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Hyderabad: The inaugural edition of the Prime Volleyball League kicked off to a colourful start with Sports Minister V Srinivas Goud inaugurating the league at the Gachibowli Indoor stadium on Saturday. Indian ace shuttler and two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu, Sports Authority of Telangana State Chairman A Venkateshwar Reddy, Chief Secretary of IT and Industrial […]

Osbourn (Antigua): A fine all-round performance from Nivethan Radhakrishnan fired Australia to third place in the ICC Under 19 World Cup with a two-wicket win over Afghanistan. The ambidextrous all-rounder took three for 31 to limit Afghanistan to 201 all out batting first, before notching a half-century in the chase. Australia were made to sweat […]

Ahmedabad: Rohit Sharma’s presence as the new leader, with a fresh template to arrest the familiar ‘middle-order muddle’, is exactly what the Indian team needs while ushering in a new era, which will begin with the ODI series against the West Indies, beginning here on Sunday. After a rude reality check against a weak South […]

Sydney: Australian cricket team head coach Justin Langer resigned from his post on Saturday, unhappy with the short-term contract extension offered by Cricket Australia (CA) after a marathon seven-hour board meeting. Following the 51-year-old former Australian opener turning down the offer of a short-term contract extension, former all-rounder Andrew McDonald was installed as interim head […]

Mumbai: The Pesi Shroff-trained champion Filly Miracle, who has been unbeaten in her last eight starts, looks simply unstoppable in the Kingfisher Ultra Indian Derby (Grade I) 2400 metres, terms for horses 4 years olds only, the star attraction of the races to be held here on Sunday. No false rails. The first race starts […]

Hyderabad: Arabian Queen impressed when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race course on Saturday morning. SAND: 600m: Beauty Flame (B Nihkil) (From 1200/600) 47, eased up. Yaletown (A Joshi) 48, moved easy. Able Love (Gaurav Singh) 46.5, well in hand. Isra (RB) (From 1000/400) 46, handy. Divine Connection (Nakhat Singh) (From 1000/400) 45, […]

Ahmedabad: India’s new ODI captain Rohit Sharma on Saturday said that Ishan Kishan will open alongside him in the first ODI against the West Indies since the youngster is the only available option for the team with late entrant Mayank Agarwal serving mandatory quarantine period. Kishan was drafted into the ODI squad after Shikhar Dhawan […]

I was in Malaysia for the World Cup, and I remember the day when the drafts were happening. The Under-19 dynamic was a little different because we rightly had a huge pay gap.

Hyderabad: Hyderabad Black Hawks captain Vipul Kumar said that his team would showcase a unique style of volleyball owing to their foreign coach in their ranks. Speaking on the eve of their inaugural match against Kochi Blue Spikers scheduled for Saturday, Vipul said, “We are very fortunate to have foreign coach (Ruben Wolochin from Argentina) […]

Pune: Kamil Majchrzak pulled off the second big upset of the tournament by knocking second seed Lorenzo Musetti out of the Tata Open Maharashtra with a three-set win, here on Friday. Returning extremely well and using the drop shots quite effectively, the 95th ranked Polish player eked out a 6-2 7-6(5) 6-4 win over the […]

Hyderabad: Afroz Khan guided the L D’Silva-trained Amyra to victory in the G Vasudeva Reddy Memorial Cup 1200 metres, the feature event of the races at Malakpet Race course on Friday. Results 1. Ashwa Morocco (1), Bellagio (2), Barbet (3), Meridia (4). W-Rs.-29, SHP-Rs. 36, P-Rs. 13, 10, 34, THP- Rs. 79, SHW-Rs. 27 & […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad racer Deepika Reddy won the top honours in the TVC One-Make Championship after finishing first in the girls event at the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian national motorcycle racing championship, on Friday. The Hyderabad girl clocked 11.15.788 seconds in the five-lap race. Chennai’s Rakshita Dave and Adlin Seles took second and third places respectively. […]

Hyderabad: Former Indian cricket captain MS Dhoni’s cricket academy – MS Dhoni Cricket Academy – was inaugurated at the Delhi Public School, Nacharam on Friday. Malla Reddy, Minister of Labour and Employment of Telangana, Allipuram Venkateshwar Reddy, Chairman of Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) along with Mihir Diwakar, Managing Director MS Dhoni Cricket Academy […]

Lahore: Cricket Australia (CA) and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday confirmed that Australia men’s team tour of Pakistan will start with Rawalpindi hosting the first Test on March 4. It also means that Australia’s first trip to Pakistan for the first time since 1998 is all set to happen. After the first Test at […]

Hyderabad: Blue Brigade, Ashwa Yashobali & Ashwa Migsun, Ballerina & Silk pleased when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race course on Friday morning. SAND: 800m: Ballerina (Kiran Naidu) 59, 600/44, strode out well. Silk (Koushik) 59, 600/43, speedy. Blast In Class (Santhosh Raj) 1-0, 600/46, moved well. Executive Decision (SP Ranjan) 1-3.5, 600/47.5, […]

Mumbai: The H Daji-trained Sunrise Ruby looks set to win the Smasher Trophy 1400 metres, a handicap for horses in Class II, rated 60 to 86 (40 to 59 eligible) the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday. False rails are up. The first race starts at 1.30 pm. SELECTIONS 1. […]

New Delhi: India on Thursday announced that its top diplomat in China will skip the opening or closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics while describing as “regrettable” the Chinese side fielding a military officer involved in the Galwan Valley clash as its torchbearer for the mega sporting event. External Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi […]

Hyderabad: Home team Hyderabad Black Hawks will kick-start the campaign in the inaugural edition of the Prime Volleyball League against Kochi Blue Spikers at the Gachibowli Indoor Stadium on Saturday. The home team is gearing up to put on a good show in the opening fixture. The Black Hawk’s attacker Luis Antonio Arias Guzman, the […]

Beijing: Long before the global pandemic upended sports and the world in general, the 2022 Winter Olympics faced unsettling problems. It started with the fact that hardly anybody wanted to host them. Beijing ended up solving that problem, but only after four European cities thought about it and dropped out, mostly because of expense and […]

Pune: Sweden’s Elias Ymer stunned top seed and world no.15 Aslan Karatsev of Russia in straight sets to enter the singles quarterfinals of the 2022 Tata Open Maharashtra at the Balewadi Stadium here on Thursday. Ymer registered a shocking 6-2,7-6(7-3) win over Karatsev in the a second round match that lasted for one hour and […]

New Delhi: The Ranji Trophy, India’s premier tournament in domestic cricket, would be held in two phases, broken down into pre and post the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 phases. The first phase will run from February 10 to March 15, where 34 matches will be played in 57 days. In the second phase, scheduled […]

New Delhi: Sourav Ganguly, the President of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), confirmed on Thursday that the two-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka will have a pink-ball Test to be played in Bengaluru. After the white-ball series against the West Indies concludes in Kolkata on February 20, India will […]

Kolkata: The Vijay Singh-trained Shivansh, who is in fine trim, is expected to score in the Indian Champion Cup (Grade-1) 2,000 metres, terms for horses 4 years old and upward, the feature event of the races to be held here on Friday. No false rails. The first race starts at 12.15 pm. SELECTIONS: 1. Blazing […]

Hyderabad: The K Satheesh-trained Kingston, an impressive second to Stunning Force in his last start, looks good in a G Vasudeva Reddy Memorial Cup 1200 metres, a handicap for horses rated 40 to 65, the feature event of the races to be held here on Friday. No false rails. The first race starts at 1.30 […]