Vettel wins for the first time in 2019

Sebastian Vettel who has four world titles and 53 wins, won the Singapore Grand Prix a year after his win in Belgain Grand Prix on 26 September 2018. Sebastian Vettel beats team-mate Charles Leclerc. Ferrari’s idea in pitting Vettel was to hopefully get him ahead of Hamilton and at the same time to ensure the…

Nadal wins his 19th Grand Slam title after winning US Open

The US Open Tennis   Spain’s  World two, Rafael Nadal (33), wins the US Open men’s final, beating world number five and first time Grand Slam finalist Russian Daniil Medvedev (23), 7-5, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-4. Rafael Nadal had won the US open three times. World number two Nadal now won 19 Grand Slam men’s…

Malinga 1st bowler with 5 International hat-tricks

Sri Lanka’s fast bowler Lasith Malinga has become the first bowler to take four wickets in four successive deliveries twice in international  cricket. the 36-year-old took his second double hat-trick by dismissing New Zealand’s Colin Munro. Hamish Rutherford, Coling de Grandhomme and Ross Taylor in the Third T20I were his victims. He aslo became the…

Ben Stoke’s 135 not out level the Ashes series

22 Aug2019 International Test Match Series 3rd Test Day 4 of 5 at Headingly England Vs Australia Australia   179 ao Warner 61 off 94, 7 fours, Labuschagne 74 off 129, 10 fours, Archer 6-45, Broad 2-32 Second Innings 246 ao Labuschagne 80 off187, 8 fours, Wade 33 off 59, 6 fours, Stokes 3-56, Nroad 2-52,…

Cardus brought poetry to the craft of cricket journalism

Neville Cardus educated at Jesuit school in Bombay 1961 and his essay on Ranji, the Indian cricketer the star of 19th century  was part of the English curriculum. Ranji who played for Sussex displayed his magic against Yorkshire. Neville Cardus lived in Baker Street flat, was lonely and feared destitution, as Duncan Hamilton reveals in…

Emiliano Sala and his pilot poisoned

Emiliano Sala (28) and his pilot was poisoned by carbon monoxide just before the plane he was in crashed into the Channel, it was revealed. Tests on the body found in the wreckage showed he had enough of the gas in his system to potentially knock him unconscious and induce a heart attack. The body David…

Australia thrash England with 251-run win in the Ashes

Men’s Ashes: First Spacesavers Test, Edgbaston ( day five to five) Australia  284 ( Smith 144, Broad 5-86 & 487-7 dec ( smith 142, Wade 110) England 374 ( Burns 144) & 146 ao (Woakes 37, Lyon 6-49) Australia won by 251`runs go 1-0 up in five-match series. England capitulated to off-spinner Nathan Lyon’s devastating…

Hamilton wins record sixth British GP

Hamilton wins record sixth British GP, as Vettel crashes into Verstappen at Silverstone. A sixth home win for Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton said “ I know that my teachers will be watching and until my dying day I want to prove them wrong, and all the negative things people have said to me. When I was…