Chasing 244 to win the 3rd ODI, India begin their run chase strongly

NASCAR driver Ryan Newman's car turned into wreckage in seconds as he was involved in one of the scariest crashes at Monday's Daytona 500 race.&nbsp;Newman's car was turned hard into the wall, then flipped onto its roof and&nbsp;continued to skid upside down in flames.&nbsp;It took several minutes for his car to be rolled back onto its wheels before Newman&nbsp;was sent to the hospital, where he is in a series condition. Luckily, his injuries aren't life-threatening.
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Former Australian captain Michael Clarke along with his female counterpart&nbsp;Alex Blackwell took the&nbsp;Women's World T20 trophy to new heights, quite literally. The World Cup winning captains&nbsp;presented the&nbsp;trophy atop the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge on Tuesday. Women's T20 World Cup begins on Friday with India taking on hosts Australia.

Rahul Dravid's&nbsp;son Samit&nbsp;seems to be following his father's footsteps as he impressed once again with a 146-ball-double hundred in an under-14 Tournament on Saturday. Interestingly, it was his second double ton inside 2 months, first of which came in December while playing for Vice-President's XI. 14-year-old Samit&nbsp;also picked up 2 wickets with the ball and his all-round show is catching many eyeballs

Kings XI Punjab on Tuesday became only the 2nd IPL&nbsp;franchise to buy a team in the&nbsp;Caribbean Premier League as they&nbsp;acquired the St Lucia Zouks. The side is one of the 6 teams competing in the CPL and is&nbsp;led by former West Indies captain Darren Sammy. Before this,&nbsp;Kolkata Knight Riders&nbsp;had acquired the&nbsp;Trinbago Knight Riders in 2015 which is the most successful CPL franchise till date, having won three titles.&nbsp;The 8th edition of the CPL will be held from August 19 to September 26.

Though IPL&nbsp;franchises&nbsp;had already announced their respective fixtures for the upcoming season of the league, BCCI&nbsp;officially announced the schedule for IPL 2020 on Tuesday.&nbsp;Two of the most successful&nbsp;IPL sides Mumbai&nbsp;Indians and Chennai Super Kings will open the 2020 edition of the tournament.&nbsp;Defending champions&nbsp;Mumbai&nbsp;will host their arch-rivals Chennai in the 13th edition of the glitzy tournament at the Wankhede&nbsp;Stadium on 29th March.&nbsp;For the first time, the season will comprise only 6 afternoon games, with none of them to be played on Saturday. The tournament will span for a duration of 57 days with the final being played&nbsp;on May 24th.

Indian&nbsp;cricket captain&nbsp;Virat Kohli&nbsp;added yet another feather to an already illustrious&nbsp;cap but this time off the field.&nbsp;After being&nbsp;recently named as India's most valuable celebrity,&nbsp;Virat on&nbsp;Tuesday also became the first Indian&nbsp;to&nbsp;achieve&nbsp;the mark of 50 million followers on&nbsp;Instagram. Followed by more than 200m people on Instagram,&nbsp;star footballer Christiano&nbsp;Ronaldo&nbsp;has the maximum number of followers on the social media platform.&nbsp;

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus, a 40 member strong Chinese wrestling team was denied Indian visas to participate in the Asian Championship in New Delhi starting&nbsp;Tuesday. The health and foreign ministry that is imposing severe travel restrictions did not reply to&nbsp;the Wrestling&nbsp;Federation of India over the arrival of the Chinese team. The Chinese&nbsp;wrestling authority said&nbsp;that the contingent was not infected and has complained to the United&nbsp;World&nbsp;Wrestling&nbsp;organisation about India's refusal to grant visas on&nbsp;health grounds.

