TORONTO: Professional wrestling promotion IMPACT Wrestling, a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment Inc., Tuesday announced a new television distribution deal with Discovery India, expanding its audience reach in this important region of the world.
As part of the agreement, Discovery will broadcast 12 monthly IMPACT…
LONDON: The England & Wales Cricket Board has announced that the men's and women's winners in the inaugural season of The Hundred, ECB's franchise-based 100-ball cricket tournament, will receive equal prize money.
The total prize budget of £600,000 will be split 50/50 between the men’s and women’s competitions and is a…
MUMBAI: On the back of her scintillating run in the ongoing 2020 ICC Women’s T20 World Cup, 16-year-old India opener Shafali Verma climbed 19 spots to top the ICC Women’s T20 batting ranks. Shafali has bagged the top spot despite playing only 18 matches in her fledgling career.
With this commendable achievement, Shafali…
NEW DELHI: As India is gearing up to host the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup, the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) is in touch with the world governing body with regard to the coronavirus pandemic.
The ISSF World Cup is scheduled to be held in the national capital from March 15 to 26. As of…
LAUSANNE: The International Table Tennis Federation has released details of World Table Tennis, its new in-house commercial vehicle that is tasked with the mandate to drive table tennis forward in the modern era, with innovations to all facets of the global table tennis product.
Since 2018, professional consultants Deloitte…
NEW DELHI: The Indian U-16 National team’s exposure tour to Tajikistan has been cancelled post-outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus.
The U-16 boys, currently the U-15 SAFF Champions, were slated to depart to play two Friendlies against Tajikistan U-16 National Team on March 5. Tajikistan are the current runners-up of the AFC U-16…
NEW DELHI: Hockey India Tuesday released the list of nominations for the third edition of the Hockey India Annual Awards.
These awards are given in recognition of excellence in performance for the year 2019 and overall contribution to the game of hockey. The third edition of the awards carries a total prize money of Rs 13…
NEW YORK: Leading global sports streaming service DAZN will dramatically increase its presence in 2020, expanding to more than 200 countries and territories.
The first global event on DAZN will be Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez’s soon-to-be-announced fight during Cinco de Mayo Weekend, which will take place on Saturday, May…
TOKYO: As concerns increased that Japan's dream of hosting the Olympic Games could be a fatality of the spread of the new coronavirus, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday expressed its full commitment to the success of the Games and Japan’s Olympic Minister raised the possibility of Tokyo 2020's dates being "adjusted…
MUMBAI: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly is in line to become the next president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), when the term of the incumbent, Bangladesh Cricket Board chief Nazmul Hasan Papon, ends later this year.