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New Delhi, Sept 15: Quite like the beginning and the dozen years that followed, the end of Sardar Singh's journey in international hockey was understated, contrasting with the hype that often marks the culmination of a great career. What was there, instead, was a simple goodbye and gratitude. A third Olympic appearance did not materialise but Sardar, nonetheless, walked into the sunset after a

Sept 15: Moeen Ali has intensified the focus on Australian player behaviour after claiming that an unnamed member of their 2015 Ashes team subjected him to a racial taunt during his first appearance against them. Writing in his autobiography, which is being serialised in The Times ahead of the book's publication later this month, Moeen claims he was abused during the first Ashes Test at Cardiff in

Dubai, Sep 14: Virat Kohli's absence might have taken some sheen off it but the general excitement surrounding three possible Indo-Pak encounters will be the USP of the six-nation Asia Cup starting Saturday with a Bangladesh-Sri Lanka clash here. While there are two assured India-Pakistan matches, one in the group league and other at the Super Four stage, the organisers, broadcasters, and the

Kraljevo, Sep 13: India's depleted Davis Cup squad will bank on the consistency of Prajnesh Gunneswaran to pull the side through when it takes on a shorn-of-star-power Serbia in the World Group Play-off tie here from Friday. Recently-crowned US Open champion Novak Djokovic's decision to opt out of the play-offs along with world number 33 Filip Krajinovic has raised hopes of an equal contest

Dhaka, Sept 13: Two goals from Manvir Singh and a late strike from Sumit Passi helped India beat arch-rivals Pakistan by 3-1 at the Bangabandhu Stadium here on Wednesday to make it to the final of the ongoing the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship. After a goalless first-half, Manvir scored his first in the 49th minute only to double the score-line twenty minutes later. Substitute

New Delhi, Sept 12: Asian Games gold medallist boxer Amit Panghal was on Tuesday nominated for this year’s Arjuna awards by the Boxing Federation of India. Amit joined Sonia Lather and Gaurav Bidhuri in the list of boxing nominees for the second highest sporting honour after the Khel Ratna. “I am honoured to be nominated, I can’t describe how happy I am. My medal is talking for me and that is what

London, Sept 11: Indian speedster Mohammed Shami says he watched videos of rival pacers Stuart Broad and James Anderson to understand how to exploit English conditions and has learnt to make an impact while bowling in away series. After overcoming inconsistency in South Africa and personal problems later on, Shami has bowled nicely in the ongoing series against England, taking 16 wickets in five

Sydney, Sept 11: An Australian cartoonist has come under withering criticism for portraying tennis superstar Serena Williams using -- what Harry Potter author JK Rowling described as -- "racist and sexist tropes". Mark Knight's caricature, published in Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper on Monday, shows a butch and fat-lipped Williams jumping up and down on her broken racquet at the US Open

London, Sept 10: Alastair Cook bacame only the fifth batsman in Test cricket history to score hundreds in his first and last matches as England took a commanding 283-run lead in the fifth and final Test against India, on Monday. Before Cook, Australia's Reggie Duff, Bill Ponsford, Greg Chappell and India’s Mohammad Azharuddin had achieved the rare distinction of scoring hundreds in both debut and

New York, Sept 10: Novak Djokovic clinched his third US Open title on Sunday with a 6-3, 7-6 (7/4), 6-3 triumph over Juan Martin del Potro, taking him level with Pete Sampras's mark of 14 Grand Slams. Djokovic, playing in his eighth final in New York and already the champion in 2011 and 2015, is now just three Slams behind Rafael Nadal and six back from the record 20 held by Roger Federer. It was