COLLECTIVE EFFORT: Kerala’s players celebrate the fall of a wicket during their Ranji Trophy cricket match against Bihar at the Greenfield stadium in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday, January 31, 2025. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN The IPL snub was a bitter pill to swallow for Kerala players. Captain Sachin Baby believed that more players from the … Read more
Skipper R. Sai Kishore led from the front with a five-wicket haul on the second day of the Ranji Trophy match against Jharkhand in Jamshedpur on Friday. | Photo Credit: R. V. MOORTHY After a deflating first day for Tamil Nadu on Thursday, skipper R. Sai Kishore wasn’t grumpy with the world at large. Instead, … Read more
Karnataka swimmer Dhinidhi Desinghu had a good day in the pool on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR Olympian Dhinidhi Desinghu broke the women’s 200m freestyle meet record on the opening day of the National Games swimming competition here on Wednesday. The 15-year-old from Karnataka finished the day with three golds, including … Read more
Sanju Samson plays a shot fine during the third T20 match between India and England at Niranjan Shah Stadium on January 28, 2025, in Rajkot, India. | Photo Credit: Getty Images England skipper Jos Buttler won the toss and opted field against India in the fourth T20I here on Friday. India has brought in pacer … Read more
Hyderabad’s Tanmay Agarwal celebrates his century during the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 cricket match against Vidarbha, at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium, in Nagpur, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A composed century from opener Tanmay Agarwal helped Hyderabad take control of its Ranji Trophy Group B encounter against Vidarbha at the VCA … Read more
Ayush Badoni conjured up an entertaining knock to rescue host Delhi against Railways at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Friday. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR An estimate of the exact time that Virat Kohli spent at the batting crease on Friday was between 20 and 24 minutes. Whatever it was, it was nowhere near … Read more
Two-Time PGA champion golfer Bryson DeChambeau answers the media on the eve of the International Series golf at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan There is a certain purity and honesty about the reigning PGA champion, Bryson DeChambeau, that is instantly attractive. It adds more to … Read more
Delhi’s Virat Kohli on the second day of a Ranji trophy cricket match between Delhi and Railways, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, in New Delhi, Friday (Jan. 31, 2025). | Photo Credit: PTI Virat Kohli’s first Ranji Trophy innings in 13 years lasted all of 15 balls, extending his lean run and fuelling the raging … Read more
Night watchman Suraj Jaiswal’s superb maiden century put Bengal in a strong position against Punjab on the second day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group C match at the Eden Gardens here on Friday. Resuming at 119 for four, Bengal rode on Jaiswal’s hundred (111, 185b, 14×4, 4×6) to score 343 in its first innings … Read more
Crucial: Ankit’s fourth First Class hundred came at the right time for Haryana. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Karnataka’s hopes of entering the knockout stage of the Ranji Trophy vanished in the face of a stubborn Haryana here on Friday. Needing a bonus-point win (innings or 10-wicket victory) to enter the quarterfinal, Karnataka had … Read more
Hopeful: Santoso believes that badminton is not just about physical prowess — mental strength is very important. | PHOTO : SUDHAKARA JAIN There is no sugar-coating the fact that P.V. Sindhu is not the player she once was. The 29-year-old double Olympic medallist didn’t win a trophy in 2023, had a disappointing time at the … Read more
Legendary Sachin Tendulkar will be conferred with the BCCI’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Mumbai on February 1,m 2025. | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini The legendary Sachin Tendulkar will be conferred with the BCCI’S Lifetime Achievement Award at the Board’s annual gala in Mumbai on Saturday (February 1, 2025). The 51-year-old Tendulkar, who played 664 international … Read more
Delhi’s Virat Kohli on the second day of a Ranji trophy cricket match between Delhi and Railways, at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, in New Delhi, Friday (Jan. 31, 2025). | Photo Credit: PTI Virat Kohli’s first Ranji Trophy innings in 13 years lasted all of 15 balls, extending his lean run and fuelling the raging … Read more
Former Pakistan cricketer Moin Khan. File | Photo Credit: AP Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan has urged the country’s cricketers to avoid getting friendly with their Indian counterparts on the field as such “unfathomable” behaviour can be perceived as a “sign of weakness”. His comments come just about three weeks before the two sides … Read more
