England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff expressed full confidence Tuesday that he would be fit for the final Test of his career in the deciding Ashes match against Australia at the Oval this week.
Last year in January at Amazon's flagship event Smbhav, Infosys Co-founder N R Narayana Murthy had to shorten his keynote speech from 20 minutes to about five because the event was delayed by 1.5 hours. "I will try to finish it in five minutes, because I am not used to delays," said Murthy, while addressing hundreds of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) about building businesses that last. In the audience was Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Murthy referred to Bezos' prediction that the 21st century will be the Indian century. "That confidence enhances our enthusiasm," said Murthy. The relationship between Murthy and Bezos dates to 2014, when Prione, a 49:51 joint venture (JV) between Amazon and Murthy's venture capital company Catamaran, was formed.
Highly-rated 19-year-old batsman Adrian Barath has been named in the West Indies squad for Thursday's first Test against Bangladesh in St.Vincent.
Federer, meanwhile, became the first man to lose a Wimbledon singles final after holding match points since 1948 when John Bromwich failed to convert three of them against Bob Falkenburg.
High drama ensued during the English Premier League matches on Wednesday as Spurs manager Jose Mourinho was booked while Brighton stunned Chelsea via Alireza Jahanbakhsh's superb equaliser to deny the Blues victory. Here is all the EPL action in IMAGES from Wednesday's matches.
Images from Sunday's action in the Premier League.
England ended their ragged tour of the West Indies on a high on Friday when an Andrew Flintoff hat-trick helped them beat the hosts by 26 runs in a rain-shortened match in St Lucia to win the one-day series 3-2. Flintoff took five for 19 in his five overs, including the hat-trick in his final over, as England claimed their first one-day series victory in the Caribbean.
India were made to toil hard by the world No 2 Australia before eventually losing the match in a close encounter.
Kevin Pietersen smacked a century in his first appearance for England since resigning the captaincy in the opening match of the West Indies tour on Sunday. Pietersen, who quit as captain earlier this month after a disagreement over the coaching of the team, hit 103 from 107 balls as England reached 424 for eight at stumps on day one of the three-day tour match against a St Kitts XI at Warner Park.
Manchester United's Luke Shaw is set to undergo a second operation on Friday after breaking his right leg in two places in Tuesday's 2-1 loss to PSV Eindhoven, according to British media reports.
Premier League-leading Chelsea's success on the pitch has been recognised by the Professional Footballer's Association (PFA) with Eden Hazard and N'Golo Kante making the shortlist for the organisation's Players' Player of the Year award.
World No. 1 archer Deepika Kumari survived some anxious moments before getting past US teenager Jennifer Mucino-Fernandez 6-4 to sail into the pre-quarter-finals of the women's individual archery competition at the Tokyo Olympics, on Wednesday.
Chasing a sixth US Open title, Federer needed just one hour and 46 minutes under a closed roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium to put away the 31st seed Lopez, leaving plenty in the tank after being forced to go the distance in his opening two matches.
Michael Clarke's prospects of succeeding Ricky Ponting as Australia's next skipper were lifted when he was named as vice-captain.
It took Graham Kentsley, originally from St Albans in Hertfordshire, just over five weeks to make the around 2,000 kilometre (1,243 miles) journey, which he timed so that he would arrive in good time for England's first World Cup match against Tunisia in the southern Russia city of Volgograd.
Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool raised the spirits with a rip-roaring 2-2 draw in a pre-Christmas Premier League classic on Sunday after a weekend marred by COVID-19 related postponements.
Indian and Australian players exchanged verbal punches on field during the second ODI in Kochi.
The 92nd Annual Academy Awards hardly had any surprises up its sleeves. Here's a quick look at the winners.
Royals' new Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara is confident that the team's young Indian fast bowlers will rise to the challenge in this year's Indian Premier League.
Hetmyer smacked three sixes and eight fours in his entertaining knock, helping his side chase down a modest target of 128.
England slipped to 87 for two, in reply to New Zealand's 470 all out, at the close of play on the second day of the first Test.
Ireland added the West Indies to their list of giant-killing victories after scoring a six-wicket victory over the World Twenty20 champions in the first T20 international at Jamaica's Sabina Park on Wednesday.
Images from the football matches played across Europe on Tuesday.
As Britain's Prince Harry follows in his brother's footsteps and is all set to marry a commoner -- American actress Meghan Markle -- early next year, here's some of the well-known commoners who became royalty through marriage.
The actress died in her sleep but the cause is yet unknown.
There was no place for fast bowler Steve Harmison also, as the ECB included four uncapped players for the three-Test series against Sri Lanka, starting on December 1.
Rajneesh Gupta throws up all the numbers from Test encounters between India and South Africa.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
Andrews Pomeyie scored a brace in the second half to guide Mahindra United to a fluent 3-1 victory over Happy Valley of Hong Kong in the Group E AFC Cup home match in Goa on Tuesday.
Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers of the Australian team from World Cups.
Wilfred Ndidi netted a dramatic late equaliser on Saturday to help Leicester City secure a 1-1 draw with West Ham United, who played more than half the game with 10 men after Mark Noble was shown a straight red card.
Former England cricket captain Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff, whose image as a heavy, fun-loving drinker was sealed by his animated victory celebrations, has opened up about now being teetotal as part of his battle with depression.
The 2020 international calendar concluded with the three tournaments in the Asia leg which was conducted in Bangkok in successive weeks.
Liverpool charge towards English Premier League title with win at Wolves. Here are images from the match played on Thursday.
Biden said that 100 days since he took the oath of office on January 20 and inherited the worst pandemic in a century and the worst economic crisis in a decade, America is on the move again, turning peril into possibility, crisis into opportunity and setback into strength.
Images from EPL matches played on Saturday.
"Losing wickets put you under pressure and we lost KL (Rahul) at the start. They bowled well so it is only natural the guys who are in form bat as long as possible," he said.
It's a neat three-in-one for steelmaker extraordinaire Lakshmi Mittal. In one fell swoop he has become the globe's biggest steelmaker -- an Andrew Carnegie for the 21st century.
Rajneesh Gupta highlights important numbers for the Afghanistan team from World Cups.
In a three part series, Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers from cricket World Cups held between 1975 to 2015.
