Keita Nakajima. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan Defending champion Keita Nakajima handled a tricky climax competently to emerge the joint leader with Eugenio Chacarra with four-under 140 at the end of two rounds in the $2.25 million Hero Indian Open golf championship at the DLF Golf and Country Club on Friday. After having been two-over … Read more
RR’s stand-in skipper Parag needs to pull his weight both with the bat and on the field. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR Visiting teams don’t often force Chennai Super Kings into submission at the MAC Stadium, but Royal Challengers Bengaluru after a long 17-year- gap did just that on Friday. With little time to recover after … Read more
A view of the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad ahead of the IPL 2025 match between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans. | Photo Credit: PTI Mumbai Indians skipper Hardik Pandya won the toss and chose to bowl against Gujarat Titans in an IPL match in Ahmedabad on Saturday (March 29, 2025). Having missed MI’s opener … Read more
Boxing Federation of India (BFI) President Ajay Singh. File | Photo Credit: ANI Boxing Federation of India (BFI) president Ajay Singh on Thursday (March 27, 2025) asserted that boxers will not miss any more tournaments, with national camps set to resume soon and a new coaching setup also to be announced. Indian boxing was in … Read more
Delhi Capitals will be bolstered by the return of K.L. Rahul in its IPL match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak Bolstered by the return of new parent K.L. Rahul, Delhi Capitals will hope to bring the curtains down on its time at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium … Read more
Phil Salt playing a shot against CSK. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM Royal Challengers Bengaluru needed an aggressive opener for IPL 2025. The franchise figured out Phil Salt was the man for the job. In a YouTube video titled The Launch — Phil Salt Planning, it can be seen how impressed the RCB think-tank … Read more
Payas Jain upstaged G. Sathiyan in the men’s singles first round of the WTT Star Contender in Chennai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: R. Ravindran On a day when top-ranked paddlers including Tomokazu Harimoto, Hugo Calderano and Hina Hayata among others were given a bye, two young Indian players and an Indian legend in his swansong, … Read more
Fresh from their morale-boosting win over LSG and bolstered by the return of India wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul, Delhi Capitals will look to build on the momentum when they take on formidable Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL in Visakhapatnam on Sunday (March 30, 2025). After a thunderous start to their campaign, SRH lost to Lucknow Super … Read more
Cheteshwar Pujara during a net practice session with Saurashtra | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Indian Test legend Cheteshwar Pujara believes that Chennai Super Kings is “one franchise” that has always prepared tracks at the Chepauk as per its strengths and hence finds it difficult to digest head coach Stephen Fleming’s comment of “not having any … Read more
Prodigy: Harimoto is one of the fastest rising young stars in women’s table tennis. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Japan’s Miwa Harimoto is one of the fastest rising young stars in women’s table tennis. She is just 16 and is already ranked sixth in the world. Doing consistently well on the WTT circuit, Miwa, the … Read more
Completely shaken by the sound thrashing that Royal Challengers Bengaluru handed them, a confused Chennai Super Kings might feel more “at home” against an equally clueless Rajasthan Royals on a slow turner expected to be on offer in their next IPL game in Guwahati on Sunday (March 30, 2025). Losing by more than 50 runs … Read more
Jason Sangha and Alex Carey are seen during their match-winning partnership and enabled South Australia win its first Sheffield Shield cricket title in 29 years. Photo: X/@cricketcomau South Australia has chased down a record 269 runs in an Australian first-class cricket final to win its first Sheffield Shield cricket title in 29 years. South Australia … Read more
Mumbai Indians batsman Rohit Sharma is seen during a practice session ahead of the IPL 2025 game against Gujarat Titans. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Rohit Sharma says the Indian team has endured cricket’s vicissitudes in the last nine months but it waged a collective battle to achieve success and every member of the side … Read more
New Zealand’s Mark Chapman and Daryl Mitchell during the ODI match against Pakistan on March 29, 2025 | Photo Credit: X/@BLACKCAPS Mark Chapman scored 132 and Daryl Mitchell 76 in a 199-run partnership as New Zealand made 344-9 and went on to beat Pakistan by 73 runs Saturday in the first one-day international. Chapman posted … Read more
File picture of Joe Root of England | Photo Credit: Getty Images Charismatic England batter Joe Root has advocated for consistency to counter India in the upcoming five-Test series, saying “there’s no hiding place” when it comes to facing such an indomitable opponent. India will commence their their 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle in England … Read more
