A total of 30 teams will compete across three divisions in the 16th Hockey India Junior Women National Championship 2026, which begins in Pune on Wednesday.The tournament will run until August 23, with teams competing for the national title as well as promotion and relegation between the three divisions.The championship is divided into Division A,…
Finn Allen has been roped in by the Abu Dhabi Knight Riders as a pre-auction signing for ILT20 Season 5. (Reuters) Dubai: Finn Allen, David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen will headline the new arrivals for the ILT20 Season 5, with the three T20 batters set to make their tournament debuts when the sixth-team competition returns…
New Delhi, Former India drag-flicker Jugraj Singh sees shades of his own aggressive game in Harmanpreet Singh, terming him “trump card” at the FIH World Cup, beginning this week. World Cup: Jugraj sees his reflection in Harmanpreet, calls him “trump card” A product of the Surjit Hockey Academy like Harmanpreet, Jugraj said the India captain’s…
For ten years, whenever Manchester City turned up at Wembley for a domestic final, the script barely changed. Pep Guardiola would talk down the occasion beforehand, and then, more often than not, City would win it. They did it twice last season alone — beating Arsenal 2-0 in March’s Carabao Cup final, Nico O’Reilly scoring…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Video grabs) NEW DELHI: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi has wasted little time getting back to work after a productive tour of Zimbabwe, sharing a glimpse of his batting preparations ahead of the new domestic season and the Duleep Trophy.The teenage India batter posted a video on his official Instagram account showing him working in the…
Irfan Pathan and Kumar Sangakkara NEW DELHI: Former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has revisited a little-known heated exchange with Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara during the 2005 Test in Delhi, revealing how an argument over a changed ball escalated into personal sledging before the two eventually put the incident behind them and became friends.Pathan was…
Former world number one Iga Swiatek cruised into the Toronto Masters semi-finals on Monday, taking just 64 minutes to sweep past Russian Diana Shnaider 6-2, 6-1. Swiatek races into Toronto semis as Svitolina battles through Poland’s Swiatek, a six-time Grand Slam champion, reached just her second WTA semi-final this year after Rome and seeks her…
US President Donald Trump has jumped to the defence of his close ally and embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino, warning the world football governing body against replacing him and calling any such move a “terrible mistake”. U.S. President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the trophy presentation after the match (REUTERS) Infantino has…
Ronald Araujo (Pic credit: LFC) Barcelona captain Ronald Araujo has described his move to Liverpool as the “ideal” decision at this stage of his career after the Uruguay defender completed a season-long loan to the Premier League club on Monday.The 27-year-old joins Liverpool for the 2026-27 season after agreeing to take a pay cut to…
NEW DELHI: Eighteen years after scripting history at the Beijing Olympics, Indian shooting legend Abhinav Bindra looked back on the moment that changed Indian sport forever, describing his individual gold medal as the “biggest peak of my sporting life”.On August 11, 2008, Bindra became the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal when…
