Hyderabad: City Police Commissioner C.V. Anand, an avid cricket enthusiast, visited the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Saturday. During the visit, Anand felicitated R. Devraj, Honorary Secretary of the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), on his appointment as Team India Manager for the ICC Champions Trophy set to take place in February-March 2025. The Commissioner…
Dubai: Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, veteran all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja and young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal deservedly found a place in the ICC’s Test Team of the Year 2024 that featured four Englishmen with Australian Pat Cummins as its captain. The team also had two New Zealanders, including the redoubtable Kane Williamson. Cummins was the lone…
Chennai: Unruffled by the lingering fitness concerns surrounding Mohammed Shami, the well-oiled machine that is India’s T20 team will be eyeing an encore of its opening game performance against a stunned England in the second game of a five-match series, here on Saturday. India leads the rubber 1-0 after a facile seven-wicket victory at the…
Gurugram: A motivational speech and a few trademark square cuts demonstrated on the 22-yard strip. Legendary former India captain Kapil Dev had a fun interaction with children at a private school on Thursday afternoon where he advised them to avoid becoming autograph-seekers and focus on growing into autograph-givers. Kapil’s two-hour presence at Satya School in…
Mumbai: The high-profile return of India’s stars in the Ranji Trophy ended up as a damp squib with the likes of Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, and Shubman Gill falling cheaply on Thursday, unable to click in the face of some hostile bowling on the opening day of their respective matches across different venues. Veteran all-rounder…
Dubai: India’s pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah continued to remain the undisputed No. 1 Test bowler, while Ravindra Jadeja maintained his top spot in the all-rounders’ category, in the latest ICC rankings released on Wednesday. Bumrah, who had made history ahead of the fifth and final Border-Gavaskar Test against Australia in January by recording the highest-ever…
Kolkata: India T20 skipper Suryakumar Yadav on Tuesday said Hardik Pandya remains very much part of the leadership group despite the elevation of Axar Patel as his deputy. Following the retirement of Rohit Sharma from T20s last year, Hardik was tipped to lead the side but Suryakumar was given that responsibility after the arrival of…
New Delhi: India U-20 men’s football team will participate in the Mandiri U-20 Challenge Series 2025, a four-nation friendly tournament, in Indonesia from January 24 to 30. Syria, Jordan and hosts Indonesia are the other teams. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has appointed Biby Thomas as the coach, with Mileswamy Govindaraju Ramachandran as his…
Kolkata: Dynamic keeper-batter Rishabh Pant was on Monday named the captain of Lucknow Super Giants for the upcoming IPL and he vowed to give his “200 percent” to win the team’s maiden title. Pant was picked at the mega auction for an IPL record Rs 27 crore by the franchise owner Sanjiv Goenka. “I will…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated the Indian women’s team on winning the first-ever Kho Kho World Cup and said the triumph brought more spotlight to one of India’s oldest traditional sports. The Indian women’s team won the inaugural Kho Kho World Cup with a dominant 78-40 victory in the summit clash…
