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Before the Edgbaston Test, Shubman Gill did not score a double ton in Test match cricket; however, in the first innings of that Test, he looked in sublime form and piled on a 269-run marathon innings. The pitch was conducive to batting, and Gill looked in the zone to pile on a mammoth total. Former

Less than a month ago, just days before her 25th birthday, Canada’s most decorated female Olympian stood on the pool deck of Commonwealth Place in Victoria with a smile stretching across her face. Penny Oleksiak had just completed a successful national swimming trials, winning  both the 50- and 100-metre freestyle events and being named to Canada’s team

India batting coach Sitanshu Kotak is expecting the pitch for the Lord’s Test to be much more challenging for the batters than the flat tracks of first two games but as long his batters don’t play “undue shots”, it should not be a problem. The wicket, two days before the game, had plenty of grass,

The stage is set for what should be a thrilling 2025 FIFA Club World Cup semifinal match between Fluminense and Chelsea. The Brazilian Serie A side has impressed as underdogs in this competition, pulling off upsets against Al Hilal and Inter Milan in the knockout round. They will now face an English Premier League squad

After India’s 336-run victory over England at Edgbaston last week, which levelled the series at 1-1, former fast bowler James Anderson said that for England to get a foothold in the series and win the trophy named after him, Jofra Archer must play the Lord’s Test this week. It has been more than four years

In a symbolic moment, South Africa’s stand-in captain and triple centurion Wiaan Mulder took the catch that ended Zimbabwe’s second innings and granted his side a humongous victory by an innings and 236 runs to wrap up the series 2-0. Even though Zimbabwe’s batsmen showed more resilience than they did in the first innings, they

It’s a mystery that Kusal Mendis has not yet become a superstar. Blessed with technique, temperament and strokes, he averages a middling 34.84 in ODIs and 36.87 in Tests. In 50-overs he has only five hundreds in 142 innings (34 fifties) and 10 in 135 Test outings. A couple of days ago, Sri Lanka’s batting

Guatam Gambhir and staff in intense discussion at Lord’s (Screengrab) With less than two days to go before the crucial third Test between India and England at Lord’s, all eyes are on the surface, and it’s already sparking plenty of intrigue. In an exclusive first look, the Lord’s pitch appears lush and green, a potential

The Duke ball which has been long used in Test matches in England has come under severe criticism like never before. With the conditions in England being unusually dry this summer and flat decks being the favoured one for England, wickets have come at a premium. And more importantly, in the two Tests of the

Having won everything there is to be won with his boyhood club, you might be forgiven for thinking Thomas Muller would find it hard to choose the greatest prize of a glittering career. You would be wrong. Eleven years on from that remarkable night in Belo Horizonte, the joy he and his teammates were able

A spot in the Club World Cup final will be decided as Fluminense and Chelsea clash on Tuesday in the first semifinal. It will be the third time during this tournament that Chelsea have faced a Brazilian team, but after falling to Flamengo, the Blues are much more prepared for the physicality that they can

Anthony Elanga is set to become Newcastle’s first major signing of the transfer window after the Magpies reportedly agreed a £55 million ($75 million) deal with Nottingham Forest. The Athletic, BBC and Sky Sports all reported on Tuesday that the Swedish international is on his way to St James’ Park. Elanga was one of the

This is an article version of the CBS Sports HQ AM Newsletter, the ultimate guide to every day in sports. You can sign up to get it in your inbox every weekday morning here. 💰 Good morning to all but especially to … PAOLO BANCHERO AND THE ORLANDO MAGIC There’s Magic in the air in

Conchita Martinez-coached 18-year old Mirra Andreeva is tipped as future Grand Slam champion and she made a hilarious faux-pas at a Wimbledon pre-quarters game. She had just won the match and had made it to her first Wimbledon quarter-finals but she hadn’t realised it. She was getting ready to return serve when she spotted the

Poland and Sweden will face off clash in Luzern Allmend Stadion, Lucerne in Group C of the UEFA Women’s European Championships 2025. The two sides are joined in Group C by Germany and Denmark When and where will the Poland vs Sweden Women’s Euro 2025 match kick-off? The match between Poland and Sweden will kick

There’s a number that echoes in my mind every time I watch Kenneth Bednarek, also known as Kung Fu Kenny, explode out of the blocks: 9.86. That’s his personal best in the 100 metres. It’s the kind of time that demands silence before applause. It stops conversation. It changes the narrative. But the question remains:

For years, Matt Homes worked for a photography agency, editing cricket pictures being his job primarily. An ardent club cricketer, the 58-year old Homes had his favourite players — the flamboyant English all-rounder Ian Botham and the stylishly brutal West Indian batsman Viv Richards. Botham’s pictures, Homes says, exude “emotions”; Richards “in coloured clothing during

Hundreds of protestors marched to the Royal Court of Justice and gathered outside it for hours, protesting the expansion plans of Wimbledon. The All England Club has proposed to build 39 new courts, including an 8,000-seat stadium, on the former Wimbledon Park Golf Club, the adjacent parkland. In his submission to the court, Wimbledon’s counsel

Japan started its title defence at the EAFF E-1 Football Championship with a comprehensive 6-1 win against Hong Kong at the Yongin Mireu-Stadion in South Korea on Tuesday. Japanese striker Ryo Germain, who made his senior team debut, scored four goals in 22 minutes to hand his side command of the encounter. The 23-year-old opened

