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India’s Rishabh Pant has been advised to take six weeks rest after suffering a fractured metatarsal against England on the first day of the Manchester Test.Pant suffered the injury towards the end of day one at Old Trafford, where India need to win to stand a chance of claiming the five-match series outright, but still hopes to play some part with the bat in the remainder of the match. The wicketkeeper-batter brought trademark chaos after India had slipped from 94 without loss to 140-3 on day one at Emirates Old Trafford, slog-sweeping Jofra Archer for four and belting Brydon Carse…
SOUTH AFRICA TOUR OF AUSTRALIA, 2025 Both the senior batters missed the two Tests in Zimbabwe © Getty Aiden Markram and Temba Bavuma return to lead South Africa on the upcoming white-ball tour of Australia in August. While Bavuma has been out of action since the triumphant World Test Championship final at Lord’s in June with a hamstring injury, Markram was one of the few seniors afforded rest. They missed the two Tests in Zimbabwe while Markram sat out of the subsequent T20I tri-series there, also involving New Zealand. “It’s great to have our senior players back in the mix…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL Chris Lynn smashed a quickfire 81 off just 27 balls to help Australia Champions beat West Indies Champions by eight wickets in the World Championship of Legends (WCL) 2025 on Wednesday. The match was played at the County Ground. Australia chased down the target of 143 in only 9.3 overs, with Lynn’s explosive innings setting the tone for a dominant win. The Aussies got off to a flying start, reaching 34 runs in the first three overs. Shaun Marsh was dismissed early for 7 by Ashley Nurse, but Lynn took control with aggressive stroke play all…
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) has barred transgender women from competing it women’s sports in an update its policy that aligns with an executive order signed earlier this year by US President Donald Trump. “The USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities, eg, IOC, IPC, NGBs, to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201 and the Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act,” the USOPC said in an update to its Athlete Safety Policy. The USOPC did not respond to a request for comment on…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Jannik Sinner has reappointed fitness coach Umberto Ferrara to his coaching team having previously dropped Ferrara during Sinner’s recent doping suspension. Sinner served a three-month ban earlier this year after twice testing positive for banned substance Clostebol, an anabolic steroid, in March last year. The Italian previously escaped a ban when the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) ruled that he wasn’t at fault for the positive tests, accepting that the contamination was caused by a physio applying an over-the-counter spray to their own skin – not Sinner’s – to treat a small wound. However, the World…
Facebook Tweet Email Link EDITOR’S NOTE: Help is available if you or someone you know is struggling with suicidal thoughts or mental health matters. In the United States, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. The International Association for Suicide Prevention and Befrienders Worldwide also can provide contact information for crisis centers around the world. For all Abdelrahman Elaraby’s success as an athlete, swimming is a passion simultaneously pursued intensely and held at arm’s length. “You’ll never find me talking about swimming outside the pool,” the 25-year-old Egyptian told CNN Sports. Few people even knew that he had broken…
INDIA TOUR OF ENGLAND, 2025 A relentless Stokes removed India’s half-centurion with a short-ball. ©Getty India have run well in this series. Run well, until they’ve hit a wall. Only, this wall doesn’t stay still. It charges toward them: bounding in, tresses flying, arms pumping, eyes narrowing. A wall that chirps, hunts, shapes narrative. A wonderwall. Fitting really, for just four days ago, Oasis were in Manchester, playing their biggest hit. Now it was time for Ben Stokes, England’s own wonderwall. On the opening day at Old Trafford, India had built themselves a great platform. They’d lost the toss on…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Zurich AP — Aitana Bonmatí scored in extra time to send Spain to its first-ever Women’s European Championship final with a 1-0 win over Germany on Wednesday, setting up a repeat of the 2023 World Cup title match. A stubborn Germany performance had seen it take the world champions to extra time and Spain needed a superb strike from the two-time Ballon d’Or winner to secure a first-ever win over Germany. “I feel so proud. We deserved this,” Bonmatí said. “We have played a great tournament throughout. We had a hard fight tonight, of course, because…
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: The Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) on Wednesday decided that a letter highlighting the rationale and objective of the national team’s participation in the 2025-26 FIH Pro League will be sent to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for final decision after the International Hockey Federation invited the country for the event. The Pro League matter was discussed in the 34th meeting of PSB board, which met in Islamabad with Adviser to Prime Minister on Inter-Provincial Coordination (IPC) Rana Sanaullah in the chair. During the meeting, the participants were told that that PSB had no funds for the said event. However, the…
NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in a U-turn has decided to attend the Asian Cricket Council’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Thursday, the Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday. The ACC meeting taking place in Dhaka will decide the fate of this year’s Asia Cup, which India is scheduled to host in September. Sources within the BCCI have confirmed that the board has indeed decided to attend Thursday’s meeting virtually. “Yes, we have decided to attend the meeting virtually,” a BCCI source told the Hindustan Times on the condition of anonymity. Earlier, amid rising political…