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London, Aug 20 (TIWN) Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku has vowed to prove that he is worth the $134 million transfer fee, which has made him a record signing for Chelsea. |
20-Aug-2021 |
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Leeds, Aug 19 (TIWN) Yorkshire County Cricket Club on Thursday acknowledged that former player Azeem Rafiq was victim of racism and has apologised to the Pakistan-born English cricketer. |
19-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 19 (TIWN) Batsman Unmukt Chand, who burst into the limelight after leading India to an under-19 World Cup win in 2012, and was anointed as the next superstar, has had a roller-coaster career in India that prevented him from making the senior India team which, due to his talent, he was expected to. |
19-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 19 (TIWN) Australia's chairman of selectors George Bailey believes that star batsman Steve Smith will be fit in time for the ICC T20 World Cup later this year. |
19-Aug-2021 |
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Chandigarh, Aug 19 (TIWN) Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar met Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra here on Wednesday and described the javelin thrower as the 'golden boy', who is not only the pride of Haryana, but also of the entire nation. |
19-Aug-2021 |
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Dubai, Aug 19 (TIWN) India will take on arch-rivals Pakistan in a group stage encounter of the ICC T20 World Cup in Dubai on October 24, the International Cricket Council confirmed on Tuesday. |
19-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 18 (TIWN) The second phase of the Indian Premier League 2021, scheduled to begin from September 19 in the United Arab Emirates, could witness the return of the crowds. |
18-Aug-2021 |
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Male (Maldives), Aug 18 (TIWN) Indian Super League (ISL) runners-up ATK Mohun Bagan (ATKMB) will take on fellow ISL outfit Bengaluru FC in their opening AFC Cup game in Group D (South Zone) at the National Football Stadium in Male, Maldives on Wednesday. |
18-Aug-2021 |
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Mumbai, Aug 18 (TIWN) The Indian men's basketball team is in with a good chance to qualify for next year's FIBA Asia Cup as it takes on Saudi Arabia and Palestine in the FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Friday and Saturday. |
18-Aug-2021 |
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Bhubaneswar, Aug 17 (TIWN) It took 41 years for India to win a medal in hockey at the Olympics when the men's team clinched the bronze in Tokyo on August 5, defeating Germany 5-4 in a thrilling play-off encounter. |
17-Aug-2021 |
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London, Aug 16 (TIWN) India have taken the lead on the fourth day of the Lord's Test despite losing three wickets in the first session on Sunday. At lunch, India were 56/3 in 25 overs with Cheteshwar Pujara (3 not out) and Ajinkya Rahane (1 not out) at the crease. |
16-Aug-2021 |
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London, Aug 16 (TIWN) Indian all-rounder Deepti Sharma rang the customary five-minute bell at Lord's on Sunday ahead of the fourth day's play between India and England. She has also become the first Indian women's cricketer to ring the bell at Lord's. |
16-Aug-2021 |
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Liverpool, Aug 16 (TIWN) Former Champions Liverpool opened their new season with a comprehensive 3-0 win against Norwich City on Saturday night. |
16-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 16 (TIWN) When everybody is busy cheering for India's new golden boy, Neeraj Chopra, there is a double gold medallist in the same discipline -- far away from the limelight -- fine-tuning his skills to clinch a third gold for himself and India. And unlike Chopra, Devendra Jhajaria has only one arm. |
16-Aug-2021 |
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Chennai, Aug 16 (TIWN) With domestic players getting more responsibility in the team due to the reduced number of foreigners allowed in the squad, two-time Indian Super League (ISL) champions Chennaiyin FC (CFC) have picked a young Indian defender to add to their lineup. The club on Friday completed the signing of Indian defender Davinder Singh on a one-year deal ahead of the upcoming season. |
16-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 13 (TIWN) Indian club football action returns in August with the arrival of the AFC Cup 2021, with potentially two Indian clubs -- ATK Mohun Bagan and Bengaluru FC -- in action in the competition's Group Stage (South) from August 18-24, 2021. |
13-Aug-2021 |
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Mumbai, Aug 13 (TIWN) Indian Super League (ISL) defending champions Mumbai City FC on Friday confirmed that the club had agreed a deal with NorthEast United for the transfer of Lalengmawia for an undisclosed fee. The young midfielder joins the side on a five-year contract until May 2026. |
