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They were team-mates at the Under-10 level, battling for the wicketkeeping gloves. One kept the gloves, and became Australia’s No. 1 keeper. The other turned to fast bowling and eventually took the new ball for Australia. On Friday, Alyssa Healy and Mitchell Starc were married at an undisclosed waterfront location in Sydney, and were quick to coin the hashtag #stealy, ...

Lionel Messi scored his 500th career goal when he netted for Barcelona against Valencia in La Liga action on Sunday, reports BBC. Messi, already the leading scorer of all time for both Barcelona and La Liga, bagged his 500th goal in 633 appearances. The forward now has 450 goals in 526 games with Barcelona and 50 in 107 games for ...

Sunrisers Hyderabad had a forgettable start to their Indian Premier League-9 campaign after Royal Challengers Bangalore slammed 227-4 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday. RCB’s Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers may have toyed with the bowlers at will, but one SRH bowler still managed to command respect from the lot — Mustafizur Rahman. The Bangladeshi left-arm seamer, who ...

Rafael Nadal claimed his ninth Monte Carlo Masters title, his first ATP crown since July 2014, as the Spaniard defeated Frenchman Gael Monfils in Sunday’s final by three sets. It has taken Nadal four years to wait for crowning in the Principality and almost two years for an ATP 1000 Masters title, Xinhua news agency reported. Nadal, who won in ...

 Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq is likely to be appointed chief selector of Pakistan, after the PCB requested the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) to release him from his role as Afghanistan head coach. If appointed, this will be Inzamam’s first appointment as selector at any level. The move came after Waqar Younis, who recently resigned as Pakistan’s head coach, argued in ...

Tennis players Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams were named the sportsman and woman of the year at the annual Laureus World Sports Awards, reports BBC. The awards honour the most notable sporting figures and their achievements of the previous year. Serbia’s Djokovic, 28, reached all four Grand Slam finals last year, winning three of them, while American Williams, 34, also ...

 The Bangladesh Cricket Board’s disciplinary committee has turned down Shahadat Hossain’s appeal to play in this season’s Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, reports the ESPNcricinfo. Shahadat was temporarily suspended by the BCB in September 2015 after the Dhaka police registered a case against him and his wife on charges of assaulting their housemaid under the Women and Children Repression Prevention ...

Leading from the front, skipper David Warner smashed an unbeaten 90 to single-handedly steer Sunrisers Hyderabad to a comfortable seven-wicket victory over Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Monday. Batting first, Mumbai lost wickets at regular intervals and could manage only 142/6 in 20 overs. Ambati Rayudu (54) was ...

Holders Barcelona will seek to overcome their defeat in El Clasico when they host Atletico Madrid on Tuesday in an all-Spanish Champions League quarter-final, first leg at the Camp Nou. On a night when Barca paid tribute to the late Dutch great Johan Cruyff, the Catalan giants’ 39-game unbeaten run came to a halt after goals from Karim Benzema and ...

Former Zimbabwe umpire Ian Robinson has died of lung cancer at the age of 69, in Harare on Sunday. Robinson made his international debut as an umpire in the 1992 World Cup and his Test debut in Zimbabwe’s inaugural match, against India in Harare, in October 1992. He officiated in 28 Tests, 90 ODIs and three World Cups – 1992, ...