The retiring England pace great had some memorable duels with India’s star batters during his long careerCHENNAI: “Let me know if you want to become a part of our support-staff.” As the curtain fell on the career of one of the greatest of all time, the unique job offer from James Anderson made six years…
The Czech Republic came back from a goal down at home to stun world champion Spain on Friday, beating it 2-1 in their Euro 2025 League A Group 2 qualifier to claim its first win of the campaign. The Spaniards took the lead in the 15th minute through Aitana Bonmati but the Czechs, ranked 30th…
U.S. women’s national soccer team forward Catarina Macario was pulled from the Team USA Olympic roster due to a knee injury, head coach Emma Hayes told reporters on Friday. “She has minor knee irritation, which means she won’t recover in time for the games,” she said. Alternate forward Lynn Williams will replace Macario for the…
Archrivals India and Pakistan will meet in the final of the World Championship of Legends after the two teams won their respective semi-final on Friday at Northampton. While Pakistan defeated West Indies in the first semifinal by 20 runs, India triumphed over Australia in the second match of the last-four stage with a massive 86-run…
Pushing the limits is a common term in the world of motorsport. Taking a cue from Formula One champions Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, who all started out as precocious karters, is nine-year-old Atiqa Mir from Kashmir. She had a major headstart in her career and made her way through the pack in…
Gautam Gambhir‘s appointment as India’s new head coach means that the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won’t have their most influential figure, who won them three Indian Premier League titles, in their ranks for the next season; and reports suggest that the KKR management is already on the lookout for Gambhir’s replacement. According to a report…
I have participated in four consecutive Olympics from the 1984 Los Angeles Games to ’96 Atlanta. It is not easy for a woman to compete in four back-to-back Olympic Games. I did so at a time when facilities were not great and qualifying marks were strict. I would pick the 1984 Games as the best…
NEW DELHI: As Gautam Gambhir prepares to take on his new role as the head coach of the Indian cricket team from the upcoming white-ball series against Sri Lanka later in July, he shared his candid views on workload and injury management of players in a video released by Star Sports.True to his straightforward nature,…
Table tennis was introduced into the Olympics in Seoul in 1988. We, as table tennis players, did not realise the importance of Olympics. We knew that the Olympics is a big, big event, but it hadn’t really struck. In fact, I was not to go for the qualifications in 1988. The federation asked me to…
As India’s T20 World Cup title win sinks in and the euphoria settle down, members of India’s triumphant campaign can now sit back and reflect on the memories and experience from that one month in the US and the Caribbean islands when the team stitched an unbeaten run of eight matches to clinch the trophy….
