The Uganda Cricket Association has named Indian former first-class cricketer Abhay Sharma as the new head coach of the men's national team in the run-up to the Twenty20 World Cup. Abhay Sharma has previous coaching stints with India A and India Under-19s, as well as the Indian women's cricket team and the Delhi Ranji Trophy team. The Cricket Cranes have booked their place in the competition for the first time and will be among 20 teams at the tournament being jointly hosted by the United States and the West Indies from June 1.Read More

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil producer, has signed a four-year global partnership with international football association Fifa. The energy giant will become Fifa’s major worldwide partner with sponsorship rights for multiple events, including the Fifa World Cup 26, co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico and the Fifa Women’s World Cup 2027. Saudi Arabia was set to be formally declared as the host of the 2034 Fifa World Cup after Australia decided not to apply in October 2023. Saudi sponsorship will help fuel income for FIFA’s 2023-26 commercial cycle which was conservatively budgeted to be $11 billion.Read More

The International Cricket Council (ICC) have announced Olympic legend Usain Bolt as an ambassador for the upcoming ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, which will be played in the West Indies and USA from 1-29 June 2024. ABOUT USAIN BOLT Usain Bolt is a legend in track and field athletics. In 2017, he set the world record in the 100-metre race. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Bolt won gold in the men’s 100-metre, 200 metres and 4x100 metres. He created a new world record in all three events. At the 2012 London Olympics, he again won gold medals in the 100....Read More

Rajasthan Royals spinner Yuzvendra Chahal took his 200th IPL wicket to become the first bowler to achieve the feat in the franchise tournament. Chahal dismissed Mumbai Indians all-rounder Mohammad Nabi caught and bowled for 23 with his leg-spin as he celebrated the achievement at Rajasthan’s home ground in Jaipur. He has taken 13 wickets in IPL 2024 so far and is currently tied with Jasprit Bumrah and Harshal Patel at the top of the wicket-takers' list.Read More

Indian squash player Saurav Ghosal announced his retirement from professional squash. During his career, Ghosal won 12 Professional Squash Association (PSA) titles and multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) and Asian Games. He was also a former top 10 athlete in world squash rankings in April 2019 and remained there for six months, the only Indian man to enter the top 10 in the World rankings. The nine-time Asian Games medallist played a significant role in leading India to gold medals in the team’s event at 2014 and 2022 editions of the Asian Games. He also became the first....Read More

India's Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest-ever winner of Candidates. 17-year-old Gukesh will face Ding Liren in the match for World Championship title in 2024. Gukesh drew against Hikaru Nakamura of USA in the final round in Toronto. D Gukesh drew his final-round match in black pieces against Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura of the USA. He won a silver medal at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.  Read More

Balraj Panwar secured India’s first Paris Olympics quota in rowing by finishing third in the men’s single scull event of the 2024 World Asian and Oceanian Olympic and Paralympic Qualification Regetta in Chungju, South Korea. The 25-year-old Indian Army rower clocked 7:01.27 minutes to finish third in the 2000m race and seal the quota.Read More

Rohit Sharma has played his 250th Indian Premier League match, becoming only the second player to do so after MS Dhoni. Rohit reached this milestone in a match against Punjab Kings in Mullanpur, Chandigarh. Rohit Sharma through his IPL career has racked up 6472 runs at an average of 30.1 and strike rate of 131.22. He has hit 42 half-centuries and scored 2 tons in his IPL career. This makes him the fourth highest run-scorer in the tournament’s history just behind the likes of Virat Kohli who is at the top followed by Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner respectively. Most....Read More

Nepal all-rounder Dipendra Singh Airee smashed six sixes in an over to become the third batsman to ever achieve the feat in a T20 International. The 24-year-old joined India's Yuvraj Singh and West Indian Kieron Pollard after a sizzling knock against Qatar in the ACC Men's Premier Cup match in Al Amerat. Airee smashed medium pacer Kamran Khan for six sixes in the final over in his incendiary 64 not out from 21 balls and also took two wickets as Nepal beat Qatar by 32 runs.Read More

India and Mumbai Indians star batter Rohit Sharma became the first Indian to smash 500 sixes in T20 cricket. He achieved this milestone during Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Chennai Super Kings (CSK) at Wankhede Stadium. Rohit's six tally has gone up to 502 sixes. Only Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Colin Munro have more T20 sixes to their name.Read More