DOHA The women’s doubles pair of Yasashwini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale are the last Indians standing as the rest bowed out of the World table tennis championships in Doha on Tuesday. The Indians will meet the fourth-seeded Japanese duo of Miwa Harimoto and Miyuu Kihara in the pre-quarterfinals on Wednesday. In singles, Manav Thakkar, Manika … Read more
Phil Salt is raring to go, according to RCB head coach Andy Flower. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR LUCKNOW Royal Challengers Bengaluru head coach Andy Flower said on Thursday that the break from play, due to the suspension of the ongoing IPL and an abandoned match after resumption, has been beneficial for captain Rajat … Read more
Virat Kohli during practice session. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA In 1925, Jack Hobbs’ first innings at The Oval, after he’d passed W.G. Grace’s record of 126 career centuries, was greeted by spectators hurling their bowler hats in the air in an apparent tribute to the Surrey legend. A century later, in the … Read more
Big difference: Badani was critical of DC conceding 48 runs in the last two overs against MI. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Despite having lost six of its last eight games, the manner in which Delhi Capitals bowlers had restricted Mumbai Indians for the first 18 overs of a must-win game would have given the … Read more
Suryakumar Yadav has been consistency personified this season. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Despite having emerged as a format tailormade for batters, T20 cricket is a challenging one for the willow-wielders to be consistent in scoring runs at a healthy strike rate. Suryakumar Yadav – just like his 360 degree batting – has proven to … Read more
Already through to the playoffs, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will aim to secure a top-two league stage finish for the first time in nine years when they take on Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in their Indian Premier League clash on Friday (May 23, 2025) RCB has not finished inside the top two since the 2016 season … Read more
Kidambi Srikanth. File | Photo Credit: PTI Kidambi Srikanth secured a spot in the main draw of the Malaysia Masters, but the rest of the Indian shuttlers were unable to progress past the singles qualifiers, exiting the Super 500 tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (May 20, 2025). Srikanth, who is on a comeback trail, … Read more
Kerala Women’s Ultimate Frisbee team | Photo Credit: Mohammed Sahal “It was part of my personality that I hated running. I was very vocal about it too. However, the fact that I was running behind a frisbee made it joyful,” says Theertha Menon. She is one of the two spirit captains of the 19-member Kerala … Read more
Suryakumar Yadav and Naman Dhir’s quickfire partnership changed the course of the virtual quarterfinal between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals in IPL 2025. Capitals didn’t recover from the deadly blows as Mumbai sealed the only remaining place in the playoffs with an emphatic 59-run win at the Wankhede Stadium on May 21, 2025. The sky … Read more
For five-time champion Chennai Super Kings, 2025 has been the second consecutive season in which the team has not been able to make it to the IPL playoffs. For a side which has traditionally reposed faith in seasoned players, the bottom-placed CSK chose to give youngsters Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel and Anshul Kamboj … Read more
Mumbai Indians’ Suryakumar Yadav plays a shot during the IPL match between Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, India, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Suryakumar Yadav’s resolute 73 not out and late fireworks from Naman Dhir lifted Mumbai Indians to 180/5 on a sluggish surface exploited well by … Read more
In focus: LSG skipper Pant, in the middle of a dismal campaign, will be keen on making amends. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI The Narendra Modi Stadium here on Thursday will play host to the compelling second act of a tale of two captains whose fates in IPL 2025 have diverged dramatically. The Ekana Stadium … Read more
Shahrukh Khan has had very little game time. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: VIJAY SONEJI Doing nothing can indeed be a frustrating job. All of Gujarat Titans’ middle-order batters would attest to this paradox. The Titans’ top three —Shubman Gill, B. Sai Sudharsan, and Jos Buttler — have accounted for 1,718 of the 2,335 runs (74 … Read more
The Indian women’s doubles pair of Yashaswini Ghorpade and Diya Chitale entered the round-of-16, with a 6-11, 11-6, 11-6, 11-9 win over the Singaporean duo of Zeng Jian and Ser Lin Qian in the World table tennis championships here on Monday. However, the other Indian pair of Ayhika Mukherjee and Sutirtha Mukherjee lost to Germany’s … Read more
The Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) on Monday announced that the HCL National doubles squash championship will be held from May 20 to 23 at the Indian Squash Academy (ISA) here. The tournament will feature India’s top squash talents — including Abhay Singh, Velavan Senthilkumar, Joshna Chinappa, and Anahat Singh — competing for a … Read more
