Nagoya: India’s Deepthi Jeevanji clinched the gold medal in the Asian Para Games’ women’s 400m T20 event after clocking a Games record time of 56.36sec here on Tuesday. The 23-year-old from Telangana is a two-time Para World Championships medallist, having won the gold in 2024. She is also a Paralympic bronze winner in the same…
Special Correspondent Old questions, old habits and a decade of deafening silence Two messages are doing the rounds among Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) members this week. One wonders where HCA is headed after the Apex Council’s term ends. The other objects to the appointment of a Ranji Trophy team manager who is not an HCA…
Online Sports Desk India will be touring New Zealand this October for a long, demanding, multi-format series starting on 22nd. The series will feature a five-match T20I series followed by a five-match ODI series and then a two-match Test series. Full schedule of the New Zealand vs India series: The T20I series will conclude on…
Online Sports Desk Former Indian spinner Murali Karthik has offered a rare voice in support of the Gautam Gambhir-Shreyas Iyer duo for their treatment of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Karthik said he’s not in favor of dropping either Sanju Samson or Abhishek Sharma ‘for the sake of it’, saying Sooryavanshi needs to be patient for an opening,…
Online Sports Desk The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has confirmed former spinner Ramesh Powar’s inclusion in the senior men’s selection committee, replacing the departing Ajit Agarkar. By seniority, South Zone selector Pragyan Ojha has become the new chief selector. Powar represented India in 2 Tests and 31 ODIs from 2004 to…
Online Sports Desk Smriti Mandhana and Shafali Verma on Sunday (October 18) broke the world record for the 50-plus partnerships, for any wicket, in a calendar year in Women’s T20Is. Their 96-run stand against Zimbabwe in the second T20I at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur, was their ninth in 2026, breaking the…
Online Sports Desk Pakistan batter Babar Azam achieved a major milestone in his international career on Sunday, October 18, as he became the fifth Pakistani cricketer to complete 16,000 runs across all three formats. The right-handed batter reached the landmark during Pakistan’s opening match against Sri Lanka in the ongoing ODI tri-series at the Rawalpindi…
Cricket in India has travelled a remarkable journey—from an era when representing one’s state or country was a matter of passion and pride, with little financial reward, to a modern sporting industry in which talented players can earn crores in a single season. For today’s young cricketers, accustomed to the glamour of the Indian Premier…
New Delhi: The All India Tennis Association (AITA) is organising an all-women coaching course, free of cost, from October 24 to 30 in New Delhi to create a structured pathway for women to enter and progress in tennis coaching. The initiative has drawn 48 entries. The state associations were also invited to nominate one female…
Special Correspondent The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) appears determined to prove that it has learnt absolutely nothing from its repeated administrative failures. Despite repeated warnings, public criticism and calls for corrective action, the same old culture of complacency, questionable decision-making and apparent indifference to accountability continues to haunt Hyderabad cricket. The latest casualty is the…
