BCCI’s Committee of Administrators (CoA) decided to retain the services of Sanjay Bangar, Assistant Coach and Fielding Coach R. Sridhar while appointing Bharat Arun as the Bowling Coach of the Indian Men’s cricket team. The appointments were made by CoA Chairman Vinod Rai, who acted on the recommendations of BCCI Acting President C.K. Khanna, Acting…
Scorers’ examination
July 19, 2017KSCA, Bengaluru will be conducting cricket scorers’ examination in the month of August. Last date for registration is July 31. Candidates willing to appear for examination must be above 18 years and below 45 years. A two-day clinic will be conducted for the aspirants prior to the examination. Interested must pay Rs. 250 towards the…
India tour of Sri Lanka 2017: Dhawan replaces injured Murali Vijay
July 18, 2017The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has named Shikhar Dhawan as replacement for injured Murali Vijay for the upcoming Test series in Sri Lanka starting July 26. The Indian team led by Virat Kohli will take part in a full-fledged tour consisting of three Tests, five ODIs and a one-off T20I on…
ICC Women’s World Cup 2017: Hosts England take on South Africa
July 18, 2017England opener Tammy Beaumont has insisted that her side’s victory over South Africa earlier in the group stage of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 will count for nothing when the two sides face each other in the semi-finals of the tournament at the Bristol County Ground on Tuesday. England have won six games in…
KISA State Tennis Tournament: De Paul International School wins overall championship
July 18, 2017Mysuru’s De Paul International Residential School with 32 points retained the KISA State Overall Tennis Championship title for the fourth consecutive year by winning the overall title in the championships which concluded at the De Paul International School premises on Saturday last. Gopalan International School, Bengaluru, with 28 points finished runner-up. Tridarsh of De Paul…
State Open U-15 Chess Tournament: Aditya emerges victorious
July 18, 2017Aditya B. Kalyani with 8 points from 9 rounds won the title in Karnataka State U-15 Open Chess Tournament conducted by Mandya District Chess Association which concluded in Mandya yesterday. Deota Snehil and Pankaj Bhat were tied with 7.5 points each but based on the better tie-break score of 45 to the latter’s 44.5, Deota…
Federer conquers Wimbledon
July 17, 2017Roger Federer became the first man to win Wimbledon eight times and extended his record to 19 Grand Slam titles with victory over Croatia’s Marin Cilic yesterday. The Swiss third seed won 6-3 6-1 6-4 as seventh seed Cilic struggled with a blister on his left foot and broke down in tears during the second…
Traditional Wrestling Competition: Pahilwan Somdev wins silver mace
July 17, 2017Pahilwan Somadev Rohtak of Haryana won the traditional wrestling competition organised by Late Pahilwan Basavaiah Wrestling Committee at BGS sports grouns in K.G. Koppal yesterday. The competition was organised as a part of Goddess Chamundeshwari Festival. Somdev defeated Pahilwan Yudhistir of Punjab and won the silver mace. Kollapur’s Pahilwan Santosh Dharod won his bout against…
City to host National Women’s Challengers Chess Championship
July 17, 2017The Mysore Chess Centre under the aegis of the UKCA, will be conducting the 44th FIDE Rated National Women’s Challengers Chess Championship from July 21 to July 29 at the Mysore Sports Club in city. The top four players from each State will be taking part in the event. A total cash prize of Rs.3…
Chess Whiz Kid: A.N. Shefali
July 16, 2017Chess is a traditional sport and has been patronised in our country for a long time. Mandya’s fourth standard student of Santhome Public School, A.N. Shefali, representing India, did everyone proud by winning the Commonwealth Girls U-8 Chess Championship-2017. She is our ‘Star This Week.’ This is Shefali’s second successive gold in the Commonwealth Chess…















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