Multi-Sport & Global Events 2026 - Tracker
Away from cricket, 2026 has been a landmark year on the sporting calendar, with a strong Indian thread running through it. India's Commonwealth Games campaign in Glasgow closed on 2 August with 39 medals and fourth place - a record boxing haul, the best para showing India has managed at these Games and a first judo title - before the Games flag passed to Ahmedabad, which stages the centenary edition in 2030. The live threads have moved on since: the Sports Ministry has suspended the Table Tennis Federation of India's recognition over governance failures, India's fencers are piling up golds at the Commonwealth Championships in Lagos, and the country holds three medals from the World Athletics Under-20 Championships in Eugene. Hockey's World Cup opens on 15 August without a quarter-final round. Elsewhere Norway stretched its dominance at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, Spain won football's first 48-team World Cup, and tennis crowned new Australian Open champions.
- Commonwealth Games 2030
- Khelo India Tribal Games
- Winter Olympics
- FIFA World Cup 2026
- Thomas Cup
- Australian Open
- Bhubaneswar
- Ahmedabad
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- Cricket 2026 — Results TrackerAdded the Colombo Test: India declared on 503, bowled Sri Lanka out for 290 and enforced the follow-on, leading the two-match series 1-0 with the hosts 229 for 6 and just 16 ahead after a rain-hit fourth day.
- India's Anti-Doping LawBrought the National Anti-Doping Act, 2022 and its 2025 Amendment into force on 17 July 2026 — India's clean-sport regime now carries full statutory force, aligned with the WADA Code and the UNESCO anti-doping convention.