India adopts high-risk-high-reward approach in squad selection

India adopts high-risk-high-reward approach in squad selection

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | Bengaluru

It aligns with head coach Gautam Gambhir’s high-risk-high-reward approach but can India’s Champions Trophy squad, having lost its game-changing pace talisman Jasprit Bumrah to injury, deliver the goods at the ODI showpiece? The answer to that question is not particularly straightforward given the audacious calls taken to decide the final 15. The...

Sri Lanka beat Australia by 49 runs

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | Colombo

Asalanka scored a career-best 127 to help Sri Lanka beat Australia by 49 runs in the opener of a two-match One-Day International cricket series here on Wednesday. Sri Lanka were bowled out for 214 in 46 overs after Asalanka won the toss and elected to bat first at Colombo’s R Premadasa...

Algerian boxer Imane Khelif says she has ‘never stayed down’

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | Paris

Algeria boxer Imane Khelif, who found herself in the middle of a bitter divide about gender in sports during the Paris Olympics, has denounced “false and offensive” accusations from the International Boxing Association. “I have been knocked down more times than I can count. But I have never stayed down,” Khelif...

Jamshedpur FC look to prevail over NorthEast United in ISL

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | Jamshedpur

Jamshedpur FC will look to bounce back from their away loss to Bengaluru FC and remain in contention for the top-2 place finish when they host NorthEast United in their Indian Super League (ISL) match here on Thursday. Jamshedpur have 34 points from 19 games on the back of 11 wins...

Kerala enters Ranji Trophy semifinals

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | Pune

Kerala produced a doughty batting effort to hang on to a draw against Jammu and Kashmir, and progressed to the Ranji Trophy semifinals on the back of a slender 1-run first innings lead here on Wednesday. Player of the match Salman Nizar (44 not out, 162 balls, 8x4) and Mohammed Azharuddeen...

Saint-Etienne fans banned from French league game

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | Paris

Saint-Etienne supporters have been banned by French authorities from traveling to Marseille for this weekend’s Ligue 1 game between the two clubs with the biggest fan bases in France. In an order published Wednesday, France’s interior ministry said there is a “real and serious risk of confrontation” between the rival fans. Second-placed...

Bhaker finishes second in 25m pistol at National selection trials

Thursday, 13 February 2025 | PTI | New Delhi

Double Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker finished second in women’s 25m pistol in her return to competitive shooting after Paris Olympics as Rhythm Sangwan emerged winner in the event on day five of the Rifle/Pistol National Selection Trials (Group A) here on Wednesday. Paris Olympics bronze medallist Swapnil Kusale and Arya Rajesh...

Afghan spinner Ghazanfar ruled out of both Champions Trophy and IPL

Afghan spinner Ghazanfar ruled out of both Champions Trophy and IPL

Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | PTI | Kabul

Teenage Afghanistan off-spinner AM Ghazanfar has been ruled out of both the ICC Champions Trophy and the IPL due to a lower back fracture that will keep him on the sidelines for at least four months, the country's cricket board announced on Wednesday. Left-arm spinner Nangeyalia Kharote, originally named as a...

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