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Karachi, Sep 12: Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar says instead of running after the BCCI for normalising cricket ties, the Pakistan Cricket Board should focus on converting the national team into a world class side. The Indian government has rejected visa applications of the players of Pakistani side Faisalabad Wolves, which was to play in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament. "I am not

Patna, Sept 12: Amid speculations on retirement of Sachin Tendulkar, former Test cricketer Chetan Chauhan today said the veteran batsman still had hunger for runs and was the best judge when to call it a day. "Tendulkar still has hunger to play cricket," Chauhan told PTI. Chauhan, who partnered with legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar for a long time before retiring from the game in 1982, said

Visakhapatnam, Sep 11: After clinching the ODI series with an unassailable 2-0 lead, a dominant India A will now look to complete the whitewash when they lock horns against New Zealand A in the final one-dayer here Thursady. Led by Unmukt Chand, India A have produced a dominating show in the three-match unofficial ODI series so far as they thrashed the visitors by six wickets in the first two

Visakhapatnam, Sep 11: The national selectors, who were in full attendance at the Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Stadium on Tuesday, handed a lifeline of sorts to out-of-favour stars Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir and Zaheer Khan. Yuvraj, who has not been a part of the Indian team since the ODIs against England earlier this year, was named the skipper of the India 'A' side for the

Kuala Lumpur, Sep 10: India's leading squash players -- Saurav Ghosal, Dipika Pallikal and Joshna Chinappa -- would look to make a mark in the star-studded field when the main round of the USD 50,000 CIMB Malaysian Open kicks off in the city of Petaling Jaya, here tomorrow. The Malaysian Open, first established in 1975, is one of the premier squash events in Asia. Popular among fans and players

New York, Sep 10: Rafael Nadal claimed his second US Open title and 13th Grand Slam crown when he defeated world number one Novak Djokovic 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 in a lung-busting, big-hitting final on Monday. Nadal, 27, added the 2013 trophy to his 2010 triumph, when he completed a career Grand Slam, and gloriously capped a year that has now seen him capture 10 titles and stretch his season record to

Mumbai, Sep 9: It took Sachin Tendulkar 27 long years to attend his second Sports Journalists Association of Mumbai (SJAM) awards for sportspersons, but when he finally did, he stole the show! And he chose the occasion to play a quintessential master stroke. On Sunday, his son, Arjun, made his professional debut, in the Kanga League and was dismissed for just 1. The news spread like wildfire and

Buenos Aires, Sep 8: Tokyo has won the right to host the Olympic Games for the second time, overcoming fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant to land the 2020 edition of the world's biggest sporting event. Members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Buenos Aires yesterday chose the Japanese capital, which previously hosted the Games in 1964, over

New Delhi, Sep 7: BCCI's move to facilitate Sachin Tendulkar's 200th Test milestone on home soil is likely to have serious repercussions on the Indian team's curtailed South Africa tour. After a timid encounter against Zimbabwe during the months of July and August, a fresh and rejuvenated Indian side was supposed to take on the World No.1 Proteas in November in their backyard with aplomb, sans any

New York, Sep 6: Sania Mirza's US Open campaign ended with a tame semifinal defeat in the women's doubles with partner Jie Zheng against Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua. The 10th seeded Indo-Chinese pair, which came into the US Open with New Haven title, lost 2-6 2-6 in an hour and five minutes to the Australian eight seeds. Sania and Zheng struggled to hold their serves as they were broken