Minakshi | Photo Credit: File photo Reigning national champion Minakshi stayed on course to defend her title with an upset win over world champion Nitu Ghanghas in the 48kg category for the first major upset at the eighth Elite Women’s National Boxing Championships here on Monday. Minakshi, representing All India Police, beat the Commonwealth Games champion … Read more
Wink wink: DC skipper Axar was playfully nudged to bat first by LSG’s Pant, who had lost the toss. | Photo Credit: Sportzpics/IPL How will the pitch behave? Will there be dew? What’s the par-score? All pertinent questions fly around ahead of a game of cricket. The early trends in the 18th edition of the … Read more
Champion Quim Vidal in the Delhi Challenge golf in Gurugram on March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Spaniard Quim Vidal won the play-off on the third hole to beat the champion of the last tournament Joshua Berry of England after the two tied for the top spot with 18-under 270 in the $300,000 … Read more
Bold: Southpaws Abhishek and Pant are expected to bat in their usual free-spirited manner. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI Sunrisers Hyderabad fast bowling coach James Franklin said that the team will have to get ‘creative’ in dealing with the Lucknow Super Giants’ batting might. Against Delhi Capitals in its IPL season opener, LSG, riding on … Read more
Sunrisers Hyderabad players Pat Cummins and Ishan Kishan celebrate the wicket of Rajasthan Royals batter Riyan Parag during the IPL 2025. File | Photo Credit: – The Sunrisers Hyderabad viewing experience is a lot like watching one of the films from the Mad Max universe. There’s an almost dystopian feel to the brand of cricket … Read more
Head Coach Rodney Terry of the Texas Longhorns. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP The University of Texas fired basketball coach Rodney Terry on Sunday (March 23, 2025) after a disappointing first season in the Southeastern Conference and another quick exit from the NCAA Tournament. The move comes two years after Terry led … Read more
Making a difference: Vyshak’s spell (3-0-28-0) tilted the game in Kings’ favour. | Photo Credit: Sportzpics/IPL Even as he warmed up with his teammates at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Tuesday, V. Vyshak had no idea that he would be brought in as an Impact Player for Punjab Kings. But once the first innings was … Read more
Top-scorer A. Nikitha (28 points) helped Tamil Nadu defeat Kerala 70-61 in the women’s semifinals of the National under-23 basketball championships at the Sarusajai Stadium in Guwahati on Sunday. Tamil Nadu will face Karnataka, which got past Delhi in the other last-four clash, in the final. Haryana rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Karnataka, … Read more
Gujarat Titans’ Rashid Khan celebrate the wicket of Punjab Kings batsman during the IPL 2025 cricket match between Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji Afghanistan’s premier spinner, Rashid Khan, broke India’s prime pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah’s record to become … Read more
Punjab Kings’ batter Shreyas Iyer during the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match between the Gujarat Titans and Punjab Kings at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on March 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Punjab Kings’ Shreyas Iyer on Tuesday (March 25, 2025) said scoring 97 not out in his debut match as captain of … Read more
M.S. Dhoni and R. Ashwin during the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, in Chennai, on March 23, 2025 | Photo Credit: Reuters The valiant never taste of death but once, Caesar said, but he was wrong. If you are a sportsman, you die twice — once … Read more
Rajasthan Royals’ player Riyan Parag during a training session ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 match between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders, at ACA Stadium, in Guwahati on March 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Riyan Parag may be a bit nervous on Wednesday (March 26, 2025), but he will be excited, … Read more
Delhi Capitals’ Faf du Plessis play a shot during the match against Lucknow Super Giants in IPL 2025 at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on March 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI South African veteran Faf du Plessis declared he has “lots of life left” as a franchise player but said … Read more
India’s women cricket player Smriti Mandhana. File | Photo Credit: Vijay Soneji India vice-captain Smriti Mandhana and all-rounder Deepti Sharma held on to their third positions respectively in the latest ICC Women’s T20I batter and bowlers’ rankings issued here on Tuesday (March 25, 2025). Besides Mandhana, no other Indian is in the top-10 with skipper … Read more
