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Lahore, April 30 (TIWN) Former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar has claimed that Imran Nazir was a more talented batsman in comparison to Virender Sehwag but he didn't have the brain which the explosive Indian opener had. |
30-Apr-2020 |
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Wellington, April 29 (TIWN) Tim Southee and Tom Latham bagged first-class awards while Devon Conway and Katie Gurrey were recognised for their domestic performances on day two of the 2020 New Zealand Cricket annual awards presented online for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
29-Apr-2020 |
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Buenos Aires, April 29 (TIWN) Football legend Diego Maradona, the manager of struggling Argentinian club Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, has praised the decision to suspend relegation from the country's top division until 2022. |
29-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 28 (TIWN) New Delhi on Tuesday lost hosting rights for the 2021 men's boxing World Championships after the Boxing Federation of India (BFI) failed to pay the host fee. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) said that additionally, the BFI will now have to pay a cancellation fee of $500. |
29-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 28 (TIWN) Star England all-rounder Ben Stokes on Tuesday heaped praise on teammate Jos Buttler, saying the destructive wicket-keeper batsman is one of the most versatile white-ball players in the world at the moment. |
28-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 28 (TIWN) National badminton coach Pullela Gopichand addressed a special online session organised by the Sports Authority of India for its newly appointed Assistant Directors and spoke about the immense importance of coaches in the sporting ecosystem. |
28-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 28 (TIWN) Days after co-producers Reliance Entertainment denied that the much-hyped "83" would go straight to an OTT platform before theatrical release, there is official confirmation of the fact in the film trade now. |
28-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 28 (TIWN) Six-time World Champion M.C. Mary Kom shared her fitness mantra on social media to inspire people to stay fit amid the coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the entire world. |
28-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 28 (TIWN) The National Basketball Association (NBA) introduced curriculum based online basketball sessions as a part of the NBA Basketball Schools, a network of basketball development programs across the globe open to international male and female players between the age of 6 and 18. |
28-Apr-2020 |
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Karachi, April 27 (TIWN) The Pakistan Cricket Board has banned Umar Akmal from all forms of the game for three years on corruption charges. |
27-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 27 (TIWN) After France became the latest country to postpone its race, Formula 1 boss Chase Carey has said he plans to start the season in Austria in July. |
27-Apr-2020 |
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Asuncion, April 27 (TIWN) Former Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho pleaded his innocence while speaking for the first time after spending 32 days in a Paraguayan prison. The former Barcelona forward is currently under house arrest in a hotel in Asuncion after he was arrested along with his cavalry for entering the country with forged documents. |
27-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) Lallianzuala Chhangte, who hogged the limelight for scoring a brace on his India debut against Nepal in the SAFF Championship in 2015, revealed how skipper Sunil Chhetri's words 'pumped' him up to ease the pressure on the landmark day of his football career. |
26-Apr-2020 |
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Dushanbe, April 26 (TIWN) Tajikistan said it was suspending football matches until May 10 after the government decided to take new precautionary measures amid the COVID-19 pandemic. |
26-Apr-2020 |
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Beijing, April 26 (TIWN) Shanghai Shenhua is holding a training camp to prepare for the coronavirus-delayed new season of the Chinese Super League (CSL), which head coach Choi Kang-Hee expects to kick off at the middle or end of June. |
26-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 26 (TIWN) West Indies batsman Chris Gayle brutally roasted India spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for his social media posts during a live session on popular social media platform Instagram. With no cricket going due to coronavirus pandemic, players are engaging with fans these days on social media to keep themselves busy. |
26-Apr-2020 |
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Chennai, April 25 (TIWN) Former Chennai Super Kings teammates Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin recalled the southpaw's whirlwind innings against Kings XI Punjab during the 2014 edition of the Indian Premier League. With no cricket being played due to coronavirus pandemic, former and current players are engaging with fans on social media to keep themselves entertained. |
25-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 24 (TIWN) Batting legend Sachin Tendulkar, on the occasion of his 47th birthday, started the day by taking blessings from his mother Rajni. |
24-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 25 (TIWN) The English pace duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad are definitely not the youngest of the lot, but they have sights on the Ashes which will be played in Australia and both believe that is a series they can remain in shape for. |
25-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 25 (TIWN) India spinner Kuldeep Yadav heaped praise on Mahendra Singh Dhoni and stated he has helped him become a better bowler at the international level. |
25-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 25 (TIWN) The 2011 World Cup was the last piece of Sachin Tendulkar's illustrious jigsaw. On the fateful night of April 2 in 2011, when MS Dhoni hit that six to win the trophy, the 'Little Master' came running down the stairs of the Wankhede Stadium where he has grown up playing the game that he owned after a point. |
25-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 23 (TIWN) Indian Test vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane said that he had met batting great Sachin Tendulkar at the age of 14. He uploaded a video on Instagram on Thursday which he spoke about how he met Tendulkar, who turns 47 on Friday. |
23-Apr-2020 |
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Dubai, April 23 (TIWN) The International Cricket Council hosted a Chief Executives Committee meeting via conference call on Thursday as members came together to consider the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sport. |
23-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 23 (TIWN) Star Indian batsman Rohit Sharma has time and again underlined the need to stay home even if becomes hard during a prolonged period of COVID-19 lockdown. But the nature lover inside Rohit does crave the outdoor and sun-kissed mornings. |
23-Apr-2020 |
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Sydney, April 23 (TIWN) Australian batsman Peter Hanscomb is confined to his residence like all other cricketers with the sport coming to a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, he has used this time to get over his fear of riding horses. |
23-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 23 (TIWN) At a time when the entire football fraternity is grappling with COVID-19 pandemic, it has been "challenging" for the referees to keep themselves up and running during the lockdown period. |
