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Indian Esports contestants Ayan Biswas and Mayank Agarwal were eliminated in the street fighter knockout rounds of the Asian Games on Tuesday. Ayan (AYAN01) clinched the top-16 place before suffering tough defeat against Yeh Man Ho of Hong Kong, while Prajapati (MiKeYROG) exited in the round of 32. Ayan clinched a sensational victory by a…
The seven-member Indian golf team, comprising the likes of Anirban Lahiri and Aditi Ashok, will be hoping to carry forward its recent superb form when the event commences at the Asian Games on Thursday. Lahiri will be leading an experienced set of Indian golfers including Shubhankar Sharma, Khalin Joshi and SSP Chawrasia, while the women’s…
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File photo of Ankita Raina Ankita Raina advanced to the quarterfinals with yet another easy victory but the singles challenge of Ramkumar Ramanathan and Rutuja Bhosale came to a halt at the Asian Games here on Tuesday. Raina, the top Indian singles player, cruised to a 6-1 6-2 win over Hong Kong’s Adithya P Karunaratne…
After a recent video of India’s World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev being handcuffed emerged on social media, former cricketer Gautam Gambhir had raised concerns over the well being of the latter. In the video, Dev was being forcibly led into a room by two unidentified men. Netizens, including Gambhir, questioned the nature of this video…
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Skipper Rohit Sharma would fancy a perfect culmination to the Indian team’s World Cup preparations as hosts eye a rare clean sweep of Australia in the third and final ODI here on Wednesday. Never before in the history have India whitewashed Australia in the ODI format. In fact, neither of them have achieved such a…
File photo of Indian cricket team.© AFP Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill scored dominating centuries as India routed Australia by 99 runs (DLS method) in a rain-hit ODI on Sunday. The victory helped India gain an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. Iyer (105) Gill (104) put on a dominant second-wicket stand of 200…
Ankita Raina is India’s top-ranked women’s tennis player© Twitter The Asian Games 2023 is set to see the India vs Pakistan rivalry take centre stage in tennis, with the two nations squaring off in the mixed-doubles round. The high-profile clash will feature India’s pairing of Ankita Raina, Yuki Bhambri and Pakistan’s Aqeel Khan, Sarah Ibrahim…
With the aim of crossing the 100-medal mark in the 2023 Asian Games, the Indian contingent fired on all cylinders, right from day 1. Shooters and rowers helped the nation open its medal account in the Hangzhou Games while the Indian women’s cricket team delivered a historic gold medal by defeating Sri Lanka in the…
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Smriti Mandhana has her fair share of fans but Indian women’s team’s vice-captain must have felt chuffed when she saw a poster captioned ‘Mandhana The Goddess” and being proudly held aloft by a Chinese young man. But then Jun Yu is possibly a rare species in the Mandarin land, who loves the thwack of the…
Skipper Harmanpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh slammed a hat-trick each as favourites India mauled lowly Singapore 16-1 to register their second consecutive win in the men’s hockey competition at the Asian Games here on Tuesday. The Indians continued their goal-scoring spree after the 16-0 rout of Uzbekistan in their tournament opener as they found the…
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