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Premier League: No Xmas, World Cup hangover as Arsenal return to action with win over West Ham
Worries about Arsenal seemed to be confirmed on Monday when Said Benrahma put West Ham ahead with a 27th-minute penalty, but Bukayo Saka levelled the score in the 53rd minute after controlling Martin Odegaard's mis-kick and Gabriel Martinelli put Arsenal ahead in the 59th minute. Eddie Nketiah extended the Gunners' lead after a cushioned pass from Odegaard with 21 minutes left to play and with former coach Arsene Wenger watching from the stands, Arsenal move seven points clear
AUS v SA, 2nd Test: Milestone Man Warner joins elite club with hundred in 100th Test
He is now the 10th batter to score a hundred in his 100th Test match. Warner, who last scored a hundred in January 2020, was under tremendous pressure as he entered the Boxing Day Test against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with a mediocre average of 20.61 in his last 10 innings
Babar Azam's unbeaten 161, Sarfaraz Ahmed's 86 propel Pakistan to 317/5 against New Zealand
Apart from him, a returning Sarfaraz Ahmed shined in his 50th Test appearance and first at home with a gritty 86 off 153 balls. Ahmed, coming in for Mohammad Rizwan to get a Test appearance after almost four years, shared a mammoth 196-run partnership for the fifth wicket with Babar lasting 56.3 to put Pakistan in a position of strength and demoralise New Zealand.
Lovlina, Nikhat among gold medallists at 6th Elite Women's National Boxing; Railways crowned champions
While the Assam boxer Borgohain beat Arundhati Choudhary of Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) quite comfortably by 5-0 margin in the 75kg final, Zareen faced a stiff challenge from RSPB's Anamika in the 50kg gold medal match before the 26-year-old Telangana pugilist tilted the match 4-1 in her favour to successfully defend her title.
India now better placed to qualify for world Test championship final
The WTC, played as a two-year league between the top nine Test playing sides and then a knockout final between the two teams who emerge with the highest points, is in its second cycle after the inaugural competition in 2021-23. The final this time will be played at The Oval in London in June.
You take a lot of your care in your bowling when you're just a bowler: Cameron Green
After the end of day's play, Green said in the post-match press conference that he believes one has to take a lot of care in bowling when a player is a specialist bowler, not an all-rounder, which he is. "I think your priorities change. You take a lot of your care in your bowling when you're just a bowler. You have that rhythm because you're bowling 20 overs an innings basically. That's probably the main difference."
PCB to follow govt's advice on going to India for next year's World Cup: Najam Sethi
Sethi said that Pakistan and India cricket issues are beyond the cricket board's control and the government always decides them, Geo News reported. "We will obey whatever the government would suggest to us and we will seek the government's advice when the time arrives, similar to the last time I was the chairman," he said, Geo News reported.
India to host FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Delhi next year
Another Asian level chess tournament will also be held in India next year, AICF President, Dr Sanjay Kapoor told IANS."We are going to organise the FIDE Women Grand Prix in March 2023 and an Asian calendar event later in 2023," he said.The event is expected to be held in Delhi.This will be the second major international event being held in India after the Chess Olympiad that was held in Chennai this year.
I love playing Test cricket and felt we could do something different: Ben Stokes on leading England's turnaround
When Stokes succeeded Joe Root as Test captain in April, England had won just one of their past 17 Tests, including a 4-0 Ashes drubbing in Australia and a series defeat in the West Indies.
Cameron Green takes maiden five-fer, puts Australia in control after Verreynne, Jansen rescue act
Green ripped through South Africa's lower order to pick a career-best 5/27 and bowl the tourists out for 189 in their first innings. The Proteas could have been out for an even lower total, if not for the 112-run sixth-wicket stand between wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne (52) and left-arm fast bowler Marco Jansen (59).
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