Mark Chapman completed a memorable few days in Edinburgh with an unbeaten hundred as New Zealand comfortably defeated Scotland by seven wickets in a lone one-day international on Sunday.
Paris St Germain's Neymar scored twice with Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos contributing the other two goals as they romped to a 4-0 victory over Nantes in the French Super Cup at the Bloomfield Stadium on Sunday.
Weightlifter Achinta Sheuli (73kg) lived up to his top billing as he clinched India's third gold in the Commonwealth Games. Favourite to win the event, debutant Sheuli heaved 313kg (143kg+170kg) to grab the gold at NEC Hall on Sunday.
The weightlifters will continue to carry India's medal hopes at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games with two more weightlifting events lined up on Monday. The judokas will also be in fray for the first time in the Games.
England won a major women's tournament for the first time as Chloe Kelly's extra-time goal secured a 2-1 victory over Germany at a sold out Wembley on Sunday. In front of a record crowd of 87,192 for any match in the history of the European Championships, Kelly prodded home a loose ball from close range to end English football's 56-year wait for a World Cup or Euro victory.
Defending champion India cruised to a 3-0 win over minnows South Africa to progress to the semifinals of the mixed team competition at the Commonwealth Games here on Sunday. India expectedly didn't put a foot wrong as they dished out yet another professional performance against South Africa to set up a likely clash with Singapore in the last four.
Leading India squash player Saurav Ghosal on Sunday joined Joshna Chinappa in the singles quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
India's Bindyarani Devi raised her game to secure a silver in the women's 55kg category, providing the country's fourth weightlifting medal in as many categories at the Commonwealth Games here.
Chanu lifted a whopping 29 kg more than the second-placed Marie Hanitra Ranaivosoa of Mauritius. Mirabai lifted a total of 201 kg to bag gold in the women's 49kg category– 88 kg in snatch and 113 kg in clean and jerk – to create a new CWG record as well as her own personal best.
After suffering defeat in their first match against Australia, the Indian women's cricket team will lock horns against Pakistan in their Group A match at the Commonwealth Games 2022 on Sunday.
Vandana Katariya scored a brace as the Indian women's hockey team defeated Wales 3-1 to record its second successive win in Pool A at the Commonwealth Games. India scored all their three goals from penalty corners with Vandana finding the net twice, while Gurjit Kaur fired in a fierce drag-flick on Saturday.
Indian boxer Lovlina Borgohain (70kg) cruised to the quarterfinals of the women's light middleweight category with an easy 5-0 win against Ariana Nicholson at the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
India women's table tennis team was knocked out of the Commonwealth Games 2022 after suffering a 2-3 defeat against Malaysia in the quarterfinals on Saturday. The Indian duo of Reeth Tennison and Sreeja Akula fought hard against Malaysia's Karen Lyne and Li Sian Alice Chang in the first match of the women's quarterfinal tie to give India an opening group lead.
The 37-year-old Portugal forward, who missed the club's pre-season tour to Thailand and Australia for personal reasons, reportedly wants to leave the club he rejoined last year.
If the measure of success was not the win but performance, then the Indian women’s hockey team fell short on Friday. Against a spirited Ghana, Savita Punia and Co. emerged 5-0 victors to get their campaign off to a good start but the aftermath will be assessment of their shortcomings, which were glaring.
There wasn’t quite the high-octane India-Pakistan vibe a hockey or cricket fan would relate to, but the flurry of punches exchanged between former Asian championship gold medallist Shiva Thapa and seven-time Pakistan national champion Suleman Baloch lit up the boxing ring at the National Exhibition Centre Hall 4 in Birmingham on Friday.
Rohit, and then Dinesh Karthik, lifted India to a competitive 190 from an uncomfortable 138 for six in the 16th over, a total which proved enough for the visitors to record a 68-run win in the first T20 International against the West Indies.
