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New Delhi, Oct 12: Seven players and an assistant coach have tested positive for Covid-19 ahead of the Indian Super League (ISL) football season, likely to start next month in Goa, sources told PTI on Monday. The tests were conducted in Goa after the arrival of the teams and all of them are asymptomatic cases. It could not, however, be ascertained which teams these players and the coach belong to

Ahmedabad, Oct 12: A 16-year-old boy has been arrested from Mundra in Gujarat for allegedly issuing rape threats against cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni's minor daughter, police said. "The class 12 student from Namna Kapaya village was detained for questioning in connection with a disgusting threat message that was posted on the Instagram account of Dhoni's wife Sakshi Dhoni a few days back," Kutch

Bengaluru, Oct 12: Former India captain Carlton Chapman passed away on Monday. He was 49. As per goal.com, he died reportedly after suffering a heart failure in Bengaluru. Chapman, a product of the Tata Football Academy (TFA), was one of the leading midfielders in the country during his playing days. He joined TFA in 1990 and three years later, he joined East Bengal and scored a hat trick for them

Abu Dhabi, Oct 12: Quinton de Kock and Suryakumar Yadav scored their respective half-century to help Mumbai Indians secure a five-wicket win over Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here on Sunday. Yadav and de Kock both scored 53 runs in the match as they helped their team to chase a decent target of 163 runs. Chasing the target, de Kock and Rohit Sharma provided Mumbai Indians a

Dubai, Oct 11: Rajasthan Royals skipper Steve Smith credited Rahul Tewatia and Riyan Prag for showing 'great composure' in the middle and showing their depth after the top-order struggled to put runs on the scoreboard against SunRisers Hyderabad. Tewatia and Parag played cautiously in the starting and then changed gear in the last five overs. The duo started taking on Hyderabad bowlers from 17th

New Delhi, Oct 11: As Chennai Super Kings (CSK) stumbled to a 37-run loss against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), former India batsman Virender Sehwag said that the MS Dhoni-led side has been disappointing with the bat in hand. CSK failed to chase down 170 and the side was restricted to 132/8, giving Virat Kohli-led RCB a win by 37 runs on Saturday at the Dubai International Stadium. No CSK

Nurburg, Oct 10: Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas ended teammate Lewis Hamilton's run of five consecutive Formula One pole positions by claiming first place in the qualifying at the Eifel Grand Prix on Saturday. Red Bull's Max Verstappen secured his near-traditional P3 slot on the grid, but just 0.037s off Hamilton. Ferrari recovered a little ground after a miserable run of races, with Charles Leclerc

Chennai, Oct 10: In a disturbing incident, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's five-year old daughter received rape threats from social media trolls following Chennai Super Kings' loss to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Tuesday night. CSK failed to chase a 168-run target, losing the game to KKR by 10 runs. Dhoni's wife, Sakshi, got the threats on her Instagram account. The threats created an outrage on social

Paris, Oct 10: World no.1 Novak Djokovic survived a fightback from fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in their French Open semi-final to book a title clash against the rampant Rafael Nadal. Djokovic beat Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-2, 5-7, 4-6 in a match that lasted three hours and 54 minutes. This was the fourth time in Djokovic's career where he was taken to five sets in the semi-final stage at Roland-Garros. A

New Delhi, Oct 9: Former India opener Virender Sehwag has taken a dig at Chennai Super Kings' faltering IPL campaign, saying that some of their batsmen think of the franchise as a "government job" in which remuneration is assured irrespective of performance. Chasing 168, veteran opener Shane Watson struck his second successive fifty to give CSK a perfect start on Wednesday, but the team choked at