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2000, 2008, 2012 and now 2018. India pulled off a sensational eight-wicket win over Australia in the big final of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup to become the only side in history to lift the coveted title for a record fourth time. A clinical bowling performance by India saw them restrict Australia to 216, a total that Prithvi Shaw and his men gunned down comfortably in the end - with 67 balls remaining - to etch their name in history books. Its said a good foundation supported by "The Wall" gets you results. It was evident that Rahul Dravid played a vital role in shaping this team and making it World Champions. The platform for the big win was laid by, first, the bowlers, who staged a terrific comeback to remove the last six Australian wickets for just 33 runs, and later by opener Manjot Kalra, who struck a 101-ball century to lead India to victory. Kalra got vital partnerships going with each batsman he batted with - 71 with Shaw, 60 with Shubman Gill and an unbeate...

NEW DELHI: The mega two-day Indian Premier 2018 auction is over. Across Saturday and Sunday, the eight franchises assembled under one roof to rebuild their squad for the upcoming season of the cash-rich IPL.  England all-rounder Ben Stokes was the costliest buy  while Jaydev Unadkat turned out to be the most expensive India cricketer at the auction. Here are the squads of the eight teams after the auction: CHENNAI SUPER KINGS [25 players] MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Dwayne Bravo. Karn Sharma, Shane Watson, Shardul Thakur, Ambati Rayudu, Murali Vijay, Harbhajan Singh, Faf Du Plessis, Mark Wood, Sam Billings, Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Santner, Lungisani Ngidi, Asif K M, N Jagadeesan, Kanishk Seth, Monu Singh, Dhruv Shorey, Kshitiz Sharma, Chaitanya Bishnoi DELHI DAREDEVILS [25 players] Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Chris Morris, Glenn Maxwell, Kagiso Rabada, Amit Mishra, Shahbaz Nadeem, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Mohammad Shami, G...

Blind World Cup 2018: The Indian cricket team won the blind world cup 2018 by beating arch-rivals Pakistan by 2 wickets in the final. Blind World Cup 2018: The Indian cricket team won the blind world cup 2018 by beating arch-rivals Pakistan by 2 wickets in the final. Chasing a target of 308 runs in 40 overs at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium in UAE on Saturday, the Indian team reached there with 8 balls remaining. It was India’s second title at the mega event as earlier they won World Cup, outclassing Pakistan at Cape Town, South Africa in December 2014. Batting first, Pakistan scored 308 runs with the help of Riyasat Khan and skipper Nisar Ali’s solid knocks who scored 48 and 47 runs, respectively. Sunil Ramesh was the star performer for India in the Blind World Cup 2018 final, scoring 93 runs while captain Ajay Reddy also smashed 63 runs, helping India successfully defend the title. There were some nervous moments in the game as team India lost few crucial wickets in the middle o...

India will be captained by Prithvi Shaw and coached by Rahul Dravid | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre Where is it being played? When is India playing? Here's all you need to know The 12 edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup gets underway in various venues in New Zealand starting on Saturday. The opening day of the 2018 edition – the third time New Zealand are hosting the tournament – features four games, with the hosts taking on defending champions West Indies. The concept of such a tournament took shape 30 years ago, in Australia, when it was called the Youth World Cup. It returned after a ten-year break and from then on it has been referred to as the U-19 World Cup, held every two years. Format The 16 teams have been divided into four groups of four teams each. All teams in each group will play each other once. The top two from each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. The top four will qualify for the semi-finals. The final will be played on February 3 at Mount Maunganui. ...

Mumbai batsman will look to lead his side to a record fourth title; Gill named his deputy Prithvi Shaw will lead a 15-member Indian team at the ICC Under-19 World Cup 2018 in New Zealand in January-February, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced on Sunday (December 3). The Indian junior selection committee named Shubman Gill as his deputy. The World Cup will be held from January 13 to February 3. India is a three-time winner of the competition, the joint-most along with Australia. In the last edition of the tournament in 2016 in Bangladesh, India strolled to the final but lost a closely fought title clash against Windies. The India team will have a preparatory camp in Bengaluru from December 8 to 22 before the event. However, Shaw and Ishan Porel will not join the camp immediately, having been given permission to play for Mumbai and Bengal respectively in the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals. Shaw is Mumbai’s second highest run-getter with 521 runs this Ranji seaso...

On 5 December 2013, India were awarded the rights to host the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup, its first ever global football event of any stature. In early-2016, the AIFF proposed that 2017 could also see the long-awaited merger of the Indian Super League (ISL) and the I-League — India's two premier football tournaments — leading to a bigger and longer domestic competition. The proposal was later reworked and a three-tier league system — also a first in Indian football's history — was put forward. So even before it began, 2017 was earmarked as the year in which Indian football would come of age. Fast forward to the dying hours of what was perceived to be the most significant year in Indian football's history till date, the nation can look back in admiration at some path-breaking developments, and rue certain missed opportunities. India's 'Cup of Good Hope' Jeakson Singh Thounaojam celebrates with his team-mates after scoring India's first World Cup goal. ...

Bittersweet is perhaps the best phrase to sum up India’s sporting record in 2017. The Indian team under Virat Kohli played brilliantly in the Champions Trophy in England in June to make the final, but eventually ended up second best to Pakistan. Uday Deb The women repeated the performance a month later. Beating Australia in a pulsating semi-final, they were in a position to close out the final but eventually fell short by an agonising margin of 9 runs, to finish runner up behind England before a packed house at Lord’s. PV Sindhu, who had another good year following her breakthrough performance in Rio in 2016, twice ended up second best in two closely contested finals. In fact, the world championship final between Sindhu and the Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in Glasgow will rank as one of the best badminton matches ever played. Among men, India now has four players in the top 20 in badminton with Kidambi Srikanth being the stand out performer winning a record four super series ti...