Sushila Viswanathan, mother of five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, passed away here on Wednesday. She was 79. Hailing from a family of lawyers who played chess, her contribution towards Anand’s success was immense. She shaped Anand’s budding che ....

Even as heavy showers ensured that there was no action at the Eden Gardens on Sunday, elsewhere in Kolkata, the BCCI’s working committee meeting lived up to its acrimonious billing. It is learnt that the meeting also proved to be action-packed as the individuals repre ....

Synopsis: RCB’s fiery pacemen force the Delhi batsmen to tumble like pack of cards and trigger a soft dismissal for JP before Kohli-Gayle romp home Fiery pacemen It has been just three games since Mitchell Starc, on the sidelines because of injury, joined the Ro ....

Synopsis: RCB’s fiery pacemen force the Delhi batsmen to tumble like pack of cards and trigger a soft dismissal for JP before Kohli-Gayle romp home Fiery pacemen It has been just three games since Mitchell Starc, on the sidelines because of injury, joined the Ro ....

Did Kolkata Knight Riders know beforehand that Sunil Narine would be called again? Captain Gautam Gambhir’s comment regarding his premier off-spinner’s recent travails had a tinge of sarcasm, but it ended in adding to the curiosity. “Most of us knew, ev ....

India’s Test captain Virat Kohli feels that it will be difficult to replace someone like Mahendra Singh Dhoni but Wriddhiman Saha according to him “deserves” to don the big gloves for the national team for the “next five to six years”. Asked ....

Synopsis: Malinga sizzles and Mitch hustles to eclipse Sunrisers after Simmons’ opening gambit. Malinga sizzles There’s a bit of the theatrical about most things that Lasith Malinga does on a cricket field. And we’re not just talking about that bowli ....

Chennai Super Kings thrashed Kings XI Punjab by a huge margin of 97 runs in Chennai on Saturday, extracting a sweet revenge for a string of three losses to them in the last season of the Indian Premier League. Brendon McCullum (66 off 44 balls) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( ....

Former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan on Thursday joined the chorus of angry fans and ex-cricketers over the national team’s ODI whitewash in Bangladesh, terming the 0-3 loss as a “low point in Pakistan cricket history”. Imran, speaking on a local televisi ....

Playing her first match as world number one, India’s Sania Mirza crashed out of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix event with partner Martina Hingis, who was not at her best due to a back injury. The top seeded Indo-Swiss pair lost 3-6 3-6 to Croatia’s Petra Marti ....