Khalin Joshi emerges victorious at Jaipur Open golf

Jaipur

Khalin Joshi’s final round of a 3-under 67 was good enough for him to turn the tables on overnight leader M Dharma and emerge victorious at the Jaipur Open golf tournament here on Friday. Joshi (61-66-64-67), who made a dramatic three-putt from four feet on the last hole to end with a bogey, won by one shot as he totalled 22-under 258 for the week. Khalin’s fifth career trophy ended his three-year long title drought.

Dubai

Hamstring niggle to keep Kane out of warm-up game

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London

FIFA says it helped evacuate 100 players from Afghanistan

World soccer’s governing body FIFA said on Friday it had worked with the Qatari government to evacuate almost 100 football players and their families from Afghanistan. Cycling’s world governing body UCI had said on Monday it helped in the evacuation of 165 refugees from Afghanistan. — Agencies