PR Sreejesh might have hung up his boots in August, but the Indian did enough to win FIH's Goalkeeper of the Year award!
Read Sportstar's cover story from last month on the man himself from his home Kizhakkambalam, probably the only place in Kerala where flex boards of Lionel Messi are outnumbered by Sreejesh's.
✍️ Pranay Rajiv
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#Sreejesh | #IndianHockey
Vishnu Prasanna, D Gukesh's coach, says that Ding Liren's bad form does not matter much going into the World Championship match later this month
✍️ S. Prasanna Venkatesan
#DingGukesh | Read ⬇️
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Insisting that she still has a lot to offer and the potential to win many more titles on the demanding BWF circuit, star Indian shuttler P V Sindhu on Friday said #LA2028 games remains on her radar
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Jose Mourinho, the outspoken Fenerbahce coach, has been banned for a game and fined following his diatribe about Turkish football, when he said he was fighting “the system” and suggested officials are biased against his team
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Winners of the FIH Hockey Stars Awards 2023-24 have been announced!
P.R. Sreejesh wins the Goalkeeper Of The Year (Men) award while Harmanpreet Singh is the Player Of The Year (Men)
#HockeyStarsAwards | Details ⬇️
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Klaasen (19*) and Miller (16*) steady the ship for the host
South Africa is 78/3 at the halfway stage and requires 125 runs in 60 balls to win in Durban
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Arshdeep Singh strikes in the first over!!!
After conceding a couple of fours, he finds the outside edge of Aiden Markram's bat and Sanju Samson takes a simple catch
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Sanju Samson also breaks Suryakumar Yadav's record (55 balls) of the fastest T20I century by an Indian against South Africa
The opener eventually departs after scoring 107 off 50 balls
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Three days before India’s scheduled departure to Australia for the much-anticipated 5-Test series for the Border Gavaskar Trophy, India’s team management had a meeting with the top BCCI hierarchy
#AUSvsIND | Amol Karhadkar with more details ⬇️
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Despite losing Abhishek Sharma, India has made 56 runs in the PowerPlay with Sanju Samson (35*) scoring the majority of them
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India faces South Africa for the 1st time since this year's men's #T20WorldCup final!
Markram wins the toss & SA will bowl first in Durban
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Even though Hyderabad chalked up a mammoth 410, Rajasthan somehow managed to cut the Gordian knot, claim 1st-innings lead & thereby at least 3⃣ points from #RanjiTrophy match in Jaipur
✍️ Santadeep Dey
#RAJvHYD Day 3 wrap ⬇️
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📸 - R.V. Moorthy / The Hindu
The extraordinary heights #TheBigThree and the new Big Two have reached will be difficult to emulate. More world-class players play ‘like’ the conventional stylists, Djokovic and Sinner. However, it takes phenomenal athleticism, versatility, and creativity to replicate Federer and Alcaraz, who successfully modelled his game after Federer, albeit with a two-handed backhand
✍️ Paul Fein
#FromTheMagazine ⬇️
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The third season of #SportstarConclave will start in Jaipur!
Meet our star-studded panel of speakers from Rajyavardhan Rathore to Ajay Jadeja
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His teammates tease him by calling him 'Pujara'.
Hyderabad's Rahul Radesh showed similar batsmanship to the India international when he scored his maiden FC hundred in the #RanjiTrophy, writes Santadeep Dey
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Mukesh Kumar removes skipper McSweeney after a hard-fought 25!
We're in for a close finish at the MCG! AUS A needs 120 runs to win. IND A needs 7 wickets.
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After two games on the road, Chennaiyin FC returns home to face Mumbai City FC. This landmark clash will see the Indian Super League complete 1000 matches since its start in 2014.
✍️ Aneesh Dey
#ISL | #CFCMCFC Preview ⬇️
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ICYMI
Fast bowler Haris Rauf took 5-29 and Saim Ayub scored 82 runs as Pakistan defeated Australia by nine wickets in the second one-day international on Friday
#AUSvsPAK 2nd ODI ⬇️
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Men's T20 World Champion India begins the 4-match series against South Africa with a comfortable win in Durban
The 2nd T20I will be played in Gqeberha on Sunday
#SAvsIND 1st T20I Highlights ⬇️
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Varun Chakaravarthy removes both Heinrich Klaasen and David Miller in the same over!
SA - 87/5 (11.5)
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Not the kind of PowerPlay South Africa would have hoped for!
Chasing 203, the host has scored 49 runs in 6 overs but lost the wickets of Markram, Stubbs and Rickelton
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India posts a massive total courtesy a brilliant century from Sanju Samson in Durban
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Consecutive T20I centuries for Sanju Samson and he becomes the 1st Indian player to achieve this feat🔥🔥🔥
Also, consecutive tons for Samson against SA as he also scored a century (108) in the final ODI of the 3-match series in Paarl in December last year
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A gorgeous fifty from Sanju Samson in just 27 balls!!!
India 75/1 after 8 overs in Durban
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Lineups
🇮🇳 - Suryakumar Yadav (c), Samson (wk), Abhishek, Tilak, Hardik, Rinku, Axar, Arshdeep, Bishnoi, Avesh, Varun
🇿🇦 - Markram (c), Rickelton (wk), Stubbs, Klaasen, Miller, Kruger, Jansen, Simelane, Coetzee, Maharaj, Peter
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Indian pacer Mohammed Shami in the stands during day three of the Ranji Trophy match between Karnataka and Bengal at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (KSCA), in Bengaluru on Friday
📸 - K. Murali Kumar / The Hindu
#shami #mohammedshami #ranjitrophy #indiancricket
JUST IN: The Men's U19 Asia Cup 2024 (50-over format) will be held from November 29 to December 8 in Dubai and Sharjah
#MensU19AsiaCup2024 | More Details ⬇️
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Rodri claimed the men’s #BallonDor this year, becoming only the second defensive midfielder to win the trophy after Lothar Matthaus in 1990. It finally broke the pernicious bias towards attacking players
✍️ Neeladri Bhattacharjee
#FromTheMagazine ⬇️
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KL Rahul resisted at the top for 43 deliveries for his 10 before he was undone by spin.
Another failure for him in this match.
IND-A: 55/4
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India’s Kiran George defeated Takuma Obayashi of Japan 21-14, 21-16 to enter the men’s singles semifinals of #KoreaMasters2024 badminton tournament on Friday.
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