There were two big talking points in the Indian men's team's return to competitive hockey on Sunday. They blanked Germany 6-1, but fans couldn't watch any of the action. The doors of the stadium in Krefeld were understandably closed to the public due to the pandemic; but no livestream of an international game, albeit an unofficial one, resulted in a lot of unhappy fans.
In the ongoing calculus of how to distribute limited supplies of the coronavirus vaccine, the broad global consensus often starts with a few groups: doctors and nurses, the ill and the aging, front-line workers and teachers.
Amid debate over the third Test pitch, West Indies great Vivian Richards slammed England for complaining about the spinning wicket and added that he wants to see a similar track in the final Test of the series.
New Zealand's upcoming T20 International against Australian men and their women's national team fixture against England, slated to be held in Tauranga, were on Monday moved to Wellington due to logistical reasons.
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer praised the team's defensive display in Sunday's Premier League goalless draw with Chelsea but said his attacking players have room for improvement.
Second seed PV Sindhu will look to strike form as she takes guard at the Swiss Open BWF Super-300 tournament which begins in Basel on Tuesday.
Olympic champion sprinter Yohan Blake of Jamaica said he would rather miss the Tokyo Games than get the Covid-19 vaccine, although getting vaccinated will not be required for the athletes competing there this summer.
The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) has postponed the shotgun trials, which were scheduled to start from March 3 at the Bhopal Shooting Academy, due to the surge in Covid-19 cases in the region.
From a turner to a rank turner to a two-faced turner - the series has implored global theories, ranging from horticulture and pedology, to invoking the spirit of the game and unfair use of home advantage. Last heard, the ICC was left beseeched by e-mails from cricket media demanding to know if the pitch at Ahmedabad would be rated 'poor' or not.
While the BCCI hasn't made any formal announcement on the venues as yet, Punjab Kings have written to the cricket board a set of queries on the allotment and more. Punjab Kings co-owner Ness Wadia told TOI: "We have sent the BCCI a query on why we have been excluded. We would like to know the reason. We have also asked for more clarification on how this process works".
A Curtis Jones strike and a Kean Bryan own goal gave Liverpool a 2-0 win over bottom side Sheffield United on Sunday as the stuttering Reds snapped a run of four straight Premier League defeats.
Manchester United and Chelsea played out a second 0-0 draw of the season on Sunday with the result doing little for either side's ambitions at the top of the Premier League.
Tiger Woods offered a heartfelt thanks to his fellow golfers for their tribute on Sunday, where many donned the 15-time major champion's signature Sunday red and black for the final round.
Jurgen Klopp believes Liverpool can prove the doubters that have written their season off wrong after snapping a four-game Premier League losing streak to win 2-0 at Sheffield United on Sunday.
Tiger Woods, considered one of the greatest golfers of his generation, was being treated at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after Tuesday's crash left him with a fractured right leg and shattered ankle.
In an attempt to prevent the over-aged players from competing at the upcoming national championships, the national tennis federation has begun scrutinising the documents of the suspects and also asked them to undergo TW3 test for age verification.
Selector George Bailey Sunday insisted under-fire Aaron Finch would be Australia's skipper at this year's Twenty20 World Cup, calling mounting criticism of his leadership and form "white noise".
"We play on seaming wickets around the world and get bowled out for 47, 60. Nobody ever says a thing (about the pitch). But as soon as it starts spinning, everyone in the world seems to start crying about it. I don't get it. I'm all for it, it was entertaining," Lyon said.
Martinez said on social media on Saturday she is in quarantine at a hospital in Doha after the positive test on arrival in Qatar. Martinez is the coach of former world No. 1 Garbine Muguruza, who is set to play at the Qatar Open.
Saul "Canelo" Alvarez demolished Turkey's Avni Yildirim in three rounds to retain his WBC and WBA super middleweight titles by knockout on Saturday.
Cricket West Indies' (CWI) lead selector Roger Harper said that Sunil Narine was not selected in the squad for the T20I series against Sri Lanka as the player had indicated that he "is not ready to return to international cricket".
Shanaka was named Sri Lanka's new Twenty20 captain last week but the 29-year-old could not board the flight that left with his teammates on Monday after failing to arrange a new transit visa to the United States.
Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah, who in 2015 was slapped with a five-year ban by the BCCI after his Rajasthan Royals teammate Pravin Tambe accused him of approaching him for corrupt activities in 2015, can resume his cricketing career again.
Moving away from their initial plan to host the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) 2021 edition between Mumbai and Pune — and part of the playoffs and final in Ahmedabad — the BCCI has now shortlisted six cities to conduct this year’s tournament. Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Delhi have been shortlisted to host this year’s IPL.
The controversy around the pitch in the pink-ball day-night Test, which saw India win inside two days, shows no signs of abating. On what would have been Day Four of the Test, ace off-spinner R Ashwin, who reached 400 Test wickets in just 77 Tests during the short match, came down hard against critics of the Ahmedabad pitch.
