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Unfortunately, it would appear the government doesn’t want those comments to be seen. India Sends Twitter an Emergency Order to Delete Tweets In a story broken by Indian tech news site MediaNama, Twitter has removed 52 tweets at the request of the Government of India. Most of the tweets in question were criticisms of how the government is currently handling India’s second wave of COVID-19 cases. Some of the tweet authors include the likes of parliament member Revanth Reddy, West Bengal state minister Moloy Ghatak, actor Vineet Kumar Singh, and filmmakers Vinod Kapri and Avinash Das....

South Africa, who have been on top of the rankings for over a year, have had a terrible year in the longest format of the game. After beating West Indies in a Test in the first week of the year, the Proteas failed to win any of the other 7 matches they played. The Hashim Amla-led side drew 0-0 in Bangladesh in July, where they were a little unlucky with rain playing spoilsport....

Besides England, other participating nations in India’s pool are world no. 7 USA and minnows Ireland. According to the schedule of the 16-nation prestigious tournament issued by the International Hockey Federation today, world no. 10 and Asia Cup champions India will open their campaign against England on the first day of the event on July 21. After England, the Indians will next play Ireland on July 26 followed by their last pool encounter against USA on July 29 at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park....

The biennial 16-nation tournament features nine Test-playing nations and seven Associate and Affiliate Members. Teams have been divided into four groups with the top two in each advancing to the Super League quarter-finals and the other two qualifying for the Plate Championships. India have been pooled in Group D with Nepal, New Zealand and Ireland. They will play Ireland in Mirpur on January 28. India, coached by batting great Rahul Dravid, features high among the top contenders to bag the trophy which they have previously won in 2000, 2008 and 2012....

Nicolai Adam was appointed as the head coach by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) in February 2015. The German coach’s first overseas trip with India’s squad assembled for the U-17 World Cup was in his home country and concluded with the Granatkin Memorial Cup 2017 in Russia. Portuguese coach Luis Norton de Matos took over the reins from Adam in early 2017, the Indian U-17 national team travelled to six different countries....

FIFA U-17 World Cup Profile: INDIA Following the 18-day camp held at New Delhi, the Indians will play two international friendlies against the Singapore U-23 team on July 9 and 12, with both matches to be streamed live. Though Goal had earlier reported that the India Colts would be embarking on a trip to the United States of America in order to prepare for the qualifiers, the tour could not see the day of light as there was a hitch in procuring the visas....

In response, Australia chased down the target in the final ball of the game. Glenn Maxwell’s 56 runs proved to be the difference in the end. Some incompetent death bowling from Umesh Yadav accounted for India’s defeat. Jhye Richardson and Pat Cummins scored 14 runs off the last over to secure a 1-0 lead in the series. Now let us take a look at some of the interesting stats from the 1st match:...

In the first ODI against Australia at Mumbai, Kuldeep caused a few problems to Aaron Finch and David Warner in the early stages. But later, he was picked very easily and ended up wicketless. This highlighted the exact problem with Kuldeep - he was getting picked easily. Former Indian leg-spinner Narendra Hirwani believes that while Kuldeep’s bowling was not bad, he has to alter his line and length and be more attacking in order get his white-ball form back....

One of the matches was abandoned. India’s best performance against the Aussies came in 2009 when they defeated them in both the Super Six stage and in the 3rd-place playoff and in 2017 when they defeated Australia in the semi-finals. The two teams have met twice in the final of the tournament, with both teams winning one match apiece. Let us now look at some of the key stats in matches between these two teams in the World Cup....

England recorded a 37-run win against India at Birmingham to go 1-0 up in the five-game series. Team India will now look to bounce back to level the series 1-1 when they take on the hosts in the second a test match to be played from August 9 at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. The win at Edgbaston was England’s 44th test victory in 118 matches against India. While Men in Blue have won 25 of those games with 49 draws....

Sri Lanka, on the other hand, got whitewashed the last time they played a T20I series against Australia. So, they would be coming into this series under a little bit of pressure. Although Sri Lanka’s performance in India in any format of the game hasn’t been impressive in recent times, they have particularly struggled in the shortest format. Out of the eight T20Is that Sri Lanka have played against India in India, they have won just two and lost six....

