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​F1: Recent pictures of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain GPs

Players celebrating their podium finishAston Martin's Fernando Alonso celebrates on the podium after finishing third place in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix with winner Red Bull's Sergio Perez and second-placed Red Bull's Max Verstappen before he was handed a 10-second time penalty that drops him to fourth place in the final results. Source link
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No one can beat India in a bilateral series but when it comes to ICC tournaments, they fail to perform: Mohammad Hafeez

Former Pakistan Cricketer Mohammad Hafeez believes that team India is the most dominant side in bilateral series in world cricket but they need to work on their pressure handling abilities in ICC tournaments. Hafeez, speaking to SportsTak during the ongoing Legends League Cricket, said that while India has been dominating bilateral cricket, particularly at home, stepping up in the high-stakes matches in ICC competitions is a whole different game. “Talking about the last 10-12 years, whichever country they (India) go to play in, they become the favourites. No one can beat India in a bilateral series. So far, I think their success rate has been very high but when it comes to ICC tournaments they fail to perform,” he said. “You cannot compare playing domestic cricket with international cri...
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Mumbai Indians gear up for IPL 2023 with first practice session | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Having finished at the bottom of the table last season, Mumbai Indians will look to change their fortunes as they geared up for the IPL 2023 by organising their first practice session of the season under the watchful eyes of head coach Mark Boucher.The team had their first outdoor session including sessions on the field, as well as strength and conditioning evaluation, ahead of the season. Leading the session was Boucher, debuting with Mumbai Indians, along with the coaching team of Shane Bond, bowling coach and James Pamment, fielding coach guiding and supporting the players in their first training. In his first team address on the field prior to training, Boucher set context to what he expected the group to focus on, in the initial sessions, as the players and coaches get t...
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Sakshi advances to quarterfinals of Women’s World Boxing Championships | Boxing News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Indian boxer Sakshi (52kg) progressed into the quarterfinals of the Women's World Boxing Championship with a 5-0 unanimous decision win over Zhazira Urakbayeva of Kazakhstan on Monday.Sakshi, the 2021 Asian Championship bronze medallist, made good use of her height and long reach to decimate her opponent. She would punch Urakbayeva and step back quickly, not letting her opponent counter attack.The Indian danced around the ring, playing with aggression and released a number of punches to emerge victorious."I played much better than I expected. She is a good boxer so I thought it would be a 19-20 fight but the strategy worked for me and I was able to dominate," Sakshi said after the bout.Later in the day, Preeti (54kg) will face Thailand's Jitpong Jutamas in a round of 16 bout ...
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Data Point | On the rise: Indian women cricketers are closing the gap with men in T20 cricket

The opening: Delhi Capitals’ captain Meg Lanning (L), Mumbai Indians’ captain Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana (2R), Gujarat Giants’ captain Beth Mooney (2L) and UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy (R) pose with the trophy during the opening ceremony of 2023 Women’s Premier League (WPL) at the DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai. | Photo Credit: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (This article forms a part of the Data Point newsletter curated by The Hindu’s Data team. To get the newsletter in your inbox, subscribe here.)From their debut to the Women’s Premier League, the Indian women’s cricket team has come a long way in their T20 journey, narrowing the gap with men’s cricketThe world of cricket has taken a significant step towards gender equality with the start of the Women...
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Data Point | On the rise: Indian women cricketers are closing the gap with men in T20 cricket

The opening: Delhi Capitals’ captain Meg Lanning (L), Mumbai Indians’ captain Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Smriti Mandhana (2R), Gujarat Giants’ captain Beth Mooney (2L) and UP Warriorz captain Alyssa Healy (R) pose with the trophy during the opening ceremony of 2023 Women’s Premier League (WPL) at the DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai. | Photo Credit: INDRANIL MUKHERJEE The world of cricket has taken a significant step towards gender equality with the start of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) in Mumbai on March 4, 2023. It’s a game-changer for women’s cricket in India as the 21-match tournament is an excellent opportunity for Indian women cricketers who desperately need exposure. It’s an opportunity for both young debutants and senior players, who have not yet had ...
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Getting Jasprit Bumrah back will be vital for India for the ODI World Cup, feels Aaron Finch | Cricket News – Times of India

