Kumara Sangakkara

Kumara Sangakkara Bids Adieu to Test Cricket at Colombo As India Dominate the 4th Day

 August 24, 2015   R K Gupta

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Kumara Chokshanada Sangakkara visited the cricket pitch for the last time in his career after the dismissal of Kaushal Silva in the third over of Sri Lanka’s second innings. He didn’t have a fairytale ending to his cricketing career but that didn’t stop his fans from getting emotional after he fell to Ravichandran Ashwin for […]

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Rio Basketball qualification

Three National Teams Book Rio Basketball Tickets With Victories In Qualification Matches

 August 23, 2015   R K Gupta

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After the conclusions of three different FIBA sponsored tournaments last week, Australian men and women’s teams and Canadian women’s team have qualified for basketball in the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. In the two-legged FIBA Oceania Championship matches played in Australia and New Zealand, the men and women’s teams scored victories over New Zealand in both […]

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Roger Federer vs Djokovic

Down To the Last Day at Cincinnati Djokovic to Fight Federer as Serena Takes on Halep

 August 23, 2015   R K Gupta

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Roger Federer has been doing well on tennis courts of late but his title clash with world no.1 Novak Djokovic on Sunday will be his toughest test awaiting. In his quest for an unprecedented seventh Cincinnati Masters title, the Swiss defeated Great Britain’s Andy Murray in Saturday’s semifinal. Federer’s last hurdle is Novak Djokovic, who […]

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Mo Farah

Eritrean Ghirmay Ghebreselassie Tops in Marathon Mo Farah Wins His 6th World Championship Gold on First Day at Beijing

 August 23, 2015   R K Gupta

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The first day of the World Athletics Championship was highlighted by an unknown marathon runner Ghirmay Ghebreselassie, who left behind a strong field of marathoners from East Africa. The Eritrean teenager not only became the youngest man to win the World Championship marathon but he brought the first gold for his nation in the World’s. […]

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India vs Sri lanka

Despite Mathews’ Century India End Third Day of the Colombo Test with Some Advantage

 August 23, 2015   R K Gupta

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Indian bowling was fully tested in the first session of the third day. They couldn’t find a wicket and looked helpless against the determined Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews. Sri Lanka began the day in trying to prevent India gaining any further advantage after they posted 393 runs and took three wickets for 140 at […]

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Roger Federer

Federer Flying High Plays Murray Next Djokovic Meets Dolgopolov Serena Into semis As well

 August 22, 2015   R K Gupta

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There is no let-up from Roger Federer’s tennis brilliance as he stormed into the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Friday. The big Swiss not only recorded his 40th match victory in the tournament but inched one step closer to an unprecedented 7th title at Cincinnati. His opponent in the semifinal […]

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2016 Rio

US Basketball Team & Other Sporting Superstars Are Excited About 2016 Rio Participation

 August 22, 2015   R K Gupta

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USA’s Basketball teams have an amazing record in the Olympics. The men have won 14 out of 17 Gold Medals in the over 100-year Olympic history and since the women’s basketball was introduced in 1976 Montreal Olympics Games, USA women have won the Gold 7 out of 8 times. The teams didn’t participate in the […]

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CRICKET-SRI-IND

Nothing Spectacular From India’s Viewpoint on Second Day of the Colombo Test

 August 22, 2015   R K Gupta

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Overnight not out batsman Wriddhiman Saha helped India stretch the morning and caused enormous frustration to the Sri Lankan bowlers. If it was not for Saha, who recorded his highest test score of 60 at Galle, the innings could have folded much earlier. Saha was the 9th India wicket that fell on the second day […]

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WTA tennis news

Thursday at Cincinnati Masters Feliciano Lopez Denies a Juicy Federer-Nadal Clash Murray Djokovic Serena Go Through

 August 22, 2015   R K Gupta

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Spain’s former world no.1 Rafael Nadal lost another match. His conqueror and compatriot, Feliciano Lopez, however, erased the possibility of an expected Federer-Nadal quarterfinal match on Friday evening. Great Britain’s Andy Murray had a close call against Bulgaria’s no.16 seed Grigor Dimitrov. Down a match point at one stage, Murray fought back to win the […]

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Indian cricket

Riding on Lokesh Rahul’s Century India Reach 300-Plus on First day of the Colombo Test

 August 21, 2015   R K Gupta

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Just when, he should have thought of preparing himself for the next day, Rohit Sharma fell leg before to Mathews. It was a similar delivery that the Sri Lanka skipper had used against Rohit in the first test. Rohit, however, had done the job by scoring 79 but his wicket yielded a psychological advantage to […]

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