Sep 5, 2026
India will play Japan on 22 September, at a ground that normally holds 500 people
A T20 international nobody had on the calendar a week ago. The BCCI and the Japan Cricket Association have agreed a one-off match in Tochigi, and it c...
Asian Games 2026
39 articles tagged with "Asian Games 2026"
Sep 4, 2026
Aslam Inamdar: PKL stats, records and why his best season was not the one he won
Aslam Inamdar has 621 Pro Kabaddi points from 87 matches and a raiding rate a third below his peak. Here is why India still picked him for the Asian G...
Sep 4, 2026
Ayan Lohchab: PKL stats, records and the season he raided a third more and got caught less
Ayan Lohchab won PKL Best Raider in his second season with 316 raid points, the third-biggest raiding season the league has produced. The column that...
Sep 4, 2026
India defend two kabaddi golds with eight Asian Games debutants
Sunil Kumar replaces Pawan Sehrawat as captain, Pushpa Rana takes over the women’s team, and the draw in Japan keeps India away from Iran until the se...
Sep 3, 2026
Laxman takes India to the Asian Games, and Gambhir stays home for the West Indies ODIs
India will run two coaching set-ups this month, with VVS Laxman leading the Asian Games squad in Japan while Gautam Gambhir stays back for the West In...
Sep 2, 2026
Pawan Sehrawat: PKL records, stats and the three seasons that still carry his career
Pawan Sehrawat has 1,340 raid points from 142 PKL matches and a single-match record nobody has touched since 2019. He goes to the Asian Games this mon...
Sep 2, 2026
Devank Dalal: PKL stats, records and the best raiding rate the league has seen
Devank Dalal scored 271 raid points in 16 matches of PKL 12, a rate no season in the league’s history has matched. His own team then rested him, and h...
Sep 1, 2026
Maninder Singh: the kabaddi raider who is 233 points from the PKL record
Only Pardeep Narwal has scored more raid points in the Pro Kabaddi League, and Narwal has retired. At 36, Maninder needs about 25 more matches to catc...
Sep 1, 2026
Four of India’s 15 need fitness clearance, and the same squad goes to the Asian Games
India named a 15-man squad for the Afghanistan T20Is on Tuesday, with Jasprit Bumrah one of four players in only if the medical staff clear them. The...
Sep 1, 2026
Hardik has been told to stop bowling, and India’s squad for Afghanistan is due this week
India’s selectors meet this week to pick a squad for the Afghanistan T20Is in Delhi. Hardik Pandya, three months into a rehab stint in Bengaluru, has...
Aug 31, 2026
India were due to play an ODI in Dhaka this week, and the tour has been put off again
India’s white-ball tour of Bangladesh, already moved once from August 2025, will not happen this month. Neither board has cancelled it, and January is...
Aug 29, 2026
India’s Asian Games dressing rooms are tents, and the washrooms are 500 metres away
A BCCI official’s complaint about the cricket venue in Nisshin turned into a weekend of reports that India might travel with a second-string side. An...
Aug 27, 2026
India have replaced both kabaddi captains who won gold in Hangzhou, and kept both in the squads
India named Sunil Kumar and Pushpa Rana as their kabaddi captains for the Asian Games in Japan, and both of the players they replace have kept their p...
Aug 27, 2026
India’s Asian Games gold medal match and their third ODI against West Indies are on the same day
India need two men’s teams in late September, and their women go from a possible Asia Cup final in Dubai to an Asian Games quarter-final in Japan five...
Aug 24, 2026
Four of India’s Hangzhou gold medallists made the Asian Games squad, and Naveen Kumar did not
India named their men’s and women’s kabaddi squads for the Asian Games on Sunday. Eight of the twelve men who won gold in Hangzhou are not on the plan...
Aug 23, 2026
India picked four Esports Nations Cup squads this summer, and the tournament has moved to November 2027
The Esports Foundation has pushed the first Esports Nations Cup back a full year. India had already named a BGMI roster, settled a chess pair and qual...
Aug 19, 2026
Iran take their Asian Games squad to Islamabad, and their hosts are in the same group
The 2018 champions arrive on Thursday for a week of practice matches against a side they meet again in Group B. India’s men, drawn in Group A, cannot...
Aug 17, 2026
Afghanistan hand the Asian Games to six uncapped players, with Rashid Khan staying home
Darwish Rasooli will lead a 15-man Afghanistan squad in Japan next month in which six players have never been capped. India, meanwhile, are sending Bu...
Aug 15, 2026
Rodrigues has a high-grade hamstring tear, and India lose her for the Asia Cup and the Asian Games
The hamstring Jemimah Rodrigues hurt in the Hundred on 3 August turned out to be a high-grade tear. Pratika Rawal, who has been on the receiving end o...
Aug 15, 2026
Afghanistan host India in Delhi in September, and only one of the two teams is travelling
Three T20Is at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on 13, 15 and 17 September, with Afghanistan listed as the home side. It will be the first time they have host...
Aug 11, 2026
Iran name their 12 for the Asian Games, and India are still cutting from 29
Fazel Atrachali captains a squad with no surprises in it, and Iran have a new head coach for Japan. India, six weeks out, are still working from a lis...
Aug 9, 2026
Ashu Malik: PKL stats, records and the title he won in 14 matches
Ashu Malik has 916 points in 105 Pro Kabaddi matches and a title as Dabang Delhi’s captain. The season Delhi finally won one was the season he played...
Aug 9, 2026
India’s BRICS esports trip to Moscow ends four days before the Asian Games open
ESFI has named its squads for the BRICS Esports Championship in Moscow in September and the Global Esports Games in Los Angeles in December. The Mosco...
Aug 8, 2026
Mohammad Reza Shadloui: PKL records, the Gujarat Giants fall, and what comes next
Iran’s left corner has 391 tackle points, two PKL titles and the biggest single-match tackle haul the league has ever seen. He also spent last season...