India will host the 2025 FIH Hockey Men’s Junior World Cup, announced the International Hockey Federation (FIH) on Tuesday. The tournament will be played in December 2025 and will be the first time ever that a FIH Hockey Junior World Cup will include as many as 24 teams. India will host the tournament for the…
David Johnson’s career was about quick thunderbolts while his life away from the field was distilled into the slow descent. The news of his death at 52 caused shock-waves in Bengaluru on Thursday and gradually spread to the rest of the cricketing world. The Anglo-Indian from Arsikere had carved a space for himself among the…
East Bengal FC on Thursday announced the contract extension of club captain Cleiton Silva. The Brazilian forward signed a one-year extension that will run until the end of the 2024-25 season. Silva was the top scorer in East Bengal’s triumphant Kalinga Super Cup campaign earlier this year and has scored the most goals for the…
Competing in the high-endurance men’s singles sculls rowing event at the Olympics can be tough, but Balraj Panwar, India’s only qualifier for the Paris Games, hopes to make it count by training there for 20 days. Panwar will be among the first batch of athletes to reach Paris to acclimatise themselves to the conditions. “We…
England opener Phil Salt said the convincing eight-wicket victory over the West Indies in their Super Eight clash has given his side “confidence and momentum” at the right time in the T20 World Cup after a chaotic run in the event’s group stage. Salt played a major hand in the win here, racing his way…
Hockey India on Thursday announced the 27-member core probable group for the senior men’s national coaching camp, scheduled to commence on June 21 until July 8 at the SAI Centre in Bengaluru. The camp is crucial as the Indian team will look to polish its preparations ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics. The Indian men’s…
Former India opener Virender Sehwag didn’t hold back in expressing his opinion on Pakistan cricket in the wake of their T20 World Cup debacle, accusing their current chief selector Wahab Riaz of bias, which is hurting the country’s cricket.Riaz, a former Pakistan pacer, was in November last year appointed the head of the selection committee…
NEW DELHI: Defending champions England overcame their early struggles in the Twenty20 World Cup by defeating the previously unbeaten West Indies by eight wickets in their Super Eight opener in St Lucia on Wednesday.The English bowlers limited West Indies to 180-4 on the same pitch where the co-hosts had scored 218 against Afghanistan on Monday….
NEW DELHI: Former Australia captain Michael Clarke has questioned the timing of David Warner‘s recent comments about the repercussions he faced from the Sandpaper Gate scandal, noting that other players like Cameron Bancroft and Steve Smith also suffered significantly. Warner’s remarks were made ahead of Australia’s Super 8 clash with Bangladesh, where he claimed to…
Pakistan‘s former wicketkeeper Atiq-uz-Zaman has made some startling revelations about growing indiscipline in the country’s cricket team, highlighting a few negatives that contributed to Pakistan’s disastrous show at the ongoing T20 World Cup in the US and the Caribbean islands. The Babar-Azam led team made a sorry exit from the tournament in the group stage…
