E-SPORTS
Prime Eight Finalists for the PlayStation India Cup That includes EA SPORTS FC 26 revealed
The highest eight finalists who’ve certified for the LAN Finale of the PlayStation India Cup have been introduced. The web section of the match that includes nationwide weekly qualifiers adopted by intense double-elimination playoffs has formally concluded.
The eight gamers who’ve certified are Charanjot Singh, Afnan Khan, Karman Tikka, Chaitanya Singh, Amaanuddin Warsi, Saransh Jain, Aditya Chadha, Jahaan | Khan.
These eight contenders will compete within the LAN Finale, which may also observe a Double Elimination Finest-of-2 format throughout two days, culminating within the crowning of the PlayStation India Cup 2025 Champion. The grand finale will likely be hosted contained in the NODWIN Gaming Area at Delhi Comedian Con.
-Staff Sportstar
SQUASH
Anjali Semwal, Rathika Seelan in Sunil Verma Memorial squash quarterfinals
Girls’s high seed Anjali Semwal moved into the quarterfinals of the eleventh Sunil Verma Memorial squash, a PSA Challenger occasion, with a 13-11, 11-6, 11-7 victory over Reiva Nimbalkar in Thane on Thursday.
Amongst different girls’s pre-quarterfinals matches, third seed Rathika Suthanthira Seelan beat Aaradhana Kasturiraj 11-4, 11-2, 11-6 and fourth seed Nirupama Dubey defeated Malaysia’s Rui Jean Yek 11-2, 6-11, 11-7, 11-7.
Amongst matches within the males’s round-of-16, Gurveer Singh rallied to beat French seventh seed Manuel Paquemar 12-14, 5-11, 11-9, 11-0, 12-10 and Abhishek Agarwal defeated French eighth seed Matteo Carrouget 11-9, 8-11, 11-8, 11-8.
-Staff Sportstar
CRICKET
PM Modi meets Indian Girls’s blind cricket crew after T20 World Cup triumph
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday met the Indian girls’s cricket crew after it gained the inaugural Blind T20 World Cup, defeating Nepal by seven wickets within the closing in Colombo.
The victory for the Indian Girls’s blind crew in a six-team match got here days after the ladies’s senior crew registered its maiden triumph within the ODI World Cup.
The members of the crew offered PM Modi with an autographed bat whereas he additionally signed a ball for the crew.
The victorious Indian crew was earlier applauded by PM Modi on its historic achievement.
“Congratulations to Indian Blind Girls’s Cricket Staff for creating historical past by successful the inaugural Blind Girls’s T20 World Cup! Extra commendable is the truth that they stayed unbeaten within the collection,” PM Modi wrote on X.
“That is certainly a historic sporting achievement, a shining instance of exhausting work, teamwork and dedication. Every participant is a champion! My greatest needs to the crew for his or her future endeavours. This feat will encourage generations to return,” he added.
KHELO INDIA UNIVERSITY GAMES
KIUG: Sachdeva’s seventh swimming gold consolidates Jain College’s place at high
Jain College’s Bhavya Sachdeva bagged a golden double within the particular person swimming occasions and added one other gold within the girls’s 4x100m medley relay, taking her total tally to seven on the Khelo India College Video games right here on Thursday.
Bhavya, who had gained one particular person and one relay gold on the primary two days of competitors, started her gold medal march on Thursday within the girls’s 800m freestyle class with a timing of 9:37.41s right here on the Sawai Mansingh Stadium advanced.
The primary Indian girls to win an Asian Aquatic Championships medal earlier this 12 months, Bhavya returned to the pool a couple of minutes later to win the 200m freestyle occasion with a time of two:13.55s.
Jain College swimmers expectedly dominated the pool occasions, successful eight of the 11 gold medals on provide to take their total gold medal tally to twenty.
Guru Nanak Dev College and Pretty Skilled College have been locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the second spot within the medals tally, because the latter bagged three gold medals in archery and one in capturing to take their gold medals tally to 13.
Guru Nanak Dev College have up to now gained 14 gold medals, sweeping all three crew golds in fencing whereas successful one in capturing on Thursday.
Archers Anshika Kumari and Devaang Gupta gained the recurve women and men finals respectively, and returned within the night to steer LPU to the crew gold.
Within the girls’s recurve closing, Anshika defeated Panjab College’s Srishti Jaiswal 6-2, whereas Gupta bought the higher of Shivaji College’s Sahil Shelar 6-4 within the males’s recurve closing on the Jagatpura Sports activities Complicated.
