Hyderabad, Jan 10 (PTI) Indian racing outfit Hyderabad Blackbirds (HBB) has teamed up with MP Motorsport for the 2023 Formula Middle East Championship. MP Motorsport are the winner of the 2022 FIA Formula 2 Team and Drivers’ Championship. The Dutch squad successfully operates in championships such as Spanish Formula 4, Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine, FIA Formula 3 and FIA Formula 2 and recently announced its participation in the all-women category F1 Academy. HBB finished runners-up in the team championship of the inaugural Indian Racing League (IRL) season, which finished on December 11 at India’s first and only FIA…
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Guwahati, Jan 10 (PTI) Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and opted to field against India in the first ODI here on Tuesday. Skipper Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill will open for India as Ishan Kishan misses out. Suryakumar Yadav has also been excluded from the playing XI. For Sri Lanka, Dilshan Madushanka will make his ODI debut. Teams: India: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Mohammed Shami, Umran Malik, Mohammed Siraj and Yuzvendra Chahal. Sri Lanka: Dasun Shanaka(c), Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis(w), Avishka Fernando, Dhananjaya de Silva, Charith…
Melborune, Jan 10 (PTI) Leg-spinner Georgia Wareham was the surprise inclusion in Australia’s squad for the Women’s World Cup in South Africa next month. Wareham has not played a T20 match since rupturing her ACL in October 2021. Australia are the defending champions for the tournament beginning in South Africa on February 10. The team will also play three games against Pakistan before the ICC event. Captain Meg Lanning will expectedly lead the side after announcing her comeback following a six-month break from the game. There are two changes to the Australia squad that featured in the 4-1 series win…
Kuala Lumpur, Jan 10 (PTI) Ace Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and Kidambi Srikanth’s woeful run continued as they suffered first round exits from the season-opening Malaysia Open here on Tuesday. Two-time Commonwealth Games champion Saina, who endured a tough 2022, battling multiple injuries and a lack of form, went down 12-21 21-17 12-21 to Han Yue of China in the USD 1,250,000 Super 1000 tournament. Having lost the first game, Saina, who has slipped to world number 30, fought back to force a decider in a women’s singles first round match. However, the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist fell behind as…
New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) Former pacer Venkatesh Prasad has criticised the exclusion of Ishan Kishan from India’s playing eleven for the first ODI against Sri Lanka, saying “there is no way you drop a player for scoring a double hundred”. Ahead of the first ODI against Sri Lanka on Tuesday, India skipper Rohit Sharma made it clear that he will open alongside Shubman Gill and not Kishan, who scored a double hundred in his last innings in the 50-over format. “Think fair would have been to give chance to a man who scored a double hundred in India’s last…
New Delhi, Jan 10 (PTI) Former pacer Venkatesh Prasad has criticised the exclusion of Ishan Kishan from India’s playing eleven for the first ODI against Sri Lanka, saying “there is no way you drop a player for scoring a double hundred”. Ahead of the first ODI against Sri Lanka on Tuesday, India skipper Rohit Sharma made it clear that he will open alongside Shubman Gill and not Kishan, who scored a double hundred in his last innings in the 50-over format. “Think fair would have been to give chance to a man who scored a double hundred in India’s last…
Aizawl, Jan 9 (PTI) Aizawl FC and Real Kashmir’s defenders proved too strong and forwards too rusty as their I-League clash at Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here on Monday ended in a goalless draw. Subhasish Roy Chowdhury and Lalmuansanga, the two goalkeepers, stood tall in a match characterised by missed opportunities. The ball did find the net twice though, once for each side, but from offside positions. Aizawl’s Ugandan forward Henry Kisekka curled in a right-footer from the left through the far post but was ruled offside in the eighth minute. In the 28th minute, Real Kashmir’s Ghanaian forward Ibrahim Nurudeen…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 9 (PTI) Faced with criticism from various quarters that ticket rates for the upcoming India-Sri Lanka ODI scheduled to be held here are exorbitant, Kerala Sports Minister V Abdurahiman has sparked off a huge controversy by saying that those who cannot afford it need not go to watch the match. The minister made the controversial remarks on Sunday when reporters asked him whether the government would consider withdrawing the alleged decision to hike the entertainment tax to be levied from the spectators. “What is the need of reducing the tax? The demand is that the country is witnessing…
Guwahati/New Delhi, Jan 9 (PTI) Jasprit Bumrah’s return to action has been delayed further as he has failed to recover fully from his lower back stress fracture, ruling out the senior India pacer from the ODI series against Sri Lanka. It is understood that Bumrah was ruled out after he complained of “stiff back” during the last two net sessions at the NCA before he was supposed to fly to Guwahati for the first One-dayer. Bumrah was named in the squad for the three-match series against Sri Lanka, starting Tuesday, but the BCCI’s support staff and medical team have collectively…
New Delhi, Jan 9 (PTI) India’s home season media rights holder Star India has asked the BCCI for a Rs 130 crore discount in the existing deal while jersey sponsor BYJU’s, which is on its way out, wants the board to encash bank guarantee worth an estimated Rs 140 crore to honour the current agreement. The BCCI top brass deliberated on the two subjects for more than an hour in the emergent meeting of the Apex Council on Monday. It was a virtual meeting. In November, BYJU’s had communicated to the BCCI that it wants to exit as the jersey…