London: Jannik Sinner halted Carlos Alcaraz’s winning run as he defeated the two-time defending champion in the Wimbledon 2025 final in a four-set thriller. Sinner has become the first-ever Italian player to win the Wimbledon title with his victory over Alcaraz by 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Sinner completed his Roland Garros redemption as he handed Alcaraz…
London: A high-voltage drama between India captain Shubman Gill and England opener Zak Crawley ended the third day of the third Test between the two teams at Lord’s. Following a first-innings tie on the moving day at the home of cricket, Gill and Crawley were in a loggerhead-like situation with the English opener trying to…
London: India and England players were involved in a verbal spat to end Day 3 of the third Test at Lord’s. The incident happened on the final over of the day, when England opener Zak Crawley was spotted wasting time in the middle to delay the play. The hosts did not want to play more…
London: Iga Swiatek, nicknamed as ‘Queen of Clay’, has finally cracked the grass as she bagged her maiden title on the surface by winning the Wimbledon 2025 women’s singles on Saturday, July 12. Swiatek bossed the final at SW19 as she squashed the American Amanda Anisimova in straight sets without dropping a single game. Swiatek…
London: Stylish opener KL Rahul on Saturday became only the second India batter to score more than one century at the hallowed Lord’s, after yesteryear middle-order mainstay Dilip Vengsarkar. Rahul reached the landmark with a single off Jofra Archer to covers right after the lunch break on the third day of the third Test against…
London: By his admission, Jasprit Bumrah is no spring chicken and doesn’t have energy to celebrate like a 21-year-old. Instead of overt celebrations, he is creating milestones, one game at a time and saving those stories for his son Angad’s grown-up years. Like his 5/74, which will be on the Lord’s Honours board following a…
Batumi (Georgia): Indian woman grandmaster Vatika Agrawal battled through a roller coaster contest before breaking through the defences of former world champion Anna Ushenina of Ukraine in the tiebreaks of the second round at the FIDE Women’s World Cup. However, Padmini Rout lost to another former world champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk of Switzerland, to bow out…
London: England’s first innings centurion Joe Root has offered an interesting but permanent “solution” to teams asking for a change of ball when it doesn’t do much in air or off the surface — allow bowling captains three challenges in 80 overs just like it is there for Decision Review System, taking slow over-rates into…
London: Jasprit Bumrah’s five-wicket haul and Joe Root’s sublime century set up an absorbing contest before KL Rahul’s composed unbeaten 53 guided India to 145 for three at stumps on day two of the third Test against England at Lord’s on Friday. At stumps, India trailed by 242 runs with Rahul and Rishabh Pant (19…
Lords: Joe Root stitched together a dogged unbeaten 99 as England shed their usual aggressive ways, resorting to classical long-format batting amid sustained pressure from the Indian bowlers to reach 251 for four on day one of the Lord’s Test in London on Thursday. At stumps, Root was one run shy of his 37th Test…
