MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Monday invited fresh applications for various positions in the Indian men’s team including head coach Ravi Shastri.
India’s next assignment is a tour to the West Indies after which the home season starts with the series against South Africa from September 15.
…
LONDON: Marquee Chinese owned British carmaker MG Motor has expanded its long running association with Liverpool FC, becoming the historic football club's official global car partner.
The contract signing ceremony took place at Liverpool's iconic Anfield Stadium.
The upgraded association with Liverpool FC, the current…
MUMBAI: Star India's OTT platform Hotstar on Monday announced that it has yet again broken a world record and made a new one as 25.3 million simultaneous viewers watched the ICC Cricket World Cup semi-final match between India and New Zealand.
This new figure of 25.3 million viewers has helped the streaming giant to shatter…
MUMBAI: Nine Publishing, the new name for Fairfax Media after its buyout last year by commercial broadcaster Nine Entertainment, lost its appeal Tuesday against an Aus$300,000 ($211,000) defamation payout to star West Indian cricketer Chris Gayle, who was wrongly accused of exposing himself to a female massage therapist during the…
LONDON: Eight years after the BCCI first expanded the Indian Premier League to a ten-team competition in 2011 (and ditched it within the next two years owing to multiple controversies), the "once failed" proposition is back on the agenda.
The matter was discussed here during a meeting of the IPL franchise owners and "…
LONDON: The annual conference of the International Cricket Council, which kicked off Monday, a day after the World Cup final at Lord's, is expected to see the ICC working group for "sanctioning of events and players release" introduce a proposal wherein the players who are no longer centrally contracted and in national reckoning be…
CHICAGO & LONDON: STATS and Perform completed regulatory and closing requirements Monday to officially combine creating the leading sports company in artificial intelligence (AI) and data, operating under the new name Stats Perform (www.statsperform.com).
MUMBAI: The nail-biting final of the 12th ICC World Cup that saw England beat New Zealand in a match that ended with scores tied at both the end of the regular game as well as following the historic super over, had another tied score to boast of for Star India's OTT platform Hotstar - concurrent viewership.
'Concurrent…
NEW DELHI, The Indian Olympic Association has formed an ad-hoc panel to run the affairs of taekwondo in the country and conduct the federation's election within six months.
The move follows close on the heels of the IOA finally cracking the whip on an intransigent Indian Golf Union, appointing a four-member governance…
NEW DELHI: A 66.7 % win record in the last 18 matches played since January has propelled the Indian senior women’s national team to jump 6 places to 57 in the FIFA Women’s Ranking released on July 12. Currently, the Indian women are ranked 11th in Asia.
The team has 1422 points to its kitty as compared to 1392 in the previous…