This year, however, Lee is not looking as invincible as in earlier years. Although he won the Korea Open and Malaysia Open Superseries earlier in the year, he was outclassed in the final of the All England – falling to Chen Long in straight games. Worse was to follow – the Malaysian ran into the young Chinese, Tian Houwei in the final of the Australian Open last week and he was outplayed after an hour and 21 minutes....
The ICC’s move to launch the women’s T20I rankings follows its decision earlier this year to award international status to all T20 matches between member countries. Whilst Scotland are the top ranked associate member in 11th and Thailand take 12th place in the first table, following some good performances of late including a win over Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup earlier this year. All women’s T20 matches between members have international status since the Asia Cup in June and the new rankings system will help teams gauge where they stand in the shortest format of the game, said an ICC release....
Electing to bat after winning the toss at the Harare Sports Club, the hosts lost six wickets within a span of just six runs to lose the plot completely against a disciplined Indian bowling line-up. Vusi Sibanda once again got off to a start scoring 38, Chamu Chibhabha scored 27 while the rest of the batsmen crumbled under pressure. Medium pacer Jasprit Bumrah emerged the wrecker-in-chief with four wickets while leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal took two scalps and Axar Patel and Dhawal Kulkarni chipped in with one wicket apiece....
Here’s a lot at some of India’s youngest Olympians and their performance in their 1st Games: Note: Criteria for selection has been athletes who were below the age of 20 during their maiden appearance 1.PT Usha- 16 years and 69 days(Moscow 1980) PT Usha’s talent was first identified by Mr.O.M.Nambiar, who started coaching the youngster in 1979 and then a year later, saw her young pupil feature in her maiden Olympics in Moscow....
It would seem that the region’s most celebrated CS: GO professional Debanjan ‘Deathmaker’ Das has finally decided to make the shift to Valorant and has jumped orgs from Global Esports to GodLike Esports. In a recent interview with Sportskeeda Esports, Deathmaker did say that he was not looking to completely involve himself in the Valorant pro scene anytime soon. So, what caused the sudden change of heart is still quite unknown....
Also, the return of Hardik Pandya has strengthened the teams in various ways. Virat Kohli has played his last game of the tour and rested for the remaining games. Rohit Sharma will lead the side and changes are expected for the fourth ODI. Indian team management might not want to risk Dhoni unless he is 100 percent. Shubman Gill has a great chance to make his international debut and one of Khaleel or Siraj might get a look in....
In the men’s singles section, the challenge will be led by Kidambi Srikanth and Sameer Verma. The doubles charge will be led by Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy with the latter making a comeback from an injury. Sumeeth Reddy, Manu Attri and Pranav Chopra will represent India at the Sudirman Cup as well. In the women’s section, while Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu will spearhead the challenge in singles, the pairs of Ashwini Ponnappa-Sikki Reddy and Poorvisha S Ram-J Meghana will be leading the doubles campaign at this prestigious tournament....
The All India Football Federation (AIFF) announced the final 21-member squad for the FIFA Under-17 World Cup to be held in India next month on Thursday evening. However, three players have continued to stay with the team as coach Luis Norton de Matos wants to use them in his practice sessions. Wing-back Joysana Singh, Centre-back Sumit Rathi and goalkeeper Mohammed Nawaz are the said trio training with the India Under-17 team....
The second ODI between India and Australia will start at 1:30 PM IST at the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Rajkot. The Men in Blue have a dismal record at this venue, having lost both the ODIs they have played at the SCA Stadium. England had defeated them in a high-scoring match by 9 runs and later, South Africa overcame a challenge from the hosts by 18 runs. India may make two changes to their playing XI for this match....
India are playing two T20 Internationals and five ODIs against Australia in what will be their last international assignment before the opening World Cup fixture against South Africa in Southampton on June 5. “Probably, a couple of more ODIs would have been more beneficial for both the teams not just us. It would have been more ideal and logical,” Kohli said on the eve of the opening T20. Even though it’s a T20 game, Kohli would like to treat these shortest format games also an extended preparation for the World Cup....
It was a clinical all-round performance by the Indian team, and they once again displayed why they are a dominant force in home conditions. With this, the ‘Men in Blue’ also avenged the 2-3 series loss at the hands of the Aussies last year in march, before the World Cup. In this article, let us look at three reasons why India won the match and with it the series....
Jayed nipped one back into Kohli, and the batsman was rapped on the pads. The umpire negated the appeal by Bangladesh, after which skipper Mominul Haque went for the DRS review and got the decision overturned. The dismissal meant Kohli was dismissed for a duck only for the 10th time in Test cricket. The Indian captain is playing in his 83rd Test, and his dismissal for zero came in his 140th innings....
The background The historic pink-ball Test match between India and Bangladesh is underway at Eden Gardens. Bangladesh captain Mominul Haque had won the toss and chose to bat first in Kolkata. However, his batsmen could not take the advantage of the first session as the Indian pace bowlers ran through their batting lineup. Ultimately, Bangladesh lost all their wickets for mere 106 runs. Ishant Sharma proved to be the star for India with five wickets while Umesh Yadav and Shami accounted for the other five wickets between themselves....
Chasing 322 to win, India lost Ajinkya Rahane and KL Rahul early. Skipper Virat Kohli steadied the ship with a 63-ball 55, but he was dismissed by Ben Stokes. Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni tried their best to pull things back on track before perishing for 45 and 25 respectively. Hardik Pandya and Kedar Jadhav played the innings of their life and put on a 104-run partnership for the sixth wicket....
Virat Kohli won the toss and followed the recent trend of bowling first. On a slightly different surface from the first couple of games, England still managed to surge to a mammoth total of 321. The run-chase began badly for the hosts with their top five back in the dressing room before they could cross the 200-mark. However, a rapid sixth-wicket partnership took the game right down to the wire....
In the T20I series in New Zealand last year (February 2019), the Indian side had lost 2-1, and for Kohli’s men, the main challenge is to overturn those results this year. This time around, the major positive for the Men in Blue is their spectacular T20I run, having not lost a single T20I series since the conclusion of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Interestingly, India’s only T20I win against the Kiwis (by seven wickets) in last year’s series came at the same venue as the one hosting tomorrow’s game....
India have been dealt a big blow ahead of the T20Is with Shikhar Dhawan being ruled out due to the shoulder injury he picked up while fielding against Australia at Bengaluru on Sunday. It will give KL Rahul another opportunity to stake his claim for the World T20 as an opener. The last time these two teams met in international cricket, it turned out to be heartbreak for India as they were outdone in the World Cup semi-finals....
During the post-match interview of the second Test match, Kohli revealed that Saha was nervous in the Visakhapatnam Test but he kept the wickets beautifully in the Pune Test. He said, Shifting his focus toward the performances of off-spinner Ashwin, the captain stated, Virat also shed light on the fact that the Indian team was in the number 7 position in Test rankings when he took over the reins of the side and the hard work of his team has taken India to the helm of the Test rankings....
When Sri Lanka look back at this particular Test, they will know that their batsmen floundered a massive chance on a docile day one track. However, the visitors will rue a couple of missed opportunities in the field which could have at least brought them closer to competing with a dominant Indian outfit. After missing a difficult close-in catch as well as the accompanying run-out opportunity, Sri Lanka reprieved Murali Vijay once again when Dilruwan Perera dropped a straightforward chance....
