Leeds, June 20 (IANS) India’s opening pair of Yashasvi Jaiswal and K.L. Rahul stamped their authority at Headingley with a record-breaking stand, becoming the most successful Indian openers at the venue in Test cricket in the ongoing first Test of the five-match series on Friday.
Mumbai, June 20 (IANS) Candidate Master Madhesh Kumar toppled experienced Grandmaster Sanikidze Tornidze of Georgia, pulling off the upset of the fourth round in the Rs 40 lakh prize money Mumbai International Grandmaster and Junior Chess Tournament, being played at the World Trade Centre, here on Friday.
Leeds, June 20 (IANS) India were well on their way to outrightly win the first session’s play, but KL Rahul and B. Sai Sudharsan falling in six balls at the stroke of lunch meant the visitors’ reached 92/2 in 25.4 overs on Day One of the first Test of the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy series at Headingley here on Friday.
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) After back-to-back second-place finishes this season, Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra will look to go one better when he takes the field in the Paris Diamond League at the Stade Sebastien Charlety in the early hours of Saturday (1:12 AM IST).
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) World No.1 men's tennis player Jannik Sinner has teamed up with the famous Italian opera tenor Andrea Bocelli to release a duet titled 'Polvere e Gloria', which means 'Dust and Glory'.
Gwalior, June 20 (IANS) Chambal Ghariyals Women opened their campaign in the Madhya Pradesh Women’s League T20 2025 with a confident eight-wicket win over Bundelkhand Bulls Women, sealing the contest via the VJD Method in Match 2 at the Shrimant Madhavrao Scindia Cricket Stadium on Friday.
Mangaluru, June 20 (IANS) Tamil Nadu’s Srikanth D. clinched the men’s open title, while Kamali Moorthy defended both her titles in the Women’s Open and Groms Girls (U-16) categories at the Indian Open of Surfing, the second leg of the 2025 National Surfing Championship Series. Prahlad Sriram of Tamil Nadu secured the title in the Groms Boys (U-16) category.
Berlin, June 20 (IANS) French Open women's singles champion Coco Gauff returned to the country after her biggest triumph of the year did not go as she had planned as she went down to China's Wang Xinyu in the Berlin Open on Thursday. The World No. 2 was upset in the second round of the Berlin Tennis Open by the Chinese player, 6-3, 6-3 in her first match since winning the French Open on June 7.
Chengdu (China), June 19 (IANS) The design of the medals for the 12th World Games, which will be held in Chengdu in August, was unveiled here. The medal is named "Zhuguang," which literally translates to "bamboo light," and also sounds like "chasing the light" in Chinese.
Mumbai, June 19 (IANS) The race for the top honours in the Mumbai International Junior Chess Tournament intensified as the lead narrowed to just 12 players at the end of Round 3 at the World Trade Centre, here. Meanwhile, the foreign Grandmasters continued to assert their dominance in the GM category with yet another commanding display in Round 3.
