A header from Barcelona veteran central defender Carles Puyol saw the Spanish champions come from behind to draw 1-1 with Valencia in their Spanish Cup semi-final first leg match on Wednesday. Barcelona, beaten finalists last year, could have won it in the second-half by Lionel Messi’s penalty was well saved by Diego Alves in the [...]

England spinner Graeme Swann and Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene head a star cast of cricketers who will be auctioned on Saturday to join the Indian Premier League. As many as 144 foreign and Indian players have thrown their hat in the ring in an auction restricted to players not already aligned to any team [...]

India have still to win on their Australia tour after losing the first of two Twenty20 internationals by 31 runs to the home side at the Sydney Olympic Stadium today. Before the biggest crowd for a single day’s cricket in Sydney of almost 60,000, Australia rattled up 171-4 off after being sent into bat and [...]

Former Australian captain Ian Chappell rates Brian Lara as a superior batsman to the resurgent Ricky Ponting and little master Sachin Tendulkar. Chappell says Lara’s ability to amass big scores for the West Indies and his “innate knowledge” on targeting specific bowlers to score quickly makes him a better batsman than Australia’s Ponting and India’s [...]