13-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 13 (TIWN) Kannur Lokesh Rahul is officially the tenth Indian to score a century at Lord's, but if one adds the one scored in 1930 by Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji of Nawanagar, the Saurashtra royal after whom the Duleep Trophy is named, the 29-year-old from Karnataka should be No. 11. |
13-Aug-2021 |
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London, Aug 13 (TIWN) England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is hoping talks with Cricket Australia (CA) over permission for cricketers' families to tour Down Under during Ashes will materialise. It is also expecting that English players will be available for the Indian Premier League (IPL) due to the postponement of limited-overs series in Bangladesh. |
13-Aug-2021 |
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Madrid, Aug 12 (TIWN) Fans will be back in the stands after over a year of empty grounds when the new La Liga season kicks off this weekend in Spain. |
12-Aug-2021 |
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Kochi, Aug 12 (TIWN) It was a surreal moment for India's illustrious men's hockey star, goalkeeper P.R. Sreejesh, when he shared the spotlight with Manuel Frederick, the man who defended the goalpost at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when Team India returned home with a bronze medal. |
12-Aug-2021 |
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London, Aug 12 (TIWN) Rain forced early lunch to be taken on the first day of the second Test between England and India at the Lord's Cricket Ground on Thursday. |
12-Aug-2021 |
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Amaravati, Aug 12 (TIWN) Andhra Pradesh hockey player and double Olympian E. Rajani has been showered with incentives on her return to the home state from the Tokyo Olympics, where the Indian women's hockey team secured a historic fourth position. |
12-Aug-2021 |
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Bhubaneswar, Aug 11 (TIWN) Indian Super League (ISL) side Odisha FC on Wednesday announced the signing of Spanish centre-back Hector Rodas ahead of the eighth season of the tournament. |
11-Aug-2021 |
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Sydney, Aug 11 (TIWN) The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has slammed the South Australian government over the decision to force athletes returning from Tokyo Olympics to complete an additional 14-day home quarantine on return to the state. There are 56 Australian team members returning to South Australia with 16 currently quarantined in Sydney. |
11-Aug-2021 |
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Bangkok, Aug 11 (TIWN) Thailand on Wednesday reported 21,038 new Covid-19 cases and 207 more fatalities, both the third-highest daily tally since the pandemic began, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA). |
11-Aug-2021 |
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London, Aug 11 (TIWN) India skipper Virat Kohli has hinted that the team management won't shore up batting by bringing in R Ashwin as replacement for injured pacer Shardul Thakur and will instead stick to the combination of four specialist pace bowlers and a spinner for the second Test that begins on Thursday. |
11-Aug-2021 |
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Madrid, Aug 11 (TIWN) FC Barcelona have lost Lionel Messi and seen their iconic former player move to Paris Saint-Germain after being unable to fit his new contract into the financial restrictions imposed on Barcelona, but the problems are far from over for Barca president Joan Laporta on the verge of the new season. |
11-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) The Delhi government appeared to have done its bit by putting up banners of five Delhi athletes who competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Huge banners consisting of sketches of table tennis star Manika Batra, shooter Deepak Kumar and two 400m runners, Amoj Jacob and Sarthak Bhambri, were put up all over Delhi but upon speaking to one of the athletes, it appears the banners are just a paint job to hide the deficiencies of the government. |
10-Aug-2021 |
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Kabul, Aug 10 (TIWN) Former Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait was on Monday appointed the bowling coach of Afghanistan with immediate effect. |
10-Aug-2021 |
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Mumbai, Aug 10 (TIWN) As the country applauds Neeraj Chopra, the first Indian to win a gold medal in athletics at the Olympics, spare a thought for the first Indian to win a gold medal in the Paralympic Games. |
10-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) Wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya, who won a silver medal in men's 57kg freestyle category at the Tokyo Olympics, got a rousing reception on his return to India on Monday. |
10-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 10 (TIWN) Indian woman golfer Aditi Ashok described on Monday how difficult it was to compete against the heavyweights in her sport, saying she was just a "flyweight boxer buzzing circles around the heavyweights" at the Tokyo Olympic Games. |
