Over 500km away from the chaos of the opening match in Mexico City, which saw more red cards than goals, South Korea recorded a stellar 2-1 comeback win to trounce Czechia in Guadalajara. South Korean players celebrate after winning the 2026 World Cup Group A football match against Czechia on Friday. (AFP) All three goals…
Just less than six years ago, Raul Jimenez was lying unconscious during the Wolves-Arsenal game in the Premier League after a head collision. There were fears he might die. He didn’t die, but he for sure took months to recover from that dreadful injury. Raul Jimenez celebrates scoring his team’s second goal. (AFP) So, when…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (Image credit: ICC) New Delhi: Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s jaw-dropping 776-run season in IPL 2026 has captured the attention of not just the Indian selectors, who have named him in the squads for the Ireland and England T20Is, but also former players. Sachin Tendulkar has repeatedly praised the teenager. Ex-South Africa seamer Dale Steyn was…
Former Indian shooter Jaspal Rana passed away in New Delhi on Thursday night. Last week, he underwent a medical procedure after feeling ill on the flight back home from Munich. 49-year-old Rana’s passing has cast a pall of gloom over Indian sports, and ever since the terrible news broke out on early Friday morning, tributes…
New Delhi, Calling Lionel Messi an “alien” who makes you think he’s “not from this world”, former India midfielder Mehtab Hossain believes defending champions Argentina remain the team to beat at the FIFA World Cup. If there’s an alien in football, it’s Messi: Mehtab backs Argentina to retain World Cup Speaking to PTI, Mehtab, who…
Mehidy Hasan Miraz getting treatment after he was hit by a bouncer on the side of his helmet. (X Photo) Bangladesh captain Mehidy Hasan Miraz was taken to hospital for observation after suffering a concussion during his side’s memorable ODI series-clinching victory over Australia in Dhaka on Thursday.The all-rounder, who played through visible discomfort to…
On any other day, the conversation would have centred around Oh Hyeon-gyu’s winner for South Korea against Czechia or even the World Cup’s opening goal by Julián Quinones for Mexico which had the majority of the Azteca stadium in raptures. It is the start of the World Cup — everyone wants a celebration of goals…
File Pic: Jaspal Rana with Manu Bhaker after historic double bronze-medal feat at the Paris Olympics. (PTI Photo) Indian shooting lost one of its finest pistol shooters on Friday. Jaspal Rana, an Asian Games gold medallist and winner of multiple international events who later transformed Indian shooting as a coach, breathed his last at a…
New Delhi, In a sweeping crackdown on age fraud, more than 500 wrestlers were disqualified from the U-17 National Open Ranking Tournament in Gonda after the Wrestling Federation of India introduced a stringent Aadhaar-based verification system that exposed widespread discrepancies in age and birth records. WFI cracks down on age fraud, disqualifies 500-plus wrestlers at…
NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu and Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra led an outpouring of grief from across the country on Friday following the death of legendary shooter and coach Jaspal Rana, with tributes pouring in for a man widely regarded as one of the architects of Indian shooting’s rise on the global stage.Rana, a former…
