sportstar.thehindu.comadded August 2026
Sportstar Featuresby Neeladri Bhattacharjee7d ago
The upcoming season of the Indian Super League (ISL) finally has a broadcast partner, with Sony Pictures Networks India signing a deal for the rights on Thursday.
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar7d ago
The ICC has introduced a set of changes to its Playing Conditions across international cricket, with new rules aimed at curbing time-wasting, clarifying fielding laws and standardising equipment.
Sportstar Featuresby S Prasanna Venkatesan7d ago
The finest batters possess a quality that cannot quite be reduced to technique. Technique may explain the straightness of the drive, the stillness of the head and the balance at the moment of...
Sportstar Featuresby Rakesh Rao7d ago
As the old adage goes, reaching the top is far easier than staying there—a harsh truth the Indian chess contingent learned firsthand at the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Samarkand.
Sportstar Featuresby Jayantho Sengupta7d ago
Thirteen-year-old S. Ishaan completed a double crossing of the Palk Strait on Wednesday, setting a record as the youngest S14 para swimmer to achieve the feat.
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar7d ago
Barcelona continued its emphatic start to its Women’s Champions League title defence by brushing aside Roma 6-0 in the Italian capital on Wednesday, while a bizarre penalty incident caused Arsenal...
Sportstar Featuresby PTI7d ago
The ad-hoc committee overseeing table tennis administration in India has stripped all national ranking tournaments of their official ranking points ahead of the Panchkula edition beginning on...
Sportstar Featuresby Neeladri Bhattacharjee7d ago
India vs Brazil — a team ranked 138th in the world against the five-time world champion — sounded like a joke to many when it was first proposed. India’s forward Ryan Williams was one of them.
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar7d ago
Alex Carey’s half-century and Xavier Bartlett’s two-wicket haul helped Australia win the third ODI against South Africa by 45 runs via DLS method and avoid a 3-0 whitewash.
Sportstar Featuresby Amitabha Das Sharma8d ago
When Vikash Dhorasoo played for the French national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, there were very few people who believed that an Indian could excel on football’s world stage.
Sportstar Featuresby Uthra Ganesan8d ago
Having scored 49 goals so far and annihilating all opposition so far in the competition, the Indian men’s hockey team will be up against its first big challenge when it takes on Pakistan in the...
Sportstar Featuresby Abhishek Saini8d ago
Neither Devdutt Padikkal (41, 46b, 4x4) nor B. Sai Sudharsan could bail India-A out of a batting slump, and the host had its back to the wall against Australia-A after the second day of the second...
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar8d ago
Formula One is putting all preparations into an unusual event this weekend: a race carrying Bahrain’s name but taking place nearly 3,750 miles, or 6,000 kilometres, away at Malaysia’s Sepang...
Sportstar Featuresby Shayan Acharya8d ago
For Ayaan Akram, being picked for India Under-19 was already a significant milestone. His chance to make his Youth Test debut, however, came sooner than expected.
Sportstar Featuresby Vivek Krishnan8d ago
Wherever one’s gaze turns in Srinagar, there are attractions aplenty. Not for nothing does the moniker of ‘Paradise on Earth’ adorn Kashmir.
Sportstar Featuresby PTI8d ago
Incessant rains have deprived India of crucial training and competition time in Japan, but constant meetings and team activities have helped the players remain “switched on”, said opener Sanju...
Sportstar Featuresby Aditya Padinjat8d ago
A lot can change in three years’ time. When the India women’s rugby sevens team takes the field for its opening match of the Asian Games 2026, it will do so in a vastly different landscape to the...
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar8d ago
Nikhil Prabhu tries to get the ball high for Punjab, with Lhungdim trying to get to the ball, However, the ball finally falls to Phurba Lachenpa, who controls the ball comfortably.
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar8d ago
India completed a hat-trick of compound gold medals after it clinched the yellow metal with a 238-237 win over China in the men’s team final at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, on...
Sportstar Featuresby Team Sportstar8d ago
Sophie Molineux will miss Australia women’s ODI series against Bangladesh due to a hip injury and instead, Tahlia McGrath will lead the side in the three-match series starting October 9 in...
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