Buchi Babu tournament serves as a bridge for promising young players to transition from state-level cricket to more competitive environments, Tamil Nadu selector R. Srinivasan insisted here on Wednesday. The current edition has India players Ishan Kishan and Sarfaraz Khan playing for Jharkhand and Mumbai. Suryakumar Yadav and Shreyas Iyer are set to turn up…
Sai Sudharsan has returned to Surrey and will play the next two County Championship matches, the club announced on Wednesday. Sudharsan featured in Surrey’s last Championship match with Essex in June, as well as featured twice for the club in September 2023. Surrey is currently on top of the Division One chart and is eyeing…
From a field of 338, three have moved in front. All of them are from Kolkata. Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Aronyak Ghosh and Neelash Saha remained in the joint lead with five points, at the end of the fifth round of the 61st National Chess Championship at the RPS International School, here on Wednesday. With six…
Sainath Pardhi won India’s second medal at the Under-17 World Wrestling Championships in Amman, Jordan, securing bronze in the men’s 51kg Greco-Roman category with a 3-1 victory over Kazakhstan’s Yerassyl Mussan on Wednesday. Pardhi defeated USA’s Munaretto Domenic Michael 7-1 in the repechage round to advance to medal bout. Four Indian women wrestlers reached the…
England trailed Sri Lanka by 214 runs on day one of the first Test after bad light stopped play on Wednesday at Old Trafford where the tourist’s decision to bat first backfired when it was all out for 236. Sri Lanka captain Dhananjaya de Silva won the toss and opted to bat under cloudy skies,…
Former India national team fielding coach R Sridhar was named the Afghanistan men’s cricket team’s assistant coach for the side’s upcoming fixtures against New Zealand and South Africa, the country’s cricket board announced on Wednesday. “The Afghanistan Cricket Board wishes Sridhar fills the role effectively and hopes to have long term contract with him in…
On Wednesday, two more teams received the boot from the ongoing Subroto Cup 2024 being held in Bengaluru after they were found guilty of fielding overage players, the Subroto Mukerjee Sports Education Society announced on the third day of the tournament. Army Public School, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and Sanjeevan Vidyalaya, Kolhapur, Maharashtra are the two…
Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat received a detailed 24-page verdict from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which detailed which her appeal to win joint-silver in the women’s 50kg freestyle event in the Paris Olympics was dismissed. This is not the first time an Indian athlete has been involved in a appeal heard by CAS,…
England internationals Raheem Sterling and Ben Chilwell are training apart from Chelsea’s first team, manager Enzo Maresca said on Wednesday as British media reports linked them with moves away from the Premier League club. Sterling and Chilwell, who missed Sunday’s 2-0 Premier League loss to champion Manchester City, may struggle to get playing time if…
For the first time in 12 years, Bayern Munich is not the defending champion going into a new Bundesliga season. Bayer Leverkusen stayed undefeated last season to snap Bayern’s 11-year reign as German champion and completed a domestic double by winning the German Cup to underscore its credentials as the country’s best team. The question…
