India and Australia will square off in the second over ICC World Test Championship final at the Oval in London from tomorrow. And while it will be a second final for India, who went down to New Zealand by eight wickets in the inaugural iteration in Southampton, Australia will be contesting the final for the...
Defending double world champion Max Verstappen extended his lead in this year’s title race to 53 points on Sunday when he completed a hat-trick by driving his Red Bull to a masterful victory in the Spanish Grand Prix. The 25-year-old Dutchman led from lights to flag to come home 24 seconds ahead of revitalised seven-time...
Novak Djokovic battled into the French Open fourth round for a 14th consecutive year on Friday as Carlos Alcaraz also progressed, after women’s third seed Jessica Pegula and men’s seventh-ranked Andrey Rublev were dumped out of the tournament. Djokovic has made headlines for his comments about Kosovo this week but his on-court progress has been...
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar has been appointed as the ‘Smile Ambassador’ for the Maharashtra government’s oral hygiene campaign titled ‘Swachh Mukh Abhiyaan’, here on Tuesday. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for five years with Tendulkar for the major state-wide initiative, officials said. Speaking on the...
For the second time in a row Real Madrid football club is listed as the world’s most valuable football club of the world, bouncing ahead of English club Manchester United, according to Forbes. The Spanish club, Real Madrid, tops the list for the second year in a row with a value of USD 6.07 billion....
Titans take on four-time winners Chennai Super Kings IPL had hit the reboot button last season with two new teams coming into the competition. Gujarat Titans winning the trophy in its debut season validated the claims of India’s resource pool that could easily accommodate 10 teams in the league. In doing so, Titans have built...
Double Olympic medallist and former world champion Sindhu made short work of Switzerland’s Jenjira Stadelmann 21-10 21-4. Star Indian shuttlers P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth won their respective first round matches in the Madrid Masters Badminton here on Wednesday. But the doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty withdrew from the tournament after...
Win Tri-Nation Football Tournament India played some inspiring football against higher-ranked Kyrgyz Republic to snatch a 2-0 victory and bag the Tri-National International Tournament Trophy with an all-win record in Imphal on Tuesday. India had earlier defeated Myanmar 1-0 on March 22. The opening goal on Tuesday came from centre-back Sandesh Jhingan, who found the target...
Lionel Messi’s Argentina made a return for the first time since lifting the World Cup last December, as they beat Pana 2-0 in an international friendly on Thursday. Thiago Almada and Messi were on target in a festive atmosphere at the Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, as manager Lionel Scaloni picked the same starting XI...