After losing to Tottenham in the premier league, Chelsea are back to winning ways as they registered a thumping 4-0 win over Greek football club PAOK Salonika 4-0 at Stamford Bridge. Olivier Giroud scored a first half brace followed by goals in the 2nd half from Callum Hudson-Odoi & Alvaro Morata ensured that Chelsea remained unbeaten in Europa league this season. The blues lead Group L with 5 wins in as many games 

As Indian cricketers are forced to train indoors&nbsp;due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, Mohammed Shami feels that it has its pros and cons. In an interview to PTI, the fast bowler said that the Indian team always had a packed schedule and it was a good break which allowed a tired body to heal.&nbsp;While on one side, you gain physically, become fitter and stronger with a lot of training but at the same time the rhythm gets affected as you are not playing the sport. Talking about his bowling, Shami&nbsp;said that he has been in good rhythm and luckily, he doesn't feel any stiffness while bowling full tilt.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India accepted CEO&nbsp;Rahul&nbsp;Johri's long-pending resignation on Thursday.&nbsp;Johri, who joined the&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;in 2016, had put in his papers in December last year when&nbsp;the&nbsp;Supreme Court&nbsp;appointed Committee of Administrators&nbsp;had made way for the Sourav Ganguly-led panel to run Indian cricket. He was then asked to continue till the end of his contract, which is due to expire in 2021. Though a&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;veteran confirmed the news to&nbsp;PTI on the condition of anonymity but didn't reveal the reason behind the&nbsp;board's sudden change of mind.&nbsp;

After a frustrating end to the opening day of the Southampton Test, fans at home finally had something to cheer for as the West Indian fast bowlers rattled England. All&nbsp;10 English&nbsp;wickets fell to the pacers as they were bowled out for just 204 in their first innings.&nbsp;Apart from Jason Holder's magical spell,&nbsp;Shannon Gabriel picked up 4 wickets.&nbsp;He hit the timber thrice as only 6 bowlers in the history of cricket have a higher percentage of getting batsmen out bowled than him. The visitors had a steady start but James Anderson finally broke their opening stand of 43 by cleaning up Kraigg Brathwaite for 20. Windies were 57/1 and trailed England by 147 runs before bad light forced early stumps on day 2.&nbsp;

With ICC banning the use of saliva to shine the ball, bowlers were expected to be at the receiving end but Jason Holder's masterclass in Southampton proved all cricket pundits wrong. The West Indian skipper lead from the front and ran through England's middle order with 6 wickets. Apart from it being his 7th Test 5-wicket haul, Holder has now claimed 9 international five-fers&nbsp;as captain, joint second most with&nbsp;Richard Benaud. Holder's career best Test figures helped the Windies restrict England to a moderate 204 in the first innings.

England and Wales Cricket Board on Thursday announced&nbsp;a 24-member training squad for their 3-match ODI&nbsp;series against Ireland starting 30th July. Due to schedule clash,&nbsp;ECB&nbsp;has given the opportunities to many uncapped players as the rest of the players will be busy with the ongoing Test series against West Indies. Henry Brookes, Brydon&nbsp;Carse, Richard Gleeson,&nbsp;Laurie Evans, Sam Hain, Tom Helm and Phil Salt will all be appearing for the first time&nbsp;for the national side. While Eoin Morgan will captain the team, Moeen&nbsp;Ali and Johnny&nbsp;Bairstow&nbsp;have also been inducted in the team. Both the English players were excluded from the Test squad against West Indies. All the 24 players are due to start their training program in a bio-secured environment in Southampton from 16th July.&nbsp; &nbsp;

After migrant workers,&nbsp;Bollywood actor Sonu&nbsp;Sood&nbsp;has now come to the rescue of&nbsp;budding athlete of the Indian National Karate Team, Amritpal Kaur&nbsp;who injured her knee during KAI President Cup 2020 held in January. Assuring fans that&nbsp;she will be back on her feet soon, the actor&nbsp;responded to one of her friends who reached out to him for help and wrote&nbsp;please tell Amritpal not to worry as she is the pride of our country.&nbsp;Kaur&nbsp;also took to Twitter &amp; thanked&nbsp;Sonu&nbsp;Sood&nbsp;for the support

As the country is still struggling with the increasing number of Covid-19 cases,&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;president Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;on Thursday clarified that domestic cricket would not return until it is safe for players. If domestic cricket returns, players will have to travel across Indian states, and to that&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;said&nbsp;BCCI&nbsp;does not want to expose young players and it will happen only&nbsp;when it is safe. The 2020-21 domestic season was due to start in late August with the Vijay&nbsp;Hazare&nbsp;Trophy. This year's Irani&nbsp;Cup was&nbsp;also cancelled due to the lockdown&nbsp;imposed by the government to curb the spread of Covid-19.

