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Manchester City legend Micah Richards to visit India

8:49 pm November 17, 2019

Mumbai: Manchester City on Sunday announced that legendary Micah Richards would visit India next week for the first time. The club is bringing its silverware to three cities in the country, including Mumbai and Kolkata, after it became the first English football club to lift six trophies – Premier league title, FA Cup, Community Shield, […]

Benzema hits out at continued French exile

11:12 am November 17, 2019

Madrid: Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema has told French Football Federation president Noel Le Graet he and he alone will decide when the time to end his international retirement has come. After Real coach Zinedine Zidane called for Benzema’s four-year France exile, caused by his alleged part in an attempt to blackmail Mathieu Valbuena, to […]

Thiem dethrones Zverev to set up London final against Tsitsipas

11:05 am November 17, 2019

London: Dominic Thiem beat defending champion Alexander Zverev to join Roger Federer’s conqueror Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final of the ATP Finals in London. The Austrian fifth seed saw off the big-serving German 7-5 6-3 on Saturday after Greece’s Tsitsipas, making his debut at the tournament, had earlier beaten Federer 6-3 6-4. Thiem is playing […]

Two new IPL teams to be auctioned in May

List of players released by IPL teams

7:48 pm November 15, 2019

New Delhi: Following is the list of players released by Indian Premier League teams ahead of next month’s auction for 2020 season: Chennai Super Kings: Chaitanya Bishnoi, David Willey, Dhruv Shorey, Mohit Sharma, Sam Billings, Scott Kuggeleijn. Delhi Capitals: Ankush Bains, Bandaru Ayyappa, Chris Morris, Colin Ingram, Colin Munro, Hanuma Vihari, Jalaj Saxena, Manjot Kalra, […]

Too much noise about spin-friendly tracks: Kohli

Interesting to see how old pink ball behaves with dew around: Kohli

8:30 pm November 13, 2019

Indore: The pink ball swings more than the red one but how it would behave after getting old, especially when dew will be a factor, is keeping India skipper Virat Kohli intrigued ahead of team’s historic day-night Test against Bangladesh. The pink ball Test is still a few days away but Kohli, on the eve […]