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New Delhi, October 28: England jet into Mumbai on Monday under new captain Alastair Cook, striving to win their first Test series in India in 27 years against a home team desperate to make amends for last year's 4-0 drubbing. The four-Test series, starting in Ahmedabad on November 15, will be further spiced up by Kevin Pietersen's return to the England fold after his exile and hints that Indian

London Olympics bronze medallist shuttler Saina Nehwal stamped her authority to storm into the final of the French Open Super Series with a classy 21-19, 21-8 victory over German Juliane Schenk in the semifinals of the women’s singles here on Saturday. Saina will take on Minatsu Mitani of Japan in the finals on Sunday. The world number three was erratic initially and conceded a narrow 3-1 lead

It's a double whammy forHarbhajan Singh. Still reeling under the shock of being demoted from Grade A to B by theBoard for Control of Cricket in India ( BCCI), which effectively reduces his fee from Rs 1 crore to 50 lakh per year, Bhajji cannot even fall back on the option of serving the Punjab police. The 'Turbanator' had recently shown interest in an offer made to him by the Punjab government in

Greater Noida, October 27: Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan is the star the Jaypee Group, the organisers of the Formula One Indian Grand Prix, have chosen to wave the chequered flag Sunday while Sachin Tendulkar, who did the honours last year, will not be there to watch the race. "We have recommended Hrithik's name and we expect to get the approval for his name from Fomula One Management (FOM) and

Hyderabad, October 27: World No. 2 Saina Nehwal warded off a spirited challenge from the three-time world junior champion Ratchanok Inthanon of Thailand to record a 22-20, 22-20 in the 41-minute, women’s singles quarter-final of the French Open Super Series badminton championship late on Friday night. Saina, the London Olympics bronze medallist from India, ran up a 11-7 sizeable lead in the first

Sydney Sixers kept kept their cool to beat Nashua Titans by two wickets in a nerve-wracking second semi-final of the Champions League Twenty20 here today. Needing eight runs from the final over to reach the target of 164, Sydney Sixers' Pat Cummins held his nerves to scamper home for a bye off the last delivery as the Big Bash Champions won the most thrilling match of an otherwise drab Twenty20

The Indian government has taken exception to Italian Formula 1 team Ferrari’s decision to sport logos of Italian Navy on their cars to express solidarity with two Italian Navy Marines who are facing trial in Kerala for shooting two fishermen off Kerala coast. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin in a statement said: “Using sporting events to promote causes which are not of a

India can hope to host two Formula One races within the next decade but the country faces plenty of competition on a crowded calendar, according to the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone. In a conversation ranging from sacred cows on India's roads to Lewis Hamilton's move to Mercedes next season, the Briton told reporters at the Indian Grand Prix that a second race in the country was a

New Delhi, October 26: Riding on her maiden Denmark Open title triumph last Sunday, India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal gained a position to climb up to third spot in the latest World badminton ranking announced today. The London Olympics Bronze medallist Indian is now just one step away from regaining her world number two status as a semifinal spot in the ongoing French Open will help her to topple

“We still average 53 as an opening pair, which I think is one of the best when it comes to opening the batting in world cricket,” an irate Gautam Gambhir told PTI. “There are not many opening pairs who have played for such a long time and have an average of 53 per innings. And if 53 is not good enough, I don’t know what is good enough. “As an opening pair, you average 50 per inning and if you are