A day after not being allowed to wear shoes with messages written in solidarity with the people of Gaza, Australia’s veteran opener Usman Khawaja wore a black arm band instead on day one of the first Test against Pakistan at Optus Stadium on Thursday. ....

India’s middle-order batter Rinku Singh said head coach Rahul Dravid has told him to stick to his style of play in the shortest format and place trust on the processes which have fetched him success so far in his early days in T20Is. ....

India’s return to international women’s cricket action after nearly 2.5 months ended in a comprehensive 38-run defeat to England at the Wankhede Stadium, and captain Harmanpreet Kaur believes the new bowlers will have to learn their lessons quickly in the run-up to 2024 Women’s T20 World Cup. ....

The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 has set more record-breaking numbers as hundreds of millions of fans engage with the biggest Cricket World Cup ever. ....

After Glenn Maxwell and David Warner's brilliant show with bat, Australia's Adam Zampa spun a web around the Netherlands' batters as Australia achieved the biggest victory in WC history - 309 runs in the 24th match of the ongoing ICC World Cup, here on Wednesday. ....

FC Barcelona made it three wins from their first three matches in its season's Champions League with a 2-1 victory at home to Shakhtar Donetsk in a game that looked under control but then got very complicated, on Wednesday night. ....

Having won the gold medal in the Squash Team competition at the 19th Asian Games, Dipika Pallikal Karthik made Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu hide his medal and not think about it as they had to play the mixed doubles final. ....

Indian men's compound team of Ojas Pravin Deotale, Abhishek Verma and Prathamesh Jawkar South Korean team in the final to clinch the gold at the 19th Asian Games, here on Thursday. ....

Former Asian champion and world championships medallist Parveen Hooda her debut Asian Games secured a bronze medal in women's 57kg boxing after a 5:0 unanimous defeat against Chinese Taipei's Lin Yu Ting in the semifinal, here on Wednesday. ....

The Indian men's hockey team came up with one of its best-ever performances against Pakistan, handing the archrivals an embarrassing 10-2 defeat in a preliminary league match at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Saturday. ....

India's Men's Swapnil Kusale and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar set new Asian and Asian Games records in the Qualifying Section as they helped the country claim gold medals in the Men's 50m Rifle 3-Positions event at the Asian Games shooting competitions, here on Friday. ....