Match number 43 of IPL 2023 will see one of the two new teams added to the IPL last season take on a team that has a huge fan base and is still looking for its first IPL title. It will be the Lucknow Super Giants vs the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
The India Premier League 2023 runs from March 31 to May 28, with 10 teams competing for the title. Mumbai Indians have won the title five times, which is the most by any team, followed by Chennai Super Kings' four triumphs, while the Gujarat Titans are the defending champions.
Struggling to maintain momentum provided by Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell, Royal Challengers Bangalore face a belligerent Lucknow Super Giants in Lucknow on Monday.
Tim David's unbeaten 14-ball 45 blitzkrieg trumped Yashasvi Jaiswal's dazzling maiden IPL ton as Mumbai Indians pipped Rajasthan Royals in a high-scoring last-over thriller at the iconic Wankhede in Mumbai on Sunday. Making the 1,000th match of the Indian Premier League a blockbuster, Mumbai shot down the 213-run target with three balls to spare.
Veteran shooter Mairaj Ahmad Khan and young Ganemat Sekhon won gold in the skeet mixed team event, giving India its first medal at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup on Sunday.
The World Chess Championship will be decided in a rapid-play tiebreak on Sunday, after Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi and China's Ding Liren remained deadlocked following 14 games played under classical rules.
Andreas Christensen, Robert Lewandowski and Raphinha struck for Barcelona at Camp Nou with Guido Rodriguez netting a late own goal to round off the rout.
Having just completed a decade as the Mumbai Indians captain and set to celebrate his 36th birthday on Sunday, India skipper Rohit Sharma will look to rediscover his mojo and steer his team's ship, currently in choppy waters, from the front when MI take on Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium.
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Birmingham Commonwealth Games silver medallist triple jumper Abdulla Aboobacker won gold in the Mikio Oda Memorial Athletics meet in Hiroshima, Japan, with a season's best effort of 16.31m on Saturday.
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The India U17 women's team spent some anxious moments in the last 15 minutes before emerging 2-1 winners against Myanmar in its concluding AFC U-17 Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers Round 1 tie on Friday.
Who are the world's most promising young footballers? Switzerland-based CIES Football observatory has come up with a ranking of the finest U-20 players after checking out 75 leagues in the world.
For most of Delhi Capitals' training at the Ferozeshah Kotla on Friday evening, Prithvi Shaw cut a forlorn figure, strolling around the practice area and reluctantly going through some bat-swing drills before ambling in for a hit in a net away from the core team.
Ramesh Mendis took five wickets and Prabath Jayasuriya became the fastest-ever spinner to 50 Test wickets Friday as Sri Lanka thrashed Ireland by an innings and 10 runs in the second Test.
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Chennai Super Kings' run-chase did not go to plan against Rajasthan Royals in their IPL 2023 match on Thursday, but the CSK think-tank, led by coach Stephen Fleming, doesn't feel there is any need to tweak their batting order.
After the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president, PT Usha, labeled the ongoing protest by India's top wrestlers as "indiscipline", the athletes protesting at Delhi's Jantar Mantar received a shot in the arm on Friday as the Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra called for "quick action to ensure justice".
Rajasthan Royals reclaimed the top spot in the IPL 2023 points table with their win over Chennai Super Kings in Jaipur on Thursday, and visiting skipper MS Dhoni picked giving away too many runs in the powerplay as the primary reason for his side's defeat.
Tottenham Hotspur fought back from two goals down to hold Manchester United to a 2-2 draw on Thursday as Newcastle closed in on Champions League football with a 4-1 thrashing of Everton.
Yashasvi Jaiswal cracked a magnificent 77 before spinners Adam Zampa and Ravichandran Ashwin set up Rajasthan Royals' emphatic 32-run win over Chennai Super Kings in the reverse fixture of the IPL 2023 on Thursday.
England fast bowler Stuart Broad wants the team to replicate the success of the 2005 Ashes series when they host Australia in the summer and inspire fans across the country.
Holders Inter Milan reached the Italian Cup final on Wednesday after beating Juventus 1-0 to go through to next month's showpiece 2-1 on aggregate.
Jason Roy, one of the architects of Kolkata Knight Riders' much-needed win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League game on Wednesday night, has been fined 10 percent of his match fee for a code-of-conduct breach
Delhi Police on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that it is ready to register an FIR based on the sexual harassment complaint filed by seven women wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.
Kolkata Knight Riders snapped their four-match losing streak with a comfortable 21-run victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the reverse fixture of the IPL 2023 played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Catches win matches is an age-old saying but it matters the most when you grab something extraordinary to take out the big fish and the same thing happened on Wednesday when Kolkata Knight Riders' Venkatesh Iyer took an outstanding catch to get rid of Royal Challengers Bangalore's stand-in skipper Virat Kohli in an IPL match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
After the Supreme Court issued a notice to the Delhi Police on a writ petition by seven female wrestlers seeking the registration of an FIR against sidelined Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the wrestlers, who are staging a sit-in protest at the Jantar Mantar here, have now alleged that the seven complainants are getting "death threats" as well as being "lured with money" at the behest of Brij Bhushan.
