Ashwin speaks out on abrupt retirement 

Having to sit out of Test matches on away tours “eventually got to me”, says Indian spin legend Ravichandran Ashwin of his abrupt international retirement in the middle of the last Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia.

Elavenil Valarivan makes merry

Indian shooter Elavenil Valarivan clinched the gold medal in women’s 10m air rifle competition of the 16th Asian Championships here on Friday with an impressively composed performance in the final.

Selvaraghavan part of Shane Nigam’s Balti

The makers of director Unni Sivalingam’s upcoming sports action drama ‘Balti’, featuring actor Shane Nigam in the lead, have now released the look of Tamil director and actor Selvaraghavan in the film and disclosed that he plays the character of Porthamarai Bhairavan in the sports drama.