Category: Sports News

  Indian team has their second warm up match  against Pakistan today. Captain Dhoni would want Indian batsmen to perform well to keep the winning momentum going. They had won their first warm up match against the host nation Srilanka earlier. Twenty20 World cup starts from September 19, Wednesday where in their opening match India will play against Afghanistan.…

ICC Awards are conducted yearly to honour the best cricketers all over the world. The International Cricket Council has been awarding these honours since 2004. This year, One Day International(ODI) player of the year went to young Indian cricketer Virat Kohli. Kumar Sangakkara from Sri Lanka won three awards – Cricketer of the Year, Test player of the year,…

In an exciting final at Flushing Meadows between Andy Murray of and Novak Djokovich, Andy Murray won by 7-6, 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2. The Olympic champion once again made history by becoming the first Britisher to win a Grand Slam title since Fred Perry in 1936. That’s 76 years ago!! Andy Murray gets not only…

  Serena Williams won her fourth US Open title on Sunday by defeating Victoria Azarenka by 6-2,2-6,7-5. Belarusian Azarenka though couldn’t win the title, still remains current World no.1. She had become the first Belarusian player to win a Grand Slam by winning Australian Open 2012. Serena was ecstatic with her win and fell on the…

Andy Roddick played last match of his career and lost it to Juan Del Porto at the Flushing Meadows on Wednesday. 30 year old Andy looked very emotional and said “I don’t know what the emotions are. I’m a little overwhelmed right now.” He won his only Grand Slam – US Open – nine years…

Oscar Pistorius secured his first gold medal of the 2012 Paralympics. A Paralympics is an international athletic competition for disabled athletes. The South African team won in 4x100m relay and set a new world record of 41.87 seconds. Brazil and defending champions USA pressed hard, but both nations were disqualified. China and Germany took silver and bronze.

The US Open Championship is a hard court tennis tournament, the fourth and final one in the Grand Slam each year. The other three tournaments in Grand Slam are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. It is held every year in late August and early September. The main tournament hosts five different events- men’s…

Cricketer Yuvraj Singh who was recently diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment at the Cancer Research Institute in Boston, USA has been selected by BCCI to play 2012 world twenty20. This international cricket tournament, will be held in Sri Lanka from september 18. He will play after a long time when India will play Afghanistan…

Sunday saw a beautiful musical closing ceremony being held to culminate the world’s biggest sporting event – The Olympics. President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, who declared end of the 30th Olympiad Games, said: “We will never forget the smiles, the kindness and the support of the wonderful volunteers, the much-needed heroes of these…

  Day 15 yesterday was the last but one day at London Olympics. Neverthless it was as exciting as day 1 at the Olympics. Cant’t believe that Olympics are going to end today on sunday. Star of the day – The Jamaican men’s 4x100m relay team broke the world record to win an Olympic gold. Nesta Carter…

“Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt clinched the bronze medal in the men’s 60 kg freestyle category winning three rounds of repechage after losing to four-time world champion Besik Kudukhov of Russia in the pre-quarterfinals.” The Hindu reported. On Saturday, the 29-year-old finally clinched the bronze medal by almost turning the game at the last minute to become…

On Day 14 at the Olympics Turkey’s Asli Cakir won the Olympic women’s 1500m in a slow race.Isn’t that interesting? Star of the day – USA broke the world record, set by East Germany in 1985 and won the gold medal in the women’s 4x100m relay. Given below is the Olympic Medal Tally of day…