Girija Shankar Dixit Astana, Kazakhstan: In a remarkable show of talent and determination, 21 Indian junior boxers have advanced to the finals of the ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2025, currently underway in Astana. This achievement underscores the growing promise of Indian boxing on the international stage. The Indian contingent has already amassed…
Jaipur: Vaibhav Suryavanshi struck the fastest hundred for any Indian and the country’s youngest ever in the IPL as Rajasthan Royals defeated Gujarat Titans by eight wickets in their contest here on Monday. Suryavanshi hit 101 off 38 balls with as many as 11 sixes and seven fours as he became the youngest ever in…
New Delhi: Krunal Pandya blasted a 47-ball 73 not out as Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat Delhi Capitals by six wickets in their IPL match here on Sunday. Put in to bat, KL Rahul top-scored with a 39-ball 41, but DC lost wickets in regular intervals before Tristan Stubbs’ 18-ball 34 lifted them to a competitive…
New Delhi: India expectedly delivered a dominant performance at the Asian Yogasana Sport Championship, securing a record 83 gold medals to top the medal tally at the event here on Sunday. The hosts also won three silver and one bronze medal to end with 87 medals, finishing well ahead of Japan, which claimed three gold,…
Mumbai: India’s pace ace Jasprit Bumrah proved to be too good for the Lucknow Super Giants, whose four-wicket haul ensured that Mumbai Indians bowled out Rishabh Pant’s team for 161 in Match 45 of the Indian Premier League, helping the Mumbai Indians win by 54 runs here on Sunday. Bumrah, who racked up figures of…
Kolkata: (Apr 26) Rain played spoilsport as Kolkata Knight Riders’ IPL match against Punjab Kings was called off after the visiting team posted 201 for 4 here on Saturday. Prabhsimran Singh and Priyansh Arya slammed stellar half-centuries to lay a solid opening foundation, but KKR pulled things back at the death as Punjab Kings posted…
Chennai: Pacer Harshal Patel made the best use of a sluggish Chepauk surface as Sunrisers Hyderabad put Chennai Super Kings on the brink of exit door by winning the battle of back-benchers by five wickets in the Indian Premier League here on Friday. Harshal, a fine exponent of the slower delivery and the knuckle ball,…
Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Bengaluru talisman Virat Kohli on Thursday lauded the batting unit after a hard-fought 11-run win over Rajasthan Royals in the IPL here, saying they focused on timing the ball rather than forcing shots, which helped them post a competitive total. Put in to bat, Kohli struck a fluent 70 off 42 balls…
Bengaluru: The unrelenting Josh Hazlewood fashioned Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s first win at home this IPL season with an extraordinary penultimate over as his team beat Rajasthan Royals by 11 runs in a see-saw affair here on Thursday. The defeat meant RR are out of the reckoning for a place in the play-off berth in the…
Hyderabad: A rampant Mumbai Indians rode on Rohit Sharma’s (70) second consecutive fifty to pulverise a hapless Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets in their Indian Premier League match here on Wednesday. Mumbai Indians’ fourth win on the trot, which took them to the third spot from the earlier sixth on the points table, came after…
