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Colombo: Dushan Hemantha and Washington Sundar have been included as Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat first against India in the 2023 Asia Cup final at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo Sunday. Hemantha, the leg-spinner, replaces injured off-spinner Maheesh Theekshana in...

New Delhi: A 13-member Indian boxing contingent, led by world champion Nikhat Zareen, will look to pack a punch at the Hangzhou Asian Games, to be held in China, from September 23 to October 8. The boxing events at the Asian Games are scheduled to...

Colombo: The final encounter of the Asia Cup 2023 will be a full house with all the tickets have been sold out by Sunday morning. “The public is advised not to arrive at ticket counters or the ground to purchase tickets to watch the epic...

New Delhi: India’s Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu and Birmingham Commonwealth Games champion Achinta Sheuli will be among the four-member Indian weightlifting team for the Asian Games starting in Hangzhou, China, September 23. While Chanu will be competing in the 49kg category, Sheuli will...

New Delhi: Olympian Elavenil Valarivan, bagged her second gold at the Olympic Shooting Centre range in Rio De Janeiro, winning the Women’s 10m Air Rifle competition, at the ongoing ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol stage, currently underway in the Brazilian seaside city. Elavenil was perfection personified...

Eugene: Reigning Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra finishes second in the javelin throw event at the Diamond League 2023 Final with a best effort of 83.80m. Neeraj made history last year as he became the first Indian to win a Diamond League Trophy. However,...

Colombo: Sri Lanka off-spinner Maheesh Theekshana has been ruled out of the Asia Cup final clash against India Sunday due to hamstring injury, while the visitors have called up off-spin all-rounder Washington Sundar as a cover for left-arm spin all-rounder Axar Patel. Theekshana had strained...

Colombo: Washington Sundar has been called up as a cover for the injured Axar Patel for the Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka Sunday. Axar sustained several injuries during India's six-run loss to Bangladesh in their last Super Four match Friday. The extent of Axar's...

Colombo: On a tough pitch where very few of his teammates clicked with the bat, opener Shubman Gill stood tall to hit his fifth ODI century, a sparkling 121 off 133 balls. But it went in vain as Bangladesh edged India by six runs in...

New Delhi: His form a bit wobbly, India's Kidambi Srikanth is trying to iron out the flaws and hoping to be third time lucky, as he chases an elusive Asian Games medal in Hangzhou. A former world number one, Srikanth, who has endured a topsy-turvy...