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Arsenal striker Lacazette out for six weeks
In a major blow to the Arsene Wenger-managed football club, Arsenal striker Alexandre Lacazette has been ruled out for at least six months after undergoing an arthroscopy on his left knee here on Tuesday.
Real Madrid coach Zidane focused on PSG not his future
Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane on Tuesday said that he was not worried about his future with the Spanish team, and instead remained focused on the upcoming Champions League match against Paris Saint-Germain.
Skull fracture sends midfielder Mason into retirement
Hull City's English midfielder Ryan Mason was forced to retire from football after a year off the pitch due to a skull fracture suffered during a English Premier League (EPL) match, the 26-year-old announced on Tuesday.
Klassen among 3 new faces in Proteas T20I squad
Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Tuesday reposed faith on explosive wicketkeeper-batsman Heinrich Klaasen by including him along with Christiaan Jonker and Junior Dala as the three new faces for the three-match T20I series against India that begins here on Sunday.
Delhi suffer shock loss to Kerala in Hazare
Delhi's unbeaten run in the Vijay Hazare Trophy was today brought to a halt by Kerala, who produced a team effort to eke out a stunning two-wicket win in a weather-hit Group B match here. Coming into the match with four wins from as many outings, fancied Delhi were shocked by Kerala in the game reduced to 42-over-a-side contest due to wet outfield. The loss, however, will hardly have any affect on Delhi's knockout chances as they are sitting pretty at the top with 16 points from five games. Delhi are all but through, making it a four-way fight between Maharashtra (10 points), Kerala (10), Himachal Pradesh (10) and Uttar Pradesh (8) points for the second spot. Sent into bat, Delhi were shot out for a mediocre 177 in 39.3 overs with Dhruv Shorey top-scoring with a 90-ball 71, which included five boundaries and a six. Barring Shorey, Delhi batsmen struggled against the moving ball in overcast conditions. Milind Kumar (25) and skipper Pradeep Sangwan (25) were the next best ...
Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair blast tons as Karna routs Odisha
The inform Mayank Agarwal and Karun Nair slammed centuries to power Karnataka to a crushing 133-run win over Odisha in the Vijay Hazare Trophy Group 'A' League here today. Coming into the game after a loss to Punjab, Karnataka piled up 353 for 6 in 50 overs after being put in and bowled Odisha out for 220 in 41 overs. In other Group A games, Baroda defeated Railways by 192 runs and Punjab beat Assam by 69 runs. Mayank Agarwal and Nair added 190 runs for the opening wicket to put Karnataka on track for a big score. Agarwal scored 102 from 94 balls with two sixes and ten fours while Nair hit 100 from 111 deliveries with 12 fours. Pavan Deshpande hammered an unbeaten 54 from 37 balls, while K Gowtham contributed with 47 from 20 balls to swell Karnataka's total. Odisha began well as Rajesh Dhuper (53) and Anurag Sarangi (58) came up with half-centuries each to lay an ideal platform. However, Suchith (5 for 34) spun a web around the Odisha batsmen to send them hurtling to ...
Centurion Rohit guides India to challenging 274/7 in 5th ODI
Opener Rohit Sharma scored his maiden century on South African soil as India posted 274/7 against the Proteas in the fifth One-Day International at the St. George's Park here on Tuesday.
India post 274/7 in 5th ODI against SA
Put into bat, India scored 274 for 7 against South Africa in their fifth cricket one-dayer here today. Brief Scores: India: 274 for 7 in 50 overs (Rohit Sharma 115; Lungi Ngidi 4/51).
India take 1-0 lead in women's T20I series
Captain Mithali Raj scored 54 not out to give India a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over South Africa in the first of the five women's Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) here on Tuesday.
Mission accomplished says happy Hirscher
Marcel Hirscher underlined his status as the best skier of his generation with a first, long-overdue Olympic gold in the alpine combined today. "Everyone's been saying, 'Nice career, but an Olympic gold medal is still missing'. This is perfect, unbelievable," said Hirscher, who has won an unprecedented six consecutive World Cup overall titles on the back of 55 victories on the circuit. But his Olympic history is more patchy: twice fourth in the giant slalom and a fifth in the 2010 slalom before grabbing silver in Sochi, leading to questions about his real legacy. "This stupid question has now gone away, if I'm thinking that my career is perfect without a gold medal, now this question is zzz, deleted," he said. "I'm not travelling home tomorrow, but if I wished to I could because I have my big goal and I reached it. "In Austria everyone's expecting that I'm going to win a gold medal at least once. "I'm super, super happy, I didn't expect to win this in the combined." Hirscher, 28, made
Pune, Mumbai to clash in sub-junior girls finals
Pune and Mumbai districts today comfortably sailed into the Sub-Junior girls finals of the WIFA organised Maharashtra StateInter-DistrictFootball Championships 2017-18, played at Jalgaon. In the first semi-final, Pune overcame Kolhapur 3-1 withPoorva Gaikwad (3rd min), Swara Pathak (17th) and Karanti More (54th) scoring the goals, while Kolhapur pulled one back through Samruddhi Kotkale (53rd), a media release said. The second semi-final was a one-sided affair as Mumbai stormed to an emphatic 8-0 win against the hapless Solapur girls. Strikers Jhanvi Shetty and Sai Sankhe, both netted a brace of goals while Bhumika Mane, Christine Nazereth, Riddhi Mehra and Priyanka Suyesh chipped in with one each to complete Mumbai's big victory. Mumbai District also recorded a facile 7-0 win against Satara District in a Sub-junior boys match played at Palghar. Johnson Mathews led Mumbai charge with a hat-trick while Aman Gaikwad netted two and Twain Fernandes and Bhupathi Chandra ...
