Mexico City, March 4 Shubhankar Sharma surprised a few people, but not himself, as he upstaged the biggest names in golf for a two-shot halfway lead at the WGC-Mexico Championship on Friday. In his first appearance in a World Golf Championships event, Sharma added a 5-under-par 66 to his opening-roundRead More

Zurich, March 3 Football’s lawmakers on Saturday approved video assistant referee technology (VAR) for this summer’s World Cup, in one of the biggest changes to the sport in years. The International Football Association Board, meeting in Zurich, rubber-stamped a move already backed by FIFA’s top brass, including president Gianni Infantino.Read More

Mohali, March 4 Venkatesh Prasad was today appointed bowling coach of Kings XI Punjab for the upcoming Indian Premier League, barely a couple of days after the former India medium pacer resigned as the chief of junior national selection panel. With the season 11 of the tournament around the corner,Read More

Ipoh (Malaysia), March 4 India found themselves at the receiving end of star penalty corner specialist Gonzalo Peillat as they lost 2-3 against Rio Olympics champions Argentina in their opening match of the Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament. All the goals of the rain-affected match came off penalty corners withRead More

Bishkek, March 3 Navjot Kaur today scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold in the Senior Asian Championships as she clinched the yellow metal in the 65kg freestyle category here. Navjot outclassed Japan’s Miya Imai 9-1 in a one-sided final bout of the women’sRead More

Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), March 3 Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat settled for a silver medal in the ongoing Asian Wrestling Championships as she lost the keenly-fought title clash in the 50kg category to China’s Chun Lei by a narrow margin of 3-2 here today. The Chinese took the first point but VineshRead More

Monaco, March 3 Former India captain Kapil Dev wants Hardik Pandya to “work harder on his batting” as that is his primary skill as an all-rounder. Pandya, after his 93 in the first Test against South Africa in Cape Town, failed to get a single half-century across formats during theRead More

Bengaluru, March 3 After the historic Women’s Asia Cup victory in November last year, the Indian women’s hockey team has set out for their first tour of the year. The 20-member squad led by Rani along with vice-captain Sunita Lakra left for Jinchun, South Korea on Friday, where they willRead More

Ipoh (Malaysia), March 3 India lost 2-3 to Olympic champions Argentina in the opening match of the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey tournament here on Saturday. Drag-flick star Gonzalo Peillat scored a hat-trick for Argentina, while Amit Rohidas converted two penalty corners for India.

Paris, March 1 Brazilian superstar Neymar will undergo surgery on his fractured foot in Brazil as early as Thursday, ruling the world’s most expensive footballer out of Paris Saint-Germain’s do-or-die Champions League clash with Real Madrid. The 26-year-old suffered a hairline fracture of the fifth metatarsal in his right footRead More