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JAIPUR: Unhappy with the facilities and arrangements at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, the Jaipur-based IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals are actively exploring alternative venues and appear close to shifting its home base to Pune, at least for the 2026 season. While the Royals’ management has remained tight-lipped, Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) secretary Kamlesh Pisal confirmed to…

Kuldeep Yadav reacted to the Guwahati pitch on Day 2, what worked for Team India, and what South African batters did better. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) India spinner Kuldeep Yadav offered a blunt assessment of the Barsapara Stadium surface after South Africa stretched their first-innings total to 489 on a pitch that offered little assistance to…

Team India have a mountain to climb after South Africa piled up 489 runs before being bowled out. (Images via AP) India ended Day 2 of the second Test in Guwahati staring at a challenge they have overcome only once in their history. The hosts trail by 480 runs after South Africa put up 489…

Lakshya Sen secures his first Australian Open Super 500 title. (Image: Badminton Photo/X) Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen secured his first title of the 2025 season by defeating Japan’s Yushi Tanaka in straight games 21-15, 21-11 at the Australian Open Super 500 tournament on Sunday. The 24-year-old Commonwealth Games champion took just 38 minutes to clinch…

Australia’s players celebrate (AP Photo/Gary Day) Cricket Australia are facing the prospect of a major financial setback after the Ashes opener between Australia and England wrapped up in just two days at the Optus Stadium in Perth. With the match ending far earlier than expected, the board now stands to lose more than AUD 3…

Australia’s Travis Head (AP Photo/Gary Day) Travis Head has long been a thorn in India’s flesh, and his latest heroics in the Ashes have only strengthened that reputation. The Australian left-hander has a habit of rising spectacularly when the pressure is at its fiercest, something Indian fans remember all too well from the 2023 ODI…

India’s Parveen Hooda (PTI Photo/Gurinder Osan) New Delhi: For Parveen Hooda, the road back to the ring was far lonelier than any bout she has ever fought. The young boxer had spent nearly two years on the outside — suspended after three whereabouts failures, grappling with the stigma, the self-doubt and the slow grind of…

India’s Kuldeep Yadav (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) Guwahati: An Indian wristspinner working his way through a strong batting lineup on a good batting pitch on Day One of a Test match — the idea seems a page out of a long-forgotten novel we once cherished. In an age of raging turners where pitching the ball in…

Nottingham Forest’s Murillo, centre, celebrates (AP Photo/Ian Hodgson) Liverpool’s Premier League campaign continued its downward spiral on Saturday as the defending champions suffered a 3-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest. Meanwhile, Manchester City’s pursuit of Arsenal was stalled by a 2-1 loss at Newcastle. Liverpool’s sixth defeat of the season leaves them 11th in the…

Digvesh Rathi in Lucknow Super Giants kits (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore) Nitish Rana will lead Delhi in the upcoming 2025-26 Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, while wrist-spinner Digvesh Rathi has not been selected for the tournament starting November 26.Delhi has been assigned to Elite Group D and will compete against Jharkhand, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Saurashtra,…