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RETIREMENT NEWS Amit Mishra last played an international in 2017 but was active in the IPL and domestic circuit © Getty Veteran legspinner Amit Mishra has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket, bringing the curtains down on a professional career that spanned more than two decades. Mishra, 42, played his last international in 2017 but remained an active presence in domestic cricket and the IPL, most recently turning out for Lucknow Super Giants in 2024. He ends with 22 Tests, 36 ODIs and 10 T20Is for India, collecting 156 international wickets. On his Test debut in 2008 in…
Neeraj Chopra does not usually worry about distance as long as he gets on the podium but the poster boy of Indian athletics knows he may have to throw beyond the 90 metres mark if he is to defend his javelin world title in Tokyo this month. A mop-haired Chopra became India’s first track-and-field athlete to win Olympic gold in the Japanese capital four years ago, and has since added a Diamond League trophy, world championships gold and a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Games. In November last year, the 27-year-old brought in three-time Olympic champion Jan Zelezny as…
Neeraj Chopra does not usually worry about distance as long as he gets on the podium but the poster boy of Indian athletics knows he may have to throw beyond the 90 metres mark if he is to defend his javelin world title in Tokyo this month. A mop-haired Chopra became India’s first track-and-field athlete to win Olympic gold in the Japanese capital four years ago, and has since added a Diamond League trophy, world championships gold and a silver medal at the 2024 Paris Games. In November last year, the 27-year-old brought in three-time Olympic champion Jan Zelezny as…
Reigning champion Jannik Sinner marched into the US Open quarter-finals Wednesday as Amanda Anisimova avenged her Wimbledon thrashing by Iga Swiatek to set up a last-four clash with Naomi Osaka. World number one Sinner swept aside 10th seed Musetti 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in the first all-Italian men’s quarter-final in Grand Slam history. “It was a great performance, very solid. I started the match very well,” said Sinner, who faces Canadian 25th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the semi-finals on Friday. Auger-Aliassime has won two of three previous meetings but Sinner thrashed him for the loss of just two games in Cincinnati…
Allrounder joins Josh Philippe and Joel Davies in committing to Sydney Sixers until BBL|16 Sydney Sixers have made their first local list move for the upcoming men’s Big Bash season, re-signing allrounder Hayden Kerr on a two-year deal. Kerr, who lost his NSW state contract at end of last season before securing a late move to Queensland in July, extends his stay at the Sixers though to the end BBL|16. The left-armer made his T20 debut in BBL|09 and is the club’s fourth leading wicket-taker of all-time with 54 wickets. But the defining performance of his 52 games to date…
WELL PREPARED File Photo: Litton Das happy with the game time in the build up to the continental event. © Getty Bangladesh T20I skipper Litton Kumar Das said on Thursday that his side is well prepared for the upcoming Asia Cup, scheduled to begin in the UAE on September 9 Bangladesh sealed the three-match T20I series against Netherlands 2-0, with the third game washed out by rain. This was their third successive series win in the format, following victories over Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and came on the back of a strong showing against the Dutch. Litton credited their pre-series…
CPL 2025 Tabraiz Shamsi finished with 3 for 12. © Getty Saint Lucia Kings decimated the high-flying Trinbago Knight Riders in Trinidad with 53 balls and 7 wickets to spare. The win was set up by Kings’ spinners with Tabraiz Shamsi taking a three-fer while the spin duo of Khary Pierre and Roston Chase took a brace of wickets. By virtue of this win, the Kings became the second team, behind the Knight Riders, to qualify for the CPL 2025 playoffs. TKR got off to a terrible start with Colin Munro departing second ball off Pierre. Darren Bravo hit a…
LAHORE: Arch-rivals India and Pakistan may not get any tournament of the International Hockey Federation (FIH) and of its Asian chapter in future until the two neighbouring countries establish normal political relations, a well-informed source close to the matter exclusively told Dawn on Wednesday. The sporting relations between India and Pakistan is recent times have taken a significant hit amid heightened political tensions particularly following a brief but intense military clash between the nuclear-armed neighbours in May. As a result, Pakistan decided not to send its teams to India for the ongoing Asia Cup and the Junior World Cup —…
PHNOM PENH: Nolberto Solano’s Pakistan suffered an inauspicious start to their 2026 AFC Under-23 Asian Cup qualifying campaign when they were handed an 8-1 thrashing by Iraq in their Group ‘G’ opener on Wednesday. Reduced to 10 men after Mohibullah Afridi’s red card past the half-hour mark, Pakistan trailed 1-0 at half-time in Peruvian Solano’s first game in-charge of the national team. But they were eventually swamped by Iraq, who used their numerical superiority — Pakistan ended the game with nine men after an injury to defender Haseeb Khan in the 66th with all substitutions having been made — to…
HARARE: Pathum Nissanka top-scored with a swift 55 as Sri Lanka beat Zimbabwe by four wickets in Harare in the first of three Twenty20 Internationals on Wednesday. Zimbabwe posted 175-7 in 20 overs, thanks mainly to 81 runs from opener Brian Bennett, and Sri Lanka reached 177-6 with five balls to spare. The teams meet again on Saturday and Sunday. After 27-year-old right-hand bat Nissanka played a pivotal role with a half century and a century in a 2-0 One-day International series victory, he proved equally successful in the shorter format. His 15th T20 half-century came off 32 balls and…