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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced key dates and venues for two upcoming global women’s tournaments — the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 and the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2026 — to be hosted by India and England, respectively

South Africa wicketkeeper-batter Heinrich Klaasen has announced his retirement from international cricket to prioritise his career in global T20 leagues

The third instalment of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) is set to come to a thrilling conclusion as defending champions Australia take on South Africa at Lord’s in the final, which begins on 11 June

Maheshwaran N and Prakash Muthusamy topped the INTSDRC-1 class at the Rally of Chikmagalur 2025, leading a record field of 130 entries. The event marked Round 1 of the FMSCI Indian National TSD Rally Championship (4W) 2025.

The match RCB Vs PBKS is at Narendra Modi Stadium on June 3

The Badminton Association of India will invest over Rs 10 crore annually to enhance grassroots infrastructure and tournaments, while offering substantial cash rewards for international achievers. Grants, prize money, and Olympian support have been significantly increased to strengthen India's badminton ecosystem

Australia's Glenn Maxwell has retired from ODIs to focus on the 2026 T20 World Cup and global T20 leagues. Maxwell, who was instrumental in Australia’s 2015 and 2023 World Cup wins, ends his ODI career with 3,990 runs and 77 wickets.

India’s D Gukesh stunned Magnus Carlsen with his first-ever classical win over the world No. 1 during Round 6 of Norway Chess 2025. Gukesh capitalised on a rare blunder in time trouble to move within a point of the leaders.

After the two-time champion Mohammadreza Shadloui joined the Gujarat Giants for a whopping Rs 2.23 crores, it was the turn of Bengal Warriorz to sign up PKL Season 11 best raider Devank Dallal for Rs 2.25 crores in the Pro Kabaddi League player auction

“We had our opportunities getting to the playoffs and we had a really good game first up. And even today, I thought we played some good cricket, except for Kings playing better cricket than us, especially with the bat. They were solid, especially chasing 200,” he said

In the post-match briefing after Punjab outsmarted Mumbai Indians in the Qualifier 2 of IPL at Ahmedabad on Sunday night, Hope said Shreyas did that a couple of times in this edition and it was a classy knock.

Shreyas, who was also the player of the match, said he was focusing a lot on his breathing rather than sweating a lot out there.

As it was his team’s second offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Iyer was fined Rs 24 lakhs.

Ayansh bagged a double, winning the under-11 and under-13 titles in the St John’s Coaching Foundation Summer Cup badminton tournament at Begumpet

Telangana Football Association (TFA) will organise the Junior Boys State Championship later this month and the B-Division Shiv Kumar Lal Memorial Football League Championship in July, according to TFA Secretary G Palguna

A P Anwar scored a hat-trick to fashion Abbas Union FC's thumping 6-0 win against Secunderabad Blues Senior FC in the TFA A-Division Rahim League Football Championship at Sreenidhi Deccan Arena

The event aimed to promote education for all, with a unique twist—for every registration, a school bag would be donated to an underprivileged child

Deepak and Naman Tanwar spearheaded India’s campaign at the 4th Thailand Open International Boxing Championship, securing two golds on Sunday as part of an impressive eight-medal haul

B Sahasra of Jyothi Vidyalaya High School (BHEL) won the Under-13 chess tournament organised by Amma Chess Academy (Bachupally) here with five points from five rounds on Sunday

Indian stalwarts Reeth Rishya Tennison and Anirban Ghosh starred as PBG Pune Jaguars came from behind to defeat Maharashtra rivals U Mumba TT 9-6 in the IndianOil Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Season 6 in Ahmedabad

“For me, the real aim and aspiration is to inspire our fans. We're blessed with incredibly loyal fans, and I think our number one task is to inspire them,” he said

Purely because of the brand of cricket that we play, but also the fans that we have. And most importantly, it's a journey that's been filled with lots of highs and lows,” Karthik said on the RCB podcast

JioStar announced that Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan will join its presentation on June 1 and June 3

Including the first meeting, which India won 4-1 at the 1962 Asian Games in Jakarta, the Blue Tigers and Changsuek have played 26 times