Kidambi Srikanth on Sunday suffered a heartbreaking defeat against Loh Kean Yew of Singapore to settle for silver in the BWF World Championships in Huelva. World No. 15 Srikanth lost against the 22nd-ranked Loh Kean Yew 15-21, 20-22 in just 42 minutes to end up as the runner-up.This was Srikanth’s first defeat against Loh Kean […]
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir has been appointed the team mentor of the new Lucknow franchise ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, owner Sanjiv Goenka confirmed on Saturday. Gambhir is a two-time IPL-winning captain with KKR and considered a legend in the league who amassed 4217 runs from 154 games at 31.23 […]
India continued their domination against arch-rivals Pakistan in hockey as reigning Olympic bronze medallist registered a thumping 3-1 win in the Asian Champions Trophy 2021 match in Dhaka. With one thumping win against minnows Bangladesh and a draw in the opening match against South Korea, India made a confident start and took a lead in […]
The seasoned SSP Chawrasia continued in the lead in round two of the Rs. 1.5 crore TATA Steel Tour Championship 2021 after returning a three-under 69 that took his total to 12-under 132. Twenty-one-year-old Karan Pratap Singh of Faridabad, playing only his second season as a professional, shot a blistering 65 to climb two spots […]
Hockey Haryana completed the lineup for the Quarter Finals of the 11th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship Pimpri Chinchwad 2021 by beating Hockey Madhya Pradesh 5-1 in the last Pool stage match of the competition. Sanjay (24′, 39′) bagged a brace, while Joginder (20′), Bobby Singh (35′) and Deepak (38′) contributed a goal in […]
Pakistan Cricket Board and West Indies Cricket on Thursday confirmed the ODI leg of the Pakistan tour will be postponed to July 2022 following multiple cases of Covid-19 in the tourists’ camp in Karachi. The two teams went ahead with the 3rd and final T20I on Thursday despite 3 more players testing positive for the […]
A day after India Test captain Virat Kohli triggered a storm by publicly contradicting him, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly refused to comment on the matter, saying the Board will deal with it. Kohli, during his pre-departure press conference ahead of the tour of South Africa, said that he was never asked to stay on as […]
India Test skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday said the BCCI never asked him to reconsider quitting T20 leadership as claimed by the Board and his removal from ODI captaincy happened 90 minutes before the team’s selection for the upcoming South Africa tour. At the pre-departure press meet before the South Africa tour, the Indian skipper […]
Hockey Karnataka, Le Puducherry Hockey, Hockey Punjab, Hockey Andhra Pradesh, Hockey Chandigarh, Manipur Hockey and Hockey Haryana earned victories in their respective matches on day five of the 11th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship Pimpri Chinchwad 2021 here in Pune. Hockey Karnataka began the day five proceedings with a comprehensive 14-0 win against Hockey […]
Defending champions and Olympic bronze-medallists India were held to a 2-2 draw by a fighting Korea in their opening match of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy men’s hockey tournament here on Tuesday. Playing their first tournament after the historic Tokyo Olympics campaign, India started brightly and scored in the fourth minute through Lalit Upadhyay before […]