The Indian Women football team will play two friendly matches against Myanmar in Yangon on July 9th & 12th, 2024 during the FIFA International window. It will be a good test for blue tigresses to show their skills against a higher ranked opponent. The recent performances of Blue Tigresses were quite mixed. They had played…
On Sunday, India’s ace shuttler Satwik & Chirag claim their 8th BWF World Title and 4th Super 500 title in Thailand Open 2024 Life has come to a full circle for Satchi before the Paris Olympics, they have won Thailand Open S-500 once again which is also their breakthrough tournament in 2019 which helped them…
Who is Sandeep Singh? This question is asked by many from the last few weeks in the Indian shooting fraternity. So, in this article we are going to discover who Sandeep is and why he has been in the talks recently. The 28 years old marksman born in Faridkot, Punjab. He did not even consider shooting…
The 2022 Asian Games Champion, Palak Gulia secured a quota place for Paris by finishing 3rd in the ISSF Final Olympic Qualifying Championship Rifle/Pistol being held in Rio de Janeiro from 11 to 20th April, 2024. With this quota, India has won all the eligible quotas (16) for Paris in Rifle & Pistol events. In…
The BWF World tour Super 300, Madrid Spain Masters commenced from 26th March 2024 (Tuesday) and will continue till 31st March 2024. The matches are being played at Centro Deportivo Municipal Gallur in Madrid. The Indian contingent had a forgetful outing till now. After the completion of R32, only 5 Indians had advanced to the…
The Indian National Football team had just put on a shambolic performance in Guwahati. The Afghans have defeated the Blue Tigers in its own den by 2-1 scoreline. 26th March 2024, India faced Afghanistan in FIFA WCQ, 2026 in Indira Gandhi Athletic stadium Guwahati. Igor Stimac (India’s Coach) started with a 4-2-3-1 formation with Sunil…
FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: After a stalemate show at Saudi Arabia Indian football national team will be geared up to show some character and gain that much important 3 point to qualify for the next round. On 26 March 2024, India will play its second leg home match against Afghanistan in Indra Gandhi Athletic Stadium,…
Thomas & Uber Cup, 2024: The prestigious BWF Thomas and Uber Cup draws has been announced today (22nd March), with the defending Champions India placed in group C alongside previous year finalist Indonesia in men’s category. While the reigning BATC champion India placed with 15 times champion China in group A (Women’s category). With a…
IND vs AFG : The Indian National Football team settled with a goalless draw (0-0) against a second string Afghanistan team. On 22nd March, 2024 Sunil Chetri and his boys put off a disappointing performance in the recent ongoing FIFA World Cup qualifiers by being unable to win against a lower ranked Afghanistan (158-FIFA Rank)…
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We got a chance to speak to CWG Silver Medalist Abdulla Aboobacker Narangolintevid. Here’s what he had to say about his preparation, the WCH and training. ISH: This season has been a successful season till now. Could you brief us on what changes did you bring in? Abdulla: Till last year I was practicing at…
Day 1 Qualifying Rounds. Chennai open Qualifying Chamarthi vs Hibino (6-1, 6-0) The day started with a 27-year-old local lad taking on no2 seed Japanese. The game started off really well with the first three games taking 30 minutes to complete. The 199th-ranked Japanese with her experience broke down Chamari’s serve and from there on…
Hrithik Marne was crowned National champion after Seven Years, we got a chance to speak with him. Here’s what he had to say. ISH:Could you explain how you got into sports climbing? I started climbing from 2011 but Initially I started with Kabaddi. One day I saw a sports climbing wall being built nearby and…
We got a chance to speak to young and promising Abhay Shinde. Here is what he had to say ISH: How did you take up fencing? Abhay: I am form a sporting family with my father being a Physical Education teacher. My father wanted me to join Volleyball in the beginning but my fathers close…
India has entered 6 swimmers to this prestigious World Junior Meet. Swimming Junior Worlds Aneesh Gowda(3:57.99) won his heat with his personal best time while Aryan Nehra(3:59.36) came in at the sixth position in his heat of 400m Freestyle they finished 11th and 13th respectively in the overall standings out of the 44 swimmers taking part….
