NEW DELHI: Mark Wood made history during the ongoing second Test against West Indies at Trent Bridge on Friday by bowling the fastest recorded over by an England bowler at home.Wood, who took the place of the retired James Anderson in England’s playing 11, started his first over with a bang, clocking 93.9 mph (151.1…
The Football Association has identified a “number of candidates” to replace Gareth Southgate as it searches for an England manager capable of “winning a major tournament”. Southgate resigned on Tuesday in the aftermath of England’s Euro 2024 final defeat against Spain. The end of Southgate’s eight-year reign has forced the FA into a selection search…
Tadej Pogacar took a giant step closer to clinching a third Tour de France title after winning another tough mountain stage on Friday, pulling away from Jonas Vingegaard to move five minutes ahead of his main rival with two days left. The Slovenian looks almost certain to reclaim the Tour crown from Vingegaard, the two-time…
NEW DELHI: Arshdeep Singh, the Indian fast bowler who played a crucial part in the team’s victory at the T20 World Cup, expressed his thoughts on the possibility of playing Test cricket, stating that he will do his best in the format if given a chance.The young pacer was speaking during a visit to Chandigarh…
Two-time European women’s football champion Norway must beat Albania and then either Croatia or Northern Ireland in the upcoming qualifying playoffs to advance to the 2025 tournament. The draw for the Euro 2025 qualifying playoffs was made Friday, with Sweden — the first European champion in 1984 and finalist at the past two Olympics —…
The Indian hockey team has been handed an unenviable draw at the Paris Olympics and the legendary Ashok Dhyanchand reckons that the players will have to play “fearlessly” and “without pre-conceived notions” to negotiate the challenge. India had clinched a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 under Manpreet Singh to break a nearly…
NEW DELHI: Hardik Pandya departed from the Caribbean, reveling in the triumph of leading India to their first ICC tournament victory in over a decade. Yet, within a span of just three weeks, his world has been turned on its head.The unforgiving nature of elite sport has become apparent to Pandya, as he faced a…
Real Madrid has decided to take over Barcelona’s football academies in India after the latter rounded up its operations in the country this month. Starting in the first week of August, Real Madrid will train 4,500 enthusiastic across 30 youth academies in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Pune, under the Educational Football Program. “We are…
Opener Samjhana Khadka made a breezy, unbeaten fifty and pacer Indu Barma grabbed three wickets as Nepal outclassed UAE by six wickets to make a winning start to its campaign in the Women’s T20 Asia Cup here on Friday. Khadka (71 not out, 45b, 11×4) played a fine hand to take her side past the…
