Senior fast bowler Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of the ODI series against Bangladesh, starting Sunday, due to a shoulder injury and replaced by Umran Malik in India’s squad, the BCCI announced on Saturday. It has been learnt that Shami had suffered the injury during a training session after he returned from Australia, where … Read more
MI Global today announced the captains for MI Emirates and MI Cape Town. Kieron Pollard and Rashid Khan will take over the captain’s duties for MI Emirates and MI Cape Town, respectively. Mumbai Indians went global with the addition of teams in the T20 cricketing leagues of South Africa and UAE earlier this year. The … Read more
England batters broke a 112-year-old record on the first day of the first test match against Pakistan, racking up 506 runs for a loss of four wickets at Rawalpindi’s cricket stadium in 75 overs when play was called off due to bad light. Playing its first test match on Pakistani soil in 17 years, English … Read more
Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana was sent home from the World Cup on Tuesday for disciplinary reasons after a dispute with coach Rigobert Song. The Inter Milan goalkeeper was “temporarily suspended” from the team, the Cameroon soccer federation said in a statement, and the suspension would cover the rest of the tournament in Qatar. The federation … Read more
Ferrari is parting ways with Mattia Binotto after 28 years — four as head of the Formula One team — following a hideous season of botched strategy calls that cost Charles Leclerc any chance to contend for the championship. Leclerc opened with two wins in the first three races and seemed poised to challenge Max … Read more
A protester ran onto the field Monday carrying a rainbow flag and wearing a blue Superman T-shirt that said “SAVE UKRAINE” on the front and “RESPECT FOR IRANIAN WOMAN” on the back during a World Cup match between Portugal and Uruguay. READ | Can Cristiano Ronaldo play for any top club? Bernardo Silva’s take on … Read more
New Delhi: MS Dhoni was at his best on the dance floor at a birthday bash of one of his close friends in Dubai over the weekend. He was joined by Hardik Pandya as the two cricketers danced to the tunes of popular rapper Badshah. Dhoni, sporting a black suit and white shirt, was in … Read more
Riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco’s 2-0 upset win over Belgium at the World Cup Sunday. Police detained about a dozen people after they deployed water cannons and fire tear gas to disperse crowds in Brussels and eight more in the Northern city of Antwerp. Two police officials were injured … Read more
All-rounder Hardik Pandya received lauds from veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin when the stand-in skipper channelled his inner MS Dhoni while responding to a query about his teammate Sanju Samson. With India continuing its leadership reshuffle following the conclusion of the T20 World Cup, Hardik Pandya was once again appointed as the leader of the Indian … Read more
Bernardo Silva said on Thursday he believes Cristiano Ronaldo can still play for a top-level club if he chooses to after the World Cup. The Portuguese forward scored a penalty in his country’s 3-2 win over Ghana in their first group game in Qatar, two days after leaving Manchester United by mutual consent. Asked if … Read more
Australia all-rounder Glenn Maxwell showered praise on India’s latest batting sensation Suryakumar Yadav stating that he is better than everyone else. Suryakumar has taken the cricketing world by storm with the range of shots he has been playing and has shown his class every alternate game. The right-hander recently scored 111 off 51 deliveries in … Read more
Football star Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United parted ways with a “mutual agreement” on Tuesday. It took place after Ronaldo’s grave accusations, in a recent interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, against the club and its current manager Eric ten Hag sparked controversy. In the same interview, Ronaldo had also revealed that a Saudi Arabia … Read more
Spain midfielder Gavi’s goal in his team’s 7-0 thrashing of Costa Rica on Wednesday made him the youngest World Cup scorer since Brazil great Pele in 1958. Pele was 17 in Sweden when he led Brazil to their first World Cup title, scoring six goals. Gavi, 18, also secured the game’s MVP award after becoming … Read more
Germany’s football federation has said it plans legal steps against Fifa over its banning of OneLove rainbow armbands at the World Cup as it faced the humiliating decision by one of the country’s largest supermarket chains to cut its commercial ties over the row. The DFB refused to let players in Qatar wear the armbands … Read more
A week after his explosive interview with British journalist Piers Morgan, Cristiano Ronaldo and Manchester United mutually agreed to part ways on Wednesday. The decision was announced in the wake of a controversial interview, where Ronaldo had slammed both manager Erik ten Hag and Manchester United. Both the club and the player announced the separation … Read more