Cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin presented with Arjuna Award

Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was presented the Arjuna Award today which was conferred on him last year by the Sports Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Ashwin was not present during the Award Ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan on August 29, 2014 as he was a part of the India ODI team, which was tour...

Beijing to stage 2022 Winter Olympics

Beijing has won the bid to host 2022 Winter Olympic Games. International Olympic Committee has made the announcement in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This mean Beijing will be the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Games. Beijing successfully hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008.

Ashes 2015: Australia to resume 2nd inning's play from score of 168 for 7 against England

Beijing makes last pitch in bidding for 2022 Winter Games

Beijing highlighted environmental improvements since the Summer Olympics in 2008 in its final presentation to the IOC before voting today to determine which city will be awarded the 2022 Winter Games. Beijing mayor Wang Anshun told the IOC delegates that the 2008 Beijing Games "served as an...

Anderson's Ashes best rocks Australia

Rajat Chauhan in gold medal hunt at World Archery Championships

Rajat Chauhan has stormed into the final of the compound section of the World Archery Championships in Copenhagen. The 2014 Asian Games team gold medalist beat Camilo Cardona of Colombia 143-138 to set up a clash against local challenger Stephen Hansen in the final which will be held on Saturday. La...

Ashes 2015: England bundle out Australia for meager 136 in first their innings

In the Ashes, following a humiliating 405-run defeat in the second Test at Lord's, hosts England bounced back on the opening day of the Edgbaston Test yesterday bundling out Australia for a paltry 136. Making a mockery of the visitors' decision to bat first, England ran through Aus...

Ashes 2015: England bundle out Australia for meager 136 in first their innings

In the third Ashes Cricket Test against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham, Australia were bundled out for a paltry score of 136 in their first innings today. The innings lasted just 36.4 overs. The main wrecker of the Australian innings was J M Anderson who claimed six wickets. At present, both the t...

BCCI refuses to revoke ban on cricketers

The BCCI today made it very clear that it was not having second thoughts on revoking the ban on former India pacer S. Sreesanth and spinner Ankeet Chavan in the wake of a Delhi Court dropping all charges against them in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case. All the 36 accused persons including Sreesanth, C...

BCCI refuses to revoke ban on Sreesanth and Ankeet Chavan

The BCCI today refused to revoke the ban on former India pacer S Sreesanth and spinner Ankeet Chavan in the wake of a Delhi Court dropping all charges against them in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said there will be no rethink on the l...