NEW DELHI: Rinku Singh, the Indian batter, was honored with the ‘Fielder of the Series‘ award after India’s resounding 3-0 victory against Sri Lanka in the T20I series. The triumph marked a promising beginning for Gautam Gambhir, who recently took over as the head coach of the Indian team. India clinched the series with an…
Argentine football player Angel Di Maria said Tuesday that safety concerns mean he will not finish his career in his native Rosario, after a bullet-pierced pig’s head was thrown at a family business. The 36-year-old, who won the World Cup with Argentina in 2022, had said he wanted to return to his boyhood club in…
The first three minutes were easy for Victor Wembanyama on Wednesday. So were the last five minutes. Everything else was a grind. Grabbing at his lower right leg after a quick trip off the court late in the first quarter, then grabbing at his left hip a couple of times later in the game, Wembanyama…
NEW DELHI: In a dramatic finish to the third and final T20I of the series in Pallekele, India pulled off an astonishing victory against Sri Lanka, completing a 3-0 clean sweep. The hosts required just 9 runs off the last two overs with six wickets in hand, but the game took an unexpected turn when…
France set up a potentially explosive quarterfinal showdown with Argentina in the men’s Olympic football tournament after beating New Zealand 3-0 in its final group game on Tuesday. Argentina had sealed its last-eight spot earlier in the day and France joined it in the knockout phase with Jean-Philippe Mateta, Desire Doue and Arnaud Kalimuendo scoring…
Indian all-rounder Washington Sundar was all praise for the way his skipper Suryakumar Yadav led India from the jaws of defeat to a famous win against Sri Lanka in the third and final T20I here in Pallekele on Tuesday. Suryakumar chose to bowl the final over with Sri Lanka needing six runs for a win,…
NEW DELHI: India pulled off an astonishing victory against Sri Lanka, completing a 3-0 clean sweep, in a nail-biting finish to the third and final T20I of the series in Pallekele. The hosts required just 9 runs off the last two overs with six wickets in hand, but the game took an unexpected turn when…
A world city Paris has turned into a world city for a little over two weeks of the Olympics. Walk around the city, take public transport or a taxi ride, it’s not uncommon to spot people proudly wearing the colours and traditional dresses of their respective countries. A family, sporting Australia’s famous green and gold…
NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka needed 30 runs off the last 30 balls with nine wickets in hand against India but they stuttered again as Suryakumar Yadav took the 3rd T20I at Pallekele into a Super Over on Tuesday.Sri Lanka batted first in the Super Over with Kusal Perera and Kusal Mendis – their top-scorers –…
It would have been a stressful and surreal blur for iDream Tiruppur Tamizhans, as B. Sai Sudharsan slammed a spectacular hundred (123 n.o., 56b, 9×4, 9×6) for Lyca Kovai Kings to chase down 200 with seven wickets and seven balls to spare in Qualifier-1 and storm into the final of the eighth season of the…
