Sports LIVE Today, May 5: SRH Sign Harsh Dubey; Pacers Stun Cavs In NBA Semifinals

Experience prevailed in the final undecided first-round series of the 2025 NBA Playoffs, as the Golden State Warriors ended the Houston Rockets' promising season with a 103-89 Game 7 win.

Andrew Nembhard scored 23 points and helped spark a fourth-quarter run that carried the Indiana Pacers to a surprising 121-112 road win over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of an Eastern Conference semi-final.

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"It was actually a move (Sending Inglish at 3) that the captain came up with, and Shreyas thought, on that sort of a pitch, against that bowling attack, it would be the right thing to. If a wicket fell early, to send Inglis in. We felt that Mayank would bowl early on, and if you look at the way he bowls, he generally bowls reasonably short, and that's one of Inglis' great strengths. As you saw tonight, those pull shots were pretty amazing straight away.

"So, yeah, that was what the captain wanted to do. It then also allows us to have, you know, Iyer, Wadera and Shashank through the middle of the innings, which is what we thought would be crucial for us in tonight's game as well. It was probably a surprise call for LSG to see him go out, and it paid off for us tonight.

"Once we got off to a [flier] you know, I think we were 70-odd at the end of the power play, all the momentum was going with us, and you see with our batting, we've got someone like Azmatullah at number nine, so we bat really, really deep, It allows our top order to play with a lot of freedom, and they did that tonight."

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), struggling to stay afloat in IPL 2025, have signed Vidarbha라이브 바카라 Harsh Dubey as a replacement for the injured Smaran Ravichandran.

The left-arm spin-bowling all-rounder joins the squad at a fee of ₹30 lakh and will be available for the remainder of the tournament.

Pisa was promoted to the top tier of Italian football on Sunday for the first time in 34 years.

There were wild celebrations in Pisa despite the team라이브 바카라 1-0 loss at Bari because third-placed Spezia also lost — 2-1 at Reggiana. Pisa is guaranteed second spot in Serie B and automatic promotion to the top flight, with two rounds remaining.

South Africa라이브 바카라 men and New Zealand라이브 바카라 women have been crowned 2025 Rugby Sevens world champions after winning their respective finals Sunday at the same venue in Los Angeles where the Olympic competition will be played in 2028.

The Olympic and world sevens league champion New Zealand women라이브 바카라 lineup beat Australia 31-7 in their final and went unbeaten at the tournament. South Africa beat Spain 19-5 in a surprise men라이브 바카라 final between teams which finished third and fourth in the league. (AP)

• Cleveland Cavaliers 112-121 Indiana Pacers

• Houston Rockets 89-103 Golden State Warriors

Litton Das has been appointed the captain of Bangladesh T20I side till the 2026 T20 World Cup.

Bangladesh squad for T20Is in UAE and Pakistan: Litton Das (capt), Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain, Soumya Sarkar, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali, Rishad Hossain, Mahedi Hasan (vice-capt), Tanvir Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Hasan Mahmud, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Nahid Rana and Shoriful Islam.

A football coach was arrested in Manipur's Imphal East district for allegedly sexually assaulting at least 11 girls who used to undergo training at his academy, police said on Sunday. An investigation is underway.

Casper Ruud claimed his maiden ATP Masters title following a thrilling three-set victory over Jack Draper at the Madrid Open on Sunday.

Ruud, who had not won a set in his two previous Masters finals, earned an impressive 7-5 3-6 6-4 win over the Briton after two hours and 29 minutes in the Spanish capital.

Oscar Piastri extended his championship lead to 16 points with a dominant drive at the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday.

After finishing second in Saturday's sprint to team-mate Lando Norris, the pair swapped places in the race as McLaren enjoyed a perfect weekend in the United States. 

World champion Max Verstappen started on pole, but was unable to compete with the power of the two McLarens, and dropped out of the top three. 

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A warm morning as we bring you all the updates and scores from the sporting world. The big news though is F1 where Oscar Piastri has won the Miami GP.