Chennai Super Kings completed a fairy tale comeback from disgrace to glory, clinching their third Indian Premier League title after imposing all-rounder Shane Watson single-handedly hammered Sunrises Hyderabad into submission with a blazing hundred in the final, in Mumbai.
Ethiopian-born Maryam Yusuf Jamal thanked Bahrain for giving her the chance to earn a living from athletics on Wednesday and told Reuters that her Asian Games 1,500 metres gold medal was down to intensive training, not which country she originated from.
Buoyed by their spectacular win over Chennai Super Kings in the opening match of this season's campaign, Kolkata Knight Riders will take on spirited qualifiers Lahore Lions in their second game of the Champions League Twenty20 in Hyderabad on Sunday.
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has hailed the Pathan brothers -- Yusuf and Irfan -- for their match winning eighth-wicket partnership and said if it wasn't for them, the result of the match would have been different especially with the middle order finding it tough to score runs against the Sri Lankan spinners.
Formed in 2013, Sunrisers Hyderabad have been one of the most consistent performers, having won the tournament in 2016 and finishing as runners up last year.
Rajneesh Gupta presents a complete statistical IPL dossier.
India defeated Sri Lanka by three wickets in the one-off Twenty20 international match in Colombo on Tuesday.
Lionel Messi scored his 650th goal for Barcelona while Antoine Griezmann struck the winner in a 2-1 home success over Athletic Bilbao
The upcoming Indian Premier League is not only about entertainment but it also carries a bundle of hopes for out-of-favour all-rounder Yusuf Pathan, who is eying a comeback into the national team through the T20 event.
Modi's hardline policy towards Pakistan and J&K has created numerous leverages and bargaining positions that New Delhi can bring to the bargaining table and translate into concessions, argues Ajai Shukla.
Chennai Super Kings take on table toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad in an Indian Premier League match, in Pune, on Sunday.
Dilip Kumar remained in demand all through his career because he kept reinventing himself in keeping with the changing times in Indian cinema, argues Mohammad Asim Siddiqui.
The brothers' academy which has been named CAP (Cricket Academy of Pathans) will be launched initially in Baroda next month with around 50 more academies planned all across the country.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore will stand in the way of two-time former champions Kolkata Knight Riders' bid to make it to the play-offs in a mouthwatering Indian Premier League encounter.
The unbeaten streak of table-toppers Surisers Hyderabad would be up for a test when they take on third-placed Kings XI Punjab in an Indian Premier League contest, in Mohali, on Thursday.
Yusuf Pathan's team Rajasthan Royals topped the IPL league table while Irfan Pathan's King's XI Punjab finished a close second.
Yuvraj Singh knocked at the doors of national team selectors following a superb, quick-fire century (89-ball 123) to lead India 'A' to a thumping 77-run victory over West Indies 'A' in the first of the three-match One-day series, in Bangalore on Sunday.
Sunil Narine and Kuldeep Yadav sizzled with the ball as two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders rode on its spin attack to advance into the play-offs of the ongoing Indian Premier League with a 22-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Attlee said Great Britain had concluded that the Indian element of the army was no longer reliable and that Netaji's Indian National Army had demonstrated that. That had shaken the foundation on which Britain's Indian empire rested, argues Lieutenant General Ashok Joshi (retd).
This IPL, big totals have been chased down with ease.
Remembering an incomparable actor by re-visiting his finest films.
Images from Monday's match between Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad, in Mohali.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings in Kolkata, on Saturday.
Images from Thursday's IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals in New Delhi.
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There were cheers of joy and sighs of relief as Judge Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, ICJ president, read out the court's decision.
Yusuf Pathan says he is a decent player who can bat, bowl and field well.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Commander of 4 Corps (Lahore) Lt Gen Mohammed Aziz and Chief of General Staff Gen Mohammed Yusuf had run a proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir in the early 1990s, a new book has claimed.
'More than Mumbai's progress into the last four stage, that game (and the one the previous day between Kolkata and Hyderabad, when Yusuf Pathan blazed a 22-ball 72 to ensure a second place finish for his team), revived spectator interest in IPL, something prominent by its absence.' 'Maybe it was the stench of match-fixing, maybe the far greater competition from the other IPL (Indian Political League) and maybe just plain viewer fatigue, but this edition of IPL was a pale shadow of its earlier avatars, says Shreekant Sambrani.
Yusuf Pathan, a hard-hitting batsman, useful off-spinner and brilliant fielder, made it to the Indian Twenty20 team more on the strength of his aggressive approach to the game.
Images from Sunday's IPL match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders.
India lost the opening One-Day International against South Africa by 5 runs on Sunday. Rajneesh Gupta presents some interesting numbers from the match played in Kanpur ...
US-Pakistan relations are poised to touch a qualitatively new level under the Biden administration, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
'As is evident from the deliberations, certain concrete decisions have been taken and if implimented sincerely this will create an environment of trust and confidence.'
Virender Sehwag credits the cash-rich and glamour-packed Indian Premier League for fast-tracking little known players to the top level of the game.
1 by Two is a let down considering the expectations it had raised before its release
Andre Russell's spectacular all-round performance powered defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders to a convincing four-wicket victory against Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League, in Pune, on Saturday.
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