Sports/International Sport

  Kolkata Knight Riders’ Sunil Narine reacts after taking the wicket of unseen Mumbai Indians’ batsman Rohit Sharma during their IPL match at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, yesterday. Mumbai:  Kolkata Knight Riders moved a step closer to q...

  DALLAS, Texas: US Olympic officials expect China and Russia to be America’s biggest rivals in the London Games medals race, but a bevy of medal hopefuls introduced this week aim to put the US atop the table. Alan Ashley, the US Olympic Commi...

ATHENS: David Beckham will help bring the Olympic flame back to Britain on a golden plane tomorrow after he takes part in a formal handover ceremony in Athens, London 2012 organisers said. The former England football captain, a London 2012 ‘ambass...

  LONDON: Veteran defender Rio Ferdinand was the highest-profile casualty yesterday as England manager Roy Hodgson unveiled his squad for the European Championships. After intense speculation about whether Hodgson would risk picking Ferdinand an...

PARIS: One of two goal-line technology systems being tested for FIFA’s rules body is to be used at two Danish League matches in the coming week, the world governing body said yesterday. The GoalRef system, developed by Germany’s Fraunhofer IIS, ...

LONDON: Roberto Di Matteo is bracing for the toughest managerial challenge of his career as he attempts to lead an injury and suspension-hit Chelsea to Champions League glory over Bayern Munich. Just 10 weeks after taking over at Stamford Bridge fol...

LONDON: Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish was sacked as manager of the club yesterday in a dramatic move by the club’s owners following a disappointing Premier League campaign. The 61-year-old Scot, who had returned for a second stint as manager at ...

  ROME: Roger Federer braved dust storm conditions to blow past Argentine Carlos Berlocq 6-3, 6-4 and open his week with a second-round victory at the Rome Masters yesterday. The world number two with four titles this season - including two of t...

LONDON: The Swiss founder and owner of Sauber has given the Formula One team’s chief executive a third of the company to ensure she stays on to lead it after he retires. Peter Sauber, 68, transferred the stake to Indian-born CEO Monisha Kaltenborn...

SEOUL: Some of Asia’s brightest golf prospects will pit themselves against one of the best players the region has produced when Korea’s KJ Choi tees off today  in the SK Telecom Open at Pinx Golf Club on Jeju Island. Choi has blazed a trail aro...

LONDON: Nicol David reckons this week’s revived British Open championships provide an outstanding example of why the sport of squash has qualities uniquely designed for a successful Olympic bid.David, who achieved a record sixth World Open title in...

  LONDON: West Indies face England in the first of a three-Test series at Lord’s today with the tourists’ batting likely to determine the course of the match. Should conditions prove as seam friendly as they have for much of the early part o...

LONDON: England captain Andrew Strauss has insisted he has no desire to rid himself of the pressure of leadership despite a poor run of form with the bat. The Middlesex opener is all set to skipper England in the first of a three-Test series against...

LONDON: West Indian cricket icon Brian Lara has called upon Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the world’s number one batsman, to move up the order for his team’s three-Test series with England which begins today. “It beats me,” Lara said of his fellow...

NEW DELHI: Kings XI Punjab acting captain David Hussey yesterday defended his team’s integrity amid allegations of corruption in the Indian Premier League. Amit Yadav and Shalabh Srivastava, two of the five players suspended by the Indian cricket ...

MELBOURNE: Australian boxer Bianca Elmir’s hopes of competing at the London Olympics are in jeopardy after she was slapped with a provisional ban for failing a doping test at national championships in February.     Elmir, Australia’s flyweigh...

  MIAMI:  Without Chris Bosh, championship favourites Miami suddenly looked vulnerable as they suffered an upset defeat to the Indiana Pacers, while the West’s top seeds San Antonio look to have hit peak form with a victory over the Los Angele...

GLENDALE, Arizona: The Phoenix Coyotes are in a deep hole after letting their emotions get the best of them.Frustrated after being unable to contain the skilled and gritty Kings for the second straight game, the Coyotes were hit with a slew of penalt...

  QINHUANGDAO, China:  Ireland’s boxing queen Katie Taylor booked her place at the London Olympics without throwing a punch at the women’s world championships yesterday. The three-time world and five-times European lightweight champion went...

  St Louis Cardinals’ Rafael Furcal tries to bunt his way on base against the Chicago Cubs in the eighth inning at Busch Stadium in St Louis, yesterday. St Louis won the game 7-6. New York:  Baltimore handed CC Sabathia his first loss of the ...

  NEW DELHI: Five Indian Premier League players were suspended from cricket yesterday as fresh fixing allegations hit the game and threatened to further tarnish a competition already dogged by controversy. The Board of Control for Cricket in Ind...

SOUTHAMPTON, England: Decades after the invention of spy satellites capable of detecting a golf ball from outer space, referees may soon be equipped with technology that will enable them to tell if a football has crossed the goal-line. After years o...

MANCHESTER: Carlos Tevez landed himself in fresh controversy when he was pictured waving a mocked-up tombstone for Sir Alex Ferguson during Manchester City’s Premier League title celebrations. The 28-year-old Argentina striker held up a banner des...

ZURICH: Double Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt will race in the Zurich leg of the Diamond League on August 30, organisers announced yesterday. Bolt, also the world record holder over the 100 and 200m, kicked off his season on home soil last week,...

  LONDON: London has pledged to host the greenest Olympic Games ever staged, but it could take years before the promises start to flower. The pledge was made seven years ago by then-prime minister Tony Blair when London won the right to host the 2...

New Delhi:  Table toppers Delhi Daredevils became the first team to qualify for the play-off stages of the Indian Premier League (IPL) as they beat Kings XI Punjab by five wickets at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here yesterday. It was comprehensive ...

NAGOYA, Japan: Nagoya Grampus of Japan secured a berth in the AFC Champions League last 16 yesterday, defeating Australian side Central Coast Mariners 3-0. Japan’s international striker Keiji Tamada opened the scoring with a free kick in the 19th ...

MANCHESTER, England: Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (pictured left) said yesterday he wasn’t concerned by rivals and newly-crowned Premier League champions Manchester City’s ability to out bid them in the transfer market. United los...

ROME:  Andy Murray battled back from a break down in the final set to beat Argentina’s David Nalbandian in the second round of the Rome Masters tennis yesterday. The world number four, a semi-finalist here last year, romped through the first set ...

  West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul walks across the field before a training session, before their first cricket Test match against England tomorrow, at Lord’s cricket ground in London yesterday. RIGHT: England’s James Anderson looks on d...