Montcin Hodge and Shamarh Brooks hit half-centuries but India A bowlers fought back with a flurry of wickets in the final session on the opening day of the match in Port of Spain.
Rana Gharami has been left to rue the break in Indian Super League (ISL) last season and his return home to Kolkata. Rana became the first ISL player to have been suspended provisionally for the use of a banned substance.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned on Wednesday former J&K chief minister and National Conference chairman Farooq Abdullah on charges of alleged money laundering and embezzlement of more than Rs 100 crore of J&K Cricket Association (JKCA) of which he was the president.
An all-out suffered in the dying seconds of the first half, came back to haunt hosts U Mumba as they went down 23-27 to UP Yoddha in an otherwise thrilling contest of the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League Season 7 at the National Sports Club Of India on Wednesday.
Former India seamer Venkatesh Prasad has applied for the position of India's bowling coach, TOI has learnt.
Almost 17 months after he was banned for his controversial role in the ball-tampering saga, David Warner is set to return to Test cricket. The dashing opener is set to lead Australia's charge as they take on traditional rivals England in the latest round of Ashes, cricket's oldest rivalry.
Batting coach Sanjay Bangar might find it difficult to retain his position when the national selectors pick the support staff for the Indian team. Many believe Bangar hasn't been able to create a solid middle order despite four years in the job.
Olympic 800 metres champion Semenya is fighting an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) regulation that middle-distance female runners with a high natural level of testosterone must take medication to reduce it.
The BCCI on Tuesday banned the talented 19-year-old opener Prithvi Shaw from all forms of cricket for eight months for failing a dope test. A release from the Board said Shaw had "inadvertently ingested a prohibited substance, which can be commonly found in cough syrups".
Ravi Shastri remains favourite for the post of the coach of the Indian cricket team and has an automatic entry in the process. Shastri's contract ended with the World Cup but he and his support staff have been given a 45-day extension for the West Indies tour that starts Saturday. Under Shastri, India have won a little more than 70% of their matches.
French striker Karim Benzema scored a hat-trick as Real Madrid defeated Fenerbahce 5-3 in a pre-season friendly on Wednesday which temporarily lifted the summer gloom which has engulfed the Spanish giants and coach Zinedine Zidane.
Prithvi Shaw is a "fighter" and will come out of his eight-month doping suspension stronger, says Santosh Pingutkar, who taught him the ABC of cricket long before he became his most famous ward.
Is everything fine within the Indian wrestling coaching community? With less than a year to go for the Tokyo Olympics, there are signs of unease between Indian and foreign coaching staff in the men's freestyle section, especially after the recent selection trials for the senior World Championships which threw up unexpected results.
Pakistan speedster Hasan Ali, who ruffled Indian feathers with his 'provocative' gestures at the Wagah border last year, is all set to marry an Indian girl, Shamia Arzoo, who is working as an engineer in Dubai. The wedding is likely to take place at a Dubai hotel on August 20.
Earlier, Stokes's teammate James Anderson had claimed that the all-rounder, who was hugely apologetic the moment the incident happened during England's World Cup final against New Zealand , had appealed to the umpires to overturn their decision.
Former India and Mumbai opener Lalchand Rajput on Tuesday applied for the position of head coach of the senior men's national team.
Former India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, an honorary Lt Colonel in the Territorial Army, begins his voluntary stint with the outfit today in J&K during which he'll undertake guard and patrolling duties. Other Test players have also served in the armed forces in various capacities.
MSK Prasad hit back at his detractors for constantly demeaning his panel owing to its modest international record. In an interview, the chairman of the selection committee spoke on the jibes on his stature (his Test record is six matches), allegations that the Indian team management bullies him, lack of vision and the 'lame duck' jibe by Sunil Gavaskar.
England return to 'Fortress Edgbaston' for the first Test against Australia on Thursday looking to round off an already memorable season by completing a World Cup and Ashes double.
One seemed destined to be a Test captain at 23; the other was thrust into the leadership following an extraordinary crisis and not long after he'd thought of quitting cricket.
When the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is advocating a boycott of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, it has emerged that the world shooting bodies possibly missed out on an opportunity of getting their sport back to the CWG 2022 programme. Or at least as it appears so.
Barred from competing in any ICC event, Zimbabwe's cricketers are willing to play "for free" to keep the game alive in the country, expressing their desperation to compete in the upcoming World Twenty20 Qualifiers.
Ajinkya Rahane was India's best batsman overseas from 2014 to 2016, but someone who has been struggling after August 2017, since scoring his last Test hundred against Sri Lanka at the SSC. He's played 17 Tests and scored 696 runs at an average of 24.85 since.
Champions League runners-up Tottenham will play Bayern Munich in Wednesday's final. Real, who lost to Spurs 0-1, will have a chance to find winning form against Fenerbahce who finished their game against Bayern (6-1) in disarray.
Prithvi Shaw was on Tuesday suspended for eight months by India's governing body for a doping violation, with the teenage batting sensation saying he was shaken by the news and would return to the game "faster and stronger".
