India 2025-26 domestic cricket season: Full schedule, key format changes, tournament groupings, dates, venues

India 2025-26 domestic cricket season: Full schedule, key format changes, tournament groupings, dates, venues

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday announced the complete domestic cricket schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 season, with the Duleep Trophy slated to kickstart the season in late August. In a return to its previous format, the Duleep Trophy will be contested by the six zonal teams, unlike last year … Read more

Delhi Open Chess: GM Gupta beats Nikitenko to head into final round with half-point lead

Delhi Open Chess: GM Gupta beats Nikitenko to head into final round with half-point lead

Abhijeet Gupta entered the 21st Delhi International Open as a three-time winner of India’s biggest chess event, one with a ton of experience and pedigree. On Friday, he reinforced his credentials, beating Belarus’s Mihail Nikitenko in an all-important top-of-the-standing clash in the penultimate round at Tivoli Gardens in Chattarpur. Entering the ninth round as joint … Read more

Ravi Shastri says ‘you’ve got to miss IPL’ in order to be prepared if WTC keeps coming in June

Ravi Shastri says ‘you’ve got to miss IPL’ in order to be prepared if WTC keeps coming in June

Australia thrashed India by 209 runs in the final of the World Test Championship in 2023. The majority of the Indian team that was picked in the squad and played the game were coming on the back of two-and-a-half months of intense IPL T20 cricket, whereas some of the Australians, a few by choice and … Read more

Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner: Five standout points from epic French Open final

Carlos Alcaraz vs Jannik Sinner: Five standout points from epic French Open final

“Today there were few moments of the match that, I mean, the level was insane,” was Carlos Alcaraz’s assessment as he basked in the glow of returning from a two-set deficit for the first time and defending his title against Jannik Sinner in Sunday’s French Open final. A breakdown of those moments: Sinner 1-0 sets … Read more

Why did Robert Lewandowski ‘lose trust’ in Poland coach Michal Probierz and resign from international football?

Why did Robert Lewandowski ‘lose trust’ in Poland coach Michal Probierz and resign from international football?

Poland and Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski has announced that he will not play for the national team again for as long as coach Michał Probierz remains in charge of the side, shortly after he was stripped of the national team’s captaincy. At the end of the long season with Barcelona, the 36-year-old Lewandowski mentioned physical … Read more

From staging a wedding to hosting Delhi Chess Open, how venue was readied overnight

From staging a wedding to hosting Delhi Chess Open, how venue was readied overnight

The Delhi Chess Association (DCA) was on tenterhooks as the venue for India’s largest chess event – the Delhi International Open Grandmasters Chess Tournament, featuring one of the largest gatherings in the sport (2,400 players) – was hosting a wedding that continued well past midnight on Friday, the eve of the first round. However, once … Read more

Hurdler goes viral with 50 million views completing last 10.5 metres with two forward somersaults for a win

Hurdler goes viral with 50 million views completing last 10.5 metres with two forward somersaults for a win

A viral video of track star-in-the-making Brooklyn Anderson who claimed the 100m hurdle 5A state championship, has garnered over 50 million social media views. The reason – her spectacular finish at Thurston, where she lost balance clearing the last hurdle and stumbled, but stayed in the lane with two forward somersaults to reach finish line … Read more

‘Mom, what do I do?’: When Rohit Sharma recalled feeling helpless watching Cheteshwar Pujara bat during U-14 days

‘Mom, what do I do?’: When Rohit Sharma recalled feeling helpless watching Cheteshwar Pujara bat during U-14 days

If Cheteshwar Pujara manages to bat and dominate the pitch for a couple of days in succession, it could even break the spirit of his former India Test teammate Rohit Sharma in the opposition. Recounting the memories from their age-group cricket days during the launch of Pujara’s wife Puja’s book, ‘The Diary of a Cricketer’s … Read more

French Open final, Aryna Sabalenka vs Coco Gauff: A rare clash for the Parisian clay title between the world’s top two

French Open final, Aryna Sabalenka vs Coco Gauff: A rare clash for the Parisian clay title between the world’s top two

For a while, before Iga Swiatek came along and marked her territory at Roland Garros, the women’s draw at the French Open regularly threw up surprises. Fairy tales out of nowhere. One-time surprise winners. Even Swiatek was one such story when she completed her first triumph as an unseeded player, ranked outside the world’s top … Read more

New Zealand appoints Rob Walter as new men’s head coach across formats

New Zealand appoints Rob Walter as new men’s head coach across formats

Former South Africa coach Rob Walter was on Firday appointed as New Zealand’s new head coach across all formats. The 49-year-old Walter who will step into his role later this month ahead of the tour to Zimbabwe, replaces Gary Stead as the new man in charge of the Black Caps unit. Walter was a frontrunner … Read more