The West Indies Cricket Board, on Wednesday (May 31), changed its name to Cricket West Indies, Johnny Grave, the new chief executive, announced. In addition, the team will now be called Windies. “Cricket West Indies better reflects how the organisation operates, as there are many different stakeholders who we work in partnership with, under the unifying aim of improving cricket […]
» Read moreSerena Williams will be the mother of a baby girl, if sister Venus is to be believed after she appeared to let the secret slip on Wednesday. Venus, playing at the French Open in Paris, told a TV interviewer: “She’s going to call me her favourite aunt.” “We all like ‘baby V, baby Lyn, baby Isha’. We all want the […]
» Read moreOns Jabeur became the first Arab woman to reach the third round of a Grand Slam on Wednesday, but admitted her success has caused a dilemma for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The 22-year-old Tunisian, ranked at 114, defeated sixth seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 6-4, 6-3 at the French Open. “I am very happy to reach the third […]
» Read moreHistorian Ramachandra Guha, appointed by the Supreme Court as one of the four administrators of BCCI, on Thursday informed the court that he had resigned from the post due to personal reasons. A vacation bench of Justices M M Shantanagoudar and Deepak Gupta was informed by Guha’s counsel that he had tendered his resignation on May 28 to Vinod Rai, […]
» Read moreCricketer Gautam Gambir who decided to bear the educational expenses of the children of slain CRPF personnel in Sukhma, former Indian hockey player Ajit Pal Nandal on Wednesday adopted 21 girl students classes from VI to XII of a government school in his native Bohar village in the district. Nandal said he would take care of their education, train them […]
» Read moreThere was no end to the Indian women’s hockey team’s misery as it went down 2-6 to New Zealand in the final match for a 0-5 whitewash in the series, which concluded on Saturday.
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