DHAKA: Tamim Iqbal reversed his decision to retire after intervention from Bangladesh’s prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who he met on Friday afternoon, according to a report by EspnCricinfo. The Bangladesh player met with the prime minister at her residence with his wife, his former captain Mashrafe Mortaza and Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan, […]
CALGARY: Star Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Lakshya Sen progressed to the quarterfinals of the women’s and men’s singles competitions respectively at the Canada Open Super 500 tournament here. While Sindhu advanced to the last eight after her opponent Natsuki Nidaira of Japan gave a her a walkover, Sen notched up a 21-15 21-11 win […]
Says special activities for third gender shall be held across J&K SRINAGAR: The Secretary Sports Council, Nuzhat Gull convened a meeting of all managers and incharges in her office chamber at Bakshi Stadium, Srinagar here on Thursday to review the plan and preparations of various sports activities under My Youth My Pride for the remaining […]
KARACHI: The rumblings in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will not have any bearing on the national team’s performance in the ICC World Cup, or in the assignments prior to that, asserted skipper Babar Azam on Thursday. While addressing a press conference, Babar, one of the world’s top batters at the moment, also said his […]
PULWAMA: Joint Director Kashmir of Youth Services and Sports Department J&K Waseem Raja on Thursday declared open the first edition of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Hockey Tourney on his birth anniversary at Synthetic Hockey Turf here. Director Youth Services and Sports Department J&K Subash C Chhibber while expressing happiness on the organization of the maiden […]
NEW DELHI: Two-format skipper Rohit Sharma and the peerless Virat Kohli are unlikely to feature anytime soon in the Indian T20 team as they were once again left out of the 15-member squad led by Hardik Pandya that will take on the West Indies in a five-match series, starting August 3. The side led by […]
JAMMU: The Jammu and Kashmir Sports Council is going to conduct trials in soft tennis for Khelo India Centre at MA Stadium Jammu in Under-18 age group on July 8, 2023, from 8 am onwards. As per a notification issued here today by the Council in this regard, all the desirous soft tennis players have […]
KARACHI: Pakistan’s marquee October 15 clash against arch-rivals India in Ahmedabad might be huge from perspective of fans on both sides of the border but it is certainly not the “be all and end all” from cricketing point of view, reckons Team Director and head coach Mickey Arthur. Arthur understands the hype surrounding the clash […]
LIMERICK (IRELAND): India’s Priyansh and Avneet Kaur won gold in the junior mixed team compound event, defeating Israel 146-144 in a keenly-contested final of the World Archery Youth Championships, here on Wednesday. India’s Manav Jadhav and Aishwarya Sharma also won a bronze medal defeating Mexico in the cadet mixed compound event. The event is taking […]
MELBOURNE: Lambasting the “hypocrisy and lack of consistency” shown by some following Jonny Bairstow’s controversial stumping in the recent Lord’s Test, former ICC elite umpire Simon Taufel said people cite the ‘spirit of the game’ when they don’t like a dismissal under the laws of cricket. Bairstow’s controversial stumping in the second Ashes Test has […]