(Reuters) -India duo Jasprit Bumrah and Smriti Mandhana have been crowned the world’s leading cricketers in the latest edition of the Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Bumrah won the honour in the men’s section after a stellar 2024 when he excelled across formats and was named player of the tournament as India won the Twenty20 World Cup …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Neeraj Chopra will tick off an item in his bucket list with an eponymous javelin competition in Bengaluru next month but the poster boy of Indian athletics has also added a new one to it – watching a Diamond League event in the country. The Neeraj Chopra Classic on …
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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan have won back central contracts, while stumper-batsman Rishabh Pant was upgraded in the new retainer list announced by the Indian cricket board (BCCI) on Monday. Both Iyer and Kishan were left out last year after they skipped domestic cricket, which irked the BCCI, though …
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MUMBAI (Reuters) -Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene said they never lost faith in Rohit Sharma’s ability after the opener roared back to form in the Indian Premier League season on Sunday. The former captain’s unbeaten 76 on Sunday was his first fifty in seven matches this season and it helped secure their nine-wicket victory …
By Tora Agarwala BYRNIHAT, India (Reuters) – Two-year-old Sumaiya Ansari, a resident of India’s Byrnihat town which is ranked the world’s most polluted metropolitan area by Swiss Group IQAir, was battling breathing problems for several days before she was hospitalised in March and given oxygen support. She is among many residents of the industrial town …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Vaibhav Suryavanshi was thrust into the Indian Premier League (IPL) spotlight as its youngest debutant on Saturday and the 14-year-old announced himself in spectacular style with a massive six off the first ball he faced. The Rajasthan Royals left-hander came into the squad for the clash with Lucknow Super Giants in place of …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s home stadium woes in the Indian Premier League continued with a third defeat of the season and like in their previous two matches, it was a former player of the team that played a big role in their downfall. Bengaluru lost their opener at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium against Gujarat …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -All-rounder Will Jacks rewarded Mumbai Indians for the faith they showed in him despite a lean spell with bat and ball by helping them to a four-wicket win over struggling Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League on Thursday. Coming into the match at Wankhede Stadium, Jacks had taken just one wicket and …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Gujarat Titans have added Sri Lankan all-rounder Dasun Shanaka to their squad after New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips was ruled out of the remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL) season due to injury, the 2022 champions said. Phillips sustained a groin injury while fielding as a substitute in Gujarat’s seven-wicket victory over Sunrisers …
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By Jaspreet Kalra MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian rupee rose on Thursday to log its best weekly performance in a month as foreign portfolio inflows into Indian equities picked up and as the dollar remained on the defensive amid concerns about how tariffs would affect the world’s largest economy. The rupee closed at 85.3675 against …
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