Going into the Asia Cup and T20 World Cup later this year, India's big selection question revolves around fitting Virat Kohli and KL Rahul in the team.

Neeraj Chopra heralded a new era in Indian athletics with his colossal Tokyo Olympics gold that acquired him a super star status in the country which had waited for such spectacular success in track and field events for more than a century.

Tokyo Games: India will be competing in four of the five disciplines -- men's team, individual, women's individual and mixed pair -- and will aim to break their medal jinx at the Olympics.

Indian wrestlers have been highly impressive at the global level in run up to the Tokyo Olympics and at least three of them will be genuine medal contenders at the Games.

Tokyo Olympics: The medals in the upcoming Tokyo Games will measure 8.5 cm in diameter and will be made of recycled electronic devices.

Balbir Singh's relationship with the sport goes way beyond the goals and the trophies. It was like a timeless love affair, one that he described quite vividly in his autobiography.

India are high on confidence after successfully defending a small total of 132 against four-time champions Australia in the tournament opener.

Defending champions India will be overwhelming favourites to win the junior global meet for the fifth time with at least six players, including skipper Priyam Garg having played senior cricket (first-class, List A or T20).

PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar and Lalita Babar represent an assured Indian woman, capable of making choices, which may seem unorthodox to some, and yet remain nonchalant about it

The performance of PV Sindhu, who clinched a historic silver in the 2016 Rio Olympics, has given hope for Indian sports fans heading into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Scientists from Victoria University and University of New South Wales in Australia have used mathematics to deduce significance of small variations in the proportion of different spin types applied to the ball by slow bowlers

Virat Kohli's exploits for India in the World T20 increased his stature as one of the game's greats. However, for India, it was a case of some missed opportunities after their loss to the West Indies in the final.

South Africa's tour of India starts with a T20I on October 2. They will play 3 T20Is, 5 ODIs and 4 Tests.

Harbhajan Singh picked up just one wicket during India's 63-run loss to Sri Lanka in the first Test at Galle. The other four spinners -- Ravichandran Ashwin, Amit Mishra, Rangana Herath and Tharindu Kaushal -- accounted for 30 wickets in the match.

Murali Vijay has had a splendid run in Tests, since he made his comeback against Australia at home a few years ago but missed out on 2015 ICC World Cup selection.

Chasing 184 for victory in the 60-overs-a-side game against India at Lord's, reigning champions West Indies slumped from 50 for two to 140 all out in what proved to be the biggest upset of the the mega-event.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul has so far played 158 Test matches having scored 11,684 runs with 30 centuries. He played 268 ODIs till 2011 scoring 8778 runs with 11 hundreds and Rahul Dravid said the West Indian left-handed was different in his sense of style.

A miffed BCCI had on Tuesday requested ICC CEO Dave Richardson to appeal against the verdict of Judicial Commissioner Gordon Lewis who had found Ravindra Jadeja and James Anderson not guilty of breaching ICC's code of conduct during the first Test in Trent Bridge.

Indian wrestlers bagged five gold, six silver and two bronze to finish with a tally of 13 medals, most by any country at Glasgow.

Rahi Sarnobat expressed her happiness over compatriot Anisa Sayyed bagging the silver from the same event.

Commonwealth Games 2014 will have a total of 261 medal events across 18 sports and will be contested over 11 days in the third-biggest multi-sporting event after the Olympics and Asia Games.

The Indian contingent at the Commonwealth Games Village in Glasgow is happy with the hospitality but are taking every precaution ahead of the sporting event.

India, led by skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, reached London last weekend ahead of what will be a gruelling tour, including five back-to-back Tests, five ODIs and one T20 International against England.

For a deluxe room in a five star hotel that normally costs around $200-250 per night, soccer fans from across the world are being made to shell out $700-800 at the moment, courtesy the world football governing body.

India bounced back well to beat Malaysia 3-2 after losing back-to-back matches to start with and Sardar Singh's men would draw from the new-found self-belief when they come face-to-face against the marauding Australians.

Ferrari released findings of a survey they conducted, ahead of this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, which shows that most fans are unhappy with the new rules.

Ignoring the upheaval back home, India cruised into the semi-finals for the first time since triumphing in the 2007 ICC World Twenty 20 with three emphatic wins in group two of the Super-10s. Australia are winless in this edition so far.

Suresh Raina slammed five sixes and nine fours in his knock of 101 against South Africa at Gros Islet in the Twenty20 World Cup 2010. Only three other batsmen -- Mahela Jayawardene, Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum -- have achieved this feat.

Mohammad Shami was the star of the Indian bowling in the second innings of the recently-concluded first Test against New Zealand here, which ended in a 40-run defeat for the visitors.

Somdev Devvarman said it's time to shift focus on youngsters after India crushed Chinese Taipei 5-0 in the Asia/Oceania Group I tie in the absence of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi.

Cricket had its usual quota of the good, the bad, and the ugly, but Sachin Tendulkar's retirement after serving the country for 24 long years and giving joy to billions across the globe was certainly the most moving moment of the year.

Indian tennis, which began the year with a revolt against All India Tennis Association, saw several highs with youngsters as well as veterans delivering strong performances.

The 38-year-old Jacques Kallis, who made his debut against England in December 1995, is the third big player to quit Test cricket this season after Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar.

Martin Crowe recalled how as a young cricketer playing in the Yorkshire league back in 1982, he sought Sunil Gavaskar's advice on how to combat fast bowling when the Indians were playing a tour game. Crowe was working as a groundsman there.

Varun Aaron, considered to be genuinely quick before his back injury, played in the IPL for Delhi Daredevils in 2012 but was again troubled by his back and had to undergo surgery in March this year.

Former Pakistan cricketer Hanif Mohammad - a veteran of 55 Tests between 1952 and 1969 - remembers telling Sachin Tendulkar that he is a jewel. He writes that he is glad Tendulkar broke several records and retired when he was sure of his.

Cricket was lucky to have an enduring phenomenon like Sachin Tendulkar, who didn't just inspire an entire generation but around whom, the game's administrators managed to build a huge industry which ran into billions.

Meet Ajeet Singh Tanwar, a one-of-a-kind Tendulkar fan, who, quite astonishingly, remembers how many the retiring cricketer has scored, where and in which match over his past 198 Tests, besides storing in his 'memory card' the details of the 49 hundreds the veteran had smashed in his 463 ODI appearances.

Considering that India often tend to struggle on the traditionally fast and bouncy pitches of WACA and Kingsmead, a few outings on wicket at the

Australian wicketkeeper Brad Haddin has had enough of those 'High-Fives' after a fall of wicket. The gritty New South Wales glovesman learnt it hard way when he was involved in a freak accident with a jubilant James Faulkner's finger brushing his eye which led to leave the field for quite some time.