Just when you thought that even Lionel Messi mush have his limitations, he manages to surprise you. The latest piece of trickery from the puny magician with a permanent spell on the football was providing an assist that was so good that stunned defenders could only stand and gawk as the striker slotted the ball

After a 30-shot rally from the back of the court, in the second set against Alex de Minaur in the Wimbledon round-of-16 clash, he slumped to his chair, removed his shirt, put his hand below the chest, shut his eyes, inhaled deeply, held the breath and exhaled incrementally. In the first-round match, he had said

Shubman Gill two games into the series against England, has already been on a mission of breaking records. After four innings in the series, Gill had already scored 585 runs at an average of 146.25, slamming twin centuries at Edgbaston and a solitary century in Leeds. England’s teammate at Gujarat Titans, Jos Buttler, gave insights

Brian Daboll took over as New York Giants head coach in 2022 to much fanfare and seemed to immediately turn the franchise around, with the team shooting out to a 7-2 start before an eventual wild-card berth that earned Daboll Coach of the Year honors. Daniel Jones had a league-best 1.1% interception rate during the

Pakistan fast bowler Haris Rauf and allrounder Shadab Khan were injured and will miss the Twenty20 series in Bangladesh this month. Rauf injured a hamstring in Major League Cricket in the United States last week, and Shadab recently underwent shoulder surgery. Uncapped fast bowlers Ahmed Danial and Salman Mirza were picked in a 15-man squad

While the first Test in Leeds did not go to plan for Shubman Gill as a captain, his performance both with the bat and as a leader went a notch up at Edgbaston. Filling in the boots of Virat Kohli at four, Gill’s talent was never in question, but his performances never matched, especially outside

Paris Olympian, Asian Championship silver medallist and junior world champion wrestler Reetika Hooda has been provisionally suspended for one year after she tested positive for a banned drug. A promising heavyweight wrestler in the 76kg weight category — one of the few from the country to succeed in the higher categories — Reetika was handed

When India picked the playing XI for the second Test at Edgbaston, quite a few questions were raised by the cricket pundits. However, India managed to thrash England by 336 runs in the end. The changes made were that Jasprit Bumrah was rested after the loss in Leeds, which did come to sharp criticism, and

There were questions raised about Shubman Gill when he took over the leadership from Rohit Sharma. Not only just about his captaincy, but his record in England was quite average with the bat. However, two games into the series, the entire narrative has changed as the young Indian skipper scored three centuries from four innings

Grigor Dimitrov’s wretched luck in Grand Slams continued as for the fifth time in as many Majors, the Bulgarian was forced to retire mid-way through a game due to an injury. The one at the ongoing Wimbledon — a pectoral injury — was perhaps the most painful one for Dimitrov, he was leading by two

Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh (SL vs BAN) 3rd ODI Live Cricket Score Streaming Online: With the fate of the series on the line after both teams won one game each, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh face off in the third and final One-Day International at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium on today. Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh

Dinesh Karthik has always been under the shadow of MS Dhoni. While he has had his fine moments in his career, it has been a case of being in and out of the team regularly. Even as MS Dhoni retired from the longer format, it was Wriddhiman Saha who has been given the bulk of

There has been plenty of chatter about the ball from Akash Deep that sent Joe Root packing in the second India vs England Test at Edgbaston. Root was dismissed for just six runs in the second innings with the game on the line. Root’s dismissal meant that England were left in dire straits, slumping to

England’s captain Ben Stokes faces his biggest challenge yet as a leader on how to motivate his players for the Lord’s Test after the huge loss at Edgbaston, writes Michael Atherton, the former captain. “In the three years that Ben Stokes has captained England, it is hard to think that he has faced a sterner

Geoffrey Boycott fired England, and in particular, their opener Zak Crawley and new-ball bowler Chris Woakes. So miffed was Boycott with Crawley that he wrote that “don’t think he can change or get better’ and also noted that the 36-year old Woakes is past his expiry date as a bowler. “I don’t think he can

The youngest world champion in history, Gukesh Dommaraju, has had an interesting few months after ascending to the world champion’s throne last December by defeating Ding Liren. The 18-year-old almost won the prestigious Tata Steel chess event in Wijk aan Zee before losing to Praggnanandhaa in a tie-break in what was his first tournament as

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka will try take care of business against unseeded Laura Siegemund in the 2025 Wimbledon women’s quarterfinals on Tuesday morning. Sabalenka has faced a tiebreak in three straight matches, but she has not dropped a set this tournament. She is facing one of the surprises of the tournament in Siegemund, who

The countdown to the 2025 NFL season is officially on. The regular season opens with the 2025 NFL Kickoff Game between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday, September 4. While that day is still several weeks away, we now have a clear picture of what rosters will look like, and sportsbooks have started

Ace midfielder Megumi Nakamura scored in the 36th minute and the Halifax Tides’ defenders did the rest as they bent but did not break in edging the visiting Calgary Wild 1-0 in Northern Super League action on Monday. It was just the second win in nine women’s matches for the Tides, who outshot the Wild

The Division I men’s basketball committee will convene in Savannah, Georgia, this week for its annual summer summit. There are many items on the agenda, but only one of them is of pivotal significance and interest to the American sports public.  NCAA Tournament expansion.  Will the selection committee opt to keep the most pristine postseason