British swimming’s most successful head coach Bill Furniss announced his retirement on Friday after overseeing his fourth Olympic Games, Aquatics GB said in a statement. During his time in charge, Britain won 19 medals including retaining the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay title in Paris last month. Britain finished ninth in the swimming medals table in…
The Indian football team will play two friendly matches against Indonesia later this month in their preparation for the SAFF U-17 Championships and the AFC U-17 Asian Cup Qualifiers in Thailand, the AIFF announced on Friday. The matches will be played at the Kapten I Wayan Dipta Stadium in Bali on August 25 and 27….
The entry list for the upcoming U20 World Athletics Championships to be held in Lima later this month was released with over 1700 athletes from 134 teams set to participate. India will have a contingent of 42 athletes across multiple disciplines. The event will take place at the Estadio Atletico de la Videna between 27-31…
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali recently took a swipe at the International Cricket Council (ICC) after Pakistan’s star batter Babar Azam retained his top spot in the ODI rankings. India’s rising star Shubman Gill, who has recently struggled for runs but still occupies the third spot in the rankings, also came under fire…
Memphis Depay has been left out of a preliminary squad named by the Netherlands for its opening two matches in the Nations League next month, but there are first call-ups for two English-based players. Dutch coach Ronald Koeman on Friday named a preliminary list of 35 players that he will cut in two weeks’ time…
SKM Salem Spartans was the first team to be ruled out of the playoffs after finishing last in the points table with only a sole win in seven matches. However, its medium-pacer M. Poiyamozhi finished as the season’s top wicket-taker (16 wickets) to win the purple cap in the 2024 edition of the Tamil Nadu…
NEW DELHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will introduce new floodlights at the stadiums in Karachi and Lahore for the Champions Trophy early next year. This comes as part of a broader effort to ensure smaller venues, such as Quetta, Abbottabad, and Peshawar, are also equipped with light towers, enabling domestic matches to be played…
Barcelona manager Hansi Flick has no complaints over his squad and fully trusts the club, the German said on the eve of Saturday’s La Liga opening clash at Valencia. Barca, which finished second behind fierce rival Real Madrid in La Liga last season, has so far signed attacking midfielder Dani Olmo and fellow Spaniard Pau…
Romanian gymnast Ana Barbosu received her Olympic bronze medal during a ceremony in the capital Bucharest on Friday that marked the conclusion of a swirl of controversy after the medal was first awarded to U.S. gymnast Jordan Chiles but later revoked. “I did not expect the medal to be so heavy, but I would wear…
NEW DELHI: Sri Lankan wicketkeeper-batter Niroshan Dickwella has been suspended by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) due to allegations of an anti-doping violation during the Lankan Premier League (LPL). The suspension is effective immediately and will continue until further notice. The incident reportedly occurred while Dickwella was captaining Galle Marvels in the recently concluded LPL 2024.“The…
