Asian Tour No 1 Jeev Milkha Singh hopes to produce an eye-catching performance at this week's Omega European Masters to boost his chances of earning a captain's pick for the Presidents Cup.
A local court on Monday ordered former Australian cricketer Greg Matthews to undertake 200 hours of community service for his third drunk-driving offence and disqualified him from driving for one year apart from a fine of 73 dollars.
Motorola would permanently freeze its US pension plans from March 1, 2009, preserving vested benefits accrued by employees and retirees but eliminating future benefit accruals. ."Employees would not receive a salary increase in 2009," the company said.
The first player to win a Grand Slam, the ATP World Tour Finals, the men's singles at the Olympic Games and a Masters title in the same calendar year.
The 31-year-old, who played for Australia during the Champions Trophy team in June, suffered the injury during Worcestershire's four-day match against Sussex.
Practice rounds with Greg Norman, acquaintance with Arnold Palmer and paired alongside Tiger Woods Jeev Milkha Singh finds himself in august company at the Augusta Masters.
The US became the first country in the world to have more than one million cases of coronavirus. It accounts for nearly one-third of the 3.1 million cases globally.
Former Australian captain and coach Greg Chappell has warned that 50-over cricket would be the best way to measure all cricketing nations, but Twenty20 is the best format for ensuring the growth of the game.
The ace cueist, the only Indian in the fray in the men's category, proved too good for Alex Borg of Malta in a 6-0 victory to improve upon his showing at the last championship when he was ousted in the quarter-finals in Bengaluru by Yan Bingtao 4-6 of China.
When Vinoo Mankad ran out Bill Brown, he created cricketing history -- and eternal controversy.
Does the boss even really need to network? Yes--and he needs to do it better than anyone else.
The 72-year-old attacker told Tomy Kalathoor Mathew that because he was Indian, he must be a Hindu or a Muslim and therefore unqualified to say mass.
From a lower order batsman to one of Australia's prolific Test run-getters, Marnus Labuschange has carved his spot in the Australian line-up. The highest run-scorer in a calendar year in Test cricket in 2019, 'mind-blowing' Labuschange is now looking to break into the one-day team for the tour of India.
Rajneesh Gupta gives us all the numbers to tell us how the Indian skipper creates new record after record.
India's Jeev Milkha Singh and Shiv Kapur made a strong start to their Omega European Masters campaign with an identical three-under 68s to be placed tied 19th after the first round at Golf Course Crans-Sur-Sierre in Switzerland.
Cricket has few examples of players calling it quits when very much at the top their game. It is anything but coincidence that most of them happen to be from the most successful nation in the history of the sport.
News of all that transpired on and off the football field.
Former Australia captain Greg Chappell reckons the Mumbai terror strikes would irrevocably change visiting players' perspective of India and they would feel just as vulnerable there as they generally believe in Pakistan.
Russia is pressing ahead with preparations to host the 2018 World Cup finals following Sepp Blatter's resignation as FIFA president and does not expect any boycotts of the tournament, Russian officials said on Wednesday.
Former captain Steve Smith and batsman Cameron Bancroft will not contest the sanctions imposed on them by Cricket Australia (CA) for their role in last month's ball-tampering scandal in South Africa, the banned duo said on Wednesday.
Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) president Greg Dyer said the contrition of the players should be taken into account along with the precedent -- no player has previously received more than a one-match ban for the offence -- and a lack of due process in the Cricket Australia probe.
After scoring a brilliant 115 in the first innings of Durban Test, Philip Hughes went one step further as he scored 160 in the second dig.
VVS Laxman played second fiddle to Andrew Flintoff as Lancashire thumped Derbyshire by 56 runs in the Twenty20 Cup in London. Flintoff hammered 93 from 41 balls to hog the limelight but Laxman's 45-ball 63 was no less significant as the duo shared a fourth-wicket stand of 99 to help Lancashire pile up 220 for five, their best ever Twenty20 score.
Australia's top cricketers face being locked out unless a new memorandum of understanding is struck between CA and the Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) before the end of the month.
Former Australia fast bowler Max Walker has died after a two-year battle against skin cancer, Cricket Australia said on Wednesday. He was 68.
Out of favour opener Gautam Gambhir scored 31 for Essex against Northamptionshire on his county debut in London.
Britain's Prince William has urged the Football Association to reform its governance structure to avoid falling short of modern standards.
United States President Barack Obama has appointed two Indian-Americans, Rashad Hussain and Shomik Datta, to his legal team -- the White House Counsel. Hussain has been appointed as Deputy Associate Counsel to the US President and Dutta will be special assistant to President's Counsel, Greg Craig, the White House said. These appointments were made on January 28.
Harpreet Singh Khalsa, 33, said he was the victim of racial profiling in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, but police stated that those who called in their concerns did the right thing.
This is for the first time in recent history that the leaders of the two largest democracies would be addressing a joint rally anywhere in the world.
Australian cricket authorities are bracing up for a final round of deliberations on reducing the ball-tampering ban on Steve Smith and David Warner, with a face-off against an upbeat India awaiting the weakened home team.
Ex-golfer Greg Norman and tennis legend Chris Evert were married on Saturday in a seaside ceremony held under a veil of tight security on Paradise Island in the Bahamas. Evert and Norman, both 53, exchanged vows in front of 140 family and friends, including US television personality Matt Lauer and singer-songwriter Corey Hart.
Craig McDermott, who took 291 wickets in 71 Tests for Australia, turned down a contract extension so he could concentrate on his outside business interests
'As a player, the biggest question you ask yourself is whether you are good enough to be on the same ground as Gavaskar, Dev, Border and company.'
Scarlett Johansson has dyed her trademark blonde locks brunette, and flaunted them at the premiere of her latest film He's Just Not That Into You.
Dismissing all rumuours about being a 'double agent', former India coach Greg Chappell declared that he does not possess any classified information about the Indian team, and even if he did would not hand it over to his new employer, Australia.
American President Barack Obama was sworn in for second time as the US President by the Chief Justice of Supreme Court John Roberts at White House on Wednesday evening.The surprise move was taken on Wednesday evening in 'an abundance of caution', as the US Chief Justice had flubbed the oath of the office. The second oath was administered at 7.35 pm. White House Counsel Greg Craig said that the oath administered to Obama on Tuesday was fine, but one word was out of sequence.
'Ganguly, who turns 46 on Sunday, was one of the sharpest and farsighted cricketing minds, says Abhirup Bhattacharya in a biography on the former India cricketer, titled - 'Winning Like Sourav: Think & Succeed Like Ganguly'.
How rare is it for two players to score hundreds on captaincy debut in the same series? Virat Kohli got two when he led India in the first Test against Australia in Adelaide. Now, Steven Smith got one in his first Test as captain in the ongoing second Test at Brisbane.
They both have throat infection and are feeling feverish, Indian captain Rahul Dravid said.
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