CHESTER-LE-STREET: England clinched a third straight Ashes series after winning the fourth test by 74 runs following a dramatic Australian batting meltdown in the face of some inspired bowling from paceman Stuart Broad on Monday. Set a victory target of 299, Australia collapsed from 168-2 to

Montreal:  Rafael Nadal reached his 10th final of the season on Saturday, beating top seed and defending champion Novak Djokovic 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (7/2) at the Montreal Masters. The fourth-seeded Spaniard will play the first Canadian to reach the final since 1958 when he faces Milos Raonic, a 6-4

Not giving Parvez Rasool a single game in the five-match series in Zimbabwe appears to defy both cricketing and symbolic logic. Purely on cricketing grounds, this series was a golden opportunity for India to test its bench strength in conditions quite different from home against a weak opposi

BULAWAYO: India on Saturday created history by recording their first-ever five-match ODI series whitewash on foreign soil as they thrashed Zimbabwe by seven wickets in the fifth and final one-dayer, riding on leg-spinner Amit Mishra's career-best six-wicket haul. Mishra's fine effort of 6 for

HARARE: A disciplined India notched up a convincing seven-wicket victory over Zimbabwe in the third one-day international to secure an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series on Sunday. Amit Mishra scalped four wickets and skipper Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 88-ball 68 to emerge as

NEW DELHI: Skipper Virat Kohli added another feather to his during India's dominating victory over Zimbabwe in the first ODI at Harare on Wednesday as he became the fastest batsman in the history of the game to score 15 one-day international hundreds. Kohli's 115 from just 108 deliveries help

Shahid Afridi made one of the more remarkable comebacks in international cricket in leading Pakistan to a crushing 126-run victory over the West Indies in the first one-day international at the Guyana National Stadium. Omitted from his country's failed Champions Trophy campaign, the mercurial

PORT OF SPAIN (TNN): Bolstered by their dramatic comeback in the tournament, a rejuvenated India will be gunning for yet another title triumph when they clash with an equally determined Sri Lanka in the final of the tri-series on Thursday. The reigning Champions Trophy winners may also get a

SRINAGAR/CHANDIGARH/NEW DELHI (TNN): As a kid he often played cricket on the deserted streets of Bijbehara, a small town in south Kashmir, whenever separatists shut down the Valley. In 2009, he was detained and questioned by the Bangalore police for alleged links to a terror plot outside the

PORT OF SPAIN (Trinidad) (TNN): Skipper Virat Kohli led from the front with a responsible century-knock as India bounced back in the race for the tri-series final with a dominating 102-run win over the West Indies in a crucial rain-hit match, on Friday. Batting with a lot of grit and gumption

KINGSTON (TNN): Upul Tharanga scored a career-best unbeaten 174 as Sri Lanka produced a clinical display to thrash India by 161 runs in the third match of the ODI tri-series. Sent into bat, Sri Lanka first rode on Tharanga's 174 and Mahela Jayawardene's 107 to pile up a mammoth 348 for one an

KINGSTON: Kemar Roach got himself a perfect birthday present as he guided West Indies to a thrilling one-wicket victory over India in a nail-biting encounter in the second ODI of the Tri-series on Sunday. Chasing a modest target of 230, West Indies made a heavy weather of the chase despite a spar

NEW DELHI: The long form of cricket is set to get a boost with the much-awaited World Test Championship soon to become reality. The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Saturday announced its decision to replace the Champions Trophy - the last edition of which was won by India recently - with t

RIYADH (Arab News): Mehran, Gujranwala and Bhatkal emerged champions in the BSF Twenty20 cricket tournament organized by Riyadh Cricket League and played at the RCL cricket complex, Al-Kharj Road. In the Super Cup final Mehran got the better of NAB by 24 runs, in the Premier League — I Gujran

LONDON (TNN): An impressive bowling performance powered England to the Champions Trophy summit clash as the hosts thrashed South Africa by seven wickets in the first semifinal on Wednesday. The hosts bundled out South Africa for a meagre 175 after inserting them in to bat and then comfortably

LONDON (TNN): A disciplined Sri Lanka set up a semifinal date with India in the ICC Champions Trophy as they knocked out holders Australia by posting a 20-run win, with veteran Mahela Jayawardene caressing his way to an unbeaten 84-run knock on Monday. Jayawardene made his runs off 81 balls t

  LONDON: Kumar Sangakkara smashed an unbeaten 134 off 135 balls as Sri Lanka stunned England by seven wickets in a high-scoring thriller on Thursday to stay afloat in the Champions Trophy. The Islanders, chasing England's seemingly impregnable 293-7, launched a spirited chase in the

LONDON: The Oval looked like a photoshopped image of a cricket ground on a grey canvas here on Tuesday. Adding life to that image was Team India and the scores of high-decibel fans who had arrived here in the morning to show their support. MS Dhoni and his boys did not disappoint, putting in