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INDIA WOMEN TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 Harmanpreet was named player of the match and the series. ©Getty Harmanpreet Kaur was on 22 off 30 balls when Lauren Filer, and England, decided against a LBW review in Durham. She wouldn’t have learnt of that colossal mistake from the hosts until much later, but what Harmanpreet did know in the moment was that – with the ODI series on the line – it was time to deliver. And walk the talk she did with a drought-ending hundred to alleviate India’s short and long-term concerns in the build-up to a home World Cup.…
MONT VENTOUX: Valentin Paret-Peintre became the first French winner on this year’s Tour de France as he edged an enthralling stage 16 on Tuesday, pipping Ireland’s Ben Healy atop the mythical 1910m altitude Mont Ventoux summit finish. Behind them Jonas Vingegaard attacked overall leader Tadej Pogacar relentlessly but the defending champion tracked the Dane all the way up the 15km ascent to extend his lead by two seconds. Trailing by 4min 13sec at the start of this stage Vingegaard attacked with 9km to climb on Mont Ventoux, whose eerie upper reaches resemble a lunar landscape. “I didn’t want to push…
WASHINGTON: Seven-time Grand Slam single champion Venus Williams returned to competitive tennis after a 16-month hiatus on Monday with a doubles victory at the WTA and ATP Washington Open. The 45-year-old American joined compatriot Hailey Baptiste to defeat Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard and US teen Clervie Ngounoue 6-3, 6-1 in a first-round match. “After the match Hailey asked me, ‘How did that feel?’ It’s probably even harder to play the doubles first because I’m not a doubles player,” Venus said. “So it’s great to have her to kind of hold the team up. She has had the experience. She served first…
NAIROBI: Janeth Chepngetich on Tuesday stunned a strong field at the Kenyan trials to claim the women’s 10,000m title and earn a maiden appearance at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. The 26-year-old held off challenges from two world record holders, Agnes Jebet Ngetich and Beatrice Chebet. Janeth Chepngetich is no relation to women’s marathon world record holder Ruth Chepngetich, whose provisional suspension for doping earlier this month has cast a shadow over Kenya’s preparations for Tokyo. “I had set a strategy from the beginning. I wanted to control the pace and offer a chance to my competitors (to see…
LONDON: Former Liverpool and Wales defender Joey Jones, a key member of two European Cup-winning teams, has died aged 70 after illness, the club said on Tuesday. Jones made 100 appearances for Liverpool in three highly successful years between 1975 and 1978, also winning a UEFA Cup and a league title. Jones, was part of the Liverpool side who won their first European Cup in 1977 and successfully defended the title the following year. The tough-tackling left-back also earned 72 caps for Wales. He was immortalised in a banner revealed by Liverpool fans at the 1977 European Cup final victory…
LAHORE: An important meeting of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) is being held on Thursday in Dhaka where Pakistan’s participation in this year’s Asia Cup in India will come under discussion. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Mohsin Naqvi as the head of the ACC was expected to leave for Dhaka on Tuesday night to head the said meeting. The ACC meeting is considered important, particularly in the backdrop of the the Asia Cup, scheduled to be held in India in the month of September. According to reports, no official of the BCCI will visit Bangladesh to attend the ACC meeting.…
HARARE: New Zealand’s bowlers set up a comfortable seven-wicket win against South Africa in their Zimbabwe Twenty20 International tri-series match here at the Harare Sports Club on Tuesday. South Africa were restricted to 134 for eight in their 20 overs after being sent in. New Zealand opening batsman Tim Seifert hit 66 not out as the Black Caps cruised to victory with 25 balls to spare. New Zealand maintained their unbeaten record in the tournament and will go into the final against the same opponents at the same venue on Saturday as strong favourites. They won their first match against…
MANCHESTER: England captain Ben Stokes says he is ready to put his injury-ravaged body on the line again if it helps his side seal a Test series win over India.All-rounder Stokes took five wickets, scored 77 runs and ran out Rishabh Pant across two innings of relentless effort during a 22-run win over India in the third Test at Lord’s. The victory gave England a 2-1 lead in a five-match series, with fast-medium paceman Stokes bowling 44 overs in total, including gruelling spells on the decisive final day. “I’m not going to lie, I cannot wait to just lie on…
Matthew Kuhnemann makes his T20I debut while Josh Inglis has been listed at the top of the order as Australia make two changes Australia have named another debutant with Matthew Kuhnemann included to face West Indies in today’s second T20 international in Jamaica. Tim David returns at No.5 after fully recovering from a hamstring injury, replacing Jake Fraser-McGurk who struggled for his two off seven balls in Sunday’s series-opening three-wicket win having earned a late call-up for the five-match series in the West Indies. Josh Inglis is listed to open alongside his skipper Mitch Marsh with Fraser-McGurk omitted. West Indies…
Victoria’s Peter Handscomb is one run away from marking his 200th first-class match with a century for his promotion-chasing English county Leicestershire Former Australian Test batter Peter Handscomb was left on 99 not out as play closed on the first day of the local derby promotion battle between English midlands counties Leicestershire and Derbyshire. The Victorian is Leicestershire captain and he has led the unfashionable county to the summit of the County Championship’s second division – with neighbours Derbyshire second. Hosts Derbyshire made a superb start, dismissing their visitors to 2-0 with Kiwi quick Blair Tickner picking up one of the…