Cricket Australia say they are still hoping a planned Test match against Afghanistan will go ahead, despite the Taliban takeover of the country and acute uncertainty over their rule.
World number one Ash Barty was made to sweat for a 6-1 7-6(7) win over Vera Zvonareva and a spot in the second round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday.
England captain Joe Root has urged his team to produce a "ruthless" display in the fourth Test against India at the Oval starting Thursday. England's innings and 76-run victory at Headingley last week has left the five-match series all square at 1-1.
Injuries and defeat might force the visitors to make a few changes for the Oval Test but will the captain usher in changes in the middle order as well? Or take a backward step regarding his four-pacer theory to bolster the brittle batting?
In the cricketing world, it is a given that weight of runs will elevate one to the leadership role. It is only natural, then, that like all great batsmen who are handed the captaincy, Virat Kohli's chief characteristics - poise, confidence, swagger, resourcefulness, the ability to transfuse his often-uncanny energy into the team in times of crises - remain in equilibrium only as long as he is scoring runs.
25, 37, 22, 2 and 1 are Pant's returns from this series so far, and that's simply not enough from a No. 6 batsman in a team that is playing with only six specialist batsmen. In Australia, he was phenomenal playing at that spot, winning that series for India.
The day's developments took India's total medal tally to 7, their best ever at a Paralympic Games, raising hopes of ushering in a revolution for differently-abled athletes in a country where even ramps for the disabled are a rarity in public places. At the Rio Games in 2016, India had won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, but increased government funding and a special focus on para athletes has paid off in spades this time around.
At the Paralympics, classifications are a way for organisers to group like-with-like athletes, so people of roughly equivalent levels of impairment - or roughly equal functional ability - can compete together fairly. Classification determines who is eligible to compete in a Para sport and it groups the eligible athletes in sport classes according to their activity limitation in a certain sport.
Heavyweights Mumbai, Karnataka and Delhi have been clubbed in virtual "group of Death" in the Ranji Trophy, which will start from January 5 next year.
Ashleigh Barty, 5 ft 5' in her Fila Axilus shoes, doesn't dwarf sporting arenas, she lights it up instead with her glittering talent. Finesse on fire. You might stride past the Aussie on a practice court at the sprawling Billie Jean King Tennis Centre, but that's only until you hear the sweet notes of her shot-making.
Mason Greenwood's late winner earned Man United a 1-0 win at wasteful Wolverhampton in the Premier League on Sunday, breaking the record for the longest unbeaten away run in English Football League history in the process. Greenwood's low strike was decisive after Wolves had missed a host of chances throughout the match as United made it 28 unbeaten on the road in the league, beating Arsenal's record set between April 2003 and September 2004.
Kevin O'Brien's rapid 60 helped see Ireland to a seven-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the second Twenty20 international in Dublin on Sunday as the hosts levelled the five-match series at 1-1.
Ten-man Chelsea delivered a fine defensive display as they held on for a 1-1 draw against Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday after defender Reece James was sent off just before halftime of the Premier League clash.
Senior all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja was on Saturday taken to a hospital in Leeds for precautionary scans to know the extent of a knee injury he sustained during the third Test against England.
India's senior opener Rohit Sharma believes that a player of Cheteshwar Pujara's stature doesn't need to be told anything about his batting and the innings of 91 not out in the third Test against England showed his "intent" and "character".
Ishant did pick four wickets at Lord’s but has looked slack at Headingley. Unlike the past, he has laboured to the crease and his awry wrist position has only resulted in him lacking control and that has meant more scoring opportunities for the home team’s batsmen.
Opener Rohit Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara led the fightback with a resilient 82-run partnership for the second wicket. Pujara then joined hands with captain Virat Kohli to further whittle down the 357-run lead to 139 with a 99-run unbeaten stand for the third wicket.
Pacer Craig Overton on Friday asserted that England held all the aces but said the first hour's play on the fourth day is going to be "massive" as they look to break India's resistance in the third Test here.
Bhavinaben Patel continued to script history as she became the first Indian to enter the final of a table tennis event in the Paralympics with a hard-fought 3-2 win over China's Miao Zhang in a class 4 semifinal here on Saturday.
An under-fire Cheteshwar Pujara (91*) played one of his most aggressive knocks as the Indian top order showed plenty of resolve to reach 215/2 and kept the third Test against England alive with two more days remaining. With this knock, Pujara overshadowed the two megastars in skipper Virat Kohli (45*) and the supremely-talented Rohit Sharma (59). At the close of play, India still trailed by 139 runs.
Carrying on the best form of his life, England captain Joe Root scored his third century of the series against India to move his team into a prime position to win the third Test at Headingley on Thursday. Root struck 121 -- adding to knocks of 109 and 180* earlier in the series and three other three-figure scores in 2021 -- as England reached 423-8 at the end of Day 2, for a lead of 345 runs.
