Weightlifter Achinta Sheuli (73kg) lived up to his top billing as he clinched India's third gold in the Commonwealth Games. Favourite to win the event, debutant Sheuli heaved 313kg (143kg+170kg) to grab the gold at NEC Hall on Sunday.
Defending champion India cruised to a 3-0 win over minnows South Africa to progress to the semifinals of the mixed team competition at the Commonwealth Games here on Sunday. India expectedly didn't put a foot wrong as they dished out yet another professional performance against South Africa to set up a likely clash with Singapore in the last four.
Leading India squash player Saurav Ghosal on Sunday joined Joshna Chinappa in the singles quarterfinals of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
England won a major women's tournament for the first time as Chloe Kelly's extra-time goal secured a 2-1 victory over Germany at a sold out Wembley on Sunday. In front of a record crowd of 87,192 for any match in the history of the European Championships, Kelly prodded home a loose ball from close range to end English football's 56-year wait for a World Cup or Euro victory.
The Indian men's hockey team decimated lowly Ghana 11-0 in its opening Pool B match of the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. As expected, the Indians were relentless in their attacks and completely controlled the proceedings from start to finish.
South Africa spinner Tabraiz Shamsi took five wickets to help his team bowl out England for 101 to win their decisive Twenty20 international by 90 runs at the Ageas Bowl on Sunday and take the three-match series 2-1. South Africa were put into bat and scored 191-5 off their 20 overs to set England an imposing target and then skittled out the home team for a one-sided victory.
After suffering defeat in their first match against Australia, the Indian women's cricket team will lock horns against Pakistan in their Group A match at the Commonwealth Games 2022 on Sunday.
Mirabai Chanu bossed the 49kg field as expected to defend her Commonwealth Games title and give India the first gold medal of the Birmingham edition on Saturday.
Senior opener KL Rahul has been left out of the India squad which will travel to Zimbabwe for an ODI series next month after aggravating his hamstring injury, a development which could potentially jeopardise his T20 World Cup chances. It is understood that Rahul hasn't yet recovered despite undergoing a successful sports hernia surgery for lower abdominal injury. His hamstring also remains sore.
Randa Seder, an eight-year girl from Palestine can’t be missed in the sea of participants at the ongoing Chess Olympiad. With photo requests from players and spectators the moment she arrived for her game on Saturday, Randa already feels like a celebrity. “Yes, I like it,” said Randa, the youngest player in the competition.
Rohit Sharma's elegant half-century and Dinesh Karthik's blazing finish were backed up by a solid bowling performance as India made short work of West Indies with an easy 68-run victory in the first T20I. While Rohit set up the platform with a 44-ball-64, it was Karthik's calculated assault -- an unbeaten 41 off 19 balls -- that took India to 190 for six. In reply, West Indies could only get to 122 for 8 in their 20 overs.
India will have a chance to open their account in the Birmingham Commonwealth Games as Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu will be in action in the 49kg weightlifting final on Saturday.
The region's rich musical heritage and inclusivity were at the heart of the 22nd Birmingham Commonwealth Games opening ceremony here as a joyful evening offered a stupendous cornucopia of colour, light and dance. It was refreshing as the Birmingham Games is the first multi-discipline event since the start of the pandemic to be held without major COVID-19 restrictions.
Impressed by the talent of a boy hailing from a nondescript village in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday asked Chief minister Ashok Gehlot to help make his dream come true. The video description of the tweet that Gandhi retweeted identifies the 16-year old boy as Bharat Singh practising bowling using a fishing net.
India will host the Women's 50-over World Cup in 2025 as the BCCI has successfully bid for the mega event during the ICC Annual Conference that concluded in Birmingham on Tuesday. The ICC flagship event will return to the country after more than a decade. The last big mega women's global cricket event held in India was the 2016 World T20. The inaugural T20 Champions Trophy in 2027 will be hosted by Sri Lanka.
Defending champions Australia will beat India in the finals of the T20 World Cup to lift the trophy, predicted two-time World Cup winning skipper Ricky Ponting. The 47-year-old has picked India and Australia as the finalists at the showpiece.
Wimbledon runner-up Nick Kyrgios has been handed a wildcard into next month's U.S. Open tune-up event in Cincinnati, Ohio, organisers of the Western & Southern Open said on Monday.
Lovlina Borgohain took to twitter to vent her frustration, complaining that her training had been hampered since one of her personal coaches (strength and conditioning expert Amey Kolekar) was sent back to India while her other coach, Sandhya Gurung, hadn’t been able to enter the athletes village in Birmingham.
Former India opener WV Raman will once again be a part of the Bengal Ranji team, albeit as a "batting consultant", for the upcoming season while former state skipper Laxmi Ratan Shukla will be the new coach.
Neeraj Chopra broke into a smile after his fourth round throw of 88.13m. The tension was somewhat eased after he moved into the provisional podium place in second position following his best throw of the men’s javelin throw final in Eugene, US.
Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay held off late challengers to win the women's 5,000 metres at the World Championships on Saturday as world record-holder Letesenbet Gidey faded down the straight to miss the podium.
Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra scripted yet another history as he became only the second Indian and first male track and field athlete to win a medal in the World Championships by clinching silver in the javelin throw final. The 24-year-old Chopra, who had come into the showpiece as a hot medal favourite, produced a best throw of 88.13m to finish second.
Dhanalakshmi Sekar, the women's 100m and 4x100m relay specialist, and triple jumper Aishwarya Babu have failed dope tests just a week before the start of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
A last attempt throw of 59.60m, though well below her season's best, ensured javelin thrower Annu Rani qualify for her second consecutive finals in the World Championships. Annu was on the verge of ending her campaign after starting with a foul throw and 55.35m in her second try but sent her spear to 40cm short of 60m in her third and final attempt on the fifth day of competitions.
