NEW DELHI: Australia’s star batsman Marnus Labuschagne had made a well below par Test debut for Australia against Pakistan last year (2018) in UAE. Labuschagne, in his maiden Test outing, departed for a duck and then was trapped lbw for an unlucky 13 in the second innings. But the 25-year-old soon left his awful Test debut agony behind and cemented ...

NEW DELHI: Life has come full circle for IPL spot-fixing petitioner Aditya Verma. In 2013, Verma, secretary of the unauthorised Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB), filed petitions against the BCCI on the spot-fixing scandal, dragging the erstwhile all-powerful president N Srinivasan to the court. Nearly seven years later, Verma, on the last day of 2019, seemed a satisfied man as ...

NEW DELHI: India’s Test opener Mayank Agarwal will be rested for Karnataka’s high-profile away Ranji Trophy game against Mumbai, starting January 3 as a part of workload management programme by the BCCI ahead of A team’s tour of New Zealand. Agarwal will be a part of the India A squad’s shadow tour, where they would play two warm-up List A ...

NEW DELHI: Here are the big sports events lined up for Wednesday (January 1) that comprise the action from English Premier League match between Manchester City and Everton. (All timings in IST) 6:00 pm (Football – English Premier League) Brighton & Hove Albion vs Chelsea Burnley vs Aston Villa 8:30 pm (Football – English Premier League) Newcastle United vs Leicester ...

NEW DELHI: Indian sportspersons on Tuesday extended warm wishes to their fans on social media as they get wrapped in New Year spirit. India’s badminton star PV Sindhu took to Instagram and posted a picture of herself. “2019: thank you for the love, happiness, blessings, losses, sadness, lessons, failures and accomplishments, This year went by fast, Time is so valuable ...

CAPE TOWN: England are thinking of bringing a specialist spinner back into the line-up after going with an all-pace attack in their last two outings, coach Chris Silverwood said as they arrived in Cape Town for their second Test against South Africa starting on Friday. That means a seamer such as record wicket-taker James Anderson or Stuart Broad may be ...

CAPE TOWN: The outbreak of illness in the England squad is easing, which would surely allow the tourists a better buildup to the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town. As many as 11 players and another six members of the England support staff have been sick with a contagious flu-like illness at some point on the tour but ...

NEW DELHI: Captain Virat Kohli is making the most of the rare break the Indian cricket team gets from international series. India had last played their final T20I against the West Indies and their next match will be when they start their T20I series against Sri Lanka on Saturday. On Tuesday he tweeted a picture of himself which he says ...

DUBAI: Former South Africa pacer Makhaya Ntini feels the seeds of Virat Kohli’s stardom were sown at the U-19 World Cup back in 2008 when he captained the Indian team to the title. “If you look at players like Virat Kohli and Kagiso Rabada, they all started playing U-19 cricket and representing their country in the U-19 World Cup, and ...

At the start of this decade, clashes between Arsenal and Manchester United were still potentially title-deciding affairs, but when the pair meet on New Year’s Day at the Emirates they will have more modest goals in mind. United have not won a league title since Alex Ferguson’s final season in charge seven years ago, while Arsenal have to go back ...