Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Sport

  • India need 20-20 vision to win Test

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    Veturi Srivatsa says Indian players should have 20-20 vision of Test cricket  Ask any player anywhere in the world and he will say Test cricket is the ultimate. But today – though he may not openly admit it – he knows in his heart that his Twenty20 performance is far more important. It may sound…

  • Dhoni blames the batsmen

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    Our batsmen never really performed: Dhoni India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni blamed his batsmen for not living up to their potential which led to a humiliating 1-3 Test series defeat to England. “We’ve lost a lot of confidence over the five-Test series. It is disappointing. Right from the start, our batsmen never really performed, the lower…

  • Cricket: Humiliating defeat – 1-3

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    The Indian cricket team underwent a dramatic collapse to be bowled out for merely 94 runs in their second innings, suffering a humiliating consecutive innings defeat in only three days and lose the five-match Test series 1-3 to England at The Oval in London. The hosts put on 101 runs in the morning to take…

  • Games behind Indian sports awards

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    The controversy over every national award is getting beyond the pale. Unedifying hankering, uncultured lobbying and above all the lack of firmness in sticking to the norms have robbed the awards of the grace they deserve.It is not just the highest civilian award Bharat Ratna and the Padma awards which are mired in the unseemly…

  • CRICKET: BCCI treasurer has 3 offices!

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    Abishek Roy reports on extravagance and corruption in the BCCI. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) now maintains offices for its treasurer Anirudh Chaudhry in Chennai, Mumbai and Delhi — and surprisingly not in his home town Bhiwani besides a a 5-star hotel suite! Successive cricket board treasurers have often asked for the…

  • Cricket: What’s wrong with Indian cricket?

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    Bikram Vohra says Indian cricket wrecked by instant wealth… And Caesar said to Mark Anthony: Let me have men about me that are fat. Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look, such men are dangerous. He clearly did not have India’s cricket team in mind. For when…

  • Dhoni helps India to clock 148

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    Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni led the fightback with a gritty 82 before India were bowled out for 148 by England shortly after tea on the first day of the fifth and the final cricket Test at The Oval in London. Earlier, Indian batsmen cut a sorry figure again after they were put in by England captain Alastair…

  • Selector’s Logic – Heads I win, tails you lose

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    Veturi Srivatsa looks into selectors’ logic – Heads I win, tails you lose Selectors in most sports insist they are invariably correct while picking teams. Sometimes they take the rankings into account and on other occasions they argue about the potential of a player for picking him or her — it is a case of heads they win,…

  • Global Cricket and Indian Money

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    Veturi Srivatsa looks in to the power of Indian money in global cricket  It is immaterial whether they lose the five-Test series at the Oval 1-3, 1-2, or tie 2-2, India will still return to England to play another five-match series four years from now. That’s the power of Indian money in global cricket. It is…

  • CRICKET: Izzat ka sawall

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    India play fifth Test to salvage pride and series   India go into the fifth and the final Test match at The Oval Friday determined to salvage some pride and the draw the five-match series against England. India were humiliated in Manchester, losing the fourth Test by an innings and 54 runs inside three days. The win…

  • India’s young stars shine at Wimbledon

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    INDIA’S FINEST YOUNG PLAYERS BATTLE IT AT WIMBLEDON WITH NEXT GENERATION OF UK TENNIS STARS Today marked the start of the thirteenth HSBC Road to Wimbledon National Finals which saw 148 junior players competing on the famous lawns of the All England Club. This year also marks the first time in the tournament’s history where…

  • Haryana Girls Wrestle Traditions

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    The dusty village of Balali in Haryana, barely 10 km from the national capital, was not too long ago up in arms when three sisters from the Phogat family took to wrestling, saying it was against local tradition. Today, the village is mighty proud of the siblings who have brought about something of a social…

  • CRICKET – Don’t Worry Dhoni!

