Brisbane: India moved to the top of the ICC World Test Championship standings on Tuesday following their remarkable 2-1 series win over Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Shubman Gill (91), Rishabh Pant (89*) and Cheteshwar Pujara (56) all played brilliant innings as India chased down the mammoth 328-run target on the final day of the […]
New Delhi: Skipper Virat Kohli will be back in action after a well-deserved paternity break while senior pacer Ishant Sharma will return after an injury layoff to headline the pace attack when the Indian team for the first two Test matches against England is picked on Tuesday. Jasprit Bumrah and Ravichandran Ashwin, who could not […]
Sydney: Cricket Australia (CA), in an open letter addressed to the Indian cricket board on Wednesday, thanked its counterpart and the Indian team after the conclusion of a successful series between the two teams. “Australian cricket will forever be grateful to the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) for their friendship, trust and […]
New Delhi: Sanju Samson replaced Steve Smith as Rajasthan Royals captain after the Australian batsman and some other under-performing stars were released by their respective IPL franchises even as Chennai Super Kings retained veteran Suresh Raina for the upcoming IPL-14. The deadline for the eight franchises to submit the lists of retained and released players […]
New Delhi: The comparisons with the iconic Mahendra Singh Dhoni are flattering but young Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant on Thursday said he wants to carve his own identity in the game after playing a key role in the side’s historic Test series win in Australia. Pant is often compared with the two-time World Cup winning […]
Seoul: North Korea does not plan to take part in this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a media report. Pyongyang’s Olympic Committee made the…
New Delhi: Google is celebrating Team India’s historic win over Australia in the recently-concluded Border-Gavaskar Test series in a unique way. Whenever an internet user searches for ‘Indian cricket team’ on the search engine, he/she is greeted with virtual fireworks. The tricolour fireworks appear on the screen once search results for the Indian cricket team […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi again lauded the stellar performance of the Indian cricket team which registered a remarkable Test series win over Australia. He said that the victory is highly inspirational for the youth of the country. Addressing the 18th Convocation of Tezpur University, Assam via video conferencing, the Prime Minister said the […]
Bangkok: World champion PV Sindhu dished out a below-par performance to lose her quarterfinal match, while Sameer Verma’s gallant fight ended in agony in the Toyota Thailand Open Super 1000 tournament here on Friday. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponappa, however, entered the mixed doubles semifinal with a stunning win over world no. 6 pair of […]
New Delhi: In what could be great news for the fans in a cricket fanatic country, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has evinced interest to get audience back into the stands again for the upcoming T20I series between the hosts and England which is scheduled to be played at the Motera […]
Bhubaneswar: All the cricket fanatics are always eager to lend their ears to the interesting stories of the game and we all have heard things among the most bizarre tales ever told. One such incident happened in June 2006, when India was playing the first Test against West Indies at St John’s in Antigua. Apart […]
New Delhi: Ravichandran Ashwin revealed that the Indian players were not allowed to enter a lift with the Australian players in Sydney during their recently concluded tour Down Under. “We reached Sydney, they locked us with severe restrictions. There was a unique thing that happened in Sydney. It was strange, to be honest. Both India […]
Aizawl: Mizoram was the first state in India to declare sports as an industry in June 2020, said Governor P.S. Sreedharan Pillai on Tuesday. For the development of sports infrastructure in the state, the Union Minority Affairs Ministry has approved projects worth Rs 22,873 lakh under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Jan Vikas Karyakram’ scheme for establishing […]
Kolkata: Former India goalkeeper Prasanta Dora, who made a name for himself while playing for big three clubs of Kolkata Maidan, died on Tuesday. He was 44 and is survived by 12-year old son Adi and wife Soumi. According to his elder brother Hemanta, who also played as a goalkeeper for India and Mohun Bagan, […]
Melbourne: Cricket Australia on Wednesday confirmed that Indian players were subjected to racial abuse by a section of the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) crowd during the third drawn Test of the recently-concluded Border Gavaskar series. The Indian team had apprised match referee David Boon of racial abuse of players — Jasprit Bumrah and Siraj — […]
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