No. 11 batsman Conway, who was peppered with a barrage of bouncers by the four-pronged Indian pace attack, was hit on head late in the evening of the opening day's play at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Friday.
Paul Pogba is not trying to force his way out of Manchester United amid growing speculation over his future and the France midfielder still has the desire to play for the Premier League club, manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said.
Opening batsman Marcus Harris has been called into Australia's first Test squad as the hosts count the cost of a number of injuries ahead of the first Test against India in Adelaide.
On current form, Pat Cummins is a paceman who probably commands maximum respect among the opposition. He has been the bowler who is in a good rhythm, can work up serious pace and has the ability to take wickets.
Two headed goals from set pieces by midfielder Tomas Soucek and defender Angelo Ogbonna helped West Ham United fight back from a goal down to beat Leeds United 2-1 in their Premier League clash at Elland Road on Friday.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said on Friday that it will monitor the compositions of various COVID-19 vaccines and alert anti-doping authorities if an ingredient is found to be on the list of prohibited substances.
The NBA preseason — a truncated 49-game, nine-day sprint — opened Friday with a five-game slate, action returning to NBA arenas for the first time in exactly nine months.
As he turned a year older, former Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh on Saturday took to social media to announce that rather than celebrating his birthday this year, he wished for a speedy resolution of the ongoing conflict between farmers and the Central government. He also distanced himself from remarks made by his father Yograj Singh.
The reason behind the proposed action against these wrestlers is their absence from the press conference organised by the federation before the team’s departure to Belgrade, Serbia, where the grapplers are scheduled to take part in the Individual World Cup.
Test hopeful Cameron Green was struck on the head in a tour game against India on Friday as Australia's preparations for the four-Test series against the tourists suffered another jolt at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
India's star batsman Rohit Sharma is learnt to have cleared the fitness test at the National Cricket Academy here.
Rohit Sharma had sustained a hamstring injury during the IPL, which led to him missing the white-ball leg of the ongoing tour. He is also out of reckoning for the first two Tests but can now be there for the last two games. "Rohit has cleared the fitness Test and will soon be flying out to Australia," a senior BCCI official told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
The Indian Weightlifting Federation has decided to shift the national camp from Patiala to Mumbai for two months, starting December 21, to ensure that lifters train in higher temperatures that are anticipated at next year's Tokyo Olympics.Opener Rohit Sharma has been declared fit by the physios at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) following his hamstring injury during the Indian Premier League.
Greg Chappell invoked Mahatma Gandhi before crediting Virat Kohli's intensity for bringing about a paradigm shift in Indian cricket.On Kohli's standing in world cricket, Chappell said the batting maestro is aware of that but not obsessed with it. Chappell called Kohli the most powerful player in world cricket right now.
Virat Kohli will return home after the Adelaide opener to attend the birth of his first child, dealing a massive blow to his team mates as well as to broadcasters, who will struggle to find anyone capable of replacing the biggest drawcard in cricket. Australians are unlikely to be overly disappointed with his absence, however.
Henry Nicholls battled to his sixth Test century and provided the backbone for a New Zealand middle order fightback as his side reached 294-6 at the end of a torrid first day of the second Test against West Indies in Wellington on Friday.Watch some of the best bobsleigh and skeleton athletes in action at the World Cup event in Innsbruck, Austria.
Canada had expected to field its best men's basketball team in history this past summer. But the global pandemic wiped out the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, pushing them back a year to this summer, and left huge question marks about exactly who will be able to compete.
Virat Kohli led India to a 2-1 triumph in 2018/19 but the soon-to-be dad will hand over the reins to deputy Ajinkya Rahane after next week's series-opener in Adelaide. Kohli's paternity leave is just one of a number of twists in the build-up to a series that has been on a knife-edge for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic and government health protocols.
Cam Akers rushed for 171 yards in a breakout performance, Kenny Young returned an interception 79 yards for a touchdown and the Los Angeles Rams clinched their fourth straight winning season with a 24-3 victory over the New England Patriots on Thursday night.
With David Warner out of the next week's clash with an adductor muscle injury, Will Pucovski, 22, was widely tipped to replace him and open with Joe Burns. But that is up in the air after he was felled by a delivery from Kartik Tyagi in a warm-up match this week, suffering "mild concussion symptoms".
LeBron James, who won an NBA title with the Los Angeles Lakers and formed a coaltion to battle voter suppression, was Thursday named Time magazine's 2020 Athlete of the Year.
The Philadelphia Phillies have hired longtime baseball executive Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations, according to two people familiar with the decision.
Viswanathan Anand spoke to TOI on how he has been spending time during the covid-19, his new role as a mentor at the Westbridge Anand Chess Academy (WACA) and more. "For a couple of years now, I have been interacting a bit with the youngsters. It's also an excuse to know them better and it was nothing more elaborate than that," Anand said.
Paolo Rossi, who fired Italy to victory in the 1982 World Cup after almost missing the tournament through a match-fixing scandal, has died aged 64, prompting an outpouring of grief and tributes.
