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Amid the debacle in the ongoing England Test series with two successive defeats and a major squad reshuffle, Pakistan captain Babar Azam is down with a fever ahead of the third Test at Edgbaston. Just a month after he was reinstated as Test captain, replacing

Indian powerlifter Keyaa Kunal Banerji delivered a strong performance at the 2026 IPF World Sub-Junior & Junior Classic Powerlifting Championships in South Africa, winning a silver medal in the deadlift event. The 21-year-old lifted 140kg at a bodyweight of 45

In a historic campaign that captured the imagination of Indian badminton fans, the unseeded duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand ended their remarkable run at the 2026 BWF World Championships with a bronze medal, falling short in the semifinals against Wo

FC Shakhtar have played in countries across Europe and we look forward to welcoming them to London for their Champions League campaign this year. We will be working with the Shakhtar team closely over the coming weeks to ensure that matchdays run safely and sm

New Delhi: Days before the BWF World Championships, Victor Lai made a special trip to Japan to train with Kento Momota, the two-time world champion whose stellar career was unfortunately derailed by a car accident. Momota was poised to achieve even greater thi

The big names of Indian badminton all fell off before reaching the semifinals at the New Delhi BWF World Championships but Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand bucked the trend to reach the semifinals in women's doubles. The pair remain the only Indians left in

Kansas City , The Dubai-born Indian golfer Rayhan Thomas added an explosive 7-under 65 round to his first round 64 to move into a seven-way shared lead at the AdventHealth Championship after 36 holes. Thomas, at 15-under for two rounds, shares the lead with Ta

US bond yield: Will it become a new pain point? Bigger or Better: BEL s biggest shareholder is also its biggest customer and its rule-maker

Age is just a number is an age-old cliche but cliche exists for a reason. Chinese Taipei shuttler Chou Tien Chen proved the saying right on Friday after he took down 21-year-old Alwi Farhan of Indonesia in straight games 21-15, 21-15 to enter the semi-final of

New Delhi: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty s fight fizzled out in the prequarter-finals as they went down tamely to Chinese third seeds Chang Wang and Liang Wei Keng 21-18, 21-9 at the BWF World Championships here. In their head-to-head meetings, Cha

NEW DELHI: The roar inside the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Friday was deafening, a release of tension that had been building through what was an enthralling contest. When Chinese fourth seed Jia Yi Fan sent her final lift sailing wide past the baseline, Tr

Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand have made sure India remain hopeful of a medal in the women s category at BWF World Badminton Championships 2026. The Indian pair had a tricky road ahead of the mega event, especially after Treesa suffered an injury earlier i

Indian women s doubles pair Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand confirmed a medal at the Badminton World Championships on Friday, defeating fourth seeds Jia Yifang and Zhang Shu Xian of China in a thrilling quarterfinal. The Indian duo came back from a game dow

New Delhi, India's Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand assured themselves of a medal at the World Championships with a come-from-behind win over China's Jia Yi Fan and Zhang Shu Xian in the women's doubles quarterfinal here on Friday. The Indian unseeded pair

PV Sindhu walked into the IG Indoor Stadium in New Delhi with an unblemished 8-0 record against Chinese shuttlers at the World Championships. Eighty-eight minutes later, the Indian shuttler stood aghast, world No

NEW DELHI: The Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium was a roaring cauldron of emotion here on Thursday as the BWF World Championships delivered a rollercoaster of breathtaking badminton. With Ayush Shetty also losing, India s singles campaign drew to a painful close b

The Chinese World No 1 could be brought under pressure. But Ayush Shetty had fewer tricks up his strapped shoulder when he ran into Indonesia s heir apparent, Alwi Farhan

Months before its arrival, Delhi winter s notoriously grim air quality and high pollution is making international headlines again. Danish badminton player Anders Antonsen, the World No 4, who is currently playing at the BWF World Championships in the Capital

Shreyas Royal was nine when his family found themselves at the centre of a visa crisis, with deportation from the UK a very real possibility. Months later, the young Indian-origin chess prodigy, dressed in a dark suit, made the ceremonial first move at the 201

New Delhi: A day after it announced a trimmed-down list of national sports awardees, the sports ministry backed its decision and said awards can t be doled out on reputation alone. We agree it s not the convention, a senior ministry official said

New Delhi: Before Lakshya Sen took the court against Collins Valentine Filimon of Austria in his first-round match at the BWF World Championships here on Tuesday, some of the big names of world badminton had found the court conditions tricky. The talk centered

Apart from the opponents on the court, shuttlers often have to deal with the drift caused by air conditioning and ventilation in the arena. At the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi, during the ongoing Badminton World Championships, the four courts in u

While Filimon won the first game, Lakshya came back roaring in the next two games with the third game being particularly dominant from the Indian. He struggled to understand the drift in the first game but as soon as he understood it, the Indian dominated

As the BWF World Championships got underway at Delhi s Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium on Monday, organisers were determined to avoid a repeat of January s India Open embarrassment. Then, pigeon droppings interrupted play and a monkey wandered into the venue

India must be brave with their timing of the declaration on the day four of the Galle Test against Sri Lanka to maintain their hopes to qualify for the ICC World Test Championship, said former India batter Cheteshwar Pujara. With nine Tests remaining in the cu

New Delhi: PV Sindhu cruised through her first match at the BWF World Championships, beating Sophia Noble of Ireland 21-7, 21-11 at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here on Monday. For the biggest star of the Indian contingent, assessing the court conditions o

New Delhi: I will beat Shi Yu Qi on August 17. Ayush Shetty had written this sentence on a piece of paper and every morning for the last 10 days, he would wake up and read the note. It was his way of showing his determination and belief

There were international fans in the arena too, with some turning up to cheer for Japanese, Danish and other shuttlers from across the world competing at the championships. Hariharan Amsakarunan and Arjun got India s day off to a winning start

Ayush Shetty pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the BWF World Championships, knocking out defending champion Shi Yu Qi in a thrilling three-game battle at the Indira Gandhi Arena in New Delhi. The odds were firmly against the Indian shuttler

Conversations on the eve of a major championship and body language reveal much about the mindset a player brings into the tournament. There are prodding questions from the media about the build-up, revisiting past demons and head-to-head records

LONDON: As the BWF World Tour approaches its most prestigious week, nostalgia hangs over the courts at New Delhi s Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. The badminton World Championships starting from Monday will mark the twilight of an era

Years have passed, but PV Sindhu remains India s biggest hope for a medal at a tournament like the BWF World Championships. A five-time medallist, including a historic gold in 2019, expectations are high from the 31-year-old as India prepares to host the marqu

Sindhu, already a five-time World Championships medallist, is chasing an unprecedented sixth medal at the global showpiece, having won two bronze as many silver and a gold in 2019. Only two other players have won five World Championships medals China's Lin Dan

Mackenzie Dern successfully defended her strawweight championship at UFC 330. She secured a unanimous decision victory against challenger Gillian Robertson on Saturday night

Julian Weber, one of the noted rivals and off-field friends of double Olympic medallist Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra, threw 90.40m in his last attempt to clinch the gold medal in the javelin throw at the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham on Satur