Aseem Chhabra and Sukanya Verma -post their predictions for the major categories.
Australia, who are searching for their maiden T20 title, enter the tournament on the back of a horrific run, losing bilateral series to Bangladesh, West Indies, New Zealand, India and England.
Images from Thursday's proceedings at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Doha.
India will be looking to round off their T20 World Cup preparation with a marked improvement in their death bowling besides providing crucial game time to its untested players in the three-match series against South Africa.
Trade and market players have already started factoring in at least 10 million tonnes drop in production in rice in the kharif season as compared to last year due to delayed sowing.
The new season of The Crown is a bit of a dreary watch, observes Deepa Gehlot.
The four incumbents -- Ami Bera, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Ro Khanna and Pramila Jayapal -- are likely to be re-elected. All four are from the Democratic party.
Nivethan Radhakrishnan fired Australia to third place in the ICC Under 19 World Cup
South Africa have named three front-line spinners in their squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman but left out opening batsman Janneman Malan.
Nowadays, our politics is habituated to sitting on a high pedestal, hobnobbing with world leaders, generating impressions of a superpower and returning to earth for the purpose of winning elections. In contrast, the yatra never left earth, observes Shyam G Menon.
Images from the third and final One-Day International between India and South Africa in Delhi on Tuesday.
Umran Malik came up with one of the most bowling destructive spells in IPL history, but it was in vain as the Sunrisers Hyderabad went down to the Gujarat Titans by five wickets.
Quinton de Kock scored a superb century as South Africa completed a clean sweep of their three-match one-day international series against India with a tense four-run victory at Newlands on Sunday.
Delhi Capitals bowlers made up for the team's underwhelming display with the bat to hand Rajasthan Royals a 33-run defeat in their Indian Premier League match, in Abu Dhabi, on Saturday.
IPL 2022 saw many top players failing to justify their huge price tags with the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Kieron Pollard and Ravindra Jadeja failing to inspire their teams.
'The opposition would prefer me to panic and get out, just try to hang in there. I knew at some point I would get away. I trusted myself. Today, it came late in the innings.'
Chris Morris, the most expensive buy in IPL history, showed why all the franchises were so desperate for his services with a match-turning performance with the bat to lift Rajasthan Royals to victory over Delhi Capitals.
American duo Gabby Thomas and Noah Lyles took impressive 200 metres victories and two men posted monster, wind-assisted 90 metre javelin throws as the Diamond League season got underway on a lively night in front of a noisy crowd in Doha on Friday.
Skipper Yash Dhull gave a glimpse of his rare talent with a well-paced hundred which guided powerhouse India into its fourth consecutive Under-19 World Cup final.
Images from the third T20 International between India and South Africa, in Indore, on Tuesday.
Master batsman Steve Smith says Australia have "unfinished business" in England, with the achievement of retaining the Ashes last year tempered by defeat in the final Test that levelled the series 2-2.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle pick the 50 Most Valuable Players in IPL 2022 after Game 55.
Marilyn Monroe is always seen as a cautionary tale of how the pressures of celebrity could destroy a fragile mind, observes Deepa Gahlot.
WNBA concerned over Brittney Griner situation
SunRisers Hyderabad has the biggest purse while Kolkata Knight Riders has the slimmest purse.
From UB40 to Punjabi MC to Apache Indian, the musicians gave the spectators an evening to remember as athletes walked out for the closing.
A bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia asked the company to challenge the ruling before an appropriate high court. The apex court also stayed both the AAR order and the assessment till the company moves a high court. On May 9, the AAR said that income of Foster's Australia Ltd from the transfer of its right, title and interest in trademarks and Foster's brand intellectual property is taxable in India.
Ravichandran Ashwin is a legend in his own right but he still needs to think about improvement and bowl the conventional out-break deliveries more frequently, said Rajasthan Royals' Director of Cricket Kumar Sangakkara.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list Rediff.com's 50 Most Valuable Players ahead of Sunday's IPL 2022 final between the Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals.
Both the high-profile openers, Kohli and Faf du Plessis, are big match players and will be itching to make an impact after low returns in the previous game.
Gujarat Titans, the team to beat in its debut IPL season, will aim to build on a dream start against an inconsistent Sunrisers Hyderabad, in Navi Mumbai, on Monday.
Kings XI Punjab released explosive South Africa batsman David Miller after eight IPL seasons along with Englishman Sam Curran and Australian pacer Andrew Tye.
India will need another near perfect game to take the five-match series into the decider.
Aaron Finch's side will head to Sunday's decider in Hobart buoyed by Australia's first win in the short format since January and having delivered some badly needed cheer for the struggling cricket nation.
To prevent hoarding and check price rise, the Centre on Friday imposed stock limits on all pulses, except moong, held by wholesalers, retailers, importers and millers till October. The stock limits are imposed with immediate effect. An order in this regard has been issued by the Union food and consumer affairs ministry. Retail prices of pulses rose by more than 20 per cent during the January-June period of this year, according to the ministry's data.
It was the Delhi Capitals pace attack at their menacing best as they sent the Royals' batting line-up collapsing in the Powerplay to take control of the contest.
Umesh Yadav and Mohammad Siraj have been added to the squad as injury replacements but they do not figure in the World Cup-bound squad, as of now.
Captain Ravichandran Ashwin's superb all-round showing helped Kings XI Punjab outclass Rajasthan Royals by 12 runs, in the IPL match, in Mohali on Tuesda
KKR have so far failed to come together as a unit and slipped to sixth in the table after starting the tournament on a high against Sunrisers Hyderabad.
