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CWG: Hussamuddin enters 56kg boxing quarters
Indian boxer Hussamuddin Mohammed thrashed Boe Warawara of Vanuatu to advance into the quarter-finals of the men's 56 kilogram category at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
CWG: Swimmer Sajan 8th in men's 200m Butterfly final (Third Lead)
Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash finished a disappointing last in men's 200 metre Butterfly final at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
CWG: Bad day for Indian basketball teams
It was a bad day for Indian basketball teams at the 21st Commonwealth Games as both the men and women's teams lost their respective preliminary round matches here on Saturday.
INDIA RESULTS ON DAY 3
Indian contingent's performance on the third day of the 21st Commonwealth Games. Weightlifting Gold: Men (77kg) Sathish Sivalingam Women (63 kg) Vandna Gupta finished 5th. Badminton Mixed Team Event: India beat Mauritius 3-0. Hockey Men: India played out a 2-2 draw with Pakistan. Table Tennis Women's Team Event: India beat Malaysia 3-0 in quarterfinals Men's Team Event: India beat Malaysia 3-0 in quarterfinals. Boxing Women: Sarita Devi (60kg) beat Kimberly Gittens to reach quarterfinals. Gymnastics Men's Individual All-Around Final- Yogeshwar finished 14th. Women's Individual's All-around final -Aruna Bedda Reddy finished 14th; Pranati Das finished 16th. Swimming Men: 50m Backstroke: Srihari Nataraj in semi-finals 200m Butterfly: Sajan Prakash finished eighth in finals. Basketball Men:India lost to England 100-54. Cycling Men's 15km Scratch Race Qualifying Heats- Manjeet Singh finished 13th. Men's Sprint Qualifying: Sanuraj Sanandaraj finished 20th; Ranjit Singh finished 21st; Sahil .
IPL: Delhi Daredevils rope in Plunkett to replace Rabada
England fast bowler Liam Plunkett was roped in by Delhi Daredevils as a replacement for the injured South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada for the Indian Premier League (IPL), a statement said.
CWG: Indian gymnasts continue to disappoint
India's medal hopes in artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around final were dashed after Aruna Budda Reddy and Pranati Das finished a disappointing 14th and 16th respectively, at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
Davis Cup: India rally to beat China 3-2, seal World Group Play offs berth
Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna notched up a hard fought win in the doubles contest before Ramkumar Ramanathan and Prajnesh Gunneswaran pulled off the must-win rubbers as India advanced to the World Group Play-offs with a 3-2 verdict over China here on Saturday.
Underachievers Punjab, Delhi seek winning start to IPL 2018 campaign (Preview)
Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils will both look to end their trophy drought in the Indian Premier League (IPL) by getting off to a winning start when they clash here on Sunday.
India closed chapter for Pakistan coach Roelant Oltmans
"India is a closed chapter now," said the country's former hockey coach Roelant Oltmans, who is now in charge of the Pakistan team but was inundated with questions on his previous team after their Commonwealth Games clash here. "It's a happy chapter but it's closed now," he asserted twice over for the effect when there were more questions on the team he used to coach than the one he is coaching right now. India and Pakistan played out a 2-2 draw, a massive disappointment for India, who were expected to romp to an easy win owing to Pakistan's recent poor form. The legendary Dutchman was shown the door in September last year for lack of results by the Indian federation despite a decent record. He took over as Pakistan's coach last month, a second stint for him across the border from India. Speaking about today's match, Oltmans was pleased with the way the Pakistan team held its nerves and converted a penalty corner in the dying seconds to snatch a draw. "India punished our mistakes very
CWG: Sarita enters 60kg boxing quarters
Veteran Indian woman boxer L. Sarita Devi stormed into the quarter-finals of the 60kg category with a 5-0 unanimous verdict over Barbados' Kimberly Gittens at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
20km race walkers kick off India's athletics campaign
Seeking to improve their medal haul from the last edition, India begin their athletics campaign in the 21st Commonwealth Games with the men's and women's race walkers competing in the 20km event here tomorrow. India had won a gold, silver and bronze in the 2014 Glasgow Games and the country's athletes are aiming to increase that haul with the likes of javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra and young high jumper Tejaswin Shankar in impressive form. The men's 20km race walk event was introduced in the 1998 Games while the women's 20km event was included in the 2002 CWG and the Indians are not known as a force to reckon with in the race walk events. The only Indian to have won a medal in 20km race walk event was Harminder Singh who clinched a bronze in 2010 Delhi CWG. The Australians have been dominating the scene in these events with the likes of England and Kenya also among the medals. The last edition in Glasgow did not have 20km race walk events in both men and women. If the Indians can ...
CWG: England thrash India in men's basketball
England outplayed India 100-54 in the men's preliminary round Pool B basketball match at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday
CSK vs MI: IPL's biggest rivalry to kickoff 2018 season
Making a return to the fray after serving a two-year suspension, two-time winners Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will raise the curtains on the 2018 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) when they lock horns with defending champions Mumbai Indians in the opening match at the Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday.CSK and Mumbai Indians, who are set to open the decade-old T20 League in grand style after a formal opening ceremony, are among the most successful teams in the IPL.While CSK will be led by former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni who is back at the helm after the franchise's two-year ban in 2016 and 2017 IPL seasons along with Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians will be captained by opener Rohit Sharma.The two sides share a fair bit of history, having made it to the three IPL finals so far.CSK picked their first title at the T20 lucrative tournament by thrashing Mumbai Indians in 2010 before the latter side went on to win the subsequent two IPL finals that the two teams ...
