Striker Balwant Singh was dropped from the squad as his passport expires in less than six months. He was denied the Chinese Visa. Out of the 17 matches played between the two countries so far, the Red Dragons have won on 12 occasions. The rest of the five matches ended in draws. The last time the two sides met was in the Nehru Cup in Kochi in 1997, China had won 2-1 then....
Sakhir (Bahrain), Dec 1 (IANS) Come April 6, Bahrain will be hosting its 10th Formula 1 Grand Prix, and for the first time under lights to make sure that they are not muscled out of the overcrowded calendar. Situated in an archipelago in the Persian Gulf, Bahrain is a fast growing kingdom state. The F1 organisers have shown the way to new venues in Asia like India to make use of the infrastructure created for motorsports....
The show was a fun throwback to the 80s, with giant hairdos, stiff shoulder-pads and a rocking soundtrack, but still served gentle reminders of misfits trying to work in a male (and white and straight) dominated entertainment industry. Using its shabby, bad time-slot TV (and later Vegas live-show) setting, GLOW showed the struggles of these creatives inside and out of the ring. RELATED: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Was a Gift to Audiences...
On Tuesday, the Saints said they wouldn’t refund fans who won’t comply with this year’s COVID-19 regulations. Those who want to attend games will either have to be vaccinated or provide proof of a recent negative COVID-19 test. Saints officials suggested that fans that didn’t plan on complying with the rules sell their tickets on a third-party website. But in a statement on Thursday, the team said it would offer refunds this season....
Is the procedure right for you? There are some big advantages: with the virtual colonoscopy, there is no risk of perforating the colon, no need for intravenous sedation and you won’t have to take a day off work or recruit someone to drive you home. But there are downsides, too. You still need the colon cleansing the night before, which many people consider the worst part. The cost, which averages about $1,000, is not covered by insurance....
Such are the ways of round-robin competition. Muguruza remained undefeated, while Petra Kvitova took advantage of Angelique Kerber’s loss to reach the tournament’s semifinals. MORE: Ronda Rousey circus | Serena Williams on Black Lives Matter In what is being seen as a breakout event for the 22-year-old Spanish player, Muguruza moved to 3-0 by defeating Kvitova 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. It was her toughest match yet, setting up a match against Agnieszka Radwanska....
The inaugural European Games being hosted by Baku in 2015 will be about being different and innovative, the president of the European Olympic Committees (EOC) Pat Hickey told AFP in an interview. The 67-year-old Irishman, who is on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) elite Executive Board, saw his dream realised last year when the Games were voted into being by 85 percent of the EOC members. Hickey admitted the first Games — which will feature 14 to 15 sports — would target a youthful audience, for the Irishman said something had to be done to arrest the dramatic fall in young people taking up sports....
Researchers concluded that air pollution, and especially pollution from ozone, accelerates the incidence of emphysema, a condition where the fine air sacs embedded in the lungs start to deteriorate, preventing oxygen from properly entering the bloodstream. Over a 10-year time span, if ozone levels in a city are just three parts per billion higher than a comparable city with no ozone increase, that increases a person’s risk of emphysema as much as if they had smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, every day, for 29 years, according to the study....
He made this observation while reviewing some of the Indian batsmen’s performances during the T20I series in a video shared on his YouTube channel. Aakash Chopra started by pointing out that KL Rahul did not come up with the big knocks that were expected of him, especially after his Orange Cap-winning performances in IPL 2020. The renowned commentator observed that Shikhar Dhawan did not do himself too many favours either, with the opener’s spot likely to come up for debate once Rohit Sharma is back in the fold....
Navdeep Saini became the 299th player to represent India in the longest format of the game when he made his debut in Sydney in the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. During a discussion on the Sony Sports network, Zaheer Khan was asked how he would rate the lanky pacer’s first day in Test cricket, considering he was given the ball quite late and did not bowl too many overs either....
