Australia wicket-keeper Peter Nevill was set to retain his Test place after being chosen ahead of Brad Haddin behind the stumps for the tour match with Derbyshire at the County Ground on Friday. Nevill took seven catches on his international debut and made a quick 45 in his only inningsRead More

London: Former Chelsea and Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba was offered a whopping USD 1 million by Atletico de Kolkata’s co-owners to become the marquee player of the Indian Super League side though the high-profile player is yet to respond, according to a report here. The 37-year-old Drogba, who calledRead More

Oman’s fairytale rise as a cricket nation continued Thursday when they qualified for next year’s World Twenty20 in India. A five-wicket win over Namibia at the ICC qualifying event in Malahide near Dublin saw the Gulf minnows reach their first major international tournament. Victory also saw the International Cricket CouncilRead More

Melbourne: Real Madrid manager Rafael Benitez on Thursday hailed his superstar striker Cristiano Ronaldo as the best in the world as he played down reports of tension between the pair. Real Madrid take on English Premier League heavyweights Manchester City in the final match of the International Champions Cup inRead More

New York: Serena Williams, bidding for a calendar-year Grand Slam and her fifth consecutive major title, joined fellow world number one Novak Djokovic atop the US Open direct entry lists announced on Wednesday. The US Tennis Association said the world’s 99 top-ranked men and 100 of the top 101 womenRead More

Breda, The Netherlands: After drawing level with Germany in their last game, India U-21 women’s team went down fighting against China 2-4 in the Volvo Invitational U-21 hockey Tournament here. The match began with the Indian women possessing the ball and making swift attacks at the goal­post with an aimRead More

In a stinging criticism, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said on Thursday, that young left-arm spinner Axar Patel was not Test cricket material and was at best “a roller of the ball” who was very much predictable. Gavaskar said that 21-year-old spinner was “not the next big thing of IndianRead More

Leg-spinner Amit Mishra was recalled to the Indian Test team on Thursday, joining a formidable slow-ball attack for the three-match series in Sri Lanka next month. Injury to fellow leg-spinner Karn Sharma and the spin-conducive nature of the pitches in Sri Lanka combined to facilitate Mishra’s recall to the side.Read More

New Delhi: Legendary hockey Olympian Balbir Singh Sr is extremely disappointed in the manner Hockey India has handled the Paul van Ass issue making it clear that this frequent hire-and-fire policy would affect the national team’s performance with only one year left for Rio Olympics. “If we change coaches thisRead More

NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha today congratulated tennis stars Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Sumit Nagal and golfer Shubham Jaglan for bringing laurels to the country in international tournaments. While Ms Mirza, Mr Paes and Mr Nagal won Wimbledon cups, Mr Jaglan won Junior World Golf Championship in the US. “IRead More