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K Srikanth continued his superb form by winning the second successive Super Series title in two weeks. The first one was last week winning the Indonesian Super Series Premier and then today the Australian Open Super Series. Before this tournament, he reached the Singapore Super Series tournament finals losing to his teammate Sai Pranneth. It has been an amazing few weeks for K Srikanth who was struggling with the injuries in last few months.  K Srikanth was in great form during the Australian Open Super Series defeating the number 1 ranked player in men's singles Son Wo Ho for the second successive time in two weeks, Sai Pranneth in the quarter-finals stage, defeated number 4 ranked player Shi Q of China in straight sets at the semi-finals stage.  It is great to see K Srikanth come back into form and play to his best. In today's match against Chen Long, the Olympic Champion Chen Long began the game on a positive note taking a 3-1 lead. After that Srikanth played attacking...

It was worth watching spell by Rashid Khan during the first One-day International match against West Indies at ST Lucia. He picked 7/18 which helped Afghanistan register a 63 runs win over West Indies to take a 1-0 lead in the series. This is the fourth best figures by a bowler in ODI cricket joining the elite list of Chaminda Vaas, Glenn McCgarth, Shahid Afridi, Andy Bichel. Rashid Khan did not allow the West Indies batsmen to score runs with ease. Afganistan scored just 212 for 6 but due to his magical spell, they were able to bowl out West Indies for just 149. It is one of the best spells by an associate bowler against a full member nation. Rashid Khan was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad side in VIVO IPL 10. He did not disappoint the side taking 17 wickets in 14 matches with an economy of 6.62 runs per over. In the first ODI against West Indies, the leg-spinner was brought into the attack in 23rd over and picked 2 wickets in the first over. After that, there was no stopping as ...

CT 2017 England vs. Bangladesh 1 st match review- England produced a dominating display to start the Champions Trophy 2017 campaign with a thumping 8 wicket win over Bangladesh at Kennington Oval, London just today. Bangladesh started well with Tamim Iqbal scoring 125 while Rahim scored 79. The England team on the back of Joe Root’s century, Eoin Morgan 75, Alex Hales 95 helped them to trash the visitors by such a big margin. England captain Eoin Morgan won the toss and elected to field at Kennington Oval, London today. Bangladesh openers Tamim Iqbal and Soumya Sarkar started slowly in the first 3 overs scoring just 6 runs. Soumya Sarkar smashed Jake Ball for two boundaries in the 5 th over. Chris Woakes walked off the field by bowling only 2 overs. Slowly both them increased the pace of scoring. At the end of 10 overs, Bangladesh was 36 for 0. After the powerplay overs, Soumya Sarkar was severe on Jake Ball hitting him for 15 runs while Tamim Iqbal scored the single run in the 1...

The most awaited Champions Trophy tournament is just less than 2 days away with top 8 teams in the world taking on each other starting from 1 st June with Bangladesh facing the hosts England at Oval, London. England, India, South Africa, Australia looks the strong contenders while New Zealand should give a tough fight. Here we look at the top 5 contenders who could win the Champions Trophy 2017 tournament. 1.        England England has been playing brilliant cricket after their group stage exit in the 2015 World Cup. From 2016-2017, the Eoin Morgan-led side showed their progress in limited overs format by playing 27 matches winning 18 and losing 7 matches. In Champions Trophy history they have played a total of 21 matches winning 11 and losing 10 with a win percentage of 52.38. In the previous edition, England lost in the finals by 5 runs. The new look England side have posted the highest score in One-day international format of 444 for 3 against...

After 2011, the Indian badminton team reached the knockout stages of the prestigious Sudirman Cup 2017 held in Gold Coast, Australia. India played 2 matches losing to Denmark 1-4 and then outplaying Indonesia in the second match by the same margin. Despite Indonesia winning their match against Denmark by 3-2, the number of points mattered as the Indian team as they have 5 matches won and 5 lost. Denmark has occupied the first spot with 6 wins and 4 losses. The Indian produced brilliant performances in the first match despite losing to Denmark 1-4. The mixed doubles pair of Ashwini Ponappa and Satwik Reddy almost gave a scare to the Olympic medalist in Rio.  PV Sindhu has been in good form beating both opponents with ease while Ajay Jayaram lost his match and K Srikanth dominated the Indonesian opponent. In women's doubles, Ashwini Ponappa and Sikki Reddy almost gave a scare to the silver medalist at Rio Olympics of Christina Pedersen and Juhl in three sets. Then they defeat...

The Champions Trophy was called the ICC Knockout tournament in 1998 and 2000. There have been 7 editions of this prestigious tournament. South Africa, West Indies, New Zealand have won the Champions Trophy title once while Australia have won it twice in 2006 and 2009. India shared the title with Sri Lanka in 2002 and then won it in 2013. After a hectic Indian Premier League tournament, the Indian Cricket team will be leaving for England today night to defend their Champions Trophy title that they won in 2013 under the captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Four years later, Virat Kohli will be leading the Men in Blue for the first time in major ICC tournament. Going into the tournament, the biggest problem for India could be that they have played only three one-day International matches against England which was played in January. In 2017 edition of Champions Trophy, Team India has been clubbed with arch-rivals Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. Before the blockbuster tie against ...

Deepti Sharma was in an imperious mood today against Ireland in the Quadrangular match at Potchefstroom. She became the second highest individual scorer in women's ODI history smashing the Irish bowlers to all parts of the ground with 188 runs off 160 balls with 27 boundaries and 2 sixes.    The left-handed batswomen shared a record a 320 runs partnership for the first wicket with Poonam Raut who was retired hurt on 109 in 116 balls with 11 fours. It is the highest partnership for any wicket in women's cricket breaking the record of Sarah Taylor and CMG Atkins for the 1st wicket of 268 against South Africa on 8th August 2008.    The 19-year-old girl made the life tough for Irish scoring 50 off 82 balls. After completing 50, Deepti Sharma played aggressive strokes and scored her first 100 in ODI cricket. She was dismissed in the 46th over. Before today's   match   she played 18 ODI matches and scored 478 runs with the best score of 89. With the bowl, D...