23-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 22 (TIWN) While most athletes across the globe are spending their time at home in the absence of active sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Indias star athlete and ONE Championship fighter Ritu Phogat is spending time away from her family whilst in Singapore exploring new things to keep herself busy during the lockdown period. |
22-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 22 (TIWN) With the world coming to a standstill due to the coronavirus outbreak, sportspersons have taken to social media to interacts with fans and followers and Indias Test deputy Ajinkya Rahane did just the same as he interacted with his colleagues at Indian Oil on an Instagram chat session. |
22-Apr-2020 |
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Islamabad, April 22 (TIWN) Pakistan fast bowling great and former captain Waqar Younis on Wednesday posted a video message on Twitter urging people of his country to support their Prime Minister Imran Khan in the fight against coronavirus. Waqar asked people to donate whatever they can to the Prime Minister's relief fund that has been set up to mitigate the pandemic. |
22-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 22 (TIWN) Australia cricketer Ashton Agar has assembled a set of high-profile players and put forward his all-time World XI. Agar revealed his team on the YouTube channel of Lord's Cricket Ground. |
22-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 22 (TIWN) India captain Virat Kohli has said that he has learnt to stay calm and patient ever since his wife Anushka Sharma has come into his life. |
22-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 21 (TIWN) England's white-ball series against arch-rivals Australia has reportedly been pushed back to September due to coronavirus pandemic that has gripped the entire world. So far, more than 2.4 million people have been infected by the virus while in excess of 1.7 lakh individuals have lost their lives worldwide. |
21-Apr-2020 |
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Sydney, April 21 (TIWN) Ex-Australia skipper Michael Clarke has revealed that legendary spinner Shane Warne shared a boisterous relationship with former coach John Buchanan and they never got along. |
21-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 21 (TIWN) From being a critic of the Indian Super League to becoming a self-confessed fan of the professional way the league is run, ATK assistant coach Sanjay Sen has come a long way. And the former Mohun Bagan coach has no qualms in admitting that his perception of the league changed once he joined the Kolkata-based franchise. |
21-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 20 (TIWN) There is no Indian Premier League (IPL) happening so far, but the lack of action has not made franchises miss out on their favourite moments from last year. |
20-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) Jason Gillespie is a mainstay in the Australian fast bowling battery at the turn of the century. However, a bonus that came with playing him in the Test team was that he was one of the most reliable tailenders in the world. In 2006, Gillespie's rather surprising prowess with the bat came full circle when he ended smashing an unbeaten double hundred after coming on as a nightwatchman against Bangladesh in Chattogram. |
20-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 20 (TIWN) World no.1 Novak Djokovic said that rival and Swiss great Roger Federer's ability to come up with serve and volley is somewhat underrated and not talked about enough. |
20-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) With the coronavirus outbreak bringing the world to a standstill, sportspersons have been interacting with fans across the globe on social media and India spinner R. Ashwin took to Twitter to have a question answer session with fans where he not only spoke about his favourite Test match, but also a player who made him nervous during their first meeting. |
20-Apr-2020 |
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Kolkata, April 19 (TIWN) It was on April 18, 2008 that former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum smashed an unbeaten 73-ball 158 to start what would turn out to be an extravaganza -- the Indian Premier League (IPL). |
19-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 20 (TIWN) The Gautam Gambhir-Shahid Afridi saga has continued with the former Indian batsman hitting back at another scathing remark about him that has emerged from the former Pakistan all-rounder's autobiography published in April 2019. |
20-Apr-2020 |
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Warsaw, April 18 (TIWN) Borussia Dortmund defender Lukasz Piszczek has suggested that he would like to stay for another season as the Pole's contract expires in June 2020. |
18-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 18 (TIWN) New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson said that bowling to big players like M.S. Dhoni gives important insight into how to bowl to others. Anderson said that Dhoni is one of the best finishers in the game and whenever he was bowling to him in the Indian Premier League (IPL) playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, he would have senior players in his ears all the time. |
18-Apr-2020 |
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Johannesburg, April 17 (TIWN) Graeme Smith, who has been appointed South Africas director of cricket for the next two years, has confirmed that Quinton de Kock will not be given the extra responsibility of Test captaincy. |
17-Apr-2020 |
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New Delhi, April 17 (TIWN) Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju and Tribal Affairs minister Arjun Munda attended Sports Authority of India's (SAI) first-ever online knowledge enhancement workshop for coaches. SAI said in its release that 4,700 coaches attended on the first day. |
17-Apr-2020 |
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Colombo, April 17 (TIWN) Sri Lanka has offered to host the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) which has now been indefinitely suspended by the BCCI due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. |
17-Apr-2020 |
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Nairobi, April 17 (TIWN) Olympian Sally Kipyego has said pushing back the Tokyo Games by a year has offered her another chance to live again and do everything to be in right shape to contest for the gold medal in women's marathon. |
17-Apr-2020 |
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Buenos Aires, April 17 (TIWN) Argentinian first division side Velez Sarsfield has appointed former Barcelona and Liverpool defender Mauricio Pellegrino as their head coach. |
17-Apr-2020 |
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Mumbai, April 16 (TIWN) Former India pacer Zaheer Khan might have started his career under Sourav Ganguly, but he went on to become a star under the leadership of M.S. Dhoni and the former pacer feels that there was a lot of similarity in the way two of Indias most successful captains functioned. |
16-Apr-2020 |
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Lahore, April 16 (TIWN) Even as the world struggles to dismiss run-machine Virat Kohli, former Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar believes he has the arsenal to send the India skipper packing. |
16-Apr-2020 |
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London, April 16 (TIWN) Derbyshire County cricket club has deferred the contracts of Sean Abbott and Ben McDermott until next summer due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, meaning the Australian duo will not be featuring for the club this season. |
16-Apr-2020 |
