NEW DELHI: Suryakumar Yadav has been appointed as the captain of the Indian T20 team, ahead of the tour of Sri Lanka, due to his fitness, feedback from the dressing room, and consistent availability, chief selector Ajit Agarkar revealed on Monday. The tour will include three T20 Internationals and three ODIs, starting on July 27.Ajit…
Former international shooter and veteran sports administrator Randhir Singh is set to become the first Indian president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) after emerging as the sole candidate for the top post for the September 8 elections. The 77-year-old Singh, a former member of the International Olympic Council (IOC) and ex secretary general…
Washington Freedom (Playing XI) – Travis Head, Steven Smith (C), Andries Gous (WK), Rachin Ravindra, Jack Edwards (In for Jasdeep Singh), Obus Pienaar, Mukhtar Ahmed, Justin Dill (In for Marco Jansen), Akeal Hosein (In for Glenn Maxwell), Andrew Tye (In for Amila Aponso), Saurabh Netravalkar (In for Lockie Ferguson).
The 117-member Indian contingent is set to travel to Paris for the 33rd edition of the Olympics, being held from July 26 to August 11. Coincidentally, India’s debut appearance at the quadrennial event came in the French capital itself in 1900, the second edition of the Summer Games. Since then, the nation has participated in…
NEW DELHI: India’s new head coach Gautam Gambhir has expressed confidence that veteran batters Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma can continue playing until the 2027 ODI World Cup if they remain fit, but he emphasized that the final decision lies with the players. Rohit, 37, and Kohli, 35, recently retired from T20 Internationals but will…
In an inspiring session, Olympians Yogeshwar Dutt, Manavjit Sandhu, Dilip Tirkey, Rani Rampal, Om Prakash Karhana and Ronjan Sodhi regaled everyone with their Olympic tales at the Manav Rachna Headquarters in a panel discussion on the Glory of Five Rings on Monday. The idea was to convey the best wishes to the Indian contingent, and…
NEW DELHI: The newly-appointed India head coach Gautam Gambhir held his first press conference on Monday. He discussed several key topics, emphasizing the importance of workload management for premier pacer Jasprit Bumrah, whom he described as a ‘rare bowler.’ Gambhir’s tenure officially begins with India’s tour of Sri Lanka, which starts on Saturday in Pallekele…
Sri Lanka and Bangladesh produced superlative performances to secure victories over Malaysia and Thailand in group B and inch closer to the semifinal berth at the Women’s Asia Cup T20 tournament here on Monday. While host Sri Lanka thrashed Malaysia by a margin of 114 runs, Bangladesh outwitted Thailand by seven wickets later in the…
NEW DELHI: Before departing for Sri Lanka, head coach of Team India, Gautam Gambhir, discussed his relationship with Secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Jay Shah, at a news conference.“I have a fabulous relationship with him. Jay Shah and I go a long way back. All these speculations about different…
Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar on Monday pulled out of the Paris Olympics citing “tiredness”, his Slovenia team announced. “Unfortunately Tadej Pogacar has cancelled his participation because of a state of extreme fatigue,” Slovenian Olympic cycling coach Uros Murn said in a statement. Pogacar won a third Tour de France title in Nice on…
