Mumbai: ‘Cricket kills’ is a theme that has been debated by representatives of lesser sports disciplines in India and sundry pundits for years. They have claimed...
Mumbai: Everything fell into place in the Pune match for India. They won the toss and batted on a batting-friendly pitch. Everyone predicted that the wicket...
India 1 (Adil Khan 88) Bangladesh 1 (Saad Uddin 42) Kolkata: Football could be a great leveler, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu must have realised it the hard...
New Delhi: Batting legend VVS Laxman on Tuesday said Indian cricket will undoubtedly continue to prosper under former skipper Sourav Ganguly, who is set to take...
Kolkata: Blame it on their improbable draw against Qatar, India would have to battle the weight of expectations as much as Bangladesh in their third Fifa...
Mumbai: In a dramatic turn of events, former captain Sourav Ganguly emerged as consensus candidate to be BCCI’s new President after Brijesh Patel appeared to have...
Pune: India won the second Test against South Africa by an innings and 137 runs to seal the three-match series with a game to spare, here on...
New Delhi: Indian football will never cease to amaze. Nor will its sole custodian, the All India Football Federation (AIFF). For all practical purposes, the AIFF...
Pune: South Africa ended the day two of the second Test at 36 for three, in reply to India’s mammoth first innings total of 601 for...
Pune: Indian captain Virat Kohli has moved past batting royalty like Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting, scoring his seventh Test double century in the second Test...
Pune: Skipper Virat Kohli blended grace with sheer determination on way to his 26th Test hundred, leading India to 356 for 3 at lunch on day two...
Singapore: Neymar became the youngest player to make 100 appearances for Brazil but the Paris Saint-Germain forward had to settle for a 1-1 draw as he...
Pune: Opener Mayank Agarwal stamped his authority on a struggling South African attack with a second successive hundred as India cruised to 273 for three on...
Ulan-Ude: Six-time champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) on Thursday surpassed herself as the most successful boxer in the Women’s World Championship history by securing an...
Mumbai: Indian bowling coach Bharat Arun made a pertinent point ahead of India’s second Test against South Africa in Pune. He said if India are to...
Pune: Improving on near perfection would be India’s aim while building on the small positives from a huge loss will be South Africa’s focus when the two...
Stuttgart: US gymnastics star Simone Biles clinched a record-extending 15th world championship gold medal as the Americans won the women’s team title in Stuttgart. Biles, 22,...
Ulan-Ude (Russia): Six-time champion MC Mary Kom (51kg) on Tuesday advanced to the quarterfinals of the World Women’s Boxing Championships after a hard-fought victory in the...
Melbourne: Andy Murray will make his Grand Slam return at the Australian Open in January, a year after career-saving hip surgery. The British three-time major winner...
New Delhi: Gaurika Bishnoi’s reaction was worth watching when asked to comment on golf’s inclusion in the Olympics. The Indian professional golfer excitedly said, “For me,...
Madrid: Barcelona are back in form and La Liga’s big three are back at the top of the table after the defending champions put on a...
Visakhapatnam: India dismissed South Africa for 191 runs in their second innings on the fifth and final day to win the opening Test by 203 runs...
Visakhapatnam: India’s premier off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin on Sunday became the joint fastest to take 350 wickets, matching Sri Lankan great Muttiah Muralitharan’s feat in his 66th...
London: James Milner scored a stoppage-time winner as Liverpool moved eight points clear at the top of the Premier League with a thrilling 2-1 victory over...
Visakhapatnam: Rohit Sharma smashed another hundred and a plethora of records as India set an improbable 395-run target for South Africa in first Test which is...
Visakhapatnam: Dean Elgar and Quinton de Kock struck centuries to help South Africa avoid the threat of a follow-on and reach 8-385 at stumps on three...
Visakhapatnam: Mayank Agarwal showed insatiable appetite for runs, converting his maiden Test hundred into a brilliant double before the Indian spinners tightened the noose around the...
New Delhi: Agatha Christie’s novel “And Then There Were None” is often described as a game changer in murder-mystery literature. The plan hatched by a retired...
Visakhapatnam: Rohit Sharma’s Test career got a new lease of life as he struck an unbeaten 115 in his first innings as an opener to take...
Paris: Serge Gnabry scored four second-half goals as Bayern Munich came from behind to hand last season’s runners-up Tottenham Hotspur a stunning 7-2 home defeat in...
Mumbai: Rohit Sharma being recalled to open for India against South Africa in the impending three-match Test series has opened up a debate regarding the justification...
Dubai: India go into the three-match home series against South Africa looking to build on their early success in the ICC World Test Championship, while the...
Melbourne: Former Australia skipper Ian Chappell believes Test cricket is threatened not just by the rising popularity of T20s but also climate change, something that the...
Doha: Jamaican sprint queen Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce surged to an unprecedented fourth 100m crown and US legend Allyson Felix broke Usain Bolt’s gold medal record tally as...
New Delhi: Brand La Liga is too big an entity to be affected by Barcelona’s inability to sign Neymar, believes the league’s managing director for India...
New Delhi: Former India opener Gautam Gambhir feels it is not fair to criticise Rishabh Pant so early in his career and urged skipper Virat Kohli...
New Delhi: Batting great Sachin Tendulkar says he had to “beg and plead” to open the innings for India in an ODI against New Zealand in 1994,...
Madrid: Real Madrid’s crisis has been averted for the time being at least after they beat Osasuna 2-0 without Eden Hazard and Gareth Bale to go...
Mumbai: The debate regarding Rishabh Pant’s batting position and utilisation of potential is endless. Adding fuel to fire was new batting coach Vikram Rathour’s comment about...
New Delhi: Former India cricketer Yuvraj Singh on Tuesday backed the under-fire Rishabh Pant, saying the youngster doesn’t deserve the criticism coming his way and needs...
