Delhi captain Aakash Chopra said that nature of defeat at the hands of Uttar Pradesh in their Ranji Trophy match was very disappointing as things definitely “did not go for the team the way they should have gone.”
On February 10, 1952, when India had won their first Test match by beating Donald Carr’s England by an innings and eight runs in Madras, “the scenes at the finish,” the Wisden Almanac says, “were surprisingly subdued.”
Top seed Chetan Anand and national champion Sayali Gokhale scored contrasting victories in their respective title-clashes to lift the men's and women's singles crowns in the 2nd Tata Open Badminton Tournament here today.
Stumper Dinesh Karthik has been flown in as a last minute back-up for injured India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni ahead of the second cricket Test against Sri Lanka starting here on Tuesday.
Over four days, a total of 1,376 runs have been scored at just under four an over, with one batsman getting a big double-hundred and four others getting to three figures.
Saina Nehwal’s poor run at the tail-end of the Super Series leg in the Far East continued, with a 17-21 21-8 21-13 second-round exit at the China Open...