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Yuvraj Singh is renowned for his fighting spirit when the chips are down. He waged many successful battles and guided the Men in Blue to several scintillating victories and lifted his team-mates’ morale. Yuvi, who is back after undergoing chemotherapy for a rare tumour, is now on a mission to make a comeback into the Indian team. His target is to play at the Twenty20 World Cup, starting in Sri

Warsaw, June 22: Cristiano Ronaldo was the hero as Portugal beat an ultra-defensive Czech Republic 1-0 at the National Stadium on Thursday in their quarterfinal to qualify for the Euro 2012 semifinals. Ronaldo headed home a cross from Joao Moutinho 11 minutes from the end to set up a possible semifinal against either world champions Spain or France. It was just reward after another starring

New Delhi, June 21: The embattled All India Tennis Association (AITA) today claimed to have worked out a compromise formula to resolve the selection crisis for the Olympics by deciding to send two men's doubles teams for the event, pairing Leander Paes with a lower-ranked Vishnu Vardhan. Giving the decision, which it itself termed "unfair" on world number 7 Paes, AITA has allowed Mahesh Bhupathi

Paris, June 21: Euro 2012 has been nothing if not entertaining, with plenty of goals, thrills and spills and assorted controversies from racism to goals not being given that should have been -- with Greece adding the surprise factor. With the quarter-final line-up now known, the football fan might feel entitled to ask a nagging question: "Will the best team win?" If this season in general has been

The recent comment by Haroon Lorgat, Chief Executive of the International Cricket Council (ICC), that it would not incorporate the Indian Premier League (IPL) into the Future Tours Programme as this would open the door to similar demands by cricket leagues in other countries is perplexing. The advent of T20 is changing the structure of cricket worldwide. The T20 game, earlier dismissed as a format

The Olympic tennis team selection continued to be an unsolved puzzle on Wednesday with the All India Tennis Association (AITA) failing to persuade the feuding players to change their stand and Leander Paes threatening a Games' boycott if he were to be paired with a lower-ranked player. The team will now be announced by Thursday afternoon, which is also the last day of sending the entries to the

Dubai, June 20: Recuperating from what he describes as a shock that only a cancer patient can understand, Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh says he hopes to be back in action for the World Twenty20 Championships in September even though it would be a "big challenge" for him. "Playing for India is going to be a huge challenge for me because the body has been under a lot of shock which nobody can

Hyderabad, June 20: Enduring nerve-wrecking matches and coming out triumphant from tough situations has raised her confidence a lot ahead of London Olympics but ace shuttler Saina Nehwal says she still needs to fine-tune some aspects of her game before the mega event. Saina won back-to-back titles in Thailand and Indonesia to send out a warning to other leading players that she will be the player

London, June 20: England one-day captain Alastair Cook refused to get carried away after his latest limited overs hundred sealed a series win over the West Indies. Cook made 112 as England, set 239, won by eight wickets at The Oval on Tuesday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in a three-match series. It was left-handed opener Cook's fifth hundred in 47 one-day internationals (ODIs) and third in

New Delhi, June 20: A defiant All India Tennis Association (AITA) stood by its decision to pair Leander Paes with Mahesh Bhupathi for the London Olympics, insisting that teaming the former with a junior player would be "most inappropriate". Responding to the Sports Ministry's queries on the controversy that flared up after Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna both refused to partner Paes citing their