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    Ashis Ray says Indian cricketers mustn’t lose heart over their failures in the test against England  After two terribly disappointing cricket Test matches — especially the last one that ended at Old Trafford, Manchester on Saturday, a 1-2 deficit in the series and only one more encounter yet to come, India have no alternative other…

  • Special Feature: Women’s wrestling

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    Abhishek Roy reports on women’s wrestling revolution taking place in Indian state of Haryana The dusty village of Balali in Haryana, hardly barely 10 km from the national capital, was not too long ago up in arms when three sisters from the Phogat family took to wrestling, saying it was against local tradition. Today, the…

  • Kerala to host national games

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    South Indian state of Kerala gears up for staging 2015 National Games…reports Sanu George  Work is on at a furious pace to ready the 30 venues for the January 31-February 14, 2015, National Games in Kerala. Jacob Punnoose, former director general of Kerala Police, who is overseeing the conduct of what would be the biggest sporting extravaganza…

  • Veturi Srivatsa on Anderson episode

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    Veturi Srivatsa is his weekly column asking Is Anderson’s foul language a part of the game?  Humour has no barrier, so long as certain unparliamentary words are uttered in jest. When a Test cricketer unleashes a barrage of invectives against an opponent when they were leaving the field after a hard session, it is not…

  • TEST: India at the mercy of the weather

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    Bowled out for a shambolic 152 in their first innings, only a combination of good cricket and providential intervention by rain can save India from defeat in the fourth Test against England that got underway Thursday. The series is level at 1-1. As was the forecast by the Met Office, rain struck soon after lunch…

  • India struggling in Manchester

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    Broad’s 6/25 bundles out India for 152 Stuart Broad starred with six for 25 as India were bundled out for 152 runs in the first innings by tea on the first day of the fourth cricket Test against England at the Old Trafford at Manchester on Thursday. It was a miserable performance by India as six…

  • The goof-up on Anderson Affair

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     Ashis Ray says Dhoni, BCCI to blame for goof-up on Anderson affair  Indian cricket captain Mahendra Dhoni’s obstinacy and ignorance about the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) processes have caused an unmitigated loss for Indian cricket on the James Anderson affair, where it could have been victory. The latest and lasting slap was delivered Wednesday when the ICC,…

  • Delhi to tough on junkets

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    The union sports ministry  virtually clamped down on junkets abroad by officials of the Indian Olympic Association and the National Sports Federations (NSFs) by asking them to furnish by Aug 20 the details of their trip to Glasgow. The move comes in the wake of the unsavoury incidents involving two Indian officials at the Glasgow…

  • Good Memories @ Glasgow

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    Music centrepiece as Glasgow bids adieu to Commonwealth Games  The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony came to an end with a fine display of fireworks over Hampden Park but music took centrestage as Scottish singer Lulu, pop band Deacon Blue and Australian singer Kylie Minogue – to name a few – belted out their…

  • Obama honours Mumbaikar Neha

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    Quaid Najmi reports on a differently-abled Mumbai girl’s memorable dinner at White House For differently-abled Mumbaikar Neha P. Naik, her “dinner date” with the Obamas in the White House was like “a dream come true” and she will always cherish memories of the humbleness and courtesy of the US president and the grace of the…

  • REVIEW: India at CWG Glasgow

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     Veturi Srivatsa says India should be happy with the Glasgow returns  If you take away 2010 New Delhi, the benchmark for India at the Commonwealth Games has been 2002 Manchester when they crossed the 50-medal mark for the first time by ending up with 69 medals, 30 of them gold. Before the Indians left for Glasgow,…

  • Rajeev Mehta – A Kalmadi prodigee

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    From being the president of the low-profile Kho Kho federation to secretary-general of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Rajeev Mehta has had a meteoric rise in Indian sports. But the 49-year-old Mehta brought embarrassment for the country when he was arrested in Glasgow for driving without a valid licence and under the influence of alcohol.…

  • Special Feature – KABADDI, KABADDI….

