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Team Qatar boosted its chances of qualifying for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup (Australia 2022) after beating its Saudi counterpart, 134-130 in the match that took place today in the Asian qualifiers currently held in Doha since last Saturday, and will conclude next Friday, also includes the teams of Kuwait, Bahrain and the Maldives. Team Qatar had started its qualifying campaign by losing to its Bahraini opponent 133-134, but it managed to compensate by achieving a broad victory in its second match,

Team Qatar swimmers added 3 gold, 1 silver and 5 bronze medals to their tally on the third day of the 2021 Arab Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday. The event brings together 174 swimmers from 16 countries. Tuesday's achievement brought Team Qatar's tally to 24 medals including 8 gold, 8 silver and 8 bronze medals. Abdulaziz Al Obaidly claimed the gold medal of 200m breaststroke (over 19 age group) while Mohamed Mahmoud won the 50M freestyle

Top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece saved three set points in the first set to take down Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov 7-6 (6), 6-4 in a first-round match Tuesday at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, Austria. Tsitsipas withstood 10 aces from Dmitrov and saved all four break points he faced in the one-hour, 42-minute win. He next faces Frances Tiafoe, who defeated Tsitsipas earlier this year in straight sets at Wimbledon. Tiafoe reached the second round with a 6-4, 6-4 win over Serbian

Olivier Giroud scored the only goal in AC Milan's 1-0 win over Torino on Tuesday to move his side to the summit of Serie A. Olivier Giroud scored the only goal in AC Milan's 1-0 win over Torino on Tuesday to move his side to the summit of Serie A despite an underwhelming performance at the San Siro. France forward Giroud tapped home his fourth league goal since arriving from Chelsea in the summer in the 14th minute of a largely dreary contest

T20 World Cup: Haris Rauf took four wickets as Pakistan defeated New Zealand in their second Super 12 fixture on Tuesday. Pacer Haris Rauf led a clinical bowling display with an excellent four-wicket haul before Shoaib Malik and Asif Ali's onslaught as Pakistan took "revenge" on New Zealand for a recent off-field snub with a five-wicket win in the T20 World Cup on Tuesday. Most of the top-order batters, except for opener Mohammad Rizwan (33), struggled but the experienced Malik (26 not out

T20 World Cup: Pakistan defeated India by 10 wickets in their Super 12 fixture at the Dubai International Stadium on Sunday. There are defeats and then there are defeats of the kind that India faced against Pakistan on Sunday night in Dubai. If we keep the hype and jingoism aside, this was a match between two cricket teams and one was far better than the other on the given day. But an India-Pakistan encounter is not just any other cricket match. The result

The two new Indian Premier League franchises will be based out of Ahmedabad and Lucknow, the BCCI announced on Monday. It is the start of a new chapter for the Indian Premier League (IPL) with the addition of two new teams, which will make the tournament a 10-team affair from the upcoming 2022 season. The two new IPL franchises will be based out of Ahmedabad and Lucknow, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Monday. CVC Captial Partners, a

Premier League: Manchester United, revived by their European escape act, face a stern test against bitter rivals Liverpool in a crucial clash in the Premier League title race this weekend. Manchester United, revived by their European escape act, face a stern test against bitter rivals Liverpool in a crucial clash in the Premier League title race this weekend. Rocked by injuries to Romelu Lukaku and Timo Werner, Chelsea need their understudies to rise to the challenge when the leaders host Norwich. After Steve

Inzamam-ul-Haq said that on conditions similar to those in the Indian subcontinent, the Virat Kohli-led side will be the "most dangerous team" in the T20 World Cup Pakistan cricket great Inzamam-ul-Haq has touted India as the team to beat at the 2021 T20 World Cup in the UAE and Oman. Inzamam made the remarks following India's second straight warm-up victory on Wednesday. India eased to a comfortable win over Australia, two days after victory over England, to end the warm-up matches on the

Leading Formula One drivers defended the popular Netflix (NFLX.O) "Drive to Survive" fly-on-the-wall series on Thursday after Red Bull's championship leader Max Verstappen said he was snubbing it because he felt some of the rivalries were "faked". The docu-series, now filming its fourth season, has been credited as a big factor in fuelling the sport's growth in the United States. Dutch 24-year-old Verstappen earlier told the Associated Press that he recognised the importance of the series but did not like being a part

