The search is intense though and involves young and old across all sections. For a 25-year-old Gurkeerat Singh looking to get a break there is a Harbhajan Singh, at 35, returning to the squad as a replacement for an injured R. Ashwin. Obviously the talent pool has littl ....

Vijender won the contest with a few seconds left in the third of the four-round bout via Technical Knockout, pushing Whiting literally on to the ropes and smacking him with a combination of jabs and uppercuts before the referee stepped in to stop the contest. Strolli ....

 Football legend Pele had an evening to remember as he renewed his acquaintance with the players of the Mohun Bagan team which hosted him in 1977. Pele feted all the 13 players and coach P.K. Banerjee who were present to receive the honour from the greatest football ....

The Indian team management has lodged a complaint against umpire Vineet Kulkarni for what the home team feels is incompetent supervision. It has cited four decisions, all leg-before shouts from the ongoing series against South Africa, to make its point. Kulkarni, the ....

The host will be missing five players — Portuguese striker Helder Postiga, Botswana defender Ofentse Nato and Indians Baljit Singh Sahni, Arnab Mondal and Rino Anto — to injury, suspension and national duty. Coach Antonio Habas said the situation was diff ....

Football legend Pele on Monday said that though Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo have been the best players in the last 10 years, Brazilian Neymar has the opportunity to become the best in the world in the days to come. “Messi a ....

Debutant Nitish Rana announced his arrival with an eye-catching half-century and proved a major contributor in the 107-run ongoing third-wicket stand with skipper Gautam Gambhir as Delhi stayed in control against Vidarbha on the second day of the Ranji Trophy match here on ....

The magic touch that saw him guide India to all three International Cricket Council titles the World Twenty20 in 2007, the World Cup in 2011 and the Champions Trophy in 2013 has been missing of late. A place in this year’s World Cup semi-finals was at best a pa ....

PepsiCo, which had bagged the title sponsorship contract till 2017 by paying a whopping Rs. 396 crore (USD 71.77 million), is keen to pull out since the game has been brought into disrepute in the wake of the spot-fixing scandal. The company is now in talks with the ....

The 70-year-old spick-and-span Green Park Stadium stands out amidst the chaos of Kanpur. The iconic venue, the pride of every cricket lover in the city, is again in the limelight as it gets ready to host the opening match of the five-match One-Day International series be ....