IPL's fate may still depend on the World T20 being postponed but if a report in India Today is to be believed, Cricket Australia has already asked its players&nbsp;to plan on playing the IPL after their tour of England in September. BCCI&nbsp;is keen on hosting the postponed-IPL&nbsp;in the September-October window but is still waiting for the ICC&nbsp;to take a final call on the World T20, which is scheduled to be played down under during the same time.&nbsp;

Contrary to reports which said that New Zealand&nbsp;had offered to host this year's IPL, the Kiwi board has downplayed all such reports and have called them mere speculations. During a chat with a radio station,&nbsp;New Zealand&nbsp;Cricket&nbsp;spokesperson Richard Boock said that&nbsp;they have not offered to host the IPL nor do they had an approach to do so. His comments came after a BCCI&nbsp;official had stated that New Zealand&nbsp;has joined UAE&nbsp;and Sri&nbsp;Lanka&nbsp;in expressing&nbsp;its interest to host the postponed 13th edition of the IPL. The Indian board is eyeing to host the IPL&nbsp;in September-October window as the World T20 is almost certain to be postponed due to the pandemic.

The Pakistan Cricket Board is facing the brunt of Covid-19 and has failed to find a kit sponsor for their national cricket team. According to&nbsp;PCB,&nbsp;negotiations were underway with a&nbsp;multi-national beverage company, which had shown interest in signing a new team logo sponsorship deal but had offered an amount far below the expectations of the board. As a result, the Pakistan team will now be sporting&nbsp;Shahid Afridi Foundation's logo on their jerseys during the upcoming series against England. The former all-rounder&nbsp;tweeted to say that his foundation&nbsp;is delighted that their logo will be featured on Pakistan's playing kits and also thanked the board for its support.

South African cricketer Lungi&nbsp;Ngidi&nbsp;who recently announced that he will be supporting the Black Lives Matter movement when he returns to the field. The 24-year-old pacer who plays for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL&nbsp;is one of the few South African cricketers who have raised their voice about racism in the sport.&nbsp;But certain former cricketers including Boeta&nbsp;Dippenaar&nbsp;&amp; Pat Symcox&nbsp;rubbished his claims and called it a mere political movement. Cricket South Africa's&nbsp;Director Graeme Smith though supported Ngidi&nbsp;&amp; said that the revolutionary 3 Team cricket match&nbsp;on Mandela Day will be the first occasion for the BLM&nbsp;movement, but as far as the South African men's and women's team was concerned, the decision will be taken after a discussion.&nbsp;

After BCCI&nbsp;president Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly announced the cancellation of this year's Asia Cup, PCB's&nbsp;Media director Samiul&nbsp;Hasan&nbsp;Burney&nbsp;firmly dismissed the decision. Calling it baseless, Burney said that the statements made by Ganguly&nbsp;had no impact on the proceedings as the decision regarding Asia Cup has to be taken by the Asian Cricket Council. He further said that an announcement can only come from ACC's&nbsp;president Nazmul&nbsp;Hasan's&nbsp;end and that the schedule of the next meeting is yet to be announced. Although the former Indian cricketer did not offer any explanation for the cancellation of the event that was slated&nbsp;to begin in September, speculations suggest that the failure to decide the host nation was the potential reason behind its cancellation.

Australian cricket coach, Justin Langer&nbsp;feels that Australia's tour of England, slated for September this year&nbsp;should go-ahead for the health of World Cricket. On Thursday, the former Australian cricketer said that there are a lot of challenges but one has to find the solutions to make sure that it can happen if possible, reported the Daily Telegraph. The 49-year-old also wants his players to participate in this year's IPL,&nbsp;if the event goes ahead. On Wednesday, cricket returned after a long break of 117-days due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the dark clouds still loom over the future of World&nbsp;T20 which is scheduled to begin in October in Australia.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The 2020 edition of the&nbsp;Ryder Cup which was scheduled to begin from 25th September has been postponed until next year due to the virus scare. The event that was to be played in Wisconsin, will now be hosted from September 24th to 26th in 2021. CEO Seth Waugh, of&nbsp;PGA&nbsp;of&nbsp;America,&nbsp;said that the spectators from Europe and America made the event special and compelling, playing without them was not a realistic option. Consecutively, next year's Presidents Cup which was slated to begin from September 30th was also postponed by a year and will now be played from September 19th in 2022.&nbsp;

