Daily Quiz | On Virat Kohli Virat Kohli celebrates with India’s Ishant Sharma and teammates after the successful appeal for the wicket of England’s Jonny Bairstow on the fifth and final day of the second cricket Test match between England and India at Lord’s cricket ground in London START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | … Read more
Lungi Ngidi announced in South Africa’s 15-man squad for the WTC Final. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi returned to the squad for the first time since October last year as South Africa named a 15-member squad for the World Test Championship final against Australia, beginning at Lord’s on June 11. Kagiso … Read more
File photo of Jasprit Bumrah in action during a 2023 ICC Men’s Cricket World ODI match. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar says he does not foresee Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli playing the 2027 ODI World Cup as is being widely anticipated after the duo announced its Test retirement. Sunil … Read more
Anil Kumble and Virat Kohli during a practice session. File. | Photo Credit: PTI The “quiet” Test retirements of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma ahead of the tour of England came as a “huge surprise” to legendary spinner and former Indian captain Anil Kumble, who believes the two senior batters deserved an on-field farewell. Kohli … Read more
File picture of Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara during a practice session | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Cheteshwar Pujara, who once served as the backbone of the Indian batting order, believes the No. 4 batting position is crucial, and says it’s where you want your top batter, he told ESPNcricinfo. Pujara feels the Indian team … Read more
File picture of Australia’s Cameron Green, right, with Josh Hazlewood | Photo Credit: AP Australia named all-rounder Cameron Green in their 15-man squad on Tuesday (May 13, 2025) for the World Test Championship (WTC) final where they will face South Africa at Lord’s from June 11-15. Green was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his … Read more
Pat Cummins, Trevis Head during an IPL net practice session at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. File photo | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI Cricket Australia on Tuesday(May 13, 2025) said it will support its players’ “individual decisions” on returning to the Indian Premier League (IPL), even as the resumption of the T20 tournament is … Read more
Virat Kohli. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Australian batting great Greg Chappell feels Virat Kohli’s Test retirement “marks the end of a thunderous era” in which he managed to “eclipse” the great Sachin Tendulkar in terms of making a cultural and psychological impact on India’s cricketing identity. Writing in his column for ‘ESPNCricinfo’, Chappell, a … Read more
Shaun Tait during Indian Premier League. File. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy Australia’s Shaun Tait has been named Bangladesh’s new pace bowling coach, the country’s cricket board said Monday. The 42-year-old Tait, who played 59 internationals for Australia between 2005-2016, replaces former New Zealander Andre Adams who had joined last year. “It’s a good time … Read more
The precision-personified Josh Hazlewood has been the standout Australian performer of this IPL season. The ‘Hazlegod’ nickname, conferred on by RCB fans, feels earned. In stark contrast, Glenn Maxwell has been drastically underwhelming considering his T20 form before the IPL; Jake Fraser-McGurk has regressed from explosive to ineffective; Travis Head, though he’s still contributing, hasn’t … Read more
Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. File. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy He was the heir apparent when Sachin Tendulkar was in the twilight of his career and on Monday (May 12, 2025) when Virat Kohli bid adieu to his storied Test run, the ‘Master Blaster’ recalled a thread that became a binding force between them. … Read more
Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals will replay each other on May 24 in Jaipur as the Indian Premier League (IPL) will stage the remaining 17 matches from May 17 to June 3. The IPL was suspended last week due to the mounting tension on the border of India and Pakistan. The fate of the Punjab … Read more
File photo of Virat Kohli as he plays a shot during the 2nd ODI match against Australia, at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: ANI Back in November 2016, Visakhapatnam had its moment of cricketing glory when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) awarded it the opportunity to host … Read more
The Sydney Test against Australia turned out to be Kohli’s final one. | Photo Credit: AP Virat Kohli’s Test retirement – formalised on Monday by the veteran batter himself following three days of reported speculation – may have come as a surprise to the ardent fans of Test cricket. For Kohli – who has inspired … Read more
Kohli and his mother Saroj with coach Rajkumar at a function in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO In Virat Kohli’s storied journey to the high table of Test cricket, different people must have lent a helping hand at different stages. But the man who was at the heart of the star batter learning … Read more
