File picture of Magnus Carlsen | Photo Credit: Debasish Bhaduri Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday (May 20, 2025) by more than 1,43,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game. Billed as “Magnus Carlsen vs. The World,” the online match began April 4 on Chess.com, the world’s … Read more
Amarnath’s journey is laid out meticulously and chronologically, chapter by chapter, from tour to tour. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Athletes are image conscious, both during their playing days and long after. Some may want to be remembered for their high skill and art, some for their nature, both pleasing and rebellious, and some for … Read more
The structure is woven around informal questions and the answers are then juxtaposed with how Cummins himself has approached a few critical points, both in his life and in cricket. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Fast bowlers are often lost in cliches like being fast and furious. There is a truth to these attributes, but … Read more
Lucknow Super Giants’ Mitchell Marsh plays a shot during the match against Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League 2025, at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on May 22, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Pooran, two shining specks for Lucknow Super Giants in its otherwise dull IPL 2025 campaign, did the … Read more
Earlier this year, Tamil Nadu had won the BCCI Cooch Behar Trophy (under-19) after 33 years. On Thursday, two key members of that title-winning squad, all-rounder R.S. Ambrish and pacer Pranav Ragavendra, earned their maiden India under-19 call-up for the tour of England next month. Ambrish. For Ambrish, it has been a roller-coaster year, considering … Read more
Cricket lovers raise slogans as they gather in front of the Eden Gardens stadium, requesting BCCI not to remove the city as host for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 final, in Kolkata, West Bengal, Friday, May 16, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI A political row has erupted over the decision to shift the venue … Read more
Joshna Chinappa makes a return. | Photo Credit: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM Men’s top seeds Abhay Singh and Velavan Senthilkumar beat Joel Dhinakaran and Lakshmana Hari 11-2, 11-1 in the first round while women’s top seeds Joshna Chinappa and Anahat Singh defeated V. Deepika and Janet Vidhi 11-5, 11-5 in the third round of the HCL … Read more
Shubman Gill is tipped to take over the Test captaincy. | Photo Credit: File photo: Getty Images India’s new Test captain and his troupe for a crucial five-Test series in England will be announced on Saturday soon after the conclusion of the national selection committee’s meeting. Ever since Rohit Sharma announced his Test retirement on … Read more
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
