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Anurag Thakur to inaugurate Khelo India U21 Women’s Hockey League today
New Delhi, Dec 14: Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Anurag Thakur will inaugurate the first edition of the Khelo India U21 Women’s Hockey League here at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium on December 15.
The league, which…
Opener Panchal replaces Rohit in India’s Test squad vs SA
Mumbai, Dec 13 (UNI) India Test vice-captain Rohit Sharma on Monday was ruled out of the upcoming three-match series against South Africa.
Priyank Panchal will replace Rohit in the Test squad after the vice-captain sustained a left…
20 athletes added to TOPS list for 2024 Olympics, inductees total 148
New Delhi, Dec 13 (UNI) A total of 20 new athletes on Monday were added to the list of the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), increasing the number of sportspersons to be funded by the Sports Ministry for the 2024 Paris Games to 148.…
India to host Afghanistan for ODI series
Kabul, Dec 13: India will host Afghanistan for three-match One-Day International series in March next year, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announced on Monday. The ACB put out their Future Tour Program (FTP) for 2022-23, which…
BWF World Championships: On the Mark was Caljouw – three months after heart surgery, while beating…
In between packing off B Sai Praneeth from the Olympics in August and from the World Championships in December, Mark Caljouw (pr: Cal-eow) steadied his fast-beating heart. Literally.
Writing for his club in Europe BC Vrij Uit, Caljouw…
Watch: Conor Gallagher scores a stunner against Everton
Conor Gallagher scored twice and James Tomkins was also on target as Crystal Palace arrested a run of three defeats by beating Everton 3-1 at Selhurst Park on Sunday to renew pressure on visiting manager Rafael Benitez.Gallagher fired home…
K Srikanth wins first round match in BWF World C’ships
Indian badminton ace Kidambi Srikanth beat Pablo Abian of Spain to begin his BWF World Championships campaign on a winning note here on Sunday.
The 12th seeded Indian beat the local challenger 21-12 21-16 in 36 minutes in the first round…
Barcelona held 2-2 at Osasuna despite goals by latest talent
Goals from Barcelona’s latest teenage talents weren’t enough to save Xavi Hernández’s side from another letdown Sunday after a late strike gave Osasuna a 2-2 draw in the Spanish league.
Barcelona was leading 2-1 after 19-year-olds Nico…
Anju Bobby George’s leap of faith
Halfway through a chat with athletics coach Robert Bobby George, his wife Anju, India’s lone medallist at the World Championship, walks in with a bright, warm smile. She seemed to possess a telepathic understanding of the line of…
Cristiano Ronaldo gives Manchester United narrow win at last-placed Norwich
Cristiano Ronaldo’s 13th goal of the season helped Manchester United close in on the English Premier League’s top four with a hard-fought 1-0 win at last-placed Norwich on Saturday.
The Portugal international converted a penalty in the…
Hockey National Championship: Day 1 records 74 goals in 5 matches
MANIPUR HOCKEY set a record of sorts and ended up recording a 21-0 victory over their north-eastern neighbours Tripura Hockey on a day when goals were aplenty at the 11th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship at the Major Dhyanchand…
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen claims fifth FIDE World Chess Championship
Norway’s Magnus Carlsen claimed his fifth world chess crown in Dubai on Friday with a crushing 7.5-3.5 victory against Ian Nepomniachtchi, who faded badly after going toe-to-toe with the Norwegian defending champion in the early games.…
Carolina Marin pulls out of World Championships
Three-time champion shuttler Carolina Marin’s much-awaited return to competitive action got further delayed as she pulled out of the World Championship after failing to regain fitness following a knee injury.
The Rio Olympics gold…
Cricket, 3 other Olympic sports excluded from provisional list of 2028 Los Angeles Games
Cricket’s bid for an Olympic spot received a jolt when it was excluded from the provisional list of 28 sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games, along with three other sports, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Cricket, which has…
We had requested Virat Kohli not to step down as T20I captain: Sourav Ganguly
Irrespective of India’s performance at the T20 World Cup, Virat Kohli would have stayed as white-ball captain if he wouldn’t have relinquished T20I captaincy. Once Kohli quit captaincy in the shortest format, the selectors decided to…
Dinamo Zagreb beat West Ham to advance, Leicester City out
Dinamo Zagreb sealed a playoff berth in the Europa League knockout stages after a stunning early goal from Mislav Orsic gave them a 1-0 win at a second-string West Ham United in Group H on Thursday.
West Ham had already secured top spot…
Shooting association ends contracts of all 24 national coaches
Four months after the Olympic debacle, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has decided to end the contracts of all the 24 national coaches that were involved with the Indian shooting team. The sporting body took the decision in a…
Coaches Mulyo, Tan Kim Her to be back in India by year-end
Coach Siyadatullah, who has been courtside and has silently put in countless training hours with top shuttlers in their teenage and emerging years at Hyderabad, will be at hand, for India’s men’s singles bunch at the Badminton World…
BCCI sacks Virat Kohli as ODI captain, Rohit Sharma takes over
Rohit Sharma has replaced Virat Kohli as India’s ODI captain. Unlike the T20I captaincy change, where the announcement came from Kohli, citing his workload, this is a BCCI decision, to remove him as ODI skipper.
Three months ago, while…
Like Sachin Tendulkar, relieving of captaincy could unburden Virat Kohli the batsman
Captaincy never seemed to shrink Virat Kohli, rather he had grown with it. Through largely good times, and the intermittent bad, leading a team never seemed to burden him. Shades of silver did intrude into his once jet-black tidily-trimmed…
