Dagar finishes strong, helps her team win Aramco title

London

Indian golfer Diksha Dagar rose to the occasion with three birdies in the last four holes for a closing 4-under 69 and combined superbly with her teammates to win the Aramco Team Series title here. Diksha bagged only her second LET title. She also became the second Indian after Aditi Ashok to win more than once on LET. Aditi has won three times. The team scored 12-under in the final round to get to a 41-under total for a three-stroke victory. It was also the biggest payday for the 20-year-old Diksha, who earned $50,000 from the winning team’s prize money of $150,000. Tvesa Malik, who led one of the 36 teams, took her team to a tied-9th finish.

Zagreb

Anand beats Kasparov again in Croatia

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand defeated long-time rival Garry Kasparov for the second consecutive time, in the 13th round of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour’s blitz event. He had beaten Kasparov on the first day too. The victory came for the Indian maestro after three straight draws, against Anish Giri, Jan-Kryzstof Duda and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. He followed it up with a superb win over Ian Nepomniachtchi.

Colombo

All SL first team players test negative for Covid

The entire Sri Lankan first team has returned negative in the latest RT-PCR tests ahead of the limited overs series against India. It is now expected that the players would be allowed to enter the bio-bubble by Monday as they complete a week-long hard quarantine after their arrival from the United Kingdom. After batting coach Grant Flower and a data analyst, along with a player in a separate bio-bubble, tested positive for Covid-19, the series that was originally scheduled to start on July 13 was pushed back by five days.

Andorra

Kuss wins Tour de France Stage 15, Pogacar leads

American Sepp Kuss claimed his maiden victory on the Tour de France with a solo ride in the 15th stage as defending champion Tadej Pogacar was barely bothered in the 191.3-km mountain trek from Ceret to Andorra. Pogacar heads into Monday’s rest day with an advantage of five minutes and 18 seconds on Colombian Rigoberto Uran with Dane Jonas Vingegaard in third place, a further 14 seconds adrift.

Harare

Mehidy’s record haul bowls Bangladesh to rare away win

Off-spinner Mehidy Hasan Miraz took the best match figures for a Bangladesh bowler overseas to help dismiss Zimbabwe for 256 and see his side to victory by 220 runs just before tea on the fifth day of the only Test. Zimbabwe had been set an imposing target of 477 for the win. Mehidy’s match figures of 9/148 are the best for a Bangladeshi bowler in an away Test.

London

England temps thrash Pak and clinch ODI series

England’s makeshift team turned in another A-list performance against Pakistan and sealed the ODI series at Lord’s in front of English cricket’s biggest crowd in almost two years. Just under 23,000 fans roared the home side to a 52-run victory and an unassailable 2-0 lead. After scoring 247, England bowled out Pakistan 195.

Gros Islet

WI beat Australia by 56 runs, lead series 2-0

Shimron Hetmyer scored 61 in a 103-run partnership with Dwayne Bravo which set the West Indies on course to a comprehensive 56-run win over Australia in the second T20 International. West Indies made 196/4, plundering 123 runs from their last 10 overs. Australia were bowled out for 140 with four balls remaining. Agencies