ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Kane Williamson to lead New Zealand, Conway, Ravindra, Henry included ICC T20 World Cup 2024: Kane Williamson to lead New Zealand, Conway, Ravindra, Henry included Kane Williamson will lead a 15-member New Zealand squad for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. The showpiece event will be played in the USA and the West Indies from June 1 to 29. The squad, with a right mix of youth and experience, will have fast bowling duo Tim Southee and Trent Boult leading the bowling unit. Kyle Jamieson, Adam Milne missed out due to injuries while Tom Latham, Tim Seifert, Will Young ..read more

India’s top female archer Deepika Kumari has been re-induced into the Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) core list. The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports’ (MYAS) Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) took the decision to induct the archer at their 133rd meeting. With less than 100 days to go for the Paris Olympics 2024, the MOC felt re-inducting Deepika into the core group would help the archer scale new heights at the Olympics, an event in which Deepika has been under performing. The archer was out of action due to maternity break and recently made a comeback at the Asia Cup 2024 and has been doing ..read more

IPL 2024: MS Dhoni becomes first player in IPL history to be part of 150 wins IPL 2024: MS Dhoni becomes first player in IPL history to be part of 150 wins Chennai Super Kings registered their 150th win in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL) when they beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 78 runs in their match at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday. In all the 150 wins CSK has posted, there was one man in the center of it all – Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The talismanic former CSK skipper is now the first player to be a part of 150 wins in the cash-rich glitzy league. Dhoni has been with CSK sin ..read more

Sai Sangeeta from Nagar Kurnool District Center won gold medal for India in 400m relay Asian Junior Athletics held in Dubai. This is the first time to win a gold medal in the World wide Dubai Asian Championship. Gold medalist Sai Sageetha is studying first year of degree. � Many people in the district center are expressing their joy and congratulations for winning the gold medal in the athletics competition held last night. Father Shyam said that Sai Sangeeta had a desire to excel in athletics from the beginning. Sai Sangeeta's family members were happy to win the gold medal. Sai Sang ..read more

Narainpur (Chhattisgarh):�Telangana came from behind to beat Sikkim 2-1 and qualify for the quarter-finals of the Swami Vivekananda U-20 Men's National Football Championship at the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama Ground on Friday. Telangana thus finished Group H at the top of the table, with three wins in three. Sikkim ended up in second place with six points. Telangana will meet Group A winners Manipur in the quarter-final on Sunday. In the winner-take-all clash, Sikkim made the best possible start as they took the lead in the sixth minute after a series of defensive errors from Telangana. Sikki ..read more

New Delhi:�Having suffered two defeats in their last three matches, an inconsistent Mumbai Indians have their task cut out if they are to make the Play-offs of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 when they face a confident Delhi Capitals in an afternoon game at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Saturday. The last time these two teams met in the tournament, Mumbai made a massive 234/5 at the Wankhede Stadium on April 7 and managed to restrict Delhi to 205/8 for securing a 29-run win, their first of the competition. But Mumbai come into Saturday’s game on the back of suffering a nine-wicket defeat to Rajast ..read more

Hyderabad:�After Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) suffered a loss against Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), head coach Daniel Vettori urged the players to focus not only on putting big runs on the board but successfully chasing targets as well. RCB broke the SRH’s consecutive four-match winning streak after beating them by 35 runs at their home ground Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. Chose to bat first, RCB banked on Rajat Patidar’s 19-ball half-century and Virat Kohli’s 51 to post a total of 206 /7 in 20 overs. Considering that SRH has scored two of the biggest totals this season, it wa ..read more

Kolkata:�Sunil Narine and Phil Salt's smoking hot opening partnership set the tone as Kolkata Knight Riders posted an imposing 261 for six against Punjab Kings in an IPL match here on Friday. This was KKR's second ever 250-plus total, both coming during the current season. Narine blasted nine fours and four sixes in his 32-ball 71 -- his third fifty plus score of the season after 85 against Delhi Capitals and 109 versus Rajasthan Royals previously. Narine also jumped to second spot in the race for the 'Orange Cap' for leading run-getters with 357 runs from eight matches, 73 runs behind Virat ..read more

Shanghai (China):�Top Indian archer Deepika Kumari stormed into the semifinals of the Women's Individual Recurve section of the World Cup Stage 1, beating Jeon Hun-Young of South Korea 6-4 in the quarterfinals here on Friday. Meanwhile, the Indian team of Abhishek Verma and Jyoti Surekha Vennam reached the final of the Compound Mixed Team event, beating Mexico's Andrea Becerra and Lot Maximo Mendez Ortiz 155-151 in the semifinals. In the final, the Indian team will take on Estonia for the gold medal. In the Recurve Mixed Team event, the Indian combine of Ankita Bhakat and Dhiraj Bommadevara l ..read more

SRH vs RCB: Daniel Vettori hopes someone in SRH can play anchor role when chasing SRH vs RCB: Daniel Vettori hopes someone in SRH can play anchor role when chasing Sunrisers Hyderabad head coach Daniel Vettori said the team’s openers had an off day and the middle order were unable to stabilise as they went down to Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 35 runs in their Indian Premier League match in Hyderabad on Thursday. Batting first, RCB put on 206/7 in their 20 overs and given the form SRH were in, they were expected to overhaul the target in quick time. However, losing both openers, Travis Head ..read more