Delhi Capitals will be without skipper Rishabh Pant in this season of the IPL as he is still still recuperating from the injuries he suffered in a horrific car crash last December.
Injuries on both the sides, coupled with unavailability of a few foreign players, will make the choices restricted for the two teams, who have new leaders in place in the form of Punjab's Shikhar Dhawan and Kolkata's Nitish Rana.
Fernando Alonso topped the timesheets for Aston Martin in a rain-hit second free practice at the Australian Grand Prix on Friday after Formula One champion Max Verstappen was quickest in the dry first session.
Royal Challengers Bangalore's fast bowler Josh Hazlewood will arrive in India from Australia by April 14 and will stay in recuperation mode for another week, which effectively rules him out for the first half of the Indian Premier League. The Australian pacer has been suffering from an Achilles heel injury and is likely to sit out of RCB's first seven games of the season, which begins on Friday.
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Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth registered a commanding straight game victory over compatriot Sai Praneeth on Thursday to book his place in the quarter-finals of the men's singles event at the Madrid Masters badminton tournament.
Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the men's singles quarterfinals of Madrid Masters badminton tournament with a straight game win over compatriot B Sai Praneeth here on Thursday. World no. 21 Srikanth, seeded fifth, got the better of his 49th ranked Indian compatriot 21-15 21-12 in a second round match.
Pakistan threatened to not take part in ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 scheduled to be held in India later this year if the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would not allow Men in Blue to participate in Asia Cup 2023, as per a source. The Men in Green want to play their WC matches in Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, according to a source.
A marquee figure in the Delhi Capitals franchise, Axar Patel will be donning the vice-captaincy hat in the upcoming season and the all-rounder is all excited about his new role in the team. With regular skipper Rishabht Pant out for the entire season, Australian David Warner was announced the captain of the side and Axar was assigned as his deputy.
IPL 2023 is all set to begin. The opening match of the 16th season will see two very good friends going up against each other as captains. Hardik Pandya will lead his Gujarat Titans team out with the hope and aim of defending their title at the end of the season. MS Dhoni meanwhile will be leading CSK again, with the hope that they can bounce back hard after a very disappointing 9th place finish in IPL 2022.
A rampant England cricket Test side has won 10 out of their last 12 matches since coach Brendon McCullum and skipper Ben Stokes have teamed up and their aggressive style of play dubbed 'Bazball' has been one of the highlights in the past one year. England have been unable to win the Ashes since 2015 and a got a 0-4 drubbing the last time they met Australia Down Under but pacer Ollie Robinson is confident of a turn around this time.
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the International Olympic Committee's guidelines that allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in international competitions as neutrals contain "elements of discrimination".
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The 2023 edition of the IPL will see the return of home-and-away format, which had to dropped when the league was played in a bio-bubble during the Covid-19 pandemic. It also means there will be more travel involved for the teams over the next two months, which will be one of the tough parts according to Delhi Capitals' coach Ricky Ponting.
Former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu on Tuesday thanked her fans for their support and said she is still awaiting test results on the left ankle injury that forced her to leave the Miami Open Grandstand court in a wheelchair on Monday.
Belgium cruised to a 3-2 win over Germany in a friendly on Tuesday. With this win, Belgium, with two wins from two matches in the past four days, have piled pressure on the embattled Euro 2024 hosts.
Hitting towering sixes is nothing new for MS Dhoni as he dispatched all the top bowlers over the park umpteen times during his career. As the IPL 2023 is getting nearer, Chennai Super Kings skipper Dhoni is leaving no stone unturned to be match ready.
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Indian weightlifter Bharali Bedabrate clinched the men's 67kg bronze medal at the the IWF World Youth Championships in Durres, Albania.
The second one-day international between New Zealand and Sri Lanka was washed out by persistent rain at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Tuesday. The washout dealt a further blow to the tourists' slender hopes of automatic qualification for this year's World Cup.
Former US Open champion Bianca Andreescu's return to form was cut brutally short on Monday when the Canadian suffered a serious injury in her fourth round Maimi Open match against Ekaterina Alexandrova.
