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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 […]

Hyderabad: Athlete N Mayavathi is set to rule the track in the coming days. The 18-year-old has already proved her abilities with a stupendous show in the recently-concluded 65th SGFI National Open Selection trials held in Bhubaneswar where she emerged champion in the 100m and 200m events. She is now all set to compete in […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad suffered a massive eight-wicket loss against Madhya Pradesh on the third day of the Group Elite C men’ sunder-25 CK Nayudu Trophy match at the St Xavier’s KCA Cricket Stadium in Kerala on Thursday. For the winners, Ritesh Shakya scalped five wickets for 66 to skittle out Hyderabad to below-par total of 120 […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) students bagged five gold medals in various categories in the South-Zone leg of the nationwide talent hunt golf tournament, conducted by the Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry of India, in Kolar, Karnataka on Thursday. Anusha (Nancharla), Amulya (Thorrur), Mukul (Nalkhal), Pragathi (Adilabad) and Akhila (Yellandu) clinched […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based football team Sreenidi Deccan Football Club continued their good run defeating Indian Arrows 2-1 in the Hero I-League in Kalyani on Thursday. One goal either side of half time from Vanlalbiaa Chhangte and David Munoz sealed all three points for Sreenidi Deccan, who saw off a worthy challenge from the Indian Arrows. The […]

Bengaluru: The Sulaiman S Attaollahi-trained Scruples looks good in the Sovereign Crown Trophy 1400 metres, a handicap for horses rated 40 to 65, the feature event of the races to be held here on Friday. False rails are up. The first race starts at 2.00 pm. SELECTIONS 1. Hoofed Wonder 1, High Opinion 2, She’s […]

Mumbai: Twelve seasons, four title triumphs and five runner-up finishes later, the iconic Mahendra Singh Dhoni has decided to hand over the captaincy of Chennai Super Kings to his trusted lieutenant, Ravindra Jadeja. However, in a brief statement, CSK said the 40-year-old will continue to represent the franchise for the “season and beyond”, having led […]

New Delhi: Former India coach Ravi Shastri thinks Virat Kohli has taken a “smart decision” by giving up captaincy from all forms of cricket, paving the way to express himself better in the upcoming Indian Premier League. Shastri, who witnessed Kohli’s leadership from close quarters during his stint as India coach, however, also feels the […]