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M. Pranesh posted the best win of his career by taking out World champion D. Gukesh at the Quantbox Chennai Grandmaster chess tournament in Chennai on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: B. VELANKANNI RAJ It is not every day that you beat a reigning World champion, and that too from a losing position! M. Pranesh, playing…
McCullum believes England has got plenty of variations in its squad. | Photo Credit: AFP The last time England won back-to-back ODI series was nearly three years ago. With the 27-run win over India at Lord’s on Sunday, the host took the series 2-1, its second on the bounce after having beaten Sri Lanka away earlier…
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Alvarez, right, tries to keep Rodri in check in the final. | Photo Credit: AP It’s quite easy, in this modern world, to miss the forest looking for trees. In footballing parlance, this equates to lacking perspective and blindly over-rating goals and assists at the expense of the hidden metrics that make the game tick. It is…
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Leaving no stone unturned: Sreeshankar has been training in Spała, Poland, for the past three weeks to acclimatise to the weather conditions expected in Glasgow. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: RITU RAJ KONWAR In his “best physical condition ever”, long jumper M. Sreeshankar, who missed the 2022 Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham on countback, cannot…
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Spain’s World Cup-winning team received a hero’s welcome in Madrid, with an estimated 1.8 million fans celebrating the historic triumph. The victory over Argentina secured Spain’s first men’s World Cup title since 2010, making it the first nation to simultaneously hold both the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cup titles. Source link
Qamar exults after edging Langley in the 48kg final bout at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO: Getty Images As 14 Indian boxers get ready to compete in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games this week, Mohammed Ali Qamar — the first pugilist from the country to win a gold medal in the quadrennial event at Manchester…
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The oldest footballing lesson in Spain has always been deceptively simple. If you have the ball, the opponent cannot score. For years, however, that philosophy became both its greatest gift and its greatest burden. Spain monopolised possession, accumulated passes and controlled territory, but too often it left tournaments wondering whether beautiful football alone could still…
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For six weeks, the country that had spent decades calling football soccer could talk about little else. The game poured into the United States through its airports and railway stations, occupied its downtowns and suburbs, and turned stadium parking lots into temporary republics of colour, song and shared obsession. Argentinians carried their mate through hotel…
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The irony of international cricket is that while the motivation for lower-ranked teams is to improve by playing against top teams, that of two of the stakeholders, television and the International Cricket Council, is money. The interests of the sport therefore often take a backseat. The last 50-over World Cup (in 2023) had only 10…
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Turn And Burn, Fighton and Organised Chaos caught the eye when the horses were exercised here on Tuesday (July 21) morning. Inner sand. 600m: Zafferano (Ajinkya) 40. Easy. Latios (Prasad) 38. Urged. Queen Of Beauties (A. Gaikwad) 39. Moved freely. Minari (Neeraj) 40. Urged. Ashwa Almaty 42. Easy. 800m: King Ke (Ajinkya), Chagall (Siddharth) 55,…
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