Commonwealth Games medallist and Olympian Jaismine Lamboria continued dominance in the ring with a second knockout win in as many days to storm into the quarterfinals of the eighth elite women’s National boxing championship here on Sunday. Jaismine, one of only two Services boxers in the competition, defeated Chandigarh’s Ruchika with a referee-stops-contest victory in … Read more
ICC chairman Jay Shah with FIFA president Gianni Infantino. | Photo Credit: Instagram/@gianni_infantino International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah recently met FIFA president Gianni Infantino during the 144th IOC Session at Costa Navarino in Greece. Mr. Infantino, who heads football’s world global governing body, posted about the meeting on Instagram. “It was my pleasure … Read more
Purple patch: Karun was the fourth highest run-getter in the last Ranji Trophy season with 863 runs, including four hundreds and two fifties, in nine matches. | Photo Credit: R. V. Moorthy Some of India’s frontline players are likely to be part of the ‘A’ squad which will face the Lions in two four-day matches … Read more
Lucknow Super Giants’ Rishabh Pant after losing his wicket, caught by Delhi Capitals’ Faf du Plessis on March 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Former Indian batter Ambati Rayudu has criticized Rishabh Pant’s shot selection against spin, saying he needs to improve his batting quality, especially in the middle overs. Speaking to ESPNCricinfo, he also … Read more
“Rinku has bated beautifully in the games leading up to the tournament. We are not too worried about his form,” said the KKR bowling coach. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders are not too worried about their opening match defeat in the Indian Premier League and are hoping to bounce back … Read more
The valiant never taste of death but once, Caesar said, but he was wrong. If you are a sportsman, you die twice — once at retirement. The national mourning that followed the retirement of Sachin Tendulkar was different only in degree and volume from those that greeted similar goodbyes. There is a sadness about endings … Read more
Punjab Kings’ Shreyas Iyer plays a shot during IPL 2025 match against Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on March 25, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Shreyas Iyer couldn’t have wished for a better start to his tenure as Punjab Kings skipper as he smashed an unbeaten 42-ball-97 before a disciplined bowling show … Read more
Not many cricketers have managed to transition from a wicketkeeper-batter into a proper all-rounder, and one that excels as an off-spinner no less. Not many New Zealand spinners can boast of a Test five-wicket haul on home soil. And not many cricketers are predominantly remembered for their unbelievable catches. Welcome to the world of Glenn … Read more
Ashutosh Sharma celebrates after hitting the winning shot. | Photo Credit: K.R. DEEPAK Ashutosh Sharma (66 n.o., 31b, 5×4, 5×6), who helped Delhi Capitals pull off a one-wicket heist versus Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL here on Monday, said that his approach was to take the game deep and go for his shots in … Read more
Sanju Samson shone in the opener against SRH. | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI There isn’t much time for licking your wounds at the IPL. Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders may not actually mind that, though: both will be keen to push behind them quickly their comprehensive loss in their respective openers. They face off … Read more
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Tuesday (March 25, 2025) included Allahudien Paleker of South Africa and England’s Alex Wharf in the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires which features Nitin Menon as the only Indian, while Jayaraman Madangopal has been promoted to the Emerging Panel. Michael Gough and Joel Wilson will make way for the … Read more
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
When he is done taking superhuman catches on a cricket field, Glenn Phillips, a man of multiple interests, would love to fly planes for a living. After all, flying has always been his passion and if he had all the money in the world, the New Zealand and Gujarat Titans all-rounder would rather be a … Read more
Chennai Super Kings M.S. Dhoni speaks to R. Ashwin during the Tata IPL match against Mumbai Indians at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium on March 22, 2025 | Photo Credit: R. Ragu M.S. Dhoni expressed his take on the Impact Player rule, which allows teams to utilise one extra player during the game, and said that the … Read more
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
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