April 26, 2018

Hyderabad, April 26: Sunrisers Hyderabad failed to recover from the early blows from medium pacer Ankit Rajpoot (5/14) as Kings XI Punjab restricted the hosts to a paltry 132/6 in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Thursday.Ankit ran through the home batting line-up bagging the key wickets of skipper Kane Williamson (0), Shikhar Dhawan (11) and Wriddhiman Saha (6) off his first three overs before returning to pick Manish Pandey (54) and Mohammad Nabi (4) in the final over…

Kolkata, April 26: Famous city football club Mohammedan Sporting on Thursday announced the appointment of Mridul Banerjee as its new head coach, after parting ways with Biswajit Bhattacharya.The club, former Head Coach Biswajit Bhattacharya and Goalkeeper-Coach Partha Chakraborty will terminate their working relationship by mutual consent, the club said in a statement. Banerjee, who guided the club to the second place finish in 2016/17 Calcutta Football League before winning the 2017 Santosh Trophy with the Bengal state…

Kolkata, April 26: City football giants East Bengal on Thursday sacked head coach Khalid Jamil just one year into his tenure, keeping Subhash Bhowmick as the club's technical director."Miserable performance by Khalid Jamil. We have already sent a letter to him that we cannot continue with him at the present moment," club secretary Kalyan Majumder told reporters at the press conference here. There was speculation over Jamil being removed after East Bengal's fourth-place finish in the I-League and a…

Kolkata, April 26: Stating that the recent spurt in the number of domestic Twenty20 leagues is at times impacting the international bilateral cricket schedule, ICC Chief Executive David Richardson on Thursday said "clever planning, better scheduling and a regulatory framework" is necessary to ensure these tournaments can continue without adversely affecting international cricket.Hailing the emergence of domestic T20 leagues as a tremendous boost for the game's popularity across age and gender, Richardson said…

Kolkata, April 26: India will open their 2019 World Cup campaign against South Africa on June 5, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Thursday.The most anticipated match of the group stage will be on June 16 when two-time World Cup winners India will take on arch-rivals Pakistan at Old Trafford in Manchester. The tournament which will run from May 30 to July 14 will start with England taking on South Africa at The Oval. Defending champions Australia will launch their title defence on June 1 against the…