Young Indian batsman Prithvi Shaw has been ruled out of the 1st test VS Australia after he twisted his ankle while playing the practice game VS Cricket Australia XI in Sydney. The incident took place on day 3 when Shaw got injured while fielding near the boundary ropes. The 19 year old was carried off the field and rushed to a hospital for scans. Shaw returned some time later with a heavily bandaged ankle and crutches. Shaw remember had scored 66 while batting in the practice game and was supposed to bat in the opening slot for India in the 1st test which starts next Thursday.

Former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib&nbsp;Akhtar&nbsp;on Wednesday proposed a 3 match ODI&nbsp;series between the two nations to&nbsp;raise funds for the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. The&nbsp;44 year-old further added that it can be a TV only affair which will yield massive viewership&nbsp;and the funds generated can be equally divided between both the countries. The 2 nations have not played a full-fledged&nbsp;series since 2007 due to diplomatic tensions.&nbsp;

English Premier League side&nbsp;Tottenham&nbsp;has reminded its players and coach Jose Mourinho&nbsp;for practising&nbsp;social distancing and abiding by the British&nbsp;government's advisory to follow the&nbsp;ongoing&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;which has been implemented in the country to battle the Covid-19 pandemic. This came after a video&nbsp;surfaced on social media in which the Portuguese&nbsp;coach and several other squad members were seen training outside and defying the social distancing norms.&nbsp;Tanguy Ndombele,&nbsp;Davinson Sanchez, Serge Aurier&nbsp;and Ryan Sessegnon&nbsp;were also seen flouting the norms.

In a heartfelt gesture, 15-year-old&nbsp;Indian golfer, Arjun&nbsp;Bhati&nbsp;sold all his hard-earned 102&nbsp;trophies to raise ₹4.3&nbsp;lakh&nbsp;for the&nbsp;PM Cares fund. In his pledge to donate towards the good cause, the teenage sensation also sold his 3 world golf&nbsp;championship titles and national championship&nbsp;title. While asking people to follow self-isolation,&nbsp;Bhati&nbsp;said that since he had no earnings of his own, he&nbsp;sold all the trophies to his relatives and friends of his parents so that he could do his bit.&nbsp;

Wisden&nbsp;Almanack&nbsp;announced its prestigious&nbsp;2020 cricketer's awards&nbsp;on Wednesday. Jofra Archer, Pat Cummins, Simon Harmer, Marnus&nbsp;Labuschagne and Ellyse&nbsp;Perry were honoured as top 5 cricketers of the year. Apart from that, Perry also featured in the leading cricketers of the world list along with England's Ben Stokes. Whereas in the shortest format, Windies' Andre Russell was honoured as the leading T20 cricketer in the world.&nbsp;

Long-serving forward Thomas Mueller has signed a 2-year contract extension with Bayern Munich, which will keep him at the club until June 2023. 2014 FIFA World Cup winner Mueller has made over 500 appearances for Bayern and has won 8&nbsp;Bundesliga titles, 5 German Cups and 5 German Super Cups in addition to the 2013 Champions League. Interestingly, social distancing norms were followed while signing the contract and fans loved it.&nbsp;

Formula 1 bosses have agreed to take a 20% salary cut as a result of the coronavirus crisis that has seen the first 9 Grands Prix races of the season being either postponed or cancelled.&nbsp;F1 chairman and chief executive Chase Carey is believed to have taken&nbsp;a much deeper wage cut than 20%. Apart from that, about half of the organisation's staff has been put on enforced leave and will take advantage of the UK government's job retention scheme.

Many people have&nbsp;resorted to unique ways to get over the boredom&nbsp;of lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic but Motorcycle trials rider Toni Bou&nbsp;took it a step further as he&nbsp;has incorporated training into his daily routine. The Spanish legend released a video of him showcasing&nbsp;tricks and stunts which has left fans jaw dropped.&nbsp;

Tennis star Roger Federer&nbsp;has been beating the lockdown&nbsp;dullness by being invariably active on social media and this time Federer&nbsp;also roped in Indian&nbsp;skipper&nbsp;Virat&nbsp;Kohli. The 38-year-old took to Twitter on Tuesday to post an interesting video of a solo drill and further nominated several celebrities, including&nbsp;Virat&nbsp;Kohli,&nbsp;to participate in the challenge. The Swiss Maestro even promised&nbsp;to reply back with some tips.

Qatar and Russia on Tuesday denied allegations of bribes paid to the FIFA&nbsp;executive committee members to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. The US prosecutors had earlier accused them of paying millions as bribe to FIFA&nbsp;officials to vote in favour of awarding the hosting rights for 2018 World cup to Russia and for 2022 to Qatar.&nbsp;&nbsp;US legal action is linked to the 2015 corruption scandal that led to the downfall of then FIFA&nbsp;president Sepp&nbsp;Blatter.

The covid-19 pandemic continues to affect the sporting calendar as&nbsp;The Italian and Catalonian Grand&nbsp;Prix became the latest rounds of the 2020 MotoGP season to be postponed indefinitely.&nbsp;Originally scheduled as the 4th and 5th rounds on the calendar, the 2 races join the Spanish and French Grand&nbsp;Prix in being postponed until later dates. With the coronavirus&nbsp;situation becoming worse each day,&nbsp;MotoGP organisers said that they can't confirm when the races will take place in thee future.&nbsp;The season-opening Qatar Grand Prix has already been cancelled.

