CHANDIGARH: Teenage boxer Sandeep Kaur made sure the tricolour was flying high in Poland when she won gold in the 52kg weight category at the 13th International Silesian Boxing Championships for women. She won the yellow metal in the junior section. Sandeep thumped her opponent, Poland’s Karolina Ampuska, by a 5-0 margin in the summit clash. Success didn’t come easy for the 16-year-old, a native of Hassanpur village in Patiala. Sandeep’s humble...

Indian cricket, at the moment, is riding a wave of uneasiness. The dust of the 1-4 Test series loss in England has not yet settled, yet the cramped scheduling has forced authorities to work overtime to send 75% of the squad to UAE ahead of the Asia Cup starting on Saturday. The rest of the team - enjoying a short three-day break following the gruelling three-month long England tour - and the coaching staff are due to arrive only on Sunday. India's campaign...

LONDON: Alastair Cook displayed his all-too familiar obduracy and powered England to a position of strength in the fifth Test against India, laying the groundwork for a swansong befitting a distinguished career. Scorecard | As it happened Cook was unbeaten on 46 runs in his last international innings as England reached 114 for 2 at stumps on day three at the Oval. At end of play, he had put on 52 runs for the third wicket with skipper Joe Root...

LONDON: India's susceptibility to quality swing bowling once again came to the fore as they struggled to reach 174 for six after England's tail wagged considerably to give the hosts an upper hand on the second day of the fifth and final Test here on Saturday. Scorecard | As it happened India still trail England by another 158 runs with four wickets in hand and three full days' play remaining in the match. Courtesy birthday boy Jos Buttler's 89...

NEW DELHI: The sepaktakraw world championship in Bangkok is just a fortnight away and Asian Games bronze medallist Harish Kumar is busy serving - not on court but at his brothers' roadside tea stall in Delhi's 'Little Tibet', Majnu ka Tila. Tea has been the 21-year-old's ticket to sporting glory. For each one of his 15 medals, he and his family have passed countless steaming cups over the counter. Five days after the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games...

NEW YORK: Rafael Nadal began his US Open quarterfinal as poorly as possible, shut out in a set by a 6-0 score for only the fourth time in 282 career Grand Slam matches. On the previous three such occasions, he'd lost. On this one, he managed to come back to win, although it took 4 hours, 49 minutes and never did get easy for him. The defending champion and No. 1 seed at Flushing Meadows recovered from his disastrous start and other stumbles along...

NEW DELHI: Sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Tuesday said the countdown for 2020 Olympics has started for the Indian athletes after the country's best-ever medal haul in the Asian Games. READ ALSO: Govt felicitates India's Asiad medal winners with cash awards A visibly delighted Rathore congratulated Indian medal winners of the just-concluded Asian Games but said their real journey has just begun. "You made the entire country...

How often do you hear a celebrated cricketer say that the only reason behind cricketers in India being put on a pedestal is the sheer popularity of the game in India and that non-cricket sports athletes who overcome almost impossible odds at times to win medals for India in continental and world events are the real heroes. That's exactly what Indian cricketer and former India captain Gautam Gambhir has said in a candid interview to TimesofIndia.com. ...

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