Suryavanshi’s 33-ball 57 put Royals on the road to victory. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR For 14-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi to find the long distances that he does with his ball-striking is astonishing enough. Jaws hit the ground when the southpaw, hailing from the cricketing backwater of Bihar, unleashed his untamed, precocious ability with a … Read more
Former batting coach Vikram Rathour is expecting a tough England tour for a young Indian side that is now without three stalwarts, who left the Test arena in quick succession. First it was veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, and then skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli too walked into the sunset, leaving a huge gap. Shubman … Read more
England Coach Brendon Barrie McCullum during the practice session ahead of India vs England second T20 match at the MAC Stadium in Chennai. File | Photo Credit: R. Ragu England head coach Brendon McCullum feels his players have lacked humility in their recent public utterances and he would like to see them win back respect … Read more
Manav Thakkar and Manika Batra scripted wins in the men’s and women’s singles first round of the World table tennis championships in Doha on Sunday. Manav, India’s top-ranked male paddler, outlasted New Zealand’s Timothy Choi 11-3, 11-8, 6-11, 11-7, 14-12. Manika beat Fatimo Bello of Nigeria 11-5, 11-6, 11-8, 11-2 to progress to the second … Read more
India’s Manush Shah and Diya Chitale booked their places in the men’s and women’s singles second round of the World table tennis championships in Doha on Saturday. Manush scripted an authoritative 4-2 (11-6, 2-11, 11-7, 11-6, 5-11, 11-6) win over Tiago Apolonia of Portugal while Diya put it across Sofia-Xuan Zhang of Spain (4-0) 11-4, … Read more
File picture of India’s Rohit Sharma and Pakistan’s Babar Azam with the Asia Cup trophy | Photo Credit: Reuters Don’t mix sport and politics, says Pakistan cricketer Mohammed Rizwan. It is the kind of statement made by those who understand neither politics nor sport. History has shown that sport is often politics by other means. … Read more
Chennai Super Kings’ batter Dewald Brevis and Shivam Dube run between the wickets during the IPL match with Rajasthan Royals on May 20, 2025 | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar Chennai Super Kings scored 187 for eight against Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League match here on Tuesday. Asked to bat first, CSK were … Read more
Delhi Capitals will sorely miss Starc, right. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Delhi Capitals bowling coach Munaf Patel minced no words ahead of the must-win game against Mumbai Indians. “We don’t have our main bowler in Mitchell Starc and we have to decide who has to bowl with the new ball,” Munaf said, when asked … Read more
Mahela Jayawardene, right, will be hoping for fine performances from Suryakumar Yadav, left, and skipper Hardik Pandya in the big game. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI Mumbai Indians is in a tricky territory. It has an outside chance of making it to the top two at the end of the league stage in IPL 2025. … Read more
Kalikesh Singh Deo. | Photo Credit: File photo: BISWARANJAN ROUT The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) governing board finalised various aspects of the inaugural Shooting League of India (SLI) featuring global stars, to be hosted with eight teams from November 20 to December 2. The governing board gave concrete shape to the governance structure, … Read more
Mumbai Indians will look to its star players like Bumrah, Hardik and Shubhman to come out firing when it takes on Delhi Capitals. | Photo Credit: File photo: EMMANUAL YOGINI All eyes will be on the Wankhede Stadium on Wednesday night, with Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals — the only teams still in the fray … Read more
Heinrich Klaasen prioritised pragmatism over power. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori lauded his side’s batting effort, led by Abhishek Sharma’s explosive half-century, in its victory against Lucknow Super Giants, which ended the home side’s playoff hopes. In doing so, the visitor became the first team to chase down a … Read more
Relieved, happy but a touch disappointed too, Indian javelin throw star Neeraj Chopra said now that he is done breaching the 90m mark, he would be striving to go farther as his body is more or less free of the niggles that plagued him in the past few years. The 27-year-old two-time Olympic-medallist sent his … Read more
Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa posing after winning first Grand Chess Tour tournament. | Photo Credit: X/@rpraggnachess Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa defeated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France to win his first-ever tournament on the Grand Chess Tour by showcasing his supremacy in the Superbet Classic in Romania. The Indian, after drawing with the Armenian-American GM Levon Aronianin in the final … Read more
Suresh Kumar | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement : Tamil Thalaivas has announced Suresh Kumar as the team’s assistant coach for the twelfth season of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL). Suresh played across four seasons (seasons two to five) in the PKL with reputed franchises like Patna Pirates, Dabang Delhi, and U Mumba. Suresh, who hails … Read more