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Sitges: The Indian team secured its first win in the FIDE World Women’s Team Chess Championship by beating Spain 2.5-1.5 in the second pool match here. After drawing 2-2 against Azerbaijan in the first round, the Indian women rode on R Vaishali’s win over Sabrina Vega Gutierrez to post a victory in the second Pool […]

Hyderabad: Telangana State’s Nitya Gandhe clinched bronze in the women’s 100 metres event in the inaugural under-23 athletics championship in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Tuesday. Nitya clocked 11.90 seconds. Delhi’s Taranjeet Kaur sprinted in 11.54 seconds while Karnataka’s T Dhaneswari came second with 11.66 seconds. Now you can get handpicked stories from […]

Hyderabad: Ashwa Bravo, Lombardy, Good Connection, Ashwa Yashobali & Lightning Bolt caught the eye when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Tuesday morning. SAND:600m:Beauty On Parade (Md Ismail) (From 1000/400) 45, eased up. Galwan (RB) (From 1000/400) 46, handy. 800m:Muaser (Afroz Khan) 58, 600/44, good. Appenzelle (Deepak Singh) 59, 600/45, handy. […]

Chennai: The D. K. Futnani-trained Angelino looks good in the upper division of the Set To Fly Handicap 1600 metres, a handicap for horses rated 60 to 85 Claas-II and the feature event of the races to be held here on Wednesday. False rails are up. The first race starts at 2 pm. (Note: The […]

Dubai: Opener Jason Roy and skipper Kane Williamson struck confident half-centuries to shape Sunrisers Hyderbad’s comfortable seven-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals as IPL Play-offs calculations got a bit more complicated, here on Monday. Opting to bat, the Royals scored 164 for six on the back of a well-calculated 82-run knock by skipper Sanju Samson on […]

Sharjah: A dominant Delhi Capitals will fancy their chances of securing a play-off berth when they face Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League here on Tuesday.A cloud of uncertainty over KKR’s injured all-rounder Andre Russell’s participation gives Delhi more reasons to feel optimistic ahead of their afternoon match at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. […]

Abu Dhabi: On a slippery slope after a hat-trick of losses, defending champions Mumbai Indians will need their famed top-order batting to fire and turn things around when they take on Punjab Kings in the IPL here on Tuesday. Time is running out for Mumbai after they lost all the three games post the resumption […]

Vantaa: Competing without its star players, the Indian badminton team’s chances to qualify for the knockout stage of the Sudirman Cup ended after suffering a heavy 0-5 defeat against formidable China here on Monday. It was India’s second consecutive defeat after losing the Group A opener to Thailand and now the final match against Finland […]

Boston: John McEnroe wishes the Laver Cup could get more attention and thinks it’s a mistake that the ATP Tour schedules regular tournaments that conflict with the three-day exhibition event. Captain Bjorn Borg’s Team Europe clinched its fourth consecutive Laver Cup on Sunday by taking an insurmountable 14-1 lead over McEnroe’s Team World. “This is […]

Sydney: Sydney Sixers on Monday confirmed the signing of Shafali Verma and Radha Yadav for the upcoming Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL). At just 17, Verma, who in 2019 became India’s youngest ever women’s T20 international, is widely considered the best batting talent in the world and currently sits atop the ICC Women’s T20I Player […]

Hyderabad: In a confidence-booster meeting, State Sports Authority Chairman Allipuram Venkateswara Reddy met Japan-bound Telangana gymnast Kumari Buddha Aruna Reddy at the War Heroes Memorial Stadium in Ambala, Haryana on Monday. Aruna Reddy, who is leaving for Japan on October 12, is part of the six-member Indian team that will compete in the Artistic Gymnastics […]

London: England’s spin bowling all-rounder Moeen Ali on Monday announced retirement from Test cricket to prolong his career in white-ball formats, saying he is “content” despite the widespread belief that he could have achieved a lot more. The 34-year-old leaves the Test arena with 2,914 runs in 64 matches at an average of 28.29. Besides […]

