Lucknow Super Giants face stern home test against quality CSK bowling

Lucknow Super Giants face stern home test against quality CSK bowling

Friday, 19 April 2024 | PTI | Lucknow

A set of probing questionnaires awaits the Lucknow Super Giants on their home turf as Chennai Super Kings’ cerebral bowling unit will look to use its variation to the fullest on a two-paced Ekana Stadium track during their IPL clash here on Friday. The two teams endured contrasting fortunes in their...

Sheetal claims silver in competition with able bodied at Khelo India National meet

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

Asian Para Games gold-winner Sheetal Devi grabbed a silver in the Khelo India NTPC National Ranking archery meet, finishing second behind Haryana's Ekta Rani, who is able-bodied and a junior world champion. In the competition held at the DDA Yamuna Sports Complex, the 17-year-old Sheetal competed with able-bodied junior archers and...

Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Lausanne (Switzerland)

Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics open. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday it will hear an appeal by World Athletics on June 17 against a ruling last year that cleared the 2022 world champion of...

Paris prepares for 100 days countdown to Olympics

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Paris

In Paris' outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end. That's because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris' high-rise business...

MotoGP racing for new momentum in America

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Austin (Texas)

A new American team with ties to the NASCAR stock car series, a new television deal in the United States and upcoming American ownership. MotoGP, global motorcycle racing's version of Formula 1, looks primed for a bid to copy F1's explosive growth in recent years and bring a new group of...

Every practice, drill will count from now on: Harmanpreet

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

Indian men's hockey team captain Harmanpreet Singh on Wednesday said with 100 days left for the Paris Olympics, every day, every practice and every drill will count towards building momentum to shine at the biggest sporting stage. Last edition's bronze medallist India are currently placed sixth in the world, but Harmanpreet...

Manika, Sreeja make group stage exits from ITTF World Cup

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

Star Indian table tennis player Manika Batra and her compatriot Sreeja Akula exited in the second-round group stage after losing against China's Wang Manyu and defending champion Chen Meng respectively at the ITTF World Cup in Galaxy Arena in Macau on Wednesday. World no. 39 Sreeja lost 1-3 (4-11 4-11 15-13...

Jos Buttler's ton highlights need for players to be elite athletes: Tom Moody

Jos Buttler's ton highlights need for players to be elite athletes: Tom Moody

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 | PTI | Kolkata

Jos Buttler's match-winning century against Kolkata Knight Riders highlights the need for professional cricketers to be elite athletes as well, said former Australian all-rounder Tom Moody after the Rajasthan batter smashed his second ton this IPL. Buttler (107 not out off 60 balls) fought his way through a slow start and...

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