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Men’s ODI WC: Hopeful of giving a good performance in the tournament, says Pakistan’s Shadab Khan
Shadab, the leg-spin all-rounder, has picked just 13 wickets in 11 ODIs this year. Moreover, he didn’t have a great time in the Asia Cup last month, picking only six wickets in five matches at an average of 40.83, leading to Pakistan not taking many wickets or getting control from its spinners in middle overs.
Dybala inspires Roma's second win in Serie A
The Giallorossi had a challenging start to the new season, having achieved just one victory in their previous six domestic matches and coming off a 4-1 loss to Genoa, reports Xinhua.
Asian Games: Vithya Ramraj equals PT Usha's 40-year-old Women's 400m hurdles record, qualifies for the final
Vithya, who once contemplated quitting athletics altogether as things were not going well for her and was not able to make a breakthrough at the international stage, clocked 55.42 seconds in the heats for the 400m hurdles in Monday's morning session to equal one of the oldest records still existing in Indian athletics.
‘800' a truthful movie with no masala, depicts how I got those wickets amid suffering, chaos: Muralitharan
"People will know the rosy things on the field but inside what happened behind this no one knows. That is the story narrated in the film," Muralitharan, who was here to promote his film, said.
Asian Games: Nikhat Zareen bags bronze; Parveen Hooda enter 57kg semifinal, secures Paris 2024 Olympic quota
Nikhat lost to Raksat by a 3:2 split decision. Earlier this year, during the world championships' quarterfinals, the Indian boxer emerged victorious against Raksat in the quarterfinal match-up.
Gold for Narwal; Khandelwal, Francis take silver as shooters return with 3 gold, 4 quota places for 2024 Paralympics
Overall, team India finished with three gold, four silver, two bronze medals and four quota places for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The shooters' scintillating show came one year ahead of the Paris 224 Paralympic Games and less than a month to go for the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games.
Asian Games: Lone ranger Avinash Sable wins maiden gold for India in 3000m steeplechase
It has worked sometimes but mostly, Sable has either finished second, like in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022, or faded away towards the finishing out of the medal race, like it happened in the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, earlier this year.
Men’s ODI WC: We genuinely believe that we can do something special, says South Africa’s David Miller
South Africa come into the tournament on the back of a 3-2 series win over Australia back home. The Proteas, yet to win the most coveted trophy in Men’s ODI cricket, will open their World Cup campaign against 1996 champions Sri Lanka at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi on October 7.
Asian Games: Man who wanted to quit squash in 2021 wins gold for India with dramatic win against Pakistan
He changed his mind, played in a tournament to prepare for CWG and won his first Challenger Tour event in Lorient, France, in May 2022. He went to play in the Commonwealth Games and continued with playing squash.
Asian Games: Turnarounds by squash team, mixed doubles pair give golden hue to historic day in badminton, TT
The mixed doubles pair of Bopanna and Rutuja Bhosale were also staring down the barrel after losing the first set 6-2. Bopanna had a brainwave and swapped the side of the court he was playing with his partner and they scripted a grand turnaround and won the match in the Match tie-breaker.
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