With their 1-0 win over Norwich City on Saturday in the English Premier League Liverpool became the first team to book a berth in next season of the Champions League, provided&nbsp;Manchester City's suspension from the competition&nbsp;is upheld.&nbsp;The&nbsp;incredible achievement came for the Reds even&nbsp;before the&nbsp;knockout stage of this season is yet to start.&nbsp;Chelsea's loss against Manchester&nbsp;United on Monday further affirmed Liverpool's top-four position. Interestingly Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;side who are gunning for their 1st Premier League title since 1990&nbsp;is now also just 1 win shy of Manchester City&rsquo;s all-time English top-flight record of 18 consecutive victories.

With the Shooting World Cup round the corner, Pakistan and China have backed out from the competition which is set to start from March 15 in New Delhi. Siting separate&nbsp;reasons both the countries have withdrawn all their shooters for all the three disciplines that are rifle, pistol, and shotgun. Reportedly China which was worried over visa issues from India has backed out amidst rising concerns over coronavirus and Pakistan who were not able to secure visas for their Shooters last year as well stated that they would prepare for the Olympics in March.

ICC&nbsp;is planning a T20 Champions Cup in the 2023-2031 cycle,&nbsp;ESPNcricinfo&nbsp;reported on Tuesday. According to the&nbsp;ICC&nbsp;proposal, a T20 Champions Cup will be played in 2024 and 2028 and an ODI&nbsp;Champions Cup will be played in 2027 and 2031 in addition to the World Cups in both T20 and 50-over formats. ICC&nbsp;chief, Manu&nbsp;Sawhney has argued that there needs to be an ICC&nbsp;event in each year of the cycle to generate consistent revenue for the game's smaller countries. Interestingly, while the 50-over Champions Cup is similar to the Champions Trophy, the T20 version will have 10 teams playing no fewer than 48 matches, the same number of games as the ODI&nbsp;World Cup.&nbsp;

The Board of Control for Cricket in India is once again at loggerheads with the ICC&nbsp;as the International cricket body has indirectly&nbsp;targeted the BCCI&nbsp;asking them to manage their taxes better.&nbsp;In a letter which was accessed by the Times of India, the ICC has proposed to cut a sum total of Rs. 150 crores from India's 2016 World T20 hosting fee. According to the ICC rules, it is up to the local cricket board to get the ICC event's tax exempted from their respective central government. Since the BCCI couldn't manage to do that in 2016, the ICC has denied to bear the cost of taxes.&nbsp;As the ICC has indirectly threatened the richest cricket board in the world to strip them from hosting the 2023 50-over world cup,&nbsp;BCCI is reportedly in consultation with a UK based law firm on the matter.

Cricket Advisory Committee member Madan&nbsp;Lal&nbsp;has said that 2 new selectors will take charge by the time team India finishes its New Zealand tour early in March. The 68-year-old said that the committee has received 44 applications and 2 selectors will be appointed by the end of the New Zealand&nbsp;tour. The applications includes big names like former Indian pacers&nbsp;Ajit Agarkar and Venkatesh Prasad, but Madan&nbsp;Lal&nbsp;said that it's about picking the right man for the job.&nbsp;

United State's Gymnastic star Simone Biles&nbsp;became&nbsp;the Laureus Sportswoman of the Year for the third time, while Barcelona skipper Lionel Messi and Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton were declared joint winners of&nbsp;World Sportsman of the Year award on Monday. A decorated gymnast, biles has&nbsp;won five gold medals, including a record fifth all-around title, at the 2019 world championships. Messi&nbsp;is the first football player to receive&nbsp;this award after he won the La Liga&nbsp;title for the 10th time in his career, while Lewis Hamilton&nbsp;was crowned Formula One World champion for the sixth time in November 2019.

