Lausanne: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra continued his tremendous form as he came back from a onemonth injury lay-off to clinch the top spot in the Lausanne leg of the Diamond League, his second straight winof the season in the prestigious one-day meeting series, here on Friday. The 25-year-old Chopra had skipped three top events due...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced the schedule for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 at a ‘Countdown to the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023’ event in Mumbai. Ten teams feature in what will be the biggest Cricket World Cup ever, to be played across 10 venues from 5 October to 19...
Argentina star player Lionel Messi celebrated his 36th birthday in a very memorable way. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner, who successfully guided Argentina to victory in the FIFA World Cup 2022 in December last year, played a match for his Argentinian club Newell’s Old Boys on Saturday. This match was also a farewell game to Messi’s former...
Carlos Alcaraz will return to world number one after beating Alex de Minaur 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to win his first title on grass at Queen’s Club. The Spaniard’s fifth title of the season moves him back ahead of 23-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic at the top of the rankings. “It means a lot...
The BCCI Men’s Selection Committee has picked India’s squad for the upcoming two-match Test series and three ODIs against the West Indies starting in July. The Men In Blue are also scheduled to play five T20Is and the squad for the same will be announced later. (More Cricket News) Veteran batter Cheteshwar Pujara and senior pacer Umesh...
By India Today Sports Desk: Barcelona, the reigning Spanish league champions, will commence their title defence with an away fixture against Getafe on August 13, as confirmed by the Spanish Football Association (RFEF) on Thursday. Meanwhile, arch-rivals Real Madrid will kick off their campaign with an away match against Athletic Bilbao during the same weekend....
The ball was veering onto his body. Pat Cummins shuffled across and paused and opened the face of his bat to guide it to square third man. The ball was trickling to the fence, the outfield made heavy by the rain. Zak Crawley was galloping from his fielding station to stop the ball. But in...
England’s Stuart Broad took two late wickets to pile pressure on Australia as the opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston headed for a dramatic finish. Australia were making steady progress at 78-1 in pursuit of a victory target of 281 when veteran paceman Broad removed both Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith — the world’s two top-ranked...
Captain Sunil Chhetri, as is his wont, rose to the occasion with his 87th international goal as India won the Intercontinental Cup with a 2-0 victory over Lebanon in the final here on Sunday. Lallianzuala Chhangte struck the evening’s other goal to cap an impressive display. This is India’s second title triumph in the tournament,...
England and France cruised to victories over international minnows in Euro 2024 qualifying on Friday, but Wales saw their hopes of reaching next year’s finals in Germany suffer a setback in a 4-2 home defeat by Armenia. Gareth Southgate’s England scored twice from the penalty spot as they eased to a 4-0 win away to...