Dubai: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by 10 runs in Dubai to kick off their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 campaign with a win yesterday. Put into bat, RCB were off to a flying start. Devdutt Padikkal, making his IPL debut, hit two fours in the second over and followed it up…
Novak Djokovic wins fifth Rome Title for record 36th Masters Crown
September 22, 2020Halep lifts her first Italian Open trophy Rome: Novak Djokovic claimed a record 36th Masters crown yesterday, beating Argentine Diego Schwartzman in the final of the Italian Open. The world number one came through 7-5, 6-3 in just under two hours to move ahead of Spanish rival Rafael Nadal (35) in the number of Masters…
Djokovic, Halep advance to Italian Open final
September 21, 2020Rome: Top men’s seed Novak Djokovic advanced to the final of the Italian Open for the 10th time on Sunday with a straight sets win over Casper Ruud. The world number one came through 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the final of the clay-court tournament he has won four times. Djokovic will also bid for…
Indian Premier League 2020: Rabada, Stoinis star as DC beat KXIP in Super Over thriller
September 21, 2020Dubai: One game, that’s what all it took for the first Super Over-finish in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 and it was Delhi Capitals (DC), who came out on top, beating Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium yesterday. Needing 158 runs to win, KXIP were off to a watchful start,…
Indian Premier League 2020: Chennai Super Kings beat Mumbai Indians in opener
September 20, 2020Abu Dhabi: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) kicked off their Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 campaign with a five-wicket win against Mumbai Indians (MI) in Abu Dhabi yesterday. While Ambati Rayudu starred with the bat, Lungi Ngidi scalped three wickets. Faf du Plessis, meanwhile, shone with the bat and in the field and Sam Curran…
After all the hue and cry… Silent stands will greet Indian Premier League 2020
September 19, 2020Abu Dhabi: With the COVID-19 pandemic creating chaos worldwide, sports, like everything else, went into lockdown with no end in sight. So, when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on April 15 that IPL 2020 had been postponed “indefinitely”, that sounded rather final. But the event had just too much invested…
No cheerleaders, no fans: IPL starts tomorrow without glitz, glamour
September 18, 2020Abu Dhabi: The much-delayed Indian Premier League (IPL) starts tomorrow (Sept. 19) without its customary glitz and glamour, but the Twenty20 tournament is expected to be a welcome relief to cricket fans during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The short-form extravaganza normally starts in March-April but along with other major international sporting events was postponed as…
IPL 2020: BCCI Chief reviews preparations at Sharjah
September 16, 2020Sharjah: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President Sourav Ganguly on Monday visited Sharjah Cricket Stadium — one of the three venues for IPL 2020 — to review the preparations, with only few days left in the start of the cash-rich tournament. The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 was moved overseas to…
IPL 2020: Rashid Khan, Md. Nabi land in UAE, begin quarantine
September 14, 2020Abu Dhabi: After landing in the UAE to join the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) squad ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020, Afghanistan stars Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan have said that they will focus on fitness during their mandatory six-day quarantine. Nabi and Rashid are coming from the Caribbean islands as they were representing…
US Open 2020: Thiem beats Zverev to lift maiden Grand Slam title
September 14, 2020New York: Dominic Thiem produced a historic comeback to beat Alexander Zverev in a nervy five-setter and win the US Open on Sunday for his first Grand Slam title. The second seeded Austrian beat the fifth seed 2-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) in 4-hour 2-minute inside a near-empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. It marked the…















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