

MIRPUR: It was backyard cricket for the Indian superstars at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium on Tuesday. The batsmen were back at their best on a docile surface, the pacers found the right length and offie R Ashwin got the ball to turn as India registered a 50-run win to open their Asia Cup campaign on a high.

LONDON: Sahara Force India team principal Vijay Mallya has pumped in $32 million into his Formula One team ahead of the season opener in Melbourne on Sunday.

Dubai/New Delhi: Reacting sharply to a British newspaper claim that the India-Pakistan semifinal in the 2011 cricket World Cup may have been fixed, the ICC tonight dismissed the claim as “spurious”.

MUMBAI: Bollywood starlet Nupur Mehta confirmed on Monday that the picture splashed across newspapers and TV channels in cricket-playing nations was hers, but denied any link with the match-fixing controversy. The actress also threatened to sue the UK newspaper Sunday Times for first using her photograph. "I am really hurt and considering legal action against the paper for using my picture," Nupur told mediapersons.

MIRPUR: The streets of Dhaka wore a deserted look. The rally called by the opposition four-party alliance had brought the city to a standstill and the first piece of information filtering out was that both India and Sri Lanka would not leave the team hotel for the whole day.

ADELAIDE: Tillakaratne Dilshan smashed a strokeful 106 as Sri Lanka spanked Australia by eight wickets to level the best-of-three triseries finals 1-1 on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: Released in 2001, the Steven Soderberg directed Ocean's Eleven best captured the look and feel of a fight night. Women dolled up to the nines, men looking slick with gelled hair, an electric atmosphere and the smell of a contest that's impossible to bottle.