Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will kick off FIFA's new 32-team Club World Cup when the Major League Soccer side take on Egypt's Al Ahly in the June 15 opener, the draw for the tournament revealed on Thursday. Brazilian team Palmeiras and Portugal's Porto complete Group A alongside Argentina World Cup winner Messi, …
Our colleague Sabyasachi Chowdhury did some digging to give you an overall preview as to what to expect in Adelaide. 7-0: Australia have won all their seven Day-Night Tests at the Adelaide Oval since the first-ever pink-ball Test back in 2015. 0-1: India have lost their only Day-Night Test in Adelaide. Back in December …
File photo of Prithvi Shaw.© BCCI Prithvi Shaw is certainly going through the toughest time in his cricket career. The right-handed batter, once touted to be the "next Sachin Tendulkar", could not find any takers at the IPL 2025 mega auction in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia held last month. The 2018 U-19 World Cup-winning …
Stalemate continued in the World Chess Championship as the ninth game between Indian challenger D Gukesh and defending champion Ding Liren of China ended in yet another draw to still level on points in Singapore on Thursday. The sixth consecutive draw -- and seventh of the match -- left both players on an …
Champions Trophy: ICC chairman Jay Shah and PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi© AFP Jay Shah, new ICC chairman, recently called for a Board Meeting that was supposed to start at 5pm IST on Thursday, according to a report. However, that meeting has been postponed. While the agenda of the meeting was not known, several …
20:43 IST:And now, with the conclusion of the post-match presentation, Salman Agha, the captain of Pakistan has been handed over the trophy. He walks towards his men and hands it over to the youngsters of the team. The entire Pakistani squad now poses for some commemorative photographs. And with this, an exciting white-ball series draws to a close, with …
India's all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy shared an emotional account of how his father’s sacrifices motivated him to take his cricketing career seriously. In a recent video released by the Board of Cricket Council of India (BCCI), the 21-year-old reflected on his journey, from overcoming financial hardships to becoming one of Indian cricket's most promising talents.Reddy …
India captain Rohit Sharma on Thursday endorsed the exclusion of Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin from the first Test against Australia at Perth, saying it was the "right thing to do" but backed the two veterans to play a "huge role" in the rest of the series. Coming off a 0-3 hammering to …
One video that went viral from the unveiling of legendary cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar's memorial in Mumbai, had two of his famous students - Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli - meeting after a long time. Kambli, who played with Tendulkar in school, state and national teams, looked very frail. He got very emotional …
The International Cricket Council has reached a consensus to conduct next year's Champions Trophy in a hybrid model, allowing India to play its share of matches in Dubai while agreeing "in principle" to a similar arrangement in multi-lateral events till 2027. According to a top ICC source, the decision was more or less …
