Chennai, Aug 15 (IANS) Solid play and strategic planning were key to India’s success at the 41st Chess Olympiad in Norway, said team members. For the first time, India won three medals – a gold, silver and a bronze – at the Chess Olympiad that concluded Thursday in the Norwegian city of Tromse. India, seeded 19th, […]
Madrid, Aug 12 (IANS) Spanish Primera Liga Champions Atletico Madrid are likely to sign Mexican international striker Raul Jimenez. Although the club was yet to issue a communique confirming the signing, Spanish sports paper, Marca, reported the deal has been closed to take the 23-year-old from Club America de Mexico, his first club, to the Vicente […]
Bangalore, Aug 9 (IANS) Fifth seed Ching-Wen Hsu of Chinese Taipei claimed her second title of the season when she defeated second seed Fatma Al Nabhani of Oman 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Zuari Garden City Open ITF women’s tennis tournament here Saturday. Hsu was aided by some indifferent play by her higher ranked […]
Manchester, Aug 9 (IANS) A 134-run seventh wicket partnership between Joe Root and Jos Buttler helped England consolidate their grip over the match, being 325 for eight with a 173-run first innings lead over India at lunch on day three of the fourth cricket Test at Old Trafford here Saturday. After heavy rain had halted England’s […]
Manchester, Aug 9 (IANS) Scoreboard at lunch on day three of the fourth cricket Test between India and England at Old Trafford here Saturday. India (first innings): 152 all out England (first innings, overnight 237/6) Alastair Cook c Pankaj Singh b Aaron 17 Sam Robson b Kumar 6 Gary Ballance lbw b Aaron 37 Ian Bell […]
Madrid, Aug 8 (IANS) Real Madrid’s Welsh star, Gareth Bale is looking forward to returning ‘home’ next week when his side take on Sevilla in the European Supercup. The game between the winners of the Champions League and the Europa League will be held in Bale’s hometown of Cardiff Aug 12 and Bale, who joined Real […]
Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Aug 8 (IANS) Vice President of the Football Association of Malaysia (FAM), Datu Sudarsono Osman, also the national team manager, has proposed a moment of silence before their friendly match with Tajikistan Friday in memory of those who died on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled international […]
If you take away 2010 New Delhi, the benchmark for India at the Commonwealth Games has been 2002 Manchester when they crossed the 50-medal mark for the first time by ending up with 69 medals, 30 of them gold. Before the Indians left for Glasgow, the expectations were pegged at somewhere between Manchester tally and […]
Kabaddi, an indigenous contact sport in India, is witnessing a resurgence, thanks to big-time commercial sponsorship and prime-time TV patronage. Riding on the IPL-style hockey and football leagues, kabaddi has come up with not one but two leagues to complement each other. For long kabaddi has been dismissed as an indigenous rustic sport not strictly fit to be an Olympic […]
Glasgow, Aug 2 (IANS) Indian discus thrower Seema Punia won the silver medal with her season’s best performance while her compatriot and defending champion Krishna Poonia finished a disappointing fifth at the Commonwealth Games here Friday. It was the second medal for India from track and field, a day after men’s discus thrower Vikas Gowda won […]