World number 2 Novak Djokovic is now just a step away from defending his Australian Open crown as he stormed into the final after thrashing Roger Federer in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday. Interestingly Djoko has now taken his head to head record against the Swiss Maestro to 27 wins in 50 career meetings. 2nd seed Djokovic who has dropped just 1 set in the tournament so far is gunning for his 8th Australian Open title.

World number 2 Novak Djokovic is now just a step away from defending his Australian Open crown as he stormed into the final after thrashing Roger Federer in straight sets 7-6, 6-4, 6-3 on Thursday. Interestingly Djoko has now taken his head to head record against the Swiss Maestro to 27 wins in 50 career meetings. 2nd seed Djokovic who has dropped just 1 set in the tournament so far is gunning for his 8th Australian Open title.

Rajasthan&nbsp;Royals trio, Steve Smith, Jofra&nbsp;Archer and Jos&nbsp;Buttler&nbsp;have all tested negative for the mandatory Covid-19 test. The three players will now be available for the team's&nbsp;&nbsp;first IPL&nbsp;match against CSK&nbsp;on September 22. The&nbsp;English players arrived in UAE&nbsp;on September 17, along with 18 other English and Australian IPL-bound players who were involved in a bilateral limited over series in UK.&nbsp; Earlier&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;reduced the quarantine period for the 21 players to 36 hours to ensure that they were available for their respective upcoming IPL matches.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Calling Dhoni the most popular cricketer in India, cricketing legend&nbsp;Sunil&nbsp;Gavaskar&nbsp;lauded Mahi's&nbsp;captaincy skills, after the CSK&nbsp;skipper yet again proved his capabilities, guiding&nbsp;his team to a 5-wicket victory against the&nbsp;Mumbai&nbsp;Indians on Saturday.
Comparing him to the likes of Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;and Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar, Gavaskar&nbsp;said Tendulkar&nbsp;has Mumbai and Kolkata,&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;has Delhi and Bengaluru, but when one talks&nbsp;of Dhoni&nbsp;it's whole India.
The 71-year-old said&nbsp;Dhoni's&nbsp;results show that he is&nbsp;India's best captain&nbsp;so far. The former wicketkeeper who returned to competitive cricket after a 437-day hiatus has won all limited-overs&nbsp;titles, taking India to the No. 1 spot in Tests, and won 3 titles for CSK.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Borussia&nbsp;Dortmund started their Bundesliga&nbsp;campaign with&nbsp;an unassailable 3-0 win at home over Borussia&nbsp;Monchengladbach&nbsp;on Saturday. Jude Bellingham&nbsp;who made his Bundesliga&nbsp;debut helped the 17-year-old&nbsp;Giovanni&nbsp;Reyna score&nbsp;in the first half of the match.&nbsp;Jadon&nbsp;Sancho&nbsp;shined through the match with an incredible assist to Erling Haaland, who also scored a penalty to make it a comfortable victory for Lucian Favre's men. Earlier this week, English footballer Bellingham&nbsp;scored on his Dortmund debut in the German Cup against Duisberg.&nbsp;

Wilfred Zaha&nbsp;inspired Crystal Palace easily took over Manchester United in their first Premier League game of the season&nbsp;as Ole Gunnar&nbsp;Solskjaer's men slumped to an embarrassing 3-1 defeat at home.
United's&nbsp;lone goal came from their new signing Donny van de Beek.&nbsp;The former Manchester United player,&nbsp;Zaha&nbsp;in return scored 2 goals in the second half of&nbsp;the match, which also made&nbsp;him the only player to do so.
Interestingly, with this victory, the Eagles made history at Old Trafford&nbsp;as this was for the first time that the team&nbsp;won their opening 2 games of a top-flight season.&nbsp;

Eddie Nketiah's&nbsp;late goal in the 85th minute saved the day for Arsenal, as they registered a second straight victory with a&nbsp;2-1 win against West Ham at Emirates Stadium on Saturday. With Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's&nbsp;help,&nbsp;Alexandre&nbsp;Lacazette&nbsp;scored the opening goal for his side in the&nbsp;25th-minute. While David Moyes' men presented a strong counter-attack with midfielder&nbsp;Michail&nbsp;Antonio scoring the only goal for his side, the Irons eventually succumbed&nbsp;to&nbsp;Mikel&nbsp;Arteta's&nbsp;men.&nbsp;&nbsp;

