Sports News April 15 Highlights: India Reveal Squad For BWF Sudirman Cup 2025; Shreyas Iyer Wins ICC Men's Player Of The Month For March

Greetings to all of you today on yet another eventful day from a sporting perspective. From the Women's World Cup Qualifier in cricket to Champions League in football, an action-packed Tuesday beckons. Buckle up for an enthralling ride.

Antoine Semenyo scored just 53 seconds in as Bournemouth edged Fulham 1-0, boosting their European hopes. The Cherries climbed to eighth in the table, equalling their Premier League points record (48) and ending a six-game winless run.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) secured a five-wicket win against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in Match 30 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, chasing down 167 with three deliveries to spare at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium.

LSG, after being put to bat first, scratched their way to a target of 166/7 aided by a captain라이브 바카라 knock from Rishabh Pant. After a tough start to his IPL 2025 campaign, Pant stabilised LSG라이브 바카라 innings, scoring 63 runs off 49 balls as wickets continued to fall in regular intervals on the other end. Read more HERE.

Napoli closed the gap on Serie A leaders Inter to just three points with a commanding 3-0 victory over Empoli. Scott McTominay opened the scoring early, followed by Romelu Lukaku라이브 바카라 goal and an assist to McTominay for a header. Meanwhile, Empoli remain in the relegation zone, two points from safety.

Today the inconsistent Kolkata Knight Riders visit Mullanpur to take on a bruised Punjab Kings in the Indian Premier League 2025 as both sides aim to break out of the mid-table muddle.

Both KKR and PBKS have three wins and two losses each in their first five games and a win could help them climb up in the table. KKR come into the game on the back of a confidence-boosting eight-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings. PBKS, on the other hand, failed to defend a 245-run target and lost to SunRisers Hyderabad in a spectacular fashion. Read the PBKS Vs KKR Key Battles HERE.

The Thailand vs Ireland, ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2025 match 9 will start at 10:00 AM IST at the Lahore City Cricket Association Ground. Follow the live scores and updates HERE.

Aston Villa vs Paris - 12:30 AM IST

First leg: 1-3

Borussia Dortmund vs Barcelona - 12:30 AM IST

First leg: 0-4

Real Madrid vs Arsenal - 12:30 AM IST

First leg: 0-3

Inter vs Bayern München - 12:30 AM IST

First leg: 2-1

IPL match between Punjab Kings and KKR in Mullanpur (7:30 pm).

HOCKEY: Senior Men's National Championships in Jhansi.

The Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad has been appointed the International Event Ambassador for the 17th edition of the Tata Consultancy Services World 10K Bengaluru, set to take place on Sunday, 27 April 2025.

A two-time Olympic gold medalist and former world record holder in the 400m hurdles, Muhammad is known for her incredible achievements on the track, including breaking the 400m hurdles world record in 2019. S

The Badminton Association of India has named a 14-member squad for the BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2025, to be held in Xiamen, China from April 27 to May 4. PV Sindhu, Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy, and the men's doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy–Chirag Shetty headline the team.

India have been placed in Group D alongside Indonesia, Denmark, and England. Backed by strong recent performances and a balanced lineup, the team will be eyeing a historic medal finish.

India Squad for Sudirman Cup 2025:

Men: Lakshya Sen, HS Prannoy, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, Chirag Shetty, Hariharan Amsakarunan, Ruban Kumar R, Dhruv Kapila, Sathish Kumar Karunakaran

Women: PV Sindhu, Anupama Upadhyaya, Tanisha Crasto, Priya Konjengbam, Shruti Mishra, Aadya Variyath

The Interim Committee, formed by World Boxing to steer Indian boxing back on track, held its first meeting on Monday.

Key decisions were made to boost grassroots efforts and improve medal prospects. The committee agreed to rejuvenate the domestic circuit, restart the elite boxing system, and select coaches and staff for National Coaching Camps immediately.

Other steps include supporting India라이브 바카라 participation in the U-15 and U-17 Asian Championships, ensuring smooth conduct of Youth U-19 Nationals, and disbursing pending REC scholarship funds.

In just the second match of the 2025 IPL season, Sunrisers Hyderabad blasted their way to 286/6, the second-highest total in IPL history. Since then, big scores have become the norm, with 200+ totals now expected and anything lower often seen as underwhelming. But this growing trend of high scores is raising questions about the balance between bat and ball – and whether the integrity of cricket itself is at stake.

Reports from the Indian Express suggest that the use of oversized bats may be one of the reasons behind the surge in high team totals. As a result, the 'oversized bat gauge' has been introduced by BCCI in the IPL 2025 season. Read the full story HERE.

Indian Premier League (IPL) fever is in the air. While the 2024-25 season is heating up, a number of cricket-cum-tech geeks are busy building artificial intelligence (AI) models to win off the field.

The Federation of Indian Fantasy Sports (FIFS) has launched the second edition of the 'Sports Data Gameathon', a sports AI challenge for students from premier technical institutes of the country. While the first edition had students building predictive models for fantasy teams in the ICC Champions Trophy, the forthcoming one focuses on the IPL. Read More HERE.

Indian batter Shreyas Iyer has been named the ICC Men's Player of the Month for March after playing a key role in India's Champions Trophy victory. Iyer, the highest run-scorer in the tournament with 243 runs, helped India end their 12-year drought. Iyer라이브 바카라 contributions helped India secure the trophy, marking a back-to-back win for India in the award, following Shubman Gill라이브 바카라 win in February.