Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the Chennai Super Kings dressing room remained calm despite a wobbly start against the Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match in Chennai as the side knew that batting would get easier owing to the dew factor.
Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir is quite intrigued by the colour of the outfits sported by the players of Rajasthan Royals.
Rajasthan Royals captain Ajinkya Rahane has been fined Rs 12 lakh for maintaining a slow over-rate during the IPL match between against Chennai Super Kings.
Karim Benzema stopped Real Madrid's underwhelming La Liga season going from bad to worse on Sunday after firing a last-minute winner to hand the European champions a barely-deserved 3-2 winner over bottom club Huesca.
New Zealand Cricket have cancelled their under-19 team's scheduled tour of Bangladesh in the wake of last month's mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch.
Captain Aaron Finch warned Australia will embark on their World Cup defence next month with confidence riding high after completing an ODI sweep against Pakistan on Sunday hot on the heels of a series victory in India.
It is in England during his time with Chelsea that the whole world came to know of Didier Drogba. But it is in France with Le Mans, Guingamp and Marseille that the former Ivory Coast captain polished his talent as a young player.
Elavenil Valarivan, 19, is still junior, but the young shooter made a successful transition to the senior category on Sunday.
Kevin Kisner, who shared a runner-up spot in last year's British Open, defeated Matt Kuchar 3&2 in Sunday's WGC Match Play Championship final to win his third career PGA title.
Roger Federer lifted the 101st title of his remarkable career on Sunday in dominating style, beating ATP Miami Open defending champion John Isner 6-1, 6-4.
As they say, records are made to be broken and Delhi's young guns are not the ones to give up so easily, considering the red-hot form they are in. The tourists head to Mohali on the back of a nail-biting super-over win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.
World champions Australia completed a 5-0 whitewash over Pakistan with a clinical 20-run win in the fifth and final one-day international despite a brilliant hundred from Haris Sohail in Dubai on Sunday.
Here are the big sports events lined up for Monday (April 1) that comprise the IPL clash between Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's well-calculated half-century in challenging conditions turned out to be game-changer as Chennai Super Kings won their third match of the season with an eight-run defeat of Rajasthan Royals on Sunday.
Liverpool moved back top of the Premier League in dramatic fashion as Toby Alderweireld's last minute own goal beat Tottenham 2-1 at Anfield on Sunday.
Managing class 12th CBSE exams and becoming the youngest IPL debutant at the same time can be a difficult task, but Royal Challengers Bangalore leg-spinner Prayas Ray Barman just did that.
Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton took advantage of Ferrari new boy Charles Leclerc's wretched misfortune on Sunday when he claimed a dramatic victory for Mercedes in the Bahrain Grand Prix.
After the Jonny Bairstow and David Warner show there was not much for the Sunrisers Hyderabad bowlers to do as the pressure of chasing the huge target took a heavy toll on the Royal Challengers Bangalore batsmen.
Colombian Miguel Angel Lopez of the Astana team withstood a late attack by Briton Adam Yates aided by his brother Simon to claim victory in the Tour of Catalonia on Sunday.
Maurizio Sarri rode his luck as Chelsea narrowly avoided humiliation at Cardiff to hit back and snatch a controversial 2-1 win on Sunday.
Stephen Gallacher, the two-time Dubai Desert Classic winner added a fourth European Title to his credentials at the age of 44, owing to three birdies in the last four holes. Gallacher one-under for the day was enough to clinch this year’s $1.75m Hero Indian Open at 10-under, as overnight leaders Julian Suri and Callum Shinkwin saw their hopes rocked by the swirling winds with scores of five-over and six-over respectively.
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli termed Sunday's 118-run defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad as one of their "worst losses ever" in the Indian Premier League.
One of the finest sports minds in India, badminton guru and national coach Pullela Gopichand will be a little disappointed to not see any Indian on top of the podium at India Open, which concluded at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex here on Sunday. But what has also left him a little unhappy is the lack of consistency in umpiring standards.
