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PROVIDENCE: Vicky Ostwal picked up five while Raj Bawa bagged four wickets to help India bowl out South Africa for 187 and win their opening match by 45 runs in ICC U19 Cricket World Cup here on Saturday.  Set to chase 233, Australian batting line flopped in front of rookie bowling attack of India. Dewald Brevis fought hard with his 65 …

SYDNEY: Andy Murray’s impressive run ended one win short of a 47th career title when he lost the Sydney Tennis Classic final 6-3, 6-3 to top-seeded Aslan Karatsev on Saturday. The 34-year-old Murray started the week with his first win on Australian soil in more than 1,000 days. The three-time major winner progressed through the rounds to reach his first …

KARACHI: Pacer Hasan Ali would like to play against a full-strength Australian side when they visit Pakistan for a for a three-match Test and One-day International series as well as a solitary T20 International next month. With the first Test set to be played from March 3 in Karachi, there has been talk about some Australian players willing to opt …

MELBOURNE: Australia said on Friday it will detain Novak Djokovic this weekend after again stripping him of his visa, in a dramatic setback to the tennis world number one’s goal of winning a record 21st Grand Slam. As time slips away before the Australian Open starts on Monday, the nine-time title holder heard in an emergency hearing that he will …

LIVERPOOL: If Granit Xhaka getting sent off came as no real surprise, Arsenal holding out with 10 men at Anfield certainly was a shock. Liverpool failed to take advantage of Xhaka’s 24th-minute red card for a chest-high lunge on Diogo Jota and were held to a 0-0 draw by Arsenal in the first leg of the English League Cup semi-finals …

KARACHI: It was just past afternoon, the greens glistening under the bright winter sunshine at the Karachi Golf Club when overnight leader Waheed Baloch prepared to tee off in the second round of the Rashid D. Habib Memorial National Profes­sional Golf Tournament on Friday. A shot in front of two challengers at the start, Waheed is now two ahead of …

KINGSTON: Harry Tector’s unbeaten 54 helped Ireland to a five-wicket win over the West Indies in a rain-affected second One-day International at Sabina Park on Thursday to set up a series decider this weekend. Victory saw Ireland square the three-match contest at 1-1 ahead of the teams’ return for a now decisive finale on the same ground on Sunday. Ireland, …

Indian captain Virat Kohli said on Friday his side have “moved on” from the controversy over an overturned decision during the third Test defeat to South Africa, to lose the series 2-1, at Newlands. Kohli, 33, and two teammates were caught on the stump microphone complaining after home captain Dean Elgar survived on review after being given out leg before wicket at …

Australia returned Novak Djokovic to detention on Saturday, saying the tennis star’s opposition to vaccination could cause “civil unrest” and trigger a high-profile court showdown. Having once failed to remove the unvaccinated 34-year-old from the country, Australia’s conservative government is trying again. And Djokovic is fighting back for the second time, with a new court appeal scheduled for Sunday. The …

England fought back to take three Australian wickets in the final session but still trail by 152 runs at the end of day two of the fifth and final Ashes Test in Hobart on Saturday. After conceding a lead of 115 runs when bowled out for 188 in their first innings, the visitors bounced back in the last hour of …