Oeiras (Portugal) Captain Cristiano Ronaldo was included in Portugal’s squad for next month’s Nations League semi-final against Switzerland, head coach Fernando Santos announced on Thursday. Ronaldo, 34, a five-time Ballon d’Or winner missed the group stages preferring to try and adapt to life in Juventus since moving from Real Madrid.Read More

London India captain Virat Kohli would pick South African skipper Faf du Plessis in his side if he ever got a chance to pick someone from the other participating teams in the World Cup. All the 10 captains were given a hypothetical situation wherein they could pick any player fromRead More

Jincheon (south Korea) The Indian women’s hockey team came from a goal down to eke out a close 2-1 win over South Korea in the second game and take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series here today. The Indians had earlier defeated South Korea by an identical marginRead More

Nanning (China), May 22 India crashed out of the Sudirman Cup badminton championships after losing 0-5 to 10-time champions China in the second and final group match here today. After going down 2-3 to Malaysia in their opening Group 1D match, India needed an extraordinary effort to get across theRead More

New Delhi Stacking up staggering numbers with monotonic regularity may have become a day job for Virat Kohli, but he can in “no way” win the World Cup without support from his teammates, feels Sachin Tendulkar. “I think you will always have a couple of individuals stepping up every gameRead More

London Three-time Formula One world champion Niki Lauda, regarded as one of the finest racers of all time and who later became a successful airline entrepreneur, has died at 70 after battling declining health. Austrian Lauda, who was treated in hospital in January for about 10 days while suffering fromRead More

Nanning Sameer Verma suffered a shocking straight-game loss in men’s singles today as India were stunned 3-2 by a young Malaysia in a Group 1D match to jeopardise their hopes of reaching the knockout stage of the Sudirman Cup mixed team championships here. The mixed doubles pair of Satwiksairaj RankireddyRead More

Mumbai High quality rivals competing in a round-robin format has made the upcoming World Cup the “most challenging” for India skipper Virat Kohli, who says maintaining intensity from the first ball will be key to his side’s fortunes in the showpiece event. Kohli, who has competed in two World CupsRead More

London, May 20 Australia’s cricketers in front of Ricky Ponting are “like eight-year-old girls around Justin Bieber”, feels the team’s World Cup skipper Aaron Finch about the batting great, whose mere presence gives them a fillip. In February, Ponting was appointed as an assistant coach for Australia’s World Cup campaign,Read More

Mumbai, May 21 High-quality rivals competing in a round robin format has made the upcoming World Cup the “most challenging” for India skipper Virat Kohli, who says maintaining intensity from the first ball will be the key to his side’s fortunes in the showpiece event, starting May 30. Kohli, whoRead More