On a pitch that was difficult to score big runs, Punjab scored a par total of 147 for 8. Rajasthan scripted a late win thanks to Shimron Hetmyer's 10-ball 27.

Blessed with a glut of superb all-rounders in B Sai Sudarshan, Abhinav Manohar and Vijay Shankar, as well as bowlers like Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan who can smoke the opposition bowling when the situation demands, Gujarat look set to put on another big show for their fans this season.

Russian figure skater Valieva banned for doping, ROC loses Olympic gold

Indian contingent cross 50-medal mark at Special Olympics World Summer Games

India's Tara Prasad takes part in the Women's Free Skate during the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships at Broadmoor World Arena, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

Shafali Verma is by far the most decorated of the lot having already played in three World Cup finals at senior level.

Speed skating - Swings wins mass start, brings first Belgian Winter gold in 74 years.

Bach said the International Olympic Committee had limited means of action.

Russian teenage figure skater Kamila Valieva tumbled to fourth place in the women's singles event on Thursday, yielding to the pressure of a doping controversy that has rocked the Beijing Games.

The situation around Valieva and the Russian team had been 'incredibly distracting' for other skaters.

Richardson was banned last year for a month for testing positive for cannabis

Denis Oswald, the International Olympic Committee's permanent chair of the disciplinary commission, said Valieva claimed there was a mix-up at a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing into whether she should be allowed to continue competing.

Valieva dominates the ice despite doping scandal

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No more Games for Americans Hubbell and Donohue

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be allowed to compete in the women's singles in figure skating at the Beijing Olympics after a decision by sport's top court on Monday.

Kamila Valieva failed a drug test for a banned substance before the Games.

Coach Eteri Tutberidze said she was certain Valieva was 'clean and innocent'

Kamila Valieva is one of the youngest Olympic athletes to test positive for a banned substance

Valieva was virtually unknown a few months ago but burst onto the international figure skating scene this season

15-year-old Russian skater Kamila Valieva tested positive for the banned heart medication trimetazidine in a sample collected on Christmas Day

WADA on Friday was thrust into the spotlight at the Beijing Olympics Kamila Valieva tested positive

Valieva failed the test collected at the Russian national championships on Dec. 25

It was revealed that Valieva had earlier failed a drug test, and Olympic officials are now fighting Russia's decision to let her compete.

All the top action from Day 6 of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on Thursday.

Norway's Birk Ruud claimed the first men's freeski Big Air Olympic gold

Peng's presence during the Games had been a matter of speculation since the IOC said it planned to meet with her in Beijing.

Chen scores world record for massive lead over shocked Hanyu

Russians win team Figure skating gold, Valieva first woman to land Games quads

Figure skater Ivan Shmuratko dodged questions about the mood in Ukraine, saying he was at the Olympics to do his best.

Chahal's figures of 3 for 29 spun the game in RCB's favour and was a reminder to the selectors about what India will be missing come the T20 World Cup later this month.

What is foreign policy worth if it stands disconnected from domestic realities? Make no mistake, the horrifying visuals of the human suffering in metropolitan India is only the tip of the iceberg. The vast swathes of the hinterland are heaving with untold sorrows, notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.

These videos are like butterflies in a case, says Sreehari Nair. They have neither aged badly nor grown over-familiar.

Utah Jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus shortly before the Jazz were due to play the Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena. The game was then scrapped.

As the curtains fall on another year, Rediff.com brings you all the action from the sports field that defined 2019.

They take our fitness goals out of the constraints of time and space and find us everywhere we go, says Veer Arjun Singh.

Olympic organisers say they will not reveal the final torchbearer's identity until the torch arrives in the stadium on live television, watched by billions of spectators.

Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this eye-catching photo feature.

Lewis Hamilton looked forward to more success with Mercedes after collecting his fifth Formula One world champion's trophy at the governing FIA's gala awards on Friday.

It has taken Das and her twin sister 32 years to visit India. The two sisters were just eight months old when they were adopted by a Dutch couple who raised them "like any proud parent would".