NEW DELHI: Indian captain Rohit Sharma acknowledged the difficulty in selecting the team’s wicketkeeper batter for ODIs, with both KL Rahul and Rishabh Pant being strong contenders. He emphasized that each player brings unique strengths to the table, describing them as “match-winners” in their own right.Having recently featured in the T20 World Cup, Pant is…
Host France and Argentina will extend their recent rivalry in men’s football as they meet for the first time at an Olympic tournament for a place in the semi-finals in a high-profile clash in Bordeaux on Friday. Despite being an under-23 contest, both teams are eager to knock out their rivals in a repeat of…
Former world 1,500m champion Jake Wightman has been ruled out of the Olympics due to a hamstring injury, British team officials said Thursday. Wightman, who stormed to a memorable 1,500m gold medal at the 2022 World Championships, had been due to compete in the 800m in Paris. ALSO READ: Paris Olympics 2024: Journalist associations condemn…
NEW DELHI: India off-spin genius Ravichandran Ashwin is no mug with the bat. He has 5 hundreds and 14 half-centuries in Test cricket, one fifty in ODIs and a highest score of 50 in the IPL.In the Tamil Nadu Premier League 2024, Ashwin is the captain of Dindigul Dragons and on Wednesday his team faced…
Cardiff has signed Anwar El Ghazi after a German court found he was wrongfully dismissed by former club Mainz for making comments about the war in Gaza on social media. El Ghazi, who has won two caps for the Netherlands and previously played for Aston Villa and Everton, will join Welsh capital club Cardiff, which…
The atmosphere for Olympic swimming is electrifying. The times? Not so much. Through the first four days of competition in the portable pool at La Defense Arena, no world records were set. That finally changed in the final race on Wednesday night when Pan Zhanle of China broke his own mark in the men’s 100-meter…
NEW DELHI: India captain has urged his team to shift their focus from the exhilaration of their T20 World Cup triumph and concentrate on the challenges that lie ahead. With Gautam Gambhir taking over as the new head coach, the Indian team has embarked on a fresh journey, beginning with the current white-ball series against…
Australia women’s football head coach Tony Gustavsson’s four-year contract ended by mutual agreement following the team’s group stage exit at the Olympics, the Australian FA said on Thursday. Australia was aiming for its first Olympic podium after reaching the semi-finals at the Tokyo Games and last year’s World Cup on home soil. However, its second…
Former India wicket keeper M.S.K. Prasad said that Anshuman Gaekwad never showed any bias towards any cricketer during his stint as the coach of the Indian team. M.S.K., who was also the former BCCI senior selection committee chairman, said in his tribute to the former India opener, who passed away on Wednesday, that Gaekwad was his…
After announcing his decision to retire from T20Is following India’s T20 World Cup triumph earlier this year in June, Rohit Sharma‘s captaincy role in white-ball cricket is now limited to 50-over internationals, with his next assignment being the three-match ODI series on the tour of Sri Lanka.The skipper continues to be the centre of attraction…
