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

Paris: IOC president Thomas Bach said today that athletes and federations face life bans from the Olympics as he warned that doping has hit “an unprecedented level of criminality”. The International Olympic Committee leader also heightened pressure on Russia to clear up allegations of interference in testing at its dopingRead More

Basel (Switzerland): Sevilla midfielder Coke broke Liverpool hearts with a second-half brace in a controversy-filled 3-1 victory that secured a record third consecutive Europa League title on Wednesday. Liverpool travelled to St Jakob-Park confident in their chances of a first Europa League trophy since 2001 after an impressive campaign inRead More

New Delhi: A marathon meeting on Wednesday failed to break the deadlock between the Wrestling Federation of India and Sushil Kumar, as the ace wrestler stuck to his guns in seeking a trial bout against Narsingh Yadav to represent India in the 74kg freestyle category at the Rio Olympics thisRead More