SL vs IND, 1st T20: Suryakumar Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar Help India Beat Sri Lanka By 38 Runs
India beat Sri Lanka by 38 runs in the first T20 International here on Sunday. Suryakumar Yadav top-scored for India with 50 off 34 balls while skipper Shikhar Dhawan made 46 off 36 as India made 164 for five. Surya’s second T20I half-century was complemented by useful contributions from skipper Dhawan and Ishan Kishan (20 […]
France, Argentina suffer shock defeats as Brazil beat Germany
TOKYO: France’s Olympic men’s football campaign got off to a dreadful start when they were thrashed 4-1 by Mexico while Argentina suffered a shock 2-0 loss to Australia as the group stage kicked off on Thursday. Brazil striker Richarlison scored the first hat-trick of the men’s tournament as the defending champions held off a late […]
Olympics: Three more athletes test positive for Covid-19 at Games
Olympics organisers said on Friday that three more competitors at the Tokyo Games, including one resident of the athletes’ village, had tested positive for COVID-19. Olympics-related cases rose by 19, organisers said, bringing the total number of disclosed cases to 106. Reuters
Moeen, Rashid shine as England level T20 series
LEEDS: England’s stand-in skipper Jos Buttler top-scored with 59 before their spinners Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali ripped through the Pakistan batting unit to seal a 45-run win in the second Twenty20 International and level the series at 1-1 on Sunday. Chasing 201 runs to win at Headingley, Pakistan’s openers made a bright start with […]
First batch of Pakistan’s Olympic squad leaves for Tokyo
LAHORE: While the dope test of eight Pakistan athletes participating in the forthcoming Olympics came negative, the first batch of the country’s Tokyo-bound contingent left for Japan on Thursday night. According to a press release issued on Friday by the Pakistan Olympic Association (POA), which also handed cheques of Rs100,000 to each athlete of the […]
Grant Flower faces SLC inquiry over bubble breach
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s cricket board is planning disciplinary action against the national side’s batting coach Grant Flower following allegations that he breached a bio-secure bubble during the recent England tour, sources said on Thursday. Sri Lanka’s preparations for a home series against India were disrupted when Flower, 50, tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) on his […]
Virus cases found at Olympic hotel as IOC chief vows to minimise risk
TOKYO: A coronavirus cluster at a Japanese hotel where dozens of Brazilian Olympic team members are staying has raised new concern about infections at what the world’s top Olympics official promised on Wednesday would be “historic” Games. Just over a week before the opening ceremony, new cases linked to the Games and spiking infections in […]
Tokyo governor vows city’s medical system is ready for Games
TOKYO: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Tuesday that a sufficient number of hospitals combined with a speed-up in the Covid-19 vaccination rollout among the elderly meant the city will be able to hold “safe and secure” Olympics in 10 days. But Koike, speaking in an interview at the Tokyo government headquarters that has for […]
1983 World Cup hero Yashpal Sharma dies of cardiac arrest
India’s 1983 World Cup hero Yashpal Sharma, who was admired for being a gutsy middle-order batsman at the peak of his prowess, died on Tuesday after suffering a massive cardiac arrest here. He was 66 and is survived by wife, two daughters and a son. “Yes, Yashpal is no more with us. We just received […]
Pakistan’s abject surrender against England points to deeper problems
EVER since Sarfaraz Ahmed and Mickey Arthur were shown the door by the powers-that-be, the think-tank of Pakistan cricket thought it had made the right call to remove the captain and the head coach after they were unable to lead the national team beyond the league phase of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in […]
