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Defending champion Bayern Munich and Bundesliga leader Leipzig both left it late to secure wins on Saturday with 18-year-old Dutch forward Joshua Zirkzee again proving the hero for Bayern.
Sheffield United kept up its brilliant first season back in the Premier League by beating Brighton 1-0 away to climb into fifth place in the standings.
Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Antoine Griezmann scored a goal each as Barcelona comfortably beat Alavés 4-1 to keep the Spanish league lead on Saturday.
After tens of billions of dollars spent on infrastructure, and skepticism over this tiny gas-rich nation's suitability as a sporting host, a World Cup has finally been handed out in Qatar. It was Liverpool lifting FIFA's lesser-regarded Club World Cup trophy on Saturday night. In three years, the biggest prize in soccer will be handed out in a stadium yet to be completed.
India skipper Virat Kohli brought out his funny side and had some fun on the social media with teammate Yuzvendra Chahal after the wrist spinner shared a picture with West Indies captain Kieron Pollard.
After clinching a series-levelling win in Visakhapatnam, Team India will look to end the year on a high when they take on the West Indies in the deciding third ODI at the Barabati Stadium on Sunday. India recovered from a crushing eight-wicket defeat in Chennai and made amends in Vizag to clinch a thumping 107-run victory in the second ODI.
If any team has a chance of stopping Liverpool marching to a first English league title in 30 years, it looks to be Manchester City rather than Leicester. City gave a timely reminder of its champion qualities by coming from a goal behind to beat Leicester 3-1 on Saturday in a match between the teams who are closest to runaway leader Liverpool in the standings.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Akbar Ali will lead Bangladesh's 15-member squad that is set to travel to South Africa for the 2020 U-19 Cricket World Cup. Ali also led Bangladesh U-19s in their recent home assignment against Sri Lanka. They claimed the five-match youth one-day international series 4-0, after the first game was abandoned without a ball bowled.
Live Cricket Score, India vs West Indies, 3rd ODI IND v WI, 3rd ODI: India have everything going their way as they head into the third and final ODI against the West Indies here on Sunday eyeing a 10th straight bilateral series win over the Caribbean side. The West Indies took the home side by surprise in the opening ODI in Chennai to go one-up in the three-match series. But India, riding an all-round display, came back strongly to restore parity in the second match. Barring a rare duck from skipper Virat Kohli, the Indian top-order fired in unison at Visakhapatnam, before hat-trick hero Kuldeep Yadav sliced through the West Indies line-up for a comprehensive 107-run victory. Three days after his blazing 159, Rohit Sharma stood just nine runs short of eclipsing former Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya's 22-year-old record of being the highest run-scorer as an opener across all the formats. LIVE STREAMING | LIVE SCORECARD
Indian pacer Navdeep Saini made his debut in ODIs during the final game of the three-match series against West Indies in Cuttack. Saini was called in to the side after Deepak Chahar faced an injury after the second ODI at Visakhapatnam. Saini has previously appeared for the national team in five ODIs.
Australia's limited-overs captain Aaron Finch was stuck on his head while fielding at the short leg while playing for Victoria in the Sheffield Shield. Finch was stuck after New South Wales' Steve O'Keefe flicked a James Pattinson delivery during the second day's opening session. Cricket Victoria released a statement saying Finch experienced delayed concussion symptoms during the lunch break.
England spinner Jack Leach has been hospitalised in New Zealand with a bout of gastroenteritis. The slow left-arm spinner was dropped for the ongoing second Test against New Zealand at Hamilton. The ECB revealed that Leach, who suffers from Crohn's disease, is likely to spend the night in hospital after he started to feel under the weather on Saturday afternoon.
Talking about Tokyo Olympics, women's wrestling coach Andrew Cook said wrestler Vinesh Phogat can win the Olympic title if she "brings more fight" and avoids lower leg-attacks. "Wrestling-wise, she is one of best, if not the best in the world," Cook added. In September, Vinesh had defeated two-time world championship medalist Maria Prevolaraki to win bronze at World Wrestling Championship.
In a first, the Sunshine Tour and European Tour have agreed to let the golfers participating in the first event of the 2020 season to wear shorts for the duration of the four-day tournament, where temperatures are expected to hit 40°C. Tournament director David Williams said the decision has been made to protect the health of the players.
India have qualified for the Davis Cup 2020 Qualifiers after defeating Pakistan 4-0 in Nur-Sultan. While the doubles pair of Leander Paes and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat Huzaifa Abdul Rehman and Muhammad Shoaib 6-1, 6-3 in 53 minutes, Sumit Nagal defeated Yousef Kalil 6-1, 6-0 in 32 minutes in reverse singles. Both sides opted not to play the dead fifth rubber.
Shuttler Sourabh Verma has entered the final of the men's singles of the Syed Modi International Badminton tournament. Verma, ranked 36 in the world, defeated world number 44 Heo Kwang Hee of South Korea 21-17, 16-21, 21-18. Earlier, Rituparna Das crashed out of the tournament after losing in the semis, ending the Indian challenge in the women's singles.
G Sathiyan on Saturday crashed out of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Men's World Cup after losing in the pre-quarters. After winning the first game, Sathiyan lost the match 1-4 (11-7, 8-11, 5-11, 9-11, 8-11) to former world number one Timo Boll of Germany. Earlier, world number 30, Sathiyan had defeated world number 24 to reach the pre-quarters.
