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UAE standby venue for T20 World Cup: BCCI
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has been named as standby for the T20 World Cup in case the worsening Covid-19 situation does not improve in India, a top official of the Indian cricket board (BCCI) confirmed. India are due to host the tournament in October-November but a second wave of Covid-19 has hit the country badly with well over 3.5 lakh new cases and 3,000-plus deaths daily over the last few days.
CSK continue to lead, PBKS consolidate sixth spot
Punjab Kings (PBKS) consolidated their sixth position on the Indian Premier League (IPL) points table after their 34-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Friday night. PBKS now have six points, the same as Mumbai Indians (MI). However, the Punjab franchise is one spot behind MI due to inferior net run rate (NRR). PBKS have an NRR of -0.264 as against MI's NRR of +0.071.
Rahul takes Orange cap from Dhawan, Purple stays with Harshal
Punjab Kings (PBKS) skipper K.L. Rahul, who scored an unbeaten 91 on Friday night against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), overtook Delhi Capitals opener Shikhar Dhawan in the race for Orange cap given to the top run-getter at the end of the tournament. Rahul, who had won the Orange cap last season, has 331 runs in seven matches at an average 66.2. He has also scored runs at brisk pace. His strike rate is 136.21.
Man City win will see PL title decided this weekend
Manchester City lead their neighbours by 10 points with 15 points left to play for this season and have a vastly superior goal difference to United. Their morale has to be sky high after a spectacular second-half display away to Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday saw them take a 2-1 lead in their Champions League semi-finals, reports Xinhua.
Indian rowers leave for Tokyo for Olympic qualifying event
In the hope of making the cut for the Tokyo Olympic Games, a 14-member Indian rowing squad, including nine players, boarded a Tokyo-bound flight on Friday to compete in the World Rowing Asia Oceania Continental Olympic and Paralympic Qualifying Regatta. The competition will be held from May 5 to 7 in Tokyo.
Maxwell wants to get out of Covid-crippled India at all costs
Maxwell showed this desperation to leave India as quickly as possible after the IPL, when he said that he wouldn't mind taking the same charter flight that would take the India and New Zealand players to England for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, scheduled in June, on the way to Australia.
IPL 2021: Brar, Rahul star in PBKS's big win over RCB
After putting up a challenging total of 179/5, PBKS managed to restrict RCB to 145/8 in their 20 overs. Brar, who had played only three IPL matches before Friday, scalped 3/19 in his four overs to run through the power-packed RCB middle-order. Before that, Australian pacer Riley Meredith had dealt the first blow to RCB by sending opener Devdutt Padikkal's off-stump flying.
Madrid Open: Naomi Osaka wins maiden clay match in two years
The reigning US Open and Australian Open champion had withdrawn from last year's autumn clay swing due to a hamstring injury and had not competed on clay since her third-round loss to Katerina Siniakova at Roland Garros 2019.
Feeling at home in Delhi, MI take on CSK
MI, who seem to have rediscovered their mojo on a batting-friendly surface in Delhi after the Chennai leg saw them lose three of their five matches, will be tough competitors for CSK who are on top of the table at the moment. The Chennai franchise has won five out of its six matches and looks a very strong unit. MI have won three and lost three matches.
Chhetri gives 'real-life captains' access to his Twitter account
The Indian national football team captain, Sunil Chhetri, on Friday said that he is giving his Twitter account access to 'real-life captains' so that they could share critical information for Covid-19 patients.
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