French superstar Kylian Mbappe was officially unveiled as a Real Madrid player on Tuesday, telling 80,000 fans “my dream has come true”. The striker, who had completed his medical earlier on Tuesday morning, signed a five-year contract and was handed a No. 9 shirt by club president Florentino Perez. “Wow,” Mbappe said in Spanish to…
M. Shahrukh Khan led from the front with the ball (4-0-13-3), wrecking Trichy Grand Cholas’ top-order to set up a comfortable eight-wicket win for Lyca Kovai Kings at the Sri Ramakrishna College ground on Tuesday. It was the defending champion’s fourth win of the season and the 11th consecutive win in the competition since 2023. …
NEW DELHI: Suryakumar Yadav, the dynamic batsman, has unexpectedly emerged as a strong contender to lead India’s T20 team until the 2026 World Cup, potentially surpassing Hardik Pandya, who was previously considered the natural choice for the position.Despite Pandya’s availability for the upcoming T20I series against Sri Lanka, it has come to light that Suryakumar,…
The celebratory lights of Spain’s Euro 2024 victory had barely dimmed in Berlin when Germany bid farewell to a legend. On July 15, Thomas Muller, one of Germany’s favourite sons, announced his retirement from international competition, leaving his unconventional genius forever etched in the national team’s history. The boots that once slit through defences with…
Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory as his team Alpecin-Deceuninck timed its lead-out to perfection on Tuesday’s 16th stage of the Tour de France, a 189 km flat ride from Gruissan to Nimes. The win was Philipsen’s third on the Tour this year after victories on stages 10 and 13 while green jersey holder Biniam Girmay,…
NEW DELHI: Gautam Gambhir, the newly appointed head coach of the Indian cricket team, expressed his gratitude to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and their fans as he steps down from his role as the franchise’s coach. Under his guidance, KKR clinched their first IPL title in ten years during the recent season.The Board of…
Lionel Messi is likely to miss at least the next two matches for Inter Miami, his Major League Soccer team, after injuring his right ankle during the Copa America final, Miami coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino said Tuesday. Martino said Messi will undergo further testing to determine the severity of the injury, but he did not…
Former NBA player and WNBA head coach Joe “Jellybean” Bryant, father of the late Kobe Bryant, has died at 69, The Philadelphia Inquirer announced Tuesday. Bryant recently suffered a massive stroke, according to the newspaper. A Philadelphia native who starred there collegiately at La Salle, Bryant was a first-round pick (14th overall) by the Golden…
NEW DELHI: England’s cricket board (ECB) has announced that fast bowler Mark Wood will replace James Anderson in the lineup for the second Test against the West Indies at Trent Bridge.The rest of the team remains unchanged following their dominant victory by an innings and 114 runs in the first match at Lord’s, which concluded…
Wolverhampton Wanderers said it will file a complaint with UEFA after its South Korean forward Hwang Hee-chan was the target of an alleged racial remark during Monday’s preseason match against Italian Serie A side Como 1907. Como condemned racism and added that one of its players had referred to Hwang as “Jackie Chan,” based on…
