Red Bull Reign, the ultimate 3-on-3 streetball tournament, will culminate in a world final with sixteen countries sending teams to Toronto on August 31. More than 2,500 athletes and over 650 teams from 16 countries have competed over the last six months in the Red Bull Reign qualifying events to reach the world finals. The […]
India skipper Virat Kohli has insisted that young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant — who is seen as the successor to M.S. Dhoni — is the future of Indian cricket and he needs to be given the space so that he can use his skills well and perform on a consistent basis for the team. Pant, who […]
In my mind’s eye there are many Sunil Gavaskar fanboy moments. Lashing out against Malcolm Marshall and Michael Holding, hooking and cutting in a ferocious counter punching exhibition at the Kotla in Delhi, playing an epic 221 at the Oval in a run chase, fighting virtually single-handedly on a minefield against Pakistan spin twins — […]
Hockey India on Friday named the 18-member Indian Women’s Hockey team for the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics 2020 Test Event scheduled to take place in Tokyo, Japan from 17th-21st August 2019. The Indian team will be captained by Rani and vice-captained by Savita. Under Chief Coach Sjoerd Marijne, the composition of the team has remained similar […]
Kargil hero Major Devender Pal Singh, who was left with an amputated leg after the conflict, ran the last lap with the Victory Flame in Drass sector of Jammu and Kashmir on Friday on the occasion of Vijay Diwas. Major Singh was the target of a Pakistani mortar bomb during the Kargil war. The flame […]
Ace Indian shuttlers P.V. Sindhu and B. Sai Praneeth entered the quarterfinals of the ongoing Japan Open after winning their respective second-round matches of the $750,000 tournament, here on Thursday. In women’s singles, fifth-seeded Sindhu had to fight it out against Ohori as she came back from a game behind to register a 11-21, 21-10, […]
Anil Kumar Sharma, CMD of Amrapali Group of Companies, paid Rs 36 lakh to ICC Chairman Shashank Manohar and this falls under the category of misuse of funds paid by home buyers, said the Supreme Court in its judgement on Amrapali Group. Manohar’s name features on the list of third parties who received money from […]
The bizarre move by the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) asking the India captain and coach to decide on travel schedule of the WAGs has not just taken the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials by surprise, but also former Chief Justice R.M. Lodha. Lodha panel’s set of proposals was the […]
Former Indian athlete and Olympian P.T. Usha has been nominated for the prestigious International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) Veteran Pin Award. On Thursday, Usha revealed the news on Twitter and said: “IAAF Veteran Pin for the long and meritorious service to the cause of World Athletics! Thank you IAAF for this incredible honour.” Along […]
Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar has named his favourite XI of cricketers who played in the just concluded edition of the World Cup. Tendulkar’s XI, led by Kane Williamson, includes five Indians — Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Jasprit Bumrah. However, he did not include wicketkeeper-batsman M.S. Dhoni in the XI. […]