There are plenty of fresh faces in the Indian squad, and the visitors too have brought in an inexperienced team to face the No.1 Test team in the world led by Virat Kohli. While the core players select themselves, there are still questions on who will open with KL Rahul in the first match of the series. Will it be the prodigy Prithvi Shaw, or the ever consistent Mayank Agarwal....

If you take all their previous 5 defeats against India, it was all by colossal margins. A loss by 237 runs, by an innings and 92 runs, by an innings and 126 runs, by an innings and 51 runs and by an innings and 15 runs. The last time West Indies won a Test match against India was at Kingston in 2002. The last time West Indies won a Test match in India was way back in 1994 at Mohali....

Opener Chamu Chibhabha’s 67 guided the hosts to 145/7 in reply to which the visitors could manage only 135/9 in the allotted 20 overs. Wicketkeeper-batsman Robin Uthappa top-scored with 42 for India while leg-spinner Graeme Cremer starred for Zimbabwe, taking 3/18 in his four overs. The following is the scoreboard of the second and final Twenty20 International between India and Zimbabwe played at the Harare Sports Club here on Sunday:...

The quaint stadium will host yet another low-key series with the hosts seeking some light in their never ending journey as the minnows of International cricket. This tour will provide them an ideal opportunity to upstage a side that is in the mood to experiment with their line-up. Zimbabwe selectors surely have made right noises by selecting a full-strength side that threatens to pull off an upset or two on any given day....

They would be keen to post a grudge win over the young and energetic team of the Singapore Slammers on Saturday. And what better place to do it than at the home ground of the Slammers, at the Singapore Indoor Stadium? This match might very well be a prelude to the grand finale on Sunday where the Aces and Slammers are expected to clash again. Can the 2014 winners stamp their authority this time?...

The idea being to inspect the facility on whether it can be used to host Indian national team’s camps and friendlies. It is believed that All India Football Federation (AIFF) officials too would visit the stadium in the coming months to see if the stadium fits the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) criterion. ‘The Arena’ was launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in June this year. TransStadia, the company who built the stadium, have a state-of- the-art Sports Rehabilitation Centre at the venue as well....

Squad Goalkeepers: Kuppuswami Sampath (MEG, Bangalore), Bandya Kakade (Bombay). Backs: Sudhir Karmakar (East Bengal Club), Syed Nayeemuddin (East Bengal Club - CAPTAIN), Chandreshwar Prasad (Mohun Bagan AC), Nirmal (Jhunu) Sengupta (Bengal), Altaf Ahmed (Bengal), Shivdas (Bombay), Kalyan Saha (Bengal). Half Backs: A. Latif (Bengal), J. Bassi (Bombay), Doraiswamy Nataraj (Mysore), Ajaib Singh (Punjab). Forwards: Shyam Thapa (East Bengal Club), Subhas Bhowmick (Mohun Bagan AC), Mohammed Habib (East Bengal Club), Amar Bahadur (Mafatlal, Bombay), Magan Singh (Rajasthan), Manjit Singh (Leaders Club, Punjab), Sukalyan Ghosh Dastidar (Mohun Bagan AC)....

Squad Goalkeepers: Bhaskar Ganguly (East Bengal Club - CAPTAIN), Bramanand Shankwalkar (Salgaocar SC). Defenders: Compton Dutta (Bengal), Manoranjan Bhattacharya (East Bengal Club), Sudip Chatterjee (Mohun Bagan AC), Alok Mukherjee (East Bengal Club), G.S. Parmar (Punjab), Aslam Khan (Karnataka). Midfielders: Prasun Banerjee (Bengal), Prasanta Banerjee (Bengal), Fareed (Bengal), Parminder Singh (Punjab), Harjinder Singh (JCT Mills). Forwards: Bidesh Bose (Bengal), Shabbir Ali (Bengal), Biswajit Bhattacharya (Bengal), Kartick Seth (East Bengal Club), C....