I-League: Neroca look to grab top spot with win over Churchill (Preview)
Title contenders Neroca FC will look to provisionally climb to the top of the I-League standings when they take on a resurgent Churchill Brothers at the Khuman Lampak Main Stadium here on Wednesday.
Statue of Liberty cleared for USA hockey helmets
Two American ice hockey players will keep Statue of Liberty images on their helmets after the International Olympic Committee blamed a "misunderstanding" for reports that they may have to be removed. USA Hockey confirmed the images would remain on the helmets of goaltenders Nicole Hensley and Alex Rigsby for Tuesday's faceoff against the Olympic Athletes from Russia at Kwandong Hockey Centre. But the IOC also said they hadn't asked for the images to be removed, contradicting American media who reported they may violate the Olympic body's rules against political symbols. "There seems to have been a misunderstanding," an IOC statement said. "We have not asked for the symbol to be removed." IOC guidelines on authorised identification say no item can have national anthem words or lyrics, motivation words, political messaging or slogans related to national identity. Hensley, who helped the US women capture the past two world championships, has a large Statue of Liberty image painted on the
Mithali's unbeaten half ton helps India women beat SA by 7 wkts
Opener Mithali Raj held the innings together with an unbeaten half-century as Indian women notched up a comfortable seven-wicket victory over South Africa in the first T20 International here today. Mithali (54) shared two crucial stands -- a 69-run partnership for the third wicket with debutant Jemimah Rodrigues (37) and then added 52 runs with Veda Krishnamurthy (37 not out) for the unbroken fourth wicket -- as India chased down a target of 165 with seven balls to spare. India led the five-match T20 International series 1-0. Mithali's knock, her 11th T20 International half century, came from 48 deliveries and she hit six fours, one six and carried her bat through the innings. India finished at 168 for three in 18.5 overs. The 17-year-old Mumbai player Rodrigues also batted impressively, hitting four boundaries and a six during her breezy 27-ball knock. After Rodrigues was out in the 14th over, Krishnamurthy did not allow the momentum to slow down, as she hit three boundaries and ...
ISL: NorthEast, Delhi fight to avoid last-place finish (Preview)
NorthEast United FC and Delhi Dynamos FC will play for pride in an Indian Super League (ISL) game at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium here on Wednesday.
Shakib ruled out of first Sri Lanka T20
Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan has been ruled out of the first Twenty20 international against Sri Lanka after he failed to recover from a finger injury, an official said today. The star all-rounder also missed the recent Test series against Sri Lanka after sustaining the injury during the one-day international tri-series final against the same opponents in January. Bangladesh, who lost the tri-series final and the Test series, initially included Shakib in their squad for the two T20 matches, the first of which is on Thursday in Dhaka. "He was making good progress so we thought he might be available for both the matches. But it seems now he cannot play the first Twenty20," said chief selector Minhajul Abedin. "We will see how he goes before we decide about playing him in the second match." The second match will be played in Sylhet on Sunday. Selectors asked left-arm spinner Nazmul Hossain to join the squad as a replacement for Shakib in the first game. But the Bangladesh Cricket ...
Thompson, Bhambri start with easy wins
Top-seed Jordan Thompson of Australia and second-seed Yuki Bhambri of India advanced with straight set wins today in the Chennai Open ATP Challenger tennis tournament here. While Thompson beatMohamed Maamoun of Egypt 6-4, 6-2, Bhambri got past Bernabe Zapata Miralles of Spain 6-1, 7-6. Bhambri blew away the Spaniard's challenge in the first set, winning it 6-1 in quick time. He broke thrice and dominated the proceedings with strongserves and punishing ground strokes. In the second set the Spaniard recovered well and played with much more intensity. Both players traded a break before the set moved to the tiebreak which Bhambri won 7-3. In the other match, Thompsonwas broken twice but he broke back thrice to take the first set 6-4. In the second set also, he broke Karim thrice to win it 6-2. In a surprise result, local ladAbhinav SanjeevShanmugam, a qualifier, moved into the second round when Ivan Nedelko of Russia retired due to stomach cramps. MartinezPedro of Spain beat ..
Parikh, Agarwal qualify for main draw
City-basedcueists Siddharth Parikh and Aditya Agarwal won their fourth qualifying round matches here today in a convincing fashion to make it to the main draw oftheRs 12.25 lakh CCI All India Open Snooker Championship 2018. Parikh of Indian Railways played tactically and with a break of 69 in the second managed to edge out Paras Gupta of Uttar Pradesh, snatching a 4-0 win in the best-of-seven frame encounter, a media release said. On the side table, Agarwal, with the help of two substantial runs of40 in the first frame and 43 in the fifth, rode to 4-1 win over Delhi'sJaison Malhotra. Meanwhile, Rahul Sachdev stole the thunder with a neatly crafted 125 break as he went on to tame Telangana's BL Dheeraj, winning in four frames. After sharing the first two frames with his Telangana rival, the left-handed Sachdev got into a cracking form in the third as he potted with superb accuracy to run up a brilliant break of 125. However, with only the last three colours remaining, he
Sania rues lack of proper tennis infrastructure (IANS Interview)
For the better part of the past one-and-a-half-decades, she has been the undisputed queen of Indian women's tennis, but the former doubles World No.1 Sania Mirza on Tuesday blamed the lack of proper sporting infrastructure in the country for the failure to produce a player who could probably challenge her numero uno status.
Nuis continues Dutch domination of speed skating as Roest takes silver
Kjeld Nuis continued the Netherlands' traditional domination of speed skating events on Tuesday by taking gold in the Men's 1,500 metres at the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.