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England’s Jamie Smith plays a shot during the second cricket test match between England and Pakistan in London on August 27, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP Jamie Smith and Jordan Cox both scored fifties as England recovered from a top-order collapse against Pakistan to reach 248-9 when bad light ended Thursday’s (August 27, 2026) opening…
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Harmanpreet Kaur. File photo: ICC via Getty Images India captain Harmanpreet Kaur on Thursday (August 27, 2026) said her team is not singling out any opponent in the Women’s T20 Asia Cup and will instead focus on playing good cricket, while expecting a challenging tournament with the standard of Asian teams improving rapidly. The Asia…
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India batter Yastika Bhatia. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Anushka Sharma will captain India A in the three-match T20 series, while Yastika Bhatia will lead the One-Day and multi-day teams, as the BCCI women’s selection committee on Thursday (August 27, 2026) announced the squads for Australia A’s upcoming tour of the country. Sayali Satghare will…
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How often does a draw feel like a defeat? And a stalemate assume the hue of a victory? Often enough, Shubman Gill will insist. Despite their own uneasy recent dalliance with the five-day format, India would have fancied their chances of bearding the Sri Lankan lion in its own den in a two-Test series that…
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Shubman Gill termed the draw as a disappointing result. | Photo Credit: AFP Ever since V.V.S. Laxman and Rahul Dravid ambushed Australia at the Eden Gardens in 2001, most skippers are wary about asking the rival team to bat again. But there are exceptions and Shubman Gill, goaded by the whimsical rains in the Sri…
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Time for cheer: The Indian women’s team is a happy bunch after beating Germany in the classification match of the hockey World Cup at the Wagener Stadion in Amstelveen on Thursday. | Photo Credit: x@TheHockeyIndia Relevance for World Cup classification matches is a matter of perspective. For this Indian women’s team, which suffered a heart-breaking…
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Aaryavir has got earned a call-up into the India under-19 squad for three one-dayers against Australia. The surname is Sehwag. There are shades of his famous father in his ability to carve the ball through the off-side. Ever since Aaryavir Sehwag held a cricket bat seriously, he has had high expectations to meet. On Thursday, the 18-year-old,…
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Kovai Kings captain Shahrukh Khan and Madurai Panthers skipper Anirudh Sita Ram with the trophy. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu Well begun is half done. Madurai Panthers established itself as the side to watch out for in TNPL-10 by winning its first four games. Though there was a stumble after that, Panthers closed out the…
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Madurai Panthers coach K.B. Arun Karthick prepares his team for the battle ahead. | Photo Credit: R. Ragu A confident Madurai Panthers skipper B. Anirudh Sita Ram revealed that the team’s pre-auction work in identifying the right talent came to fruition in TNPL-10. He was speaking ahead of the title decider against Vida Kovai Kings…
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A view of the Kanteerava stadium in Bengaluru, where the Indian team will play against Panama on September 26. File | Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar India will host two-time World Cup champions Uruguay for a football friendly on October 6 in Kolkata, the third international match the country will play at home against quality…
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