New Delhi, Aug 20 (IANS/IndiaSpend) Former India cricketer Virender Sehwag’s tweet after wrestler Sakshi Malik became the first Indian to win a medal at the Rio Olympics is particularly relevant because Malik’s home district of Rohtak in Haryana is one of 262 Indian districts and cities listed as “gender critical” areas where the sex ratio […]
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Cricketers hail PV Sindhu as she enters Olympic badminton final
Cricketers celebrated PV Sindhu’s victory against Japanese shuttler Nozomi Okuhara in the semifinal of badminton. Now the 22-year-old badminton star ensured silver medal, but her aggressive brand of play already stimulated many to dream of a gold medal. Sindhu will now play the final against World No. 1 Carolina Marin of Spain. Her victory a […]
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Revealed: Why Shoaib Akhtar feared Rahul Dravid?
Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is celebrating his 41st birthday today. We wish a Happy Birthday to Shoaib Akhtar, the Rawalpindi Express, the fastest bowler of the world. A fierce bowler in his playing days has now emerged a funny man in his post-retirement life. He refers himself as the ‘right-arm fast blur’. Akhtar […]
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Indian cricketers who can soon retire from the game
The last few years have witnessed stalwarts like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan taking retirement from all the forms of the game. With them almost all the players of India’s golden generation in cricket have bid adieu to cricket. While these players took retirement following a satisfactory career in the game, there are […]
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Twitter reacts to Day 2 of the third Test
After wrapping up team India’s innings in the second session of the day, the West Indies batsmen gave a solid start to the team as unlike we have seen in past few matches, their batsmen played with grit, patience and courage. As a result, their batsmen were able to stand against Indian bowlers and ended […]
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Milestones in ODIs that were first achieved by Sachin Tendulkar
Arguably the finest cricketer of all time, Sachin Tendulkar holds almost every batting record. In an illustrious career spanning over two decades, the batting maestro scored over an astonishing 18 thousand runs in One-Day Internationals(ODI) with 49 centuries and 96 fifties. The most prolific run scorer of all time made his debut way in 1989 […]
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Indian cricketers send their wishes to Olympic contingent
We are just a few hours away from the start of the main events of Olympics and all the people of our country are wishing a good Luck to the Indian players. Our cricketers too poured wishes for the Indian contingent on Twitter to wish them a good luck. Let’s have a look at how […]
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Indian cricketers and their affection for Kishore Kumar
Kishore Kumar has mesmerised not just several generations of music lovers but also cricketers of the past and present day who are smitten by the legendary singer, who would have celebrated his 87th birthday, if he were alive, on Thursday. Legendary singer Kishore Kumar has mesmerized several generations of music lovers and also helped Indian […]
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Sourav Ganguly picks up his All Time Test XI
Former Indian captain Ganguly picked his All-Time Playing XI which is dominated by Australians. There are only two Indians in his team. In Ganguly’s team, neither Virender Sehwag; nor Anil Kumble or Zaheer Khan are in the XI. The Prince of Kolkata picked Alastair Cook and Matthew Hayden as his openers, while Rahul Dravid at No. 3 […]
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Statistical Review: West Indies vs India – Day 5 of the second Test
With the fighting efforts from the middle-order and lower-middle order batsmen on day 5, West Indies survived a Test defeat against India in the second Test at Sabina Park (Kingston, Jamaica). West Indies began the day from their overnight score 48/4 and ended the day with the score 388/6. At the end of the day, […]