Chennai The Paris Paralympics 2024 officially got underway on Thursday and will conclude on September 8. China has an early lead with four gold medals across track cycling and para swimming. Great Britain is second in the standings Kearney Tully and Maskill Poppy winning the two gold medals for their country. Apart from that Britain…
Doubts remain whether MS Dhoni will return to play another season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but Dhoni’s close friend and former India and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) teammate Suresh Raina wants the legend to hand-hold Ruturaj Gaikwad for another season to teach him captaincy skills. Dhoni handed over the CSK captaincy to Gaikwad…
Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti said on Thursday there was no excuse for his side’s slow start to the La Liga season after the team fought back to rescue a 1-1 draw at lowly Las Palmas thanks to a Vinicius Jr goal late in the second half. Ancelotti said he expected his team to play…
Australia’s 10th seed Alex de Minaur overcame a potential banana skin to beat Finland’s big-hitting Otto Virtanen 7-5, 6-1, 7-6(3) on Grandstand to move into the third round of the US Open on Thursday. De Minaur is playing in his first tournament after pulling out of Wimbledon with a hip injury, with the 25-year-old also…
NEW DELHI: New Zealand’s Sophie Devine will step down as the Twenty20 captain after the Women’s T20 World Cup in October, according to New Zealand Cricket (NZC). Devine will continue to lead the team in One-Day Internationals (ODIs).“With captaincy comes an additional workload that, while I’ve enjoyed taking on, can also be challenging at times,”…
He was on loan at Real Madrid last season, having previously made 163 appearances in his first five seasons at Chelsea.
Former European champions Ajax, Chelsea and FCSB all survived qualifying in lesser European competitions on Thursday. Four-time champions Ajax cruised through in the second-tier Europa League. Kian Fitz-Jim, Kenneth Taylor and Brian Brobbey scored as Ajax beat Jagiellonia from Poland, 3-0, to follow a comfortable victory in the first leg in Bialystok and advance 7-1…
NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to prioritize red-ball cricket to build a more solid foundation for the national team. This call for change comes after Pakistan’s series of disappointing performances, highlighted by a 10-wicket defeat to Bangladesh in the first Test at Rawalpindi. Ali criticized the…
English-born winger Michael Olise was rewarded for his impressive performances for France at the Olympics by being called up to the full French national team Thursday for the start of its UEFA Nations League campaign next month. The 22-year-old, who was born and brought up in London to a Nigerian father and French-Algerian mother, was…
A come-from-behind win in a First-Class match may be a onerous task, but it helps that it’s always a clear-cut one. The trailing team knows exactly what needs to be done. TNCA President’s XI skipper and left-arm spinner M. Siddharth highlighted that clarity as his team’s rallying force in its turnaround win by five wickets…
