Sports

WATCHING SENIOR PLAYERS PLAY INSPIRED ME : DANGMEI GRACE

05 Jan 2021 03:05 AM IST

Indian Women’s National Team star Dangmei Grace may have made a name for herself by leaving several flat-footed defenders in her wake, but the 24-year-old has her sporting roots, not in the beautiful game, but track and field events— more specifically, short-distance races. Speaking to AIFF TV during a freewheeling

DESPITE COVID FURY, JAPAN PM FIRM TO HOST OLYMPICS

05 Jan 2021 03:03 AM IST

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he is determined to host the Tokyo Olympic Games although the Covid-19 pandemic situation is worsening in his country. Suga told a press conference that he will prepare for the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games with “determination” and take all possible

SO FAR, SO GOOD: JURGEN KLOPP ON LIVERPOOL’S 2020-21 SEASON

05 Jan 2021 03:01 AM IST

So far, so good, said Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp as he analysed the team’s performance in the ongoing 2020-2021 season and he also acknowledged the tight race at the top of the Premier League table. “For sure, but last season was very tough for us as well, it’s not that

Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19

05 Jan 2021 03:00 AM IST

HAMBANTOTA: England all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for coronavirus following the team’s arrival at the Sri Lanka airport in Hambantota, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed on Monday. The England Test squad led by skipper Joe Root arrived in Sri Lanka on Sunday ahead of the upcoming

Williamson, Nicholls put Kiwis in command

05 Jan 2021 02:57 AM IST

New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson on Monday continued with his dream run with the bat as he scored yet another century to put the hosts in a commanding position in the ongoing second Test against Pakistan at the Hagley Oval. On Day Two of the Test match, Williamson batted in

Brisbane Test on, no formal request from BCCI: Cricket Australia

05 Jan 2021 02:56 AM IST

Reports have emerged about Team India’s reluctance to play the final Test, currently scheduled for 15-19 January at the Gabba, due to harsher bio-security protocols.

WILLING TO SLIP LOWER DOWN THE ORDER IF TEAM WANTS: WADE

04 Jan 2021 03:40 AM IST

MELBOURNE: Australia batsman Matthew Wade, who has opened in the first two Tests against India, has stated that he is willing to bat lower down the order and or even sit out if both the regular openers in the squad—Will Pucovski and David Warner—return to the playing XI. Both Warner

HADDIN SAYS INDIA DON’T WANT TO GO TO GABBA

04 Jan 2021 03:38 AM IST

SYDNEY: Former Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin on Sunday said that India does not want to play the fourth Test at Brisbane as the hosts have an impeccable record at the Gabba. As per a report in Cricbuzz, India has expressed their unwillingness to travel to Brisbane for the fourth Test

RAHANE IS BRAVE, SMART AND HAS TEAM’S RESPECT: IAN CHAPPELL

04 Jan 2021 03:36 AM IST

MELBOURNE: Ajinkya Rahane is brave, smart, calm and has the respect of his team, former Australia skipper Ian Chappell has said while praising India’s stand-in Test captain. “It was no surprise that Ajinkya Rahane captained India flawlessly at the MCG; anyone who saw him in charge in Dharamsala in 2017

SOURAV GANGULY TESTS COVID NEGATIVE; SLEPT WELL, NOT FEVERISH

04 Jan 2021 03:33 AM IST

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president and former India captain Sourav Ganguly has tested negative for Covid-19 and is at present not feverish, doctors said on Sunday. Ganguly, 48, was admitted to a Kolkata hospital on Saturday afternoon after complaints of chest pain. The doctors said that

THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED FAMILIES IN INDIAN SPORTS

04 Jan 2021 03:31 AM IST

NEW DELHI: There are about thirty families which have received two or more prestigious national awards for sports. The sporting family to bag the maximum number of awards is that of the Sodhi brothers. Former Army officers Harinder Singh (Billy) Sodhi and Ravinder Singh (Pickles) Sodhi received the Arjuna Award

Rohit, Gill, Pant expected to play 3rd Test despite bubble probe

04 Jan 2021 03:28 AM IST

Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini, who have been put in isolation after a video emerged showing them sitting indoors in a restaurant in Melbourne, in an alleged breach of Cricket Australia’s bio-security protocols, have been asked to train separately from the rest of the