The FIDE World Cup 2025 is a single-elimination knockout tournament featuring 206 players from 82 countries competing for the coveted Viswanathan Anand Cup, named after the Indian legend.
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Vice President Rajeev Shukla hailed the Indian women's cricket team's World Cup victory over South Africa as a monumental achievement, praising their exceptional performance against strong teams like Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
In these last 16 months, the men's national team ended their 11-year-long trophy drought, securing the ICC T20 World Cup last year in June for the second time and following it up with a ICC Champions Trophy this year in March on spin-friendly pitches of Dubai. Cut to November, now women's
Decorated off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has rated India women's team's World Cup title triumph as a "bigger achievement" than any World Cup win that the nation has ever won because of the impact it can create in the landscape of the country's women's cricket.
India women's team captain Harmanpreet Kaur posed in front of the Gateway of India in Mumbai with the coveted Women's World Cup trophy and recreated the iconic picture of 'Captain Cool' MS Dhoni with the World Cup title in 2011.
Shafali lived up to her words spoken in the presser before the semifinals against Australia, delivering the "good" that the "god" had sent her for in the final of the ICC Women's World Cup against Proteas, first, a record-breaking knock of 87, the highest by an Indian women's player in a WC
Amanjot Kaur ran out the South African opener Tazmin Brits to shift momentum towards India and took a stunning catch of Proteas skipper and the leading run scorer of the Women's CWC 2025, Laura Wolvaardt.
The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) on Monday confirmed that batting coach Andrew Puttick will depart following the conclusion of his contract at the end of December.
India women's team head coach Amol Muzumdar, in a powerful message, urged his team to block out the outside noise for seven hours and write their own story before the Women's World Cup final against South Africa at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday.
All-round performances from Shafali Verma (87 and 2/36) and Deepti Sharma (58 and 5/39) were the highlights as a clinical Women in Blue team defied all odds and barriers to seal their maiden ICC Women's World Cup title and first-ever world title across both white-ball formats, defending a ta
India finally broke their world title drought, securing their maiden ICC Women's World Cup title by beating first-time finalists South Africa by 52 runs in a clinical display at DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday.