Kolkata, April 21 Opener Chris Lynn smashed 74 off 41 balls as Kolkata Knight Riders scored 191 for 7 against Kings XI Punjab in an IPL encounter here on Saturday. Apart from Lynn, skipper Dinesh Karthik contributed a quickfire 43 off 28 balls and his deputy Robin Uthappa scored 34Read More

Chandigarh,  Manika Batra was the uncrowned queen of India’s campaign at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The queen should get an Arjuna too, for her name has been recommended for the Arjuna Award. Of India’s 26 gold at Gold Coast CWG, the ones no one expected were the three won byRead More

Bhubaneswar, April 21 Skipper Sunil Chhetri led from the front with a brace as Bengaluru FC thrashed 10-man East Bengal 4-1 to win the inaugural Super Cup football tournament here on Friday. Chhetri converted a penalty in the 69th minute before exploiting poor marking by the East Bengal defence toRead More

Monte Carlo, April 20 Novak Djokovic was knocked out of the Monte Carlo Masters by an inspired Dominic Thiem in the third round on Thursday, with the Austrian fifth seed progressing to a quarterfinal with Rafael Nadal. Thiem, a two-time French Open semifinalist, was the better player for much ofRead More

Madrid, April 20 Real Madrid may be the favourites for the Champions League but a 1-1 draw against Athletic Bilbao will hardly have struck fear into Bayern Munich. Zinedine Zidane’s side started complacently at the Santiago Bernabeu and ended frantically, with Cristiano Ronaldo’s 87th-minute equaliser cancelling out a delightful earlyRead More

Bhubaneswar, April 20 Bengaluru FC’s bid to win a fifth title in as many seasons of the club’s existence will face one last hurdle in East Bengal as the two sides go to battle in the final of the Super Cup here on Friday. Albert Roca’s Blues, who missed outRead More

London, April 20 English domestic cricket is set to get yet another format after the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced plans for an eight-team, 100-ball competition in the pursuit of younger, family-oriented audiences. Under the proposals, unanimously backed by the ECB board, each side would face 15 six-ballRead More

New Delhi, April 20 A committee to help Indian athletes prepare for the Tokyo Olympics and plenty of encouragement to bid for multi-sport Games were the two biggest takeaways from International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach’s second visit to India in four years. The encouragement was readily accepted as IndianRead More

Hisar, April 20 Two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Vinesh Phogat has questioned the Haryana government’s policy on rewarding athletes who won medals at the Gold Coast CWG.The sports policy of the state has a provision that only those athletes would be rewarded who are from Haryana and represent the stateRead More

Mohali, April 20 Chris Gayle turned it into a one-man show with his brutal hitting and took the Kings XI Punjab to a handsome 15-run victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad in Mohali on Thursday. Gayle’s 11 sixes and a solitary four helped him to an unbeaten century (104) in 63 ballsRead More