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    Abhishek Roy says kabaddi is now cool sport in India, thanks to Bollywood, corporates Kabaddi, an indigenous contact sport in India, is witnessing a resurgence, thanks to big-time commercial sponsorship and prime-time TV patronage. Riding on the IPL-style hockey and football leagues, kabaddi has come up with not one but two leagues to complement each…

  • INTERVIEW: Wrestler Sushil Kumar

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    Abhishek Roy is talking to Wrestler Sushil Kumar who says Glasgow gold boost for Rio Olympics India champion wrestler Sushil Kumar said Saturday that the Glasgow Commonwealth Games gold should inspire him to bigger success at the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro. India’s only individual two-time Olympic medallist is now eyeing the…

  • PICTORIAL : CWG in Glasgow

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     England are on top of medals tally on the penultimate day of the 20th Commonwealth Games with 56 golds, 54 silvers and 53 bronzes followed by Australia and Canada. India are fifth with a tally of 61 medals, including 14 golds, 28 silvers and 19 bronzes.

  • Pranab congrats CWG wwinners

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    Indian President Pranab Mukherjee Saturday congratulated sportspersons for winning medals at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The president congratulated Yogeshwar Dutt, Babita Kumari, Vikas Gowda, Geetika Jakhar, Dipa Karmakar and Pawan Kumar for winning medals at the 20th Commonwealth Games in their respective disciplines and gave his “best wishes for future success”. In separate letters, Mukherjee…

  • India’s Day at Glasgow 2014

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    Gowda lands discus gold, wrestlers Yogeshwar, Babita triumph  Discus thrower Vikas Gowda broke a 56-year jinx, to toast with gold alongside wrestlers Yogeshwar Dutt and Babita Kumari as India snaked up to the fifth spot in the medal race at the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow on Thursday. After a day of elusive hunt, Indian sportspersons…

  • Kylie to perform at Closing Ceremony

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    Kylie Minogue will perform alongside Lulu, Deacon Blue and Dougie MacLean at the closing ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, BBC reported. The Hampden finale will begin at 21.00 on Sunday, less than 24 hours after the end of track and field events. More than 2,000 volunteer performers will also take part in the ceremony,…

  • Moeen fuels England Win

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    Cook all praise for Moeen Ali, England’s new bowling hero England captain Alastair Cook Thursday praised Moeen Ali and said the part-time spinner had improved “leaps and bounds” — thanks to his stint with Worcestershire where he bowls with Pakistan offie Saeed Ajmal. Moeen Ali produced a match-winning spell, taking six wickets as India were…

  • ICC bans Moeen’s Gaza band

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    England cricketer  Moeen Ali has been warned by world cricket chiefs not to wear wristbands declaring his support for the people of Gaza again during international matches. But the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Ali would face no disciplinary action on this occasion after being warned about his future conduct by match referee David Boon. Worcestershire…

  • Australia top on CWG medal list

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    Australia are leading the medals tally with 33 gold, 28 silver and 37 bronze on the fifth day of the 20th Commonwealth Games. India are now sixth with a tally of 35 medals, including 10 gold, 15 silver and 10 bronze. Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Australia 33 28 36 97 England 32 28 27…

  • Ricciardo wins Hungarian F1

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      Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo of Australia, in his rookie year on the F-1 circuit, won the Hungarian Grand Prix Sunday. He managed to slide by Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso (Spain) who finished second and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton (Britain) in the last 10 laps of the 70 lap circuit at Mogyorod, some 18 km from…

  • Plan for Intl. football culture club

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    Known for his rich oeuvre of politically-charged works as well as his diverse football related projects, artist Riyas Komu plans to open an international football culture club. Hailing from Kerala and based in Mumbai, Komu prefers to do “socially relevant” paintings and is famed for football-themed installations. The artist is in talks with internationally-acclaimed football…

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    Superstars Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan were seen on the same platform in Mumbai to support Indian sport kabaddi. The Pro Kabaddi League tournament started on  Saturday and the duo, along with other celebrities like Farah Khan, Sachin Tendulkar, Tina Ambani and Kabir Bedi, attended the launch of the eight-city franchise.  Abhishek Bachchan owns Jaipur Pink…