Aaron Finch, a former white ball captain of Australia, is shuttling between Qatar and India to attend to his commitments with the Legends League Cricket (LLC), in which he leads the World Giants side, and commentary assignment for the on-going India-Australia white ball series. We caught up with him in Doha for a brief chat. Excerpts…What do you expect from the white ball series between two major sides – India and Australia?Both teams play their best cricket against each other and that is why the series is special.Is this series towards their build-up for the World Cup considering that it will be held in India?Information on the best combination for the World Cup is, obviously, the priority. There are probably a few slots up in the air for grabs. The XI is more or less settled and Austr...
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Rafael Nadal slips out of Top 10 for the first time since 2005

After 934 weeks and almost 18 years later, Rafael Nadal has slipped outside the top 10, which he first entered on April 25, 2005. As per the current ATP ranking, Nadal is ranked 13. Only one woman has spent more consecutive weeks in the Top 10 of the WTA rankings than Nadal has in the Top 10 of the ATP rankings—Martina Navratilova with exactly 1,000 straight weeks. The 22-time Grand Slam champion has been sidelined with a left hip flexor injury since the Australian Open, and pulled out of hard-court tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami. And there it is: After an incredible streak of 934 weeks–falling just a single month short of 18 years–Rafael Nadal has slipped outside the top 10, which he first entered on April 25, 2005. pic.twitter.com/RllZXnNwT1 — Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg)...
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Watch: High wind in Wellington drifts the ball ‘far away’ on Day 5 of NZ vs SL Test

As one of the rarest cricketing scenes, high wind at Wellington forced the ball drafting far away from the batsman and the wicketkeeper on Day 5 of New Zealand vs Sri Lanka Test on Monday. High wind often affects the game at Wellington but the amount of drift with which the ball was moving due to the wind, was so evident and extreme. The force was so high that a delivery by Michael Bracewell literally ran away from Sri Lankan tailender Prabath Jayasuriya when he was batting at 2 and Lanka were 337/7 on Monday. The visuals of the incident have gone viral forcing cricket fans to react to it with amazement. The continuous high wind also forced the broadcaster to reduce their live coverage to Single End footage as the cameraperson had to come down from the elevated area where the camera set...
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Swiss Open: Title holder PV Sindhu eyes turnaround | Badminton News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Badminton queen and defending champion PV Sindhu will hope to get back to winning ways when she hits the court at the Swiss Open Super 300 tournament. The competition will kick off on Tuesday.World number 9 HS Prannoy, who had finished runners-up in the last edition, too will eye a better show after a second round exit in the All England Championships.The fifth seeded Indian, however, will have a tough task at hand as he opens against 2018 world championships silver medallist China's Shi Yuqi, who finished second best in Birmingham last week.While Prannoy has been the most consistent singles player from the country, Sindhu and Lakshya Sen have struggled this season, making early exits in a series of events.Sindhu, who parted ways with Korean coach Park Tae-sang after failing ...
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Pakistan revise schedule for New Zealand series | Cricket News – Times of India

LAHORE: Pakistan on Monday revised the schedule for next month's limited-overs cricket series against New Zealand because of expected elections in Punjab province.The series has been pushed back by one day and will now start in Lahore on April 14 instead of Karachi.Two of the three venues for the series -- Lahore and Rawalpindi -- are in Punjab, where elections are likely to be held from April 30."The two boards have unanimously agreed to make tweaks to the five Twenty20 internationals and as many one-day internationals," the Pakistan Cricket Board said in a press release.The teams will now start in Lahore, playing three T20s from April 14-17, before travelling to Rawalpindi, which will host the remaining two T20s and the first two ODIs from April 20-26.Karachi will host the remaining f...
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Aaron Finch to captain San Francisco in Major League Cricket, Seattle sign Quinton de Kock | Cricket News – Times of India

Former Australia skipper Aaron Finch will captain the San Francisco Unicorns in the inaugural edition of the United States' new Twenty20 tournament, while South Africa's Quinton de Kock will play for the Seattle Orcas.Finch and De Kock were among six overseas signings announced during Major League Cricket's (MLC) 'Domestic Player Draft' on Sunday, in which each of the six teams picked nine U.S.-based players."So excited to be a part of @MLCricket @SFOUnicorns," tweeted Finch, who captained Australia in white-ball cricket before announcing his retirement from internationals last month.Yee (and we cannot stress this enough) haw 🇺🇸Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Marsh and Brody Couch are among a… https://t.co/I5sMEtjILm— KFC Big Bash League (@BBL) 1679284462000The 36-year-old will be jo...
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NZ vs SL, 2nd test | New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by an innings to take series 2-0

