Between now and then, Rahane has become one of the premier batsmen in the team and has been elevated to the test team’s vice-captaincy. The rise in his stature can further be judged by the fact that he is among the players who have not been picked for this tour so as to be fresh before the start of a grueling test season that’ll see our team play 17 test matches in the next year!...
Leg-spinner Cremer has replaced Hamilton Masakadza at the helm, who had a forgettable outing in India as the skipper. Masakadza, however, continues to be a part of both the squads that will take on India, but the new captain’s deputy will be wicketkeeper-batsman Richmond Mutumbami. The Zimbabwe team will have a slightly depleted new ball attack with forced absence of fast bowler Tinashe Panyangara due to an injury. All-rounder Ryan Burl was also not selected after he picked up an injury during the training camp in Bulawayo while playing Rugby....
The mouth-watering clash will take place in Dubai on October 24. India, also the hosts for the seventh edition of the T20 World Cup, will start as firm favorites mainly due to their depth. However, they will be aware of their recent history in knockout games. Despite India holding the upper hand over Pakistan in World Cups, Babar Azam feels their arch-rivals will be more under pressure. The 26-year old highlighted that India haven’t played T20I cricket for a while now....
Soumya’s time may not be considered among the top bracket as the Indian finished in the 37th position overall out of 79 other athletes, but her time was good enough to see her comfortably qualify for the Asian Games with over a minute to spare. In case you didn’t know… B Soumya broke the national record in the 20km walk category earlier this year in February by clocking a time of 1:31:28 which allowed her to narrowly beat the previous best of 1:31:40 set by Khushbir Kaur in Taicang in 2014....
The Archery Association of India (AAI) felicitated its team on Tuesday for the impressive performance in the recently concluded World Championships. India won two silver medals at the competition in Copenhagen. It is the first time India won two medals at a single edition of the Worlds. The Indian women’s recurve team of Deepika Kumari, Laxmirani Majhi and Rimil Buriuly lost the final 4-5 to Russia in an edge-of-the-seat encounter at the Christiansborg Palace on Sunday....
The Central Council of the All India Chess Federation Tuesday unanimously decided to recommend Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand for the Bharat Ratna award. Two other icons, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and hockey Olympian late Major Dhyan Chand are also being lobbied for the country’s highest civilian award after the union government decided to include sports personalities in the eligibility list. The AICF Council that met here also decided to explore the possibility of tying up with Anil Kumble‘s Tenvic Sports with regard to setting up a National Chess Academy which will basically try to promote chess coaching, to regulate coaches and to broad-base the game throughout India, according to an AICF press release....
Jasprit Bumrah, who was rested for the T20 series against South Africa, had a long season that included IPL 2019, World Cup in England and Wales and the tour of West Indies. Bumrah is scheduled to go rehabilitation and recovery at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. Bumrah has represented India 12 times in Test cricket, taking 62 wickets at an astonishing average of 19.24. Ravi Shastri further commented on the brilliance of opener Rohit Sharma and his stupendous performance in the first Test against South Africa....
“You can’t have people die because there is no oxygen. Beg, borrow or steal, it is a national emergency,” the judges said, responding to a petition by a New Delhi hospital seeking the court’s support, the Associated Press reported. India reported a global-record 314,000-plus new cases on Thursday (for a total of nearly 16 million, second only to the U.S.), stretching medicine and supplies available to curb the spread of infection....
Making his Test debut for India, against West Indies, in 2011, the Tamil Nadu-born has been remarkably impressive with both bat and ball ever since in home conditions, while his overseas accomplishments haven’t been up to the mark. Apart from being the fastest Indian bowler to get to 100 Test wickets – in his 18th Test, surpassing stalwarts like Erapalli Prasanna and Anil Kumble, he has also notched up two Test centuries and averages 41 with the bat, giving hopes of filling the role of a genuine all-rounder in times to come....
Top stars like Sania Mirza, Leander Paes, Rohan Bopanna and Mahesh Bhupathi along with Purav Raja will compete in doubles in the year’s first Grand Slam tournament. The only Indian representation in singles will be Yuki Bhambri, who has an extremely tough outing in his men’s singles opener where he will be up against Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych. Going past the 2010 Wimbledon finalist, who has reached the semifinals here for the last two years, will be quite a tough task for the 23-year-old Delhi youngster....