In the end, having let go of a golden opportunity to beat mighty Australia, the Indian women’s team was left heartbroken. For a while, fired by a sensational opening spell by seamer Renuka Singh Thakur, who took a T20I career-best 4/18, India seemed to be on top of the Southern Stars in the opening clash at Edgbaston on Friday, having reduced them to 49/5 in the eighth over in pursuit of 155.
Rohit Sharma's elegant half-century and Dinesh Karthik's blazing finish were backed up by a solid bowling performance as India made short work of West Indies with an easy 68-run victory in the first T20I. While Rohit set up the platform with a 44-ball-64, it was Karthik's calculated assault -- an unbeaten 41 off 19 balls -- that took India to 190 for six. In reply, West Indies could only get to 122 for 8 in their 20 overs.
Shimron Hetmyer was recalled by the West Indies on Thursday for back-to-back Twenty20 series against India and New Zealand as the batsman seeks to secure a place at the World Cup.
A total of 11 Indian Premier League (IPL) trophies, three Champions League T20 trophies, followers in excess of 50 million on social media platforms across Twitter and Instagram, mass following across the world's largest cricket fanbase that's India, a healthy global diaspora to look at and television numbers crashing through the roof every single time these teams have walked out on the field.
Pakistan raised the Kashmir spectre to pull out of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mamallapuram on the eve of the event, citing India's torch relay passing through Kashmir on June 21. The 13-member Pakistani contingent had already checked into the team hotel in Mamallapuram when they were informed they would not be taking part.
It was in 2013 that home boy Viswanathan Anand lost the World Championship title at India's chess capital, Chennai. Nine years have gone by and top-flight chess is back in Tamil Nadu with the 44th Olympiad starting at Mamallapuram, a sea town 60 km from Chennai, on Friday.
Rilee Rossouw's unbeaten 96 laid the foundation for South Africa's commanding 58-run win in the second Twenty20 international against England in Cardiff on Thursday as the Proteas bounced back to level a three-match series at 1-1.
The region's rich musical heritage and inclusivity were at the heart of the 22nd Birmingham Commonwealth Games opening ceremony here as a joyful evening offered a stupendous cornucopia of colour, light and dance. It was refreshing as the Birmingham Games is the first multi-discipline event since the start of the pandemic to be held without major COVID-19 restrictions.
As the debate over the relevance of the ODI format rages, the International Cricket Council (ICC) is putting up a brave front to defend the only format of the game that has world champions every four years.
Alexandra Popp scored twice as Germany beat France 2-1 in their Euro 2022 semi-final on Wednesday to set up a clash with hosts England in Sunday's final at Wembley.
Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu had a Covid-19 scare upon her arrival in Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games (CWG), when her RT-PCR test results showed some deviations, which resulted in the authorities forcing her into isolation for some time, TOI has reliably learnt.
Shubman Gill was unlucky to miss out on a maiden century but India rode on his sublime 98 not out to outclass West Indies by 119 runs and complete a 3-0 rout in the ODI series. In a rain-affected final ODI, India scored 225 for 3 in 36 overs. The revised DLS target of 257 from 35 overs was a tricky one and Mohammed Siraj's near-perfect first over with the new ball set the tone as West Indies could finally manage only 137 in 26 overs.
Almost nine years after winning his maiden World title in Chennai --Magnus Carlsen will be arriving in the city to represent Norway at the 44th chess Olympiad which starts on July 28. A few days ago Carlsen announced that he would not contest the World Championship final, where he was supposed to play Ian Nepomniachtchi.
It was a mere toss of the coin that launched the shuttle in Indian badminton. Just a coin toss to kickstart a sporting dream that has gone from strength to strength since. That's so hard to believe in today's times, when a dominant India dethroned four-time champions Indonesia for the Thomas Cup title two months ago.
In a country obsessed with the divine, Olympic gold-winning javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra stands a beacon of human potential. Adulation, however, is not a cure for fallibility. No one knows this better than Neeraj, who is acutely aware of the limitations of his own body.
