England's young batters have been given a "wake-up call" by Australia in the Ashes series and must use it to kick-start their careers, assistant coach Graham Thorpe said.
Chief selector Chetan Sharma has heaped praise on in-form opener Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has been selected for the upcoming ODIs against South Africa, saying that the Maharashtra batter would "do wonders" for the national team.
BCCI president Sourav Ganguly, and secretary Jay Shah lauded the India cricket team for winning the Under-19 Asia Cup title in Dubai on Friday.
West Indies' white-ball captain Kieron Pollard will return to the squad for their upcoming series against Ireland and England, the national cricket board (CWI) said on Friday.
Did the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) know that Indian horsemen impersonated as Nepalese riders during the Tent Pegging World Cup Qualifiers in March?
As news trickled in of Mumbai imposing Section 144 in the city and putting certain suburbs of the city under night curfew, the BCCI officials too locked themselves in a meeting to take a call on the upcoming domestic fixtures.
Six of K Rahul's seven Test hundreds have now come overseas, so it's hard to believe this is the same cricketer who missed 16 Tests in succession between Sept 3, 2019 and Aug 3, 2021, the most by an Indian batter during this period. This is the same batter who averaged a shocking 7.50 on India's last tour to South Africa in 2018, with a highest of 16. Rahul, make no mistake, took guard in Centurion with a point to prove.
The fourth Test is due to start next Tuesday with Australia having already retained the Ashes, leading the series 3-0 with two matches to play. Both England and Australia are due to fly to Sydney via a chartered flight on Friday morning.
Footballers playing in China's national team should remove any existing tattoos and are "strictly prohibited" from getting any new ones, the country's sports administration body has said.
Taylor said the two-Test series against Bangladesh starting on Saturday will be his last in Test whites and he will call stumps on his career after the one-day internationals against Australia and the Netherlands in February and March. The 37-year-old has been a mainstay in the New Zealand batting order since making his debut in 2006, amassing a plethora of records and achievements.
On Kohli’s tendency to chase at wide ones and gift his wicket away, Rathour said, “This is the shot that brings him lots of runs. This is his scoring shot. So he needs to play that shot. It’s always your strength that can turn out to be your weakness. If you don’t play a certain shot, you will never get out playing that shot, but you will never score runs off that shot as well".
Left-arm pacer Arjun Tendulkar, the son of legendary Sachin Tendulkar, received his maiden call-up into the Mumbai’s senior Ranji Trophy squad when the selectors named the squad for the first two games, against Maharashtra (from January 13) and Delhi (January 20), on Wednesday. The 20-member outfit will be captained by dashing opener Prithvi Shaw, who had led Mumbai to the Vijay Hazare Trophy title in March.
South Africa pacer Kagiso Rabada still believes that his side can win the first Test against India despite being reduced to 94 for 4 in chase of a stiff target of 305 on the penultimate day in Centurion on Wednesday.
In a judgment which could have far-reaching implications when deciding cases involving athletes caught doping for ‘non-specified’ substances, the country’s Anti-Doping Appeals Panel (ADAP) on Tuesday let off Asian athletics bronze medallist middle-distance runner Prachi Chaudhary with a reduced punishment, absolving her from the ‘burden of proof’ of establishing that the anti-doping rule violation (ADRV) committed was unintentional after the source of the prohibited performance-enhancing drug in her body remained untraceable.
Manchester City beat Brentford 1-0 on Wednesday to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to an ominous eight points as title rivals Chelsea conceded a last-gasp equaliser at home to Brighton.
On the back foot after India took a commanding 130-run first innings lead, South African batsman Temba Bavuma on Tuesday said the first session on day four will potentially decide the outcome of the game.
Virat Kohli's watertight grip over Indian cricket loosened significantly in a mixed 2021 bag, when the team's wineless run at ICC events continued but the 'Men in Blue' cherished a historic Test series triumph in Australia.
On the back foot after India took a commanding 130-run first innings lead, South African batsman Temba Bavuma on Tuesday said the first session on day four will potentially decide the outcome of the game.
Locked at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) south center in Bengaluru for more than a year, both the Indian men’s and women’s hockey teams were out on a mission to revive the sport’s lost glory in Tokyo.
Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo's statue has been installed in Calangute, Goa to inspire the youth and take football to next level in the state and country.
It’s been a hectic two months to cap off 2021 for two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu. The 26-year-old has clocked thousands of miles in recent months as she hopped from Odense to Paris in October and then to Bali in November before ending the run at Huelva in Spain earlier this month.
For Kidambi Srikanth, it hasn’t been roses, roses all the way. But the refreshing floral fragrance enveloped him on his return from Spain as the kids from the Gopichand Academy handed him their presents one by one. The grin grew wider with each outreaching arm, the World Championships silver medal hanging from his neck felt light as a petal after shouldering the burden of an uncertain, painful period.
