"Since 2008 we have never gone beyond this first knockout game and it was very important for us to get that monkey off our back," Modric said.
India is sending a 400-member contingent for the regional meet, starting on March 29.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Friday
Neymar has given the ball away 84 times at this tournament
Join us in congratulating the two players for winning the inaugural ICC awards.
Vajpayee gave this assurance when agitated women members of the Upper House confronted him soon after Question Hour.
While Saina made short work of USA's Beiwan Zhang, second seed Sindhu had to dig deep to get the better of Japanese Sayaka Sato.
Phantom Thread is the most wrong, most real, most riveting portrait of toxic love you're likely to witness in a long, long time, feels Sukanya Verma.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the numbers on the ceicketing legend.
Ajay Ramaswamy won the battle of Indians when he beat Vijay Kannan to enter the final of ITF Satellite Masters tennis tournament.
The Delhi swimmer led the Indian women's 4x100m medley relay team to a new SAF Games record.
The Kolkata schoolboy sunk the men's 200m breaststroke mark at the Games as India won all four gold medals on offer on the opening day.
Gujarat government on Saturday denied permission to Hardik Patel's "reverse Dandi march" over the Patel quota issue, less than a fortnight after violence erupted during his stir claiming 10 lives, but the defiant leader vowed to carry out the protest programme on Sunday.
"We have all heard about you," said a cloth merchant while he gifted a piece of Pakistani fabric to the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief.
A 26-year-old Dubai-based jeweller had bid over Rs 50 lakh for a gold trophy that Salman Khan auctioned at the Zee Cine Awards.
Naomi Osaka is hogging the headlines for all the right reasons in her native land after she became the first Japanese player to reach a Grand Slam singles final, with one major newspaper hailing her as "a new heroine Japan can be proud of".
It's unconventional but it also gives both partners space.
'I think the team's getting stronger, pushing very hard. I think people are fired up and we are motivated for tomorrow'
The medals were won by the men's and women's 4x100m freestyle relays teams at the afro Asian Games.
Mission Mangal has its heart in place, feels Sukanya Verma.
Ambati Rayudu's 53-ball 82-run innings set things up for Chennai Super Kings
Jaspal Rana says 'too much' is being expected from teenage prodigies like Manu Bhaker and Anish Bhanwala
Maninder Singh Bisla hit a sparkling unbeaten 76 as Himachal beat Services by five wickets in the Ranji Trophy Plate Group B match.
P V Sindhu and Parupalli Kashyap cruised to the next round, but it was qualifier Shriyanshi Pardeshi of Air India who hogged the limelight after stunning former women's National champion Trupti Murgunde in straight games at the 78th ATS Senior National Badminton Championships in Delhi on Friday.
The Mhow-based golfer had a bogey-free round of five under 65 in the penultimate round of the Hyundai Open.\n\n
Stalin said the DMK was a movement that protected women's rights and Radharavi's comments were not acceptable to it.
SP has fielded Shivpal from Jaswant Nagar seat in Etawah district.
Diljit Dosanjh's striking self-possession, like the champion he's portraying, doesn't let it come in the way of a performance that screams g-o-a-l, feels Sukanya Verma.
What does Rahul Dravid need to do to be able to join NCA without carrying the blemish of perceived or potential 'conflict of interest'? Sudhir Bisht attempts an answer.
Parupalli Kashyap continued his impressive run to advance to the semi-finals of the Singapore Open Super Series badminton tournament, even as young H S Prannoy was left ruing his luck as a foot injury forced him to concede his quarter-final, on Friday.
The home minister said, "Pakistan has been regularly violating ceasefire agreements, but India has given a befitting reply."
The Sensex added 20 points to 6,017, and the Nifty finished at 1,890 - up 11 points.
After a scintillating victory over Fabiano Caruana of United States in the previous round, Anand yet again showed great intent against Nakamura, but the American was up to the task in a keenly contested game.
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