CRICKET
Virat Kohli has stated he was knowledgeable he would now not be India’s ODI captain by chief selector Chetan Sharma an hour-and-a-half earlier than the choice assembly for India’s Take a look at squad to South Africa on December 8. (REPORT)
Virat Kohli: All these people who find themselves writing this stuff and their sources, to me they’re completely not credible. (File) – SPORTZPICS
The BCCI has named KL Rahul as vice-captain for the upcoming three-match Take a look at collection towards South Africa. (REPORT)
India white-ball captain Rohit Sharma and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja have began their rehabilitation on the Nationwide Cricket Academy after being dominated out of the upcoming Take a look at collection in South Africa resulting from accidents. (REPORT)
Indian Premier League’s Lucknow franchise has appointed Gautam Gambhir because the mentor forward of the brand new season. (REPORT)
Former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower was appointed as the top coach of the newly shaped Lucknow franchise that can debut within the 2022 Indian Premier League season. (REPORT)
FILE PHOTO: Throughout his time with the England group, Flower led the facet to the T20 World Cup title in 2010 and the primary spot within the Take a look at rankings. – GETTY IMAGES
Pakistan accomplished a clear sweep within the three-match Twenty20 collection towards a virus-hit West Indies with a convincing seven-wicket win on Thursday. (REPORT)
South Africa’s wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock is ready to overlook the third Take a look at of the upcoming collection towards India as a result of delivery of his first little one. (REPORT)
The Board of Management for Cricket in India will host the Afghanistan group for a three-match ODI collection in March, simply earlier than the Indian Premier League. (REPORT)
The Sri Lanka Cricket Board has appointed former skipper Mahela Jayawardene as a guide coach for the nationwide facet, efficient from January 2022. (REPORT)
FOOTBALL
Premier League gamers will bear every day coronavirus assessments as a part of emergency measures accepted by golf equipment on Tuesday to take care of the worsening pandemic in England. (REPORT)
Sergio Aguero introduced his retirement from soccer on Wednesday on the age of 33 after being recognized with a coronary heart situation. (REPORT)
Aguero helped Argentina win the 2021 Copa America — their first main title in 28 years. – GETTY IMAGES
FIFA will maintain a world summit subsequent week to debate its plans for holding the World Cup each two years however its greatest opponent, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, reveals no signal of backing down. (REPORT)
Robert Lewandowksi took one other previous document from Bayern Munich nice Gerd Müller on Friday. The Poland star scored his forty third Bundesliga purpose of the 12 months to cap a 4-0 win for Bayern over Wolfsburg and eclipse the earlier finest mark for objectives in a calendar 12 months set in 1972 by “Der Bomber.” (REPORT)
Lewandowski, who broke Müller’s 49-year-old Bundesliga document for objectives in a season together with his forty first final Might within the final minute of a 5-2 win over Augsburg, once more left it late to attain on Friday.
European Championship winner Italy will face Copa America champion Argentina on June 1 in London, Europe’s soccer governing physique UEFA and its South American counterpart CONMEBOL stated on Wednesday. (REPORT)
Christian Eriksen’s contract with Inter Milan was terminated by mutual settlement on Friday, six months after he had a cardiac arrest on the European Championship. (REPORT)
FIFA held a digital assembly on Tuesday with political establishments in addition to rights organisations to debate human rights in Qatar forward of the 2022 World Cup. (REPORT)
Police made one arrest after Arsenal reported a fan for alleged racial abuse directed at their substitutes’ bench through the 4-1 Premier League win at Leeds United on Saturday. (REPORT)
TENNIS
Former world primary Andy Murray eased previous Rafael Nadal 6-3, 7-5 within the Spaniard’s comeback match on the World Tennis Championship exhibition match in Abu Dhabi on Friday. (REPORT)
Rafael Nadal misplaced his first match in 4 months in straight units towards Andy Murray on Friday. – REUTERS
Rafael Nadal stated he can’t assure he’ll make the journey to Melbourne for subsequent month’s Australian Open after returning to motion on the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi. (REPORT)
World quantity 5 Andrey Rublev outclassed Andy Murray 6-4, 7-6(2) within the World Tennis Championship exhibition occasion remaining in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. (REPORT)
Males’s world primary Novak Djokovic has been named the 2021 ITF world champion for a document seventh time whereas girls’s primary Ash Barty has picked up her second crown, the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) stated on Thursday. (REPORT)
Australian Open match director Craig Tiley stated gamers making use of for a medical exemption to take part within the Grand Slam with out being vaccinated towards COVID-19 could have their case reviewed by an impartial three-person panel. (REPORT)
Austria’s Dominic Thiem has delayed his comeback from a wrist harm and pulled out of the December 16-18 Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition occasion in Abu Dhabi. (REPORT)
BADMINTON
Defending champion PV Sindhu suffered a straight-game defeat to acquainted foe and world No.1 Tai Tzu Ying of Chinese language Taipei within the girls’s singles quarterfinals to bow out of the BWF World Badminton Championships in Huelva, Spain on Friday. (REPORT)
Kidambi Srikanth (excessive left) and Lakshya Sen (excessive proper) added their names to the record of Indian medallists at BWF world championships after clinching silver and bronze, respectively, in Huelva, Spain. – AP
