Agency :Ben Stokes has the option to resume his One Day International (ODI) playing career and take part in England’s title defense at the 50-over World Cup (WC) later this year in India, according to white-ball coach Matthew Mott.Stokes led England in scoring in the T20 World Cup final in Australia last year and was named Player of the Match when they defeated New Zealand at Lord’s in the 2019 World Cup final.He gave up ODI cricket last year, citing...
BBC Online :India coach Ravi Shastri said his players are “physically and mentally drained” as the pre-tournament favourites ended their disappointing T20 World Cup campaign with a nine-wicket consolation win over Namibia.India chased 133 with Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul both making half-centuries.Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin took 3-16 and 3-20 in Namibia’s 132-8.India were unable to reach the semis after defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand in their first two games.The tournament rounded off a jam-packed 11 months for...
AFP, Melbourne :Thomas Pieters and Thomas Detry held off Mexico and a charging Australia to win Belgium’s first ever golf...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino told the 12 breakaway European Super League clubs on Monday that they could not be “half...
Mo Farah’s final race at his home city of London ended with the four-time Olympic champion finishing fourth in The Big Half. The 40-year-old stayed in touch with the leading pack for the first half of Sunday’s elite men’s race but dropped back after about 30 minutes. Jack Rowe claimed victory in a personal best of one hour one minute 8 seconds, with Farah clocking 1:02:43. Farah, who has six world titles to go with his four Olympic gold medals,...
AFP, Madrid :Real Madrid’s best player for the last three months is 35 years old and out of contract in...
AFP, Pyeongchang :The International Olympic Committee threatened to axe boxing from the Tokyo 2020 Games on Sunday as it opened an investigation into the sport’s controversial governing body and said concerns lingered over possible match-fixing at Rio 2016.The IOC’s executive board also froze contacts with and financial payments to the International Amateur Boxing Association (AIBA), whose interim president has been named as a leading criminal by the US Treasury Department.The board said it was “not satisfied” with a report by...
AFP, Doha :Novak Djokovic took just 55 minutes to claim his first win of 2019, brushing aside Damir Dzumhur 6-1,...
Novak Djokovic admitted he had to “fight” to come back from a set down to beat world number 36, Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics at the Qatar Open on Wednesday.The world number one survived a huge scare to eventually triumph 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 and admitted his opponent was “very close to the win”.“For the first two sets he was the better player,” said two-time Qatar Open champion Djokovic.“He played really well, smart, changing up the rhythm and the pace of the ball...
AFP, London :England have Raheem Sterling to thank for their trip to Rome on Saturday for their Euro 2020 quarter-final...
German track cycling great Kristina Vogel told AFP that despite being paralysed she will still feel her passion for the...
AFP, Warsaw :Polish track star Irena Szewinska, who won Olympic gold medals in three different events, died on Friday night aged 72, her husband and former coach Janusz Szewinski said.“Irena died around 2030 in Warsaw at the military hospital,” Szewinski told Polish news agency PAP, explaining that she had been suffering from cancer.“She had been fighting her illness for a long time, but felt relatively well in recent days.”“Madame Irena Szewinska has left us – the first lady of Polish...