Новости за 05.02.2018

India produced a clinical all-round performance to thrash hosts South Africa by 88 runs in the first one-dayer of the ICC Women's Championship at Diamond Oval on Monday.

India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin described Virat Kohli as a captain with a fierce winning mentality and said that his positive body language always rubbed on the other players.

Haryana stayed on top despite not adding any more to their overnight tally of 20 gold medals, though Delhi narrowed the gap to just two at the first Khelo India School Games.

Prithvi Shaw termed his journey from Virar to Mount Maunganui a "difficult" one and said words can never express the emotions that he felt while guiding the Indian U-19 team to World Cup glory.

With H S Prannoy injured and Saina Nehwal pulling out, India will have a tough task at hand when Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu lead the men's and women's teams respectively at the Asia Team Badminton Championship starting on Tuesday.

Atletico Madrid defender Diego Godin lost three of his teeth after being caught full in the face by Valencia goalkeeper Neto during Sunday's La Liga encounter, his club said.

The BCCI might shift its headquarters from the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to Bengaluru once the National Cricket Academy (NCA) takes shape in the next couple of years.

In the first media interaction at home after becoming the new under-19 world champions on Monday, India coach Rahul Dravid expressed his satisfaction for the successful campaign before disclosing that his team did not play its number one game in the final.

Cross country skier Jagdish Singh is finally set to make his Winter Olympics debut in Pyeongchang as the confusion over who will accompany him as coach has ended.

Virender Sehwag's comment on the umpires' call for lunch with India needing just two runs for victory during the ODI against South Africa seems to have touched a raw nerve with Indian bankers, who have criticised the ace cricketer for comparing the umpires' decision with the manner in which public sector banks treat customers.

A day after TOI reported about how the BCCI website became dysfunctional last weekend because its domain was still owned by banned and currently living in exile Lalit Modi, who hadn't renewed the domain, the former IPL czar has hit back at the Board through his counsel Mehboob Abdi.

Former South Africa coach Ray Jennings feels that India captain Virat Kohli can be "intimidating in the dressing room" and it would be great if he gets a good guide, who can maximise his potential as a leader.

As American sport reels from a horrifying sexual abuse scandal, athletes competing in this month's Pyeongchang Olympics will have access to trauma units for the first time in Games history.

Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Monday said the Pyeongchang Winter Games have brought "real hope" to the divided Korean peninsula -- and added there was no "Plan B" even when nuclear tensions put them under threat.

Indian paddler Manav Thakkar settled for silver after losing in the final of the 2018 ITTF World Junior Circuit Finals at Luxembourg.

Newly-crowned ICC U-19 World Champions, India were on Monday accorded a warm welcome on their arrival at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, here.

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk has accused Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane of diving to win a penalty in Sunday's dramatic 2-2 Premier League draw at Anfield.

He has bulked up to "Indian boxing's golden category" - the middleweight - in pursuit of a second successive Commonwealth Games medal and after two podium finishes since the shift, Mandeep Jangra says he is ready to dethrone the more accomplished Vikas Krishan.

Competing in his sixth and last Winter Olympics, pioneer luger Shiva Keshavan wants to overcome a recent injury and end his international career with a flourish during the Pyeongchang Games, starting this week.

South Africa wicket-keeper batsman, Quinton de Kock, has been ruled out of the remainder of the Momentum One-Day International (ODI) series and upcoming T20 International series against India due to a left wrist injury.

The Supreme Court on Monday sought reply from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over former Indian pacer S Sreesanth's appeal against his life ban in connection with the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) spot-fixing scandal.

Fifteen Russian athletes and staff who controversially had their life bans for doping lifted last week will not be invited to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.

The Dubai Tour, now into its fifth edition, will host several top riders across the world. The five-stage race that kick-starts on Tuesday will see many of the world's sprinters and some great champions, and will offer high-speed, adrenaline-fuelled sprinting as some of the biggest-name fast finishers of the sport head to the Middle East for five extensive days of racing.

Mauricio Pochettino's hailed Harry Kane's bravery after he shrugged off missing a penalty to net his 100th Premier League goal from a second spot-kick to salvage Tottenham Hotspur a point from a thrilling 2-2 draw at Liverpool.

Not a day goes by when Wilf McGuinness doesn't think of the friends and teammates he lost when the Munich air crash ripped the heart out of Manchester United's "Busby Babes".