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Seasoned striker Sunil Chhetri has always one thing on his mind whenever he is out in the field is to score despite being flagbearer of Indian football for the last two decades.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has changed the pitch rating of Indore's Holkar Stadium to 'below average' from 'poor' following a BCCI appeal. The stadium hosted the third Test between India and Australia.
Their men's team is the most successful IPL team of all time with 5 titles and now the Mumbai Indians women's team has won the inaugural Women's Premier League title.
Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah made his first appearance post his surgery during the Women's Premier League (WPL) final at the Brabourne Stadium. Bumrah underwent back surgery in New Zealand earlier this month.
Having achieved the ultimate glory of winning the IPL title in their maiden appearance last year, Hardik Pandya's Gujarat Titans will aim to replicate all the right moves they made to lift the trophy with the competition expanded to 10 teams. Gujarat Titans was the best team in IPL 2022 for not just lifting the trophy but for executing a perfectly-planned campaign among all competitors, winning 10 out of 14 league games and finishing at the top of the points table with the best outcome (20 points).
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Swashbuckling batsman Chris Gayle lauded Indian batting maestro Virat Kohli for his work ethic and passion. Gayle also went down memory lane and recalled the intense competition between the two during their heyday at Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly says India's star wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant "must take his time to heal properly" from his injuries, before making a comeback to competitive cricket.
The wide smile on Manu Bhaker's face said it all. Before the 25m pistol final on Saturday here at the ISSF World Cup, and even before the rapid stage of qualification, Manu was trying her best to hide her nervousness. Her father was by her side for all this while, perhaps because he had spotted the jitters in her daughter and tried comforting with his presence.
Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez on Saturday broke the lap record twice in the qualifying session to put Honda in pole position at the season-opening Portuguese Grand Prix.
Bayern Munich's current squad is among the best in Europe and taking over the German champions comes with instant pressure to succeed, new coach Thomas Tuchel said on Saturday. Bayern surprisingly parted ways with Julian Nagelsmann on Friday and wasted no time in bringing in former Chelsea coach Tuchel in a deal to 2025 as his replacement.
Royal Challengers Bangalore icon Virat Kohli on Saturday arrived in Bengaluru for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League, which starts from March 31. RCB will host Mumbai Indians in their season opener on April 2 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Mumbai Indians would look to cap their superb Women's Premier League season (WPL) by defeating Delhi Capitals in the final of the inaugural edition of the tournament at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Ace Australia and Royal Challengers Bangalore all-rounder Glenn Maxwell has said that while the injury to his left leg had healed, it'll take a "number of months" before he is back to full fitness as he prepares for the upcoming edition of the IPL.
Dynamic Indian doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty has entered the semi-finals of the Swiss Open Super Series 300 badminton event defeating the Danish pair of Jeppe Bay and Lasse Molhede in three hard-fought games.
The ICC chairman Greg Barclay was all in praise of the inaugural Women's Premier League as he lauded the BCCI's tremendous efforts in making the tournament a grand success. The 5-team tournament which began on March 4 will have its final on Sunday and Barclay praised secretary Jay Shah and his team for leading the way in terms of getting the women's game to where it needs to be.
Delhi Capitals' assistant coach and former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson said that out-of-form David Warner will have a 'point to prove' in the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League, which starts on March 31. Warner has been named captain of the Delhi franchise for IPL 2023 after regular skipper Rishabh Pant was ruled out of the tournament following a horrific car accident in December last year.
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A disciplined life off the field is key to producing disciplined performances on it, feels Australian great Ricky Ponting, who would love to create good human beings out of solid cricketers. "The better person you are, it is easy to become a better player. If you haven't got your personal life in order, it is really difficult to become a disciplined performer on the field," Ponting said at a promotional event of IPL franchise Delhi Capitals here on Friday.
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Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni rolled his arms at the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) camp during the franchise's training session.
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The defeat to Australia in the just concluded ODI series is a timely wake up call but there is no need to press the panic button yet as far as the Indian team's World Cup preparations are concerned.
Prolific England batter Jonny Bairstow will miss the entire IPL this year as his cricket board refused to grant him No Objection Certificate (NOC) to play in the high-profile T20 league beginning on March 31, according to a report.