It appears that not many people are happy about Luka Modric’s win of the 2018 Ballon d’Or. Yesterday, the Croatia international was announced as the winner of the award, to the surprise of many football fans. Perhaps, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise, especially as the result of the votes was leaked hours before […]
Serena Williams will make her return to the Australian Open for the first time since winning in 2017 when eight-weeks pregnant, it was confirmed Wednesday, with virtually all the world’s top 100 players due at Melbourne Park. That includes injury-prone Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. Williams returned from giving birth to her first child to […]
HYDERABAD: The Mithali Raj-Ramesh Powar saga continues to get murkier by the day as Indian women T20 team captain Harmanpreet Kaur and vice-captain Smriti Mandhana’s appeal to the BCCI to retain the services of coach Powar has further fuelled the sordid drama. After the controversy broke out, the BCCI had decided not to give Powar […]
Real Madrid’s Croatia midfielder Luka Modric was named winner of the 2018 Ballon d’Or on Monday, breaking Cristiano Ronaldo’s and Lionel Messi’s decade-long hold on the prestigious award. Juventus forward and 2017 winner Ronaldo came second, while Atletico Madrid and France striker Antoine Griezmann came third. Paris St. Germain’s France forward Kylian Mbappe, who also […]
Shikhar Dhawan and MS Dhoni’s decision to skip India’s domestic tournaments has not gone down too well with Sunil Gavaskar. The former India captain has questioned the selectors for allowing this practice even as India gears up for a hectic next six months, culminating with the World Cup in May-June 2019. “We shouldn’t ask Dhawan […]
London: Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur have been charged for failing to control their players in Sunday’s north London derby in the Premier League, England’s Football Association said on Monday. Spurs midfielder Eric Dier’s goal celebration in his side’s 4-2 defeat had sparked angry scenes on the touchline, with Arsenal’s substitutes unhappy with the England player. […]
English cricket could be forgiven for feeling as if the Ghost of Christmas Past was visiting over the next few days. Events that the game may well have wanted to put behind it – notably, the late-night brawl involving Ben Stokes and Alex Hales in Bristol in September 2017 – will be dragged up once […]
Not picking a frontline pace bowler in the Dhaka Test does not signal the end of fast bowling in Bangladesh, bowling coach Courtney Walsh has said. “It is just one Test match that no fast bowler played,” Walsh said. “This was a Test to try to win the series. For me, it is not sending […]
Days after BCCI put out an advertisement to hire a new head coach for the Indian women’s team, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana, two of the senior-most players in India women’s cricket, have strongly urged the board to stick with Ramesh Powar who was the coach till November 30. In an e-mail sent on Monday […]
Chris Gayle has been awarded AUD300,000 in damages after he won a defamation case against Fairfax Media in October 2017. The West Indies batsman had been the subject of articles claiming he had exposed himself to a massage therapist in Sydney during the 2015 World Cup. He sued the publishing company and the court found […]