Delhi Capitals batswomen in action during the Women Premier League 2025 final. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini In 2023 and 2024, Delhi Capitals seemed to be heading towards defeat at the halfway stage of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) final. Against Mumbai Indians in the inaugural season, a total of 131 for nine was … Read more
Mumbai Indians’ owner Nita Ambani and players celebrate with the trophy after winning the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2025 final cricket match against Delhi Capitals, in Mumbai, Sunday, March 16, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI In the end, three of the top-five run-getters in the third season of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) belonged to … Read more
Pakistan’s players leave the ground after defeat during the first Twenty20 international cricket match between New Zealand and Pakistan at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on March 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP A new era for Pakistan white ball cricket got off to a rough start Sunday with a nine wicket loss to New Zealand … Read more
Vani shot an even par 72 for the second straight day in the sixth leg of the Hero Women’s Golf Tour. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Vani Kapoor jumped into sole lead following an even par 72 for the second successive day in the sixth leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour at the … Read more
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s K Nitish Kumar Reddy | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Nitish Kumar Reddy is set to join the Sunrisers Hyderabad camp ahead of IPL 2025. He has been cleared by a medical team at the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru after completing all the fitness tests, including the yo-yo test. The all-rounder had … Read more
Mumbai Indians team pose with the trophy after the winning WPL Final Match between Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals held at CCI Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Two years after winning the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League, Mumbai Indians added another title to its cabinet on Saturday (March … Read more
Axar Patel will be keen to lead from the front. | Photo Credit: File photo: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Inevitably at the dawn of every Indian Premier League (IPL) season, Delhi Capitals is faced with a familiar, vexing question. Can this be the year when the franchise finally breaks the hoodoo and goes for glory in … Read more
Skipper Harmanpreet Kaur starred with the bat as Mumbai Indians defeated Delhi Capitals by eight runs to regain the WPL title. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Two years after winning the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League, Mumbai Indians added another title to its cabinet on Saturday with a heart-stopping eight-run win at a heaving Brabourne Stadium. For Delhi Capitals, … Read more
Virat Kohli with the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy 2025 after the team’s win against New Zealand, at Dubai International Cricket Stadium. | Photo Credit: ANI Sports fandom is fickle. After India lost back-to-back Test series to New Zealand and Australia, its cricketers came under trenchant criticism. But after the Champions Trophy triumph, they are back … Read more
Olympian Gaganjeet Bhullar is in the fray | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: AFP Olympians Gaganjeet Bhullar, S.S.P. Chawrasia and Udayan Mane in addition to other prominent Indian golfers such as Rahil Gangjee and Yuvraj Sandhu will be seen in action in the $300,000 Kolkata Challenge, starting at the Royal Calcutta Golf Club (RCGC), here on … Read more
The Union Sports Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya expressed admiration about the work being done by various States in terms of sports development. In his regular interaction with the media, the Minister said that it was a very fruitful meeting at the Kanha Shanti Vanam in Hyderabad, when 18 State sports ministers and numerous other stakeholders, … Read more
File picture of Pakistan’s Shadab Khan | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar Top Pakistan cricketers such as Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub and Shadab Khan found no bidders in the Hundred Draft where 50 players from the country had signed up. Pakistan were represented by 45 male cricketers and five female players in the draft. Naseem … Read more
Childhood dreams see the light of day only for a handful. For Amelia Kerr, they did in October 2024 as part of a New Zealand team that won the Women’s T20 World Cup for the first time. Moreover, the 24-year-old played chief protagonist, winning the Player of the Final and the Player of the Tournament … Read more
Rajasthan Royals coach Rahul Dravid interacts with Nitish Rana during a practice session in Guwahati. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR Imagine Jaipur without the Amber Fort. Imagining Rajasthan Royals without Jos Buttler is just about as difficult. The white-ball master from England has been like a resolute, intimidating fort at the top … Read more
Karthik, right, with RCB’s director of cricket Mo Bobat and Isa Guha. Former India wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik said that the present Indian white-ball side can dominate world cricket for the next decade and more. Speaking during a session moderated by former English cricketer Isa Guha at the RCB Innovation Lab Indian Sports Summit here on … Read more
