Sports Reporter  DANISH Malewar, struck six sixes and nine boundaries in his whirlwind knock of 75 runs off just 27 balls to help Vidarbha pulverise Mizoram by six wickets in their U-23 State A One-Day Trophy group league match in Vadodar..

  IT WAS a silver lining for Nagpur’s pride Ritika Thaker and her Hyderabad partner Navaneeth Bokka when they finished second best at Bangladesh International Challenge 2024 in Dhaka. They were up against the seasoned Singapore pair of He..

 MUMBAI  THE Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) has brushed aside Prithvi Shaw’s emotional outburst after his exclusion from the Vijay Hazare Trophy squad, asserting that the temperamental batter has flouted disciplinary norms regularly and ..

 SYDNEY,   FORMER captain Michael Clarke feels the Australian selectors have erred by dropping Nathan McSweeney mid-series against India, saying the snub can potentially “end his career”. “Nathan McSweeney has been dropped..

  By R Kaushik MELBOURNE  THE value of an all-rounder is measured by the difference between his batting and bowling averages. The higher the difference, the more accomplished the said individual is considered. Garry Sobers, regarded as the ..

AN ADVENTURE sea swimming expedition was organised by the National Institute of Swimming. A team of Additional Police Director General Krishna Prakash, international sea swimmer Jayant Duble, Bhargav Mokadam, and Shravani Garje took part in the expedition that achieved a new milestone by swimming 22 kilometres from Raj Bhavan to Juhu Beach, Mumbai in 5 hours and 57 minutes. The expedition began on Sunday at 7:48 am with Duble diving into the Arabian Sea near Raj Bhavan. After enduring challenging ..

Ansar Club, Kamptee jumped to third spot in points table and brightened their chances of making it to the Super Four of the ongoing JSW-NDFA Elite Division League Championship being played at Dr Ambedkar Football Stadium in Suyog Nagar. In their penultimate round match, Ansar blanked last year’s runners-up Rahul Club by three goals to nil. It was a must-win game for Ansar Club and the players responded brilliantly. Mohammad Sohail Ansari scored a goal each in either side of half as Ansar dominated ..

RAVICHANDRAN Ashwin, who announced his retirement from international cricket on Wednesday, apart from been world’s best spinner, was also a benevolent person when it came to helping young cricketers. Apart from giving valuable tips to the youngsters, Ashwin makes it a point to see the budding cricketers of the country are not short of anything. Among hundreds of spinners, Vidarbha spinner Harsh Dubey is one of the ‘students’ of Ashwin who got the former’s help in getting sports manufacturing company ..

BHARATH Naidu smashed an unbeaten double hundred while Rohit Dattatraya took six wickets as Eleven Star thumped Lipton in Guzder League A Division One-Day Tournament on Tuesday. Electing to bat, Eleven Star Scored 405 runs. Naidu scored an unbeaten 202 and was well supported by Akash Kumar (78) and Malhar Dosi (59). Bharath and Malhar added 129 runs while Bharath and Akash put on 137 runs. With leg-spinner Rohit Dattatraya wreaking havoc with 6 wickets in his 5.2 overs conceding just 8 runs, Eleven ..

AJINKYA Vaidhya of Union Bank of India clinched the 57th inter-bank chess title conducted by Bankers’ Sports Council in the memory of Late Suresh Khandekar at Nagpur District Chess Association Hall, DNC Complex. Vaidhya garnered four points to emerge clear winner. Vishwajeet Bisht of Bank of Maharashtra (3) and Niket Patil (3) of Punjab National Bank finished second and third respectively...

FOUR city cagers will be representing Maharashtra in the 49th Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship. The U-13 national championship got under way at Hyderabad, Telengana. In the 12-member girls’ section, Nagpur’s Pankhudi Bade and Anagha Dharme have been selected to represent the State. In the boys section, Nagpur’s Satvat Gaidhane and Shlok Deshpande have been picked to represent Maharashtra in the eight-day nationals. All the four city players were selected after the trials organised by Maharashtra ..

  SHRAWANI Mozarkar,   Class 8 student from Bhavan’s Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir, Civil Lines, did her school and State proud by clinching a medal at the recently held SGFI National Fencing Championship in Jammu. Shrawani rep..

  TARA Pharma   Avengers emerged champions of the Unani Premier League Season 6 which was organised by All India Unani Tibbi Congress branch at St Mary’s ground. The league was held for medical fraternity. Gillurkar Knight Rider..

   Sports Reporter  Third seed Dhruv Mor stunned top seed Heramba Pohane in three sets to clinch the boys singles title as it was curtains on the MSLTA-NDHTA All India Ranking Championship Series (CS7) Tennis tournament at Ram  &n..

Top seed pair of Prisha Patil and Vritika Shah breezed past Vaanya Agarwal and Surmayee Sathe 6-1, 6-1 to clinch the girls doubles title in the ongoing AITA Under-14 Tennis Tournament organised by Nagpur District Hardcourt Tennis Association at its Ram Nagar courts on Thursday...