Ons Jabeur will become the first Arab player to crack the top 10 of the world rankings after reaching the Indian Wells semi-finals on Thursday and the Tunisian said she is just getting started. Jabeur, currently ranked 14th, reached the final of the Chicago Fall Tennis Classic earlier this month and became the first Arab player to win a WTA title at the Birmingham Classic in June. The 27-year-old defeated Estonia's Anett Kontaveit 7-5 6-3 in Thursday's quarter-final in the California desert, converting

Argentina took their unbeaten run to 25 matches and moved a step closer to qualifying for the World Cup with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Peru. Argentina took their unbeaten run to 25 matches and moved a step closer to qualifying for the World Cup with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Peru on Thursday. Lautaro Martinez scored the only goal of the game two minutes before the break with a powerful header while Yoshimar Yotun missed a second half penalty for Peru. On

Lionel Messi, Neymar and a host of other South American stars are missing for Paris Saint-Germain this weekend but Kylian Mbappe will take centre stage after starring for France in their successful UEFA Nations League campaign. Lionel Messi, Neymar and a host of other South American stars are missing for Paris Saint-Germain this weekend but Kylian Mbappe will take centre stage after starring for France in their successful UEFA Nations League campaign. Messi, along with Leandro Paredes and Angel Di Maria, is with

IPL 2021: Ex-cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar took a dig at certain players who were terribly out-of-form and also looked past their prime during IPL 2021, which according to him, was the reason why this season consisted of several bizarre ends and turnarounds. Former India cricketer and a thorough analyst of the sport, Sanjay Manjrekar, opened up about the quality of cricket in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021. After watching 59 completed games this season, Manjrekar hardly seemed impressed by the nature of

The iconic Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai lit up in the colours of Team India's jersey for the T20 World Cup ahead of the showpiece event. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday unveiled Team India's new jersey for the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021. To add some flavour to the excitement, the all-new jersey was projected on the tallest building in the world - the iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai. BCCI shared the iconic moment on

Kolkata Knight Riders made heavy weather of a chase that looked like it was wrapped up much earlier, as they stumbled their way to a three-wicket win over Delhi Capitals at Sharjah to enter the final of IPL 2021 Kolkata Knight Riders made heavy weather of a chase that looked like it was wrapped up much earlier, as they stumbled their way to a three-wicket win over Delhi Capitals at Sharjah to enter the final of IPL 2021, where they will take on

Rishabh Pant was visibly emotional after Delhi Capitals suffered a heartbreaking loss to Kolkata Knight Riders in the second Qualifier of the Indian Premier League on Wednesday. Rishabh Pant was visibly emotional after Delhi Capitals suffered a heartbreaking loss to Kolkata Knight Riders in the second Qualifier of the Indian Premier League on Wednesday. After scoring only 135/5, Delhi Capitals bowlers kept their team in the hunt with regular strikes towards the end of the KKR chase. KKR lost six wickets for seven

Daniil Medvedev was knocked out in the fourth round of Indian Wells by Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov on Wednesday as the world number two's near-flawless start turned nightmarish in a 4-6 6-4 6-3 defeat. Medvedev broke Dimitrov’s serve to open the match, easing through a near-perfect first set in which he won all but four of his first-serve points and fired off three aces with just five unforced errors. The Russian, who won his maiden major title at the U.S. Open last month, was

Lewis Hamilton took a new element in his engine and dropped 10 places on the grid at the Turkish GP, Mercedes won't rule out a fifth Power Unit depending on points battle against Max Verstappen; six races to go in 2021, starting with United States GP Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has explained the reliability concerns that led to Lewis Hamilton taking a new engine at the Turkish GP, and is not ruling out another switch and grid penalty before the end of the

Sunil Chhetri struck twice to lead India to a 3-1 win over hosts Maldives in their final league match and enter the final of the SAFF Championship. Talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri struck twice to lead a beleaguered India to a 3-1 win over hosts Maldives in their final league match and enter the final of the SAFF Championship in Male on Wednesday. Chhetri scored in the 62nd and 71st minutes after Manvir Singh had given India the lead in the 33rd minute in