Category: Sports

While Morocco has benefited from the presence of heritage players like Hakimi, other African nations have struggled at the global level despite their recruitment drive. | Photo Credit: Reuters Spain, France and Belgium. To the wider football community, these are the three other active teams in the World Cup bracket that Morocco finds itself in…

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If you are an on-court artist in tennis, Wimbledon is your greatest canvas. On Thursday, Karolina Muchova painted her best portrait yet by beating seventh seed Coco Gauff 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 [12-10] and entering her maiden singles final at the All England Club. A first appearance in the summit clash is coming rather late for…

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It’s been a while since India had a disastrous overseas cricketing sojourn. A long, long while, come to think of it. There was a time even the most invested and committed supporter of the Indian team would take the worst for granted when their heroes embarked on an away Test tour, especially of Australia or…

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Heather Knight, her hands folded across her chest, smiles from a billboard at a bus stop in St. John’s Wood. You have just seen the England batter strapping her pads on on another billboard during the ride on London’s famously efficient underground train services, better known as tube. She is at Lord’s, too. This billboard…

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There is a particular kind of grief in sport that has little to do with defeat. It arrives not when a team loses, but when time finally catches up with the players who once seemed beyond its reach. This World Cup has felt full of those moments. Luka Modric leaving with Croatia gone. Cristiano Ronaldo,…

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Former India captain and Asian Games medallist Asunta Lakra has accused Hockey India secretary-general Bholanath Singh of threatening and intimidating her for questioning wrongdoings in Jharkhand. Asunta, who is also currently a Hockey India selector and member of several HI internal committees, has claimed that Bholanath Singh, who is also the president of Hockey Jharkhand,…

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