Fresh from their morale-boosting win over LSG and bolstered by the return of India wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul, Delhi Capitals will look to build on the momentum when they take on formidable Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL in Visakhapatnam on Sunday (March 30, 2025). After a thunderous start to their campaign, SRH lost to Lucknow Super … Read more
Chennai Super Kings’ M.S. Dhoni arrives to bat during the IPL match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru, at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai, on March 28, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI M.S. Dhoni on Friday (March 28, 2025) surpassed former left-hand batter Suresh Raina to become the highest run-getter for five-time champions Chennai Super Kings … Read more
Mumbai Indians Hardik Pandya with Head Coach Mahela Jayawardene during the practice session ahead of IPL 2025 cricket match between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on March 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Gujarat Titans will look to preserve its spotless home record against Mumbai Indians as … Read more
“We have to segregate the venues and the opposition. Each venue, each opposition throws us different challenges and that’s something that we will focus on,” said MI coach Mahela Jayawardene. | Photo Credit: AP Just when you thought the Indian Premier League touched its batting zenith in 2024, the 2025 season has already started to … Read more
Delhi Capitals’ Ashutosh Sharma during IPL 2025 match between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants on March 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Ashutosh Sharma will forever remain indebted to his former franchise Punjab Kings’ skipper Shikhar Dhawan, whose “life lessons” will stay with him ‘forever”. The 26-year-old played a sensational unbeaten innings of 66 … Read more
Neeraj Phogat edged out Simranjit Kaur in the final of 65kg category in the 8th Elite Women’s National Boxing Championship in Greater Nodia on Thursday | Photo Credit: PTI Neeraj Phogat registered a narrow 4-3 win against Simranjit Kaur to be crowned the national champion in the 65kg category in the 8th Elite Women’s National … Read more
In its 18th summer, the Indian Premier League is just tiding past adolescent churn. Its roots are deep, the accrued commercial heft is at an all-time high, and its monetary numbers find space in business dailies. And just like mangoes, the IPL is inextricably linked to Indian summers. Yet, that opening fixture, pitting host Royal … Read more
Paris Olympian Reetika Hooda. File | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Paris Olympian Reetika Hooda (76kg) booked a berth in the final of the Asian wrestling championships in Amman, Jordan, on Thursday (March 27, 2025). Three more Indian women – Nishu (55kg), Muskan (59kg) and Mansi Lather (68kg) – also reached bronze medal contests in … Read more
Naveen Pulligilla and Musa Sherif competed in the iconic Safari Rally Kenya 2025, which is a part of WRC. | Photo Credit: WRC via ANI Hyderabad’s Naveen Pulligilla and co-driver Musa Sherif of Kasargod have become the first all-Indian team to participate in the World Rally Championship (WRC) and win the RC3 Kenyan National Rally … Read more
Raring to go: Sreeja is eager to get her campaign underway. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Sreeja Akula, at No. 33, India’s second-highest ranked paddler in the world after Manika Batra, hasn’t had a great start to the new year (2025), losing early in all the five tournaments she played. The 26-year-old from Hyderabad, however, … Read more
Stupa Analytics, having conducted back-to-back WTT Star Contender events in Goa, is gearing up for the third edition to be staged in Chennai from March 25 to 30. The global sports technology company is the organising partner of World Table Tennis (WTT), the commercial arm of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), in India. Deepak … Read more
Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad with his Royal Challengers Bengaluru counterpart Rajat Patidar during the toss of the IPL 2025 match in Chennai on March 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam Chennai Super Kings captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and elected to field during the IPL 2025 match against Royal Challengers … Read more
Shardul Thakur celebrates the wicket of Ishan Kishan. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI Shardul Thakur, who had gone unsold at the IPL auction, was gearing up to turn out for Essex in the County Championship games when Lucknow Super Giants approached him. The team was in need of a last minute tried-and-tested replacement for the … Read more
India men’s head coach Gautam Gambhir and chairman of the national selection panel Ajit Agarkar are set to discuss the prolonged central contracts for the ongoing cycle with the BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia in Guwahati on Saturday. Earlier in the week, the BCCI announced the annual retainer for women, days after The Hindu reported that … Read more
A view of the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited applications for the post of ‘spin bowling coach’ at its Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Bengaluru. The post has been lying vacant since Sairaj Bahutule served out his contract last … Read more