Category: Sports

England’s 2019 World Cup winning captain Eoin Morgan on Friday has ruled himself out from the race of becoming the next men’s Test captain and has instead backed all-rounder Ben Stokes to take up the job after Joe Root’s resignation earlier in April. Whoever becomes England’s Test captain has got the tough job to get […]

Young Indian Grandmaster (GM) Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa added to his growing stature as World’s top upcoming chess star by winning the Reykjavik Open chess tournament with a victory against compatriot D Gukesh in the final round. Praggnanandhaa, Pragg as he is fondly called, finished the 7.5 points from nine rounds, finishing half-point ahead of four players […]

New Zealand pacer Tim Southee on Thursday crowned a steller season in international cricket by winning the Sir Richard Hadlee Medal, the award given to the top men’s performer of the year in the country.Southee, who is currently representing Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, was announced as winner of the event on […]

Premier League winner Manchester City will play Spanish giants Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals after a 0-0 draw with Atletico Madrid in the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium made good the 1-0 home win from their quarter-final first leg. Pep Guardiola’s side showed in the closing minutes that it is just as adept at the […]

The Netherlands men’s cricket team head coach Ryan Campbell is out of an induced coma, though he remains in the Intensive Care Unit after suffering a heart attack on Saturday. The fifty-year-old felt chest pains and difficulty breathing while out with his family in the UK on Saturday. As of Tuesday night local time, doctors […]

Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis praised his teammates for extricating themselves from trouble once again and noted the good work by his bowlers in the 18-run win against Lucknow SuperGiants in IPL 2022 on Tuesday, adding that he is happy with his own performance which helped the team to recover from a tricky […]

Lucknow SuperGiants skipper, KL Rahul has been fined 20 percent of his match fee for breaching the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Code of Conduct during his team’s match against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the DY Patil Stadium here on Tuesday night. An IPL statement said that, “Rahul admitted to the Level 1 offence of the […]

Former India and Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli is going through a terrible run of form for some time now and his string of failures with the bat continued with a first-ball duck on Tuesday in the IPL 2022 match against Lucknow Super Giants at the D.Y Patil Stadium here. With that disappointing outing […]

County cricket could see a radical change — including the 18 sides competing across three formats to and crown the overall champion as England great Andrew Strauss is planning a major shake-up of domestic cricket following the Test side’s Ashes debacle. Strauss, who was England cricket’s managing director on an interim basis before Rob Key […]

Former India cricketer Wasim Jaffer has attributed Chennai Super Kings opener Ruturaj Gaikwad’s return to form to taking his time to sort out his batting and also “respecting the (playing) conditions”. Gaikwad was the highest run-getter in CSK’s winning campaign last year, scoring a mind-boggling 635 runs in 16 matches. He beat then-CSK teammate Faf […]