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Birmingham, Aug 9: England coach Trevor Bayliss feels the seemingly peerless Virat Kohli can be put under pressure if the home team's bowlers can continue to tame the rest of the Indian line-up in the ongoing Test series. "If Virat Kohli is not the best batsman (in the world), he's very close to it. The way he played the first and second innings was high-class stuff. If we can put pressure on the

Melbourne, Aug 8: Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has recommended the use of 'shot clock' to deal with the declining over rate in all three formats of Cricket. A shot clock is a timer, which is used in the game of basketball to increase the pace and scoring of the game. According to the rules, the offensive team must attempt to get the ball into the basket before the shot clock expires

New Delhi, Aug 5: Doubles specialist Rohan Bopanna, recuperating from a shoulder injury, will skip the ATP Rogers Cup beginning in Toronto tomorrow, and will reach Palembang on August 14 to get acclimatised to the conditions ahead of the Asian Games. It means that Bopanna will compete at the Asian Games without any competitive match since the Wimbledon Championships. Bopanna and his French partner

Nanjing, Aug 5: P V Sindhu finished second best yet again in a major tournament final as she went down tamely to Carolina Marin in the World Championships' women's singles title clash, adding to the Indian's tale of woes here today. The Olympic silver medallist settled for another white metal following a 19-21 10-21 loss to Olympic champion Marin of Spain. The 23-year-old Sindhu, who had lost an

Agartala, Aug 4: Members of the Under-17 football team from Tripura, who became champions of the Students Olympic Asian Games by defeating Pakistan, returned to India on Friday. Executive Member of Sports and Youth Affairs of ADC Parikhshit Murasingh welcomed the boys, who became the best football team of Asia Continent. The under-17 India team defeated Pakistan by 3-0 goals in Thailand's Pattaya

New Delhi, August 3: West Indies batsman Chris Gayle on Friday heaped praises on Indian skipper Virat Kohli for his "fantastic" century in the first Test of the ongoing five-match series against England. Gayle said that Kohli had a point to prove against England and that he started really well to look for bigger and better things in the series. "It was a fantastic inning. England is a challenging

Nanjing, Aug 3: Indian shutller Saina Nehwal crashed out of the Badminton World Championship after going down against her Spanish opponent Carolina Marin in the quarter-final clash of the women's singles event here on Friday. The former world number one slumped to 6-21, 11-21 straight set defeat in the match that lasted 31 minutes. The tenth-seeded Indian, who was unstoppable in her pre-quarters

Washington D.C, Aug 3: Former World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) champion Glenn Jacobs, who is known as Kane, has been elected as the mayor of the Knox County, Tennessee. The votes tally showed Kane leading the race 2-1 against his Democrat opponent Linda Haney, WATE.com reported. Congratulating the wrestler on his victory, WWE posted a picture of Kane on Twitter with a caption that reads,

New Delhi, Aug 2: Former Indian skipper Kapil Dev has said that he would attend the swearing-in ceremony of Pakistan Prime Minister-in-waiting Imran Khan with the approval of the Indian government, if invited. "I haven't checked yet about the invitation, but if I will get the invite then I will surely go there (Pakistan) for the oath ceremony, with government approval," Kapil Dev told ANI

Nanjing, Aug 2: Rio Olympics silver-medallist PV Sindhu will look to cement her spot in the quarter-finals of the ongoing Badminton World Championship when she takes on ninth-seeded Sung Ji-Hyun of South Korea in the last-16 clash here on Thursday. Earlier, the 23-year-old had swept aside Indonesian player Fitriani Fitriani 21-14, 21-9 in her second-round clash that lasted 35 minutes. As far as