Mumbai: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced the 17-member squad for the four-Test tour of the West Indies in July-August. Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur has been picked while Stuart Binny and Amit Mishra earned a call back to the team that will be captained by ViratRead More

London: Chris Gayle, the big-hitting batsman who sparked a sexism scandal after flirting with a female broadcaster on live television, has fanned the flames again in an interview touching on sex, women and equality. Gayle, one of the biggest stars in world cricket, boasted about his “very, very big bat”Read More

New Delhi: Senior India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday said former captain Rahul Dravid is ideal to be the next chief coach of the Indian cricket team with Zaheer Khan as the bowling coach. “If you ask me, then I would like to see Dravid as India coach and ZaheerRead More

Mumbai: Anurag Thakur is set to be unanimously elected BCCI President in the Board’s Special General Meeting (SGM) here on Sunday, replacing Shashank Manohar who stepped down from the position to take up the ICC chief’s job. Thakur, who is currently serving as the Secretary of the Board, is setRead More

Mumbai: India’s glamorous Indian Premier League (IPL) is known for its players’ breathtaking performances, both with bat, ball and on the field. However, this time around the IPL has been decorated by seven scintillating centuries, four of them coming from the chase-master Virat Kohli. The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipperRead More

Montreux (Switzerland): Belgian Mourad Laachraoui, the younger brother of one of the Brussels airport bombers, has won gold in the European Taekwondo Championships and will compete in this summer’s Olympics. Mourad Laachraoui, brother of Najim Laachraoui, beat Spaniard Jesus Tortosa 6-3 in the -54kg final in Montreux, Switzerland on ThursdayRead More

Bengaluru: Skipper Virat Kohli scripted yet another magnificent century to power Royal Challengers Bangalore to a dominating 82-run win over bottom-placed Kings XI Punjab via Duckworth Lewis method in a rain-hit IPL clash and stay on course for a play-off berth, here on Wednesday. Kohli (113 off 50 balls) battledRead More

London: Maria Sharapova will attend an International Tennis Federation (ITF) anti-doping hearing in London on Wednesday, British media reported, with the Russian facing a possible ban of up to four years for failing a drugs test at the Australian Open. The five-times grand slam champion stunned the world in MarchRead More

London: Former England batsman James Taylor has announced his engagement just weeks after being forced to retire at the age of 26 because of a serious heart condition. Taylor, who played county cricket for Leicestershire and then Nottinghamshire, was forced to retire with immediate effect last month after scans revealedRead More

Chennai: If there was one all-rounder from the Sachin Tendulkar-era who would have been an instant hit in the IPL, he had to be Lance Klusener. And, the dashing South African himself knows that. Klusener, however, enjoyed a place in the star-studded Mumbai Indians’ dugout as batting coach for threeRead More