Новости за 06.02.2018

Bengaluru FC underlined their class, winning the 'Southern Derby' against Chennaiyin FC 3-1 in an Indian Super League (ISL) match to open up a seven-point lead at the top of the table.

Olympic silver-medallist PV Sindhu led the women's team to a thrilling 3-2 win over Hong Kong while the men's side routed Philippines 5-0 as India made a positive start in the Badminton Asia Team Championship on Tuesday.

Maharashtra picked up three gold medals to move into the second place, even as Haryana, who had won two on Tuesday stayed in the top spot of the medals tally in the first Khelo India School Games.

The All India Football Federation's technical committee is likely to recommend a contract extension for national team coach Stephen Constantine in its meeting on Wednesday.

Ronald Koeman has been appointed as coach of the Netherlands national team up to and including the 2022 World Cup, the Dutch football association (KNVB) announced on Tuesday.

The Chittagong Test pitch for the opening match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka has been rated as "below average" and it has received one demerit point according to the ICC Pitch and Outfield Monitoring Process.

South Africa called as many as five wrist spinners in the nets ahead of the third ODI against India on Tuesday, hoping it will help their struggling batsmen combat the combined threat of Yuzvendra Chahal and Kuldeep Yadav.

A depleted South Africa have not been able to compete against India in the ongoing ODI series but pacer Kagiso Rabada would like to believe that all is not lost for the home team.

The government's ambitious Khelo India Games initiative will be expanded in the next few years to include a separate women's championship, Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore announced on Tuesday.

Opener Shikhar Dhawan believes the Indian ODI team now has the right balance and X-factor to succeed anywhere, holding the number one side in good stead ahead of the 2019 World Cup in England.

It was a closely fought battle near the finishing line, but Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen triumphed in a bunch sprint to win the opening Stage of the 2018 Dubai Tour clocking 3h51'35".

Paris Saint-Germain pays 12 of the 13 largest player salaries in the French league, led by Neymar, who makes 3.07 million euros ($3.8 million) gross a month, more than twice as much as the next highest earner, sports daily L'Equipe reported on Tuesday.

India's Under-19 World Cup winning pacer Ishan Porel is fully aware that there is no shortcut to success and says he will have to perform in domestic cricket to make the boys-to-men transition.

World number two Simona Halep said Tuesday that she will miss Romania's Fed Cup tie with Canada this weekend after an injury picked up at a gruelling Australian Open failed to heal.

The West Indies will host their first ever day-night Test when Sri Lanka tour the Caribbean in June, cricket officials said on Tuesday. The final Test of the three-match series will be a day- night encounter at the Kensington Oval in Barbados starting June 23, said Sri Lanka Cricket.

With London Olympics bronze-medallist Saina Nehwal pulling out of the tournament citing a groin injury, Sindhu proved her mettle as she first claimed the singles match and then combined with N Sikki Reddy to win the second doubles game.

Disgraced former Pakistan captain Salman Butt has arrived in Bangladesh to play his first full-fledged competition outside his homeland since serving a five-year ban for spot fixing, an official said on Tuesday.

The rise of Tottenham’s Harry Kane as one of the deadliest strikers in the world also backs the claim of why the old-fashioned centre forward is back in demand.

Formidable India are likely to have an easy passage to the knockout stage of badminton mixed team event as they have been drawn with minnows Pakistan, Scotland and Sri Lanka in Group A of the Commonwealth Games.

The ICC Under-19 World Cup winning Indian team coach, Rahul Dravid, has expressed his reservations on the disparity in the prize money that was announced for the support staff by the BCCI.

Twice previously, India have managed to win two ODIs in a bilateral series in South Africa -- in 1992-93 and in 2010-11. In the latter instance, the visitors shot into a 2-1 lead, only to lose the five-match series 3-2 in the end. They had also lost 5-2 in the other instance.

Dominant in the series-opener, the Indian women's cricket team would now look to seal the issue when it takes on South Africa in the second ODI of the three- match series on Wednesday.

Right from their opening game of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup against Australia, the Indian team had shown that they were a step ahead of the competition and their emphatic run to a well-deserved title victory did not come as a surprise.

Gauri Singhvi, a 14-year-old swimmer from Udaipaur, has today covered a distance of approximately 48 kilometres in Mumbai, according to news agency ANI.