Show-stealer: Harmanpreet’s 12-ball 36 was instrumental in MI taking the game away from GG in the Eliminator. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI In all the gushing praise that Nat Sciver-Brunt and Hayley Matthews justifiably received for their half-centuries against Gujarat Giants on Thursday, what perhaps took a backseat was Harmanpreet Kaur’s 12-ball 36. She was … Read more
Star-studded: Former India players Raman, Aravind, Ganesh and Sudhakar were some of the popular names who graced the occasion. | Photo Credit: Ashwin Achal The launch event of the book, Handbook Of Cricket Psychology, co-authored by K. Srinath and M.N. Viswanath, brought together cricket stars from Karnataka and beyond. Former India players W.V. Raman, S. … Read more
After 14 months of tussle and legal battles, the Union Sports Ministry has revoked the ‘suspension’ of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) paving the way for the National Sports Federation’s smooth functioning and the wrestlers’ participation in international events. The Ministry had derecognised the WFI on December 24, 2023 on grounds of “lapses regarding … Read more
Nat Sciver-Brunt will one of the key players for Mumbai Indians when it takes on Delhi Capitals in the WPL final in Mumbai on Saturday. | Photo Credit: AFP Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians have been here before. In 2023, it was these two heavyweights that squared off in the grand finale of the inaugural … Read more
Cricket fans watch a broadcast of the ICC Champions Trophy cricket final match between India and New Zealand on a big screen at Edward Elliot’s Beach in Chennai, on March 9, 2025 | Photo Credit: AP JioHotstar has set new records in India’s live sports streaming with over 540 crore views and nearly 11,000 crore … Read more
File picture of Jasprit Bumrah playing for Mumbai Indians | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Mumbai Indians (MI) are set to begin their IPL 2025 campaign without their premier fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah, who is still recovering from a lower back injury sustained in January. Bumrah, who has been undergoing rehabilitation at the Board of Control … Read more
Champions Trophy 2025 In Bingo parlance, 76 is referred to as trombone, which literally means ‘large trumpet’ – tromba is Italian for trumpet. ‘Large trumpet’ sits nicely on two of the greatest white-ball players. Not just of their generation, not just of their country, but of all time. Period. Seventy-six is the new magic number in … Read more
Sciver-Brunt. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Nat Sciver-Brunt has some significant firsts to her name, the latest being the first to make 400 runs in a WPL season. That was just six weeks after she became the first batter to make 50-plus scores in six successive women’s Tests. Back in 2016, she hit the WBBL’s … Read more
Though Axar Patel’s IPL captaincy experience is limited, he led Gujarat in domestic cricket and served as India’s T20I vice-captain earlier this year. File photo | Photo Credit: PTI India all-rounder Axar Patel was on Friday (March 14, 2025) appointed captain of Delhi Capitals for IPL 2025, replacing Rishabh Pant, who exited the franchise before … Read more
Brook opted out of IPL 2025 to focus on his England career while in 2024, he withdrew following the death of his grandmother. File | Photo Credit: AP England batter Harry Brook has been banned from the Indian Premier League for two seasons following his last-minute pullout from the 2025 edition. Earlier this week, Brook … Read more
Mumbai Indians’s Hayley Matthews in action during the WPL Eliminator Match between Mumbai Indians vs Gujarat Giants held at CCI Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. Photo: EMMANUAL YOGINI/The Hindu When Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt are in the mood for classy ball-striking, there’s seemingly little that opponents can do beyond watching and quietly admiring sheer … Read more
In Bingo parlance, 76 is referred to as trombone, which literally means ‘large trumpet’ – tromba is Italian for trumpet. ‘Large trumpet’ sits nicely on two of the greatest white-ball players. Not just of their generation, not just of their country, but of all time. Period. Seventy-six is the new magic number in international white-ball cricket … Read more
Hayley Matthews plays a shot. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI When Hayley Matthews and Nat Sciver-Brunt are in the mood for classy ball-striking, there’s seemingly little that opponents can do beyond watching and quietly admiring sheer mastery unfold in front of their eyes. Gujarat Giants was largely left to do just that in the Eliminator … Read more
Nicholas Pooran could provide the final flourish. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: Sandeep Saxena Rishabh Pant made headlines across the cricketing world when Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) went hammer and tongs to acquire his services for a jaw-dropping ₹27 crore at the Indian Premier League (IPL) mega-auction a few months ago, setting a new benchmark … Read more
Former Australian cricketer Glenn McGrath at the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai on Thursday, March 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: R. RAGU Australian cricket legend Glenn McGrath on Thursday praised Jasprit Bumrah as an incredible and unique bowler, referring to Bumrah’s exceptional performance in the latest Border Gavaskar Trophy. McGrath also acknowledged Bumrah’s intelligent captaincy … Read more