Ashwin was speaking on his Youtube Channel, Ash ki Baat. Just a couple days back, Ashwin brought down the curtains on a legendary IPL career spanning 17 years, which ended where it started, with Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their iconic yellow colours. As of now, Ashwin is the fifth-highest wicket-taker in the IPL with 201 scalps in 239 matches at an average of 30.94.
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Now, Sri Lanka leads the two-match series 1-0.
India's stellar form at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2025 continued on Friday with Dilbag Singh and Vanshita Verma adding two more medals to the nation's tally.
It was a blockbuster opening game, which saw Tamil Thalaivas secure a 38-35 win over the home side, Telugu Titans, at the Vishwanadh Sports Club in Vizag on Friday night. Arjun Deshwal registered a Super 10, and Pawan Sehrawat scored nine points for their side, with Bharat Hooda registering nine points for the hosts.
On the last three deliveries of the 53rd over, he cleaned up Virat Singh, Manishi and Mukhtar Hussain. On the first ball of his next over, he removed Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal.
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India's junior boxers won seven gold medals, seven silver medals, and 12 bronze medals, making a total haul of 26 medals at the 3rd 'Belt and Road' International Youth Boxing Gala - U17/U19/U23 International Training Camp & Tournament in Xinjiang, China, highlighting their strong performance across various weight categories.
Commemorating National Sports Day on the birth anniversary of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand, Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, Raksha Nikhil Khadse, visited the Sports Authority of India's (SAI) National Centre of Excellence (NCoE) in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
The initiatives span football, archery, hockey, marathons, squash, karate, padel and para-sports, making it one of India's largest corporate-led grassroots sports movements.
To mark this milestone edition, the Delhi Half Marathon Finisher's Medal was unveiled by the Chief Minister of the Government of NCT of Delhi, Rekha Gupta, at the Delhi Secretariat.
Ankur Mittal also combined with Bhanu Pratap Singh and Harshvardhan Kaviya to win the team bronze in the Double Trap Team event. Ankur, with 107 hits, led throughout the four rounds of 30 each with scores of 26, 28, 26, and 27 on his way to the gold medal. Local shooter Artyom Chikulayev from Kazakhstan won silver with 98, while Kuwait's Ahmad Alaffasi claimed bronze in a shoot-off with 96 and +2, as per a press release from the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI).
Former India batting star Shikhar Dhawan marked National Sports Day with a special message that celebrated the joy of playing across disciplines.
U Mumba, one of India's most iconic kabaddi franchises, has made history by becoming the first PKL team to launch a dedicated Hall of Fame. The initiative marks a landmark moment for the league and the franchise, as U Mumba sets a precedent in formally recognising players who defined its journey.
The hockey legend's comments came during the day when India played China in their Asia Cup opener, winning 4-3. Pakistan and Oman opted out of this year's tournament. Ahead of the tournament, as the pool and schedule were revealed, Hockey India President Dilip Kumar Tirkey clarified that Pakistan did not participate due to security reasons. At the same time, Oman opted out due to personal issues with their government.
Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, led the national celebrations with a floral tribute at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium in the capital before joining more than 2,000 participants, including officials of the Sports Ministry, Sports Authority of India (SAI), Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Paralympic Committee of India (PCI), National Sports Federations (NSFs), athletes and coaches at the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium for a morning of interactive sporting activities. as per a press release from the Sports Ministry.
Team India's Men's Asia Cup campaign kick-started with a 4-3 win over China in Rajgir on Friday.
Vidarbha batter Danish Malewar joined an exclusive club featuring former greats Vijay Merchant, Aravinda de Silva and others after hammering a double ton for Central Zone against North East Zone in the ongoing Duleep Trophy on Friday.
India's top shuttler PV Sindhu's campaign at the BWF World Championships concluded with a bitter defeat in the quarter-finals against Putri Kusuma Wardani.
An MRI scan confirmed that the 40-year-old sustained a Grade II strain in his left calf, along with a chronic and resolving Grade I strain in his right calf, ruling him out of the entire series.
For India, it was Captain Harmanpreet Singh (20', 33', 47') who put in a fantastic performance, as he scored a hat-trick. And whilst Jugraj Singh (18') was India's second scorer, China got their goals from Shihao Du (12'), Benhai Chen (35'), Jiesheng Gao (41'), as per a press release from Hockey India.
World No. 1 Jannik Sinner registered a comfortable victory over Alexei Popyrin in the second round of the ongoing US Open tennis tournament 2025 on Thursday. He won the game in three straight sets, defeating his opponent 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.
In the quarterfinals, the Indian duo went down to Malaysia's world number four pairing of Chen Tang Jie and Toh Ee Wei by 15-21, 13-21 in straight games.
Former all-rounder Irfan Pathan acknowledged India's leading T20I wicket-taker Arshdeep Singh's prowess in white-ball cricket. Pathan identified the next viable option that comes close to the left-armer's prowess and handpicked Khaleel Ahmed, who spearheaded Chennai Super Kings' pace attack in the last edition of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL).
The National Sports Day (NSD) 2025 celebration will be led by the Fit India Mission and organised as a three-day nationwide sports and fitness movement from August 29-31, under the theme 'Ek Ghanta, Khel ke Maidan Main'. Acting on the clarion call given by Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports and Labour & Employment, Mansukh Mandaviya last week to transform this year's National Sports Day 2025 into a true people's movement, States and Union Territories (UTs) across India have begun their preparations for this mega Pan-India celebration.
Speaking about Major Dhyan Chand, the Chief Minister said, 'Whenever his name is mentioned, every Indian instinctively thinks of a hockey stick. With his talent and dedication, he gave Indian hockey global recognition by winning three Olympic gold medals--in 1928, 1932, and 1936.'
Pathan was speaking to Boria Majumdar on Revsportz. Rohit and Virat, after calling time on their T20I careers last year following the T20 World Cup win, also retired from Test cricket ahead of India's tour of England, which kickstarted the new ICC World Test Championship (WTC) cycle of 2025-27 for India. Shami, who has not announced retirement from any format, was not in the squad for the tour to England and was also not included in the Asia Cup T20I squad. His last assignment for India was the victorious ICC Champions Trophy campaign in Dubai back in March. With his fitness concerns that kept him out of the game for over a year after the 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup final, it will be interesting to see how Shami is handled across all formats.
Addressing the National Sports Day - 2025, a function organised at the Multipurpose Sports Hall Parade Ground on the occasion of Major Dhyanchand Jayanti on Friday, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that sports and sportsmanship provide energy, discipline and inspiration to society. He said that Major Dhyanchand introduced the whole world to India's sports power with the magic of his stick, according to a press release from Uttarakhand CMO.
South Korean duo of Hana Im 620.2 and Eunseo Lee 620.2 took the gold and silver respectively
Malaysia will next play the title holders and five-time champions South Korea on Saturday
Paralympic Committee of India (PCI) President Devendra Jhajharia on Friday confirmed that the newly inaugrated Mondotrack at the Jawaharlal Nehru (JLN) Stadium will host the upcoming World Para Athletics Championships, which will take place in New Delhi from September 27 to October 5.
In 2015, Shukla was unanimously re-appointed as the chairman of the Indian Premier League
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