Новости за 02.12.2017

Tottenham Hotspur's patchy away form in the Premier League continued with a 1-1 draw at Watford but the North London club will be pleased with a point after playing much of the second half with 10 men on Saturday.

Roberto Firmino scored twice as Liverpool continued their recent fine run with a 5-1 win away to Brighton and Hove Albion in the Premier League on Saturday.

NorthEast United pumped in two quick first half goals in the space of five minutes to beat Delhi Dynamos 2-0 and notch up their first win of the season in the Indian Super League football on Saturday.

You didn't have to watch the India-England Hockey World League Final league stage encounter to know who had won. A glance at the expression of Indian skipper Manpreet Singh gave away the result as he sat beside coach Sjoerd Marijne while addressing the media.

Nick Heidfeld has been driving in Formula E - the electric car racing series - since it's inception back in 2014. However, the German has yet to win a Formula E race so far, even after 32 race starts.

Samuel Ward struck twice as England beat India 3-2 to record their first win of the HWL Final on Saturday. England had a lacklustre game vs Germany in their HWL opener, losing 0-2 whereas India, despite being wasteful, held Australia to a 1-1 draw. India continued to be wasteful but England improved.

Ajinkya Rahane has been a conspicuous absentee from the ongoing Indian runfest against Sri Lanka but the middle order batsman appear to have the backing of the team management ahead of the tour of South Africa later this month.

Speaking to the media after the match, Enrique Gonzalez, who led Spain at the Junior World Cup 2016 in Lucknow, said that the team was motivated and confident enough that despite being the lowest ranked team in the competition, they could beat Netherlands.

Craig Overton made Australia captain Steve Smith his maiden Test victim but England could not drive home their advantage under the Adelaide lights and the hosts finished the first day of day-night Ashes cricket on 209 for four on Saturday.

Coming off a lengthy injury lay off, Murali Vijay got a century in the second Test (128) and now has followed it up yet another one, his 11th Test hundred and if there is anything that he would have wanted would have been that that elusive 200-run mark; which was not to be.

India vs Sri Lanka: Kotla Test, Day 1

As the last 10 seconds approached, not one red shirt from Spain was anywhere inside the Netherlands half. In the end, Spain managed to stave off the late charge and started their Hockey World League Final with 3-2 win at the Kalinga Stadium on Saturday.

Ashes: Second Test, Day 1

Indian cricket's current 'Milestone Man' Virat Kohli on Saturday became the first international captain to hit three successive hundreds in a three-Test series. Kohli also completed his individual 5000 runs in the longest version of the game.

Virat Kohli notched up yet another milestone going past the 5000-run mark in Tests during the second session of day one of the third and the final Test between India and Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi on Saturday.

Germany manager Joachim Loew said he saw no reason to fear the reigning champions' opponents after they were paired with Mexico, Sweden and South Korea in the 2018 World Cup draw.

England manager Gareth Southgate refused to get carried away with what appeared to be a hugely favourable draw on Friday for his team at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

New Zealand all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme cracked his maiden Test century off just 71 balls to leave the West Indies reeling at stumps on the second day of the first Test in Wellington on Saturday.

India managed to score at a fair clip, setting themselves up for what would prove to a dominating day of play. India added 129 runs in the post-lunch session and further 126 in the final session, but they lost two wickets late in the day.

India added 129 runs in the post-lunch session with Kohli (94*) playing the aggressor’s role and Murali Vijay (101*), content playing second fiddle. The duo added 167 runs for the third wicket and India went in to tea at 245 for the loss of two wickets.

Dhawan perished for 23 and soon after Cheteshwar Pujara also walked back for the same score – both missing out on a belter of a wicket. Murali Vijay looked steady and Virat Kohli aggressive as India took lunch at 116 for the loss of two wickets.

Russia breathed a collective sigh of relief on Friday after avoiding Spain and looking like favourites to make it out of their group in their first home World Cup.

The Indian Premier League(IPL) has made the BCCI extremely rich over thelast10 years, but it is also fast becoming the reason for the board to be potentially looking at a cash outflow of nothing less than Rs 4900 crore going forward, which is a little in excess of US$750m.