As Riyad Mahrez led Manchester City to a 4-0 victory over Chelsea in the third round of the FA Cup, the pressure on Chelsea manager Graham Potter increased, and Aston Villa succumbed to a shocking 2-1 defeat against Stevenage on Sunday. After Premier League teams Newcastle, Nottingham Forest, and Bournemouth were humiliated by lower-league opponents on Saturday, Villa was rocked by a two-goal strike from Stevenage in the dying minutes. City, the reigning champions of the Premier League, rarely experience such embarrassment, and they got off to the best possible start by dismissing ignoble Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium with…
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Top Indian shuttlers, including HS Prannoy and Lakshya Sen, will attempt to start the year on a positive note at the Malaysia Open starting on Tuesday. PV Sindhu will face a tough test when she returns from a five-month injury layoff. With plenty of ranking points at stake, India’s star shuttlers will join other big stars like World No. 1 Viktor Axelsen, Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia, Akane Yamaguchi, and Tai Tzu Ying in aiming for a good show in the USD 1,250,000 Super 1000 tournament here. https://twitter.com/News18Sports/status/1612373619937579009?s=20&t=tBUCPluoxw-3PKeo7LjkpA This will be followed by a highly successful 2022 when India’s star shuttlers…
Ousmane Dembele scored the goal that gave Barcelona the lead at the top of the league. Earlier, Real Sociedad beat Almeria 2-0 thanks to a masterclass from David Silva, and Real Betis moved up to fourth with an entertaining 2-1 victory over Rayo Vallecano. With a crucial 2-1 victory over Getafe, struggling Sevilla moved out of the relegation zone based on goal difference. Barcelona set out to make a statement victory over Atletico Madrid at the Metropolitano after champion Real Madrid lost to Villarreal. Xavi used Ansu Fati up front in place of suspended top scorer Robert Lewandowski, but Dembele…
The Cricket South Africa (CSA) organization made the announcement today. The 33-year-old has played in 30 Twenty20 Internationals (T20I), 27 One-Day Internationals (ODI), and three Tests for South Africa since making his international debut in 2016. Additionally, he has competed in two World Cups. With his 5-17 against Pakistan in 2021, Pretorius holds the record for the highest score by a South African bowler in T20Is. He then took nine wickets at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates later that year. Additionally, he has scored 261 runs at a strike rate of 164.15. He has…
Sarel Erwee, Heinrich Klaasen, and Temba Bavuma played out the final session on Day 5 in Sydney to secure a draw and keep South Africa’s hopes of making the WTC final alive. Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer, South Africa’s eighth-wicket pair in the first innings, sowed the seeds of the final result, and Australia went into the final day hoping to complete a series sweep by taking 14 South African wickets. However, Australia was unable to do so because of its strong resistance. The home team had high hopes for a heist on the final day against a fragile South…
India New Zealand fast bowler Matt Henry has been ruled out of the upcoming ODI series against Pakistan and India due to an abdominal strain. Henry’s injury kept him out of the ODIs against Pakistan. On the final day of the second Karachi Test, the 31-year-old played through the injury in what head coach Gary Stead called “a gutsy effort.” With the rest of the Test team, he will now return home. The management of the team has not yet sought a replacement player, but Jacob Duffy is a possibility.Stead stated, “It has been tough playing ten days out of…
Daniil Sergeyevich Medvedev is a professional tennis player from Russia who was born on February 11, 1996. At the moment, he holds the No. 7 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and is the No. 7 singles player in the world. 1 for the entire 16 weeks. Medvedev has won 15 singles titles on the ATP Tour, including the 2020 ATP Finals and the 2021 US Open. Medvedev prevailed over the then-world No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the final to prevent him from winning a Grand Slam. Despite being outplayed by the Serbian star in Adelaide, Daniil Medvedev still…
Liverpool rode their luck to a draw with Wolves, while Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth were eliminated on a day of surprises in the third round. Premier League high-flyers Newcastle were shocked when they lost to Sheffield Wednesday in the FA Cup. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, the Hollywood actors who co-own Wrexham, led the social media celebrations following their non-league team’s surprise 4-3 victory at second-tier Coventry on an exciting afternoon of FA Cup action elsewhere. On Saturday, however, it was Wednesday, who finished second in League One, who took the show by beating Newcastle, who finished third in the…