Within the crew occasion, Pretty Skilled College ladies defeated Kurukshetra College 6-0, whereas the boys beat Shivaji College 6-2.
Anshika and Gupta, nonetheless, suffered a setback within the recurve blended crew closing, happening in a tiebreaker in opposition to Rani Durgavati Vishwavidyalaya’s Kartika Bichpuriya and Deepanshu Nanda.
Just a few meters away in the identical advanced, Pretty Skilled College’s Rajkanwar Singh Sandhu bagged the 25m speedy hearth pistol gold with a closing rating of 29, getting the higher of Panjab College’s Devansh Vashishtya by only one level.
Within the males’s 10m air rifle occasion, Yash Vardhan bagged first gold medal of the Video games for Manipal College, Rajasthan with a rating of 252.7 within the closing.
Yash and silver medallist Maddineni Uma Mahesh of KLEF College have been neck-and-neck all through the ultimate, nevertheless it was the ten.8 within the first shot of the ultimate collection that ensured him a medal as his closest opponent solely managed a 9.9.
Elsewhere, in Bikaner, Logeswaran S delivered the standout efficiency on Day 3 of the weightlifting occasions, securing his first-ever KIUG gold medal.
Representing Thiruvallur College, the Tamil Nadu-born lifter dominated the boys’s 79kg class with a complete raise of 305kg — 135kg in snatch and 170kg in clear and jerk — marking a breakthrough in his third KIUG look.
The afternoon session featured a tightly contested males’s 88kg class, the place Parikshit Soni of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya emerged on high with a complete raise of 278kg (127kg snatch; 151kg clear and jerk).
He edged out Andhra College’s M Tarun, who completed with 276kg (126kg snatch; 150kg clear and jerk), whereas Guru Kashi College’s Vivek secured bronze after lifting 273kg (121kg snatch; 152kg clear and jerk).
– PTI
GOLF
Pukhraj Singh Gill lies second as 4 different Indians are tied sixth at Bharath Basic
Chandigarh-based Pukhraj Singh Gill produced a career-best six-under 66 to lie second after the opening day of the inaugural Bharath Basic 2025 Gujarat on Thursday.
Utilizing a brand new putter, Gill, a tenth-tee starter, had eight birdies in opposition to two bogeys in an aggressive show on the difficult Kensville course.
Gill, a winner on the IGPL Tour in Jamshedpur, is 2 pictures behind Korean Heemin Chang who took the lead on Day One of many inaugural USD 500,000 Bharath Basic.
Mendacity tied second with Gill are Korean Wooyoung Cho, Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond and Poosit Supupramai, who shot 66 every.
Taking part in the course and not using a observe spherical as a result of he arrived solely late Wednesday evening, Chang shot an eight-under-par 64, together with an eagle on the Par-4 fifteenth gap.
He had seven birdies and an eagle in opposition to one lone bogey on the Par-5 14th.
Indians had a very good day in workplace with 4 others — Ajeetesh Sandhu, Olympian Udayan Mane, Sachin Baisoya and novice Ishaan Chawhan — capturing five-under 67 every to be tied-sixth.
Indian-American Varun Chopra additionally carded a 67 as eight gamers have been bunched at tied-sixth. It additionally included current Asian Tour winner, Ekpharit Wu of Thailand.
Saptak Talwar, who divided his time between the HotelPlanner Tour and the Indian Tour, shot three-under 69 as did veteran Naman Dawar, Sudhir Sharma and Gaurav Pratap Singh in an enormous bunch at tied-Seventeenth.
-PTI
FOOTBALL
Assam to host Santosh Trophy 2025-26 Remaining Spherical in January
The ultimate spherical of the 79th Nationwide Soccer Championship for the Santosh Trophy 2025-26 will happen in Assam in January 2026. The group phases will likely be held throughout 9 venues from December 15 to 26.
The group stage will function 35 groups break up into 9 teams (eight teams with 4 groups and one group with three). The group winners will be part of hosts Assam, final season’s champion West Bengal, and runner-up Kerala within the 12-team closing spherical that will likely be hosted in Dhakuakhana and Dhemaji.
Assam final hosted the Santosh Trophy Remaining Spherical within the 2010-11 season, when West Bengal defeated Manipur to raise the trophy.
-Staff Sportstar
Revealed on Nov 27, 2025