After facing multiple postponements, the fourth edition of South Asian Senior Athletics Championships is all set to start at the Birsa Munda Stadium in Ranchi on Friday.The three-day event will see participation of more than 200 athletes from six countries. While India has fielded the biggest contingent of 78 athletes, mostly junior athletes, Sri Lanka…
Elena Rybakina (Photo by Koji Watanabe/Getty Images) TOKYO: Elena Rybakina clinched the eighth and last spot at next month’s WTA Finals when she beat Victoria Mboko 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) on Friday to reach the Pan Pacific semi-finals in Tokyo.The 2022 Wimbledon champion joins the elite field in Saudi Arabia after a successful run of form…
Smriti Mandhana celebrates with teammate Harmanpreet Kaur following victory in the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup India 2025 match between India and New Zealand. (Getty Images) India secured their place in the semi-finals of the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2025 following a decisive victory over New Zealand at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai,…
Nagpur: American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky lived with dignity but ended his life when his self-respect was destroyed. The global chess community continues to grapple with the shock of his death, as his mother, Elena, broke her silence on Thursday.Speaking with a website from her home in California, Elena described her son as “a brilliant, loving,…
New Delhi: Kolhapur, in Maharashtra’s south, has a long and rich tradition of wrestling and was considered the wrestling capital of India long before Haryana emerged as the sport’s hotbed.The world remembers Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav, the legendary wrestler from Maharashtra, as independent India’s first individual Olympic medallist. At the same Summer Games in Helsinki 1952,…
Multan Sultans owner Ali Tareen (Screengrabs) Multan Sultans owner Ali Khan Tareen has responded to a legal notice from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) with defiance. The PCB has accused him of violating several clauses in their 10-year contract. The PSL team ownership rights will expire in December, marking the end of the tournament’s first…
Australia’s Cooper Connolly shakes hands with India’s Virat Kohli (AP/PTI) India didn’t see this one coming. Against an Australia batting lineup deep in transition and without a single familiar match-winner in the middle order, the consensus among fans was that it would be a walk in the park in the ODI series for Shubman Gill’s…
Photo Credit: Lennart Ootes/Freestyle Chess India will have to look beyond World Champion D Gukesh or chess sensation R Praggnanandhaa as Arjun Erigaisi will be India’s lone representative at the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals in South Africa this December.The year-end showdown, set for December 8–11 at the Grootbos Private Nature Reserve in the Western…
Rohit Sharma of India (Photo by Mark Brake/Getty Images) It was a lunge for life. Rohit Sharma hadn’t yet opened his account when a throw from backward point nearly got the former captain run out at the non-striker’s end. If it had actually done so, it would have put a massive question mark on Rohit’s…
Xavier Bartlett celebrates the wicket of Virat Kohli (Photo by Mark Brake/Getty Images) Getting Virat Kohli out in an international match is a dream moment for any bowler, but in the age of social media, that dream can quickly turn into a nightmare. Australian fast bowler Xavier Bartlett found this out the hard way after…