England fast bowler Jofra Archer had a minor operation on his troublesome right elbow earlier this month but the procedure is unlikely to harm his chances of selection for the Ashes series against Australia, the Telegraph reported.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked Delhi Police to respond within three days to a petition accusing it of not registering an FIR based on sexual harassment complaints by seven national-level female wrestlers against Wrestling Federation of India president.
Defending champions Gujarat Titans produced a clinical performance to demolish five-time-champions Mumbai Indians by 55 runs in their Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 match at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
The 11-member Indian squad will participate at the 2023 World Table Tennis Championships slated to be held in Durban from May 20 to 28. CWG gold medallist Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra, the top-ranked Indian women player, will spearhead the Indian challenge at the event.
Match number 35 of IPL 2023 will see the defending champions Gujarat Titans take on the most successful team in the history of the competition, Mumbai Indians, in Ahmedabad today.
The Chennai hockey fans will get a taste of Indo-Pak rivalry as they look forward to an international event in the city after 16 years. Pakistan confirmed on Monday morning that they will send their team for the Asian Champions Trophy to be held in Chennai from August 3-12.
Axar Patel's all-round heroics trumped Washington Sundar superb efforts with bat and ball as Delhi Capitals edged Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 runs in a low-scoring last-over thriller in Hyderabad. It was the first time in 16 seasons of IPL, Delhi successfully defended a first innings total under 150 as chasing a moderate 145 for victory, Hyderabad could only muster 137 for 6 in their 20 overs.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have been handed hefty fines for maintaining a slow over-rate in their IPL 2023 match against Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday.Royal Challengers Bangalore have been handed hefty fines for maintaining a slow over-rate in their IPL 2023 match against Rajasthan Royals at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday.
Ajinkya Rahane and Shivam Dube fashioned a convincing 49-run victory for Chennai Super Kings, which took them to the top of the table.The India Premier League 2023 runs from March 31 to May 28, with 10 teams competing for the title. Mumbai Indians have won the title five times, which is the most by any team, followed by Chennai Super Kings' four triumphs, while the Gujarat Titans are the defending champions.
Tennis star Carlos Alcaraz on Sunday said that he is not legendary Rafael Nadal's "replacement" as the teenager comfortably defended his Barcelona title. Alcaraz now has nine career titles under his belt.
Lilia Vu defeated Angel Yin on their first playoff hole to win her first major title on Sunday at the Chevron Championship in The Woodlands, Texas.
Top order batter Ajinjya Rahane's 29-ball-71 carnage took the Eden Gardens by storm as Chennai Super Kings floored Kolkata Knight Riders to move to the top of the table. The Chennai batters led by a transformed Rahane outbatted the hosts as Kolkata's 49-run defeat at home turned out to be their fourth on the trot. With the win, Chennai rose to the top of the points table and now have 5 wins in 7 matches. Kolkata, on the other hand found themselves at the 8th spot with just 2 wins in 7 games.
Punjab restricted Mumbai to 201/6 after putting up 214/8 on the board, led by stand-in skipper Sam Curran's 29-ball 55. But the England allrounder, who was named the 'Player of the Match', said it was the bowlers who won the game for Punjab.
Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku will play in the Coppa Italia semi-final second leg against Juventus on Wednesday after his one-match ban was overturned on Saturday by the president of the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as a measure to fight racism.
Marco Asensio and Eder Militao struck for Real Madrid in a comfortable 2-0 win over Celta Vigo in La Liga on Saturday, bringing the champions within eight points of leaders Barcelona.
Left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh produced one of his finest IPL spells as Punjab Kings gunned down Mumbai Indians in a high-scoring thriller at the Wankhede for their fourth win of the season. Death overs specialist Arshdeep shattered stumps at will in a tense final over as Punjab successfully defended 214 to get back to winning ways. The victory took Punjab to the fifth spot on the points table as a high-flying Mumbai were brought down to earth after a hat-trick of wins.
Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz swept past Dan Evans 6-2, 6-2 on Saturday to set up a Barcelona Open final clash with Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Rajasthan Royals might be sitting pretty with four wins in six matches, but an inconsistent middle-order remains a major worry for the former champions as they prepare for an away battle against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.
Hailing the bond between CSK fans and Dhoni, former India cricketer Harbhajan Singh -- who has donned the CSK yellow jersey in the past -- claimed the wicketkeeper-batter has accepted all the adulation from the fans with utmost respect.