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The first two games of the five-match T20I series between New Zealand and India produced two very different games on the same pitch. While the first game saw nearly 400 runs scored, the second saw that the home team had struggled to get runs against a formidable Indian attack. As it turned out, the Kiwis lost two back to back games and are now facing a must-win situation. The New Zealand vs India 3rd T20I will be played in Hamilton, which is the

Russia’s Sergey Bida and Romania’s Ana Maria Popescu won gold medals in the respective men's and women's category at the 2020 Doha Epee Grand Prix. The event which is leading athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, featured 219 male and 176 female international fencers competing at Qatar’s Aspire Dome. In the Men's final event Russia's Bida faced Alexandre Bardenet, winning the event with a 15-6 score. Bardenet beat Italy’s Andrea Santarelli in the semifinal, 15-10, while Bida overcame Japan’s Masaru Yamada, 15-8

India won the second T20I against New Zealand in Auckland by 7 wickets to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. KL Rahul (57) and Shreyas Iyer (44) added 104 runs for the third wicket to anchor the Indian chase. Both the young Indian batsmen have been in good form, which has been on show in the series so far. KL Rahul was adjudged the Man of the Match for his unbeaten knock as well. However, the Ravindra Jadeja-Sanjay Manjrekar twitter banter

Winning two back to back T20Is on Friday and Saturday, Pakistan have already won the three-match T20I series. Both teams now meet for the third and final game at the Gadaffi Stadium in Lahore with very different agendas in front of them. While Pakistan will look to clean sweep the Tigers, Bangladesh, on the other hand, will look to play for pride and salvage a win. Bangladesh are languishing at ninth in the ICC T20I rankings while Pakistan has strengthened their position at

The FIFA World Cup 2022 to be held in Qatar will be the biggest sporting event to be held in the country in recent years. The country, therefore, is already underway with its preparations to make the global event a memorable one. However, like every other host nation, Qatar also has a few problems to tackle in order of the smooth conduct of the event and also make it a historic success. The path to achieve that ambitious goal started five years ago,

Kobe Bryant, the NBA Most Valuable Player who had a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died on Sunday when the helicopter he was traveling in crashed and burst into flames in the hills above Calabasas, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. His daughter Gianna, 13, was also on board and died along with seven others. "The NBA family is devastated by the tragic passing of Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna," NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement.

India got off to a winning start in their first overseas tour in 2020 as they beat New Zealand by six wickets in the first T20I in Auckland. The New Zealand vs India 2020 2nd T20I will be played on January 26, Sunday. Courtesy their win in the first game, India have an upper hand going into this second game. The Indian batsmen rose up to the occasion as they chased down 204 needed for victory. Despite losing Rohit Sharma early, KL Rahul

Qatar is all set to host 65 major sporting events in 2020 as per reported by the Peninsular on Thursday, January 23. The events include local, continental and international sporting events which will continue to demonstrate the nation's rise as a sporting powerhouse in the recent past. 65 events to be hosted in 2020 is eight more than the number of events hosted by the nation last year. With the country hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this year will certainly help enhance

The qualification system for the T20 World Cup will be revamped from the 2021 edition onwards and the Global T20 Qualifier played by 14 teams will be divided into a couple of smaller tournaments for qualification. Every tournament will have 8 teams in the mix. Right beneath these two major tournaments, there will be some changes made to the sub-regional system with lesser tournaments across Asia, Africa and the East Asia Pacific without the number of teams being lowered. 12 teams in the

The Bangladesh cricket team led by Mahmudullah will play a full-fledged series in Pakistan after 12 years with the first T20I at the Gaddafi stadium in Lahore kicking off the series on Friday. The Pakistan vs Bangladesh 2020 series will be played over two months which includes three T20Is, two Tests and a solitary ODI game. Despite security issues in Pakistan remaining a big concern for some time now for touring teams, Bangladesh skipper brushed aside the scrutiny over his side's security in

India play New Zealand in a full-fledged tour comprising of five T20Is, three ODIs and two Tests with the T20Is kicking off the series from January 24 at Eden Park, Auckland. This is the first time India is playing in a five-match T20I series. Also, this is the first time both the teams are meeting since their last in the 2019 World Cup semi-final where India lost to New Zealand to exit the tournament. India comes into the series after being unbeaten at

Liverpool Football Club is currently on a 39-match unbeaten streak which is the second-best ever in the Premier League history after Arsenal's 49 in the 2003-04 season. While Liverpool's run is yet to be broken, Arsenals was broken by Manchester United in a match surrounded by multiple controversies. The Reds are currently topping the table with 64 points from 22 games and 21 wins. They last tasted defeat in the league in January 2019 when Manchester City won the game by a 2-1

Prithvi Shaw earned his maiden ODI call-up after Shikhar Dhawan was ruled out of the New Zealand series owing to his shoulder injury. Dhawan injured his shoulder in the third and final ODI in Bengaluru against Australia which saw him leave the field, never to come back again. Meanwhile, Sanju Samson has been named the replacement for the T20I series while Prithvi Shaw will take Dhawan's place in the ODI squad. Shaw's journey in international cricket has been a topsy-turvy one so far,

The contest for the women’s Australian Open title will be very exciting this year, going by the array of talented athletes and some of the world’s most explosive female tennis stars taking part in the 2020 edition. The Australian Open title for women is a lot more inclusive than the men’s category which is majorly dominated by the Big 3, i.e. Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. Here, the women’s singles draw is more open and there are several contenders who can

The very first Women’s Singles competition at the Australian Open took place in the year 1922 which was a whopping 17 years after the initiation of the tournament. Margaret Molesworth from Australia was the first ever champion at the event. The Australian Open Women’s Singles winner gets a replica of the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Trophy.> Here’s taking a look at the 5 youngest winners of the Australian Open in the women’s category (descending order): Steffi Graf- Steffi Graf is one of the greatest

The Professional Footballers' Association Men's Players' Player of the Year often called the PFA Men's Players' Player of the Year or simply the Player of the Year is an annual award given to the player who is adjudged to have been the best of the year in English football. The award has been presented since the 1973–74 season and the winner is chosen by a vote amongst the members of the players' trade union, the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA). The current holder is