  • The relevance of C’Wealth Games

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    Veturi Srivatsa is his column Just Sport is asking what purpose the Games serve when the world’s top athletes do not take them seriously What is the relevance of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) in the 21st century? This question pops up every four years, more so in the last two decades. The Games are invariably held in British…

  • Sachin launch book on Raj Singh

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  • Bindra shoots gold at Glasgow

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    Ace shooter Abhinav Bindra fired to glory to sign off from his final Commonwealth Games with a gold while teenager Malaika Goel shot a silver and lifter Santoshi Matsa snatched a bronze as India’s medals tally reached the double figure mark on day two of competition at the 2014 Glasgow Games here Friday. With three…

  • Wiggins done with cycle road racing

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    England’s cycling star Bradley Wiggins said he was done with road racing and would never participate in the Tour de France. Wiggins, who won a Commonwealth Games silver medal Thursday as England were beaten by Australia in the team pursuit, was quoted by the BBC as saying that road racing is “cut-throat” with “no kind…

  • World Kabaddi League Comes To The O2

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      The O2 has announced that the World Kabaddi League will begin its global tour at the London arena on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 of August 2014. Tickets go on sale at 9am on Friday 25 July and can be booked from AXS.com or via the booking line 08448 24 48 24. The first…

  • India kick-start Glasgow Games

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    India’s woman power was to the fore on the opening day of the Commonwealth Games here Thursday when the gritty weightlifters accounted for a gold and silver and female judokas added another silver and a bronze to make it a day to remember. Then there was a bureaucratic goof-up to dim the sheen of the…

  • Rodriguez joins Real

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    Colombian international James Rodriguez has agreed to a six-year-contract which will see him earn around six million euros a year and keep him at Real Madrid until 2020. The Spanish giants Tuesday confirmed Rodriguez’s signing from French outfit AS Monaco for a fee believed to be in the region of 75-80 million euros, reports Xinhua.…

  • Queen’s horse fails dope test

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    Estimate, the horse that realised a lifelong dream for the Queen at Ascot last year is now at the centre of racing’s latest drugs story. Buckingham Palace issued an unprecedented statement saying Estimate has failed a routine dope test for morphine. “Her Majesty,” it added, “has been informed of the situation”. Estimate will face inevitable disqualification and her…

  • Bolt will be in Glasgow

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    Sprint superstar Usain Bolt is set to return to the tracks next month after injury concerns slowed his return this season. Bolt, who has not been seen in competition all season, is set to compete in four events starting with an appearance at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next month, reports CMC. The Jamaican athlete,…

  • Historic win for India at Lords

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    India registered a historic 95-run win over England on the fifth and final day of the second cricket Test at Lord’s here Monday. Resuming the second session at 173/5, England were bowled out for 223 while chasing a target of 319 runs. Pacer Ishant Sharma was the pick of the Indian bowlers with career best…

  • India in firm control at Lords

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    India put themselves in pole position by reducing England to 105 for four, still needing 214 runs to win, at stumps on day four of the second Test at Lord’s here Sunday. England top order failed to get going as Indian pacers bowled brilliantly in the final session. After losing opener Sam Robson (7) in…

  • Rosberg takes German Grand Prix

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    Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg extended his lead in the Formula One drivers’ standings with his first win on home soil while both Force India drivers scored points at the German Grand Prix here Sunday. Nico Hulkenberg, like Fernando Alonso, kept up his record for finishing every 2014 race in the points, and took seventh for…

  • Lord’s Test delicately poised

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    India were looking solid post-tea against England but three quick wickets in the last session were enough to put the second Test at Lord’s in a delicate situation and evenly poised with the visitors ending with a lead of 145 runs on Day 3 here Saturday. After bowling out the hosts for 319 in the…

  • Just Sport on Jadeja-Anderson spat

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    Veturi Srivatsa  in his weekly column analysing the Jadeja-Anderson spat. It is a test case for new chief Srinivasan  It is incongruous to find players from India and England standing eyeball-to-eyeball within a month of the expressed bonhomie of their board along with Cricket Australia in joining hands to rule World cricket. It is difficult to believe…