Punjab Kings’ coach Ricky Ponting upon his arrival in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI Australian players who have returned home after the suspension of the IPL and don’t want to return to India for the remainder of the high-profile tournament will get support from Cricket Australia, according to a media report. All the … Read more
A file image of Virat Kohli | Photo Credit: Reuters Great players offer hope and make us believe in sporting miracles. For a large part of his Test career, Virat Kohli was all this and much more. Having called time on his association with cricket’s longest format on Monday (May 12, 2025), the end of … Read more
Virat Kohli announced his retirement from Test cricket ending the speculation about his future in the longest format. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images India’s batting talisman Virat Kohli on Monday (May 12, 2025) announced his retirement from Test cricket, ending the speculation about his future in the longest format. The 36-year-old Kohli turned up … Read more
Professor Sunny Thomas, the national coach during the golden phase of Indian shooting, passed away at his home in Uzhavoor in Kottayam on Wednesday. He was 83 and is survived by his wife Josamma, two sons and a daughter. Thomas was the national shooting coach for 19 years, from 1993 to 2012, and during this … Read more
Punjab Kings’ coach Ricky Ponting upon his arrival in the national capital via a special train as authorities evacuate Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals players from Dharamsala, in New Delhi, Friday, May 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Punjab Kings head coach Ricky Ponting was about to take off for home when the ceasefire between … Read more
Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana. File. | Photo Credit: VIJAY SONEJI India women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Sunday (May 11, 2025) expressed her concerns about her pacers’ frequent tryst with injuries and said the support staff is looking to address it before the ODI World Cup comes calling. Harmanpreet was speaking after India’s title … Read more
In this image released @BCCIWomen via X on May 11, 2025, India’s batters Harleen Deol and Smriti Mandhana during the 2025 Sri Lanka Women’s Tri-Nation Series final cricket match against Sri Lanka, in Colombo. India won the match by 97 runs. | Photo Credit: X@BCCIWomen via PTI India displayed absolute dominance to crush Sri Lanka … Read more
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has judiciously mixed its selection, allowing some of the high performers to continue while bringing a few others fresh, while naming the squad for the Shooting World Cup to be staged in Munich, Germany, from June 10 to 14. Air pistol ace Suruchi Singh, who won the individual … Read more
India finished with 13 gold and three silver medals in the South Asian youth table tennis championships on Sunday. The qualification event for this year’s Asian youth championships saw the Indian contingent dominate the competition across various categories. The Indian teams grabbed three gold medals in the under-19 girls and u-15 boys and girls’ sections … Read more
January is associated with fresh beginnings and cliched New Year resolutions. But as this year’s January 2nd waned at the historic Sydney Cricket Ground, there was a sense of an ending. The Indian cricket team was preparing for the fifth Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. Trailing 1-2, Rohit Sharma’s men needed to stage a … Read more
People seen outside the Ekana stadium as the IPL 2025 match between Lucknow Super Giants vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru cancelled due to security reasons, in Lucknow on Friday. | Photo Credit: ANI The Indian Premier League (IPL) is likely to resume before the next weekend, at select venues in India, based on the government clearance. … Read more
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is likely to resume before the next weekend, at select venues in India, based on the government clearance. The decision is likely to be formalised by the IPL Governing Council in the next couple of days, provided it gets the government nod. Multiple members of various IPL franchise contingents confirmed … Read more
The mixed air rifle medallists, Meghana Sajjanar, Shahu Tushar Mane, champions Mehuli Ghosh, Abhinav Shaw, and Elavenil Valarivan, Smit Moradiya, in the Kumar Surendra Singh championship in Delhi on Sunday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Abhinav Shaw helped West Bengal sweep the three gold medals, with different partners, in the mixed air rifle competition of … Read more
Over the past few weeks, a question has popped up in the minds of many players, commentators and fans associated with cricket: What were we doing when we were 14? Serious reflection may elicit a variety of interesting responses. But the brief purpose of this rhetorical query is to highlight the point that none of … Read more
Viswanathan Anand became Asia’s third Grandmaster in 1988. Eugene Torre, the first from the continent to get that most important title for chess players, did it in 1974. He was also the first Asian to play at the Candidates, the qualifying event for the World Championship. He featured in 23 Olympiads for Philippines. He was … Read more