The first match of IPL 2023 (IPL 2023) was played between the Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings. Chennai Super Kings got defeated by five wickets in this match. Gujarat won this match on the basis of excellent batting by Shubman Gill. Many Bollywood stars appeared in the opening ceremony. It included Rashmika Mandhana, Tamannaah Bhatia, and Arijit Singh. Due to the ceremony, a wonderful picture was captured by the camera. Actually, due to the performance of Arijit Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhon

NEW DELHI: Ever since the BCCI announced the introduction of the Impact Player in this season, the IPL 2023 has attracted widespread attention. One of the main topics of conversation during the first IPL 2023 game between Gujarat Titans and Chennai Super Kings was how the teams would use it and who would be the designated impact players. The 'Impact Player' has received praise from experts while clubs in the IPL are still learning how to succeed. The legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar th

Ruturaj Gaikwad of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) may have gone in vain for his 92-run knock against Gujarat Titans (GT) in the first match of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but opposing captain Hardik Pandya was all praise for him, saying that he will do wonders for Indian cricket. Gaikwad hit four fours and nine sixes in his 50-ball inning to take the Chennai Super Kings to 178 for seven. The Titans, however, achieved the target with four balls to spare. Pandya said in the press conference after

Bangkok: India has been placed in Group D for the AFC U-17 Asian Cup 2023, to be held in Thailand from June 15. The Asian Football Federation (AFC) announced this at the draw ceremony of the tournament held here on Thursday. India will go on to face Japan, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan in the group stage. Indian U-17 men's team head coach Bibiano Fernandes said, 'We are all excited with the group we have in the draw. We are going to face some good opponents, and the players are really looking

Top-ranked tennis player Carlos Alcaraz cruised into the last four of the Miami Open with a comfortable win over Taylor Fritz of America in the men's singles quarter-finals. The Spanish player defeated 10th-ranked Fritz 6-4, 6-2, in a match that lasted one hour and 18 minutes. This is their 18th win in 19 matches this year. Yannick Sinar will face Carlos Alcaraz in the semi-finals. In another men's quarterfinal, Daniil Medvedev overcame US qualifier Chris Eubanks 6-3, 7-5. Compatriot Kar

After six rounds in the third tournament of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series, BB sara Assubaeva of Kazakhstan and Xu Jiner of China are in a joint lead by scoring 4 points, though BB sara has come in first on the basis of a tiebreak. BB sara defeated Polina Shuvalova of Russia in the sixth round to register her fourth win in the tournament. Reports say that BB sara had earlier defeated India's Harika Dronavalli, R Vaishali, and Georgia's Nina Batsishvili, while she had to face defe

Two-time Olympic medalist and Indian badminton star PV Sindhu has reached the semi-finals of the Madrid Masters. In men's singles, Kidambi Srikanth reached the quarterfinals. Sindhu has been successful in reaching the last four rounds of a tournament for the first time this year. PV defeated Mia Blichfeld of Denmark 21-14, 21-17. Srikanth also lost by scores of 18-21 and 15-21 to top seed Kenta Nishimoto of Japan. This is his third defeat against this Japanese player. The second-ranked 27-ye

Sports Minister Anurag Thakur honored 16 coaches with the Best Coach Award on the occasion of Sports Authority of India (SAI) Foundation Day. Not only this, the Sports Minister has also honoured five Padma Shri coaches, including hockey player Rani Rampal and cricket coach Gurcharan Singh. A cash award of Rs 50,000 has also been given to 16 coaches, including Bhaskar Bhatt, the chief coach of the Indian team that won four gold medals in the World Women's Boxing Championship. A cultural eveni

April 1 means today is the birthday of Virendra Singh, famous as a dumb wrestler. This dumb wrestler has brought laurels to the country in many competitions.Virender Singh is the only Indian player to have won a gold medal in the Deaflympics (the Olympics of Deaf people). Along with the gold medal in the 2005 and 2013 Deaflympics, he has also won five medals in other international competitions. For your information, let us tell you that he is the only deaf and dumb wrestler who wrestles with nor

Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina cruised to a comfortable 6-3, 6-0 win over 25th-ranked Martina Trevisan in the quarterfinals of the Miami Open. Rybakina hit 10 consecutive aces during this period, and she remained unbeaten in 12 consecutive matches. This is the 20th win of the year for the 23-year-old representing Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, they have had to suffer defeat in four matches. She will face third-seeded Jessica Pegula in the semi-finals. Pegula beat American 27th-ranked Anastas

India's SD Prajwal Dev stormed into the men's singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Mysuru Open with a convincing win over compatriot S Abhinav Sanjeev here on Wednesday. Prajwal defeated Sanjeev in straight sets, 6-4, 7-5. Prajwal was supposed to take on experienced Indian player and 5th seed Ramkumar Ramanathan, but he had to withdraw from the tournament due to injury. Local player Prajwal will take on compatriot Vishnu Vardhan in the next round of the $25,000 tournament. The biggest up

Indian weightlifter Bharali Bedabrate has won a bronze medal in the men's 67kg category at the World Youth Championships. India's 15-year-old Indian lifter lifted a total of 276 kg and won a bronze medal on Monday night. Reports say that Bharali lifted 119 kg in snatch, while in clean and jerk he successfully executed a lift of 148 kg. Seryozha Barseghyan of Armenia won the gold with a total lift of 275 kg (128 kg + 147 kg), while Mohammed Al Marzouk of Saudi Arabia won the silver medal

Icon Stacy Keibler has been inducted into the Hall of Fame.Stacie, 43, made a splash in the 2000s.Her pairing with Stan Steiner is also very similar. Stacy, a mother of three, broke down in tears after receiving the award. She said, My dream has come true. Stassi is set to be honoured in the Hall of Fame ahead of WrestleMania 39 this weekend in Los Angeles. Keibler was in the kitchen when she got the news.She got emotional as soon as she got this news. She has said about this in an interview tha

Tennis star Bianca Andreescu collapsed on the court after injuring her ankle during the Miami Open.The 22-year-old player was seen moaning in pain.Seeing this, tears welled up in the eyes of his mother, who was sitting in the audience gallery. 2019 US Open winner Bianca was facing Ekaterina Alexandrova in the last-16 of the Miami Open on Monday when the horrific accident happened. Andreescu has been battling injury problems for the past 3 seasons.She lost the first set 7-6 against Alexandrova.Bu

Kylian Mbapp is captaining France to a comfortable start in qualifying for the European Championship though Serbia's Dusan Vlahovic was the standout striker. France's 1-0 win at Ireland was earned by defender Benjamin Pavard's rasping 50thminute shot that was a rare show of attacking force in Dublin. Like France, Serbia has begun its qualifying program with two wins thanks to Vlahovic striking twice late in a 2-0 win at Montenegro. The first in the 78th was a slick first-time shot to

IMPHAL: In front of about 30,000 spectators at the Khuman Lampak Stadium in this city on Tuesday, the Indian team displayed inspiring football against the higher-ranked Kyrgyzstan to snatch a 2-0 victory and win the Tri-national international tournament trophy with an all-win record and without conceding a goal. The event was held between March 22 and March 28 under the FIFA window, and Croatian coach Igor Stimac and his players made the most of it by winning both of their games. The Sunil Chhet