Steeplechaser Ankita Dhyani came up with a blistering run to clinch silver in the gruelling 3000m event with a personal-best time of 9:31.99 seconds, while the men’s 4x100m relay quartet bagged a bronze as Indian athletes ended their campaign in the World University Games on Sunday (July 27, 2025). The trio of Munita Prajapati, Mansi … Read more
Nat Sciver-Brunt of England in batting action. File. | Photo Credit: Getty Images England captain Nat Sciver-Brunt displaced star India batter Smriti Mandhana from No. 1 spot in the latest ICC Women’s ODI Player Rankings released here on Tuesday (July 29, 2025), but Harmanpreet Kaur and Jemimah Rodrigues made significant strides. Sciver-Brunt, who previously held … Read more
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders’ head coach Chandrakant Pandit with players Rovman Powell and Quinton de Kock during a practice session ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 cricket match. File. | Photo Credit: PTI IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) announced the departure of head coach Chandrakant Pandit, ending his … Read more
Ben Stokes might not agree, but there is something poetic about a draw in cricket. Not the damp squib kind, washed out by monsoon or apathy, but the edge-of-the-seat kind, where time runs out — time, that most important element in a five-day game. Where Kipling’s ‘If-’ is evoked in the dressing room. If only … Read more
India is at sixes and sevens when it comes to properly utilising its fourth seam bowler. Of the 672.1 overs bowled by the visitors against England in the four Tests so far, the fourth pacer has delivered just 55 overs. It is not a secret that the current Indian team is big on having as … Read more
Arshdeep could well replace Kamboj in the playing XI. | Photo Credit: PTI The Indian team management seems to have taken the wait-and-watch approach before deciding on Jasprit Bumrah’s availability for the fifth Test. Before the series got underway, it was decided that Bumrah would feature in only three fixtures to manage his workload. He … Read more
D.T. Chandrasekar bowled himself into the record books when he scalped a perfect ten for Sea Hawks against Globe Trotters on day two of their TNCA first division league clash on Tuesday. The left-arm spinner’s ten for 37 in a single unbroken spell of 15 overs ensured Trotters were bundled for just 91 in the … Read more
Indian swimmer Aryan Nehra fell short of qualifying for the final, while S.P. Likhith failed to make the semifinals in their respective events at the World Aquatics Championships here on Sunday. Nehra, competing in the men’s 400m freestyle, finished seventh in his heat and 37th overall with a time of 4:00.39s. The top eight swimmers … Read more
India head coach Gautam Gambhir during a nets session at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester, England, Monday, July 21, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP India head coach Gautam Gambhir was on Tuesday (July 29, 2025) involved in a heated exchange of words with the Oval’s chief curator Lee Fortis and was heard telling him “you don’t … Read more
Fresh from her U-15 gold medal at the Asian youth table tennis championships at Tashkent recently, Divyanshi Bhowmick continued her fine run to claim the U-19 girls’ title at the WTT Youth Contender in Almaty (Kazakhstan) on Saturday. She overcame Zlata Terekhova of the Russian Federation 11-4, 8-11, 11-7, 11-2 in the final. In an … Read more
Australia’s players celebrate with the trophy at the end of the fifth and final Twenty20 (T20) international cricket match against West Indies at Warner Park Sporting Complex in Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis, on July 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Australia completed a sweep of the Twenty20 international cricket series with a three-wicket victory … Read more
International Master Divya Deshmukh gave nothing away and held higher-ranked Grandmaster and compatriot Koneru Humpy to an easy draw to force the final of the Women’s Chess World Cup into the tie-breaker, Batumi on Sunday (July 27, 2025). The tie-breaker, which will be a series of shorter-duration games, will be played on Monday to determine … Read more
Badminton stars Tanvi Sharma and Vennala Kalagotla. Photo: PTI/Instagram Tanvi Sharma continued her recent impressive run, winning bronze at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships on Saturday (July 26, 2025), along with Vennala Kalagotla, as India returned with two individual medals for women in the event for the first time ever. Tanvi and Vennala, the last … Read more
The fifth day of the fourth Test at Old Trafford began with Ben Stokes and Liam Dawson, perhaps England’s two most likely bowlers to make breakthroughs on a worn surface devoid of pace, operating in harness in the endeavour to prise out the remaining eight Indian wickets for a win that would have sealed the … Read more
The Chairman of Indian Oil, A S Sahney, and the president of PGTI, Kapil Dev, address the media at the Delhi Golf Club on Saturday. | Photo Credit: Kamesh Srinivasan The President of the Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI), Kapil Dev expressed delight about being able to elevate the overall vibrancy of the sport … Read more