India's ace shuttler Saina Nehwal says the badminton competition at next year's Olympics will be tougher than the last three Games and she is working on fitness and improving her game in the run-up to the showpiece event in Tokyo.
Even though he had made a name for himself as a free-flowing stroke-maker who has the uncanny ability to score at will, Jonny Bairstow found no takers in the IPL last season. This season, he was picked up by Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2.2 crore and the Englishman has paid back every penny with interest for the franchisee.
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Chief Indian national coach Pullela Gopichand believes that the Olympic qualification system in badminton is "unfair" and putting a "lot of strain" on the players.
Kidambi Srikanth, perhaps, left too much for a little too late on Sunday to try "something different" against Viktor Axelsen. The Denmark ace came out on top against the Indian at all crunch moments, which proved to be the difference in the men's singles final of the India Open here at the Indira Gandhi Stadium complex in New Delhi on Sunday.
Former hockey Olympian Marcellus Gomes sees the qualifiers for the 2020 Tokyo Games as the first major challenge for Graham Reid, who is set to be appointed as coach of the senior men's team.
Openers David Warner and Jonny Bairstow went all-guns blazing against a hapless Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling line-up as Sunrisers Hyderabad posted 231 for two -- their highest total of IPL -- at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Indian shooters made a clean sweep of gold medals in 10m Air Rifle event to continue their dominance at the 12th Asian Airgun Championships in Taoyuan, Taipei.
India's young wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant was on Sunday caught in the eye of a storm owing to an edited stump microphone clip from an IPL game which went viral on social media but was dismissed by the BCCI as "misconstrued".
Kidambi Srikanth reached the men's singles final of a tournament for the first time in a year and a half but that was as good as it got, with Denmark's Viktor Axelsen getting the better of India's top shuttler at the Indira Gandhi Stadium Complex here on Sunday 21-7, 22-20 to win his second India Open title.
Prayas Ray Barman has become the youngest player to make IPL debut after Royal Challengers Bangalore included him for their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday.
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"I thought, what do we bowl here? We could bowl bouncers. We could bowl slower balls. But it's risky. It's gamble balls. I wasn't really feeling (like) them on the day. On another day, I could have felt (like bowling) them. But today I felt (like bowling) the yorker," Kagiso Rabada said.
Former India captain and Delhi Capitals advisor Sourav Ganguly termed Kagiso Rabada's match-winning yorker to KKR's Andre Russell as the "Ball of the IPL".
Sri Lanka's Test captain Dimuth Karunaratne was arrested for alleged drunk driving in Colombo on Sunday.
Mumbai Indians (MI) captain Rohit Sharma was fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) in Mohali.
Ahead of their match against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman AB de Villiers expressed hope of registering their first victory of the season.
Former Indian captain Krishnamachari Srikkanth reiterated the fact that cricket is a team sport and too much dependence on one or two players cannot see a team go all the way.
Australia's top bowlers on Sunday lashed out at "false" and "inflammatory" claims they were planning a Test boycott if David Warner had not been kicked off the team in the wake of the ball-tampering scandal.
Tiger Woods won a dramatic morning showdown with Rory McIlroy only to be upset by Denmark's Lucas Bjerregaard in quarter-finals of the WGC Match Play Championship.
In her first comments since parting ways with her long-time coach Sandeep Gupta, ace shuttler Manika Batra on Saturday clarified that city-based Sanmay Paranjpe was not her new coach, but only a "co-player" and "practice partner".
It looked like the day once again belonged to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) all-rounder Andre Russell after he hit a 27-ball 62 against the Delhi Capitals (DC). But DC opener Prithvi Shaw had other ideas as he hit a classy 99 to overshadow Russells knock.
While it's reliably learnt that Sachin Tendulkar isn't joining politics, the meeting set off speculation that the retired great may be eyeing an innings as an administrator of the Mumbai Cricket Association, which Pawar once headed.
The slow nature of the 22 yards came in for censure from both CSK and RCB during the IPL opener here last weekend, having yielded a low-scoring encounter where the balance was heavily tilted in favour of the spinners.