The Sports Authority of India (SAI) has approved the names of 23 athletes, including shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth, from badminton, cycling, para-athletics and para-shooting fields, to be included in the flagship Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS), ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Paralympics and 2024 Olympics. […]
Indian captain Virat Kohli capped a memorable 2018 season by becoming the first to win the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) cricketer, test and one-day international (ODI) player of the year awards, the ICC said on Tuesday. Kohli, the top scorer in both tests and one-dayers in 2018, was […]
Kolkata, Dec 22: Gearing up for the New Zealand tour, Indian women’s ODI captain Mithali Raj Saturday stressed on the need to bring focus back on cricket after hogging the limelight for the wrong reasons following a controversial ending to their World T20 campaign. Mithali was in the news […]
New Delhi, Dec 20:P V Sindhu struck gold just in time to shake off the choker’s tag, Saina Nehwal’s second coming kept getting better and Lakshya Sen was the proverbial one for the future in Indian badminton’s continuous onward march globally even though the title count took a […]
New Delhi, Dec 13: Eight young shooters including Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary were on Thursday included in the Target Olympic Scheme (TOPS) along with two tennis players and three paddlers, keeping in mind the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The TOPS offers a monthly financial support of Rs 50,000 to […]
North Sound (Antigua), Nov 23: The decision to drop a player of Mithali Raj’s calibre backfired during India’s humiliating semi-final loss to England in the World T20 but skipper Harmanpreet Kaur said that she has “no regrets” as it was decision taken keeping team’s interests in mind. Indian batting […]
CHENNAI, India — India got the benefit of a misfield on the last ball to scrape to a six-wicket victory over the West Indies in the third Twenty20 international and 3-0 sweep of the series. Nicholas Pooran’s whirlwind 53 not out off 25 balls helped West Indies […]
Fuzhou (China), Nov 9: Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth were ousted from the China Open World Tour Super 750 on Friday after losing their singles quarterfinals matches here. While Sindhu yet again struggled to go past China’s He Bingjiao in women’s singles, Srikanth fell in […]
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India— India humbled the West Indies by nine wickets in the final one-day international and took the five-match series 3-1 on Thursday. After bowling out the West Indies for 104, India made 105-1 in 15 overs to record its second biggest win in terms of balls to […]
Guwahati, Oct 21: Shimron Hetmyer (106) produced a sensational century as the West Indies bounced back from their Test series debacle to post a challenging 322 for eight in the first one-day International against India, here Sunday. The 21-year-old left-hander, who led West Indies to their first Under-19 World […]
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