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SA20: Miller leads Royals to victory over Capitals
Miller belted an undefeated 28 runs to keep the Royals playoff qualification hopes alive. The Capitals came into the match as favourites after the Centurion-based side sat at the top of the table following their victory over Durban's Super Giants on Friday. The visitors' captain Wayne Parnell won the toss and decided to bat first in the final game in Paarl.
U-19 Women's T20 WC: Parshavi Chopra's sensational four-fer leads India to victory over Sri Lanka
India displayed a strong fight and bounced back after their loss to Australia in the last game. They had to beat Sri Lanka convincingly to boost their chances of making the semifinals. Chopra cast a spell of accuracy and deception, nabbing four wickets for just 5 runs in her spell of four brilliant overs, which also included a maiden.
ILT20: Big-hitting Chris Lynn, Shimron Hetmyer extend Gulf Giants' winning streak
The Gulf Giants recorded their fourth successive victory with a five-wicket win while Desert Vipers crashed to their first defeat despite Alex Hales' scintillating knock of 99 off 57 balls with 10 boundaries and five sixes. Lynn cracked 71 off 42 balls with eight boundaries and three sixes while Hetmyer smashed 70 off 35 balls with five boundaries and five sixes to win the match with three balls to spare.
Hockey World Cup: India coach Reid blames poor conversion of PCs, circle penetration, easy turnovers for defeat to New Zealand
India led 2-0 towards the end of the first half and then 3-1 in the third quarter but made basic errors and allowed the Black Sticks to fight back and level scores 3-3 and take the matter into a shoot-out. The Indians earned 11 penalty corners but could score off only two. They had 18 circle entries but could manage only 12 shots at the goal.
Unbeaten Indian women's hockey team holds hosts South Africa 2-2
This was India's last match against the South African side before they take on World No.1 Netherlands on January 23. It was Vaishnavi Vithal Palkhe, playing her debut tour for the senior side, who starred for the team, scoring two crucial goals that helped them hold the home team to a draw. South Africa made a strong start on Sunday, after a series of losses against India.
Hugo Calderano bags men's singles crown; China win four titles at WTT Contender Doha
After winning the titles in the women's singles, women's doubles, men's doubles and mixed doubles on Saturday, the Chinese team repeated what it had achieved one week ago in Durban, South Africa. In an all-Chinese women's singles final, Fan Siqi came out on top with a full-set victory over Zhang Rui. Fan recovered from two sets down to edge past Zhang 6-11, 5-11, 11-5, 11-7, 11-9, 7-11, 11-5.
ISL 2022-23: FC Goa register 3-1 win over Kerala Blasters, surge to fifth place
Goals from Iker Guarrotxena, Noah Sadaoui and Redeem Tlang helped the Gaurs end their four-game winless run in the ISL as they leapfrogged Odisha FC to fifth and went four points clear of Bengaluru FC in seventh. Meanwhile, the Blasters suffered back-to-back defeats in the ISL for the first time since October.
Hockey World Cup: India crash out with 4-5 defeat to New Zealand in sudden death shoot-out
India failed to capitalise on a 3-1 lead in the third quarter and allowed New Zealand to score twice to end the match 3-3 in regulation time. Lalit Upadhyay (17th min), Sukhjeet Singh (24th min) and Varun Kumar (40th min) scored for India in regulation time while Sam Lane (28th min), Kane Russell (43rd min) and Sean Findlay (49th min) scored for the Black Sticks.
Hockey World Cup: Spain overcome Malaysia 4-3 in sudden death to seal quarterfinal berth
Spain fought back from a goal down and scored twice within a minute to take a 2-1 lead. However, Malaysia scored the equaliser (2-2) in the 48th minute and then survived waves of Spanish attacks and a barrage of penalty corners to take the match to the tie-break shoot-out.
Australian Open: Tsitsipas overcomes Sinner to reach quarterfinals
For the first two sets, Tsitsipas stayed on track to repeat his straight-sets quarterfinal win against the Italian in Melbourne a year ago, but his hopes of a similarly one-sided result were dashed by a remarkable change in level from his opponent. An increasingly confident Sinner dominated the baseline exchanges in the third and fourth sets to carry the momentum into a decider on Rod Laver Arena.
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