India’s Deepak Lathore won a Gold and two Silver medals in the Boys’ 50 kilogramme category of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships today. On the opening day of the event at Penang, Malaysia, Lathore took the Gold in Snatch with a lift of 83 kg. In Clean and Jerk, he lifted 102 kg to claim the […]
India will take on West Indies tomorrow at Kanpur’s Green Park Stadium in 3rd and final ODI. The series is levelled 1-1 and making 3rd ODI a decider game.
Veteran pacer Zaheer Khan has made a comeback to India’s Test side after close to a year. But opener Gautam Gambhir was ignored as the selectors on Monday announced the squads for the Test and ODI tour of South Africa starting December 5. Baroda batsman Ambati Rayudu has been named in both the Test and […]
The West Indies defeated India by 2 wickets in the second one day international cricket match at Visakhapatnam last night, to level the 3-match series one-all. Put in to bat, Team India posted 288 for 7 in the stipulated 50 overs. In-form batsman Virat Kohli missed out on a century, as he was out on […]
West Indies were 35 for the loss of 2 wickets against the target of 289 set by India in their 2nd ODI cricket match at Vishakhapatnam when reports last came in. Earlier, India scored 288 for 7 in their stipulated 50 overs. The highlight of the Indian inning was Virat Kohli scoring 99 and Skipper […]
Magnus Carlsen of Norway has become the youngest World Chess champion. The 10th game of the World Championship ended in a draw in Chennai on Friday and Carslen was crowned the Champion. Carlsen got the required half-a-point needed to reach 6.5 points and dethroned Anand. After suffering his third loss in the ninth game on […]
India’s batting mainstay Virat Kohli became the fastest batsman to score 5000 runs in one-day internationals when he scored 86 against the West Indies in the first ODI in Kochi last night. Kohli achieved the feat in just 120 matches and 114 innings. He has so far amassed 5005 runs, which included 17 centuries and […]
Needing at least two wins in the last four games of the World Chess Championship, defending champion Viswanathan Anand lost 9th game against challenger Magnus Carlsen in Chennai on Thursday. A blunder in the 28th move by Viswanathan Anand gave the advantage to Magnus Carlsen, who won with black pieces again.Carlsen now leads Anand 6-3 […]
Saina Nehwal has advanced to the second round in the Hong Kong Super Series badminton tournament. In Hong Kong today, World Number Seven Saina outplayed Indonesia’s Bellaetrix Manuputty 21-14 21-16 in a 34-minute women’s singles match. The 23-year-old Indian will next take on Thailand’s Porntip Buranaprasertsuk tomorrow. Overall, it was a disappointment day for the […]
Fourteen-year-old Mumbai teenager Prithvi Shaw created a national record in Cricket today. He hit an astonishing 546, while playing for Rizvi Springfield against St Francis D’Assisi Borivali in an inter-school match for the prestigious Harris Shield in Mumbai. Prithvi, the state Under-16 captain hit 85 boundaries and five sixes in the match played at the […]