Sir Viv Richards is 70, who played cricket with his poise and courage, is reflecting on the impact of his batting which went far beyond the runs he scored 15, 261 including 35 centuries across 308 Tests and ODIs for West Indies. “As a young man growing up, I was always reading about the struggles…
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Bahrain International Circuit Charles Leclerc led a Ferrari 1-2 in Formula 1’s 2022 Bahrain season opener, having beaten Max Verstappen in a thrilling race-long battle before Red Bull’s efforts backfired. Leclerc and Verstappen shot off the line in unison. With two laps to go Verstappen complaining about a steering problem to reporting a battery…
Rachel Blackmore (32) became the first female rider to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup, winning on A Plus Tard. It was Blackmore’s second feature race success of the week, after her win on Honeysuckle on Tuesday’s Champion Hurdle. The pair had finished second to stablemate Minella Indo last year, as Blackmore made no…
Premier League Manchester United 3 Tottenham Hotspur 2 Cristiano Ronaldo 12’, 38’, 81’. Kane 35’ pen, Maguire 72’og Ronaldo’s first Manchester United hat-trick since 2008 ( 14 years) earned his club a 3-2 win and took his overall career goal to 807 which breaks a world record for goals scored, after passing Czech-Austrian Josef Bican’s…
Australian Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne (52), “King of Spin” who took 708 Test wickets in 145 matches the second most of all time, and arguably history’s best bowler, has died of a suspected heart attack in his villa on the Thai Island of Koh Samui on Friday. “ It is with great sadness we advise…
Great Britain ended the Beijing Winter Olympics with two medals – a gold for Women’s curling and silver for Men’s curling. Eve Muirhead’s fourth attempt, after heart-breaking near misses and career-saving surgery on an arthritic hip, finally has her Olympic curling gold medal, said “ Without these girls being so strong, this dream would not…
India achieved the feat after defeating West Indies by 8 runs in the second T20I of the three-match series at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Full-time Indian captain Rohit Sharma is yet to lose a single game. Pakistan is the only other team to have won more than 100 T20I, by winning 118 T20Is.
Club World Cup – Final Chelsea 2 Palmeiras 1 Havertz 117’ pen Cavalcante Velga 64’ pen, Garcia Teixelra (120’+6) A 117th-minute penalty in Abu Dhabi by Kai Havertz who also scored their 2021 champions League winner cleared the way for Chelsea to win every possible trophy under the ownership of the Russian billionaire…
Fortescue Metals buys Williams F1 battery arm and technology arm of the Williams Formula One racing team for £164m ($222.2m). Andrew Forrest Australia’s richest man, Fortescue’s founder and chairman, who is worth more than £13.3bn ($128bn) is buying the battery said “ This announcement is the key to unlocking the formula for removing fossil-fuel powered…
One Day International Series South Africa. Vs India at Newlands Cricket Ground South Africa 174 for 3 off 31 ov , de Kock 124 off 130, 9 fours 2 sixes, van der Dussen 40* off 46, 4 fours, D Chahar 2-38 India 283 ao off 49.2 ov, Virat Kohli 65 off 84, 5 fours, Shikhar…