Indian Premier League 2025: IPl season 18, Rajasthan Royals vs Kolkata Knight Riders in Guwahati on March 26, 2025

Kolkata Knight Riders’ players during a training session ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match against Rajasthan Royals, at ACA Stadium, in Guwahati. | Photo Credit: PTI Outmuscled in their previous matches, title-holders Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals will eye a quick course correction in ever aspect when they face each other … Read more

Betting on IPL matches taking place under Mumbai police’s protection, claims Maharashtra LoP Danve

File picture of Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA and Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council Ambadas Danve | Photo Credit: ANI Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra legislative council, Ambadas Danve, on Tuesday (March 25, 2025) alleged that certain individuals are involved in betting on IPL cricket matches and Mumbai police were shielding them. … Read more

Who is Digvesh Singh Rathi, the LSG spinner who shined on his IPL debut?

Lucknow Super Giants’ Digvesh Rathi bowls during the match against Delhi Capitals’ in the Indian Premier League 2025, at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. | Photo Credit: ANI Digvesh Rathi was included in the starting lineup for the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in their Indian Premier League 2025 match against the … Read more

Cricketer KL Rahul, actor-wife Athiya Shetty blessed with baby girl

KL Rahul with Athiya Shetty; post announcing the birth of their baby girl | Photo Credit: @athiyashetty/Instagram Team India cricketer KL Rahul and his wife, Bollywood actor Athiya Shetty, on Monday (March 24) welcomed a baby girl. The couple announced the news on their official Instagram handles. The couple got married in January 2023 after … Read more

Kirsty Coventry: History maker – The Hindu

Kirsty Coventry stood on top of the podium in Athens on August 20, 2004, creating history both for herself and Zimbabwe as the first ever Olympic champion from her country. On March 20, 2025, again on Greek land but 275 km away in Costa Navarino, the former international swimmer won a bigger, tougher and more … Read more

IPL 2025 | Gill’s Titans tussle with Shreyas’ Kings

Gujarat Titans Captain Shubman Gill during the press conference at Narendra Modi Stadium ahead of its IPL 2025 match against Punjab Kings in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on March 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings will be hoping for a fresh beginning when they take on each other in an Indian … Read more

Will Kishan 2.0 be unleashed at SRH?

For bowlers going up against Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2024, blunting two belligerent left-hand batters in Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma at the top of the order was hard enough. By the looks of the boundary-hitting mayhem that transpired at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday in SRH’s opening match of IPL 2025, … Read more

National under-23 basketball | Karnataka men, women in semifinals

Karnataka men and women won their respective quarterfinal matches to reach the semifinals of the National under-23 basketball championships at the Sarusajai Indoor Stadium in Guwahati on Saturday. The results: Quarterfinals: Men: Rajasthan 86 (Akshit Hooda 21, Lokesh Kumar Sharma 17, Ayush Choudhary 16) bt Kerala 61 (Jerome Prince 21, Prithin Murali 17); Karnataka 81 … Read more

Harmanpreet, Smriti and Deepti get Grade-A contract; Shafali retained in Grade-B

Shafali Verma’s annual contract has been retained despite the promising youngster having lost her place in the team while youngsters Shreyanka Patil and Amanjot Kaur have been handed their first central contract as the BCCI announced the women’s central retainer list for 2024-25 on Monday. While the 16-player list announced by BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia … Read more

Indian Premier League 2025, IPL season 18: Delhi capitals vs Lucknow Super Giants on March 24, 2025 in Visakhapatnam

Singer Neeti Mohan performs before the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match between Delhi Capitals and Lucknow Super Giants, at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, in Visakhapatnam, on March 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel won the toss and opted to field against Lucknow Super Giants in their Indian … Read more

BCCI announces central contracts for women’s cricket team; Harmanpreet, Mandhana, Deepti retained in Grade ‘A’

Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana along with Deepti Sharma has been retained in Grade ‘A’ of the BCCI central contracts for the Indian women’s cricket team. | Photo Credit: The Hindu India women’s team captain Harmanpreet Kaur, her deputy Smriti Mandhana and all-rounder Deepti Sharma were on Monday (March 24, 2025) retained in Grade A, … Read more

Indian premier League 2025, IPL season 18: Gujarat Titans vs Punjab Kings in Ahmedabad on March 25, 2025.

Skipper Shreyas Iyer will lean on his captaincy credentials as he looks to turn around the fortunes of perennial underperformers Punjab Kings in this IPL, opening the season with a clash against Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on Tuesday (March 25, 2025). Iyer enjoyed huge success leading Kolkata Knight Riders to the IPL title last year, … Read more

Boxing’s inclusion in LA28 reignites Nikhat’s Olympic dreams

Haryana’s Nitu Ghanghas won easily against Rajasthan’s Anjali Choudhary. Nikhat Zareen has been out of action since the Paris Olympics and the uncertainty around her sport has meant there was little to motivate her to keep going. But at 28, the two-time World Champion is now determined to give her Olympic dreams another shot. Boxing … Read more

Tamim Iqbal hospitalised after experiencing chest pain

Tamim Iqbal has played 70 Tests and 243 ODIs, scoring 5,134 runs and 8,357 runs respectively for Bangladesh. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former Bangladesh captain Tamim Iqbal was on Monday (March 24, 2025) hospitalised after experiencing chest pain during a Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League match in Dhaka. According to a report in … Read more

IPL 2025, CSK vs MI: Vignesh Puthur’s stellar debut performance

Mumbai Indians Vignesh Puthur celebrating after taking the wicket of Ruturaj Gaikwad during the Tata IPL match between Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians at MAC Stadium on Sunday (March 23, 2025). Photo. Ragu R./The Hindu Mumbai Indians managed to put up a good fight against Chennai Super Kings in the high-stakes clash during the … Read more

Dhoni says he is focussed on reinventing himself ‘to stay relevant’ in IPL

Chennai Super Kings batter M.S. Dhoni arrives to bat during the IPL 2025 cricket match againsty Mumbai Indians, at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Sunday, March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Rejecting speculation that he is the back-room decision-maker in Chennai Super Kings despite handing over captaincy to Ruturaj Gaikwad, the talismanic Mahendra Singh … Read more

IPL 2025, CSK vs MI: Rachin Ravindra credits spin depth for Chennai Super Kings’ win over Mumbai Indians

Chennai Super Kings’ Rachin Ravindra bats during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in Chennai on March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Chennai Super Kings hero Rachin Ravindra credited the team’s spinners, led by the “world-class” Ravichandran Ashwin, for their comprehensive win over Mumbai Indians, saying the … Read more