Former Indian captain MS Dhoni&nbsp;who turned 39 just a few days ago is not planning to retire anytime soon. Dhoni's manager &amp; close friend&nbsp;Mihir Diwakar&nbsp;confirmed that Mahi&nbsp;is working hard at his farmhouse to stay fit and motivated to play in the Indian Premier League. Diwakar&nbsp;added that Mahi&nbsp;also went to Chennai to practice a month ahead of the team to get ready for the IPL&nbsp;before the pandemic shut everything down. Mihir&nbsp;said that Dhoni&nbsp;is not thinking or planning about retirement and wants to play&nbsp;more. Dhoni&nbsp;last played for India more than a year ago in their semifinal&nbsp;loss to New Zealand at the 2019 Cricket World Cup.&nbsp;&nbsp;

World number 1 Novak&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;is unsure about playing at the US Open as he is concerned about the number of cases in the United States. Confirming to a local Serbian&nbsp;newspaper, 17-time Grand Slam winner said that he wants to play in Europe on clay courts leading up to the French Open. Djoko&nbsp;also said that he was sad about the entire controversy regarding&nbsp;Covid-19 infections at his tennis tournament and called it a witch hunt. Djoko&nbsp;added that his intentions were clear and honest in helping the tennis players and federation in his country. Meanwhile, the 33-year-old has recovered from the virus infection and has started practising.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Barcelona remained alive in La Liga&nbsp;title race after a 1-0 win over already-relegated Espanyol. It was an ill-tempered encounter after Barcelona lost Ansu&nbsp;Fati&nbsp;to a red card and even Espanyol&nbsp;were reduced to 10-men.&nbsp;Luis Suarez scored the only goal of the game early in the 2nd half which was his&nbsp;195th strike with Barcelona making him the club's&nbsp;third top scorer of all time. With the nervy 1-0 win, Barcelona has 76 points from 35 games and are 1 point behind league leaders Real Madrid who have a game in hand. With their performance on Wednesday looking sluggish as per their standards, Quique Setien's&nbsp;side&nbsp;needs to pull up their socks if they were to pose a challenge to Real Madrid.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Premier League Champions&nbsp;Liverpool inched closer towards the 100 point record in a season after they brushed aside Brighton &amp; Hove Albion 3-1. The Reds were up 2-0 in just 8 minutes after Mohd&nbsp;Salah&nbsp;&amp; Jordan Henderson scored a goal each. Salah&nbsp;returned to score another one in the 2nd half which snuffed out the smallest possibility of Brighton attempting to make a comeback. With 92 points, Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;men need 9 points from their last 4 encounters to better the mark set by Manchester City, who raked in 100 points in the 2017-18 season.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

David Silva was on fire as he scored one and set up 2 goals for Manchester City as they schooled Newcastle United 5-0 in the Premier League.&nbsp;&nbsp;Gabriel Jesus,&nbsp;Riyad Mahrez&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Raheem Sterling&nbsp;got on the scoresheet too as Newcastle helped with an own goal. Courtesy the goal-fest, City became the first team in Premier League history to have five players score 10 or more goals in a single season with Sergio Aguero,&nbsp;Sterling, Jesus, De Bruyne&nbsp;and Mahrez&nbsp;doing the bulk of the scoring. With the Champions already decided in the Premier League, City will be hoping to take a lot of positives from this win towards the FA Cup where they play Arsenal in the semifinals.&nbsp;&nbsp;

It took cricket 117 days to make a comeback from a coronavirus-enforced break but its return lasted for just 106 deliveries. Rain dominated opening day of the first Test at Southampton, as England were 35/1 at stumps vs the Windies. After a delayed start, fans finally had some like cricket action as England's stand-in skipper opted to bat first.&nbsp;Dom Sibley proved to be Test cricket's first victim after the long break as Shannon Gabriel cleaned him up in his very first over. Rain gods intervened once again and this time the players went off the field for good. Weather forecast for day 2 though looks promising for cricket action.

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