While Chennai super Kings face defending champions Mumbai&nbsp;Indians in IPL's&nbsp;opening match on Saturday, all eyes will be on skipper MS Dhoni who announced his retirement last month. Although&nbsp;MS Dhoni will be playing cricket after a 14-month break, the team's head coach Stephen Fleming feels that the veteran wicketkeeper is fresh and ready to go. Calling it no different, Fleming said that Dhoni&nbsp;is very fit and mentally the former Indian captain has been engaged and determined. He added that in some ways, the break can work for the experienced and older players that the team has. CSK&nbsp;have won the IPL&nbsp;title&nbsp;thrice in 2010, 2011 and 2018.

It will be a North Indian derby in match 2 of the IPL&nbsp;as the Delhi Capitals take on Kings XI Punjab on Sunday at 7:30 PM IST&nbsp;in Dubai.

After being left frustrated for not been picked in the 2019 World Cup squad, Ambati Rayudu announced his retirement last year but the 34-year-old looked like a man on a mission in the opening game of the IPL. With no Suresh Raina and Chennai Super Kings' top order looking a bit thin, Rayudu proved to be a solid number 4 batsman. He walked in when his side was reduced to 6 for 2 and took the attack to the Mumbai Indians from the word go. Rayudu smashed his 19th IPL half-century and took CSK on the brink of victory. He was eventually dismissed for a 48-ball-71 but his match-winning effort helped Rayudu win the player of the game award.

Put into bat, Saurabh&nbsp;Tiwary&nbsp;and Quinton de Kock&nbsp;were the top 2 run-getters&nbsp;for the Mumbai Indians with 42 and 33 respectively but Lungi&nbsp;Ngidi&nbsp;helped CSK restrict them to 162/9. Chasing which Aambati Rayudu and Faf&nbsp;du Plessis&nbsp;helped CSK&nbsp;win with 71 and 58 not out respectively. All 5 Mumbai&nbsp;bowlers took a wicket each.

It may have been Mumbai Indians taking on the Chennai Super Kings in the 2020 IPL opener but all eyes were on MS Dhoni as the former India captain returned to the cricket field after 437 days. His decision to bowl first proved right as Mumbai were restricted to 162/9. Chennai's run-chase began on a disastrous note as they lost both their openers within the first 2 overs. But Faf du Plessis and&nbsp;Ambati Rayudu's 115-run stand brought CSK back into the contest. Though they had a few hiccups towards the end but du Plessis took Chennai over the finish line with an unbeaten 58 with 5 wickets to spare. Mumbai Indians who have&nbsp;never won an IPL opener since 2013, have failed to register a win in UAE, they have lost all 6 previous encounters.&nbsp;CSK also washed away their stains of the previous season where they had lost all of their 4 games against the Mumbai Indians.&nbsp;

After being indefinitely&nbsp;delayed to being almost&nbsp;cancelled due to the global pandemic, the 2020 edition of the Indian Premier League is finally happening. UAE&nbsp;plays hosts as the entire world is glued to watch the return of the most watched league in the&nbsp;sport.&nbsp;Chennai Super Kings led by MS Dhoni&nbsp;and Mumbai&nbsp;Indians led by Rohit&nbsp;Sharma kicked off the proceedings in the 1st game on Saturday in Abu&nbsp;Dhabi.&nbsp;

A hat-trick by&nbsp;Dominic Calvert-Lewin&nbsp;helped Everton&nbsp;come back from a goal down to thrash West Brom&nbsp;5-2, taking their&nbsp;impressive start to the Premier League season to 2 wins in as many outings.&nbsp;Colombian forward James Rodriguez made his debut for Everton&nbsp;memorable with a goal just moments before half-time. Though West Brom&nbsp;equalised in the 47th minute but Calvert-Lewin&nbsp;made sure that The Toffees reigned supreme.&nbsp;Everton have won their opening two league fixtures for the first time in eight years

Delhi Capitals may not have won a single IPL&nbsp;title but the boys from North are determined to turn things around this season. As they&nbsp;open their IPL&nbsp;2020 campaign against the Kings XI Punjab on Sunday, coach Ricky Ponting&nbsp;feels that his team will be hard to beat in this edition.&nbsp;Skipper Shreyas&nbsp;Iyer&nbsp;is also pumped to get on to the field but said that he will miss the fans at the stadiums.

