Sydney: Star all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner believes Australia remain the “best team in the world” despite no longer being the reigning T20 or ODI champions, and is confident they will bounce back against India when the two teams renew their rivalry in February. Gardner said Australia’s setbacks at the T20 and ODI World Cups exposed the…
Lahore: A pay dispute hit Pakistan hockey as some senior players threatened to boycott the men’s FIH Pro League second phase in February, alleging that they had not been given the full daily allowances for matches earlier this month. At least two members of the national men’s team confirmed that a clear message had been…
Our Correspondent In a significant development that vindicates months of investigative reporting and sustained pressure by Orangenews9, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), acting on a directive from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), has imposed a two-year ban on a registered cricketer for alleged age manipulation. It is learnt that the ban…
Jaipur: Skipper Shardul Thakur ticked all the boxes, right from winning the toss to blowing the Chattisgarh top order with a match-winning four-wicket burst, as Mumbai cruised to a wicket victory to complete a group stage hat trick in the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Monday. At the Jaipuria Vidyalaya ground, Shardul won the toss…
Bengaluru: The women came of age with a long-awaited World Cup trophy but Indian men’s cricket was in turmoil as its white-ball peaks ended up dwarfed by the abysmal low of a home Test series whitewash, making 2025 a year of ‘glorious uncertainties’ for the country’s favourite sport. The men’s side triumphed in the Champions…
By Vinay Rao The recently concluded Hyderabad Cricket Association One-Day Knockout Championship didn’t whisper its message—it thundered it. On pitches where pressure separated pretenders from performers, the tournament laid bare a truth Hyderabad cricket has long tried to dodge: merit is thriving in the leagues, but suffocating at the state level. At a time when…
Doha: Indian chess stalwart Koneru Humpy suffered a massive heartbreak in her bid for a third world rapid title, finishing with a bronze in the women’s section of the FIDE World Rapid Championships after being cruelly done in by the tie-break rule, here on Sunday. Humpy, the winner of the world rapid title in 2019…
Thiruvananthapuram: Shafali Verma and Smriti Mandhana hit stroke-filled half-centuries in a record opening partnership to help India beat Sri Lanka by 30 runs in the fourth women’s T20I and take 4-0 lead in the five-match series, here on Sunday. Asked to bat first, openers Shafali (79) and Mandhana (80) stitched a record 162 runs to take…
The BCCI’s decision to announce India’s T20I squad for the New Zealand series while holding back the ODI squad has triggered a familiar yet unavoidable debate: should Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli be recalled for the three-match ODI series beginning January 11? Whether this delay is strategic or merely procedural remains open to interpretation. But…
Mumbai: Ayush Mhatre was on Saturday named captain of the 15-member Indian side for the U-19 World Cup to be held in Zimbabwe and Namibia from January 15 to February 6 next year. However, along with Vihaan Malhotra, Mhatre will miss the preceding assignment to South Africa — a three-match ODI series — due to…