10-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 8 (TIWN) Empty stadiums. Face masks and social distancing. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Olympic Games looked and felt so different from any of the past events. |
08-Aug-2021 |
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Chandigarh, Aug 8 (TIWN) Now villagers of 23-year-old wrestler Ravi Kumar Dahiya, who belongs to a humble family from Nahri in Haryana, will not have to suffer the stink emanating from the drainage as Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, on learning the condition there, has directed authorities to resolve the issue on priority basis. |
08-Aug-2021 |
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Chennai, Aug 8 (TIWN) Riders from Bengaluru, spearheaded by reigning champion Hemanth Muddappa, swept the honours in the first round of the MMSC fmsci Indian National Motorcycle Drag Racing Championship which concluded at the MMRT, here on Sunday amidst Covid-19 safety protocols. |
08-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 8 (TIWN) The Tokyo Olympics finally began on July 23 after a year's delay. More than 11,000 athletes across 33 sports competed in the showpiece event. New names were made and reputations established. They showed their peak game and mesmerised everyone. |
08-Aug-2021 |
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Nottingham, Aug 8 (TIWN) The start of the fifth day's play between India and England has been delayed due to rain at Trent Bridge. |
08-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 7 (TIWN) Neeraj Chopra on Saturday made history by becoming the first Indian to win gold medal in athletics at Olympic Games when he clinched first position at Tokyo 2020 with a throw of 87.58 metres in the javelin competition. |
07-Aug-2021 |
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Mumbai, Aug 7 (TIWN) India's first individual gold medallist at the Olympic Games, rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra on Saturday welcomed Neeraj Chopra to "the club" of Indian individual gold medallists and hoped the javelin throwers entry will pave the way for many more athletes winning gold for India. |
07-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 7 (TIWN): India's Bajrang Punia won the bronze medal in men's freestyle 65kg, beating Niyazbekov of Kazakhstan 8-0 on points for his first medal at the Olympics. |
07-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 7 (TIWN) Indian golfer Aditi Ashok missed the medal by a whisker at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. The 23-year-old finished at a remarkable fourth position with an aggregate score of 15-under 269 over four rounds in the womens individual strokeplay competition. |
07-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 7 (TIWN) Kenya made a one-two finish in the women's marathon, with Peres Jepchirchir finishing the gruelling race ahead of world record holder Brigid Kosgei, in a time of two hours, 27 minutes and 20 seconds, her season's best time. |
07-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 6 (TIWN) Indian women's hockey coach Sjoerd Marijne told his team to be proud of themselves and embrace the fact of inspiring a whole nation and making the Indians proud. |
06-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 6 (TIWN) The Indian wrestling contingent at the Tokyo Olympic Games was in for a major embarrassment as the International Olympic Committee (IOC) cancelled the accreditation of the foreign coach of 86kg grappler Deepak Punia -- who had lost his bronze-medal bout to a San Marino opponent -- after the trainer misbehaved with the referee for the bout. |
06-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 6 (TIWN) Olympic bronze medallist wrestler Sakshi Malik on Thursday expressed her disappointment over India's strong medal contender Vinesh Phogat's shocking defeat in the quarterfinal of the 53 kg category at Tokyo 2020. |
06-Aug-2021 |
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New Delhi, Aug 6 (TIWN) At a time when athletes/coaches/staff members at the Chhatrasal Stadium were concerned about their image and a police inquiry following Sushil Kumar's arrest on murder charges, there was only one wrestler whose laser-sharp focus was pretty much "clear". |
06-Aug-2021 |
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Kochi, Aug 6 (TIWN) Even when India held on to the lead that they had in the crucial clash with Germany in Tokyo, thousands of miles away from there at the house of Indian goalkeeper Sreejesh, it was anxious moments. |
06-Aug-2021 |
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Lahore, Aug 6 (TIWN) The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Thursday that New Zealand will play three ODIs and five T20Is on their tour to Pakistan after a gap of 18 years. The last time New Zealand visited Pakistan was in November 2003. |
06-Aug-2021 |
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Tokyo, Aug 5 (TIWN) Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat lost the quarterfinal bout of the women's freestyle 53kg category to Vanesa Kaladzinskay of Belarus by fall at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Thursday. |
05-Aug-2021 |