The moment everyone has been waiting for is here. Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra will begin his much-awaited campaign at the World athletics championships in Eugene early Friday morning (India time) when he, along with compatriot Rohit Yadav, will compete in the men's javelin throw qualification rounds in Group A & B at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field in the US.
Australia's Eleanor Patterson soared to victory in the women's high jump at the World Championships in Oregon on Tuesday.
Raphinha marked his Barcelona debut with a goal and two assists as the Spanish giants kicked off their four match US tour with a comprehensive thrashing of David Beckham's Inter Miami on Tuesday.
Robert Lewandowski is joining Barcelona in a 50 million euro deal until 2027, the Spanish club said on Tuesday. Barca released a statement confirming the move three days after both clubs announced that a deal "in principle" had been struck for the Polish striker to move to La Liga.
West Indies white-ball skipper Nicholas Pooran knows it's going to be a tough challenge competing against an Indian side which is coming to the Caribbean on the back of superb series wins in ODIs and T20Is against the powerful England.
The 27-year-old Sable clocked 8:31.75, way below his season's and personal best of 8:12.48, which is a national record. He had qualified for the final after finishing third in heat number 3 and seventh overall with a time of 8:18.75.
On Sunday evening in Manchester, Rishabh Pant, like he has been doing so often of late, brought a sense of calm into India's batting, which has seen some superstars at the top going through choppy waters. Eventually, Pant finished off the chase with his quintessential hair-raising belligerence.
West Indies on Sunday recalled star all-rounder Jason Holder for a three-match one-day series against India as they look to bounce back from a humbling loss to Bangladesh.
The 150th playing of The Open Championship called for a final round worthy of the annals of history. Cameron Smith rose to the occasion and wrote his own chapter at the Old Course.
Domestic stalwart Amol Muzumdar is likely to continue as the Mumbai senior team's head coach for the forthcoming season, TOI has learnt.
Stung by England's raging comeback at Lord's, India return to Old Trafford in Manchester for the blockbuster decider of the ODI series on Sunday. For India, this is a venue which holds painful memories of their 2019 World Cup semifinal defeat to New Zealand in their previous outing here.
The 41-year-old cricketer is in England since before his birthday on July 7. He celebrated his birthday with his wife, friends and a few Indian cricketers as well and has also been at the stadium to watch India's matches.
Largely thanks to the current BCCI administration led by its secretary Jay Shah, the marquee T20 property has now carved out an extended window for itself in the international calendar, one that will now allow the IPL to run for a full three months and ensure that any or all cricket in the rest of the world comes to a standstill during this time.
India batter Suryakumar Yadav said his camaraderie with Rohit Sharma has been really good, adding that the skipper has helped him a lot with his batting since his domestic cricket days. Apart from sharing the Indian dressing room, both Rohit and Suryakumar represented Mumbai in domestic cricket and play for the same IPL side, Mumbai Indians. He's been watching me and talking about my cricket since I played domestic cricket," Suryakumar said.
Reece Topley expects to feel as if he is playing away from home when England face India in Sunday's one-day international series decider at Old Trafford.
Dinesh Karthik’s career graph has been on the upswing ever since he moved to the Royal Challengers Bangalore earlier this year. A superb performance with the bat --- 330 runs from 16 outings --- for the franchise was instrumental in Karthik making a comeback into the Indian T20 side. Back with the national team after almost three years, Karthik has given a good account of himself and will be in action during the upcoming T20 series against the West Indies.
Sunil Gavaskar has been conferred with a doctorate degree. The Shri Sathya Sai University of Human Excellence, Muddenhalli in Karnataka bestowed with the honour. Five others also received similar degrees from chief guest Mohan Bhagwat in the university campus near Gulbarga on Wednesday evening.
Midfielder Conor Gallagher is aiming to be a key player for Premier League side Chelsea after being assured of a place in manager Thomas Tuchel's plans.
England's Reece Topley recorded career-best figures of 6-24 as the hosts roared back in style after their drubbing in the first ODI against India to level the 3-match series with a 100-run win in the second game. Chasing 247 on a Lord's wicket that had eased up after the first innings, India never found their stride and folded for 146 in 38.5 overs. David Willey (1/27), seasoned Moeen Ali (1/30) and Liam Livingstone (1/4) also played their parts to perfection.
World record-holder Karsten Warholm is confident of surging past his rivals as he looks to defend his 400 metres hurdles title at the world championships despite tearing his hamstring last month.
Anyone would be ecstatic beyond belief to win a bronze medal at a world athletics championships. Not 94-year-old Bhagwani Devi Dagar. When she won a bronze in shot put at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Tampere, Finland, she exclaimed that she didn't like the colour of the metal. On July 10, defying her age, she grabbed a gold medal in the 100m sprint.
Indian opening duo of Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan on Tuesday completed 5000 ODI runs as an opening pair. The duo achieved this landmark during the first ODI of the three-match series against England at the Kennington Oval on Tuesday where they took 12 deliveries to reach the milestone.
Novak Djokovic is hoping to be allowed to play at the Australian Open next year despite being kicked out of the country over his vaccination status in January, the Serbian told state television RTS on Monday.
Former world number one Ashleigh Barty has no regrets about retiring from tennis in March aged 25 and also does not plan to start playing golf professionally, ending speculation that she would now focus her career on that sport.
Suryakumar Yadav gave a 360 degree masterclass enroute to a special hundred but England pulled off a consolatory 17-run win over India in the third T20 International on Sunday.