The United States advance to the final of the inaugural United Cup, where they will face either Italy or Greece, thanks to Taylor Fritz’s composed victory over Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz in a battle of the top 10 players on Saturday. At Sydney’s Ken Rosewall Arena, the world number nine defeated his one-place behind-him big-serving opponent 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/5) After Jessica Pegula’s 6-2, 6-2 defeat of world number one Iga Swiatek on Friday and Frances Tiafoe’s 6-3, 6-3 triumph over Kacper Zuk, Fritz and the United States were already 2-0 ahead in the tie. Before Madison Keys made it 4-0…
Top-seeded Coco Gauff said she couldn’t have had a better start in 2023 after easily defeating another opponent on Saturday to advance to the final at Auckland. With a 6-0, 6-2 victory over seventh-seeded Danka Kovinic of Montenegro, American teenager and world number seven Gauff demonstrated once more that she will be a force at the Australian Open in this month’s tournament. At the WTA 250 tournament in New Zealand, the hard-hitting Gauff has not dropped a set and is the clear favorite to win Sunday’s final against Rebeka Masarova of Spain. https://twitter.com/Sportsninja777/status/1611664680769961984?s=20&t=4GgYn1YLWcXfU-S9Rz2bgA In a semi-final with two qualifiers, Masarova…
KL Rahul, the Indian opener, did not have a memorable 2022. Rahul has been inconsistent ever since the Asia Cup 2022 when he missed nearly half of the year’s action. Although he did score a few half-centuries, he was criticized by fans and some cricketers for not attacking with intent and not firing during his team’s most crucial matches. Rahul practiced in the nets ahead of India’s upcoming ODI series against Sri Lanka Rahul practiced in the nets ahead of India’s upcoming ODI series against Sri Lanka at home. The batter posted pictures of his nets practice to Instagram. “Rahul…
Skipper Pat Cummins bowled Australia into contention for a series whitewash on Saturday in an intense third Sydney Test. He did this by bowling a fiery spell against South Africa. In a difficult 14 overs, Cummins took three wickets for 29 runs, preparing the Australians for a dramatic final-day charge to victory and a series sweep of the helpless Proteas. With Marco Jansen scoring ten runs and Simon Harmer taking six, South Africa was batting for survival at 149 for six at the end of day four in response to Australia’s declared score of 475-4. In this series, the outnumbered…
Babar Azam is one of the world’s best batters these days. He has consistently scored runs in each of the game’s three formats. After Azhar Ali resigned in 2021, he was promoted to captain the Test team. Azam got off to a winning start by defeating Zimbabwe 2-0 and South Africa 2-0 at home. However, during this World Test Championship cycle, the team’s performance under the talisman batter was subpar. They lost every home match against England, New Zealand, and Australia. Pakistan also failed to win the West Indies and Sri Lanka series, which ended in a 1-1 draw. https://twitter.com/iMRizwanPak/status/1583742539919949826?s=20&t=Qr7tGwqwFNKdmBflXtQSYA…
World number five Aryna Sabalenka defeated Marketa Vondrousova to advance to the semifinals of the Adelaide International on Friday, giving her preparations for the Australian Open a boost. In spite of the hot conditions, the Belarussian defeated her Czech opponent 6-3, 7-5 in 1 hour and 34 minutes to maintain her strong late-season form from 2022, when she finished second at the WTA Finals. The reward for the second seed is a matchup with either Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu or Russian world number nine Veronika Kudermetova in the fourth round. https://twitter.com/News18Sports/status/1611263800212176896?s=20&t=o30dgy7m9XDxXTiua2GacA Sabalenka never won a Grand Slam Sabalenka, who has never…
Lionel Messi, also known as Leo Messi, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and serves as captain of the Argentina national team. He was born on June 24, 1987. Lionel Messi, widely regarded as one of the greatest players ever, has won a record seven Ballon d’Or awards. The World Cup-winning captain of Argentina, Messi, will not travel with Paris Saint-Germain for Friday’s French Cup matchup with Chateauroux, a team that has never won a cup before. The 35-year-old, seven-time Ballon d’Or winner just started training again on Wednesday in…