According to Shukla, the meeting was fruitful. “We briefed the franchisees about the steps to be taken by BCCI regarding the two-year suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Their feedback is valuable to us and they appreciated the solutions sugges ....

Suresh Menon Such a period also attracts the non-specialist who writes the occasional essay which then becomes the touchstone for excellence. David Foster Wallace’s appreciation of Roger Federer is an example of the latter. Hugh McIlvanney’s writings abou ....

Bopanna and Mergea lost to Peya and Soares 6-4 1-6 8-10 in just an hour and two minutes on Monday in the 1.5 million euro tournament on the indoor courts of the St Jakobshalle. Bopanna and Mergea had earlier made a first round exit from Vienna Open last week. Bopa ....

The Indo-Swiss pair took just an hour and 15 minutes to defeat American sixth seeds Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears 6-4, 6-2 in the Red Group of the round-robin league format. Sania, who won the prestigious tournament last year with Zimbabwean Cara Black, and Ma ....

 Cricketer Amit Mishra, who is accused of assaulting his female friend at a hotel on Residency Road here last month, was questioned for nearly three hours on Tuesday before being arrested and later released on bail. The 32-year-old leg spinner, who represented the c ....

V.V.S. Laxman on a comeback trail! Well, if all those present at the Gymkhana Ground here on Tuesday morning, including HCA president Arshad Ayub, were hoping momentarily for that to happen, considering the low the Hyderabad Ranji team has hit this season, they should no ....

 Pakistan overcame belligerent resistance from England's tail-enders to win the second test by 178 runs on Monday after bowling out Alastair Cook's men for 312 with just 6.3 overs remaining. Victory put Pakistan 1-0 up in the three-game series and maintains ....

 Rangana Herath picked up four wickets while spin partner Milinda Siriwardana took three as Sri Lanka defeated West Indies by 72 runs on the fifth day of the second and final test on Monday to win the series 2-0. West Indies, who lost the first test in Galle by an i ....

 Britain's Lewis Hamilton clinched his third Formula One world championship on Sunday after winning a thrilling and unpredictable U.S. Grand Prix for Mercedes. The 30-year-old became the first British driver to win back to back titles and also the first to win 1 ....

On the performance in the fifth one-dayer not being good enough: Almost all the strategies were used by fast bowlers. From yorkers, cramping the batsmen, using the short-pitched deliveries. The spinners tried cramping them up, bowling wide. There are days when it doe ....