Three other ICC women's events were also awarded on the day with Bangladesh hosting the 2024 T20 World Cup and England winning hosting rights for the 2026 edition. The inaugural T20 Champions Trophy in 2027 will be hosted by Sri Lanka.
This week marks the beginning of yet another global whirl that could alter the course of cricket once again for the fourth time in 45 years.
Formula 1 is on schedule to use 100 percent sustainable fuel in its race cars by 2026, according to managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn.
Luis Suarez has entered a pre-contract agreement to join Uruguayan club Nacional as a free agent, the former Liverpool and Barcelona striker said on Tuesday.
Abhinav Bindra, India's first individual Olympic Gold Medallist, on Monday shared the secret of long-term success in sports and the ways to deal with stress in competitive life.
Try and reminisce the days before the Tokyo Olympics with wrestler Bajrang Punia as the central figure. There was a sense of anticipation in the air. He was touted to be India's biggest hope for an Olympic gold. Fans, the wrestling federation and certain sections of media thought it was a foregone conclusion.
"Signed, sealed and delivered by Axar Patel." Former West Indies fast bowler-turned commentator Ian Bishop couldn't have chosen better words, soon after Axar smashed a full toss from Kyle Mayers down the ground - when six was needed off three balls - to pull off a thrilling two-wicket win for India in the second ODI against West Indies at Port-of-Spain.
To say Ravi Dahiya is shy will be an understatement. It is an onerous task to get words out of his mouth. At times, he stops midway through his sentences and then you've to prompt him. But on the mat he doesn't require any prompting, and seldom does he stop.
Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios has been handed a wildcard into next month's U.S. Open tune-up event in Cincinnati, Ohio, organisers of the Western & Southern Open said on Monday.
Lovlina Borgohain took to twitter to vent her frustration, complaining that her training had been hampered since one of her personal coaches (strength and conditioning expert Amey Kolekar) was sent back to India while her other coach, Sandhya Gurung, hadn’t been able to enter the athletes village in Birmingham.
Elija Godwin and Bryce Deadmon were retained from the semi-finals with newly-crowned individual gold medallist Michael Norman and Champion Allison, fourth in the final, drafted in and each man extended the lead as they came home in two minutes, 56.17 seconds.
Talitha Diggs got USA off to a solid start and Abby Steiner edged further ahead of Jamaican Janieve Russell in the second leg. Britton Wilson opened even more daylight before anchor Sydney McLaughlin brought it home for gold, finishing some 20 metres clear.
As the Tricolour went up at the World Athletics Championships at Oregon after nearly two decades with Neeraj Chopra bagging a historic silver, path-breaker Anju Bobby George, who opened India's account back in 2003 by winning the bronze in women's long jump, travelled down the memory lane on Sunday morning.
Quinton de Kock believes it will become increasingly difficult for leading cricketers to play all three main formats, although he remains confident about the future for one-day internationals.
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France on Sunday, ending the reign of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar after a gruelling three weeks and 3,350km of relentless struggle.
Tokyo 2020 Olympics javelin throw champion Neeraj Chopra scripted yet another history, becoming only the second Indian to bag a podium finish to win a silver medal in the World Athletics Championships 2022. He is the first male track and field Indian athlete to win a medal at the World Championships, ending 19-year-long wait for a medal at the Worlds.
Axar Patel smashed a whirlwind unbeaten 35-ball 64, his maiden ODI fifty, as India scripted a sensational series-clinching two-wicket win over the West Indies in the second game. Set a stiff target of 312, the visitors were down to 205 for five in 38.4 overs but Patel revived India's chase with his six-hitting prowess to take the visitors home with two balls to spare on Sunday.
Neeraj Chopra created history after becoming the first Indian athlete to win a silver at the World athletics championships with his best effort of 88.13m to etch his name in the record books. He, however, failed in his endeavour to become the first javelin thrower after Norwegian track and field great Andreas Thorkildsen to hold both the Olympics and World Championships titles at the same time.