The iconic Leander Paes has ruled out immediate retirement from the competitive tennis, saying his comments were misconstrued and he actually aims to capture another Chennai Open trophy next year and motivate his new partner to win his maiden Grand Slam title. Paes and Brazilian Andre Sa began the 2017 season with a defeat against Indian team of Purav Raja and Divij Sharan in the opening round on Wednesday night.
The league match between South Africa A and Australia A in the ongoing Tri Series cricket tournament slated for Tuesday has been postponed to Wednesday, August 12 and India A will cross with Australia A in the final match of the league phase on August 13.
Veteran Indian tennis star Leander Paes began the 2017 season and his partnership with Andre Sa on a disappointing note as they crashed out of the Chennai Open with a straight sets defeat against rising stars Divij Sharan and Purav Raja in Chennai. Paes and his 111th partner were sent packing 4-6 4-6 in 67 minutes by Sharan and Raja, who enjoyed a successful 2016 season with four Challenger level titles and silently broke into top-70. Both Raja and Sharan are establishing themselves as force to reckon with as they look for their third ATP World Tour title at a home event.
Dhoni is extremely pleased with the growth of Deepak Chahar
A young squad, full of Indian Premier League performers, will represent India 'A' in the T20 warm-up against South Africa at the Air force Ground, in Palam, on September 29.
Sri Lankan Roshan Mahanama will be the Match Referee for India's three-match Test series against South Africa starting in Chennai next week.
South Africa will play the first Test of their tour of India in Chennai from March 26-30, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said in a statement released on Wednesday.
India's new coach Gary Kirsten on Sunday said the lack of help for the bowlers in the Chennai wicket had played a big part in the Test match ending in a dull draw.
South Africa's warm-up game for the Twenty20 leg of their India tour has been shifted from Feroz Shah Kotla to the Palam ground with DDCA expressing their inability to host the match.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the important numbers after the second week of IPL 2021.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the important numbers after the third week of IPL 2021.
She unfurled the AIADMK flag at the T Nagar memorial of party founder and late Chief Minister M G Ramachandran in Chennai and a plaque unveiled on the occasion addressed her as party 'general secretary,' which was strongly opposed by the main opposition party.
In a bizarre turn of events, India 'A' will replace South Africa 'A' in Monday's tri-series match against Australia 'A' after six of the cricketers were left indisposed owing to the sapping Chennai heat and stomach ailments.
Kanpur, Nagpur, Bangalore, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai were chosen to host a Test match each in the two home series.
Zaheer Khan will miss the opening Test of the home series against South Africa. The pace ace, who is undergoing treatment on his injured left heel, has ruled himself out of the first Test beginning in Chennai on March 26. Speaking to rediff.com Zaheer, who will represent the Rahul Dravid-led Bangalore Royal Challengers in the inaugural Indian Premier League next month said, "I'll certainly not be playing the first Test against South Africa."
Punjab Kings, who had paid Rs 10.75 crore for Maxwell in the previous auction, had released the 32-year-old following the 2020 edition in which he made 108 runs in 13 games at 15.42.
Round up of the World Cup warm-up matches played on Saturday.
A look at the Kolkata Knight Riders's IPL record over the years.
The unbroken seventh-wicket 259-run partnership between Laxman and Dhoni is India's highest for the seventh wicket in Tests, surpassing the 235 between Ravi Shastri and Syed Kirmani against England at Mumbai in November 1984.
South Africa would plunge straightaway into the three-Test series against hosts India without playing a pre-series warm-up game, the Cricket Board announced on Wednesday.
Injured Rahul Dravid's absence from next month's Test series against South Africa was a "big blow" for the team, but India are a confident lot after starting the year on a winning note against Bangladesh, said opener Gautam Gambhir in Chennai on Sunday.
The 15-member Indian squad, which landed in the city in batches along with the support staff, will start their three-day training camp from Saturday at National Cricket Academy ahead of the first Test against Australia at Chennai, starting on February 22.
In a three part series, Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers from cricket World Cups held between 1975 to 2015.
A total of 62 players were sold at the auction for the 13th edition with the eight franchises spending a total of 1.403 billion rupees ($19.73 million). Australia's Pat Cummins became the most expensive overseas buy ever in the Indian Premier League when the Kolkata Knight Riders paid a staggering Rs 15.50 crore ($2.18 million) for the fast bowler in Thursday's auction in Kolkata on Thursday.
South Africa have called up Quinton de Kock to their squad for the two remaining one-day internationals against Pakistan. The 20-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman replaces Faf du Plessis, who will rest a lower back problem that has also ruled him out of the first four weeks of the Indian Premier League, where he plays for the Chennai Super Kings.
South Africa's innings of 540 off 152.5 overs is their highest total against India in India, bettering their 510 for 9 wickets declared at Kanpur in 2004-05.
The International Cricket Council on Monday announced that it has withdrawn Pakistan umpire Aleem Dar from the remaining matches in the ongoing India versus South Africa series following threats from Shiv Sena.
Rajneesh Gupta presents Mumbai Indians's record in the IPL over the years:
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list IPL 2020's Most Valuable PlayerS so far.
Jacques Kallis became the fourth South African to score a hundred in his last Test, emulating Pieter van der Bijl, Lee Irvine and Barry Richards.
Rajneesh Gupta presents all the important numbers after the third week of IPL 2020.
Srinivas Bhogle and Purnendu Maji identify the Most Valuable Players in the IPL at the end of Match 59.
India needs to get the team composition right in the third and final Twenty20 International to prevent South Africa from recording a clean sweep, in Kolkata, on Thursday.
Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical summary of Kolkata Knight Riders and much more.
India's Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Matt Reid on Monday knocked out reigning French Open champions Ryan Harrison and Michael Venus in the opening round of the ATP250 Aegon International, in Eastbourne, on Monday.
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Rohit Sharma made history on Thursday with a scintillating 264, the highest individual ODI score, as India amassed 404 for five in the fourth one-dayer against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Take a look the ten best scores in ODIs
Russell had opted out of the three-match T20I series against India due to an injury, but he turned up for Vancouver Knights to play in the T20 tournament in Canada.
Though the Dharmadhikari report expects Air India would be cash surplus by eight years, the efforts are on so that it happens earlier.
The talented Punjab youngster Gurkeerat Singh Mann was selected for the upcoming One-day International series against South Africa.
Skipper Matthew Wade led from the front with a sparkling century as Australia A cruised to a 108-run victory over South Africa A and maintained a clean slate in the tri-series cricket tournament, in Chennai, on Wednesday.
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