Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader and Kerala MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday expressed his disappointment after the Indian Cricket team that is set to take on England for the fourth test of the series, left ace Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin out of the playing XI.

Tokyo: India's Prachi Yadav on Thursday qualified for the semifinals of canoe sprint event in women's Va'a single 200m at the Tokyo Paralympics here.

Bengaluru: Former India and Karnataka cricketer, Dodda Ganesh on Wednesday said he will stop tweeting about cricket if premier Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin does not feature in the Indian playing XI against England for the fourth test match of the series starting Thursday.

London: Karnataka speedster Prasidh Krishna, who has been a standby player with the Indian team for the past three months, was on Wednesday added to the main squad ahead of the fourth Test against England here.

 Indian para swimmer Suyash Jadhav endured a disappointing outing in the men's 100m breaststroke SB7 final of the ongoing Paralympic Games as he was disqualified for a rule violation here on Wednesday.

Shooter Avani Lekhara, who became India's first female gold medallist in Paralympic Games two days ago, failed to replicate her success as she crashed out in the qualification round of the mixed 10m Air Rifle Prone SH1 event here on Wednesday.

Tokyo: Defending champion Mariyappan Thangavelu and Sharad Kumar won a silver and bronze respectively in the men's high jump T42 event as India's medal tally at the Paralympics touched an unprecedented 10 on Tuesday.

 South African fast bowling great Dale Steyn on Tuesday announced retirement from all forms of cricket, bringing the curtains down on an illustrious career during which he locked horns with some of the finest batsmen of his time.