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Virat Kohli is no stranger to controversies after his on-field aggression has made news on multiple occasions. However, this time, the Indian cricket team skipper found himself at the receiving end of a major backlash on social media after he asked a cricket fan to ‘leave India’ after he said that he likes watching Australian Read More…
On a sporting wicket, which local groundsmen had predicted should help the batsmen, West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first on predicted lines. However, after a double whammy in the first two overs saw Kieran Powell and Shai Hope being snapped up by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah respectively for ducks, it Read More…
Indian cricket team registered a massive 224-run win over West Indies to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series in Mumbai on Monday. It was the third biggest win for India (in terms of runs) in ODIs and the biggest when it comes to Test playing nations. The two biggest victories were 257-run win Read More…
Dhoni retired from Tests a few years ago, choosing to concentrate only on white-ball cricket. But now his ommission from India’s T20 squad by BCCI compelled many to suggest that the legend might not make it to the 2019 ICC World Cup. The Board Of Control for Cricket in India released the squads late on Read More…
Virat Kohli on Wednesday became the fastest cricketer to reach 10,000 runs in one-day internationals during the second match of the series against the Windies at Vizag. Kohli reached the milestone in 205 innings and thus broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record. Tendulkar had taken 259 innings to reach the feat. Kohli became only the 4th Indian Read More…
Sanath Jayasuriya was the player of the tournament when Sri Lanka won the World Cup in 1996 But now Ex-Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya has been charged by the International Cricket Council with two breaches of its anti-corruption code. The 49-year-old former all-rounder is accused of failing to co-operate with an investigation by the governing Read More…
Prithvi Shaw and KL Rahul remained unbeaten on 33 and 33 respectively as India sealed the second Test against West Indies by 10 wickets in Hyderabad on Sunday. Shaw’s 45-ball knock was inclusive of four boundaries, while Rahul smashed two fours and a six during his 53-ball 33. Earlier, India bowled out the West Indies Read More…
The great West Indies procession ended with their heaviest Test defeat against India, by an innings and 272 runs. It took India under 100 overs to bowl them out twice in their third straight three-day defeat in India. Fourteen of the 20 wickets fell in two sessions and a bit on the third day. The Read More…
Prithvi Shaw on Thursday become the 15th Indian to score a debut Test hundred. The 18-year-old right-hander from Mumbai smashed 134 against West Indies in Rajkot to announce his arrival at the international stage. Prithvi joins an elite list of Indian players who scored a hundred on Test debut. Here’s the complete list of all Read More…
In a major remarkable judgement the Central Information Commission on Monday ruled that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) was a public authority under the RTI Act and directed it to set up mechanisms to respond to queries under the law. “… the Commission exercising its power under RTI Act, 2005 … Read More…
India and Afghanistan played out a brilliant tie in their Asia Cup Super Four clash on Tuesday. Score Card : Afghanistan 252/8 (50) ; India 252 (49.5) Result : Match Tied This result meant that Afghanistan will end the tournament on a high after agonising last-over losses in the previous two matches. Rashid Khan defended Read More…
Rohit and the other centurion, Shikhar Dhawan, led India to a easy nine-wicket win over their arch-rivals and also ensured defending champions India made it to the final of the Asia Cup. Rohit right now is second to Dhawan on the most runs scored this tournament with 269 runs in four innings at a average Read More…
Treated not respectfully for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, star wrestler Bajrang Punia met Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and said he has been assured that his case will be looked into. “I was supposed to meet the Minister today but suddenly we got a call last evening for the meeting. I asked Read More…
Pakistan’s opening batsmen, Iman-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman failed to give Pakistan the required start despite being in a good touch against their crucial fixture against India in Dubai on Wednesday before Pakistan ended up losing the match by eight wickets. Both the batters became Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s victims before Captain Sarfraz Ahmed chose to play a Read More…
