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New Delhi: Ajit Agarkar, the current India senior men’s chief selector, said talismanic batter Virat Kohli is one of the few players who has set a benchmark in terms of fitness to play the sport and serve the country for long at the international level....

Monaco:  In a first for an Olympic sport, gold-medallists in 48 athletics events of this year's Paris Games will be awarded USD 50,000 by World Athletics, which will widen the spectrum by giving prize money to all three medal winners at the 2028 Los Angeles...

New Delhi: Sri Lanka’s all-rounder duo of Kamindu Mendis and Angelo Mathews have moved up as per the recent update to the ICC Men’s Test Player Rankings after contributing to the visitors’ 2-0 series win over Bangladesh in the ICC World Test Championship series. During...

Wellington: Former New Zealand leg-spinner Jack Alabaster has died at the age of 93 in Cromwell late Tuesday night, said the country’s cricket governing body. Alabaster played 21 Tests from 1955-1972, including the first four wins New Zealand achieved in the format spread over 12...

Melbourne: Former Cricket Australia (CA) chairman Jack Clarke has passed away at the age of 70 in Adelaide, said the governing body Wednesday. Clarke joined the CA Board as a director in 1999 and served as its Chairman from 2008 to 2011. He also spent...

Mullanpur: Sunrisers Hyderabad beat Punjab Kings by two runs in their Indian Premier League match here Tuesday. Chasing 183 for a win, Punjab could only manage 180 for 6 with Shashank Singh top-scoring with 46 not out off 25 balls. Ashutosh Sharma also remained not...

Mullanpur: Young Nitish Reddy showed tremendous character during a vital 37-ball 64, which lifted Sunrisers Hyderabad to a challenging 182/9 against Punjab Kings in their Indian Premier League match here Tuesday. Left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh (4/29) was the standout bowler for PBKS, but SRH still...

Mullanpur: Punjab Kings skipper Shikhar Dhawan won the toss and opted to bowl in their Indian Premier League match against Sunrisers Hyderabad here Tuesday. Both teams' playing XI remained unchanged. Teams: Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Nitish...

Mumbai: Sunrisers Hyderabad have signed Vijayakanth Viyaskanth of Sri Lanka as a replacement for the injured compatriot Wanindu Hasaranga for the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024. Vijayakanth, a leg-spinner from Sri Lanka, has represented his country in a solitary T20 International so...

New Delhi: Hockey India Tuesday unveiled a new initiative, the National Women's Hockey League 2024–25 -- the first domestic hockey league for women in India -- which is structured into two phases, with the inaugural phase set to take place in Ranchi, Jharkhand, from April...