A tradition-busting plan to play domestic league games for Barcelona in the United States and AC Milan in Australia failed to make key progress on Thursday. The UEFA executive committee said it needed more time to weigh proposals by the Spanish and Italian leagues and wanted more talks with fans. Spain’s La Liga wants to…
It was a day dominated by the top seeds as G Sathiyan and Diya Chitale stamped their authority to win the men’s and women’s singles titles at the UTT National Ranking Table Tennis Championships on Thursday. Their victories not only reinforced their stature in the domestic circuit but also underlined the gap in class and…
Welcome to Sportstar’s live coverage of the Bangladesh vs Hong Kong Asia Cup 2025 match being played at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. LINE-UPS Bangladesh: Tanzid Hasan, Parvez Hossain Emon, Litton Das (captain/wk), Towhid Hridoy, Shamim Hossain, Jaker Ali, Mahedi Hasan, Tanzim Hasan, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman Hong Kong: Zeeshan Ali…
VOLLEYBALL Prime Volleyball League gets ready for fourth season with 10 teams Getting ready for the fourth edition of the Prime Volleyball League (PVL) to be staged in Gachibowli Indoor Stadium in Hyderabad from October 2, with the enhanced field of 10 teams following the addition of Goa Guardians, the organisers were excited about growing…
Kapil Dev, India’s 1983 World Cup-winning captain, will headline a Fireside Chat titled “Leadership & Life Beyond the Pitch” at PlayCom 2025: Business of Sports Summit, organised by The Hindu Group’s Sportstar in partnership with KPMG India at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, on September 12 and 13. Since retiring from cricket in 1994, Kapil has…
It was an impressive finish to the Vizag leg for the home side Telugu Titans, which secured a 45-37 win over U Mumba at the Vishwanadh Sports Club on Wednesday night. Bharat Hooda led the charge with 13 points, while Chetan Sahu (6 points) and skipper Vijay Malik (5 points) played strong supporting roles, helping…
Indian all-rounder Washington Sundar has joined Hampshire for the final two rounds of the County Championship, the team announced on Thursday. Hampshire will face Somerset at the Cooper Associates County Ground, Taunton, from 15-18 September, following which it will take on reigning champion Surrey at Utilita Bowl from 24-27 September. Sundar was part of India’s…
Venezuela sacked coach Fernando Batista on Wednesday night, a day after its World Cup qualification dream died and after an intervention by the country’s president. News of Argentine Batista’s sacking, alongside his entire backroom staff, came after President Nicolas Maduro had called for a “restructuring of the technical staff”. That was 24 hours after Venezuela,…
India’s most decorated archer, Deepika Kumari, once again failed to rise above her familiar inconsistency, crashing out in the round of 32 at the World Championships here on Thursday, while 15-year-old Gatha Khadake shone bright to become the lone recurve archer from the country in the pre-quarterfinals. Despite being seeded into the third round after…
East Bengal was drawn in Group B in the AFC Women’s Champions League draw held on Thursday. Placed among the Pot 3 teams, East Bengal will be joined by China’s Wuhan Jiangda WFC, Iran’s Bam Khatoon FC and Uzbekistan’s PFC Nasaf as the Indian club prepares to play in the continental tournament for the first…