Nagpur Distt Jr Basketball Championship from 9 April
Nagpur: Nagpur District Junior Basketball Championship will be held at Nagpur Amateur Sports Association (NASA) from 9 April. Players born on or after 1.1.2000 will be eligible to participate in this tournament. Interested teams should contact Pranay Ghate on NASA Ground...
Commonwealth Games 2018: Mirabai Chanu Wins Gold In Women’s Weightlifting
Mirabai Chanu secured India’s first gold medal in the 2018 Commonwealth Games when she finished first in the women’s 48 kg weightlifting event at Gold Coast on Thursday. (CWG live updates) In the process, reigning world champion Mirabai Chanu smashed the Commonwealth...
Indian women lose to Wales in CWG hockey opener
India’s women’s hockey team had a disastrous opening at the Commonwealth Games, going down 2-3 to Wales in Pool A match, at the Gold Coast Hockey Centre, on Thursday morning. Rani Rampal’s team was down by two goal, but staged a...
Commonwealth Games 2018: Lifter Gururaja wins India’s first medal
Weightlifter P Gururaja opened India's medal tally on the first day of competition at the 21st Commonwealth Games, claiming silver in the men's 56 kg category, on Thursday. The 25-year-old Indian Air Force man equalled his personal best of 249kg (111+138),...
Divyang sportspersons honoured
Divyang (disabled) sportspersons from Nagpur division were honoured by Dadasaheb Balpande College of Pharmacy and Ambe Durga Education Society on the occasion of Founder's Day observed in the memories of Dadasaheb Balpande at the college auditoritun on Wednesday. This year...
Kapil, Raina, Kohli respond to Afridi’s remarks on Kashmir
New Delhi: A day after cricketer Gautam Gambhir had slammed former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi for his remarks on Kashmir, other stalwarts like Kapil Dev, Suresh Raina and Captain Virat Kohli also spoke on the issue on Wednesday. "Who is he?...
IPL 2018: Sachin Tendulkar, Mukesh Ambani Visit Mumbai Indians Training Camp
New Delhi: Ahead of the Indian Premier League 2018 season which is set to get underway from April 7, batting great Sachin Tendulkar and team owner Mukesh Ambani visited the frachises’ training camp. Alongside Sachin and Mukesh, Akash Ambani was also...
Deshmukh, Pandit, Gandhe to officiate in IPL
Nagpur’s BCCI panel umpires—Abhijeet Deshmukh, Nitin Pandit and Ulhas Gandhe— have been assigned matches in the forth coming Indian Premier League tournament which begins April 7. All the three city umpires have loads of experience of officiating in...
City men clinch Civil Services team chess title
An almost complete fresh crop of top ranked players emerged in the singles, doubles and mixed doubles events as the Under-15, Under-19 and Senior Woodball Championships concluded at the Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University stadium in Ravi Nagar on Easter Sunday. There...
Video: On This Day 7 Years Ago, Dhoni Led India to its Second World Cup
Seven years ago, on April 2, 2011, Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led India edged past Sri Lanka to lift its second ICC Cricket World Cup at the batting legend Sachin Tendulkar’s home turf – the Wankhede Stadium. It was also the first World...
Tearful Steve Smith apologizes for ball-tampering scandal
New Delhi: Australian captain Steve Smith broke down while addressing the media after his arrival in Sydney stating that he is sorry for his actions and is absolutely devastated. Smith, who was banned for 12 months from international cricket by Cricket...
Ball Tampering Row: BCCI Bars David Warner, Steve Smith From IPL 2018
New Delhi: The BCCI has barred Australian captain Steve Smith and David Warner from playing in IPL 2018. Earlier in the day, Warner had stepped down as the captain of SunRisers Hyderabad a day after Cricket Australia (CA) announced that...
Lehmann to continue to coach Australian team; Paine to be new captain
Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland is addressing the media and the world all over about the ball tampering incident. Here are the highlights from his press conference: >> Apologise to all Australians, particularly all the kids who love cricket and...
Hilarious Video Mocking Australian Cricket Team Over Ball-Tampering Row Goes Viral
As world cricket still reels from Australia captain Steve Smith sensationally confessing that ball-tampering had been orchestrated by himself and senior players, an Australian radio station has decided to hilariously troll their own cricketers. Triple J, a national radio station...
Life ban for Smith and Warner?
Even as disgraced Australia cricket captain escaped with just a one-match suspension and a 100 per cent fine on his match fee after admitting to ball-tampering, according to media reports, Smith and his deputy David Warner face anything up to...
Shami gets clean chit by BCCI, awarded Rs 3 crore annual contract
New Delhi: The BCCI on Thursday offered India pacer Mohammed Shami central contract after its Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) exonerated him of corruption charges levelled by his wife Hasin Jahan. Shami has been given a Grade ‘B’ annual contract, which will...
Hardik Pandya parody account posts derogatory Ambedkar tweet. Court orders FIR against cricketer
Jaipur: A special SC/ST court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur has directed police to file a First Information Report against cricketer Hardik Pandya for allegedly posting an offensive tweet about Dalit icon Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar. A tweet that the all-rounder likely never...
India all-rounder Hardik Pandya faces charges for an anti-Ambedkar tweet
Jaipur: India all-rounder Hardik Pandya has found himself in the middle of a controversy following a tweet against Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. On Wednesday, a special SC/ST court directed the Jodhpur police to register an FIR against the cricketer for his distasteful...
Maharashtra Woodball Championships at Nagpur from 23 Mar
Representational Pic Nagpur: The thirteenth Senior, ninth Junior and sixth Sub-Junior State Woodball Championships has been organised by Woodball Association of Maharashtra (WAM) from March 23 to 25 here at the Nagpur University ground. WAM Secretary Ajay Sontakke said that 33...
Irani Cup: Ranji Champions Vidarbha Clinch Maiden Title
Nagpur: A record-breaking first innings score of 800/7d helped Ranji Trophy champions Vidarbha lift their maiden Irani Cup against Rest of India at the Vidarbha Cricket Association stadium in Nagpur on Sunday. Vidarbha took a huge first innings lead as...
Gurbani puts Vidarbha on brink of win after record 800/7
Nagpur: Vidarbha ended up with a record 800 for seven before pacer Rajneesh Gurbani tore through the Rest of India batting to put the reigning Ranji champions on the cusp of securing the Irani Cup here. Vidarbha, who began day four...
