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IPL 2015: Mumbai, Chennai on war path for IPL Final Berth
Mumbai, May 18 (IANS): With an eye on the much-awaited final, heavyweights Mumbai Indians (MI) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) face-off in a high-voltage clash in the first qualifier of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium…
IPL 8: Mumbai brush aside Hyderabad to march into Play-Offs
Hyderabad, May 17 (IANS): Mumbai Indians produced a clinical bowling display to brush aside the might of Sunrisers Hyderabad, winning by nine wickets in a group stage match to advance to the play-off stage of the Indian Premier League (IPL)…
IPL 8: Royal Challengers Bangalore book IPL Playoff Berth
Bengaluru, May 17 (IANS): Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) confirmed their berth in the Indian Premier League (IPL) playoffs after their concluding league match against Delhi Daredevils was abandoned midway due to heavy showers here on…
Sania Mirza, Martina Hingis lose Rome Masters Final
Rome, May 17 (IANS): Indo-Swiss tennis combine of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis did not live up to expectations as the top seeds were upset by Hungarian-French pair of Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic in straight sets in the women's…
IPL 2015: Chennai Super Kings beat Kings XI by 7 Wickets
Mohali, May 16 (IANS): Table-toppers Chennai Super Kings (CSK) assured themselves of a spot in the Indian Premier League Qualifier 1 as they registered a overwhelming seven-wicket victory over Kings XI Punjab in a league encounter at the…
IPL 2015: Rajasthan Royals beat Kolkata Knight Riders
Mumbai, May 17 (IANS): A blistering century by opener Shane Watson and some quality bowling helped Rajasthan Royals secure a place in the Indian Premier league play-offs with a nine-run victory here on Saturday over defending champions…
American sprinter Allyson Felix takes 11th Victory in Doha
Doha, May 16 (IANS): American sprinter Allyson Felix dashed to a meet record of 21.98 seconds to win the women's 200 metres race at the Diamond League opener here, equaling the meet record set by Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown in 2010.…
Golfer Ajeetesh finishes joint 33rd at Sarawak Championship
Kuching (Malaysia), May 16 (IANS): Indian golfer Ajeetesh Sandhu finished the PGM MNRB Sarawak Championship on a disappointing note as he carded three-over 75 to share the 33rd spot in the $55,400 Asian Development Tour (ADT) event here on…
Rafael Nadal crashes out of Italian Open
Rome, May 16 (IANS/EFE): Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka made an improbable comeback in the first-set tie-breaker and then dominated the action in the second set en route to a 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 victory on Friday in the Italian Open…
IPL 2015: Kohli, Gayle help RCB climb Second on The Table
Hyderabad, May 16 (IANS): Virat Kohli’s late blitz of 44 runs from 19 balls and Chris Gayle’s cameo helped Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in a rain-curtailed Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Rajiv Gandhi…