Premier League giants Tottenham Hotspur and Formula One have joined hands to build an electric karting facility under Spurs' home ground as part of a new 15-year partnership, the club and F1 said on Tuesday.
Australia's stand-in skipper Steve Smith doesn't look surprised at all as he reckons Indore pitch to be another rank turner on the eve of the third Test against India at the Holkar Stadium on Tuesday.
Lionel Messi has been named The Best FIFA Men's Player for 2022, while Alexia Putellas of Spain was named The Best among women.
India skipper Rohit Sharma kept the KL Rahul versus Shubman Gill debate open on the eve of the third Test, saying former's removal as vice-captain doesn't indicate anything and the management will continue to back the players with "potential".
After risky shot-making cost them dearly in the previous match, Australia's stand-in skipper Steve Smith said their batsmen will aim to slow things down at the crease in the third Test against India in Indore starting on Wednesday.
India's star paddler Manika Batra is fully focussed on her target and minced no words in stating that her aim is 2024 Olympics slated to be held in Paris.
Newly-appointed skipper Temba Bavuma is quite confident about his team and said that it will be the start of a new journey when South Africa take on West Indies in the two-Test home series starting at Centurion Park on Tuesday.
Record-breaker Kane Williamson stroked a superb century Monday to steer New Zealand to 483 all out in their second innings and set England a target of 258 runs to win the second Test in Wellington.
The highest run-getter in the recently concluded Ranji Trophy season, Karnataka captain Mayank Agarwal will lead Rest of India in the upcoming Irani Cup clash against Madhya Pradesh. The match starts from March 1 in Gwalior. Mumbai's Sarfaraz Khan, who sustained a finger injury has not been named in the 16-member ROI squad.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who held bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday in Delhi, turned his focus from politics to cricket, which is considered to be a religion in India.
India boxer Anamika suffered a 1-4 loss in the 50kg light weight final to settle for a silver at the Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia on Sunday. Anamika went down against China's Hu Meiyi in a split verdict decision.
Australia's predetermined sweep ploy in the first two Tests against India backfired heavily and that has led to Pat Cummins and co. conceding the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with the hosts taking an unassailable 2-0 lead after winning the Nagpur and Delhi Tests. Joining the list of critics, former Australia captain Ian Chappell slammed the sweep tactic, saying that sweeping regularly is not the answer on Indian tracks and one has to have good footwork while playing spin in sub-continent conditions.
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Sweden's Armand Duplantis broke his own pole vault world record on Saturday, clearing 6.22 metres to add one centimetre to his previous mark at the World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
India's ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra will be defending his Tokyo gold in the next year's Paris Olympics but Kenya's David Rudisha on Saturday said that defending the feat will not be an easy task for the 25-year-old. Rudisha, the two-time Olympic Games gold medallist in 800m, however asserted that if Neeraj continued to train the way he did before Tokyo Games, he might be able to successfully defend his title.
Recalling his chat with Ajinkya Rahane, Australia's middle-order batter Peter Handscomb said that the former India vice-captain helped him combat spin bowling in the sub-continent.
Virat Kohli on Saturday said that even after reaching the semifinal and finals of the ICC tournaments, he has been tipped as a “failed captain.” The Indian run machine relinquished the captaincy from all formats last year.
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Joe Root scored an unbeaten century and star pacer James Anderson bagged three wickets as England were in commanding position at the end of rain-trucated Day 2 of the second Test at Basin Reserve in Wellington on Saturday. England, who had won the opening Test by 267 runs, are leading the two-match series 1-0.
Giannis Antetokounmpo left the Milwaukee Bucks' blowout of the visiting Miami Heat in the first quarter on Friday because of a right knee injury.
With as many as nine countries set to boycott the upcoming Women's World Championship in the national capital, the Boxing Federation of India has written to the nations in order to open a dialogue and get them to reverse their decision. The World Championship is scheduled for March 15 to 26 but with the International Boxing Association lifting the ban on Russian and Belarusian boxers, countries like USA, Britain, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Ukraine have decided not to participate in the event.
With focus on the 2023 ODI World Cup at home, 'shadow tours' with the India A squad will have to wait till the year-end tour of South Africa.
