Montcin Hodge and Shamarh Brooks hit half-centuries but India A bowlers fought back with a flurry of wickets in the final session on the opening day of the match in Port of Spain.
Rana Gharami has been left to rue the break in Indian Super League (ISL) last season and his return home to Kolkata. Rana became the first ISL player to have been suspended provisionally for the use of a banned substance.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned on Wednesday former J&K chief minister and National Conference chairman Farooq Abdullah on charges of alleged money laundering and embezzlement of more than Rs 100 crore of J&K Cricket Association (JKCA) of which he was the president.
An all-out suffered in the dying seconds of the first half, came back to haunt hosts U Mumba as they went down 23-27 to UP Yoddha in an otherwise thrilling contest of the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League Season 7 at the National Sports Club Of India on Wednesday.
Former India seamer Venkatesh Prasad has applied for the position of India's bowling coach, TOI has learnt.
Almost 17 months after he was banned for his controversial role in the ball-tampering saga, David Warner is set to return to Test cricket. The dashing opener is set to lead Australia's charge as they take on traditional rivals England in the latest round of Ashes, cricket's oldest rivalry.
Batting coach Sanjay Bangar might find it difficult to retain his position when the national selectors pick the support staff for the Indian team. Many believe Bangar hasn't been able to create a solid middle order despite four years in the job.
Olympic 800 metres champion Semenya is fighting an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regulation that middle-distance female runners with a high natural level of testosterone must take medication to reduce it.
The BCCI on Tuesday banned the talented 19-year-old opener Prithvi Shaw from all forms of cricket for eight months for failing a dope test. A release from the Board said Shaw had "inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance, which can be commonly found in cough syrups".
Ravi Shastri remains favourite for the post of the coach of the Indian cricket team and has an automatic entry in the process. Shastri's contract ended with the World Cup but he and his support staff have been given a 45-day extension for the West Indies tour that starts Saturday. Under Shastri, India have won a little more than 70% of their matches.
French striker Karim Benzema scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid defeated Fenerbahce 5-3 in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday which temporarily lifted the summer gloom which has engulfed the Spanish giants and coach Zinedine Zidane.
The suspended Delhi Dynamos player Rana Gharami has told the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and All India Football Federation (AIFF) that he "wasn't aware of the presence of any banned substance" in the medicine that he took to treat fever.
The Punjab government has ordered an inquiry into the allegations levelled by veteran India player Harbhajan Singh that administrative delay on the part of the state's sports department was the reason for the rejection of his nomination for the prestigious Khel Ratna Award.
Jasprit Bumrah's superb performance in the Test arena and making a decent Test player out of a T20 slogger like Hardik Pandya would be the lasting legacy of a selection committee accused of "lacking vision", chairman of selectors MSK Prasad has asserted.
India's mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Ashwini Ponnappa on Wednesday recorded one of the biggest wins of their career, stunning Olympic silver medallists Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying in the first round of Thailand Open.
Before departing for the West Indies tour, India captain Virat Kohli backed Ravi Shastri to continue as coach. But Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) co-member Anshuman Gaekwad said it was not mandatory for the panel to consult Kohli before picking the next coach.
India's hunt for a new coach has attracted top international names, including Australian Tom Moody, despite skipper Virat Kohli backing Ravi Shastri to get a new deal, reports said Wednesday.
Mayank Agarwal’s long wait to wear Test whites ended when he got an immediate call-up for the Boxing Day Test against Australia in Melbourne in 2018. Agarwal has played 50 first-class matches, scoring 3964 runs at an average of above 50. He has a triple century to his name and is confident about building on his success by scoring a century on the West Indies tour.
Star Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal were static at fifth and eighth spots respectively in the recently released Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings.
Prithvi Shaw is a "fighter" and will come out of his eight-month doping suspension stronger, says Santosh Pingutkar, who taught him the ABC of cricket long before he became his most famous ward.
Is everything fine within the Indian wrestling coaching community? With less than a year to go for the Tokyo Olympics, there are signs of unease between Indian and foreign coaching staff in the men's freestyle section, especially after the recent selection trials for the senior World Championships which threw up unexpected results.
Pakistan speedster Hasan Ali, who ruffled Indian feathers with his 'provocative' gestures at the Wagah border last year, is all set to marry an Indian girl, Shamia Arzoo, who is working as an engineer in Dubai. The wedding is likely to take place at a Dubai hotel on August 20.
Earlier, Stokes's teammate James Anderson had claimed that the all-rounder, who was hugely apologetic the moment the incident happened during England's World Cup final against New Zealand , had appealed to the umpires to overturn their decision.
Former India and Mumbai opener Lalchand Rajput on Tuesday applied for the position of head coach of the senior men's national team.
Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, an honorary Lt Colonel in the Territorial Army, begins his voluntary stint with the outfit today in J&K during which he'll undertake guard and patrolling duties. Other Test players have also served in the armed forces in various capacities.
MSK Prasad hit back at his detractors for constantly demeaning his panel owing to its modest international record. In an interview, the chairman of the selection committee spoke on the jibes on his stature (his Test record is six matches), allegations that the Indian team management bullies him, lack of vision and the 'lame duck' jibe by Sunil Gavaskar.
England return to 'Fortress Edgbaston' for the first Test against Australia on Thursday looking to round off an already memorable season by completing a World Cup and Ashes double.
One seemed destined to be a Test captain at 23; the other was thrust into the leadership following an extraordinary crisis and not long after he'd thought of quitting cricket.
When the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is advocating a boycott of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the world shooting bodies possibly missed out on an opportunity of getting their sport back to the CWG 2022 programme. Or at least as it appears so.
Barred from competing in any ICC event, Zimbabwe's cricketers are willing to play "for free" to keep the game alive in the country, expressing their desperation to compete in the upcoming World Twenty20 Qualifiers.
Ajinkya Rahane was India's best batsman overseas from 2014 to 2016, but someone who has been struggling after August 2017, since scoring his last Test hundred against Sri Lanka at the SSC. He's played 17 Tests and scored 696 runs at an average of 24.85 since.
Champions League runners-up Tottenham will play Bayern Munich in Wednesday's final. Real, who lost to Spurs 0-1, will have a chance to find winning form against Fenerbahce who finished their game against Bayern (6-1) in disarray.
Prithvi Shaw was on Tuesday suspended for eight months by India's governing body for a doping violation, with the teenage batting sensation saying he was shaken by the news and would return to the game "faster and stronger".
Indian football superstar Sunil Chhetri feels the country has made progress in the past 10 years but still remains far behind other Asian powers in fields such as grassroot development and talent scouting. Chhetri said the country still needs to do a lot of work to narrow the gap with the Asian powers and reach the top 10 in the continent.
England's Ben Stokes says learning not to try to "please everyone" helped him mature and regain the Test vice-captaincy ahead of the Ashes series starting this week.
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis believes the new World Test Championship will add "proper context" to the five-day game and has backed the introduction of the global league as a step forward for the sport.
That Indian leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal was once a chess player is no secret. He was in fact at one time a junior National champion. TimesofIndia.com spoke with Yuzvendra's parents and one of his childhood friends to understand exactly how the Indian cricketer, who always wanted to pursue cricket began playing chess and then switched his focus back to cricket.
After drawing flak from all quarters for being involved in an online scandal with multiple women, Pakistan batsman Imam-ul-Haq has tendered an unconditional apology to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar is not in line with Sunil Gavaskar questioning the role of selection committee and the continuation of Virat Kohli as India captain following the team's World Cup exit in the semi-finals.
Last month, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) recommended the inclusion of three new sports to its programme for the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham, and one of the sports on which the axe fell consequently was shooting. The decision irked the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), which has now threatened to pull out of the Games.
The current support staff comprising incumbent head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun, batting coach Sanjay Bangar and fielding coach R Sridhar were given a 45-day extension following the World Cup, covering the West Indies tour from August 3 to September 3.
New Zealand Cricket added former Sri Lanka batsman and batting coach Thilan Samaraweera to their support staff on Tuesday for next month's two-Test series in the island country.
Actor Rana Daggubati is set to produce the biopic on celebrated cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan, the makers announced on Tuesday.
Facing mounting public pressure in a fight over equitable pay, U.S. Soccer said the World Cup champion women's national team has been paid more than the men's team.
Some 17 months on, with his rehabilitation after a one-year ball-tampering ban apparently completed, David Warner will return to the Test arena at Edgbaston on Thursday at the start of his sixth Ashes series. The opener has kept his own counsel on the Newlands incident since that media conference and preferred to let his bat do the talking on the road back from perdition.
Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur is not surprised by Mohammed Amir's decision to retire from Tests at the age of 27 as he feels the pacer's career in the longest format was considerably damaged by the spot-fixing ban he served.
Despite the fact that the most successful raider in VIVO Pro Kabaddi League history, Pardeep Narwal, failed to claim his first and only point until the 36th minute of the encounter, three-time champions Patna Pirates managed to edge past Tamil Thalaivas 24-23 at the National Sports Club of India on Monday evening.
Former world number ones Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams were given wildcard entries into next month's WTA Cincinnati tournament, a key tuneup event for the US Open. Each will compete in the main draw for the August 12-18 hardcourt event.
England and Australia begin the latest edition of the Ashes at Edgbaston on Thursday, with the home side looking to wrestle back the urn.