The Ballon d’Or nominees list for 2025 was announced on Thursday, with Ousmane Dembele, Kylian Mbappe, and Mohamed Salah included. Forward Ousmane Dembele is the front-runner to win his first Ballon d’Or after registering 36 goals and 13 assists across competitions for both club and country. ALSO READ: Ballon d’Or 2025 – Alessia Russo, Aitana…
Olympic 5,000-metres champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen is set to miss this month’s Diamond League meetings in Poland and Belgium as he recovers from injury, his spokesperson said on Wednesday. The 24-year-old Norwegian had been scheduled to run the 1,500 metres in Brussels on August 22 and was also listed for the Silesia meeting in Poland on…
Leg-spinner Prema Rawat’s three-wicket haul went in vain as Australia A, riding on a half-century from middle-order batter Anika Learoyd, defeated India A by 13 runs in the first women’s T20 match in Mackay on Thursday. The India A team is in Australia for a multi-format series, which includes three T20s, an equal number of…
Zimbabwe veteran Brendan Taylor on Thursday said he faced multiple days of trauma as he struggled to come to terms with an “incomprehensible demoralisation of life” after being banned by the ICC for breaching their anti-corruption code. Taylor, 39, who was banned in January 2022 for failing to report a 2019 spot-fixing approach by an…
Villarreal have signed Ghana international Thomas Partey on a free transfer following the expiry of his contract with Arsenal, the La Liga club said on Thursday. The 32-year-old defensive midfielder has agreed a season-long deal and will join the Villarreal squad in training on Friday. Partey was charged last month with raping two women while…
Acting on petitions from four State units, including Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, on Boxing Federation of India (BFI) elections, scheduled on August 21, the Delhi High Court on Thursday posted the matter for hearing along with some previously filed petitions on August 18. These State units challenged the validity of the BFI’s…
New Zealand did not take long to gain the upper hand over Zimbabwe on the first day of the second test, skittling out their hosts for 125 before reaching 174-1 in reply in Bulawayo on Thursday. Opener Devon Conway (79) and nightwatchman Jacob Duffy (8) were unbeaten at stumps as New Zealand led by 49…
Top seed Arjun Erigaisi cruised to an easy win against the USA’s Awonder Liang in the opening round of the Chennai Grand Masters 2025 here on Thursday. Playing with white pieces, World No. 6 Erigaisi established an early advantage before chipping away at his opponent’s defence consistently. Erigaisi’s high-accuracy chess eventually got to Liang as…
The fourth edition of the Maharaja Trophy KSCA T20 was on Thursday shifted to Mysuru from Bengaluru and will be held as a closed-door event. The tournament was scheduled to be played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium from August 11 to 28, but the failure to obtain a clearance certificate from the city police forced…
Rishabh Pant and Chris Woakes, emerging from their respective dressing rooms to bat despite suffering a toe fracture and a shoulder dislocation, respectively, during the recently concluded India vs England Test series, have reignited the debate over whether teams should be allowed to substitute injured players during a match. While India head coach Gautam Gambhir backed…