Canadian professional tennis player Leylah Fernandez, who lost in the US Open final, said on Tuesday that she has gotten advice from five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova and is eager to return to the court. Fernandez attended New York’s annual Met Gala a day after losing to British schoolgirl Emma…
David Warner may have lost the captaincy and eventually his place at SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH) but he will still open the batting for Australia at the T20 World Cup, captain Aaron Finch has said. Finch said that Warner is “one of the best players to ever play the game for Australia” and will come good at…
India dominated the International Hockey Federation’s (FIH) Hockey Stars Awards 2020/21 with drag-flickers Gurjit Kaur and Harmanpreet Singh winning the women’s and men’s Player of the Year awards. PR Sreejesh and Savita Punia won the men’s and women’s honours respectively for Goalkeeper…
Australia’s players support the country’s board over its threat to call off a test with Afghanistan if the Taliban regime ban women from playing cricket, white ball captain Aaron Finch said on Wednesday. Governing body Cricket Australia said it would cancel the Nov. 27 test in Hobart if reports women in the South…
An IPL debut against his idol Mahendra Singh Dhoni was a “fanboy” moment for young Delhi Capitals batsman Ripal Patel, who said the talismanic Chennai Super Kings skipper inspired him to pursue cricket. The 26-year-old made his IPL debut against CSK in a winning cause on Monday. He made only 18 runs off 20 balls…
Young Indian shooter Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar smashed the world record in the final to win gold in the men’s 50m rifle 3 positions event at the ISSF junior world championships here. Tomar equalled the junior world record score of 1185 in qualification to top the field on Monday. The youngster then bettered the…
Tokyo Olympics bronze-medallist Lovlina Borgohain (69kg) has been handed direct qualification for the upcoming women’s world boxing championships by the Indian federation, which has decided that the remaining squad will be made up of gold-winners from the upcoming nationals. The national championships will be held in…
The Indian senior women’s team went down to Tunisia by a solitary goal in a friendly match played in Dubai on Monday. Heuij scored the all-important goal for Tunisia in the eighth minute from a free kick. Tunisia are ranked 77th in the FIFA chart, as against India’s 57th position. After conceding early, India…
The one-off pink-ball women’s Test between India and Australia, which ended in a draw with the tourists on top, has reignited the argument about whether women’s Tests should be made a five-day affair to improve their results. The Indian women topped the day and night Test and would have scored a historic…
England will be well prepared for the Twenty20 World Cup because half of the squad are getting used to conditions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by playing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), bowler Tymal Mills said. England’s squad for the T20 World cup are well represented in the IPL, with eight of the 15…