Chirag Khandal became the youngest to qualify for Asian Games in Equestrian which has now been postponed to 2023. We got a chance to speak to him and here are his thoughts. Eventing is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage,…
First ever international meet for these Pole Vaulters. Busan Pole Vault Meet Three Indians took part in the Pole Vault meet with the likes of Sakthi Mahendran in the U20, Siva the National Record holder with 5.30m and Baranica taking part in the seniors. This is also the first foreign meet for all the…
Bharath Periera won his ninth sucessive National medal IMF National Sport Climbing Championship, 2022 Sports Climbing had recently been included at the Tokyo Olympics. At Tokyo only single medal were awarded both in the men and women sections combining the total scores of speed, lead and bouldering. Competition climbing is a form of sport climbing that…
Who will reach the 90 barrier first? Neeraj Chopra or Mirabai Chanu Albeit in different sports the 90 mark is the most elusive one for both the stars of India and the most awaited one for now. Mirabai Chanu and Neeraj Chopra have started started the season on a positive note winning gold in CWG…
How has India progressed in CWG without its pep event Shooting and the way going forward? India finished the CWG with 22 gold, 16 silver, and 23 bronze which fewer than the 2018 CWG but without Shooting India has performed well and finished 4th behind Canada and pipped NZ on the final day. So…
A strong contingent of 33 athletes will represent India in this edition with 29 from Track and 4 from Field events. Rupal and Priya Mohan will be the most watched athletes in the 400m with Priya already having the experience of taking part in the previous edition and had also went for a short European…
Can Judo help India bridge the void created by no Shooting at the Games CWG2022 Judo is being contested for the 4th time in the Commonwealth Games and India overall have won 5 silver and 3 bronze medals with the 2014 edition being the best with 2 silver and 2 bronze. This year 6 Judokas…
The Indian fencing has been on the rise in the recent time and most recently in the World Championship in Egypt. Bhavani Devi was instrumental in making watch the sport keenly after becoming the first Indian to qualify for Olympics. Since then many have started taking up the sport and started showing both interest and…
Rahul Kewat is a 20 year old Canoe Slalom athlete who is a 5 time National medalist and has taken part twice in Asian Championships and once in World Championships. He is set to represent India again in the Canoe Slalom (Extreme Canoe Slalom) in the World Championships to be held in Germany from…
Weightlifting has been India’s strong event at CWG with 125 medals which includes 43 Golds. Weightlifting was introduced in the Commonwealth Games in 1950 and since then has been held in all the editions. But the women were allowed to contest only from the 2002 edition. Weightlifting has been one of India’s primary medal-winning…
The big event starts today, lets take you through the notable Indian performance at the games. The world’s most coveted Athletics meet after the Olympics is set to take place in Oregon with top athletes across the globe set to take part. Let us look at how Indian athletes have performed since the tournament…
Gujarat will host the National Game for first time from 27 September to 10 October. Initially planned in Goa, the national games has been postponed for last six years. The games were to be held in November 2016. After two delays in 2018 and 2019 due to the state’s inability to create adequate infrastructure,…
India has won both the T20 and ODI series quite comfortably. This will be a new start after the retirement of Indian stalwart Mithali Raj. Harmanpreet Kaur who has taken over the responsibility has started off well. This series also acts as a practice before the Commonwealth games where teams from Australia, England, and…
With 7 Golds, 7 Silvers & 11 Bronze Medal. India stand third after England & Malaysia in Badminton History of CWG Here we look at how has been India’s performance across different editions. 1966 Jamaica CWG Games Badminton was first held at the CWG in 1966 and since then has been held in all the…
Singapore has won the highest number of gold medals across all editions with 22 followed by England, India and Nigeria. Commonwealth Games are being held since 1930 but Table Tennis was first introduced in the year 2002. Since then it has been played regularly at all the games and is in its 6th edition…
Team wins bronze medal in the 2022 Asian Women’s Challenge Cup in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand Asian Volleyball Challenge India finished third at the recently conclude AVC Challenge Cup 2022 held in Thailand. Had India finished in the top two they would have qualified for the AVC Asia Cup 2024 but missed out by a very…
The future of Indian doubles tennis looks bright. Writer : M Sudharshan For the past few months, the Indian doubles players have had a phenomenal outing in the ATP and the ATP Challenger events. There are presently 2 players in the top 100 and 5 players ranking stacked between 130 to 170s in the ATP…
Indian junior basketball team has gone all guns blazing at the U16 FIBA Asian Championship 2022 reaching the QF for the first time and finished 5th overall. Looking at the previous performances since the start of the tournament in 2009 India has never finished above the 10th place. In 2009 during the inaugural edition, India…
Writer : M Sudharshan The most awaited India’s premier domestic meet The Inter-State Athletics meet is set to commence on 10th June. This will be the last domestic meet for athletes to gain confidence and momentum leading up to the World Championships and the Commonwealth Games. Triple Jump Kerala will be the powerhouse in this…
20th National Fed Cup Junior U20 Athletics Championships to take place in Nadiad from 2-4 June. Writer : M Sudharshan A lot of young and exciting talent all across the country are set to take part at the Junior Championships. This Championships is a qualifying championships for World Athletics U20 Championships to be held at…
Bhavani Devi Led Fencing has been on a rise since the start of 2022. Writer : M Sudharshan In a country where we did not have many fencers taking up the sport till the Tokyo Olympics. However now we can see good participation followed by some encouraging results as well. Fencing is a group of thee…
Pavithra Vengatesh is aiming to smash the Pole Vault National Record Writer : M Sudharshan Twenty Year-old Pavithra Vengatesh from Salem representing Periyar University at the Khelo India University Games,2022 cleared the mark of 4.00m which made her the 5 th Indian to clear the 4.00m mark. Aiming for the next high raised the bar…