Returning to the mat after a year, Vinesh defeated Ana A of Romania. After a taking a 7-0 lead, the Indian pinned her opponent by fall to end the match. She will take on world No. 7 and 2017 world champion Vanesa Kaladzinskaya of Belarus on Sunday in the gold-medal match.
Fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah was on Friday released from India's squad for the fourth Test against England, beginning here on Thursday, due to personal reasons, the BCCI said.
The Indian team, ranked No. 4 in the world, will play their first competitive match after a gap of one year when they lock horns with Germany on their 17-day tour of Europe. After two matches against Germany, India will take on Great Britain in Belgium.
Four-time NBA champion LeBron James hit back at Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Friday, saying there is no reason why he cannot have just as big an impact off the basketball court as he does on it.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's David Warner is already looking forward to the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and leading the franchise again, even though the dates of the T20 tournament are yet to be announced.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is the "Heston Blumenthal of football" according to West Ham United boss David Moyes, who takes his high-flying side to the Etihad Stadium on Saturday looking to cook up a shock against the Premier League leaders.
Veteran Frenchman Gilles Simon has said he is taking an indefinite break from the ATP tour out of concern for his mental health.
Athletes participating in this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo can begin entering Japan after it lifts its emergency declaration order next month, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Friday.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes the race for the Premier League top four will go down to the wire as Manchester United prepare to face Thomas Tuchel's revitalised Chelsea on Sunday.
Axar, the local boy, was India’s hero in the third Test in Ahmedabad with incredible match figures of 11/70. The pace at which he spins the ball has even prompted his India teammates Rishbh Pant and Ajinkya Rahane to nickname him ‘Wasim bhai’ after the Pakistan left-arm pace great Wasim Akram.
Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar has joined voices of those who have criticized the wicket for the third Test at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, terming it as “poor advertisement for Test cricket.” Thriving on left-arm spinner Axar Patel and experienced offie Ravichandran Ashwin’s skills, India thrashed England by ten wickets in less than two days.
Tiger Woods is recovering and in "good spirits" after a second day of treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center following his horrific rollover solo car smash that left him with serious leg injuries.
Chris Gayle was called into the West Indies Twenty20 squad on Friday for the first time in two years as the 41-year-old eyes a place in the World Cup later this year. Gayle, one of cricket's global superstars, was named in the 14-man squad for the three-game series against Sri Lanka which starts in Antigua on Wednesday. The Jamaican opening batsman played last in March 2019.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the second Khelo India Winter Games in Gulmarg and said that the event is a step towards making Jammu and Kashmir a hub of winter sports in the country.
Axar Patel missed the series opener with a knee injury but impressed in the second match, claiming his maiden five-wicket haul in his debut Test in Chennai. The 27-year-old followed that with a match haul of 11-70 on a dustbowl in Ahmedabad where India triumphed inside two days in the pink-ball Test on Thursday.
Axar Patel had made his international debut in 2014 but played his first match in the longest format of the game when India locked horns with England in the second Test. The all-rounder last played a T20I in 2018 and has been out of the white ball set up since then.
Deepak Kumar (52kg) entered the semifinals of the 72nd Strandja Memorial boxing tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria, with a comfortable win to be assured of a medal. He will take on reigning Olympic and world champion Shakhobiddin Zoirov in the semis.
Golf superstar Tiger Woods has been transferred to a Los Angeles medical facility for further treatment, according to a statement Thursday from the hospital where he underwent surgery for serious leg injuries after his car crash.
Critics led by former great Mark Waugh have questioned Aaron Finch's ability to captain Australia at the Twenty20 World Cup after another failure during their New Zealand tour.
iding on brilliant spells of spin bowling from Axar and Ashwin, India registered a comprehensive 10-wicket win over England in the pink-ball Test here at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday to go 2-1 up in the four-match series.
On a pitch that won't be forgotten in a hurry and will certainly be up for debate if it needs to be rated poor, or points need to be docked, the pink ball did things that England would have never prepared themselves for. If one can stretch imaginations a bit, it began to appear like every delivery, after pitching, would wait to see how the batsman was trying to read it before deciding to go the other way.
India unveiled the latest spin hero from its production line when Axar Patel claimed 11 wickets in the lightning fast two-day Test win over England. The 27-year-old started off his cricket life as a fast bowler and only got his place in this crucial series because of an injury to star spinner Ravindra Jadeja.
The last 12 months have been phenomenal for Ravichandran Ashwin as he went about picking 39 wickets in just seven Test matches, 13 of those coming on the tour of New Zealand last year and 26 between the tour of Australia and the series against England taking place now.
England will come back stronger after their crushing Test defeat to India inside two days, captain Joe Root said on Thursday while admitting that the visitors' team selection for the third Test was wrong on a "very challenging" pitch.