Kylian Mbappe has had more masks than goals at the European Championship. The France captain is struggling with his peripheral vision in the masks that were fitted to protect his broken nose from his country’s opening game at Euro 2024. He wore a third different mask on Monday in the 1-0 win against Belgium in…
After multiple injury layoffs and time spent away from the 22 yards, South African all-rounder Chloe Tryon is raring to go as her team heads into the T20I leg of its multi-format tour of India. “I love watching cricket, but don’t like watching the Proteas play too much. It gets a bit stressful wishing I…
Rishabh Pant couldn’t have asked for a better return to international cricket after a horrific car accident in December 2022 put serious doubts over whether he could be back at his best to play for India again. But not only did Pant made a remarkable recovery but also went on to become a T20 World…
Costa Rica plays Paraguay on Tuesday in a Copa America 2024 Group D match at the Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas. Coming into this game, both sides will be confident of clinching the bragging rights as they sit very close to each other in the head-to-head record in all competitions in the recent past. Costa…
Men’s defending champion and third seed Carlos Alcaraz reached the third round of Wimbledon 2024 at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), London on Wednesday. Alcaraz defeated Australia’s Aleksandar Vukic 7-6(5), 6-2, 6-2 in the second round. Later in the day, top seed and World No. 1 Jannik Sinner takes on fellow…
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket team’s tour of Zimbabwe has provided an opportunity for several promising talents to showcase their skills on the international stage. Among the notable inclusions are the all-rounders Abhishek Sharma and Riyan Parag, along with the pacer Tushar Deshpande, who have received their maiden call-ups to the national team.Abhishek Sharma, a…
Certainty is hard to ascertain in football, as in life. But it is damn near certain that the Round of 16 game between Austria and Turkey will end up as the best encounter of Euro 2024, even with seven blockbuster games left in the tournament. In a game so frantic that it would have put…
Naomi Osaka’s goal to improve her grasscourt game will have to wait for at least another 12 months after her Wimbledon comeback stalled in the second round following a 6-4, 6-1 walloping by American Emma Navarro that mercifully lasted only 58 minutes. When the four-time Grand Slam champion returned to the tour in January following…
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket team finally embarked on their journey back to Delhi on a chartered flight from Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport on Wednesday. The team had been stranded for three days due to a category 4 hurricane after winning the T20 World Cup, beating South Africa in the title clash in Barbados.The…
Canadian midfielder Tajon Buchanan had surgery on Wednesday in Fort Worth, Texas, to repair a fractured tibia suffered while training for the Copa America quarterfinals, Canada Soccer said. The 25-year-old Buchanan, who also plays for Serie A club Inter Milan, suffered the injury on Tuesday during a training session that was cancelled after he was…
