SNOOKER Reigning National champion and No. 1 Sourav Kothari will spearhead India’s challenge in the snooker World Cup to be held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from Friday. Kothari has also been given a wild card to the IBSF World 6 red snooker championship that will be held after the World Cup from September 21-25 at the…
NEW DELHI: Indian cricket team members, including Virat Kohli and Jasprit Bumrah, began their preparations for a two-Test series against Bangladesh on Friday. The first Test is scheduled to begin on September 19 at the MA Chidambaram Stadium.Coach Gautam Gambhir, who is overseeing his first home series, led the closed-door training session. He was joined…
The funeral of Sven-Goran Eriksson, the first foreigner to manage England’s national football team, was held on Friday in the small Swedish town where he grew up before embarking on a career that would span many decades, countries and trophies. A soft-spoken but determined coach, Eriksson guided teams in Sweden, Portugal and Italy to major…
The Indian men’s team will take on Hungary in the third round of the open section of the Chess Olympiad 2024 at the SYMA Sports and Conference Centre in Budapest, Hungary on Friday. In the women’s section, India will face Switzerland in the third round after triumphing over Czech Republic 3.5-0.5 in the second round….
NEW DELHI: Australia’s Glenn Maxwell is looking forward to the upcoming Border Gavaskar Trophy series between Australia and India later this year. He highlighted the exciting clash between two of cricket’s top players – Virat Kohli and Steve Smith. Kohli and Smith are part of the ‘Fab Four’ of modern cricket, alongside Joe Root of…
Asian sides will qualify for the 2031 Women’s World Cup via a standalone competition for the first time, the continent’s governing body said on Friday. The Asian Football Confederation announced it would create a three-round preliminary competition starting in 2027 to determine the continent’s qualifiers for the finals. The host nation for the 2031 tournament…
NEW DELHI: Australia’s veteran spinner Nathan Lyon has identified the three Indian batsmen he believes will pose the greatest threat in the upcoming Border Gavaskar Trophy series. The series will kick off with the first Test in Perth on November 22, followed by the second Test in Adelaide from December 6, the third Test in…
Netherlands striker Memphis Depay says he expects other European football players to join him in the Brazilian league before the FIFA World Cup 2026. The 30-year-old Depay on Thursday gave his first press conference as a player of Corinthians but didn’t specify why he decided to come to South America. Depay, who signed a two-year…
PREVIEW India will take on nemesis Pakistan on September 14 in its last group stage match of the Asian Champions Trophy at the Moqi Hockey Training Base in Hulunbuir, China While India, led by ace drag flicker Harmanpreet Singh, will go into the match as table toppers, Ammad Butt-led Pakistan will take on India as…
NEW DELHI: India D captain Shreyas Iyer scored 9 and 54 in his team’s opening Duleep Trophy match but couldn’t secure a victory as India C triumphed by four wickets.In the second match, Shreyas won the toss and opted to bowl, a decision that paid off as India D bowled out Mayank Agarwal’s India A…