Some 17 months on, with his rehabilitation after a one-year ball-tampering ban apparently completed, David Warner will return to the Test arena at Edgbaston on Thursday at the start of his sixth Ashes series. The opener has kept his own counsel on the Newlands incident since that media conference and preferred to let his bat do the talking on the road back from perdition.
Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur is not surprised by Mohammed Amir's decision to retire from Tests at the age of 27 as he feels the pacer's career in the longest format was considerably damaged by the spot-fixing ban he served.
Despite the fact that the most successful raider in VIVO Pro Kabaddi League history, Pardeep Narwal, failed to claim his first and only point until the 36th minute of the encounter, three-time champions Patna Pirates managed to edge past Tamil Thalaivas 24-23 at the National Sports Club of India on Monday evening.
Former world number ones Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams were given wildcard entries into next month's WTA Cincinnati tournament, a key tuneup event for the US Open. Each will compete in the main draw for the August 12-18 hardcourt event.
England and Australia begin the latest edition of the Ashes at Edgbaston on Thursday, with the home side looking to wrestle back the urn.
Captain Virat Kohli and coach Ravi Shastri have always struck an excellent partnership ever since 2015 when Shastri was the Team director and Kohli first took over Indian cricket's reins in Test cricket Down Under.
Former Indian allrounder and 1983 World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev was sacked as captain after the loss to England in the 1987 World Cup semis. Former captain Sunil Gavaskar - who was sacked after losing the 1982-83 series to Pak 0-3, feels that Kohli should have at least been questioned or his captaincy been reviewed following India's defeat in World Cup 2019.
Whether Jason Roy turns out to be an inspired choice to open in the Ashes or fails miserably to transfer his one-day form to Tests is almost an irrelevance, such have been England's struggles at the top of the order in recent years.
A court in southern Brazil has forbidden ex-Barcelona striker Ronaldinho from selling 57 of his real estate properties due to an unpaid environmental fine and other debts, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.
Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray says he is "quite close" to being able to play singles matches and a "best-case scenario" could see it happen at Cincinnati in two weeks.
After India's ouster from the World Cup, stories of fissures in the Indian camp emerged with claims that Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and are not seeing eye to eye. But Kohli categorically refuted rumours of a rift with his deputy, saying "people feeding off lies" are being disrespectful to the players' personal lives.
Police in Brazil probing rape allegations against football superstar Neymar have closed the case due to a lack of evidence, the Sao Paulo attorney general's office said Monday. The police decision will be sent to prosecutors on Tuesday, who will have 15 days to evaluate the case, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said.
The coach of drug-tainted Australian swimmer Shayna Jack says he will stand by her, insisting she is a clean athlete and will be cleared of wrongdoing.
West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell has praised veteran Indian wicketkeeper-batsman MS Dhoni for his dedication and love for the Indian Army. Cottrell, who is a soldier in the Jamaican Defence Force, took to Twitter and said that Dhoni is an inspiration figure both on and off the field.
A day after the IOA wrote a letter to the sports minister, proposing to boycott the quadrennial multi-disciplinary competition, NRAI secretary Rajiv Bhatia said they stand by the IOA as taking an aggressive stance was the only way to force the hosts to "rethink".
Few defence lapses in the closing stages of the match cost hosts U Mumba dear as the resultant all out with a minute to go handed defending champions Bengaluru Bulls a 30-26 win in a VIVO Pro Kabaddi Season 7 encounter at the National Sports Club of India on Sunday.
Egan Bernal clinched victory in the Tour de France on Sunday, parading into Paris safely in the overall leader's yellow jersey, becoming the first Colombian winner of cycling's greatest prize and its youngest in more than a century.
World number one Brooks Koepka birdied three of the first six holes on the way to winning his first career WGC title Sunday at the St. Jude Invitational.
The 29-year-old Dalilah Muhammad obliterated one of the longest-standing records in women's track and field on Sunday, storming home in 52.20sec at Des Moines' Drake Stadium. Muhammad said she expects her new 400m hurdles world record will be broken sooner rather than later as US runners eye a potential clean sweep at this year's World Championships.A day after the IOA wrote a letter to the sports minister, proposing to boycott the quadrennial multi-disciplinary competition, NRAI secretary Rajiv Bhatia said they stand by the IOA as taking an aggressive stance was the only way to force the hosts to "rethink".
When India play the West Indies in the first of two Tests in Antigua from August 22, they would launch their bid for the inaugural World Test Championship - the ICC's ambitious plan to revamp Test cricket. Over a period of two years, the top nine Test playing nations will slug it out for one coveted prize in their bid to become the undisputed champion in Tests.
Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff was critical of his team's preparations and reactions on Sunday after both drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas crashed out of contention in a chaotic rain-hit German Grand Prix.
Ko Jin-Young clinched her second major title of the season, firing a final round 4-under 67 in the rain Sunday to win the Evian Championship by two shots with a 15-under total of 269.