Cricket South Africa on Monday announced a 16-member squad, to be led by Temba Bavuma, for the two-match Test series in West Indies. The first Test will be held from August 7 to 11 at Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad and Tobago, while the second Test will take place at Guyana National Stadium, Guyana, from August…
Indian women’s cricket team fielding coach Munish Bali lauded Uma Chetry for her fielding skills, and said the young wicket-keeper is a “ truly hard-working cricketer”. Chetry, 21, made her T20 International debut against South Africa in the abandoned second game of the three-match series here on Sunday, and inflicted a stumping off Deepti Sharma’s…
GOLF Rayhan Thomas logs first Top-10 finish in his second start as pro India’s Rayhan Thomas, playing only his second professional event, got a big boost in his career as he finished in the top 10 at the USD 2 million International Series Morocco golf tournament here. The Indian golfer, based in Dubai but played…
Bronny James was scratched from the Los Angeles Lakers’ second California Classic game on Sunday because of a swelling in his left knee, a day after scoring four points in his NBA Summer League debut. Lakers Summer League coach Dane Johnson didn’t provide many details after the team’s 92-68 loss to Golden State, but shared…
Lulu Sun became the first New Zealand woman to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals on Sunday and hailed the inspiration she found by turning to YouTube to learn from Centre Court legends Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova. Qualifier Sun, ranked at 123 in the world, made the last-eight by triumphing 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 over 2021 US…
McLaren’s Lando Norris blamed himself after finishing third in a home British Grand Prix that he led and could have won on Sunday. With Red Bull’s Max Verstappen taking second place to Mercedes’s race winner Lewis Hamilton, Norris fell further behind his Dutch rival in the Formula One standings at the season’s midpoint. The Briton…
Nothing, absolutely nothing, worked for Coco Gauff on Sunday. The killer shots and the champion’s mentality Gauff had meticulously curated during her run to a maiden Grand Slam title at the US Open last year all went AWOL as her hopes of reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals for the first time were brutally ended with a…
Jemimah Rodrigues and Shikha Pandey were announced as new signings as the Trinbago Knight Riders Women announced its retained players, as well as new signings for the upcoming season of the 2024 Massy Women’s Caribbean Premier League (WCPL). The winner of the inaugural edition has retained five Caribbean players and signed four new international stars…
India’s Avinash Sable bettered his own 3000m steeplechase national record at the Paris Diamond League meet on Sunday. Sable finished with a timing of 8:09.91, improving his personal best (8:11:20) by more than a second. Abrham Sime of Ethiopia managed to ward off Kenyan Amos Serem’s attempt to overtake him and placed first clocking a…
The final stage of the Tour of Austria was cancelled on Sunday after Norwegian cyclist Andre Drege died following a crash, with the organisers holding a neutralised ride in his memory instead. Drege, 25, crashed during a descent of the mountain Grossglockner on Saturday. His death was announced by race organisers after the stage ended,…
