In other words, don’t let sledging get out of hand. They promised on Tuesday, the day before the first test starts at Sophia Gardens, it won’t cross the line. It was a pre-test meeting with the match officials like any other, Cook said, but sledging ha ....

While Yogeshwar Dutt overcame a fighting Amit Kumar Dhankar of Haryana 6-3, Narsingh Yadav put it past Praveen Rana. In the background of Amit Kumar going to court about the selection of the national team for the Commonwealth Games last year without the trials, there ....

 With a fifth-place finish at the Hockey World League Semifinals, the Indian women's hockey team has almost booked a spot at the 2016 Rio Olympics, for the first time in history. The official communication in this regard, though, from the International Hockey Feder ....

Top seeds Sania and Swiss legend Martina downed 16th seeded Spanish team of Anabel Medina Garrigues and Arantxa Parra Santonja 6-4 6-3 in just 66 minutes. Sania and Hingis broke their rivals twice in the opening set and three times in the second set. They lost serve ....

Holder and top seed Novak Djokovic suffered an almighty scare against South African giant Kevin Anderson before bad light halted play with the score tied at two sets all in their fourth round match at Wimbledon on Monday. The world number one lost the first two sets 7-6( ....

Set a target of 221 for victory — only once had India successfully chased down a bigger total — the home team produced an emphatic performance with the bat to sail home in 44.2 overs. The series will now be decided by the fifth and final match, to be play ....

 While Team India is on a learning curve, heading to Zimbabwe for a short tour with a new-look side, its new skipper Ajinkya Rahane is also keen to learn about himself as a leader. “Ajinkya Rahane, the batsman, is known to everyone. Ajinkya Rahane, the leader, is ....

Guerrero swept home a right foot shot in the 89th minute to seal a deserved victory for Peru. He also set up his side's opening goal in the 48th minute, heading down a Christian Cueva corner for midfielder Andre Carrillo to score. Guerrero has now scored seven ....

Pakistan’s loss in the first playoff match for the fifth to eighth spots means now they cannot finish above the seventh position in this tournament and the Olympic spots for 12 teams from both World League Semifinals cannot go below the sixth place. This was th ....

Nadal, the 2008 and 2010 Wimbledon champion, on Thursday crashed out to a 5-7, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6 defeat to the big-hitting German-Jamaican, who was making his Center Court debut at the age of 30, reports Xinhua. It was the 29-year-old’s first ever loss to a qualifi ....