NEW DELHI: Three Indian cricket players were refused bail on Tuesday after they appeared in court on spotfixing charges as police announced the arrest of a Bollywood actor over the scandal.
A court in New Delhi agreed a five-day custody ...
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WELLINGTON: New Zealand cricket fans reacted with mild surprise on Tuesday to news that veteran left-arm spinner and former captain Dan Vettori may be rushed into the lineup for the second Test against England at Headingley.
News of 34-year-old ...
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LONDON: England named an unchanged squad for the second Test against New Zealand starting on Friday after batsman Ian Bell was declared fit following a bout of tonsillitis.
Bell climbed out of his sick bed to take his place at the crease in the ...
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SYDNEY: Cricket Australia said on Tuesday it had no immediate plan to curb the use of social media by players after a Twitter rant by David Warner, but suggested it could happen in the future.
Opening batsman Warner is due to face a disciplinary ...
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NEW DELHI: India’s Supreme Court dismissed a petition on Tuesday seeking to scrap the remaining matches of the country’s lucrative Twenty20 cricket competition amid growing concerns about corruption in sport.
Former Test bowler Shanthakumaran ...
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BRASILIA: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took a swipe at the naysayers on Monday as she officially inaugurated the last of six stadiums that Brazil will use next month to host a warm-up for the 2014 World Cup football tournament.
“The ...
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KARACHI: The Karachi cricket administration debarred talented batter Rameez Raja and off-spinner Misbah Khan from representing Karachi Region in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2013-14 for having violated discipline.
Besides, the KCCA Zone-I Chairman ...
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BRUSSELS: World champion Philippe Gilbert chases his first victory of the season as a strong field gets set to begin the five stage Tour of Belgium on Wednesday.
The BMC team leader pulled out of last week’s Tour of California to attend the ...
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MELBOURNE: Cricket Australia has announced a new contracting system which will make national women’s team players among the best-paid female athletes in Australia.
Under the new squad ranking procedure, which replaces a three-tier payment ...
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LONDON: The Godolphin doping scandal deepened on Monday with the British Horseracing Authority announcing that seven more horses have tested positive for steroids, including the winner of the world’s oldest classic.
Trainer Mahmood al-Zarooni ...
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US-born Russian Hammon hurt in workout
SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Becky Hammon, the US-born guard who helped Russia capture an Olympic women’s basketball medal at the 2008 Olympics, has suffered a broken right middle finger, her Women’s NBA club said ...
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MILAN: Australian Cadel Evans said he has not thrown in the towel ahead of his bid to overthrow Italian race leader Vincenzo Nibali and win this year’s Giro d’Italia.
Evans, the 2011 Tour de France champion, is second overall at 1min 26sec sec ...
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KARACHI: Midfielder Mohammad Ahmed hit the lone goal to guide WAPDA to a 1-0 victory over Army in the first quarter-final of the National Football Challenge Cup at the Dring Stadium in Bahawalpur on Tuesday.
International Ahmed scored the golden ...
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SINGAPORE: Atletico Madrid left this summer’s expected blockbuster transfer in Radamel Falcao’s hands on Tuesday when they admitted the prolific striker was free to leave and decide his own future.
Chief executive Miguel Angel Gil-Marin said he ...
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MILAN: Serie A giants Inter Milan were left among the league’s biggest losers after a final, dramatic day of action caused a number of surprises in Italy’s top flight.
Juventus, as widely expected, dominated the campaign to defend the title and ...
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BERLIN: Borussia Dortmund’s path from the brink of bankruptcy in 2005 to Saturday’s Champions League final against Bayern Munich has been dubbed “Ground Zero to Wembley” by CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke.
Last November, he announced that Dortmund had ...
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LONDON: Borussia Dortmund manager Jurgen Klopp says he is heartbroken to see his former star player Shinji Kagawa playing only a peripheral role at Manchester United.
The 24-year-old Japanese midfielder left Dortmund for Old Trafford last year ...
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MADRID: Jose Mourinho’s three-year reign in charge of Real Madrid was finally brought to an end on Monday when it was announced that the Portuguese will leave the club at the end of the season. Just as in his spells in charge at Chelsea and ...
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WENTWORTH, United Kingdom: Golf’s ruling bodies on Tuesday announced that anchoring putters will be banned from the start of 2016.
The anchored putting stroke has been in the spotlight since being used by a clutch of players to win major ...
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LONDON: Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley announced on Tuesday that he would have three wild cards at his disposal instead of two for the showdown with the US at Gleneagles next year.
The Irishman’s predecessor, Jose Maria Olazabal, had ...
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LAHORE: Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) has decided to retain Akhtar Rasool-led team management till next year’s World Cup while adding a few professionals to boost the performance of the team.
“Chief manager Akhtar Rasool and coach Hanif Khan ...
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KARACHI: The Karachi Hockey Association (KHA) is preparing a grass-less hockey field at its complex in Gulshan-e-Iqbal to have activities until it gets the synthetic turf from the Hockey Club of Pakistan (HCP), ‘The News’ learnt on Tuesday.
The ...
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KARACHI: Nazif Ahmed reached the final of under-18 boys category of the 2nd NBP Open Tennis Championship at Karachi Gymkhana on Tuesday. In the semi-final match, Nazif beat Mohammad Dada 6-0, 6-2.
In the under-18 girls semi-finals, Maheen Dada ...
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KARACHI: Top seed Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and his partner Jean-Julien Rojer reached the quarter-finals of Open de Nice, France, on Tuesday.
Aisam and Rojer, ranked 9th and 10th, respectively, defeated the pair of James Cerretani of the United ...
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KUALA LUMPUR: Defending champions China trounced arch rivals Indonesia 5-0 to top Group A of the Sudirman Cup on Tuesday, declaring they are ready to face anyone in Thursday’s quarter-finals.
The Chinese have won the biennial tournament eight ...
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