Former India batter Ambati Rayudu says he wants to continue playing at least for the next three years and is gearing up for the next cycle of the Indian Premier League.
Australia demolished England by an innings and 14 runs in the third Test in Melbourne on Tuesday to retain the Ashes. It caps a shambolic tour for Joe Root's men, who were also well beaten in the Tests in Brisbane and Adelaide.
Shell-shocked England captain Joe Root called on his players to show some pride in the badge after they suffered a humiliating innings and 14-run loss to Australia in Melbourne on Tuesday to lose the Ashes with two Tests to spare.
Hamilton came into 2021 with sights trained on a record eighth drivers' championship. But Verstappen and Red Bull had a surprise up their sleeves. The two title rivals were neck and neck throughout the season and tangled on occasions - most infamously in Copse at Silverstone and the first chicane at Monza. Heated words were exchanged.
England were bundled out for 68 in their second innings on day 3 as Australia notched up an innings-and-14-run win in the third Test to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-Test Ashes series.
NSW recorded just over 6,000 new cases on Monday and close contacts are required to isolate for a week, but Brad Hazzard said NSW Health would work with Victorian health authorities to manage any cases so that the next Ashes Test can proceed.
Discarded India opener Prithvi Shaw is likely to lead Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy, which is set to kick off from January 13. The Mumbai team for the tournament is likely to be picked later this week. Placed in Elite Group C in Kolkata with Karnataka, Delhi, Hyderabad, Maharashtra and Uttarakhand, Mumbai will launch their campaign against Maharashtra.
The slip in the US Open final came after 27 straight wins, a streak that had propelled Novak Djokovic to within a match of a historic calendar Grand Slam. That a knockout cocktail of pressure and fatigue finally got the Serb should be no more than a footnote of the 2021 tennis season which he owned in stellar fashion.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting feels Ben Stokes hasn't looked like the "physically aggressive" presence that opposition teams have feared due to his "ultra-defensive approach" in the ongoing Ashes series.
Cricket Australia (CA) chief Nick Hockley moved to allay fears on Monday over the remainder of the Ashes series after England were rocked by a COVID scare, but admitted it was a "day-by-day proposition".
KL Rahul scored a century (122 not out) on day one of the first Test against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday. The visitors were 272/3 at the end of first day's play, with Ajinkya Rahane (40 not out) accompanying Rahul.
If success needed a ladder to climb, Hrishikesh Kanitkar would first want to build the ladder himself, before climbing on it.
Whenever Mumbai's cricket team plays badly, the cricketing stalwarts of the city are hurt. That pain was evident on former India coach Ravi Shastri's face as he expressed serious concern about Mumbai's poor show so far this season, while speaking as a chief guest on Sunday at the prize distribution function of the Police Shield at the Police Gymkhana on Marine Drive.
Romelu Lukaku came off the bench to lead Chelsea to a much-needed 3-1 victory at Aston Villa with midfielder Jorginho scoring two penalties in the Premier League on Sunday.
Former South African captain and administrator Ali Bacher feels India will start as favourites in the three-match Test series against the home team as the tourists have the "best pace attack" he has seen in the past 30 years.
Former India wicketkeeper-batter Syed Kirmani on Sunday said that harmony should be displayed by both Virat Kohli and the BCCI top management to end whatever issues have surfaced ever since the removal of Kohli as ODI skipper.
China has reported 206 new COVID-19 cases, including 158 domestically transmitted ones, in a sudden spike ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics which will be held in February next year, the country's health commission said on Sunday.
Hazlewood, who had taken three wickets in the opening Test against England, missed the second and third matches in Adelaide and Melbourne due to a "slight tear" in his rib cage muscle that was earlier believed to be a "side strain".
Harbhajan Singh was one of the fiercest competitors Indian cricket has seen in the last 20 years. It was this combative, losing-is-not-an-option approach that characterized the spinner and made him a favourite of Sourav Ganguly when he was coming up through the ranks in the early 2000s.
Opener KL Rahul, India’s vice-captain for the SA tour, feels it will be a tough decision for the team to drop struggling veteran batsman Ajinkya Rahane for the first Test in Centurion, which begins on Sunday.
Board of Control for Cricket in India's secretary Jay Shah congratulated ace spinner Harbhajan Singh on a wonderful career, saying his zeal to perform under pressure situations always stood out.
Both Pujara and Rahane have molded their game around strong fundamentals and developed technique over time, but after going through the grind of Test cricket for many years, they have fallen on bad times.
Australia have illustrated the depth of their fast bowling stocks by handing Scott Boland a debut in the third Ashes Test against England, which starts at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Sunday.
England captain Joe Root has backed himself to get a first Ashes hundred in Australia as he prepares for the third Test starting in Melbourne on Boxing Day, a must-win game if England are to claim the series.