South African Graham Ford will take over as the chief coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team for his second stint replacing Marvan Atapattu, who had stepped down five months back. Ford is expected to join the side in February before the three-match T20 International ....

In many ways, Shivnarine Chanderpaul was the quintessential professional. A couple of years ago, I met him in Philadelphia. I was on holiday, he was playing in the US city’s annual tournament. “So you play cricket professionally, and to relax you play some mo ....

 In this place and at this time, there is no doubting what format of the game India is happier playing. If it had struggled to find the ideal XI throughout the one-day series, things somehow seemed to fall into place on Tuesday. In theory at least, the side put out ....

Murray, making his 18th trip to a Grand Slam semifinal, beat David Ferrer 6—3, 6—7 (5), 6—2, 6—3 on Wednesday. Konta, who will be playing in her first major semi, had a 6—4, 6—1 win over Chinese qualifier Zhang Shuai. It’s th ....

Every time the American has made the final at Melbourne Park she has gone on to win the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup. Victory in Saturday’s final against either seventh seed Angelique Kerber or unseeded Briton Johanna Konta, would give her a 22nd grand slam titl ....

Pakistan’s discarded Test opening batsman Imran Farhat announced his retirement from international cricket in a bid to appear in the Masters Champions League (MCL), which commences in Dubai from Friday. Farhat, 33, made the decision after meeting the officials of t ....

 Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova must play for the national team next week at the Federation Cup fixture if she wants to qualify for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Shamil Tarpishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTF), has said. “If Sharapova wants ....

 Adelaide marked Australia Day with fireworks, a 21-gun-salute, and a general festive atmosphere, but it was India which rejoiced on Tuesday night. Virat Kohli scored a marvellous 90 (55b, 9x4, 2x6) before India’s bowlers — somewhat uncharacteristically ....

Chasing 189, Australia started strongly before losing wickets at regular intervals to slump to 151 all out in 19.3 overs. Young pacer Jasprit Bumrah had a memorable T20I debut, returning figures of 3-23 in 3.3 overs. Ravindra Jadeja (2-21), Ravichandran Ashwin (2-28) ....

The creation of the review, which was earlier reported by The Associated Press, was announced at the Australian Open. The first Grand Slam of the year has been overshadowed from the start by BBC and BuzzFeed News reports alleging that match—fixing was widesprea ....