Kolkata, May 11 The Indian cricket board may have refused to play a day-night Test in Australia later this year, but former India captain Sourav Ganguly feels the pink-ball contest is the future and the country will have to embrace it someday. “Day-night Test is the way forward. Every countryRead More

New Delhi, May 10 Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson shared an unbeaten 176-run stand to overshadow a breathtaking hundred by Rishbah Pant as Sunrisers Hyderabad sailed into the Indian Premier League playoffs with a commanding nine-wicket victory over Delhi Daredevils. Delhi’s total of 187/5 was a challenging target but DhawanRead More

Sydney, may 10 Australian skipper Tim Paine denied David Warner was a divisive figure widely disliked within the team, insisting he would be welcomed back after his ban for a cheating scandal.Disgraced former vice-captain Warner is serving a year-long suspension for his part in the plan to use sandpaper toRead More

London, May 10 Huddersfield Town were left celebrating wildly after securing their Premier League safety on Wednesday with a dramatic and resilient 1-1 draw at Chelsea, a result that looks almost certain to condemn Swansea City to relegation. With a Harry Kane goal giving Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 win overRead More

Kolkata, May 10 The Indian cricket board may have refused to play a day-night Test in Australia later this year, but former India captain Sourav Ganguly feels the pink-ball contest is the future and the country will have to embrace it someday. “Day-night Test is the way forward. Every countryRead More

Sydney, May 10 B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma registered straight-game victories to progress to the quarterfinals of the men’s singles event at the Australian Open here on Thursday. Second seed Praneeth beat Indonesia’s Panji Ahmad Maulana 21-12 21-14, while fourth seed Verma eased past Takuma Ueda of Japan 21-16Read More

Kolkata, Mumbai Indians produced a brilliant bowling and fielding performance after Ishan Kishan’s batting pyrotechnics as the defending champions thrashed Kolkata Knight Riders by 102 runs to stay in the hunt for a playoffs berth in the Indian Premier League here on Wednesday. Sent in to bat at the Eden Gardens,Read More

New Delhi, A desperate Delhi Daredevils will have to learn from the mistakes they made in the previous game against table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad when the two sides with contrasting campaigns meet again here on Thursday. Languishing at the bottom of the table with three wins from 10 games, the Shreyas Iyer-ledRead More

New Delhi, Seema Punia and five other medallists from the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games were inducted into the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) even as decorated shooter Gagan Narang was excluded here on Wednesday. Narang was among the 12 athletes who have been dropped from the scheme due to poor performanceRead More

Kolkata, Surprised by Virat Kohli’s decision to skip Afghanistan’s inaugural Test against India, Australia’s World Cup-winning captain Michael Clarke feels the Indian skipper should fly back from Surrey to play the historic one-off Test in Bengaluru. The Indian captain has decided to give the June 14-18 Test a miss toRead More