New Zealand will go into the final day of the first Test against Sri Lanka needing 257 runs for victory with nine wickets in hand.
Bangladesh would like to exploit those chinks in England's armour
New Zealand's stand-in captain Tom Latham was delighted to have found a new hero in ton-up Rachin Ravindra as they began their World Cup campaign, obliterating champions England by 9 wickets in Ahmedabad on Thursday.
Pace spearhead Trent Boult has been omitted from the white-ball squad a few months after being released from his national contract.
New Zealand's campaign has hit a disheartening flatline after their early domination and the Kiwis will have to rediscover their bowling mojo for a World Cup reboot when they face knocked-out Sri Lanka in Bengaluru on Thursday.
Patel smashed 74 and dominated his 114-run partnership for the eighth wicket with Ashwin to rescue India
The three male leads on F.R.I.E.N.D.S. seem to have given Courtney's big shining moment a miss
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index after 33 World Cup 2023 games.
Suryakumar Yadav leads a sprightly bunch of 'Gen-Next' stars against a strong Australian side in a five-match T20 series, starting in Visakhapatnam on Thursday.
'In Raktobeej, I had a lot of physical action to do, so that was a new challenge.' 'We didn't want the action scenes to be over-the-top.' 'We wanted to make the action raw and real.'
Images from the ICC Men's ODI World Cup match between New Zealand and the Netherlands in Hyderabad on Monday.
Dignified, unassuming and regarded as Manchester United's greatest ever servant, Bobby Charlton appeared 758 times for the club, scoring 249 goals
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index after 45 World Cup 2023 games.
South Africa's bowlers chipped away at the wickets to stay on course for a huge victory against New Zealand.
The most interesting aspect of the contest is the form of batters from both sides which has been the reason of their success so far.
New Zealand ended Sri Lanka's chances of directly qualifying for this year's World Cup in India.
David Warner averages a lowly 22.16 in nine Test matches in India, managing just 399 runs with just three fifties.
'If you watch Baazigar even today, after 30 years of its release, you will enjoy it because of its novel story line.'
Pakistan scored 182 runs and Tom Latham's side fell well short of their target despite a hat-trick from Matt Henry, with Haris Rauf claiming four wickets for 18 runs as New Zealand were dismissed for 94, with more than four overs remaining.
Action, drama, thriller and rom-coms, this week has a lot of entertainment coming up on OTT as well as in theatres.
'Shami always knew that he would be required at some point in time and for that he was always prepared.'
David Warner will have a big Ashes and have backed him to deliver at the top of the order.
I don't know how the other Friends will react to Matthew Perry's death, but I am sure a part of them will be buried with Chandler, believes passionate Friends fan A Ganesh Nadar.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas has been making stunning style statements as she promotes her Web series, Citadel, around the globe.
India made a promising start by taking a first-half lead but its defence fell apart later as the team lost the fourth hockey Test 1-5 to Australia and conceded an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series, in Adelaide, on Saturday.
Blind's drab narrative has no place for emotions or edge. Its prolonged cat-and-mouse game goes on and on till it arrives at its (literally) eye-popping conclusion, notes Sukanya Verma.
"He has indicated he's available for the World Cup," Stead told reporters.
Sweden missed out on the finals for the first time in 28 years on a night in which their fixture with Belgium was abandoned
The game on Friday had enough positives for India, mainly the performance of Mohammad Shami and Suryakumar Yadav, but few questions still need to be answered ahead of the World Cup, beginning October 5.
Indian cyclist Vishavjeet Singh, who qualified for the final in the men's 15km scratch race, had a narrow escape in horrific crash that grabbed the spotlight at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
The summer saw its fair share of hits at the box office. Now, the monsoon has quite a few movie releases from across genres.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index after 23 World Cup 2023 games.
A quick glance at the nominations for the 67th Annual Golden Globe awards.
Europe resisted a fierce American fightback to secure the four points required to reclaim the Ryder Cup
2023 was a good year for international cinema with many strong films premiering at the Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto film festivals.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji present Rediff.com's Most Valuable Player Index after 29 World Cup 2023 games.
Capturing the drama at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka on Friday.
"We estimate that Pakistan now has a nuclear weapons stockpile of approximately 170 warheads. The US Defense Intelligence Agency projected in 1999 that Pakistan would have 60 to 80 warheads by 2020, but several new weapon systems have been fielded and developed since then, which leads us to a higher estimate," the Nuclear Notebook column published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on September 11 said.
Ahead of the second test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar series, Australian skipper Pat Cummins admitted that it has been a bit of an adjustment and the spinners were struggling.
'I think our training wickets have been really difficult as well. So it's been nice to actually stand in a training wicket and keep to our bowlers.'
