Pankaj Advani won the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship (points format) with a comprehensive six games to one victory over Geet Sethi. The 23-year-old Bangalorean delighted the home crowd at Karnataka State Billiards Association Hall with a superlative display, winning 150-90, 151-0, 150-24, 150-0, 86-150, 150-72, 150-12. After a below-par semifinal outing on Thursday, Advani [...]
India’s One-day and Twenty20 cricket captain MS Dhoni will be awarded the country’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. He becomes only the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to be given the honour. Tendulkar won the award in 1997-98. Dhoni led India’s Twenty20 team to a memorable win at the World Cup [...]