FOOTBALL Punjab FC on Friday announced the signing of Croatian midfielder Filip Mrzlijak, its first foreign signing ahead of the upcoming 2024-25 season. The Croatian player last featured for Croatian top-flight club, HNK Gorcia. The 31-year-old was born in Zagreb and primarily plays as a defensive midfielder. He graduated from the Dinamo Zagreb Academy which…
There is a 70-80 percent chance of “moderate to heavy” rain at the Paris Olympic Games opening ceremony starting at 7:30 pm (2300 IST) on Friday, French weather channel La Chaine Meteo said. “There is still uncertainty about the trajectory and exact position” of the rainstorm, meteorologist Cyrille Duchesne said in a post on the…
India’s newly-appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir and T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav are set to make their debut as a leadership duo against a struggling Sri Lankan side in a series of limited-overs matches, beginning with the first game of the three-match T20I series on Saturday in Pallekele.Gambhir, a two-time World Cup winner, takes over the…
V.S. Aravind, Sportstar’s Assistant Editor in Hyderabad, passed away at a hospital in Bhubaneswar late on Thursday after a brief illness. He was 36 and is survived by his parents and younger brother. With more than 13 years of experience in the industry, Aravind started his career with an English daily newspaper in Bhubaneswar before joining Sportstar in 2018, where…
NEW DELHI: Team India’s new T20I captain Suryakumar Yadav expressed his enthusiasm for leadership ahead of his first series as captain against Sri Lanka. Suryakumar, who took over from retired skipper Rohit Sharma, has always enjoyed being a leader and has gathered insights from various captains over his career.Suryakumar remains optimistic and ready to take…
Welcome to live coverage of India vs Bangladesh semifinal in the Women’s Asia Cup And then there were four. UAE, Nepal, Malaysia and Thailand have returned home from the group stage while India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Pakistan will now fight for a chance to make the big final. Catch all the live updates here…
Former India left-arm spinner Venkatapathy Raju attributes Yuzvendra Chahal‘s omission from India’s white-ball squads for the Sri Lanka tour to his lack of match practice. Despite being India’s highest wicket-taker in T20Is with 96 wickets in 80 matches since his debut in 2016, Chahal was not selected.“He should be playing more matches, again and again.You…
Coco Gauff said she is excited and a little nervous to meet fellow US flag bearer LeBron James for the first time when the pair carry the Stars and Stripes on a boat down the Seine at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. The 20-year-old US Open champion will be the youngest-ever US flag…
NEW DELHI: Washington Freedom secured a spot in the final of the 2024 Major League Cricket with a commanding seven-wicket victory over the San Francisco Unicorns in the Qualifier held in Dallas on Friday. Rachin Ravindra spearheaded the Washington bowling attack, restricting the Unicorns to a modest total of 145. The table-toppers then chased down…
The Delhi Soccer Association, during its Executive Committee Meeting this week, imposed a lifetime ban on 10 Indian footballers on account of suspicions of match-fixing on multiple occasions. Among the players is a former youth Indian international, who represented the country in the AIFF (All India Football Federation) Youth Cup in 2016 and was in…
