ENG vs WI Pitch Report: England recorded a dominant win by an innings and 114 runs in the opening match at Lord's and took a 1-0 lead in the three-match Test series against West Indies. Mark Wood has replaced retired James Anderson in the playing eleven for the second match in Nottingham.
Indian contingent features only three badminton players Sumit Nagal, Rohan Bopanna and Sriram Balaji for the upcoming Paris Olympics 2024 starting on July 17. India won their first and last medal in the Olympics badminton discipline in 1996 and looks to end the drought in the upcoming 33rd Games.
Lamine Yamal, 17, claimed the Young Player of the Tournament award after Spain's record-breaking triumph in the Euro 2024 last week. Yamal will be missing Barcelona's pre-season tour to the USA and has been given a new jersey number previously donned by Lionel Messi in 2005-08.
Shubman Gill led Indian cricket team to a 4-1 T20I series win against Zimbabwe and emerged as one of the candidates to become India's next T20 captain. Gill was not part of the India squad that triumphed in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 but is expected to get selected for the Sri Lanka series.
The former Sri Lanka cricketer Dhammika Niroshana captained the U19 team for a brief period in 2002 and played 12 First Class matches for Galle Cricket Club. Niroshana scored 269 runs and took 19 wickets in 12 FC matches before quitting cricket at the age of 20.
The ninth edition of the Women's Asia Cup is set to be played from July 19 in Sri Lanka. India have won the tournament a record seven times with Bangladesh being the only other winners of the Asia Cup in history. Pakistan and Sri Lanka are yet to win the tournament even once.
India's ace shuttler PV Sindhu defeated China's He Bingjiao to clinch the bronze medal at the Summer Tokyo Olympics 2020 and became the only third Indian athlete to win multiple individual medals at the Olympic Games.
India's first ever participation at the Olympics is widely known to be 1900 when Norman Pritchard, Kolkata born athlete, became the first ever from the country to participate in the Games. However, it was not an official entry from India. Then when did India send its official contingent to Olympics?
Shubman Gill was the captain of Team India during their recent five-match T20I tour to Zimbabwe. Gill finished the series as the leading run-getter with 170 runs in five matches.
In the latest ICC T20I rankings for bowlers, there is no Indian in top 10 while England spinner Adil Rashid continues to be on top. Not many T20Is are being played since the World Cup but India and Zimbabwe were in action from July 6 to 14 playing five matches in the format.
Paris Olympics are scheduled to get underway on July 26 and for the first time, two K9 teams from Central Reserve Police Force, part of India's elite dog squad, will provide security at various venues of the Games. The K9 teams, Vast and Denby, left for Paris on July 10.
Paris Olympics is all set to get underway from July 26 and the Sports ministry has approved the final list of Indian contingent for the Games. A total of 117 athletes and 140 support staff members will be travelling with shot putter Abha Khatua missing out after qualifying.
India TV Sports Wrap on July 17: From all the tennis action to the cricketing circuit, here are all the top 10 trending sports news stories and the latest happenings from the world of sports on July 17.
Hardik Pandya was the designated vice-captain of Team India and the deputy to Rohit Sharma during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. He has more leadership experience at the international level compared to Suryakumar Yadav.
James Anderson retired from international cricket after playing against West Indies in the first Test of the home summer at Lord's. He dismissed Joshua Da Silva to pick his final international wicket.
India have won seven out of eight editions of the Women's Asia Cup. Bangladesh are the only team apart from India to clinch the prestigious title. The Bangladesh team achieved the feat during the 2018 edition.
New Zealand's home summer will get underway with a three-match Test series against England, starting November 28 at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch.
Suryakumar Yadav has led India in eight T20Is after the ODI World Cup 2023 - in five games against Australia and in three against South Africa. Hardik Pandya was seen as a natural successor for Rohit Sharma in T20Is but now Surya is reportedly set to become the captain for the Sri Lanka T20Is.
LPL 2024: Dambulla Sixers defeated Colombo Strikers in the last group game of Lanka Premier League 2024 but have failed to qualify for the playoffs. They have finished on the bottom of the five-team points table. All the four teams for the playoffs have now been confirmed.
18 athletes have carried the Indian national flag at the Olympic Games, including Manpreet Singh and Mary Kom, the flag-bearers of the Tokyo Olympics. PV Sindhu and Sharath Kamal will be having the Indian tricolour for the Paris Games.
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