Women’s Ashes Test, The Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, (day four of four): Australia 420-8 dec & 230-7: Perry 116, Haynes 87; Perry 76* England 275-9 dec: Sciver 88, Jones 64; Molineux 4-95 Match drawn Scorecard Australia will retain the Women’s Ashes as the Test petered out into a draw. England avoided the follow-on and declared on 275-9, but they ...

COLOMBO: The Bangladesh cricket team arrived in Sri Lanka amid tight security on Saturday, the first foreign sporting side to visit the island since the deadly Easter attacks earlier this year. More than 250 people were killed in the April 21 bombings targeting hotels and churches that were claimed by Islamist militants, and Sri Lanka has been under a state ...

Filipino legend Manny Pacquiao rolled back the years to become the oldest welterweight champion in boxing history with a thrilling split decision victory over WBA champion Keith Thurman on Saturday. The 40-year-old Pacquiao, 10 years older than the previously undefeated Thurman, delivered a vintage performance before a sell-out MGM Grand Garden Arena crowd of 14,356 which included former welterweight king ...

Colombo:Kumar Dharmasena, who along with Marais Erasmus was the onfield umpire in the 2019 World Cup final, admitted on Sunday that he made a mistake by awarding an extra run to England after the ball ricocheted off Ben Stokes’ bat and ran to the boundary. “It’s easy for people to comment after seeing TV replays,” Dharmasena told Sri Lankan weekly ...

Rashid Khan, the newly elected captain of Afghanistan’s cricket team, is eyeing an improved show in next year’s T20 World Cup after his team’s dismal show at the recently-concluded World Cup 2019. The Afghanistan Cricket Board replaced Gulbadin Naib with Rashid Khan as team’s skipper after Afghanistan finished the World Cup without a single victory. Rashid Khan has said that ...

Akane Yamaguchi defeated PV Sindhu in the final on Sunday in straight games to clinch the Indonesia Open 2019 title. In the first game, PV Sindhu was leading 11-8 at one stage but Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi came back strongly and won nine consecutive points to take the first game 21-15. In the second game, Sindhu was playing catch-up throughout. At ...

Dhoni opts out of West Indies tour, Hardik rested, Bumrah only for Tests Amid intense speculation over his future, MS Dhoni is not travelling with the India squad to the West Indies. Chief selector MSK Prasad has said the wicketkeeper-batsman has “expressed his unavailability” for the tour. Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya have been rested from the white-ball leg of ...