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Pujara roars back to form, strikes double ton in English County
Derby, April 17: After more than two years of dry run, Cheteshwar Pujara on Sunday roared back to form as he cracked his maiden first-class double hundred in a County Championship match for Sussex against Derbyshire. Pujara finished…
FIH Pro League: India beat Germany 3-1
Bhubaneswar, April 15: India ended its FIH Pro League home stint with a 3-1 win over Germany here at the Kalinga Stadium on Friday. The win gave India a 10-point lead at the top of the table with 8 wins in 12 games. Germany are placed…
FIH Jr. World Cup: Indian women suffer heartbreaking loss to England in Shoot out
Potchefstroom (South Africa), April 12: The Indian Junior Women's Team suffered a major heartbreak after England held their nerves to snatch a victory and the Bronze medal at the FIH Hockey Women's Junior World Cup on Tuesday. The…
Jay Shah, Mahela Jayawardene are in ICC Panel for Men’s Cricket
Dubai, April 10: BCCI Secretary Jay Shah has been appointed as Member Board representative of the ICC Men's Cricket Committee, the world cricket governing body announced on Sunday. At the ICC Board meeting, a number of fresh appointments to…
Indian eves halt Dutch winning streak at FIH Pro
Bhubaneswar, April 8: India women registered their first win against Netherlands in over a decade with a clinical 2-1 win thanks to their efficient attacking performance backed by their usually stellar defence in the FIH Hockey Pro…
Monika Batra stuns World Gold medalist, enters Semi-final
Phuket, April 4: Indian pugilist Monika handed a shock defeat to the two-time world championships medalist Josie Gabuco of Philippines to enter the women's 48kg semi-finals at the 2022 Thailand Open International Boxing tournament on…
Emotional Ross Taylor bids adieu to international cricket
Hamilton, April 4: New Zealand batter Ross Taylor ended his 16-year long international cricket career by taking a match winning catch in his final appearance, as the Black Caps whitewashed the three-match ODI series against the…
Jay Shah keen on reviving ‘Afro-Asian’ cricket Project
Mumbai, March 30: BCCI Secretary Jay Shah, who also heads the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), has initiated an ambitious plan to revive the Afro-Asian Cricket Project to develop the game in the African continent. The Project, which
was…
PV Sindhu clinches Swiss Open title
Basel, March 27: Indian top shuttler P V Sindhu clinched the Swiss Open Super 300 women's singles title after defeating Busanan Ongbamrungpham of Thailand here on Sunday. Sindhu, finished as runner-up last year. She defeated Busanan…
BCCI honors Tokyo Olympics medalists and Hockey team
Mumbai, March 26: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday felicitated the Tokyo Olympic medalists ahead of the start of the Indian Premier League 2022 opener. Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, boxer Lovlina Borgohain…
Badminton Assn: Himanta Biswa Sarma gets 2nd term as President
Guwahati, March 25: Himanta Biswa Sarma (Assam CM) was re-elected as the President of Badminton Federation of India (BAI) for another term at the general body meeting here on Friday. Sarma, who is also a vice president of Badminton Asia…
Nagaland prepares for 56th Cross-Country Championships
Kohima, March 23 (UNI) Nagaland Chief Minister and Convener of the Organizing Committee South Asian Cross-Country Championships (SACCC) and 56th Cross Country Camps. According to official sources the Chief Minister also interacted with the…
James Anderson: ‘Made peace’ with being dropped
London, March 22: England's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson said that he has "made peace" with being dropped for the West Indies tour. The 39-year-old Anderson along with Stuart Broad, 35, was left out of the squad for the…
Venezuelan Rojas adds to her legend, with another world record
Belgrade, March 20: Every so often in sport, an athlete comes along with a level of talent so otherworldly, and a biological composition so perfectly suited to an event, that it seems, as the old cliche goes, they were simply born with…
Lakshya finishes runner-up in All England Open, loses to Dane Viktor Axelsen
Birmingham, March 20: India's young sensation Lakshya Sen finished as a runner-up at the All England Open Badminton Championship after losing 10-21, 15-21 to Olympic champion and world no. 1 Viktor Axelsen
of Denmark in the final here…
Pankaj Advani lifts 8th Asian Billiards title
Doha, March 19: The 24-time world champion, India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani on Saturday lifted his eighth Asian Billiards title here in Qatar. With this win, he has 12 Asian titles overall across Billiards and Snooker. In the final, Pankaj…
ICC Women’s WC: Australia elects to bowl against India
Auckland, March 19: Australia won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the Women's Cricket World Cup 2022 match at the Eden Park here on Saturday. Both sides made one change in their line-ups. For India, Shafali Verma replaced…
All England: Srikanth out, Gayatri Gopichand-Tressa enter QF
Birmingham, March 17: World championship silver medalist Kidambi Srikanth's campaign at the BWF Super 1000 All England Open Badminton Championships ended with a Round-16 loss to Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia here on Thursday.…
All England Open: Sindhu, Saina ease into Round-2
Birmingham, March 16: Ace Indian women shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal advanced to the second round of the BWF Super 1000 All England Open Badminton Championships with straight sets opening round win here on Wednesday. Two-time…
ICC Women’s WC: England elect to bowl vs India
Tauranga, March 16: England have won the toss and elected to bowl against India in their do-or-die ICC Women's Cricket World Cup match at the Bay Oval here on Wednesday. Both England and India are unchanged from their previous fixtures…