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Chennai: At 4.30 in the morning, Jagdish Gulia and his eight-year-old daughter Tannu were glued to the television watching Indian women wrestling at the 2016 Rio Olympics. When Sakshi Malik turned the bout on its head in the dying seconds to secure bronze, both Jagdish...

London: India wouldn't have lost the Hyderabad Test to England if Virat Kohli was their captain, according to former English skipper Michael Vaughan, who believes Rohit Sharma completely "switched off" during the game. In a dominant position after taking a 190-run first innings lead, a...

Karachi: Former captain Shahid Afridi has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to follow the policy of having one skipper across formats to prevent infighting over captaincy. Star batter Babar Azam had stepped down as skipper from all three formats after Pakistan failed to advance...

Bloemfontein: Musheer Khan flayed New Zealand attack with his second century of the ICC U-19 World Cup while opener Adarsh Singh struck 52 as India posted a stiff 296–run target in their Super Six contest, here Tuesday. On a perfect batting wicket here at the...

Bloemfontein (South Africa): New Zealand won the toss and elected to field against defending champions India in their super six stage match of the U-19 World Cup here Tuesday. India are fielding an unchanged side. The five-time champions are unbeaten in the tournament so far,...

Mumbai: Players from 31 countries will take part in the Mumbai Open Tennis Championship to be held here from February 5 to 11 following a gap of six years. The tournament will be played at the newly-laid tennis courts at the Cricket Club of India...

Chandigarh: Uttarakhand's Suraj Panwar has achieved the qualifying standard for the Paris 2024 Olympics in the men's 20km race walk event at the Indian Open Race Walking Competition, here Tuesday. Panwar clocked one hour, 19 minutes, and 43 seconds (1:19:43.08) to win the silver medal....

Muscat: Mohammed Raheel's hat-trick went in vain as India suffered a 4-7 defeat to the Netherlands in the quarterfinals of the FIH Hockey5s Men's World Cup here on Tuesday. Apart from Raheel (1', 7', 25'), Mandeep Mor (11') scored for India. For the Netherlands, Sander...

New Delhi: Indian chess player Divya Deshmukh has alleged that she endured sexist behaviour from spectators at the recently-concluded Tata Steel Masters in Wijk Aan Zee, Netherlands, saying they "focussed on irrelevant things like her hair, clothes and accent" during the tournament. The 18-year-old International...

Dubai: India's Deepti Sharma rose one place to joint second while team-mate Renuka Singh also moved up a spot to 10th in the latest ICC women's T20I bowling rankings issued Tuesday. Deepti's rise was largely due to South Africa spinner Nonkululeko Mlaba dropping three places...