The Indian men’s hockey team defeated Wales 4-1 in its final preliminary league match here on Thursday, making it to the semifinals and maintaining their chances of topping the group on goal difference. Drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh struck a hat-trick — two goals off penalty corners and one off a stroke, while Gurjant Singh added […]
Birmingham, Aug 1 The Indians could not have picked anyone better than skip Rupa Rani Tirkey to play the last bowl in the Women’s Fours semifinal against New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games lawn bowl competition here on Monday. They were trailing 13-12 going into the 15th and final end and had to score at […]
Birmingham, Judoka Shushila Devi Likmabam clinched India’s seventh medal, and the first outside weightlifting at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham after losing to Michaela Whitebooi of South Africa in the women’s 48kg final in Judo. This is her second medal at the Commonwealth Games after she won silver at the Glasgow in 2014. Vijay […]
Birmingham, July 30 Indian weightlifter Sanket Mahadev Sargar on Saturday won a silver medal in men’s 55kg category at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The 21-year-old, hailing from Sangli in Maharashtra, managed a total lift of 248kg (113kg in snatch and 135 kg in clean & jerk) to open India’s account in the ongoing […]
Birmingham, July 30 Indian boxer Mohamed Hassamuddin started his campaign in the 2022 Commonwealth Games here on a winning note, beating Amzolele Dyeyi of South Africa in their men’s featherweight (54kg-57kg) division bout at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) on Saturday. In their Round of 32 bout, Hassamuddin won a unanimous decision on points, beating […]
Birmingham, July 30 For over a year, weightlifter Gururaja Poojary did not go to his home in Udupi district in Karnataka, instead deciding to stay at the national camp in Patiala, preparing for his entry into a new weight division, shifting to an Olympic weight category for the Paris Olympics in 2024. The 27-year-old Junior […]
Birmingham, July 29 (IANS) Before the start of India’s first Group A match against Australia in the women’s T20 event of 2022 Commonwealth Games, pacer Renuka Thakur had just three wickets from five bowling chances in T20I cricket. Then it all changed very quickly for her on a sunny Friday at Edgbaston. Just after having Alyssa […]
The 1970-71 tour of the West Indies by the Indian team provided glimpses of Sunil Gavaskar’s abilities as a batsman and put him on the way to becoming the legend he is today. The series saw India register their first-ever Test win and also their first-ever Test series win against the West Indies, and Gavaskar […]
In the last one week, the lean patch of talismanic India batter Virat Kohli has been the subject of a burning debate in the cricketing world. With every low score coming off Kohli’s bat, the decibel levels of discussion over his poor form increases, especially after he made 16 in the second ODI at Lord’s […]
With 15 months to go for the next ICC Cricket World Cup — to be advantageously held in India — teams are at a stage of shaping their squads. A defeat at this point — which was the case for India to England by 100 runs in the second of a three-match One-Day international series […]