New Zealand’s captain Tim Southee leads his team from the field after winning their Test series during day four of the second cricket Test match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at the Basin Reserve in Wellington on March 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: AFP Lanky fast bowler Blair Tickner and spinner Michael Bracewell slogged all day in a Basin Reserve gale to bowl New Zealand to an innings and 58 run win over Sri Lanka in the second test Monday and a sweep of the two-match series.The win was completed with only minutes remaining on the fourth day and capped New Zealand’s extraordinary summer of home test matches, which includes a one-run win over England at the Basin Reserve and a two-wicket win over Sri Lanka from the last ball of the first test.Once again New Zealand couldn’t win without...
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2nd Test: New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by innings and 58 runs, sweep series 2-0 | Cricket News – Times of India

New Zealand completed an innings and 58-run victory over Sri Lanka in the second Test in blustery Wellington on Monday to sweep the series 2-0 as the South Asian side's resistance finally broke late on day four.Having been asked to follow on, Sri Lanka needed 416 runs to make the hosts bat again but were bowled out for 358 in their second innings at the Basin Reserve.New Zealand completed their third Test win in succession after claiming the thrilling series-opener by two wickets on the last ball in Christchurch and beating England by one run in another cliffhanger in Wellington.Sri Lanka's hopes of a first win in the country since 2006 all but ended when their batters managed only 164 in reply to New Zealand's declared first innings total of 580 for four.Those hopes were extinguished i...
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Deeply disappointed by Gujarat Giants’ bewildering reasoning for my WPL omission: Deandra Dottin | Cricket News – Times of India

Deandra Dottin was excluded from the Gujarat Giants' squad just before the start of the ongoing inaugural season of the Women's Premier League (WPL) on medical grounds, but the 31-year-old West Indian all-rounder has termed the reasons given for her omission as "bewildering". Dottin was bagged for Rs 60 lakh at the WPL auction by the Gujarat franchise owned by the Adani Group, but days before the tournament started, her name went missing from the squad. The reason given by the Gujarat team was that Dottin failed to get a medical clearance before the deadline.Dottin was replaced by Australia's Kim Garth. "I wish to issue a brief statement in light of ongoing speculation surrounding my recent exclusion from the inaugural Women's Premier League that is currently taking place in India," Dot...
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Deandra Dottin slams Gujarat Giants for her omission from WPL 2023

On Monday, West Indies all-rounder Deandra Dottin released a statement expressing her disappointment at her exclusion from the inaugural Women’s Premier League (WPL). The 31-year-old Caribbean all-rounder was signed for Rs 60 lakh by the Adani-owned Gujarat Giants, but before the start of the tournament, she was excluded from the squad on medical grounds. “I wish to issue a brief statement in light of ongoing speculation surrounding my recent exclusion from the inaugural Women’s Premier League that is currently taking place in India,” read the statement. In light of ongoing speculation surrounding my exclusion from this year's Women's Premier League (WPL), please find attached, a brief statement from me that addresses and clarifies the events that led to my omission from the inaugura...
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Elena Rybakina beats Aryna Sabalenka to win Indian Wells WTA title | Tennis News – Times of India

INDIAN WELLS: Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina edged Aryna Sabalenka 7-6 (13/11), 6-4 on Sunday to win the Indian Wells WTA title and avenge her loss to the Belarusian in the Australian Open final.Kazakhstan's Rybakina, the world number 10 who ousted top-ranked defending champion Iga Swiatek in the semi-finals, followed up with her first victory over second-ranked Sabalenka in five career meetings.Rybakina, projected to rise to seventh in the world, handed Sabalenka just her second defeat of the year, denying her a third title to go with a win in Adelaide that presaged her first Grand Slam triumph at Melbourne."It's actually the first time it goes my way," Rybakina said as she accepted the trophy, a smiling Sabalenka leaning to the microphone to interject, "I will make sure it was the ...