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New Delhi: Veteran Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin lavished rich praise on fast-bowling spearhead Jasprit Bumrah for being the ‘real show stealer’ for his sensational match haul of nine wickets in the 106-run win over England in the second Test at Visakhapatnam. Bumrah’s nine-wicket match haul,...

Heist-op-den-Berg (Belgium): National record holder Tejaswin Shankar impressively began his 2024 season, winning the high jump event at the International High Jump Gala Elmos 2024 athletics meet. Competing for the first time since October last year, Tejaswin recorded a 2.23m jump to win the World...

Sydney: Australia leg-spinner Alana King said she is aiming to make the WACA Ground her own when the one-off Test against South Africa begins February 15. Alana has fair experience of being at the iconic venue, owing to spending four seasons with Western Australia and...

Bengaluru: India's top singles players have drawn French players as their singles main draw first-round rivals at the Bengaluru Open 2024 with second seed Sumit Nagal set to take on Geoffrey Blancaneaux and Ramkumar Ramanathan clashing with Maxime Janvier. The prestigious tournament is being organised...

Liverpol: Diogo Jota, Luis Diaz, and Darwin Nunez — Liverpool's starting front three while Mohamed Salah is out injured — all scored for the Premier League leaders in a 3-1 win over Burnley. The Reds responded to Manchester City's extremely brief return to the league's...

Benoni (South Africa): Australia skipper Hugh Weibgen elected to bat against defending champions India in the final of the U-19 World Cup here Sunday. India, who are vying for a recording-extending sixth title, are unchanged. Australia have made one change, bringing in Charlie Anderson for...

Lusail (Qatar): Akram Afif dropped to his knees. Pretty soon he was being thrown into the air by his joyous teammates after the forward's hat trick of penalties secured back-to-back AFC Asian Cup titles for Qatar. Afif, the outstanding player of the tournament and leading...

Bhubaneswar: Skipper Harmanpreet Singh starred with a brace as the Indian men's hockey team started its FIH Hockey Pro League 2023/24 season with a dominant 4-1 over Spain in their opening match held Saturday at the Kalinga Hockey Stadium, Bhubaneswar. While Harmanpreet Singh struck in...

New Delhi: New Zealand pacer Lea Tahuhu was Saturday named as replacement for Australia's left-arm quick Lauren Cheatle by Gujarat Giants ahead of the Women's Premier League (WPL) starting February 23. The 33-year-old Tahuhu was bought by Gujarat for Rs 30 lakhs. "Gujarat Giants (GG)...

New Delhi: Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) have roped in West Indies’ fast-bowler Shamar Joseph as a replacement for England tearaway pacer Mark Wood in their squad ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season. The tournament said in a statement that Joseph will join...