The Indian boxing team has landed itself a big-ticket tournament - the Cologne World Cup in Germany, scheduled from December 17 to 19 at the Motorworld.
The lockdown, says Ravi Shastri, was a nightmare for the Indian team unlike the Australians who were free to move around in their country. Shastri is confident India will walk out with the best available 11 on the 17th and the two warm-ups between now and then will put the team in good stead.
Steve Smith's consistency as a batsman often appears to be in perpetual conflict with his quirky technique, restless mannerism and constant shuffles at the crease. For the cricketer himself, it's the little things like the positioning of his hands on the bat handle that lend poise, calm and balance.
Amy Olson got back to under par with one swing, an 8-iron for a hole-in-one on her seventh hole Thursday, and kept right on going until she had a 4-under 67 and a one-shot lead in the U.S. Women's Open.
The organizers of Quebec International Peewee Hockey Tournament are warning against fake Alexis Lafreniere cards from the tournament circulating on websites.
Former champion Chennai City FC on Thursday appointed Satyasagara as the team's new head coach for the upcoming I-League season. Satyasagara, a former assistant coach of the club, replaces Singapore's Akbar Nawas, who parted ways with CCFC in October last. Satyasagara has a lot of experience behind his back as he has been involved with coaching for almost 26 years now.
India's much-anticipated Day/Night Test against England will be held at Ahmedabad from February 24 next year and the city will also be the venue of one more Test and five T20Is at its newly-constructed Motera Stadium. The two other venues as per BCCI's rotational policy are Chennai, which will host two Test matches, and Pune that will host the three ODIs during the February-March series.
India captain Virat Kohli cemented his spot at the top of the ICC Men's ODI Player Rankings for batsmen after scoring two half-centuries in the recently-concluded three-match series against Australia. Kohli, who had scored 89 and 63 in the second and third ODI against Australia in Sydney and Canberra respectively, has 870 points.
Belgium were crowned FIFA's team of the year for the third straight time after retaining the top spot ahead of world champions France in the latest world rankings released on Thursday, football's world governing body said.
Virat Kohli, who made his India debut in 2008, has emerged as one of the best batsmen in all formats of the game in the past decade. He recently became the fastest cricketer to score 12,000 ODI runs, breaking the record of cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar.
Key Indian batsman Rohit Sharma's availability for at least the last two Tests in Australia depends on the result of the fitness tests which will be carried out at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru on December 11, Friday.
Football is mourning the death of Paolo Rossi, the prolific striker whose goals led the Azzurri to World Cup glory in 1982. Here are the stand-out moments from the career of one of Italy's greatest players, who has died at the age of 64:
The Indian pace attack is likely to present a stiff challenge to the Aussies as only two of the nine batsmen in the current Test Australian squad -- Tim Paine and Travis Head -- have had the experience of playing both Bumrah and Mohammed Shami in a Test match.
Australia's Steve Smith has stated though Virat Kohli missing the last three Tests of the upcoming four-match series will be a big loss for Team India, fans and stakeholders will have to understand that the Indian skipper is a human being and has life outside cricket.
Paolo Rossi once described his performance at the 1982 World Cup, where he etched his name into football folklore, as "personal redemption" from a match-fixing scandal, even though he always said he had nothing to atone for.
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson on Thursday pulled out of the second Test against the West Indies in Wellington as he awaits the imminent arrival of his first child.
The Melbourne Cricket Ground will be permitted 30,000 fans per day during the Boxing Day Test between Australia and India after authorities eased crowd restrictions on Thursday.
"If you don't stand up for the right cause, you aren't alive." Vijender Singh's words resonate to find relevance beyond boundaries. But in modern society, crippled by politics of fear and prejudice, very few find the courage to leave their living rooms to get out on the streets -- to not just fight for a cause but also against allegations of 'party politics' and 'veiled interests'.
In the run-up to the team selection, the chairman of selectors Sunil Joshi felt that since Hardik Pandya wasn't bowling at all, sending him to Australia just as a batsman wouldn't be feasible. The selection committee also did not identify T Natarajan, the newest star on the horizon for Team India, as a potential member of the playing XI in the white-ball format.
Mass lockdowns and "The Queen's Gambit" have brought unexpected gains for chess during the coronavirus, Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand told AFP, praising the hit TV show's "accurate portrayal" of the game.
S Sreesanth's return to cricket field may have to wait a little longer. The inaugural KCA President's Cup T20 tournament, scheduled to begin next week in Alappuzha, has been deferred. The tournament slated to start on December 17 was touted as the return of cricket activities in the state and the comeback tournament of speedster Sreesanth.
Australia A captain Alex Carey is hoping that India captain Virat Kohli turns out for their second warm-up match of the tour, a day/night fixture with the pink ball which begins from Friday at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).
The most challenging of hurdles - which Natarajan insists he can never forget to this day - occurred just as his career was getting started. In January 2015, Natarajan should have been soaking in the high of making his Ranji Trophy debut against Bengal at Eden Gardens in Kolkata, but the special moment instead turned bittersweet as the left-arm pacer was reported for chucking.
