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Indian young shuttler Lakshya Sen sealed his place in the Round of 16 of Japan Open 2023 on Wednesday, while PV Sindhu crashed out after losing 21-12 and 21-13 to China’s Zhang Yiman in a round-of-32 clash. The Commonwealth gold medallist, Sen, got the better of his fellow national player Priyanshu Rajawat in a competitive…
The Indian cricket team was denied the opportunity to take full points from the two-match Test series against West Indies after the second game ended in a draw due to a complete washout on Monday. As a result, India was able to get 16 points from the possible 24 which took their PCT (percentage of…
R Ashwin’s brisk 56 followed a 159-run association between Virat Kohli (121) and Ravindra Jadeja (61) as India posted a sizeable total of 438 on Day 2 of the second Test in Port of Spain. It was slightly slow going for India for a large part of the second session on Friday (July 21), with…
Manchester United signed Cameroonian goalkeeper Andre Onana from Inter Milan on Thursday in a deal that could rise to GBP 7 million ($57 million). Onana has agreed a five-year deal with the Premier League club and will succeed David de Gea as number one at Old Trafford. United are set to pay an initial GBP 44 million…
Star India batter Virat Kohli on Friday surpassed South Africa’s Jacques Kallis to become the fifth-highest run-scorer in international cricket history. Kohli achieved this upward movement in the batting charts during India’s second Test against West Indies at Port of Spain. On the first day of the match, which is also his 500th international game,…
Following an innings and 141-run victory in three days, no major changes are expected in the playing eleven but it remains to be seen if left-arm pacer Jaydev Unadkat gets another opportunity. The 31-year-old, who featured in only his third Test in 13 years, was the lone Indian bowler who did not pick a wicket in Dominica…
Women’s World Cup squads in Auckland were shocked but safe after a deadly shooting near several team hotels overshadowed the opening day of the tournament Thursday. The incident, which left two victims and the gunman dead, occurred close to the hotels of reigning champions the United States, as well as the Philippines and Norway —…
The Asia Cup 2023 schedule was officially announced on Wednesday and India are all set to face Pakistan in their Group A match at Kandy in Sri Lanka on September 2. However, that may not be the only time when the two teams come face-to-face in the competition. The top two teams from both groups…
Double Olympic medallist PV Sindhu on Tuesday announced Indonesian Mohammad Hafiz Hashim as her new coach, saying he has all the traits, including the “pedigree” and “attacking instinct”, that she was seeking ahead of next year’s Paris Olympics. PTI had reported earlier that Sindhu had written to the Sports Authority of India (SAI), seeking its…
The Pakistan Cricket Board wasn’t entirely happy as the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the revenue share percentages of the USD 600 million pool. The Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) expectedly got the biggest chunk, earning a whopping USD 230 million, which comes out to be 38.5 percent of the overall ICC revenue. The…