While the IPL franchises&nbsp;bore the cost of Covid-19 testing in India, the BCCI&nbsp;will do the job in UAE. The Indian board is expected to&nbsp;spend Rs 10 crore on more than 20,000 coronavirus tests&nbsp;which have been conducted from August 20 when the teams started landing in the UAE. A senior IPL official told PTI on conditions of anonymity that the BCCI&nbsp;has roped in a UAE based company to conduct the tests and around 75 healthcare workers who are a part of that company are a part of the IPL testing process.&nbsp;A total of 1988 Covid-19 tests were carried out between August 20-28 across all those involved with the tournament, including players and support staff.&nbsp;

The 13th edition of the Indian Premier League will be the first edition when the sixes and wickets will not be cheered for, as the games will be played behind closed doors due to the pandemic. Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;opened up on how strange that feeling would be. He said that he hasn't experienced that since playing Ranji Trophy cricket back in 2010. So, it will be a new feeling.

Year after year, Royal Challengers Bangalore come up with one of the most explosive-looking IPL&nbsp;teams which make their fans believe that this might be their year they've waited for. Unfortunately, the fortunes haven't changed yet for the men in maroon &amp; gold.
RCB&nbsp;in the past has finished as runners-up thrice and have made it to the playoffs 2 times but the nerves of the big stage seem to get to the Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;led side.&nbsp;
Skipper Kohli&nbsp;always tries his best with the bat and is the leading run-scorer of the league. AB de Villiers&nbsp;has been his second in command over the years and has single-handedly&nbsp;won them numerous&nbsp;games. Having roped in Aaron Finch in their squad in the 2019 auction, Bangalore probably has one of the most explosive top orders this time around.
But it's their bowling which lets RCB&nbsp;down more often than not.&nbsp;One reason that has made their&nbsp;bowling attack look weak is&nbsp;their home condition. M Chinnaswamy stadium is considered as a graveyard for the bowlers but with the IPL&nbsp;now happening&nbsp;in&nbsp;UAE, it may just prove to be a blessing in disguise&nbsp;for their bowlers.&nbsp;
With all 3 venues in UAE&nbsp;having long boundaries and&nbsp;turning tracks, spinners will enjoy their time out there. RCB&nbsp;already had&nbsp;Yuzvendra&nbsp;Chahal,&nbsp;Washington Sundar, Pawan&nbsp;Negi and Moeen Ali&nbsp;in their ranks and they have also replaced Kane Richardson with Adam Zampa. With a good bunch of pacers including Dale Steyn,&nbsp;Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini and Umesh Yadav, the Royal Challengers do look a unit that has got all its basis covered.

Kolkata&nbsp;Knight Riders - A team that has probably seen the most drama, maximum highs and many lows. Showcasing the ruthless style of cricket in the very first game of the inaugural edition,&nbsp;the franchise is often credited for making IPL the brand that it is today.
But just after their first&nbsp;2 games, things went downhill for KKR. After&nbsp;they failed to qualify for the playoffs in the first 3 editions, the team had a complete makeover. The captaincy duties shifted from Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;to Gautam&nbsp;Gambhir. The Delhi lad led from the front and KKR&nbsp;qualified for their first-ever playoffs that year. 2012 was the year which saw the Knights reign supreme as they lifted their maiden silverware.
Since 2014&nbsp;KKR&nbsp;has failed to win another title despite making it to the playoffs in 3 of the last 4 editions.
The franchise has made significant additions this year. Roping in England's 2019 World Cup-winning captain Eoin&nbsp;Morgan may prove to be a masterstroke. His&nbsp;inputs to current captain Dinesh&nbsp;Karthik&nbsp;will prove valuable.&nbsp;Hard-hitting batsman Tom Banton&nbsp;is also expected to give their shaky opening slot the much-needed stability. They also have youngsters like Shubman&nbsp;Gill and Nitish&nbsp;Rana in the ranks.
Kolkata&nbsp;also boasts a formidable bowling&nbsp;unit comprising of Pat Cummins, Kuldeep Yadav&nbsp;and&nbsp;Sunil&nbsp;Narine. Moreover,&nbsp;if Andre Russell continues to do what he does best, there could be no stopping the Knights this time around.&nbsp;