Washington brought up his maiden Test hundred. | Photo Credit: PTI Washington Sundar is a diligent learner. Not the one to express his emotions, he is always among the first to hit the nets. Once done with the session, he makes it a point to stand in one corner for a few moments and analyse … Read more
File image of Koneru Humpy and Divya Deshmukh Photo: @AmitShah/ANI Photo Young Indian International Master Divya Deshmukh held her nerves to hold stalwart Koneru Humpy to a draw in game 1 of the FIDE Women’s World Cup final, with both players having their share of opportunities to take the lead here on Saturday. The draw … Read more
Dazzling duo: Sathiyan and Akash won in style. | Photo Credit: X@RFYouthSports G. Sathiyan and Akash Pal beat Jules Rolland and Leo De Nodrest of France 11-9, 11-4, 11-9 to win their maiden Tour men’s doubles title at the WTT Contender Lagos on Saturday. This was Sathiyan’s second WTT men’s doubles crown after the one … Read more
The long-winding five-match Test series in England has hit the home stretch but despite securing a memorable draw at Old Trafford, India continue to search for the “perfect” eleven, more specifically the right bowling combination, heading into the finale at The Oval in three days’ time. India’s preference to bat till number eight at the … Read more
England’s Jamie Overton who played the only Test match in 2022 has been recalled to the 15-member squad for the fifth and final Test against India. | Photo Credit: The Hindu All-rounder Jamie Overton, who played the only Test match of his career back in 2022, has been recalled to the 15-member England squad for … Read more
Feisty R Ashwin called out England’s “doubles standards” in their attempt to prematurely end the fourth Test as cricket fraternity extensively supported India’s decision to let Ravindra Jadeja and Washington Sundar complete their well-deserved centuries instead of accepting home team’s handshake offer. Drama erupted at the start of the final hour of the match on … Read more
Sanjay Manjrekar. File | Photo Credit: Emmanual Yogini Gautam Gambhir needs to loosen up, may be take a “chill pill”, feels cricketer-turned-analyst Sanjay Manjrekar, who strongly believes that India earned a creditable draw in the fourth Test against England here despite some not-so-great tactical calls by the national team’s head coach. Manjrekar didn’t mince words … Read more
India’s fighting draw in the fourth Test against England brought out the combatant in Gautam Gambhir, who lambasted “critics” of new captain Shubman Gill and asserted that his team is fighting for “the common man back home”. Gambhir wants his players to make their own history rather than follow anyone from the past including himself. … Read more
Ben Stokes took his first five-wicket haul for eight years in India’s first innings, an impressive feat given his recent injury issues. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images With England seemingly reliant on Ben Stokes with bat and ball, the struggling skipper insisted “pain is just an emotion” as he plans to take to the … Read more
India’s Rishabh Pant and Shardul Thakur at the end of the fourth Test match between India and England, at the Old Trafford cricket ground, in Manchester, England, on July 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant was on Sunday (July 27, 2025) ruled out of the fifth and final Test against England … Read more
Sahil Jadhav won the compound men’s individual gold, while Parneet Kaur picked up the women’s individual silver to help India finish second with five medals, including two gold, two silver and a bronze, in archery at the World University Games in Essen, Germany, on Saturday. Sahil edged out compatriot Kushal Dalal 148-148 (30-29, 30-29, 30-30, … Read more
England captain Ben Stokes speaks with India batsman Ravindra Jadeja after day five of the 4th Test Match between England and India at Emirates Old Trafford on July 27, 2025 in Manchester, England | Photo Credit: Getty Images Drama unfolded in the high-intensity Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy in Manchester on Sunday (July 27, 2025) after Indian batters … Read more
Washington and Jadeja took India to safety. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Head coach Gautam Gambhir stated that past records don’t matter for the Indian team. “They are making their own history. A lot of people wrote us off in this Test, but this is the foundation of this team. These are characters who are … Read more
According to various sources, the tournament will now take place in Hyderabad following the conclusion of the Pro Kabaddi League. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The second Women’s Kabaddi World Cup, which was scheduled to take place in Hyderabad from August 3 to 10 at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, has been indefinitely postponed. This … Read more
For Rishabh Pant, pain had become a way of life for more than 12 months. A constant, if uninvited companion. A grim reminder of what might have been, a reminder too of how lucky he was to have emerged from a life-threatening single-car accident with all his faculties intact. Pant’s horrific road accident of 30 … Read more