Kenya wilted under the pressure of chasing a huge total as the Zimbabwe spinners skittled them for just 147 runs to hand them a thumping 161-run loss in their final World Cup Group A match on Sunday.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting on Sunday admitted that the week-long gap between their two matches left his side a bit rusty in the field during their 60-run win over minnows Kenya in group A World Cup match in Bangalore.
Beaten black and blue by their opponents in the ongoing World Cup, Kenya batsman Tanmay Mishra on Friday vowed that cricket in the country will rise again.
Jimmy Hansra hit a career-best 74 as Canada notched up their second win in the World Cup history after defeating Kenya by five wickets in a group A clash at Feroze Shah Kotla stadium on Monday.
Lasith Malinga turned into a one-man hit squad as he became the first man to bag two World Cup hat-tricks to lead Sri Lanka to a crushing nine-wicket victory over Kenya on Tuesday.
Noida-based Dr Pawan Sharma recently visited Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and shot these amazing pictures. Take a look!
Kenya, Canada and the Netherlands joined Ireland in qualifying for the one-day World Cup to be staged in South Asia in 2011. Ireland topped the league standings in the ongoing World Cup qualifiers in South Africa, where the top four nations will join the 10 full-member countries in the 14-team event, to be hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Images from the Woorld Cup match between Pakistan and Kenya, played in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, on Wednesday.
Rediff reader Hari Krishnan Nair, 43 from Kenya shares his suggestions on how to make the most of the lockdown.
Maggie is among the first set of people contacted in advance by the NHS for the jab based on a pre-determined health risk criteria and will include 87-year-old British Indian grandfather of nine Hari Shukla, who will get his first dose at a hospital in Newcastle.
Kenya's Laban Moiben and Ethiopian Netsanet Abeyo bagged the top honours in contrasting fashion in the men's and women's categories at the 9th Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Sunday even as India's Ram Singh Yadav qualified for the London Olympics.
Elton Chigumbura hit 79 and claimed two wickets to lead Zimbabwe to a 109-run win over Kenya in the first of a five-match limited-overs series in Mombasa on Tuesday.
That Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray is an avid photographer is known to all and on Wednesday, he showed how good he is. The 59-year-old posted two images to his Instagram feed, which got everyone talking. The first of the two pictures that Thackeray shared shows flowers in bloom, while the second captures a golden field against a blue sky.
India cannot choose its geography and devise regional strategies to dovetail into the Western Indian Ocean hypothesis conceived in the Pentagon, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Modi has asked the prime minister to take up the issue with the Kenyan government to ensure the saftey of Gujaratis. The chief minister also expressed concern over the rampant looting of property belonging to Gujaratis in the African nation.
Kenya and Canada will clash in a Group A match at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi on Monday with both teams knowing that it will be their best chance to post a win in the World Cup.
The fresh batch of diplomats also includes EU representatives, and their participation assumes significance as the EU Parliament recently initiated to bring a joint draft resolution on the Citizenship Amendment Act and Kashmir, the vote on which was later deferred.
Nike launched a new running shoe that complies with limits set by World Athletics after the governing body imposed a landmark ban on a version of the sportswear giant's Vaporfly shoes that was used to run the first sub-two hour marathon. The first-ever shoe ban by World Athletics (WA) last week addressed concerns that technology advances are giving athletes an unfair and unnatural advantage, described by some critics as "technological doping".
Emotions spill over as PNG qualify for T20 World Cup
Papua New Guinea secured their place in the ICC men's Twenty20 World Cup in Australia next year with a 45-run win over Kenya, in Dubai.
"We have not received any official list of Indian nationals present in the crashed plane," Patel, who was in Surat to inaugurate Surat airport, said.
When asked whether there was any information about Amol, Chauhan said, "All we know is that the plane has gone missing. We have not heard anything else yet."
India said it is in touch with its High Commission in Nairobi following the crash.
The International Cricket Council has shifted the under-19 World Cup from Kenya to New Zealand after the African nation was found to be underprepared for hosting the event slated for next February. 'The ICC Board concluded that with only eight months to go before the event, which Cricket Kenya was awarded in 2006, it was unrealistic to expect Kenya to be ready to host given the large amount of work still needing to be done,' the ICC said in a statement.
Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this eye-catching photo feature.
Kenya beat Ireland by one wicket in the World Cricket League tournament
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A photo symbolising "love and compassion" of an 85-year-old Brazilian woman getting her first embrace in five months from a nurse through a transparent "hug curtain" has been named the World Press Photo of the Year. This year, according to organisers, 74,470 images were submitted for judging, made by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. World Press Photo has been kind enough to allow to share some of this year's winning photos here with you.
Rediff.com presents some memorable moments from the September 27 to October 6 meet. Take a look.
India's Avinash Sable qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase after shattering his own National record for the second time in three days though he finished 13th in the final at the World Athletics Championships, in Doha, on Friday.
Shahidi Afridi claimed five wickets as Pakistan opened their World Cup campaign with a thumping 205-run victory over Kenya.
Pacer Hamish Bennett picked a career-best four-wicket haul as New Zealand trounced Kenya by 10 wickets in a totally lop-sided World Cup Group A encounter in Chennai on Sunday.
American Caeleb Dressel will become a global superstar predicts Olympic historian Bill Mallon.
After a week of public arguments about Premier League players, who earn an average salary of 240,000 a month, refusing to take a pay cut while top clubs use public money to pay their furloughed non-playing staff, there is little doubt that the game -- and its players -- have suffered a serious blow to their image. There is no question that many footballers do help out good causes generously, just as most clubs are engaged with effective community programmes all-year round.
Kenya's Kenneth Mungara won the Mumbai marathon in a record time of 2 hours 11 minutes and 59 seconds on Sunday morning. His timing eclipsed countryman Daniel Rono's time of 2: 12.03 seconds, set in the 2006 edition of the event. David Tarun, also of Kenya, finished second in 2:12.02 seconds, while 2007 and 2008 winner John Kelai placed third with a timing of 2: 12.03 seconds.
French photographer Laurent Baheux has come out with a new book, titled 'Lions', dedicated to the "King of the Animals". He has journeyed across Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana to capture the wild lion living freely in its natural habitat for the last 20 years. With kind permission from his publisher teNeues, here are some of the breathtaking images from the book.
Modi, who toured Kenya and Uganda from November 17 to 19, said at a meeting: "Each and every Kenyan feels Obama belongs to them. This simple feeling can generate tremendous energy to the Kenya society to work even harder, boost conference services and the country's political image. The feeling of being Kenyan now has a high value and can change the country."
The confirmation of Hamza's death has come more than a month after the US media reported that he was killed, citing the US intelligence officials.
South Africa crushed Kenya by 159 runs on Friday in the first one-day international in Bloemfontein. JP Duminy's knock of 90, Jacques Kallis's 71 and Mark Boucher's 30-ball 57 not out led the hosts to 336 for seven after they won the toss.
New Delhi's candidature was unanimously endorsed by the 55-member Asia-Pacific grouping, including China and Pakistan, in June last year.
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