The AIFF finally seems to have come to a conclusion after bringing down the candidates to a shortlist of four names in Hakan Ericson, Albert Roca, Igor Stimac and Lee Min-Sung. The AIFF Technical Committee met on Thursday in New Delhi and has forwarded the name of Igor Stimac from Croatia to the Executive Committee for a final decision. The coach is largely dependent on set-pieces and counter attacks to score goals....
The 130th edition of the Durand Cup will have four teams from the armed forces. The remaining spots will be filled by the top clubs from the ISL and I-League. The 2019 Durand Cup was held in Kolkata, where Gokulam Kerala defeated Mohan Bagan 2-1 to be crowned champions. This year, once again, the tournament will be played in Kolkata. Kalyani Stadium, Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, Howrah Stadium and East Bengal Ground are set to host this legendary football tournament....
India clinched the ODI series 3-0. The visitors were a superior side in the 50-over campaign winning the first ODI by four runs, the second by 62 runs and the third by 83 runs. The visitors will have very little homework to do after putting up an impressive show both with the bat and bowl in the ODI series. But the hosts, swept aside in the ODI series, will look to making a strong comeback and proving themselves in the T20 series....
England may have claimed several crucial wickets in the post-tea session, but Cheteshwar Pujara still feels that India have the advantage at the end of the second day of the third cricket Test here on Sunday. India were sailing along in their first innings, posting 148/2 by tea with Pujara and Indian skipper Virat Kohli batting comfortably to post a 75-run partnership. But the visitors hit back in the final session of the day, clinching four wickets before the hosts rode on some aggressive batting by Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja to post 271/6 at stumps....
It will be the twentieth time India have toured England, the first in 1911 when an ‘all-Indian’ team played twenty-three matches. On said tour, fourteen of those matches were of first-class status and the team left with a record of two wins, ten draws and ten losses. However, it was not until 1932 that the first England-India Tests were played in England. The tourists lost the only Test at Lords by 158 runs, despite Mohammad Nissar leaving with impressive figures of 5-93....
The ruling of the CAS said that there was no clear proof that the athlete might have benefited from her condition of having increased testosterone levels than others. “The panel has suspended the ‘IAAF Regulation Governing Eligibility of Females with Hyperandrogenism to Compete in Women’s Competition’ for a maximum period of two years in order to give the IAAF the opportunity to provide the CAS with scientific evidence about the quantitative relationship between enhanced testosterone levels and improved athletic performance in hyperandrogenic athletes," the Court said in an statement....
By scoring two goals in his first match at this year’s Asian Cup, India striker Sunil Chhetri displaced Messi as the second-most prolific scorer in national team soccer. He now has scored 67 times for his country, trailing only Ronaldo’s 85. “There is no comparison whatsoever between me and Lionel Messi or Ronaldo, but I am very, very honored,” Chhetri said after India beat Thailand 4-1 in its opening game at the Asian Cup....
India lost 23-24 to South Korea, who won the bronze medal in the Incheon Games four years ago, in a match that went down to the wire. This is the first defeat for India in 28 years at the Asian Games. They will lock horns with Thailand in their final Group A game tomorrow. The team had dished out a clinical performance yesterday beating Bangladesh 50-21 and Sri Lanka 44-28....
Earlier, the Amit Gulia led team had registered wins over China and New Zealand, which allowed them to finish with 6 points at the end of Group D fixtures. Apart from India, China was the other team to make it to the top eight of the tournament. Despite equal number of points as India and China, Thailand couldn’t progress to the next round and will be playing in the classification round for 9th-16th places....
As Luis Norton de Matos’ side are preparing for the biggest event to be staged in India with their first fixture against the United States’ U-17 team in New Delhi on October 6, India U-19 coach Floyd Pinto believes that the Under-17 team have improved by leaps and bounds. “They (U-17 team) have definitely improved. They look much stronger as a team after their Europe and other tours where they have recently played teams like Mexico, Chile and Columbia....
