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Hyderabad: Telangana chess player Samhita won a bronze in the Asian Youth Online Chess Championship, conducted by the Asian Chess Federation in association with the All India Chess Federation, in the under-8 category on Saturday. The seven-year-old Hyderabad chess player, who took to chess at the age of three, accumulated 7.5 points from nine rounds […]

Tunis: Indian table tennis duo of G Sathiyan and Harmeet Desai notched up a dominating 3-1 win over Emmanual Lebesson and Alexandre Cassin in the summit clash to claim the men’s doubles title at the WTT Contender Tunis here on Saturday. Sathiyan and Desai beat the French duo 11-9 4-11 11-9 11-6. The Indian duo […]

Sharjah: David Miller’s two last-over sixes powered South Africa to a four-wicket victory over Sri Lanka despite a hat-trick by Wanindu Hasaranga in a thrilling Super 12 match of the ICC T20 World Cup here on Saturday. Miller’s 23-run unbeaten cameo off just 13 balls ensured South Africa knock off the required 25 runs in […]

Paris: India’s double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu failed to reach the women’s singles summit clash after going down fighting to Japan’s Sayaka Takahashi in three games at the French Open badminton tournament here on Saturday. The 26-year-old from Hyderabad squandered a one-game advantage to lose 21-18 16-21 12-21 against the world number 15 Takahashi, a […]

Hyderabad: Sports Authority of Telangana State (SATS) has assured all help to the Telangana Boxing Association for organising the Boxing National Championship in Hyderabad, the authority chairman A Venkateshwar Reddy said here on Saturday. Speaking to a delegation of the Telangana Boxing Association which called on him, Reddy asked the association to contact the Boxing […]

Bengaluru: The A. Mangalorkar-trained Pecanwood, who has been well prepared, is expected to score in the Royal Calcutta Turf Club Cup 1400 metres, Terms for 3-year-old horses, the feature event of the opening day’s  Bangalore Winter Meeting races to be held here on Sunday. False rails are up.The first race starts at 1.30 p.m. SELECTIONS1. […]

A left-arm pace bowler and a gritty low-order batter, Davidson's death comes less than a day after the passing of former Test spinner Ashley Mallett, who died at the age of 76.

Reddy asked the association to contact the Boxing Federation of India to get all necessary permissions for hosting the Boxing National Championship.

Hyderabad: Ashwa Bravo, Palomar, Rivadavia & Burano impressed when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Saturday morning. SAND:600m:NRI Blue (BR Kumar) 48, moved easy. Kimberly (SS Tanwar) (from 1000/400) 47, eased up. Nightmare (Koushik) 47, moved easy. Special And Thong (RB) (From 1000/400) 43, improving. 800m:Art In Motion (RB) 1-2, 600/48, […]

Dubai: Captain Babar Azam’s fighting fifty (51 off 47) and Asif Ali’s cameo (25 off 7) powered Pakistan to a convincing five-wicket win over Afghanistan in a super 12 match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, here on Friday. With this, Pakistan completed a hat-trick of wins […]

Hyderabad: Coming under fire for picking a jumbo team of 25 players instead of the stipulated 20 for the T20 Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament, Hyderabad Cricket Association president Mohammed Azharuddin clarified that he felt that there should be more players in the team than support staff. “I want to promote cricketers. I don’t want extra […]

Belgrade: Asian champion Sanjeet (92kg) defeated Russia’s Andrei Stotskii in a thoroughly entertaining contest to enter the pre-quarterfinals, while Akash Kumar (54kg) got a walkover into that stage on a good day for Indians at the AIBA Men’s World Boxing Championships here on Friday. Akash advanced after his German opponent Omar Salah Ibrahim fell ill […]

Chicago: Kemba Walker scored 21 points, RJ Barrett added 20 and the New York Knicks hung on to hand the Chicago Bulls their first loss of the season 104-103 on Thursday night. Julius Randle had 13 points and 16 rebounds. Derrick Rose came off New York’s bench to score 12 points against his former team […]

Sharjah: Defending champions West Indies kept alive their slender hopes of making the semifinals while virtually knocking Bangladesh out of the T20 World Cup with a narrow three-run win here on Friday. Asked to set a target for the third consecutive time in the tournament, West Indies posted 142 for seven with Nicholas Pooran’s 40 […]

Dubai: Title favourites England are expected to be tested for the first time in the ongoing T20 World Cup when they face arch-rivals Australia in a battle for supremacy in the Super 12 Group 1 here on Saturday. Both teams go into the high pressure game unbeaten. While England started their campaign as favourites for […]

Sharjah: Star batter Quinton de Kock’s expected return after agreeing to take the knee will bolster South Africa when they take on an inconsistent Sri Lanka in their Super 12 game at the T20 World Cup here on Saturday. De Kock’s pullout for refusing to be a part of the anti-racism gesture in the game […]

Hyderabad: Vinay Raj scored 73 while Kalyan Pavar scalped four for 21 in Vikarabad’s 42-run victory over Shadnagar in the Telangana Cricket Association U-25 inter-district one-day league, on Friday. Brief Scores: Vikarabad 225 in 36.2 overs (Vinay Raj 73; Thuppara Vamshi Krishna 4/18) bt Shadnagar 183 in 38.5 overs (Vinod 41; Kalyan Pavar 4/21); Sangareddy […]

Hyderabad: When former Indian captain Victor Amalraj made a courtesy call on football stalwarts and brothers Mohammed Habib and Mohammed Akbar, it was a meeting of like-minded fleet footed veterans of the 70s and 80s. The memories of their exemplary show on the ‘Maidans of Calcutta’ came flooding back. The football geniuses went down memory […]

Hyderabad: Mutyala Vineeth and Nirali Padaniya, both of Telangana State, annexed the boys and girls singles titles respectively in AITA Championship series tournament that was held at Ash Tennis Academy, Shamirpet, on Friday. Results:Girls U-18 semifinals: Nirali Padaniya (TS) bt Diya Malik (TS) 6-2,6-0; Amireddy Sreenidhi Reddy (TS)(3) bt Swara Katkar (MH) 4-6,6-0,7-5; Final: Nirali […]

Pune: The Pesi Shroff-trained Parisian, looks good among six contenders in the Eve Champion Trophy (Grade-3) 2000 metres, Terms for horses 4-years-old and over, the feature event of the races to be held here on Saturday. False rails will be announced on the day of the race. The first race starts at 1.00 p.m. Selections:1. […]

Hyderabad: Maplewood, Own Voice, Farrell, Truth And Dare, Summer Night,In Contention, Market King, Trouvaille, Makhtoob, Intense Approach caught the eye when the following horses were exercised at Malakpet Race Course on Friday morning. SAND:600m:Ostentatious (RB) (From 1000/400) 45, moved easy. Skipton (Santhosh Raj) 48, moved freely. Winning Streak (NB Kuldeep) (From 1000/400) 47, moved easy. […]

Sindhu, seeded third, prevailed 21-19 21-9 over Christophersen, ranked 24th in the world, in 37 minutes late Thursday night.

FC Barcelona hereby announces that Sergi Barjuan, the current coach of Barca B, shall be taking provisional charge of the technical management of the senior squad.

Dubai: Vintage David Warner answered his critics with a sizzling 42-ball-65 as Australia cruised to seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in a Super 12 game of the ICC T20 World Cup here on Thursday. Warner, who has gone through a lean patch, was back in his element as his 10 fours made it easy for […]