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Hurray!!!! Its proud moment for all of us in India! #Mithali Dorai Raj; the current Indian Women Cricket ODI & Test captain, became the leading run scorer in Women ODI Cricket. She is also the first women individual to surpass the 6000 runs landmark in Women’s ODI History! The 34 year old made her debut against Ireland and had a dream run in 2015 when she was honored with Padma Shri Award & also became the first women to win the Wisden India Cricketer of the year. Not to mention but she also holds Arjun Award. At the age of 19 years she burst to the international area as one of the most accomplished batsman & caught the eye, imagination of millions of cricket lovers when she hit solid 214 against England in the second and final Test; the score still stand as second highest in the ICC Women Test Cricket.   Let’s have a look on the all time ICC ODI Women Cricket’s leading top 10 run scorer along with Mithali Raj’s overall batting record in various formats...

Unlike a tracer bullet, after much drama on a Tuesday evening, Ravi Shastri was appointed as team India’s head coach. Known as the man who can wear many hats in the world of cricket- as a commentator, or an administrator or a manager or even a coach, Shastri has performed them with affable ease. But on Tuesday night Shastri added one more feather to his cap as he was announced as the new head coach for the men in blue. Ever since Shastri had his first stint with team India (team manager) in 2007 he has been known as someone who has always backed his boys and asked them to go out and express themselves. Later that year, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) appointed him the head of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru. Again in 2014,  Shastri was appointed team director after India had a disastrous foreign tour to England. But from being a stop-gap ‘cricket manager’ Shastri’s journey to lead the Indian team from the dressing room has been an...

CHENNAI: The inauguration of the CEAT Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) on Monday here was a star-studded occasion. The tournament, which will start in Chennai on Thursday, will see players like world No. 8 Hong Kong star Wong Chun Ting, No 14 Marcos Freitas -taking part. Both were present on Monday , along with ace Indian paddlers A Sharath Kamal and Soumyajit Ghosh The three-week long league will feature six franchises -Dabang Smashers TTC, RP-SG Mavericks, DHFL Maharashtra United, Falcons TTC, OilmaxStag Yoddhas and Shaze Challengers. The first two legs will be held in Chennai (July 13-20) and Delhi (21-25) before it shifts base to Mumbai (26-30) for the finale. "The UTT is a great initiative to grab Indian audience's attention. I wish this happened 15 years ago, and I wouldn't have gone to Europe to play competitive TT. It's a great opportunity for the youngsters to prove their worth at this level," Sharath Kamal, who represents RP-SG Mavericks, sa...

It wasn’t that Gilles Muller hadn’t defeated Rafael Nadal before. But it was the wild contrast in the trajectories the two careers traced since that second-round meeting at Wimbledon 2005 that made Monday’s upset more memorable. While Nadal added 14 Grand Slam titles to his first French Open triumph that summer, Muller won his first two ATP titles this year — his 16th year on Tour. Muller, 34, continued his breakthrough season with a 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 win over Nadal. “Definitely the biggest win… especially at that stage of a Grand Slam, playing one of the guys who is dominating tennis this year again,” said the man from Luxembourg — a country so small you could walk from its capital to Belgium in less than the four hours and 47 minutes it took Muller to overcome the world No. 2. For the longest of times, Muller seemed destined to retire as one of the many talented yet forgettable journeymen who fill up draws, pick up the prize money and move on to the next tournament...

New Delhi:  Sanjay Gupta, managing director of leading broadcaster Star India Pvt. Ltd is confident that the business of sport is only going to get “bigger and better” in the coming years. He attributes the success of sporting tournaments like Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) and the Indian Super League (ISL) to a change in the mindsets of audiences. On the sidelines of a sports summit organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, Gupta spoke of the rise in sports sponsorship, kabaddi’s role in India’s journey to becoming a multi-sport viewing nation and the likelihood of Star India’s sports business breaking even in the current financial year. Edited Excerpts: In 2013, Star India started to build a national sports network with an investment of $1 billion. What’s changed in the last four years? Two big changes have happened. One at a society level, the number of young kids who are both playing and following sports has grown manifold. It is no longer only about cricket. Toda...

LONDON:  Roger Federer  reached his 50th  Grand Slam  quarter-final and 15th at  Wimbledon  on Monday with a 6-4, 6-2, 6-4 win over  Grigor Dimitrov . Seven-time Wimbledon champion Federer will now face  Milos Raonic , the 2016 runner-up, after the sixth-seeded Canadian clinched a 4-6, 7-5, 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 win over  Alexander Zverev  of Germany, the 10th seed. Raonic defeated Federer in the semi-finals at Wimbledon in 2016. Federer, 35, is also the second oldest man to make the quarter-finals at Wimbledon behind  Ken Rosewall  who was 39 when he reached the last-eight in 1971."I'm thrilled to be back in the quarters again," said Federer who took his record over Dimitrov to 6-0. "It's very special to be in a 15th quarter-final here." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tennis/wimbledon-2017/federer-reaches-50th-grand-slam-quarter-final/articleshow/59534541.cms