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A half-and-half defence can always trouble you: Sachin Tendulkar on 1st Test loss
"I thought in the first innings we batted well and showed a lot of resilience. In the second innings, there was not much playing and missing by our batsmen. The ball wasn't moving around too much; just a little bit. Normally, when batters score runs we don't look at other elements, like the number of times he was beaten etc.," said Tendulkar.
Messi moves past Pele to become top goalscorer for a single club
Messi achieved the feat during Barca's 3-0 win against Valladolid on Tuesday evening. The Argentine ace has now scored staggering 644 goals, all wearing a Barcelona FC shirt, across 17 seasons and 749 games. That surpasses the 643 goals that Pele scored for Santos, until now the world record and one that few people thought would ever been broken.
Budget for 2022 Olympics increased by 22 per cent
The Tokyo 2020 organising committee said at a news conference on Tuesday that the additional cost caused by the postponement is about 294 billion yen (about 2.83 billion US dollars), with the operational cost for the delay 198 billion yen (about 1.91 billion US dollars), and the Covid-19 countermeasures cost of 96 billion yen (about 920 million US dollars), Xinhua news reports.
USA women's 4x1500m world record ratified
The record was set in a low-key intra-squad competition on a high school track with few competitors and no spectators. With few competitive opportunities available to them during the main summer season due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Bowerman Track Club quartet took full advantage, averaging sub-4:07 legs to smash the previous record of 16:33.58 sec set by the Kenyan quartet of Mercy Cherono, Faith Kipyegon, Irene Jelegat and Hellen Obiri at the World Relays on May 25, 2014.
Table tennis world team championships canceled due to Covid-19
The ITTF executive committee met on Monday with representatives from the continents to cancel the championships, originally scheduled to take place in March in Busan, the South Korean southeast port city. The competition was already postponed three times this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The daily number of infections here have hovered around 1,000 in recent days, raising the total cases to 51,460 as of midnight Tuesday.
India's lop-sided selection of playing XIs continues
An experienced campaigner like KL Rahul, who opened the batting during the 2018-19 tour of Australia, could have been an option, but India went ahead with Shaw. Lack of openers had forced India to pick Rahul for the Test squad, based on his IPL performances for Kings XI Punjab at the top, despite him not having made much of an impression at the Test level. Rahul was, surprisingly kept out of the second warm-up for which he was available.
I-League part of route to qualify for under-23 Asian Cup: Arrows coach
The Arrows, which is a developmental team of the All India Football Federation (AIFF) comprising players consitituting India's u-17 squad, was revived in the 2017/18 I-League. A previous iteration of the team played as the Pailan Arrows for three seasons -- 2010 and 2013 -- and featured the likes of Jeje Lalpekhlua and Gurpree Singh Sandhu, India's first choice goalkeeper.
Pacer Mohammed Shami advised 6 weeks' rest, to fly out to India on Wednesday
The right-arm pace bowler will need to undergo a brief period of quarantine on arrival in India. Shami, 30, suffered a fracture on his bowling hand after he was hit by a ball from Australia pace bowler Pat Cummins. He could not pick the bat and was in pain. It has been learned that scans have revealed a fracture on his hand, and as a result he will not participate in the last three Test matches to be played in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
Ind vs Aus: Virat Kohli leaves Australia, after pep talk with the team
As Kohli and Anushka Sharma are expecting their first child, the batsman requested the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for paternity leave. The BCCI obliged and Kohli was set to play only the pink-ball Test.
Mohammad Rizwan helps Pakistan register consolation win in final New Zealand T20I
Opting to field, Pakistan bowlers kept the New Zealand batsmen in check and despite Devon Conway's 63-run knock, the hosts could muster 173/7 in their allotted 20 overs at the McLean Park. Besides Conway, Tim Seifert -- who had been New Zealand's hero in the first two games -- contributed with 35 runs, which came off 20 deliveries. Glenn Phillips's 31 off 20 was also another notable performance for the Black Caps.
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