Kidambi Srikanth clinched a historic silver medal within the World Badminton Championships after struggling a straight-games defeat to Loh Kean Yew of Singapore within the summit conflict to notch up the very best efficiency by an Indian within the males’s singles in Huelva, Spain on Sunday. (REPORT)
Lakshya Sen, 20, who misplaced to Srikanth within the semifinals, turned the youngest Indian man to complete on the rostrum as he received bronze on the BWF World Badminton Championships. (REPORT)
HOCKEY
Vice-captain Harmanpreet Singh scored a brace as Olympic bronze-medallists India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan 3-1 to register its second consecutive win and nearly qualify for the semifinals of the Asian Champions Trophy males’s hockey match on Friday. (REPORT)
FILE PHOTO: Harmanpreet Singh of India in motion. – Reuters
Punjab, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and hosts Maharashtra moved into the semifinals with hard-fought wins within the eleventh Hockey India Senior Males Nationwide Championship on Saturday. (REPORT)
Odisha, the defending champion, has added two gamers—Indian stars Sunil Jojo and Sudeep Chirmako—to its group within the Junior Nationwide males’s hockey championships (REPORT)
CHESS
Indian chess ace Viswanathan Anand misplaced to lower-rated GM Rauf Mamedov within the Armageddon on the opening day of the seventh Vugar Gashimov Memorial chess match on Saturday, after successful one sport and shedding the opposite within the Speedy occasion. (REPORT)
The inaugural six-team Indian Chess League is ready to start out in June subsequent 12 months. Making an announcement on Tuesday, the All India Chess Federation stated the league could be performed on a double round-robin format over two weeks, with the highest two groups clashing for the title. (REPORT)
ATHLETICS
World Athletics President Sebastian Coe on Wednesday stated India should seize the chance supplied by Neeraj Chopra’s historic gold medal in Tokyo Olympics and broaden athletics’ footprint within the nation by holding extra worldwide occasions. (REPORT)
Italy’s double Olympic champion Lamont Marcell Jacobs stated on Saturday he would check out the 200 metres in some races subsequent 12 months, transferring up from his standard 100m speciality. (REPORT)
Lamont Marcell Jacobs, who has but to compete since successful the 100m and 4x100m at this 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics, plans to return to aggressive motion in Berlin in February. – Reuters
The Diamond League has now modified the ‘remaining three’ format for the 2022 Diamond League, nearly the world collection in athletics, which is able to see the very best throw or leap from your complete competitors successful the occasion. (REPORT)
TABLE TENNIS
India’s Hansini Mathan Rajan defeated Syria’s Hend Zaza, the youngest athlete of this 12 months’s Tokyo Olympics, to win the women singles occasion on the 2021 ITTF Hopes and Problem desk tennis match in Amman. (REPORT)
MOTORSPORT
Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes group dropped plans to enchantment the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix end result on Thursday and congratulated Max Verstappen as System One world champion. (REPORT)
Seven-time System One champion Lewis Hamilton acquired his knighthood for companies to motorsport on Wednesday, days after he misplaced out on what would have been a document eighth title after a tense final lap on the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. (REPORT)
Mohammed Ben Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates would be the first non-European president of motorsport’s world governing physique after being elected on Friday, the Worldwide Car Federation (FIA) stated. (REPORT)
BOXING
Promising a “new period” and “new methods of working”, the Worldwide Boxing Affiliation started the method of revamping itself in a digital Extraordinary Congress which accepted essential constitutional amendments prompt by an impartial group apart from asserting a recertification programme for its under-fire referees and judges. (REPORT)
Japan’s unbeaten “Monster” Naoya Inoue defended his WBA and IBF bantamweight titles on Tuesday with an eighth-round technical knockout win over unheralded Thai challenger Aran Dipaen in Tokyo. (REPORT)
WRESTLING
Wrestling Federation of India president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh courted controversy through the Underneath-15 Nationals in Ranchi when he slapped a grappler, who insisted on competing within the match after being disqualified for being overaged. (REPORT)
SHOOTING
Indian shooter Avani Lekhara has received the “Finest Feminine Debut” honour on the 2021 Paralympic Awards for her record-breaking gold medal on the Tokyo Video games. (REPORT)
Former nationwide champion Mohammed Asab received the double entice gold with a rating of 128 within the sixty fourth Nationwide capturing championship that concluded on the New Moti Bagh Gun Membership on Tuesday. (REPORT )
Shreyasi Singh received the ladies’s double entice with a rating of 101 within the sixty fourth Nationwide capturing championship on the New Moti Bagh Gun Membership. (REPORT)
SWIMMING
Srihari Nataraj set the ‘Finest Indian time’ on the FINA quick course World Championship however that was not sufficient to take him to the semifinals of the 50m backstroke occasion on Saturday. (REPORT)
Srihari Nataraj clocked 24.40s within the males’s 50m backstroke occasion to complete twenty sixth within the general heats. (File Picture) – Murali Kumar Ok
Indian swimmers Sajan Prakash, Srihari Nataraj and Kushagra Rawat registered ‘nationwide information’ on the FINA Quick Course World Championships on Thursday. (REPORT)
Former French Olympic swimmer Yannick Agnel, who was positioned beneath formal investigation final week for the suspected rape of a minor, has admitted to a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old woman, a public prosecutor stated on Monday. (REPORT)
VOLLEYBALL
The Prime Volleyball League’s participant public sale as held earlier within the week. (REPORT)