Annu Rani (Image credit: X) Annu Rani (Image credit: X) Annu Rani (Image credit: X) Annu Rani (Image credit: X) Annu Rani (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Hangzhou Asian Games gold medallist Annu Rani has lost her place in India’s Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games squad after failing to achieve the qualification standard in women’s javelin throw,…
Elon Musk and Magnus Carlsen BENGALURU: Elon Musk picked a fight with chess earlier this week. The world’s richest man declared on X that chess will one day be “fully solved”, the way checkers was cracked by computers back in 2007, with his logic being that most legal moves are so obviously bad that AI…
Kuldeep Yadav and Gautam Gambhir (Image credit: AFP) Kuldeep Yadav remains part of India’s Test squad but has often struggled to find a place in the playing XI. The left-arm wrist-spinner, however, reminded everyone of his capabilities on Thursday (September 10), claiming 10 wickets for 120 runs as Yorkshire completed a huge County Championship victory…
Jasprit Bumrah and Harshit Rana (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: The T20I team had its first practice session at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Thursday afternoon ahead of the three-match series against Afghanistan starting on Sunday.After months of rehab at the Centre of Excellence (CoE), Jasprit Bumrah and Nitish Kumar Reddy were declared fit to join…
Magnus Carlsen is now a father BENGALURU: Peter Parker still has to make rent. That’s the part of the superhero myth that doesn’t generally make it to the big screen.Spider-Man saves New York by night and shoots freelance photographs by day, not because he loves deadlines, but because somebody has to pay for groceries. Bruce…
Aryna Sabalenka (AP Photo) Aryna Sabalenka is one win away from a historic U.S. Open hat-trick after the top seed powered past Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-2 in the semifinal on Thursday night.For much of the opening set, there was little to separate the two players. But once Sabalenka found her opening, the match changed dramatically….
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday refused to allow wrestler Vinesh Phogat to participate in the women’s selection trials for the 2026 Senior World Championships, declining her request for an interim exemption from the eligibility criteria prescribed by the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI).Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma, in a late-night interim order, said…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (2nd from R) and Mohammed Shami (R) during the Duleep Trophy. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Mohammed Shami may be in the latter phase of his career, but the veteran pacer believes young Indian cricketers are arriving with a level of maturity that means they need less coaching and more timely guidance.Shami, who has…
India’s Varun Chakaravarthy (Image: IANS) NEW DELHI: For a cricketer who made his international debut at 29, Varun Chakravarthy measures time differently.Now, at 35, he has just lived through a rollercoaster year: a T20 World Cup title on home soil where he finished as India’s joint-highest wicket-taker with 14 wickets, an IPL campaign played through…
New Zealand’s Mitchell Santner (left) celebrates Virat Kohli’s wicket on the third day of the second test match between India and New Zealand at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune. (PTI File Photo) New Zealand white-ball captain Mitchell Santner has declined a Big Bash League contract from Adelaide Strikers so he can remain available…
