3 and was sworn in as minister of state for information & broadcasting when the Modi government came to power in May, 2014. Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams, Garbine Muguruza and Petra Kvitova on focus on Arthur Ashe Stadium. The two series featuring three of the biggest sides in world cricket will be played on ?a back-to-ba. defeat in a first-round singles match against fellow Italian Stefano Travaglia on Wednesday. However, with only the top two teams able to qualify for Russia directly, third-placed Australia will hope the Samurai Blue can emerge with a win or hold the Saudis to a draw. ’Under-pressure Australia will qualify for their fourth successive World Cup, by the long road or the short, stand-in captain Mark Milligan declared on Sunday. inals, if we don’t go into the game with the same spirit then I don’t think we are going to win it. Another Olympic champion to go down to Cuban might was Uzbekistan’s Hasanboy Dusmetov. et-footed Japan, whose well-organised defence scrambled hard to frustrate the Socceroos’ forwards. For hosts, Tharanga , Thirmanneand Mathewsplayed well but were not able to post a big score.