ESPORTS
Shreyas Iyer named model ambassador for F1 Program in India
Mumbai Falcons Racing Restricted introduced the appointment of cricketer Shreyas Iyer because the official model ambassador for the F1 Program in India.
The programme will likely be held beneath an settlement that grants Mumbai Falcons the rights to host an official Components 1-sanctioned sim racing competitors. The F1 Sim Racing India Open 2026 is geared toward establishing a nationwide aggressive platform for rising expertise throughout the nation.
The appointment displays Mumbai Falcons’ strategy to constructing sporting tradition and infrastructure throughout disciplines.
Iyer has established himself as considered one of Indian cricket’s most constant match-winners and a frontrunner throughout codecs.
“Sport has at all times been about discovering your edge and staying disciplined sufficient to behave on it. Once I heard what Mumbai Falcons is constructing when it comes to an actual pathway that takes younger Indians from the place they’re at present to the place they may go, I didn’t want a lot convincing. That is the type of initiative I might have needed entry to rising up, and I’m proud to be a part of what’s coming,” mentioned Iyer, model ambassador for the F1 Program in India led by Mumbai Falcons Racing Restricted.
The championship will likely be contested on F1 25, the official sport of the FIA Components 1 World Championship, that includes the identical circuits, aggressive codecs and workforce liveries as the worldwide sequence.
Registrations will start on April 30, 2026, by the MFRL App, out there on Play Retailer and Apple App Retailer.
– Workforce Sportstar
FOOTBALL
Dream Sports activities Basis companions with Premier League for Dream Sports activities Championship
Dream Sports activities Basis, the sports activities improvement arm of Dream Sports activities, has introduced a strategic partnership with the Premier League for the upcoming Dream Sports activities Championship, which will likely be held in Goa from Could 3 to 14.
The collaboration builds on DSF’s function because the official youth improvement associate of the All India Soccer Federation and will likely be built-in into key nationwide platforms, together with the Below-16 AIFF Junior League and the Dream Sports activities Championship.
The Premier League will conduct coach-development workshops and masterclasses for collaborating coaches and assist workers on the Dream Sports activities Championship and the AIFF Below-16 Junior League.
The periods will deal with coaching methodology, match administration, bodily conditioning, psychology and management, whereas bringing world greatest practices to the Indian soccer academy ecosystem.
By working intently with coaches, academies and golf equipment throughout the nation, DSF and the Premier League intention to assist Indian soccer by workshops, mentorship and knowledge-exchange initiatives.
– Workforce Sportstar
GOLF
LIV Golf appoints impartial board, targets new buyers after lack of Saudi backing
LIV Golf moved rapidly to determine a brand new path on Thursday after affirmation that Saudi backing for the circuit is ready to finish, saying a brand new board and a seek for long-term monetary companions.
Sources at Reuters mentioned on Wednesday that Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund would reduce funding, which has totalled greater than $1 billion a 12 months since 2022, on the finish of the league’s 2026 season.
With out mentioning PIF, LIV on Thursday introduced a “transition from a foundational launch section to a diversified, multi-partner funding mannequin” and a brand new impartial board led by enterprise consultants Gene Davis and Jon Zinman.
LIV upended golf in late 2021 when, armed with PIF’s backing, it enticed a number of the sport’s largest names to depart the long-established PGA Tour.
Main winners Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm, Phil Mickelson, Dustin Johnson, Brooks Koepka and Patrick Reed have been all recruited to play workforce golf world wide for tens of millions of {dollars} in prize cash.
The league will now must persuade its big-name gamers, who’re on profitable contracts, of its long-term viability with out Saudi backing.
– Reuters
CUE SPORTS
SAI extends monetary assist to cueists for IBSF World Billiards Championship
The Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) has sanctioned monetary help for India’s participation within the just-concluded IBSF World Males’s Billiards Championship in Eire, backing the 2026 version World Champion Sourav Kothari, multiple-time world champion Pankaj Advani and coach Ashok Shandilya.
The championship, which concluded on Wednesday, noticed the trio participate within the competitors with funding from the federal government beneath the Help to Nationwide Sports activities Federations (ANSFs) scheme.
SAI authorised a complete expenditure of roughly Rs 6.46 lakh to the Billiards and Snooker Federation of India (BSFI) in direction of the workforce’s participation, overlaying key parts resembling journey, boarding, lodging and different competition-related bills.
Kothari retained his IBSF World Billiards Championship title in Carlow, Eire with a dominant 1133–477 win over country-mate Advani.
The Kolkata cueist produced huge breaks, together with 485 and 241, and devoted the victory to his late father.
– PTI
OTHER SPORTS
West Bengal claimed the junior ladies’s workforce gold medal within the Nationwide creative gymnastics championships on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Thursday.
The outcomes:
Ladies: Workforce: Junior: 1. West Bengal (Ahana Neogi, Anusha Howlader, Paromita Bera, Shreya Ghosh, Sneha Das, Tora Sani) 172.433, 2. Maharashtra (Dhanishtha Ugalmugle, Ishwari Patil, Pagel Shah, Rudrani Mithawala, Sakshi Dalvi, Toree Sen) 160.164, 3. Tripura (Ankita Das, Aradhya Deb, Dowel Acharjee, Sanchita Nama, Shreyanshi Roy, Sreeparna Debnath) 155.166.
– Workforce Sportstar
Printed on Apr 30, 2026