OM DHOTRE and Aarav Chaurasia wreaked havoc taking five wickets each in the first innings as they escorted Vidarbha closer to an innings victory over J&K in their U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy Group League match at CP Ground, Mulapadu, Andhra on Thursday. At the close of play on Day 2 of the three-day match, J&K were 107-5 in their second innings after following on. Vidarbha had earlier shot out J&K for just 56 runs in their first innings and enforced the follow-on. Om Dhotre (5-11) and Aarav Chaurasia ..

Manganese Ore India Limited (MOIL) played out exceptionally well to hold former multiple times champions Young Muslim Football Club (YMFC) to a goalless draw in the ongoing JSW-NDFA Elite Division League at Dr Ambedkar Stadium in Suyog Nagar on Thursday. In the senior division, Green Flag blanked ONFC by two goals to nil. Kafeel Ahmed (10th) and Nayeem (21st) were the scorers...

CONCEDING 24 runs and dropping a sitter in the 17th over proved costly for Vidarbha as they went down to Mumbai by six wickets in a high-scoring Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 quarter-finals at Alur on Wednesday. Vidarbha batters once again rose to the occasion scoring 221 runs from 20 overs after being asked to bat first. Atharva Taide (66; 41b, 10x4, 1x6), Karun Nair 26; 15b, 3x4, 1x6), Apoorv Wankhade (51; (33b, 2x4, 3x6), Shubham Dubey (43*; 19b, 3x3, 3x), captain Jitesh Sharma (11; 6b, 2x4) and Mandar ..

Young Randitya Singh batted for over four hours to make a brillant 184 as Vidarbha amassed 375-5 by close of play on the opening day of their three-day U-16 Vijay Merchant Trophy’s Group D match against Jammu and Kashmir in Mulapadu Stadium in Andhra Pradesh. Randitya came to the crease at the fall of opener Kanishk Jamuar’s wicket in the 7th over. He added 140 runs for the second wicket with Kush Sharma (72) and 133 runs for the third wicket with captain Krish Sonkusre (41) to put Vidarbha in a commanding ..

Nobel Sports Academy (NSA) will be taking part in the Maharashtra State Youth Under-13 League, a prestigious qualifying round for the I-League Football Tournament organised by AIFF. The tournament will be organised by Western India Football Association (WIFA) at Singhgad University, Lonavala from December 14. The tournament will be held in a three-phase format spanning three months, with each age group playing one week per month...

VIDARBHA posted a thumping 242-run victory over Saurashtra in their Group D league match of the Senior Women’s One-Day Trophy in New Delhi on Tuesday. Vidarbha openers Latika Inamdar and Shivani Dharne added 218 runs off 212 balls for the opening wicket after their captain had won the toss and elected to bat at the Air Force Complex ground, Palam II. Latika made 117 off 116 balls with 18 boundaries and Shivani remained unbeaten on 126 off 131 deliveries with 17 hits to the fence. She got good support ..

UNSEEDED Arnav Pande stunned fifth seed Shon Ugale to join other seeded players in the quarter-finals of the ongoing MSLTA-NDHTA All India Ranking Championship Series Under 14 Tennis Tournament at Ram Nagar courts on Tuesday. In the Round of 16 battle, Pande shocked Ugale in straight sets (6-2, 6-0) to book quarters berth. The other boys singles matches went as per script. In girls singles, second seed Ritika Deshpande, fourth seed Naisha Thakkar and seed fifth seed Kaisar Choudhary crashed out of ..

TOP seed Heramba Pohane and fifth seed Shon Ugale started their campaign on a winning note on the opening day of the MSLTA-NDHTA All India Ranking CS7 Tennis Tournament which started on the clay surface of NDHTA courts in Ram Nagar, on Monday. The tournament is being organised by Nagpur District Hardcourt Tennis Association. Top seed Pohane survived a scare from Aarav Shah in a three-setter as he went on to win his match 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. In another opening round battle, Ugale defeated city-mate Nihit ..

Shreyas Bahadure and Munira Wardhawala brought laurel to the city and state by winning medals at the Sivus India Open Swimming Nationals held at Chennai recently. The tournament was conducted for the person with an Intellectual Impairment, Down Syndrome and Autism. Representing Maharashtra in the above 18 Intellectual Impairment-2 category, both Shreyas and Munira won a gold and a silver each. In the boys category, Bahadure won gold in 100m breaststroke with the timing of 2:25.20 secs and silver in ..

It was a no-contest right from the day the election for the posts of Vidarbha Cricket Association’s selectors was announced. And the results surprised none. Yogesh Ghare, who jumped into the fray for the post of one of the three selectors fell flat losing by a whopping margin on Sunday. Sudhir Wankhede (610), Jayesh Dongaonkar (607) and P Vivek (606) sailed smoothly garnering votes in bulk against Ghare who managed just 10. Interestingly, the member who seconded Ghare’s candidature, did not even come ..