NEW DELHI: Rift in the team, “fitness issues” and an attack that lacked variety and sting, all of it seems to have contributed to India’s pre-mature exit from the ICC Women’s World Cup. The runners-up finish five years ago had changed the face of women’s cricket and considering the massive strides the game made since […]
MANAMA: India conceded three second half goals to suffer a disappointing 0-3 defeat against Belarus in their second international football friendly match here on Saturday. India had lost to Bahrain 1-2 in their first international friendly match here on Wednesday. Bykau Artsem (48th minute), Salavei Andrei (68th) and Hramyka Valery (90+2) were the goal scorers […]
BASEL: Ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu clinched her second women’s singles title of the season with a straight game win over Thailand’s Busanan Ongbamrungphan but HS Prannoy went down fighting in the men’s singles final at the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton tournament on Sunday. Playing her second successive final in the tournament, Sindhu, a […]
NAVI MUMBAI: Quitting captaincy may unburden Virat Kohli the batter but the focus will still remain on the maestro in Royal Challengers Bangalore’s IPL-15 opener against Punjab Kings here on Sunday. For, it will be the first time Kohli will not be leading RCB in nearly a decade, turning out only as a player, instead. […]
Mumbai: With the change in leadership at Royal Challengers Bangalore, the IPL might get to see the Virat Kohli from the 2016 season when he amassed over 900 runs, reckons former India captain Sunil Gavaskar. The spotlight , though, will remain on Kohli when he takes to the field only as a player in RCB’s […]
MUMBAI: Two-time World Cup-winning Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has no doubt that flamboyant wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will be a successful India captain if he is handed the responsibility in future. Pant took over the captaincy at IPL franchise Delhi Capitals last season in the absence of an injured Shreyas Iyer, with the Ponting-led team management […]
MUMBAI: The legendary Kapil Dev feels cricket reached “new heights” in India due to an upgrade in infrastructure and providing better facilities will help sports like hockey win more medals at the Olympics. “We as a country need to give the infrastructure first. If we have it, the kids will be free to chose any […]
LAHORE: Off-spinner Nathan Lyon took five wickets to help Australia beat Pakistan by 115 runs in the final session of the deciding third Test in Lahore and clinch the three-match series 1-0 on Friday. The 34-year-old took the prized wickets of Imam-ul-Haq, Azhar Ali and Babar Azam to end Pakistan’s resistance and finished with figures […]
MUMBAI: From having Virat Kohli as part of the leadership group to learning from ‘captain cool’ MS Dhoni during his stint with CSK, Faf du Plessis is all excited to lead Royal Challengers Bangalore in the upcoming IPL. The former South African skipper, who was bought by the RCB for Rs 7 crore in the […]
MANAMA: A close 0-1 defeat against Bahrain in their previous match notwithstanding, India would look to dish out an improved show against higher-ranked Belarus in their second international football friendly here on Saturday. Six players could not accompany the team that left Mumbai on Monday due to visa issues but they reached here on the […]