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...
Asian Games 2026
105 articles tagged with "Asian Games 2026"
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...
Aug 6, 2026
Reports now put the PKL 13 auction in late October, and the Asian Games are why
Mashal Sports has still not announced a date. The window being reported has moved from July to late October, which would push Season 13 into December.
Aug 4, 2026
India’s Asia Cup squad went up and came down, and the ACC still has not announced the tournament
The Women’s Asia Cup is meant to start on 28 August in the UAE. Three weeks out there is no confirmed venue, no fixture list and no formal announcemen...
Jul 27, 2026
Sooryavanshi answered one question in Harare, not the one England asked
A record fifty and an 81 on a slow pitch settled the temperament question about India’s 15-year-old. The short-ball problem Jofra Archer exposed is st...
Jul 26, 2026
India’s kabaddi men avoid Iran in the Asian Games draw, the women get them in Group A
The Asian Games 2026 kabaddi draw keeps India’s men and Iran apart until the knockouts, while India’s women were placed alongside Iran in Group A. The...
Jul 25, 2026
India get a bye into the Asian Games cricket quarter-finals as the Japan draw lands
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh have been seeded straight into the men’s quarter-finals in Aichi, while India’s women begin their title defe...
Jun 20, 2026
Iyer’s new India and a record-breaking teen: the T20I side bound for England
Shreyas Iyer takes over as T20I captain and 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi becomes the youngest player India have ever picked, as a new-look squad p...
Apr 18, 2026
India’s Asian Games 2026 kabaddi camp: the probables, the final 12 and the gold
Naveen Kumar and Ashu Malik headlined India’s Bellary camp in April. Naveen missed the final 12, Sunil Kumar was named captain and India beat Iran 40-...