CRICKET
Embuldeniya limits India
Sri Lanka spinner Lasith Embuldeniya had three wickets as the visitors made a strong start to the second Test in Bengaluru yesterday, bowling India out for 252 in the day-night match. Sri Lanka’s openers were walking out for their first innings at press time last night.
CRICKET
Khawaja powers Australia
Australia opener Usman Khawaja’s 127 not out powered the visitors on day 1 of the second Test against Pakistan in Karachi yesterday. The hosts claimed only three wickets as Australia reached to 251-3 at stumps.
BASKETBALL
Popovich gets 1,336th win
Gregg Popovich is the winningest coach in NBA regular-season history, getting his 1,336th victory when the San Antonio Spurs rallied to beat the Utah Jazz 104-102 on Friday. Popovich broke a tie with Don Nelson, the friend and mentor he served as an assistant under while with the Golden State Warriors for two seasons beginning in 1992. The milestone came in the 73-year-old Popovich’s 2,030th game and 26th season with the Spurs, the only franchise he has served as head coach for.
TENNIS
Murray outlasts Daniel
Andy Murray on Friday outlasted qualifier Taro Daniel 1-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open for his 700th career victory. “It does mean a lot to me because I know how difficult it’s been, certainly the last few years,” Murray said, referring to injuries and a COVID-19 infection. “When you look at the players that have done it, most of the players that are up there and have won that many matches are certainly the best players of the last sort of 30, 40 years.” In the women’ singles, Emma Raducanu beat Caroline Garcia 6-1, 3-6, 6-1. In the women’s doubles, Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and partner Magda Linette of Poland are to play Chinese duo Xu Yifan and Yang Zhaoxuan at about 6:45am today Taiwan time.
RUGBY UNION
Pohipi seals Chiefs win
Rameka Pohipi yesterday dived over in the left corner three minutes after the fulltime siren to give the Waikato Chiefs a 24-21 win over the Canterbury Crusaders in Super Rugby Pacific. The Crusaders led 21-10 with a try to Braydon Ennor in the 46th minute, but the Chiefs monopolized possession for the remainder of the match and gradually wore down the resolute defense of the Crusaders to achieve their first win in Christchurch in six years. In Australia, the Queensland Reds needed a late score to hold off the Fijian Drua 33-28 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.
EUROPEAN SOCCER
Lille draw, lose Sanches
Defending champions Lille OSC on Friday drew 0-0 at home against AS Saint-Etienne in Ligue 1 and lost key midfielder Renato Sanches to injury. The Portugal international went off midway through the first half with a left thigh injury. He is doubtful for the Champions League match at home against Chelsea on Wednesday, with Lille trailing 2-0 from the first leg in the round of 16. In La Liga, Atletico Madrid edged Cadiz 2-1 to move into third place and earn a morale boost ahead of their Champions League trip to play Manchester United.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen go into today’s match at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim stung from their first league defeat in 16 months. Leverkusen were beaten 3-2 at home by RB Leipzig before the international break, the first loss since May last year for the reigning league and cup champions. While any defeat, particularly against a likely title rival, would have disappointed coach Xabi Alonso, the way in which it happened would be most concerning. Just as they did in the Supercup against VfB Stuttgart and in the league opener to Borussia Moenchengladbach, Leverkusen scored first, but were pegged back. However, while Leverkusen rallied late to
If all goes well when the biggest marathon field ever gathered in Australia races 42km through the streets of Sydney on Sunday, World Marathon Majors (WMM) will soon add a seventh race to the elite series. The Sydney Marathon is to become the first race since Tokyo in 2013 to join long-established majors in New York, London, Boston, Berlin and Chicago if it passes the WMM assessment criteria for the second straight year. “We’re really excited for Sunday to arrive,” race director Wayne Larden told a news conference in Sydney yesterday. “We’re prepared, we’re ready. All of our plans look good on
The lights dimmed and the crowd hushed as Karoline Kristensen entered for her performance. However, this was no ordinary Dutch theater: The temperature was 80°C and the audience naked apart from a towel. Dressed in a swimsuit and to the tune of emotional music, the 21-year-old Kristensen started her routine, performed inside a large sauna, with a bed of hot rocks in the middle. For a week this month, a group of wellness practitioners, called “sauna masters,” are gathering at a picturesque health resort in the Netherlands to compete in this year’s Aufguss world sauna championships. The practice takes its name from a
When details from a scientific experiment that could have helped clear Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva landed at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the leader of the organization’s reaction was unequivocal: “We have to stop that urgently,” he wrote. No mention of the test ever became public and Valieva’s defense at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) went on without it. What effect the information could have had on Valieva’s case is unclear, but without it, the skater, then 15 years old, was eventually disqualified from the 2022 Winter Olympics after testing positive for a banned heart medication that would later
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