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Birmingham, Mar 12 (UNI) India’s ace shuttler PV Sindhu suffered a first-round exit at the All England Open 2025 after going down to South Korea’s Kim Ga Eun in a hard-fought three-game encounter here on Tuesday. Sindhu, who had a 1-0 head-to-head record against Kim before the match, started on a strong note but failed…
Dhaka, Mar 12 (UNI) Bangladesh’s seasoned campaigner Mahmud Ullah has called it quits from international cricket after 239 ODIs – drawing curtains with 5,689 runs and 82 wickets to his name. Having already called time on his T20I and Test career, the 39-year-old has now bid farewell to his ODI career. His final appearance for…
Sydney, Mar 12 (UNI) Having been appointed India’s captain back in 2021 at the age of 34, Rohit Sharma on Sunday clinched his second ICC title – following the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup win last year – as India closed an invincible Champions Trophy campaign in Dubai. Now approaching 38, there were talks around…
Wellington, Mar 11 (UNI) New Zealand women are set to take on Sri Lanka in a three-game T20I series starting March 14. Injuries to wicketkeeper-batter Izzy Gaze [a hip flexor issue], seamer Hayley Jensen [a hip flexor issue], and batter Bella James [quadricep concerns] have ruled them out of the upcoming series. Izzy had featured…
California, Mar 11 (UNI) Women’s top seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus cruised into the round of 16 at Indian Wells by overcoming Italian Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-2. Sabalenka won 75 percent of her first serve points and converted five of 12 break points en route to victory in an hour and 15 minutes on Monday….
Lahore, Mar 11 (UNI) The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has lodged a formal protest against the International Cricket Council (ICC) for its failure to include its representative in the post-match ceremony of the Champions Trophy final. Despite the presence of PCB’s Chief Operating Officer Sumair Ahmed Syed — who was also the director of the…
Sydney, Mar 11 (UNI) Arch-rivals Australia and England will play a historic one-off day-night Test match to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the first Test match. The historic pink-ball Test between the two will be played between March 11-15, 2027 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, a statement from Cricket Australia confirmed on Tuesday. This will…
Islamabad, Mar 10 (UNI) Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials’ absence from the Champions Trophy 2025 final’s presentation ceremony on Sunday has drawn criticism from the country’s former senior players of the game. India beat New Zealand in the final in Dubai, with the Men in Blue playing all their matches at the same venue after…
Srinagar, Mar 10 (UNI) Skier Siddhartha Gadekar of Pune Maharashtra won the gold in Vertical Ski Mountaineering event in the Khelo India Winter Games (KIWG) being played at the picturesque Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district. Shardul Thapliyal and Himanshu Singh both from Himachal Pradesh clinched Silver and Bronze in the event respectively. Celebrating yellow…
Dubai, Mar 10 (UNI) The ninth edition of the Champions Trophy 2025 saw India being crowned as the winners on March 9 after they overcame New Zealand in the final. Several exceptional performers lit up the tournament with the bat and ball. The best of them made it to the Team of the Tournament. 1….