Tokyo Olympics gold medallist Neeraj Chopra on Thursday said that he has decided to cut short his 2021 competition season to take some time off.
Paris Saint-Germain will play Manchester City in the Champions League group stage after coming out together in Thursday's draw, with the sides set to meet in a repeat of last season's semi-final. Pep Guardiola's City won that tie on aggregate before losing to Chelsea in the final, but PSG have since signed Lionel Messi from Barcelona.
Novak Djokovic will launch his bid to complete the calendar-year Grand Slam at the US Open against a qualifier, but his path gets much tougher with potential clashes against Matteo Berrettini and Alexander Zverev.
Joe Root equalled the England record for most Test centuries in a calendar year when he compiled his sixth hundred of 2021, against India at Headingley on Thursday.
Virat Kohli & Co cut a sorry figure when they were rolled over for 78 (40.4 overs) in their first innings after deciding to bat first on a moisture-laden surface on Day 1 of the third Test. It was India's lowest score in England since they were shot out for 42 at Lord's in 1974 and it was the ageless James Anderson again who did the bulk of the damage in his opening spell.
India's wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant has backed his skipper Virat Kohli's decision to bat first while admitting that the wicket was "soft" in the morning as the visitors were bowled out for 78 against England on the opening day of the third Test here on Wednesday.
England ace James Anderson said that after all the trash talk during the Lord's Test, the focus at Headingley was to "shut the noise" and focus on the job, something that paid dividends after India were bowled out for 78 on the opening day.
England ripped through India for 78 -- its eighth lowest total in Test cricket -- before putting on the team's highest opening stand of the summer to take complete control of the third Test after Day 1 at Headingley. Winning the toss for the first time in the last nine Tests against England was the only thing that went right Wednesday for India captain Virat Kohli, whose batting line-up collapsed in 40.4 overs.
Real Madrid have made a 160 million euro ($188.11 million) bid for Paris St Germain's France forward Kylian Mbappe, Spanish and French media reported on Tuesday.
They did it in Australia. They are now doing it in England. This Indian cricket team has kept the flame of Test cricket burning bright one series after the other, fuelled intrinsically by their passion for the red-ball format.
Shaheen claimed 4-43 to add to career best figures of 6-51 in the first innings as West Indies were dismissed for 219 on the last day to give Pakistan victory by 109 runs at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
Pakistan's Shaheen Shah Afridi grabbed career-best figures as the tourists dominated with bat and ball on the fourth day of the second and final Test against West Indies at Sabina Park on Monday to put themselves on course to square the series.
The two countries were due to play three ODI matches in early September in Sri Lanka, but the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said late on Monday that the Afghanistan Cricket Board had requested the series be postponed.
Captain of India's cricket team, Virat Kohli. on Monday wished good luck to the Indian contingent for the Tokyo Paralympics, beginning August 24.
An effect of a packed itinerary is that teams start getting on each other's nerves quickly and the atmosphere can get combustible, as it did in the second Test at Lord's. And that is where things start getting tricky for the captains.
On Sunday, at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, 17-year-old Shaili Singh lived up to her billing and battled the pressure-cooker atmosphere to win silver - she missed the gold by just one centimetre. India's new queen of long jump hails from Jhansi, a city that doesn't need much of an introduction in Uttar Pradesh.
Kashish Lakra (17) has been dreaming since Class III of representing India in sports. Now that she will be participating in Club Throw F51 event at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics, she is happy and proud of herself.
Fawad Alam's unbeaten 124 lifted the tourists to 302 for nine declared in their first innings before Shaheen Shah Afridi removed both openers swiftly and Faheem Ashraf added another to have the home side at 39 for three in reply at stumps on a rain-hit day three at Kingston.
Romelu Lukaku marked his second Chelsea debut with his first Premier League goal for the Blues as the European champions outclassed Arsenal 2-0 on Sunday to compound the Gunners' miserable start to the season.
Inter Milan kicked off their Italian league title defence by cruising past Genoa 4-0 in the opening match of the new Serie A season.
Heavy rain and a sodden outfield resulted in the abandonment of the second day's play of the second Test between the West Indies and Pakistan at Sabina Park on Saturday without a ball being bowled.
The Oval Invincibles were crowned the inaugural winners of the Women's Hundred following a desperate Southern Brave collapse saw them bowled out for the lowest score of the competition at Lord's.
Barcelona were given a torrid time by Athletic Bilbao but escaped from their trip to San Mames with a point as Memphis Depay's superb late strike secured a 1-1 draw for the Catalans on Saturday.
Brighton and Hove Albion moved joint top of the Premier League as first-half goals by Shane Duffy and Neal Maupay earned them a comfortable 2-0 home win against Watford on Saturday.