Despite having some of the best teams in the competition over the last 12 years,&nbsp;Delhi Capitals'&nbsp;trophy cabinet is still empty. After making it to the semi-finals of the first 2 editions, Delhi still remains the only franchise that has&nbsp;never reached an IPL final. Moreover, they have finished at the bottom of the table 4 times, the most among all teams.&nbsp;
But things are slowly changing after&nbsp;Shreyas&nbsp;Iyer&nbsp;took over as skipper midway during the 2018 edition and Delhi qualified for their first playoffs in 7 years in 2019. With Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Shikhar&nbsp;Dhawan,&nbsp;Ajinkya&nbsp;Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Ishant&nbsp;Sharma and Ashwin&nbsp;in the squad, Delhi&nbsp;is one team which probably has the most India players in their ranks.
To strengthen the middle order, they roped in an in-form Marcus Stoinis,&nbsp;Alex Carey&nbsp;and&nbsp;Shimron Hetmyer&nbsp;in the 2019 auction which may also present a stiff competition&nbsp;among overseas players.
Known to release big names, Delhi did the same this time around as well and let go of&nbsp;Trent Boult&nbsp;and&nbsp;Chris Morris. With&nbsp;Chris Woakes&nbsp;having already&nbsp;opted out of the upcoming IPL, their fast bowling hopes now rest on Kagiso Rabada's&nbsp;shoulders.&nbsp;
Though the Capitals are a batting powerhouse on paper, they would largely rely on the spinners when it comes to bowling. As things stand, Delhi would need a massive effort in order to clinch their maiden IPL&nbsp;title.

When not many gave them even a fighting chance, the Rajasthan&nbsp;Royals proved their critics wrong and were crowned the inaugural&nbsp;champions of the Indian Premier League. Since then, the Royals are searching for their 2nd trophy but their efforts have gone in vain. Despite making it to the playoffs thrice in the last 5 editions they have featured in, Rajasthan&nbsp;seems to crumble under pressure. But with Steve Smith back at the helm and Ajinkya&nbsp;Rahane&nbsp;not even retained, the franchise clearly means business this time around. Though some regular players like Ben Stokes,&nbsp;Jos&nbsp;Buttler&nbsp;and Sanju Samson still make the core, Rajasthan&nbsp;has reinforcements in the form of David Miller, Robin Uthappa and Andrew Tye. They are also known to nurture young talent and it looks like the way forward this time around as well. The Royals roped in teenagers&nbsp;like Akash Singh,&nbsp;Kartik Tyagi&nbsp;and star batsman&nbsp;Yashasvi Jaiswal. Though they look a strong group,&nbsp;Rajasthan&nbsp;would need solid performances from their Indian players in order to make a mark in the 2020 edition.

Ali Khan has become the first American cricketer to be picked up by an IPL&nbsp;franchise, as the Kolkata&nbsp;Knight Riders roped in the Pakistan-born pacer as a replacement for an injured&nbsp;Harry Gurney. The 29-year-old was a part of&nbsp;KKR's&nbsp;sister franchise Trinbago&nbsp;Knight Rider's squad which won 12 consecutive games this season to win their 4th Caribbean Premier League title. Ali&nbsp;Khan picked up 8 wickets from as many matches with an economy rate of 7.4 in the CPL. KKR open their IPL&nbsp;campaign on September&nbsp;23 against the Mumbai&nbsp;Indians.

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