Charlie who? Student cyclist stuns with Games golds
Not even cycling aficionados had heard of Charlie Tanfield a year ago, but now the young Englishman is a Commonwealth Games champion with long-standing world record in his sights. The 21-year-old mechanical engineering student, still technically an amateur, somehow escaped the attention of British cycling chiefs until very recently -- but he can be ignored no longer. Tanfield stormed to victory in the final of the 4,000m individual pursuit at the Anna Meares Velodrome in Brisbane on Friday, adding gold to the team pursuit silver he picked up 24 hours earlier. Coming into the Games on Australias Gold Coast, Tanfield boldly said he was chasing the world record time of 4mins 10.534sec set by Australias Jack Bobridge in 2011. He did not quite beat that, but he still clocked one of the fastest times in history and broke the Commonwealth record with his lightning 4:11.455. It was no fluke. Tanfield announced himself to a wider audience just a few weeks earlier when he made his debut for ...
Beach volleyballers driven to wrong city at Commonwealth Games
Two Grenada beach volleyball players were driven 100 kilometres (60 miles) to the wrong Australian city because the driver made a mistake with his GPS, Commonwealth Games officials said on Saturday. The bus driver punched the wrong information into his navigation system and mistakenly drove Thornia Williams and Ranisha Stafford from Gold Coast to Brisbane. The players ended up at the Anna Meares Velodrome before they were rushed under police escort to the correct stadium in Coolangatta, about 100 kilometres south. Despite their extended trip Williams and Stafford made it to their game on time -- but then lost 2-0 to Scotlands Lynne Beattie and Melissa Coutts. "Its not acceptable," said organising committee chief executive Mark Peters. "We are now ensuring that we have two people on the buses -- the driver and someone else to make sure that directionally, that doesnt happen again.
Tamil Nadu rewards weightlifter Sivalingam
The government of Tamil Nadu announced a cash reward of Rs. 50 lakhs for weightlifter Satish Kumar Sivalingam for winning a gold medal at the ongoing Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Saturday.Sivalingam lifted a total of 317 kg (144 kg in Snatch and 173 kg in Clean-and-Jerk) in men's 77 kg on Day 3 of the Games.Sivalingam's medal was his second consecutive gold medal at the Commonwealth Games. He had earlier bagged a gold in Glasgow in 2014."You have done both the nation and the state of Tamil Nadu proud by winning a gold medal at the 21st Commonwealth Games. Kindly accept my heartiest congratulations on behalf of the government and people of Tamil Nadu on this splendid achievement. What is even more remarkable is that you have won a second gold medal in successive Commonwealth Games," Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami said in an official statement.India have so far bagged five medals at the multi-sport event and all of them have come in weightlifting.Earlier, women ...
Day to remember as record-setting Rafa returns in style
Rafael Nadal described his return to action as "a day to remember" after the 16-time Grand Slam winner pulled Spain level in their Davis Cup quarter-final against Germany. Nadal, playing his first match since limping out of the Australian Open in January with a hip injury, beat Philipp Kohlschreiber 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in just over two and half hours in Valencia, stretching his winning streak in the Davis Cup to a record 23 matches in singles and doubles. The victory for the world number one in the Plaza de Toros bullring levelled the tie after world number four Alexander Zverev beat 33rd-ranked David Ferrer 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. "Of course, its a positive thing to win in straight sets," said 31-year-old Nadal, who has not lost a singles match in the Davis Cup since his 2004 debut and in doubles since 2005. "I played a solid match. I feel good when I return to the clay courts." Nadal, building up to an assault on what he hopes will be an 11th French Open title, said it had been a special day ...
I didn't recognise my team today, says disappointed Marijne
India hockey coach Sjoerd Marijne said he found it hard to recognise the team he has been coaching while watching it squander lead and settle for a frustrating 2-2 draw against a lackadaisacal Pakistan in the Commonwealth Games here today. "Today, I didn't recognise the team I have been coaching for the last five months," a livid Marijne said after the pool B match which ended in a 2-2 draw. India conceded a goal in the final seven seconds after leading 2-1 in the match, giving Pakistan more reason to celebrate despite the shared honours. Asked if the Indians were too relaxed in the clash owing to Pakistan's poor recent form, Maijne said, "Sometimes if you have nerves then it can look you are too relaxed." Breaking down India's mistakes, Marijne said the team faltered in doing the basics right. "The structure wasn't good enough, the level was low. It could just be because we were playing Pakistan, or it can be because this is the first match of tournament. I can't change the result ...
CWG: India narrowly lose to Malta in lawn bowls Fours quarters
India squandered a promising start to narrowly go down 11-13 to Malta in the lawn bowls women's Fours quarter-final at the 21st Commonwealth Games here on Saturday.
Paes creates world record in India's stunning comeback win
Tennis icon Leander Paes became the most successful doubles player in the history of Davis Cup with a record 43rd win before young guns Ramkumar Ramanathan and Prajnesh Gunneswaran pulled off the must-win rubbers as India advanced to the World Group Play-offs with a sensational 3-2 win over China here today. Everything depending on how they fared in the do-or-die doubles rubber, the 44-year-old Paes and Rohan Bopanna downed a fighting Chinese pair of Mao Xin Gong and Ze Zhang 5-7 7-6(5) 7-6(3) to keep India afloat in the second round Asia/Oceania Group I tie. Ramkumar Ramanathan, who copped criticism from captain Mahesh Bhupathi for his lackluster show in the opening singles, redeemed his reputation by defeating Di Wu 7-6(4) 6-3. The win levelled the tie 2-2. Captain Bhupathi then played a masterstroke by playing left-handed Prajnesh Gunneswaran instead of Sumit Nagal in the tie-deciding fifth rubber against the Chinese teen sensation Yibing Wu and the Chennai boy did not disappoint .