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Hyderabad: Former India all-rounder and head coach Ravi Shastri will be honoured with BCCI's Lifetime Achievement Award here Tuesday. Shubman Gill will be presented with Cricketer of the Year award following a memorable 12 months when he became the fastest to cross the 2000-run mark...

New Delhi: India's batting mainstay Virat Kohli has pulled out of the first two Tests against England due to personal reasons, the BCCI said Monday. The BCCI urged the fans and media to refrain from speculating about the reason for his forced break. The five-match...

New Delhi: In the lead-up to the highly anticipated Test series against England, Former India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has voiced his confidence in young opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, saying the youngster will solidify his position in the Indian Test squad by the end of the...

New Delhi: Six-time Asian Championships medallist Shiva Thapa and 2022 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Jaismine are set to spearhead Indian challenge as the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) named nine-member squad for the first World Qualification Tournament of Paris Olympic Games 2024. The world qualification...

New Delhi: With three days left for India-England Test series to begin, former left-arm fast-bowler Zaheer Khan believes a lot will be on the mind of Rohit Sharma in his dual roles as the opening batter and leader of the team. During the 2021 Test...

Melbourne: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the men's doubles quarterfinal of the Australian Open with an impressive 7-6 7-6 victory over Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands and Croatia's Nikola Mektic here Monday. The 43-year-old Bopanna and his Aussie partner, who...

Karachi: Pakistan's embattled men's hockey team has failed to qualify for the Olympic Games for a third consecutive time after losing its final shot at a Paris ticket in the FIH Qualifiers in Oman, a result that left the game's former greats here sad and...

Karachi: A furious former skipper and chairman of selectors Inzamam ul Haq squarely blamed Pakistan Cricket Board's outgoing top boss Zaka Ashraf for being responsible for the country's disastrous ODI World Cup performance in India last year. Zaka, who was named head of an Interim...

Abidjan (Ivory Coast): Egypt star Mohamed Salah is leaving the Africa Cup of Nations — at least temporarily — and returning to Liverpool for treatment of a muscle injury, the Premier League club announced late Sunday. The influential forward was forced off during the first...

Al-Rayyan (Qatar): Saudi Arabia advanced to the knockout stage of the Asian Cup with a game to spare after beating nine-man Kyrgyzstan 2-0. Goals in each half from Mohamed Kanno and Faisal Al-Ghamdi at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium in Al-Rayyan, Qatar, put the three-time...