A Stoke statement read: " The club would like to thank Gary and his staff for their efforts over the past eight months ". Former Stoke defender Danny Higginbotham says Gary Rowett deserved more time following his sacking after eight months in charge. [Full Article...]
Kohli hoped it would act as something of a counterweight to the popularity of shorter, more explosive brands of cricket that have increasingly dominated the Indian game. The lessons learned from series defeats in South Africa and England had laid the groundwork for the success in Australia , he said, and the failures on those tours made this triumph all the sweeter. [Full Article...]
Joshua is the undefeated holder of the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight belts and a unification bout with Wilder would be a blockbuster draw. Joshua looks out of the picture for the victor until at least 2020. I knocked him clean out when we fought (in 2015), but I said let's forget that because we have both improved so let's prove who is the better fighter now. [Full Article...]
Star India , which raked in about Rs 1,800 crore as advertising revenue during the last year's IPL , is believed to be aiming at an increase of 15% in ad revenues as well as viewership. The biggest challenge for the franchises next season is that the IPL will end a couple of weeks before the World Cup begins on May 30 in England. There has to be a 15-day gap between the end of the IPL and India... [Full Article...]
Members of the Indian support staff will be paid bonuses equivalent to the pro-rata salary/professional fee. Shastri said he was proud of the hard work his team had put in to win Test matches in South Africa, England and Australia in the same calendar year. [Full Article...]
But Morata is keen to return to La Liga and AS report that Sevilla have made a move to sign the striker. Juanma Lopez, the agent of Alvaro Morata , has been at the Estadio Sanchez Pizjuan this Monday to meet with Sevilla's director of football Joaquin Caparros . [Full Article...]
A few nerves did creep in as Williams rattled off three straight games to threaten a miraculous comeback, but Andreescu settled enough to seal her spot in the final four. Goerges, on the other hand, looked somewhat rattled and was guilty of several uncharacteristic errors. World No.152 Andreescu, the fifth millennial to reach a title-match on tour following Olga Danilovic, Dayana Yastremska, Anast... [Full Article...]
Bumrah had a stellar tour Down Under, where he played each of the four Test, sending down 157.1 overs. It was India's first ever Test series win in Australia after seven decades of trying. More recently, he toured New Zealand as part of the India A squad for three first-class matches in which he took seven wickets in three innings. In fact, only Nathan Lyon (242.1) bowled more overs than him in th... [Full Article...]