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Dubai: Opener Martin Guptill’s blistering 56-ball 93, which was built around monstrous sixes and authoritative batting, set up a 16-run win for New Zealand over a spirited Scotland in the T20 World Cup here on Wednesday. In all, Guptill smashed seven sixes and six fours as New Zealand posted 172 for five in the Group […]

Hyderabad: It is a new season and Hyderabad would be hoping to come good with the appointment of a new coach in Milap Mewada, the former Baroda Ranji player. The new season begins with Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 tournament from Wednesday and the Tanmay Agarwal-led Hyderabad take on Saurashtra in Elite Group E fixture in […]

Mysuru: The Eshwer-trained Electricity looks set to win the Sakaleshpur Plate 1200 metres, a handicap for horses rated 40 to 65, the feature event of the races to be held here on Thursday. False rails are up. The first race starts at 2.30 p.m. SELECTIONS: 1. Come Alive 1, Aquila D’ Oro 2, Dalhousie 3 […]

Hyderabad: Fire Power, Archangels, Moonlight Ruby, British Empress,impressed when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Wednesday morning. SAND:600m:2y-(Tenth Star/Alameda) 47, moved easy. City Of Blossom (B Nikhil) (From 1200/600) 46, eased up. Farrell (V Jodha) 47, moved easy. Miss Marvellous (Md Ismail) (From 1000/400) 47, moved easy. Staridar (Apprentice) (From 1000/400) […]

Abu Dhabi: Opener Mohammad Rizwan continued his scintillating form with a blistering 79 as a thoroughly professional Pakistan stormed into the semifinals of the T20 World Cup with a 45-run thrashing of Namibia here on Tuesday. From scoring only 12 runs in his first 21 balls, the wicketkeeper-batter smashed 67 in the next 29 deliveries, […]

Hyderabad: Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) chairman A Venkateshwar Reddy inaugurated the first Test match between Indian and Bangladesh as part of India, Bangladesh disabled cricket series. The series is being conducted by the Board of Disabled Cricket Association-India. ARK Group chairman G Rami Reddy and noted film producer MRC Chowdary and others participated […]

Hyderabad: Team India’s chances of making it to the semifinal of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup took a severe beating after suffering back-to-back losses to Pakistan and New Zealand. The 10-wicket loss to arch-rivals Pakistan in the opener and an eight-wicket defeat at the hands of New Zealand pushed the Virat Kohli’s men, who […]

Hyderabad: Milap Mewada says he loves challenges and he is excited that he has got the opportunity to coach the Hyderabad team this season. “Hyderabad has a rich legacy and we have many legends from this place. I will be making an earnest effort to bring back the old glory,” said the 47-year-old coach from […]

Hyderabad: V Varun maintained a clean slate with six points from as many rounds to clinch the title in the Sadvini Memorial Open Chess tournament, at the Little Flower Junior College, Uppal on Sunday. Basiq Imrose and Amitpal Singh took second and third places with five points each.Top 10: 1.V Varun, 2.Md Basiq Imrose, 3.Amithpal […]

Abu Dhabi: Pacers Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje ran through the Bangladesh batting-line up to fashion South Africa’s comfortable six-wicket win, which took the Proteas closer to the T20 World Cup semifinals, here on Tuesday. South Africa skittled out a struggling Bangladesh for 84 in 18.2 overs and then knocked off their target in 13.3 […]

Dubai: A ruthless New Zealand will be eyeing to strengthen their semifinal chances with a solid knockout punch on an already struggling Scotland in a Group 2 Super 12 match of the ICC T20 World Cup here on Wednesday. Handed a defeat by Pakistan in their tournament opener, Kane Williamson and his troops made a […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad opener Gongadi Trisha hit a 158-ball 112 to star in India B’s 92-run win over India A in the women’s under-19 one-day Challenger Series in Jaipur on Tuesday. The 15-year-old, who started representing Hyderabad at an early age of eight years, struck as many as 17 fours. The free-stroking Trisha and Anushka Sharma […]

Hyderabad: India’s script has gone horribly wrong after a disastrous start to the World Cup losing to Pakistan and New Zealand in the first two matches. This was something not expected as they were firm favourites for the tournament. But it has now turned out to be a nightmare of sorts and as they face […]

Sharjah: A crucial unbeaten century from Jos Buttler set up England’s 26-run win over Sri Lanka in a Group 1 match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here on Monday. With this win, England made it four out of four victories in the tournament and increased their chances of […]

New Delhi: Anju Bobby George, 2003 World Athletics Championships women’s Long Jump bronze medallist, was on Monday confirmed as the Athletes Commission representative in the Indian Olympic Association Executive Board. At a meeting of the IOA Executive Board at the Olympic Bhavan here on Monday, there was some confusion about who would represent the Athletes […]

Paris: Novak Djokovic is looking to set more records in his return to competition since his defeat in the U.S. Open final, while the 20-time Grand Slam champion again declined to confirm whether he would play at the Australian Open in January. Djokovic will play both singles and doubles at the Paris Masters, which got […]

Belgrade: Indian boxers Nishant Dev (71kg) and Sanjeet (92kg) made the quarterfinals following impressive victories but two others bowed out of the AIBA Men’s World Championships after losing their last-16 stage bouts here on Monday. Nishant defeated Mexico’s Marco Alvarez Verde 3-2 in a late night bout on Sunday to set up a clash with […]

New Delhi: Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Monday physically handed over trophies to the winners of National Sports Awards 2020 after the award ceremony was held virtually last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. All the winners of the National Sports Awards 2020 had already received their cash awards but were not able to collect […]

Milwaukee: Donovan Mitchell scored 28 points and the Utah Jazz beat the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks 107-95 on Sunday to hand the defending NBA champions their third straight loss. Both teams were coming off losses Saturday night. Mike Conley added 20 points, Jordan Clarkson had 15 and Bojan Bogdanovic added 14 to help Utah rebound from […]

New Delhi: For the first time in the history of Indian chess, as many as seven players have made it into the Top 100 of world chess. K Sasikiran made this feat possible by beating Vladimir Fedoseev (Russia) in the fifth round of the FIDE Grand Swiss Chess 2021 on Sunday. It lifted his rating […]

Hyderabad: Even as the famed Indian batting has been a big letdown in the first two matches of the World Cup, the bowling too has come under scanner as they have taken only two wickets from two matches. The Indian pace attack of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar/Shardul Thakur has looked ordinary. The question […]

Hyderabad: Haas Sports Cricket defeated Great Spinner by seven runs in the final to emerge champions in the inaugural Dr MV Sridhar Trophy under-16 cricket tournament, conducted by Incredible Sports Association, at English Willow Grounds, Shamirpet. Haas put up a challenging 164 for 4 in 20 overs. Harsh and Rachit Rangari hit 39 apiece. Riding […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad succumbed to their second successive defeat as they lost to Rajasthan by seven wickets in the Elite Group C women’s National cricket one-day league match in Bengaluru on Monday. Batting, Hyderabad managed to put on 192/7 in 50 overs. Skipper C Ramya (64 off 124b, 9×4) top scored while Trisha Poojitha made 79-ball […]

New Delhi: The S. H. Abbas-trained Master Causeway looks good in the upper division of the Coxcomb Plate 1200 metres, rated 40 to 66 and the feature event of the races tobe held here on Tuesday. False rails will be announced on the day of the race. The first race starts at 1.15 p.m. SELECTIONS: […]