Mitchell Marsh of Australia takes a catch to dismiss Rishabh Pant of India during day five of the Men’s Fourth Test Match in the series between Australia and India at Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 30, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Australia all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has been ruled of next month’s … Read more
Australia’s Usman Khawaja leaves the ground after losing his wicket during day two of the first test cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka was staring down the barrel at 44-3 after Australia achieved its largest ever total in Asia — … Read more
Suryakumar and Gambhir have enjoyed great success in the shortest format. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Irrespective of the colour of the jersey, a team in transition has been a constant for India’s men’s cricket team. Unlike the Test squad, though, the men in the T20I blues have fared much better despite three big retirements … Read more
Nizar carried the day for Kerala with his gritty knock. | Photo Credit: NIRMAL HARINDRAN Salman Nizar’s maiden First-Class century (111 not out) lifted Kerala from the doldrums to a position of comfort against Bihar on the opening day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Group C match at the Sports Hub here on Thursday. Opting … Read more
Utkarsh Singh | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Off-spinner Utkarsh Singh rated his spell against Tamil Nadu on Thursday (six for 30) as his best ever. “I think this ranks as number one. Because, this is the quickest five-wicket haul that I’ve taken. And of course, when you don’t have to bowl as many overs to … Read more
The presence of Rinku will give more freedom to strokeplayers such as Tilak. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI He is among the leading lights of India’s T20 specialists. Having made a seamless transition from the Indian Premier league (IPL) to the international arena during the 2023-24 season of India’s relentless bilateral T20I onslaught, the last 12 months have … Read more
: On a two-paced first-day wicket that offered turn, off-spinner Utkarsh Singh (six for 30) cracked open Tamil Nadu’s batting as if it were an eggshell, for Jharkhand to secure a seemingly premium 79-run lead in the final round Ranji Trophy Elite Group D match at the Keenan stadium here on Thursday. It was all … Read more
A massive crowd gathered during the first day of Ranji Trophy cricket match between Railways and Delhi at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Thursday, January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR A chorus of ‘Kohli, Kohli’ and ‘RCB, RCB’ began ringing outside the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Thursday morning, long before … Read more
Wicketkeeper-batter Anmol Malhotra’s gritty unbeaten century helped Punjab avert disaster on the opening day of its Ranji Trophy Group-C match against Bengal at the Eden Gardens here on Thursday. Asked to bat, Punjab rode on Malhotra’s defiant knock (106 n.o., 114b, 11×4, 2×6) to recover from 73 for six to post 191 in its first … Read more
Upendra shines for Railways as Kohli mania grips Delhi
Carlos Ortiz, Joaquin Niemann, Sebastian Munoz answer the media about competing in the International Series tournament at the DLF Club in Gurugram on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan Bryson DeChambeau, the reigning US Open champion, may be the star attraction, but it was the DLF Golf course that won all the admiration, as players … Read more
Vishnu Saravanan and Nethra Kumanan secured 12 and 15 Nett to become the ILCA 7 and ILCA 6 champions in the SBI Sail India Senior Nationals at Girgaum Chowpatty in Mumbai. The winners: ILCA 7: Vishnu Saravanan (AYN, 12 Nett); ILCA 6: Nethra Kumanan (TNSA, 15). iQFOIL: Men: Aditya Sangwan (AYN, 14); Women: Ishwariya Ganesh … Read more
Tanmay continued his fine run with an unbeaten fifty. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO A concerted bowling effort and a half-century at the top of the order from Tanmay Agarwal helped put Hyderabad on the front foot against Vidarbha in a Ranji Trophy Group-B match at the VCA Stadium here on Thursday. Tanmay, the leading … Read more
Karnataka’s Mayank Agarwal, plays a shot, on day 1 of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 match between against Haryana, at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (KSCA), in Bengaluru on January 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Karnataka’s hopes of gaining a bonus point victory took a minor hit on the first day of its Elite … Read more
The Kerala women’s basketball team in discussion after a training session on Monday. | Photo Credit: Stan Rayan For someone from the warm South, it’s very cold out here in Dehradun. With such weather, one wondered how the swimmers would manage life during their competition in the 38th National Games which Prime Minister Narendra Modi … Read more
Dockier exults with teammates after netting the winner. | Photo Credit: M. VEDHAN Shrachi Rarh Bengal Tigers pulled off a last-gasp 2-1 win over Delhi SG Pipers to become the first team to qualify for the Hockey India League (HIL) semifinal here at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium on Monday. Pipers, out of the semifinal … Read more