New Delhi: The Ajay Sharma-trained Warrior Thrive, who is in fine fettle, is expected to score in the K. P. Mohan Kumar Memorial Trophy 1200 metres Class II, rated 60 to 86. the feature event of the opening day’s Delhi monsoon races to be held here on Tuesday. False rails will be announced on the […]

Hyderabad: Fire Power, Keystone, Painted Apache, City Of Blossom & City Of Blessing impressed when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Monday morning. SAND: 600m:California Beauty (RB) 47, moved easy. 800m:Colachel Battle (Surya Prakash) (From 1200/400) 1-0, eased up. New Look(K Mukesh) & Fashion Universe (Gourav Singh) 1-1, 600/47, moved together. […]

Dubai: Glenn Maxwell justified his million dollar contract with an all-round performance before Harshal Patel took a hat-trick to ensure a thumping 54-run victory for Royal Challengers Bangalore over Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League here on Sunday. Maxwell (56 off 37 balls and 2/23) produced one of his better efforts in the IPL […]

Sochi: Lewis Hamilton became the first Formula One driver to win 100 races with victory in the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday to retake the championship lead from Max Verstappen. Hamilton dropped to seventh place when he was boxed in at the first corner but fought back and passed Lando Norris for the win when […]

Vantaa: The men’s pairing of MR Arjun and Dhruv Kapila was the only bright spot as India suffered a 1-4 loss to Thailand in their group A opener, jeopardising the chances of qualifying for knockout stage of Sudirman Cup badminton here on Sunday. With PV Sindhu and the men’s doubles duo of Chirag Shetty and […]

Dubai: Skipper Sanju Samson needs support from his batsmen as Rajasthan Royals look to return to winning ways against laggards Sunrisers Hyderabad here on Monday and keep their play-offs hopes alive in the Indian Premier League. RR are currently placed seventh in the standings with eight points from nine games, while SRH are already out […]

Abu Dhabi: Ravindra Jadeja single-handedly took the game away from Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in their Indian Premier League encounter at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium on Sunday after he scored 22 runs off the 19th over as Prasidh Krishna looked on haplessly. The two-wicket win sees Chennai Super Kings (CSK) return to the top of […]

Sydney: Indian cricketers Smriti Mandhana and Deepti Sharma will play in the upcoming Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) as they were roped in by defending champions Sydney Thunder for the seventh edition of the T20 tournament, starting next month. They are currently in Australia as part of the Indian team’s ongoing tour and will stay […]

Chennai: On an incident-filled day, 17-year old Shahan Ali Mohsin from Agra notched a fine double in the MRF Formula1600 category that headlined the first round of the MRF MMSC fmsci Indian National Car Racing Championship 2021 which concluded at the MMRT, here on Sunday. Also achieving a double was Chennai’s seasoned campaigner 34-year old […]

Hyderabad: M Nirvaan bagged the under-12 boys title in the Leo Tennis Academy tournament held in Lingampally on Sunday. Results (all finals) Under-12 boys: M Nirvaan bt Ch Satya Parthiv 7-4; U-12 girls: Parinitha Kutti bt Shrita Reddy Kataru 7-1; Under-14 boys: PVSS Sidharth bt Ram Charith Reddy 7-0; U-8 boys and girls mixed event: […]

Hyderabad: `Mama come back with a trophy’. This was a request from her son Izhaan. Mama Sania Mirza obliged her son with her 43rd career doubles title when she and Shuai Zhang of China won the women’s doubles title in the WTA 500 Ostrava Open tennis tournament in Ostrava, Czech Republic on Sunday. Sania and […]

Hyderabad: Team MYSA continued to maintain overall lead with 25.5 cumulative points at the end of the third round of the Sreenidhi Univeristy Telangana Premier Golf league at the Hyderabad Golf Association golf course. Team Devpixel Devils were second in the table after a dramatic third round. They got 16.5 points with cumulative 23.5 points. […]