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ASIA CUP 2025 “Close your room, switch off your phone and go to sleep” – SKY’s mantra for dealing with the outside noise surrounding the India-Pakistan game © Getty Minutes after India had beaten Pakistan in their Asia Cup league fixture in Dubai, and pointedly skipped the handshakes, Suryakumar Yadav walked into a packed press room. Asked how he dealt with the noise on social media in the build-up, he shrugged. He “didn’t know” what was happening there, he said, before adding that the team had made a conscious choice on landing in Dubai: delete the apps, cut the outside…
Pakistani sports fans haven’t had a great week. The men’s cricket team lost to India in the Asia Cup on Sunday and Arshad Nadeem missed out on the podium at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday. In these dark times, Sidra Amin gave the country the little bit of light we all needed. Amin scored her second consecutive century against South Africa on Friday, becoming the first Pakistani woman to score back to back hundreds in the One Day International (ODI) format. Out of the 10 ODI centuries scored by Pakistani players, Amin has been responsible for six. X was…
CPL 2025 Hales and Pooran slammed fifties in their team’s rousing victory © Getty Trinbago Knight Riders soared into the finals of CPL 2025 after brushing aside defending champions Saint Lucia Kings by 56 runs in Qualifier 2. The batting duo of Alex Hales and Nicholas Pooran who had put on an undefeated 143-run stand in the Eliminator were at it again with fine 50s to push the four-time CPL champions to a massive score of 194 for 4 in 20 overs. A four-fer from Usman Tariq and Sunil Narine’s three-fer left the Kings well short in chase. TKR will…
Watch the India v Australia ODI series exclusively on Fox Cricket and Kayo Australia have made two changes for the third and final ODI at Delhi’s Arun Jaitley Stadium, with Annabel Sutherland and Darcie Brown to miss the series decider with minor injury concerns. Alyssa Healy won the toss and opted to bat first, with her team looking to recover from their record 102-run thumping in Wednesday’s second one-dayer. With the ODI World Cup starting in just 10 days, Australia are taking a cautious approach with their stars, with Sutherland (hip soreness) and Brown (back spasms) replaced in the XI…
ASIA CUP 2025 Axar Patel had scored a quickfire 26 in the first innings © AFP Axar Patel is doing “fine” after suffering a blow to the head while fielding, India’s fielding coach T Dilip confirmed following the team’s 21-run win over Oman in Abu Dhabi. In the 15th over, Axar was stationed at mid-off when a miscued shot from Hammad Mirza looped towards him. He ran to his left, fumbled twice and lost his balance while attempting a third grab. He was seen clutching the top of his head before walking off the field. Axar did not return for…
Oman gave India a fight they wouldn’t have anticipated ©Getty It was about 4:15 pm local when Jatinder Singh, Oman’s captain, walked towards the pitch at the center of the Sheikh Zayed Stadium. He wasn’t inspecting the playing surface. He was visualizing, with a bat in hand, what it would feel like to bat against the No. 1 side in the world. India weren’t even out on the ground until 20 minutes before the toss. Jatinder’s team had been there for hours, warming up, huddling often, building themselves up for the moment. Oman were playing India for the first time…
ASIA CUP 2025 Jatinder hoped Oman would be given access to facilities to improve their skills © Getty Oman captain Jatinder Singh has called upon India to come forward and help his team bridge the gap between the Test and Associate nations. Oman gave a good account of themselves in the Asia Cup fixture against India in Abu Dhabi despite ending up on the wrong side of the result. They were playing India for the first time in any format and pushed the world’s No.1 T20I team until the very end, eventually going down by 21 runs. “Well, I think…
MILAN: Russians will compete as neutral independent athletes without a national flag or anthem at the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Friday, maintaining the same sanctions as the Paris Summer Games last year. The IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee in October 2023 for recognising regional Olympic councils for Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, saying the move had violated the Olympic Charter. “We also spoke about the Independent Neutral Athletes (AINs). This will be nothing new,” IOC President Kirsty Coventry told a press conference. “The…
PARIS: Marcus Rashford proved the perfect replacement for Lamine Yamal, scoring twice on his return to England as Barcelona kicked off their Champions League bid with a 2-1 victory away to Newcastle United on Thursday, while Kevin De Bruyne watched mostly from the sidelines as Napoli lost 2-0 at his former club Manchester City. With Yamal missing through injury, Rashford — a loan signing from Manchester United — got a start and scored both Barca goals at St James’ Park. The second took the breath away, a piledriver from 25 metres that flew in off the crossbar. “It’s an amazing…
TOKYO: There must be something special about the Japanese air for American sprinters as Noah Lyles and Melissa Jefferson-Wooden swept the 200 metres world titles on Friday in Tokyo, emulating Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix in Osaka 18 years ago. Rai Benjamin’s win in the men’s 400m hurdles — adding the world title to the Olympic gold he won last year — made it a special night for track and field powerhouse United States. It threatened for a short time to be spoiled as Benjamin was disqualified before being reinstated after an appeal. Donning a crown handed to him and…