Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it’s quite easy to miss out on important news and results. That’s where we come in — ESPN’s daily Indian sports blog has all the updates from the world of Indian sports as well as the news, scores, schedule, results and commentary that comes with it.<\/p>\n
2026 is here and brings with it, a whole new set of sports events. It’s a big year for Indian sport — with the Commonwealth Games and Asian Games coming up later this year. There are also two Chess World Championship, where the open and women’s sections could both feature Indians in them.<\/p>\n
Here are all the updates from Indian sports on January 5, 2026.<\/p>\n
What’s on today? <\/p>\n
Women’s HIL: JSW Soorma Hockey Club vs Ranchi Royals at 5 PM.<\/p>\n
Men’s HIL: SG Pipers vs HIL GC at 7:30 PM.<\/p>\n
Boxing: The National Championships continue in Greater Noida.<\/p>\n
What happened yesterday? <\/p>\n
Hockey: There were wins for Vedanta Kalinga Lancers and Shrachi Bengal Tigers in the men’s HIL. <\/p>\n
Hockey: Shrachi Bengal Tigers beat Ranchi Royals 1-0 in women’s HIL.<\/p>\n
Boxing Senior Nationals: Amit Panghal, Sagar begin campaign in style<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian sports can get quite action-packed and it’s quite easy to miss out on important news and results.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-393516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}