England rode on a partnership by Joe Root and Moeen Ali to post 182/3 in their first innings at tea on the opening day of the fifth and final cricket Test here on Friday. Ali (63) and Jonny Bairstow (10), who came in following Root's dismissal, were in the middle at the break. England were in trouble early on the Indian bowlers struck early blows to dismiss...
World No.8 Dominic Thiem will be the third top-10 tennis player to be present in the 2017 edition of the Barcelona Open, to be held from April 22 to 30. Thiem joins two other top ten players: Japan's fifth-ranked Kei Nishikori and Spain's ninth-ranked Rafael Nadal, who are also the last two champions of the tournament, it was announced o...
Argentine forward Paulo Dybala has said the first time he played with his compatriot star forward Lionel Messi for their national football team was an unforgettable experience. In an interview published on Thursday by Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport, the Juventus player said that Messi was his idol and he dreamed of pl...
Britain's Carl Hester won the fifth leg of the FEI World Cup Dressage 2016/2017 Western European League with Nip Tuck on an emotional night when the retirement of his stable-star Valegro was announced at the London Olympia. Hester, 49, and his 12-year-old gelding were also winners last year, captured the title with a score of 84.669 per cent. Hans Peter Mi...
Indian bowlers struck early blows as England posted 68/2 at lunch on the first day of the fifth and final cricket Test here on Friday. Joe Root (44) and Moeen ALi (7) were at the crease at the break. Pacer Ishant Sharma struck the first blow for the hosts by sending back the in-form Keaton Jennings. Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja continued his excel...
Football superstar Lionel Messi and long time girlfriend Antonella Roccuzzo have decided to get married, according to Spanish media reports. The couple will take the leap at a time convenient to Messi's footballing career, which can either be the summer or winter of 2017, according to Spanish daily Marca on Wednesday. The report adds that they have...
Star wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt has lashed out at the Jammu and Kashmir government for its decision to give compensation to slain terrorist Burhan Wani's family for the death of his brother Khalid in a shootout. Khalid was allegedly killed by the security forces while attempting to visit his brother in the forests of Tral area of the Kashmir Valley o...
The India U-17 football team went down to Uruguay 1-2 in their last match of the round-robin stage match in the Atletico Paranaense U-17 International Tournament. Wednesday's defeat was India's third straight defeat in the tournament, according to an All-India Football Federation (AIFF) release here. After conceding two goals on either side of the b...
A Barcelona court has said that FC Barcelona must pay two fines totalling 5.5 million euros ($5.8 million) for two tax offences committed in the signing of Neymar, in accordance with the agreement that the club already reached with the prosecution. After a brief hearing in which Barça's legal counsel, Ramon Gomez Ponti and lawyer Cristobal Martell, ...
Kerala Blasters defeated Delhi Dynamos via penalty shoot-out in the semi-final second leg to enter the final of the Indian Super League (ISL) here on Wednesday....
