Новости за 18.01.2018

Pratima Singh, wife of pacer Ishant Sharma and a basketball player herself, duly understands that getting married to an Indian cricketer comes with its own set of challenges.

Sunil Chhetri showed his goal-scoring skills with a strike each in either half as Bengaluru FC drubbed Mumbai City FC 3-1 in an action-packed Indian Super League game to leap to the top of the points table on Thursday.

India jumped three rungs to be placed 102nd in the first FIFA rankings of the year released on Thursday. India, who are just above 103rd placed Qatar, are ranked 14th among Asian countries.

Sachin Tendulkar heaped praise on India captain Virat Kohli for bagging most of the major honours at the ICC Annual Awards. In phenomenal form across formats, Kohli was named the World Cricketer of the Year, besides bagging the top honour for ODI players in the ICC Annual Awards.

Punjab Royals' icon player Geno Petriashvili pulled off a dominating win to guide his side to an easy 6-1 victory over Delhi Sultans in the Pro Wrestling League at the Siri Fort Indoor Stadium on Thursday.

Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale have all been left out of the Real Madrid squad for Thursday's Copa del Rey tie against Leganes, with coach Zinedine Zidane opting to rest the star trio known collectively as the 'BBC'.

Sachin Tendulkar has inspired the first cricket-themed garden at the UK's annual Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate India and Britain's shared love for the game.

Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka on Thursday termed North and South Korea's decision to march under one flag at the opening ceremony of next month's Winter Olympics as "unbelievable" and attributed the positive development to "power of sport".

South African swashbuckler AB de Villiers on Thursday found a positive for India in what has been a thoroughly disappointing Test campaign here so far -- their "lively pace attack" which he says, has surprised the hosts.

Defending champion Roger Federer needed to knuckle down to end the feisty challenge of hard-hitting German Jan-Lennard Struff with a 6-4 6-4 7-6(4) win in the second round of the Australian Open on Thursday.

Having led his side to two convincing wins in the ongoing ICC U-19 World Cup, India's young batting sensation Prithvi Shaw enjoyed time off the field by getting clicked with a baby.

Kabaddi will once again hog the limelight for 13 weeks when the sixth edition of the cash-rich Pro Kabaddi League gets underway on October 19.

Ben Stokes's return to international cricket could be further delayed as he faces having to be in court the day he was due to play a T20 match in New Zealand, police revealed on Thursday.

Olympic silver medalist PV Sindhu and World No 3 Kidambi Srikanth will lead the Indian women's and men's team respectively at the Asian Team Championships to be held in Malaysia from February 6 to 11.

Virat Kohli has become only the second India batsman after Sunil Gavaskar to reach the 900-point mark in the latest MRF Tyres ICC Player Rankings for Test Batsmen, which were released on Thursday morning following the conclusion of the Centurion Test.

Struggling Swiss former winner Stan Wawrinka was knocked out of the Australian Open by American Tennys Sandgren in the second round on Thursday. The 97th-ranked Sandgren defeated ninth seeded Wawrinka 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 and will next play Germany's Maximilian Marterer.

Virat Kohli wasn't exactly amused when a South African scribe asked him about his choice of 34 different playing XIs in his three years as Test captain but a statistical lowdown clearly points at distinct lack of consistency in team selection.

Mumbai Maharathi made a dramatic turnaround hours after pulling out of the Pro Wrestling League (PWL) for being "cheated", saying the franchise was "shocked and distressed" to hear about the development.

Right after the long South African tour that ends on 24 February, the India cricket team will travel to Sri Lanka for a seven-match T20 tri-series involving the host nation and Bangladesh starting 6th March.

Arsenal forward Alexis Sanchez is likely to join Manchester United, his manager Arsene Wenger said on Thursday. The Chilean international is out of contract at the end of the season and was also a target for Manchester City, but United appear to have stolen a march over their local rivals.

Nestled in the mountain ranges of the Himalayas, the idyllic Dehradun could soon become the second 'home' ground of the Afghanistan cricket team, fast emerging as a unifying force in a war-ravaged country.

Novak Djokovic called for the ATP Tour Finals to travel from their London base Thursday, saying they were a big asset that should be exploited more. In its current format, the elite season-ending tournament has been held in the British city since 2009.

"In Test cricket, 70 percent of batting is about your defence and in one-dayers it is 40 percent. So his (Rohit Sharma's) defensive skills are letting him down. He has got to take pride in his defensive skills like Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and even Virat Kohli," he said.

A quarter-final berth already secured, India will be aiming to keep their unbeaten run intact when they take on another weak opponent in Zimbabwe in the ICC Under-19 World Cup on Friday.