The Los Angeles Lakers launched their final push for a playoff berth with a 124-111 victory over the reigning champions Golden State Warriors.
Ben Stokes was not indulging in hyperbole when he tipped five-Test-old Harry Brook for global stardom heading into the series final against New Zealand, and the England Test captain will feel vindicated by the 24-year-old's batting on Friday.
Ash Gardner feels Australia's supreme fielding was the point of difference in the Women's T20 World semifinal clash against India at the Newlands cricket ground in Cape Town on Friday. Australia defeated India by five runs to enter the final.
The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has confirmed that documents related to allegations of racism and its responses to those charges had been "irretrievably deleted", which could be prejudicial to the interest of the game in the country.
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Returning to competitive cricket after a three-month gap, Glenn Maxwell is struggling to get that "mental application" back and is leaving no stone unturned in "building match intensity" to be ready for the crucial ODI series against India, which will also host the World Cup later this year.
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Scrap dealer Rajkumar Jaiswal's family was down to one meal a day when Covid-19 reared its ugly head. His shop was shut, and soon his house was submerged in floodwater, as Cyclone Amphan battered Bengal.
UP Warriorz had bought Healy for Rs 70 lakhs at the WPL Player Auctions in Mumbai on February 13 in Mumbai, and the star Australia batter has now been appointed the skipper of the side.
After making her last Grand Slam appearance at the Australian Open at the start of this year, Sania Mirza walked into the sunset of her career when she and Madison Keys lost in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Championship on Tuesday.
Though her journey to stardom began with a girls’ doubles title at Wimbledon in 2003 her breakthrough as a singles player came two years later at home. In fact, Sania not only won her only WTA singles in the city of the Nawabs but also clinched her maiden doubles.
The Indian boxing got a big boost with the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) on Tuesday appointing the well renowned Dmitry Dmitruk as the foreign coach to spearhead the country's elite teams for the next two years.
Virat Kohli leaves no stone unturned to win the hearts of his fans. Be it with his batting or his conduct on the field, the Indian batter always emerges as a true champion.
Real Madrid legend Amancio Amaro nicknamed 'the magician' has died at 83 the club announced on Tuesday.
Fifteen women cricketers got a chance to interact with and learn from former India captain MS Dhoni in a cricket clinic held in Mumbai under the mentorship of one of India's greatest leaders.
Australia opener David Warner will return home from India and miss the last two Tests of the Border Gavaskar Trophy after an elbow fracture and concussion, Cricket Australia said on Tuesday.
According to a report, if asked, batting great Matthew Hayden is ready to help Australia solve their batting woes in the ongoing Test series after the visiting side was bamboozled by the Indian spinners in the first two matches.
Former world number one Deepika Kumari, who was making a comeback after her maternity break, on Monday failed to make the Indian team for the Asian Games, World Cup and World Championships slated later this year. The multiple World Cup gold medallist, who finished seventh in the first phase of the trials in Kolkata last month, ended outside top eight in the women's recurve event to miss the cut in the final leg of the three-day trials, which concluded at the SAI Sonipat.
Australia chief coach Andrew McDonald made no bones about his team's capitulation in the second innings of the second Test here, saying they "failed the examination" of India.
Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood has been ruled out of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Hazlewood will return home after failing to recover from an Achilles injury, the team said on Monday.
Ravindra Jadeja is having a dream Test series against Australia, with his 7 for 42 in India's victory in the second Test being the latest highlight of a series dominated by the Indian all-rounder.
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Given the manner of their dismissals, it would be fair to say that the Australians 'swept' their way to self-destruction in the face of the Indian spinners' guile in the second Test here. Going into the morning session of the third day, Australia had a slight upper hand with a 62-run lead and nine wickets in hand, promising an exciting finish in front of a 20,000 plus Test loving crowd.
Star India batter Virat Kohli on Sunday became the fastest to get to the 25,000-run mark in international cricket. Kohli achieved the feat in 549 international matches across formats, surpassing legendary Sachin Tendulkar (34,437), who got to the landmark in 577 innings. Kohli got to the exclusive club in the second session on Day 3 of the Delhi Test.