MUSCAT: Former captain and batting star Kevin Pietersen has said that it’s “stupid” to blame the Indian Premier League for England’s embarrassing 0-4 loss to Australia in the recently-concluded Ashes series. England great David Gower was “annoyed” after their Ashes defeat and said current skipper Joe Root had players who were “unavailable” because of the […]
Lucknow: India’s HS Prannoy crashed out of the Syed Modi International Super 300 tournament with a straight-game defeat to Arnaud Merkle of France in the men’s singles quarterfinals here on Friday. The fifth-seeded Indian, a former top 10 player, lost 19-21 16-21 to his French opponent in a 59-minute quarterfinal match. Mithun Manjunath, however, advanced […]
DUBAI: The flamboyant Rohit Sharma featured as opener, Rishabh Pant as wicketkeeper and R Ashwin as the lone specialist spinner in the ICC men’s ‘Test Team of the Year’ but no Indian player was included in the global body’s ODI XI for 2021. After going unrepresented in the ICC men’s ‘T20 Team of the Year’ […]
DUBAI: After going unrepresented in the ICC’s men’s ‘T20 Team of the Year’ due to a disastrous World Cup campaign in the UAE, no Indian player featured in the global body’s ‘ODI Team of the Year’ which features two players from minnows Ireland. Incidentally, the team also doesn’t have any Australia, English, New Zealand or […]
TAROUBA (Trinidad): Record four-time champions and title contenders India stormed into the Super League quarterfinals of the U-19 World Cup after thrashing minnows Ireland by 174 runs in a league game here, in which they barely managed to field a playing XI. India started their campaign on a winning note, beating South Africa by 45 […]
PAARL: KL Rahul will have to show drastically improved leadership acumen when he leads India against a buoyant South African side in the second ODI on Friday, with the three-match series and his long-term Test captaincy ambitions both at stake. Rahul was at best mediocre in terms of “on-your-feet-thinking”, something that’s basic to art of […]
LUCKNOW: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu stormed into the women’s singles quarterfinals of the Syed Modi International badminton tournament after registering a straight-game win over American Lauren Lam here on Thursday. Top seed Sindhu took just 33 minutes to get the better of her American rival 21-16, 21-13 in her second-round match. Sindhu will take […]
DUBAI: No Indian cricketer figured in the ICC’s T20 World Cup ‘Team of the Tournament’ which comprises players from six countries, including Sri Lanka and South Africa, with Pakistan’s Babar Azam being named ‘captain’ of the squad. India were ousted at the Super 12 stage after being thrashed by Pakistan and New Zealand before winning […]
MELBOURNE: India tennis star Sania Mirza on Wednesday announced that 2022 will be her last season since her body is “wearing down” and motivation and energy for the everyday grind is not the same anymore. Mirza, 35, had returned to tennis after giving birth to her son in March 2019 but her progress was later […]
DUBAI: Indian star Virat Kohli on Wednesday moved up two places to seventh after scores of 79 and 29 in his last Test as captain in the latest ICC rankings for batters in the five-day format. Wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant’s unbeaten century in the second innings of the series-deciding third Test against South Africa lifted him […]