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Star Indian shuttler PV Sindhu crashed out of the Denmark Open with a stunning opening-round loss to American Beiwen Zhang in the women’s singles event, here on Tuesday. Third seed Sindhu lost 17-21 21-16 18-21 to Zhang in a hard-fought opening encounter that lasted 56 minutes. This is the third consecutive time that Sindhu has lost to Zhang. The American ...

In one of the most one-sided matches, Nepal won the toss and elected to bowl. The decision paid off almost immediately as China lost their first wicket on the last ball of the second over. Opener Hong Jian Yan scored 11 — the only Chinese batsman to reach double figures in the match — as China reached 21 for one ...

Title favourite Indian Lakshya Sen recovered from a game deficit to beat Kodai Naraoka of Japan to enter the final of men’s singles badminton competition to at least be assured of a silver medal here. Sen, the reigning Asian junior champion, lost the first game 14-21 but came back to beat Naraoka in the next two to pocket the semifinal ...

Team India beat the West Indies by an innings and 272 runs in the two-match Test series to take an unassailable 1-0 lead. The Indian team won the Rajkot Test in two and a half days and wrapped up both innings of the West Indies within 98.5 overs. In this match, debutant Prithvi Shaw was awarded the Man of the ...

Teenage prodigy Prithvi Shaw is set to open alongside KL Rahul in the first Test against the West Indies after India on Wednesday started the practice of naming their final 12 before the start of every game. The move of naming the final 12 ahead of the game has more or less settled the debate on the playing eleven. Shaw, ...

The ICC has announced to update its rules for its Code of Conduct and ‘Duckworth-Lewis method’, which decides the winner and loser in the rain-affected match, will come into effect from September 30. The new version of the Duckworth-Lewis method was launched in 2014, based on information from 700 ODIs and 428 T20 Internationals. The ICC has said that it ...

UEFA has confirmed that the 2024 edition of the Euro cup will be held in Germany. The major tournament football will be heading back to Germany in six years’ time, fighting off a stiff challenge from Turkey. Germany are three-time European champions, having last triumphed at Euro ’96. Three months after FIFA members picked a North American bid over Morocco ...

Indian Badminton star Saina Nehwal is going to get married to fellow badminton player Parupalli Kashyap in December this year. According to the Times of India report, on December 16, 28-year-old Saina is going to marry P Kashyap. The report further states that, this marriage will include very close people. However, the information is that the wedding celebration will be ...

National Sports Awards are given every year to recognize and reward excellence in sports. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is given for the spectacular and most outstanding performance in the field of sports by a sportsperson over a period of four year, Arjuna Award is given for consistency outstanding performance for four years, Dronacharya Award for coaches for producing medal ...

Uttarakhand team on Thursday made its debut in BCCI’s domestic seasonin the Vijay Hazare trophy. However, three guest members of the team, Rajat Bhatia, Vineet Saxena and Malolan Rangarajan could not perform anything special with the bat. In the Vijay Hazare Trophy, the team’s first match was with Bihar. Uttarakhand’s team was out on 160 runs Bihar won the toss ...