Ravindra Jadeja had dislocated his left thumb during the third Test in Sydney and underwent surgery in Australia. He has been ruled out of the entire England series. Speaking to Sportskeeda’s Indranil Basu in an SK Live session on Facebook, Nayan, son of former India cricketer Dilip Doshi, stated that Ravindra Jadeja’s absence as a left-arm spinner is already being felt by India. He explained: Terming Ravindra Jadeja as the X-factor among the two sides, Nayan (42), the oldest cricketer to register for the IPL 2021 auction, added:...
The former India opener, taking to his official Twitter handle, defended India’s bowling effort and said Joe Root was just one step ahead of them in the series. He called the right-hander a “class-act” who has simply risen to the occasion in the all-important series. Joe Root once again shone as the silver lining in the hosts’ otherwise papery batting order. At Tea on Day 3, he stood at 132 off 237 balls after reaching his 22nd Test ton off 200 deliveries....
Ross Taylor has now become the player with the most number of catches for New Zealand. Not only this, the veteran has now moved to the fifth position in the list of the players with the most number of catches in international cricket. While batting first for his team, Taylor scored 93 runs with the help of nine fours in the third one-day international match. Taylor may have missed the century, but during the Indian innings, he made a record which no other New Zealand player could do in the history of cricket....
Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid will commence their tenures as T20I skipper and head coach respectively, with KL Rahul announced as the vice-captain. Fresh faces like Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan and Harshal Patel have been called up, while youngsters like Ishan Kishan and Ruturaj Gaikwad are also part of the squad. India’s T20I squad for the New Zealand series: Rohit Sharma (captain), KL Rahul (vice-captain), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wicket-keeper), Ishan Kishan (wicket-keeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj...
Suryakumar Yadav, on the other hand, played a ridiculously good knock, bringing up his half-century in just 33 balls. It was almost like Yadav took away all the pressure from Rahul and helped the latter play with freedom towards the end of the innings. Fans on Twitter slammed KL Rahul for his uncharacteristic knock and for also showing a lack of intent, especially when ‘SKY’ went all guns blazing at the other end....
Without Hardik’s dynamism and skills, the Indian team didn’t have the same aggression and quality that was seen in their previous matches. They were even in danger of not winning this contest after allowing the Welsh side to draw level at 2-2. It was the brilliance of Akashdeep Singh that allowed India to get away with a win. To better understand what went wrong for the Indian team, it’s useful to look at the efforts of individual players....
The Google doodle image featuring bats in Indian(blue) and West Indies(brown) colours like a sword and a yellow ball in the middle. The doodle is a step ahead nodding today’s semi final in Wankhede, Mumbai. India Vs West Indies Today’s Cricket Score at your tap Google has made it pretty easy for all the users providing live scores at a tap. Once the user clicks on the doodle, the result page displays latest score....
It was announced earlier that Emma, now going by her real name, Tenille Dashwood, will be making an appearance for an Independent wrestling promotion, AIW, for their February show. In case you didn’t know… Emma made her debut for WWE in 2012 when she joined NXT amidst huge fan-fare as Emma was an already well-established star on the independent circuit. She had a great run during her time on NXT and was called-up to the main roster in 2014....
London, Sept 8 (PTI) The Indian and England cricket teams have united to recognise the role of Indian soldiers during the First World War as part of a British armed forces charity’s movement, with the two squad captains, Virat Kohli and Joe Root, wearing a unique poppy made out of Khadi. Khadi is the handwoven cotton closely associated with Mahatma Gandhi and India’s freedom struggle. Kohli and Root on Friday became the first to wear a unique Khadi poppy....
Bumrah made his ODI and Twenty20 debuts in 2016 but had to wait until January this year to feature for the first time in the five-day format. And the right-arm seamer, who boasts an unusual action, has proved equally adept with the red ball in his hands, claiming 47 wickets from nine matches at an average of 21.46 - including 6-33 to skittle Australia for just 151 in the third Test at the MCG....
