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Mumbai: A clinically all-round Kolkata Knight Riders beat defending champions Chennai Super Kings by six wickets as Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s first tournament fifty in three years went in vain in the IPL lung opener here on Saturday. Unburdened by captaincy, Dhoni, who relinquished the leadership role just three days ago, smashed an unbeaten 50 off […]

Basel: Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy made their way to the women’s and men’s finals respectively at the Swiss Open Super 300 badminton tournament here on Saturday. World No. 7 Sindhu prevailed 21-18,15-21, 21-19 over Thailand’s Supanida Katethong in a 79-minute women’s singles semifinal to make her second successive final after Prannoy […]

Hyderabad: Sreedhara Mahalakshmi Amuktha crushed P M Saanvi Naidu 8-0 in the final of the U-12 girls category of the Solinco Junior Tour at the Advantage Tennis Academy, Neredmet, Secunderabad on Saturday. Meanwhile, T Jaiveer Varun defeated Tondapalli Abhinav 8-3 in the boys category to emerge champion. In the U-14 T Hamsika and Parjanya Adury […]

Navi Mumbai: Quitting captaincy may unburden Virat Kohli the batter but the focus will still remain on the maestro in Royal Challengers Bangalore”s IPL-15 opener against Punjab Kings here on Sunday. For, it will be the first time Kohli will not be leading RCB in nearly a decade, turning out only as a player, instead. […]

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians” five titles to Delhi Capitals” none will matter little when the heavyweights, equipped with multiple match-winners, lock horns in a clash of titans in a new IPL here on Sunday. Mumbai have retained their core in skipper Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Kieron Pollard and pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, and the role of […]

Basel: World Championships silver medallist Kidambi Srikanth notched up a stunning three-game win over world number three Anders Antonsen of Denmark to progress to the men”s singles semifinals of Swiss Open Super 300 badminton tournament here. Seventh seed Srikanth, who is playing only his third tournament after recovering from Covid-19, prevailed 21-19,19-21,22-20 over second seed […]

Mumbai: Two-time World Cup-winning Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has no doubt that flamboyant wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant will be a successful India captain if he is handed the responsibility in future. Pant took over the captaincy at IPL franchise Delhi Capitals last season in the absence of an injured Shreyas Iyer, with the Ponting-led team management […]

Hyderabad: Kripaniwas Sharma bagged the One-day World of Hyatt Golf Tournament title with 166 points held at the Boulder Hills Golf and Country Club on Saturday. K B N Raju with 67 points emerged as distant second best while Gurpreet Kaur Sandhu won the Best Lady Golfer award by scoring 73 points. Satish Manchala who […]

Mumbai: The Imtiaz A Sait-trained Truly Epic looks set to win the Amazing Mauritius Cup 2000 metres, a handicap for horses rated 80 and upward, 60 to 79 eligible, the feature event of the races to be held here on Sunday. False rail are up. The first race starts at 2.30 pm. SELECTIONS 1. Baku […]

Mumbai: The 15th season of IPL starts on Saturday with a blockbuster clash between the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) at the Wankhede stadium here. However, the two teams will miss few of their key players during the IPL 2022 opener. In fact, not only the CSK and KKR, most of […]

Christchurch: India will be banking on an all-round show as they face South Africa in their final league match to seal their spot in the semi-finals of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup. Currently, India are on six points, with three wins and as many losses while South Africa are already into the semi-finals. If […]

New Delhi: The BCCI this year will earn little over Rs 1,000 crore from the Indian Premier League (IPL 2022) central sponsorships, Inside Sport reported. This will be record sponsorship revenue generated by BCCI till date in 15 seasons of IPL. The BCCI this year has signed a new title sponsor in the form of […]

Mumbai: With the change in leadership at Royal Challengers Bangalore, the IPL might get to see the Virat Kohli from the 2016 season when he amassed over 900 runs, reckons former India captain Sunil Gavaskar. The spotlight , though, will remain on Kohli when he takes to the field only as a player in RCB’s […]

New Delhi: India will host its first snow marathon, which will be also the world’s highest event, from March 26 in Himachal Pradesh’s Lahaul & Spiti district. India’s first-ever Snow Marathon will be flagged off from Sissu (near the North Portal of Atal Tunnel). With the average altitude of the marathon track being above 11000 […]

Hyderabad: University Post Graduate College, OU, Secunderabad, previously known as Arts & Science College, Secunderabad, felicitated the former students and sportsmen of the college during the Alumni meet at the Seminar Hall of the PG College premises. The notable former players who were felicitated were former Ranji players Noshir Mehta, B Mohan, senior football coach, […]

Mumbai: Indian cricket’s crown jewel, the IPL, is back home: bigger, better and longer. It will be the first time since 2011 that 10 teams will be fighting it out for the most coveted T20 trophy in world cricket. Two new entrants, Lucknow Supergiants and Gujarat Titans, fetching a combined price of approximately $1.7 billion […]

Mumbai: The BCCI is planning to start the Women’s IPL by 2023, Board President Sourav Ganguly said on Friday while four exhibition games make a return this season after a one-year gap. The BCCI, which has been criticised in the past for not starting the Women’s IPL, will need AGM’s approval to kickstart the league […]

Basel: Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy stormed into the semifinals of the Swiss Open badminton tournament with straight-game victories in their respective women and men singles events here on Friday. While Sindhu, seeded second in the tournament, made short work of fifth seed Michelle Li of Canada 21-10,21-19 in 36 minutes, Prannoy […]

Hyderabad: Venkat Reddy scored 20 points as Central Tax & Customs maintained a clean slate defeating Saints 66-52 in the third round match of the Level-I of the Hyderabad District Basketball Association’s Annual League Basketball Championship at the City College Basketball Ground. Despite the loss, Saints have qualified for pre-quarterfinals. Central Tax & Customs started […]

Bengaluru: The S Padmanabhan-trained Cyrenius looks best in the Governor’s Trophy 1600 metres, terms for horses 3 year old only, 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. Remontoir 1, Flamingo Road 2, Perfect Empress 3 2. Hope […]

Hyderabad: Former Telangana State Sports School student weightlifter D Ganesh clinched a bronze medal in the youth category and fifth position in the junior category at the Youth, Junior national weightlifting championship at the Biju Patnaik Indoor Stadium, KIIT University in Bhubaneswar on Friday. Competing in the 81 kg category, he lifted 123 kgs in […]

Hyderabad: Dhruva Thota scored 5.5 points from six rounds to emerge champion in the under-14 boys category at the Telangana State Under-14 and Under-10 boys and girls Chess selection tournament at the Yoga Hall, LB Stadium on Friday. Challa Saharsha, with five points, emerged first runner-up. In the Under-10 boys category, Pavan Karthikeya, who took […]

The Italians played well but failed to get to the scoring sheet. Aleksandar Trajkovski scored for North Macedonia in the 92nd minute to cause one of the biggest upsets.

Basel: Four Indian shuttlers, including double Olympic medallist P V Sindhu and World Championships silver winner Kidambi Srikanth, progressed to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open badminton tournament here on Thursday. While Sindhu, a former world champion, eased into the last 8 with a 21-19,21-14 win over Neslihan Yigit of Turkey, Srikanth staved off a […]