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Dubai: Three-time champions India will renew their storied rivalry with Pakistan September 5 as the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Thursday unveiled the schedule for the Women's T20 Asia Cup 2026, to be played in Dubai from August 28 to September 13. India, the tournament's most...

Coimbatore: Odisha and Madhya Pradesh entered the final of the Hockey India Junior Men's National Championship after registering contrasting victories in their respective last-four matches here Thursday. Odisha outplayed Punjab 6-4 in a high-scoring opening semifinal, with Bilkan Oram starring with a hat-trick. Oram struck...

London: Dan Lawrence was recalled by England after two years Thursday to play in the first test against Pakistan and Jacob Bethell was ruled out of the three-match series by a right knee injury. The post-Ben Stokes era starts in Leeds August 19, and Surrey...

Colombo: Their home Test run in recent past may not have been particularly impressive but India head coach Gautam Gambhir has asserted that his team will be ready with all the answers when the two-Test series against Sri Lanka gets underway from August 15. In...

New Delhi: FIFA chief Gianni Infantino will hold a crisis meeting in Morocco Wednesday after his plan to sell off FIFA's commercial and event operations faced fierce criticism. Infantino was forced to withdraw his plan to create FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), a company to run...

New Delhi: Former skipper expressed his ambition to coach England in the future and suggested that he had retired for good and opened up on his longer-term goals, ruling out the possibility of making an international return during the 2027 Ashes series. Stokes retired from...

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Tuesday confirmed the appointment of former South Africa first-class cricketer Michael Smith as the new batting coach of the Pakistan men's cricket team for a two-year term. Smith will join the Pakistan team ahead of the three-match Test series...

Paris: Fifteen-year-old Chilean Jaime 'Craime' Bustos scripted history by becoming the youngest-ever Esports World Cup champion after clinching the Street Fighter 6 title at the 2026 edition here. Representing Team Falcons, Craime, aged 15 years, two months and 25 days, defeated Japan's Hibiki 5-2 in...

Lahore: Concerned by frequent batting collapses, the Pakistan Cricket Board has signed former South African first-class cricketer Mike Smith as the national team's new batting coach, starting with the upcoming tour of England. Smith, a level-4 batting coach, has extensive experience with T20 cricket franchises,...

New Delhi: World Championships medallist Vinesh Phogat Monday said that the women wrestlers who had filed a sexual harassment case against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh will appeal against a Delhi court's decision to acquit him. A Delhi court...