Reacting to David Warner's triple ton in the ongoing second Test against Pakistan, a user tweeted, "Un...believe....able!!! Still more in the tank @davidwarner31." Other users reacted with tweets like, "3avid Warner! Excellent ton. But let's whisper loudly there is something more coming!" and "300 complete. 400 loading..... For David Warner."
Former Australian captain Steve Smith went past Sir Don Bradman's Test tally of 6,996 runs after crossing the mark in the ongoing second Test against Pakistan on Saturday. Smith also broke Englishman Walter Hammond's record to become the fastest cricketer to reach the 7,000 run-mark in the Test format. Smith was dismissed for 36 runs just after the tea break.
Shot-putter Tajinder Toor will be India's flag-bearer at the South Asian Games opening ceremony, scheduled to be held on Sunday in Nepal's capital Kathmandu. Toor, who's the 2018 Asian Games gold medallist, recently produced a throw of 20.92m, better than what he had marked in the Asian Games. A total of 499 Indian athletes are participating in the tournament.
A day after being sacked as Arsenal's manager, Unai Emery said he would've liked to achieve better results with the North London club. "It has been a year and a half full of emotions, of great moments and some other more bitter ones," he added. Unai was fired after Arsenal's 1-2 defeat at home against Eintracht Frankfurt in Europa League.
Former Pakistani cricketer Azhar Mahmood criticised Pakistan team's selection policy for the ongoing Test series against Australia. "Why are we not backing our players and giving them confidence??... What's with the panic button why do they keep chopping and changing players," tweeted Mahmood. Notably, Australia declared their innings at 589/3 in the ongoing second Test.
Double Olympic medallist wrestler Sushil Kumar on Saturday said that strict action should be taken against the accused in the Hyderabad veterinary doctor gang-rape and murder case. "There is a need for change in the mindset of society. Society has to be helpful and aware to curb these incidents," he added. Four accused have been arrested in the case.
Defending champions Portugal have been drawn alongside 2018 World Cup winners France and 2014 World Cup winners Germany, in what is being called the Euro 2020 edition's 'group of death'. The fourth nation in the group will be decided by the qualification rounds. England have been drawn alongside the 2018 World Cup finalists Croatia in Group D.
Australia opener David Warner, who slammed 335* against Pakistan in Day-Night Test, revealed that ex-India opener Virender Sehwag told him during IPL 2009 that he'll be a better Test player than T20 player. "I said to him, 'You're out of your mind'," Warner added. "Sehwag said, 'You can get off to a flier and sit there all day'," Warner stated.
India captain Virat Kohli has said coach Ravi Shastri's trolling is agenda-driven. "I don't know whose, why, what for, but to accept lies in that manner, it couldn’t be anything but agenda-driven," he added. He added that "luckily" Ravi is a person who doesn't care at all. Kohli added Shastri is least affected by perception that he's captain’s "yes man".
After Australia opener David Warner scored his first-ever triple hundred in Tests, the ICC took to Twitter to share a four-year-old tweet by the 33-year-old. A fan on July 23, 2015, had asked Warner to hit a triple century to which the left-handed batsman responded, "Have you seen my patience haha." "We'd say you have plenty of patience," ICC wrote.
Legendary batsman Donald Bradman was dropped from the Australian team after a poor performance in his debut Test against England, which started on November 30, 1928. Bradman batted at number seven in his debut innings, scoring 18, and was dismissed for one in the second innings. On his return, Bradman scored 79 and 112 against England.
The BCCI has diluted Supreme Court-mandated administrative reforms on tenure cap for its office-bearers. As per the current constitution, an office-bearer who has served two three-year terms, either at BCCI or state association, goes into a compulsory three-year cooling-off period. Ganguly was to vacate office next year but a dilution could see him continue till 2024 following SC's approval.
Australia opener David Warner covered a total of 20.921 kilometres, the equivalent of a half-marathon, with bat in hand on Friday and Saturday during his record knock of 335*(418) against Pakistan. Cricket Australia's High Performance team revealed that almost 80% of the 21 km Warner covered were at jogging pace. Warner batted for more than nine hours and 127 overs.
India captain Virat Kohli broke his silence on ex-wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer's claim that Anushka Sharma was served tea by a selector during World Cup, saying she was a "soft target". "You want to mention something about selectors do that...but why join her name with it," Kohli said. He added Anushka was sitting in family box and no selector was there.
David Warner on Saturday became the seventh Australian batsman to smash a Test triple hundred, achieving the feat against Pakistan on the second day of Adelaide pink-ball Test. It is the first triple hundred in Adelaide and the fourth by any batsman against Pakistan. Warner also became the first batsman to score a Test triple ton in nearly three years.
Australia captain Tim Paine declared Australia's first innings in the pink-ball Test against Pakistan at 589/3 with opener David Warner unbeaten on 335*(418). "Australia have missed a trick here. Paine should have let David Warner chase Brian Lara's record of 400*," a fan tweeted. "Surprising declaration by Paine," wrote another. "Only god knows why he’s the captain," another tweet read.
The first-ever official international football match was played between England and Scotland on the cricket ground of West of Scotland Cricket Club in Scotland's largest city Glasgow on November 30, 1872. As many as 4,000 spectators turned up for the match, which finished in a 0-0 draw. England played the match with a 1-1-8 formation while Scotland used 2-2-6.
Pakistani fast bowler Shaheen Afridi, while running behind the ball to save a boundary, accidentally kicked the ball into the boundary for a four on the first day of the Day-Night Test against Australia on Friday. Reacting to it, a Twitter user wrote, "After effects of burgers and pizzas." "This needs to be made into a GIF," wrote another.