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Birmingham: Batter S Meghana and all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar have tested positive for Covid-19 and stayed back in India ahead of the side’s opener against Australia in the Commonwealth Games (CWG) here Friday. The India squad left Sunday morning for this city in England without the...

New Delhi: Renowned mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton, who was part of the support staff of India’s 2011 World Cup winning team, is rejoining the national set-up in the lead up to the T20 World Cup in Australia. Paddy Upton has been roped in on...

New Delhi: India in all likelihood will host the women’s 50-over World Cup in 2025 as the BCCI is set to bid for the mega event. If India wins the bid, the ICC flagship event will return to the country after more than a decade....

New Delhi: Hockey player PR Sreejesh feels his chequered international career resembles Malayali staple ‘Avia’. It is a mixed curry of 13 vegetables. At 34 and in the twilight zone, all that is left for PR Sreejesh is to tick a couple of boxes in...

Birmingham: Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has pulled out of the Commonwealth Games due to "fitness concerns", the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) announced Tuesday. Chopra had won a historic silver medal at the World Athletics Championship in Eugene Sunday and suffered a strain in his...

Port of Spain: Shreyas Iyer has been in impressive form in the ongoing white ball tour of West Indies. However, Shreyas Iyer is unhappy with his failure to convert back-to-back half centuries into hundreds. Iyer made 63 off 71 balls batting at No. 3 to...

London: Assistant coach in boxing, Sandhya Gurung and sports psychologist Gayatri Vartak have been included in the Indian contingent days before the start of the Commonwealth Games (CWG).      Dronacharya awardee Sandhya Gurung is an assistant coach in the national camp. She has been working...

Birmingham: Olympic bronze medallist Lovlina Borgohain alleged Monday that her preparations for the Commonwealth Games (CWG) are being hampered because of the ‘continuous harassment’ her coaches are facing from the authorities. The Indian boxing squad reached the Games Village here Sunday night after a training...

Dubai: The Badminton Asia Championships, the showpiece continental event for the sport, will take place in UAE for the next five years after Dubai-based sports management and consultant company 'Beyond Boundaries' signed a deal with Badminton Asia (BA), a report in insidethegames.biz said. The two...

Port of Spain: India's Shreyas Iyer has been in impressive form in the ongoing white-ball tour of West Indies but the batter is unhappy with his failure to convert back-to-back half centuries into hundreds. Iyer made 63 off 71 balls batting at number 3 to...