England sealed the five-match Test series 4-1 with a 118-run win at the Oval. It was a fairytale finish for Alastair Cook, who not only scored a hundred in his final Test but also broke into the top five run-getters of all time in the longest format of the game. 149 by Rahul is the Read More…
Asian games 2018 in Indonesia was a brilliant display by the Indian team as the contingent bagged 69 medals which included 15 gold medals. While the winners have been promised cash rewards by the respective state governments, Harish Kumar, winner of bronze medal in Sepaktakraw, is now forced to resume his day job which is Read More…
England had set India a target of 245 after getting bowled out for 271 in their second innings early on day 4. This is the third successive Test series loss for India in England after 2011 and 2014. India in reply, got off to a poor start as KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara and Shikhar Dhawan Read More…
India ended their Asian Games 2018 campaign on a high note with medal tally closed at 69 medals including 15 gold, 24 silver and 30 bronze. This is India’s best performance in the Asian Games till now. At the 15th day at the Asian Games 2018, India will not be participating. The solitary event that Read More…
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza has been reportedly subject to eve-teasing by Bangladesh cricketer Sabbir Rahman, according to her cricketer-husband Shoaib Malik. As per reports in Bangladeshi media, Shoaib Malik, in his official complaint to the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) chairman, Sabbir had teased Sania four years back when the Pakistan cricketer was Read More…
End of thirteenth day China tops the medal tally with 118 Golds amongst 263 medals , Japan and Korea stands Rank 2 and 3 with 69 and 43 gold medals respectively in their ketty . India with 13 gold amongst 65 medals has moved up to 8th position from previous 9th Position India has Read More…
Never considered a medal contender, Manjit surprised one and all by pipping more fancied Johnson to clinch the gold with a timing of 1:46.15s, which was .20s faster than the Asian Championship medallist from Kerala, who bagged the silver. India’s last gold in men’s 800m was won by Charles Borromeo in 1982 Asian Games. It Read More…
While India failed to win any gold on Sunday, but the eighth day of the Games turned out to be a Super Sunday for the Indian contingent as they bagged the most in a single day so far this Asean games . Out of the seven medals which India won on Sunday were five silver Read More…
Three people were killed and 11 others wounded Sunday when a video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in the northern Florida city of Jacksonville, local police said. Sheriff Mike Williams named the suspect of the shooting at a Madden 19 American football eSports tournament as 24-year-old Read More…
Shardul Vihan, 15, became the youngest Indian shooter to win a medal at the Asian Games after he finished second in the men’s double trap here, extending the sensational run of teenaged marksmen from the country. The Meerut-based Vihan shot 73 in the final after topping the qualification earlier in the day. The gold went Read More…
Rahi Sarnobat on Wednesday became the first Indian woman shooter to win an Asian Games gold medal as she triumphed after prevailing in a double shoot-off in the 25m pistol event. The 27-year-old shot a games record score on her way to winning the Gold metal at the Jakabaring Shooting Range. The final went into shoot-off after Read More…
India produced an all-round performance to beat England by 203 runs in the third Test at Trent Bridge on Wednesday. Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli on Tuesday dedicated his team’s victory in the third Test against England to the victims of the devastating Kerala floods. “We as a team want to dedicate this win to Read More…
India suffered an embarrassing innings and 159-run defeat in the second Test against England after yet another batting failure on day four at Lord’s, leaving the struggling visitors 0-2 behind in the five-match series. Indian batsmen failed to learn from their mistakes and were all at sea against the moving ball as the second innings Read More…
India slumped from 141/6 to 162 all out as Ben Stokes ran through the lower order, returning with figures of 4-40 as England registered a win in the first Test at Edgbaston. India skipper Virat Kohli’s batting heroics went in vain as England produced a sensational fightback to seal a 31-run victory in the first Read More…
Cricketer turned Politician Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) says they will invite former cricketers Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Navjot Sidhu, and actor Aamir Khan to a prospective swearing-in ceremony, a party official confirmed to India Today. During a live television interview, PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudry said invitations would be sent by today or tomorrow Read More…