WELLINGTON: Recovering New Zealand captain Kane Williamson returned to the net on Tuesday to face throwdowns keeping alive his faint hopes of playing the 50-overs World Cup in India later this year. The 32-year-old suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament( ACL) in the Indian Premier League and underwent surgery in early April that made him doubtful for the World Cup. Williamson posted on Instagram a clip of him batting in the nets with the caption: “ Nice to be back in the nets with the ba

WELLINGTON: Recovering New Zealand captain Kane Williamson returned to the net on Tuesday to face throwdowns keeping alive his faint hopes of playing the 50-overs World Cup in India later this year. The 32-year-old suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament( ACL) in the Indian Premier League and underwent surgery in early April that made him doubtful for the World Cup. Williamson posted on Instagram a clip of him batting in the nets with the caption: “ Nice to be back in the nets with the ba

Join our Whatsapp channelSweden’s Armand ‘Mondo’ Duplantis and Australian Nicola Olyslagers sealed wins in the Diamond League finals in a high-octane ‘city event’ in downtown Zurich on Wednesday. Duplantis, fresh from setting a 13th world record of 6. 29m in Budapest earlier this month, was competing in one of six field disciplines held at Zurich’s Sechselautenplatz, directly in front of the city’s iconic opera house. The US-born Swede had described the pole vault as a “ beautiful circus act ” a

ABU DHABI: Two years since going toe-to-toe in a thrilling 50-overs World Cup final, England and New Zealand will again seek to deliver a knockout blow when they face each other in the semi-finals of the Twenty20 global showpiece in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.... New Zealand matched England’s 241 courtesy of Ben Stokes’ unbeaten 84 at the end of 50 overs and then their 15 in the super over before England were declared winners on boundary count.... “ If England and New Zealand provide a fraction of