Rohit&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;and Yuvraj&nbsp;Singh&nbsp;came live on Instagram&nbsp;on Tuesday to talk on a series of topics wherein the former all-rounder said that the&nbsp;current generation of young Indian players lacks respect for their seniors. The remark was in response to Rohit&nbsp;Sharma's&nbsp;question to Yuvraj&nbsp;about the difference between the current playing team and the players who played alongside him. The 38-year-old southpaw feels that there are not many role models in the current Indian team and even&nbsp;went on to say that when he and Rohit&nbsp;came into the team, the seniors were very disciplined. Yuvi also blamed social media for the&nbsp;distractions.

Formula One organisers have decided to postpone the Canadian Grand Prix&nbsp;because of the coronavirus&nbsp;crisis. It was due to be held on June 14 but has now&nbsp;became the 9th race of the season&nbsp;to bear the brunt of the deadly virus. Organisers said&nbsp;that attempts will be made to reschedule the race at the earliest opportunity in the summer as a minimum of 8 races are required for the F1 championship to be valid.&nbsp;

Brazil and Barcelona football legend, Ronaldinho&nbsp;and his brother&nbsp;were released from a prison in Paraguay on Tuesday after serving just 32 days of their 6-month sentence.&nbsp;The duo was arrested in March for allegedly using fake passports to enter the country.&nbsp;Lawyers for Ronaldinho and his brother posted a $1.6 million bail, after a previous application was denied. The court finally ruled in favour of the pair,&nbsp;allowing them to be placed under house arrest in a nearby hotel where while they await trial on their charges.

Former India captain Sunil&nbsp;Gavaskar has donated&nbsp;₹59 lakh&nbsp;for the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The little master donated ₹35 lakh&nbsp;for the PM Cares fund while ₹24&nbsp;lakh&nbsp;was given to Maharastra Chief Minister's fund. The donation was made anonymously but according to his son &amp; former India cricketer Rohan, since Sunny G hit 35 international hundreds for India, he donated the equivalent to the national fund. Gavaskar&nbsp;while playing domestic cricket for Mumbai&nbsp;hit 24 tons, therefore, made the donation of ₹24 lakh&nbsp;for his state.&nbsp;

UEFA&nbsp;president&nbsp;Aleksander Ceferin&nbsp;on Tuesday said that Liverpool should be awarded the Premier League title if the season is not completed. The Reds were just 2 wins away from ending their 30 year-long&nbsp;wait for the trophy when the football stopped. Although Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;side might miss the opportunity&nbsp;to clinch the title officially by playing the games as the season has been called off due to the pandemic, Liverpool led the charts with 25 points ahead of second-placed Manchester City.

Following McLaren&rsquo;s announcement to ask some of its staff to take an enforced absence, 2 more Formula One teams, Williams Racing and Racing Point are putting an unspecified number of employees on furlough through the end of May&nbsp;because of the crises caused by&nbsp;coronavirus. Williams said in a statement that&nbsp;their&nbsp;drivers&nbsp;George Russell and Nicholas Latifi&nbsp;have taken a 20 per cent pay cut that began April 1st.&nbsp;Racing Point&nbsp;drivers will also take a voluntary wage reduction.

Tennis greats, Novak&nbsp;Djokovic and Roger Federer&nbsp;might face each other in a virtual competition later this month in an effort to raise money for those affected&nbsp;by Covid-19. After Madrid Open Tennis Tournament got cancelled due to the virus scare, Tennis World Tour videogame&nbsp;was announced on Monday, wherein professional players are set to&nbsp;compete with each other for the good cause. Earlier&nbsp;La Liga&nbsp;organised a FIFA&nbsp;football tournament and helped to raise more than a million euros.

Former Australia captain Michael Clarke made a strong statement by saying that&nbsp;the current Australian players sucked-up to Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;when India beat them at home in order to protect their million-dollar IPL&nbsp;deals. The 39 years old who believes that Australian team were scared to sledge Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;and other Indian Players&nbsp;also said that every other team over a little period has sucked up to India as they had to return to play with them in the&nbsp;IPL. The World cup winning captain being critical of his home team&nbsp;further said that this did not allow Australia to be assertive and took away the ruthless nature that had characterised the Australian cricket team&nbsp;for decades.

Not many will remember&nbsp;Myron Rolle&nbsp;as an American&nbsp;NFL&nbsp;player but these days he is a doctor treating coronavirus&nbsp;patients. The 33-year-old who played for&nbsp;the Titans and Steelers&nbsp;in the National Football League left the sport&nbsp;in 2013 to attend medical school. Now, Rolle is in his third year as a neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hospital in a state that is dealing with&nbsp;more than 12,000 cases of the virus. Myron feels that the sport taught him how to deal with pressure and it is still helping him deal with patients as the number of cases mount in the United States.&nbsp;

Keeping in mind the financial crunch due to Covid-19 pandemic, the Italian&nbsp;top-flight&nbsp;football clubs have decided to cut the salaries of its players, coaches, and staff. The clubs have unanimously decided to a wage reduction if the season gets cancelled and a smaller amount if the matches resume. However, the players' association has&nbsp;rejected the proposal and called it unmanageable. The pact was in agreement with 19 out of 20 clubs as Juventus&nbsp;didn't agree to the terms as they&nbsp;had earlier announced a wage cut for their players and coach.&nbsp;

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