Jakarta:The Indian trio of P V Sindhu, Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth dished out superb performances on the opening day to advance to the second round of the USD 350,000 Indonesia Masters World Tour Super 500 badminton tournament here Wednesday. Olympic and World Championship silver medallist Sindhu opened the new season with a fighting 22-24 21-8 21-17 win over 2012 London Games champion Li Xuerui of China in a 54-minute women’s singles match. The second seeded Indian will now be pitted against Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska Tunjung. Eighth seeded Saina, who had reached the semifinals at the Malaysia Masters last week,…
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James Anderson spearheaded a late England assault with the second new ball to reduce the West Indies to 264 for eight at stumps on the opening day of the first Test at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed could find himself in trouble after he was caught by stump mics of making what seemed to be racist comments against a South African player during their second one-dayer.
Ending years of speculation, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra formally entered politics today with the Congress appointing her general secretary for Uttar Pradesh East in a move reflecting the party’s intent to go full throttle in the State ahead of the general elections.
India produced cricket of the calibre that has become synonymous with Virat Kohli’s men to crush New Zealand in the first ODI.
After bowling out New Zealand for 157 in the first ODI, Indians have a made a steady start to their chase. At lunch, Team India managed 41 for no loss.
In the first One Day International between India and New Zealand at Napier this morning, New Zealand chose to bat first. They were dismissed for 157 thanks to Kuldeep, who picked up four wickets and Chahal getting two.
New Zealand had a dismal start losing five wickets for 109 in 25 overs. Williamson and Santner are in the middle.
Mohammed Shami became the fastest Indian to claim 100 wickets in One-day Internationals, reaching the mark in the opening match against New Zealand