New Delhi: British former world No.1 Andy Murray has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of his trip to Australia for the Australian Open, British media reported...
Bangkok: India’s Kidambi Srikanth eased into the second round of the Thailand Open with a 21-12, 21-11 win over compatriot Sourabh Verma on Wednesday. Srikanth was...
Tokyo: Tokyo 2020 organising committee chief Yoshiro Mori promised that the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held as scheduled this summer. Mori made the remarks...
Melbourne: Formula One’s Australian Grand Prix was postponed to November and China’s race was put on hold indefinitely as the coronavirus forced a 2021 calendar rejig...
Bangkok: Ace shuttlers Saina Nehwal, Parupalli Kashyap, and HS Prannoy, who were forced to withdraw from the Thailand Open Super 1000 after they tested Covid positive...
Washington: American tennis star John Isner has confirmed he will skip the upcoming Australian Open because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Isner, 35, on Monday said he wanted...
Bangkok: Both Saina Nehwal and HS Prannoy have been cleared to participate in the ongoing Yonex Thailand Open after the fourth round of tests reports confirmed...
New Delhi: Rahul Dravid turned 48 on Monday and social media was flooded with birthday wishes for the former India captain, both from fans and former...
Tokyo: A latest opinion poll has shown that more than 80 per cent of respondents think that the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games should either be...
Sydney: The fourth and final Test of the ongoing series between Australia and India will be played at the Gabba in Brisbane from January 15 to...
New Delhi: The fourth and final Test will go ahead “as planned” in Brisbane this week, Cricket Australia chief Nick Hockley said on Monday, after agreement...
Beijing: The COVID-19 challenges have not compromised Japan and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) determination to host, as scheduled, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which was already...
New Delhi: The BCCI has decided to part ways with International Management Group (IMG), which has held the events rights of the IPL since its inception,...
Kolkata: Focus will squarely be on traditional heavyweights Mohammedan SC as their match with debutants Sudeva FC kicks off the 2020-21 I-League on Saturday. This season...
Abu Dhabi: Two UAE players — vice captain Chirag Suri and Aryan Lakra — have tested positive for novel coronavirus, the Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) informed on...
London: The fate of Aston Villa’s FA Cup match with Liverpool remained uncertain Thursday, with a decision on whether the third-round tie goes ahead as scheduled...
New Delhi: The AIFF general secretary Kushal Das on Thursday said it took a great effort from all stakeholders to set the ball rolling for the...
London: There were 40 cases of positive Covid-19 tests among players and club staff in two rounds of testing over the past week in the English...
Shillong: Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday said that he is optimistic that the National Games, affected due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Colombo: England all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival with the English cricket team in Sri Lanka. “Following PCR tests administered on arrival...
Tokyo: Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games although the Covid-19 pandemic situation is worsening in...
Kolkata: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has tested negative for Covid-19 and is at present...
Melbourne: Ajinkya Rahane is brave, smart, calm and has the respect of his team, former Australia skipper Ian Chappell has said while praising India’s stand-in Test...
Brisbane: With reports emerging about Team India’s reluctance to play the fourth and final Test of the ongoing series against Australia in Brisbane due to harsher...
Melbourne: Team India’s practice session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Sunday was cancelled due to rain even as the Australian team went ahead with...
New Delhi: England captain Joe Root has said that a Covid-19 positive test result on tour of Sri Lanka will not mean an automatic end of...
New Delhi: World badminton champion PV Sindhu has said that moving to the United Kingdom for her training is one of the best moves she made...
Sydney: The third Test match between India and Australia, starting on January 7 at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG), has come under threat after 10 cases...
Mumbai: Back from the tour of Australia to attend the birth of his child, India skipper Virat Kohli posted first pictures with wife Anushka Sharma during...
New Delhi: At a time when sporting action dominates the watch-list of every household, 2020 gave sports fanatics across the globe a rude shock. All sporting...
Kolkata: Indian football legend Nikhil Nandy breathed his last on Tuesday aged 89. He died from kidney related complications despite becoming COVID-19 negative. The former international...
Centurion: Sri Lanka rebuilt to 102-3 at lunch on the first day of the first test in South Africa on Saturday having slipped to 54-3 at...
Manchester: Manchester City have confirmed that footballlers Kyle Walker and Gabriel Jesus have tested positive for Covid-19. The club also confirmed that two members of staff...
Melbourne: Ahead of the second ‘Boxing Day’ Test against India, the Australian team on Friday got together for a Christmas lunch. Skipper Tim Paine, who usually does...
Melbourne: Tennis legends Serena Williams and Roger Federer have been confirmed among entries for the upcoming Australian Open. Apart from the star duo, world number one...
Tokyo: Organisers for the virus-postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympics said Thursday they have reached “basic agreement” with all domestic sponsors to extend their contracts by a year,...
Tokyo: The final budget for the 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been increased by 22 per cent to 1.64 trillion yen (15.8 billion US dollars)...
Seoul: The 2020 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships was cancelled amid the COVID-19 resurgence in South Korea, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) has announced....
New Delhi: Unfazed by the worsening COVID-19 situation in England where she is training right now, world champion shuttler PV Sindhu on Tuesday told PTI that...
Mumbai: The Mumbai Police cracked down on an early morning party at the Dragonfly Pub in JW Marriot and booked at least 34 persons including some...