Manchester United beat Chelsea 2-0 in the Premier League on Monday to come closer to securing a Champions League berth. Anthony Martial&nbsp;opened the scoring with a header that found its way into the net in the first half, after which&nbsp;United's&nbsp;skipper Harry&nbsp;Maguire&nbsp;doubled his side's lead in the 66th minute inflicting a league double win over the London club for the first time since 1987-1988 season. The red devils are now just 3 points behind Chelsea&nbsp;at 7th spot on the table with 38 points.&nbsp;

The image of Indian batting legend Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar&nbsp;being lifted on the shoulder after India won the World Cup in 2011 is still fresh in the minds of cricket fans. Now the same moment has been voted as&nbsp;the Laureus best sporting moment in the last 20 years. With the backing of hardcore Indian fans, Tendulkar&nbsp;secured the maximum number of votes to achieve this feat. The 46-year-old, who has the highest amount of runs in international cricket, said that lifting the World Cup trophy which he chased for 22 years&nbsp;was the proudest moment of his life&nbsp;

A construction worker in South India&nbsp;Srinivas Gowda&nbsp;made headlines on Friday when he was suddenly being compared to the fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt. The 28-year-old from&nbsp;Moodabidri near Mangaluru&nbsp;competed in a local race called&nbsp;Kambala and sprinted 142m through paddy fields with 2 buffalos and&nbsp;was said to have finished in 13.42 seconds. Interestingly, it was claimed that he had covered the first 100m of the race in just 9.55 seconds, which comes out to be .3 seconds quicker than&nbsp;Usain&nbsp;Bolt's&nbsp;100m world record of 9.58 seconds.&nbsp;Responding to the buzz, Sports Minister&nbsp;Kiren Rijiju&nbsp;said that he will invite Srinivas Gowda for trails by top SAI coaches and also ensured that he will not let&nbsp;no talents in India will be left out untested.

Faf du Plessis has decided to step down as South Africa's Test and T20 skipper with immediate effect. du Plessis captained South Africa in a total of 112 international matches across all 3 formats since December 2012. South Africa has had a poor run under him lately and managed&nbsp;to win just 1 Test series since July 2018. Just recently against England, the Proteas&nbsp;were humbled in&nbsp;the Test series in their own backyard.&nbsp;However, the 35-year-old will continue to be available for selection as a player in all 3 formats.&nbsp;Though not official yet but Quinton de Kock&nbsp;who had already replaced du Plessis&nbsp;as South Africa's full-time ODI&nbsp;captain is now&nbsp;expected to lead the Proteas in other formats as well.&nbsp;
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India may have lost the Tri-nation series final vs Australia but Harmanpreet&nbsp;Kaur's&nbsp;girls are still high on confidence&nbsp;as they gear up to take the Aussies once again but this time in the Women's World T20 opener on Friday in Sydney. Though the women in yellow have dominated the tournament with 4 titles to their name, 3-time semi-finalists&nbsp;India too boast a formidable unit to go the distance this time around.

Tottenham continued to rise on the Premier League points table after they edged out Aston Villa 3-2 in a five-goal thriller on Sunday night. The stunning away win for Spurs came after Son Heung&nbsp;min rescued them twice including an injury-time goal which gave the visitors 3 points on the night. Spurs now are just 1 point behind Chelsea in the 5th place who have a game in hand in the race for next season's Champions League qualification.&nbsp;

Srinivasa&nbsp;Gowda, the Kambala&nbsp;Jockey who rose to stardom last week after being compared to the legendary sprinter&nbsp;Usain&nbsp;Bolt has turned down Sports Minister&nbsp;Kiren&nbsp;Rijiju's offer of trials at the Sports Authority of India. Gowda&nbsp;who&nbsp;prefers focussing&nbsp;on his traditional sport of Kambala&nbsp;went viral after a video claimed that he&nbsp;finished 100mtrs in 9.55 secs&nbsp;which is faster than Bolt's World record of 9.58 secs.&nbsp;On Saturday&nbsp;Kiren&nbsp;Rijiju,&nbsp;the sports minister of India after recognising Gowda's&nbsp;talent invited the 'Desi&nbsp;Usain&nbsp;Bolt' for trials.&nbsp;

3rd ODI: India begin their run chase strongly

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