Pant's mobility will give him and Team India management encouragement: Pietersen

Pant's mobility will give him and Team India management encouragement: Pietersen

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | PTI | Ahmedabad

Former England captain Kevin Pietersen feels Rishabh Pant and the Indian team management should feel very encouraged by the comeback-man's mobility in the IPL game against Gujarat Titans here as the T20 World Cup draws closer. Pant grabbed two catches, effected a stumping and then played a 16-run cameo in Delhi...

Former world champion runner Jeruto faces doping case

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Lausanne (Switzerland)

Former steeplechase world champion Norah Jeruto faces a doping case hearing in June, five weeks before the Paris Olympics open. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Wednesday it will hear an appeal by World Athletics on June 17 against a ruling last year that cleared the 2022 world champion of...

Paris prepares for 100 days countdown to Olympics

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Paris

In Paris' outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end. That's because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris' high-rise business...

MotoGP racing for new momentum in America

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | AP | Austin (Texas)

A new American team with ties to the NASCAR stock car series, a new television deal in the United States and upcoming American ownership. MotoGP, global motorcycle racing's version of Formula 1, looks primed for a bid to copy F1's explosive growth in recent years and bring a new group of...

Every practice, drill will count from now on: Harmanpreet

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

Indian men's hockey team captain Harmanpreet Singh on Wednesday said with 100 days left for the Paris Olympics, every day, every practice and every drill will count towards building momentum to shine at the biggest sporting stage. Last edition's bronze medallist India are currently placed sixth in the world, but Harmanpreet...

Manika, Sreeja make group stage exits from ITTF World Cup

Thursday, 18 April 2024 | PTI | New Delhi

Star Indian table tennis player Manika Batra and her compatriot Sreeja Akula exited in the second-round group stage after losing against China's Wang Manyu and defending champion Chen Meng respectively at the ITTF World Cup in Galaxy Arena in Macau on Wednesday. World no. 39 Sreeja lost 1-3 (4-11 4-11 15-13...

Jos Buttler's ton highlights need for players to be elite athletes: Tom Moody

Jos Buttler's ton highlights need for players to be elite athletes: Tom Moody

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 | PTI | Kolkata

Jos Buttler's match-winning century against Kolkata Knight Riders highlights the need for professional cricketers to be elite athletes as well, said former Australian all-rounder Tom Moody after the Rajasthan batter smashed his second ton this IPL. Buttler (107 not out off 60 balls) fought his way through a slow start and...

WI skipper Powell trying to convince Narine to come out of retirement ahead of T20 World Cup

WI skipper Powell trying to convince Narine to come out of retirement ahead of T20 World Cup

Wednesday, 17 April 2024 | PTI | Kolkata

West Indies captain Rovman Powell says efforts are on to convince the in-form Sunil Narine to come out of international retirement for this year's T20 World Cup but the Kolkata Knight Riders star has so far "blocked everyone" who has tried to talk to him. Narine, who will turn 36 next...

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