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Indian men’s cricket team arrives in Sri Lanka for white-ball series
PALLEKELE (SRI LANKA): The Indian men's cricket team, under new head coach Gautam Gambhir and captain Suryakumar Yadav, arrived in Sri Lanka to a warm welcome. The recently-crowned T20 world champions mingled playfully with fans, providing…
England wins by 241 runs to win series inn 2nd Test
NOTTINGHAM: West Indies collapsed in the evening session on Sunday as England won the second test by 241 runs with rookie spinner Shoaib Bashir taking 5-41 after hundreds from Joe Root and Harry Brook set up the series-clinching win at…
Welcome to the race of the games
Paris: For the holder of the current world record, what is a GOAT? Who holds the world record now that could be inducted into the Hall of Fame? To a dreamer, what are all of them?
On the first night of the Paris Games, the four—the…
Puja Mahato Journey, from Rohtak road to Nepal
New Delhi: On Sunday evening, coach Shravan Kumar was in a hurry to get back home in Delhi. He did not want to miss his pupil — Nepal's Puja Mahato — batting against Pakistan in the ongoing Women's Asia Cup in Sri Lanka. Shravan reached in…
Men’s team to leave for Srilanka on Monday
CHENNAI: Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate might join the support staff of newly-appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir during India’s white ball tour to Sri Lanka, starting from July 27.
While none of it is officially confirmed, things…
Tamil Nadu shooter Prithviraj to debut at Olympics
CHENNAI: Prithviraj Tondaiman is at the peak of his powers. At 37, he is all set to become the first shooter from Tamil Nadu to take part in the Olympics. Coming from the lineage of Maharaja of Pudukkottai, Prithviraj — son of Rajagopala…
Players’ Global T20 League NOC requests are denied by PCB.
LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board denied No Objection Certificate petitions from experienced players Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi for the Global T20 League due to the busy international schedule.
Babar Azam,…
West Indies’ Hodge glad to survive ‘brutal’ Wood struggle
Nottingham; Kavem Hodge was proud to have emerged with a maiden Test hundred following a "brutal" encounter with Mark Wood at Trent Bridge on Friday after reminding the England fast bowler he had a "wife and kids at home".
Hodge's 120…
FC Goa manager Manolo Marquez selected Indian men’s football team coach.
NEW DELHI: On Saturday, Spaniard Manolo Marquez, who coaches FC Goa in the Indian Super League, replaced Igor Stimac as India's men's football team head coach.
Marquez was named boss by the AIFF executive committee on Saturday.
The…
Sri Lanka trip T20I captain Surya
New Delhi: Suryakmar Yadav, who was part of the leadership group during Gautam Gambhir’s playing days at Kolkata Knight Riders, has been named skipper for the three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka later this month. What, though, remains…
Easy win for India against Pakistan in opener
Mumbai: The women’s T20 World Cup scheduled in Bangladesh is approaching soon. Every move made by the ten teams will be under scanner till the tournament. Traditionally, Bangladesh has been a heaven for the spinners. Take for example the…
Former IOC vice-president Kevan Gosper dies
SYDNEY: Former Olympic powerbroker Kevan Gosper, one of Australia's top sports administrators, has died aged 90, the Australian Olympic Committee said Friday.
Gosper, who served two stints as International Olympic Committee…
Kusale ready for Olympics
Mumbai: Kolhapur, a district in Western Maharashtra, is known for its spicy food, a one-of-a-kind temple of Goddess Mahalaxmi and Kusti (wrestling). Such is the hold of wrestling in the city and people that Kolhapur is the home of Khasbag…
Champion, coach, and destiny: Mirabai Chanu wants Paris again
New Delhi: For an athlete, invincibility and immortality fade with injury. Every little thing hurts, sometimes more than the injury and even failures. There is a small anecdote that a support staff was narrating about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic…
Indian T20I captain SKY faces Sri Lanka.
NEW DELHI: Big-hitting batter Suryakumar Yadav was on Thursday named captain of the Indian T20 team for the three-match series against Sri Lanka starting July 27.
ODI skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are also included in the 50-over…
Wrestling needs medals now more than ever
CHENNAI : From giving the country its first individual Olympic medallist 72 years ago to being the most consistent discipline at the Games since 2008, wrestling aptly is India's second most successful sport at the quadrennial event after…
Jyothi Yarraji ready to put end to her mother’s enormous struggles
It is her gutsy mother's positive mindset while struggling for sustenance that Yarraji would like to carry when she gets on the starting blocks of her 100m hurdles heats during the Paris Olympics.
Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray could be bidding adieu to tennis
Nadal made sure to refer to the Paris Olympics as “one of the important competitions I would like to be at.”
Jaime Lozano fired as head coach two weeks after Mexico’s Copa America exit
Jaime Lozano fired as head coach two weeks after Mexico's Copa America exit
Aishwary Pratap’s passion for Olympic medal and his academy kids’ dream nearing target
India's medal hope in the upcoming Paris Games set up a shooting academy in his hometown 18 months ago in order to popularise the sport
