Mumbai: Rio Olympic silver medalist Pusarla V Sindhu won her trump game after facing some anxious moments as Chennai Smashers drubbed Bengaluru Smashers 5-0 in a Premier Badminton League contest at the NSCI Stadium here today. After Kashyap gave Chennai a 1-0 lead by outclassing his less experienced but currentlyRead More

Cape Town: Kagiso Rabada and Vernon Philander took four wickets each as South Africa bowled out Sri Lanka for 110 and took total control on the second day of the second Test at Newlands today. South Africa built on a first innings lead of 282 and reached 35 for noRead More

Paris: Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) officially presented Germany winger Julian Draxler, signed until June 30, 2021, from German football club Wolfsburg on Tuesday for a reported transfer fee of 38 million euros ($39.4 million). Draxler, 23, expressed his delight after signing the contract. “For the first time in my career, I`mRead More

New Delhi: New Zealand opener Martin Guptill will miss the Twenty20 series against Bangladesh with a hamstring injury and will be replaced by in-form batsman Neil Broom, the country’s cricket board said on Saturday. Guptill will be sidelined for up to four weeks after he sustained the injury while runningRead More

Beijing: “Biggest”, “hugest”, “most ever”. Analysts are piling up the superlatives as China prepares to splash out astronomical sums for footballing talent during the winter transfer window in deals that analysts say involve more money than sense. Last year Chinese teams broke the Asian transfer record four times in anRead More

New Delhi: Veteran Indian shooter Abhinav Bindra lauded the decision took by Sports Ministry – headed by Vijay Goel – to suspend the Indian Olympic Association following their decision to appoint scam tainted duo of Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala as life presidents. The suspension holds ground until IOARead More

New Delhi: Known for not sparing celebrities, even on their birthdays, Virender Sehwag wished England star Joe Root a happy birthday on twitter as the latter turned 26 years old. Despite England’s embarrassing 4-0 loss to India in the recently concluded Test series, Root managed to live up to theRead More

  Victoria: Coach Darren Lehmann views Ashton Agar as a “genuine all-rounder” putting him in line to be part of Australia`s spin tandem in Tuesday`s final Test against Pakistan in Sydney. Agar, 23, is on track to play his first Test since his unheralded debut in the 2013 Ashes seriesRead More

Nagpur: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who is the unofficial mentor to the Jharkhand cricket team, is set to watch his state side take on Gujarat in its first ever Ranji Trophy semifinal beginning in Nagpur on Sunday. Dhoni doesn’t play the longer version of the game ever since retiring from TestsRead More

New Delhi: Member of the Junior World Cup winning Indian team Harmanpreet Singh says playing in the Hockey India League(HIL) has helped youngsters like him take on the top teams of the world. Harmanpreet, who plays for Dabang Mumbai in the HIL, said the league prepared him for the WorldRead More