Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar welcomed Hardik Pandya's return to India's ODI squad and praised him by saying his presence covers all bases for the side. Pandya who is facing enquiry for his controversial remarks on a TV show wasn't allowed to bat against New Zealand but took 2 wickets and an impressive catch to help his side take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

After India's back to back poor performances&nbsp;against New Zealand&nbsp;in ODIs&nbsp;&amp; then the 1st Test, former Indian skipper&nbsp;Kapil&nbsp;Dev criticized the team for making constant changes &amp; not including the 'in-form' KL&nbsp;Rahul.&nbsp;The World Cup-winning captain said that if there was no security over a cricketer's place then it will affect their form. Kapil&nbsp;addressed the faults in the batting order and said that&nbsp;the Test batters were&nbsp;not able&nbsp;to conquer conditions. After losing the 1st Test by 10 wickets, Team India will play the 2nd and final test starting Saturday.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Decision Review System will be introduced for the Ranji&nbsp;Trophy's&nbsp;semifinals&nbsp;and the Final match, with each team getting 4 referrals per innings. The system will be featured&nbsp;for the first time in Indian domestic cricket when&nbsp;Saurashtra&nbsp;will take on Gujrat&nbsp;on Saturday. BCCI&nbsp;took the decision after umpires committed&nbsp;a few howlers in the last season.&nbsp;Interestingly&nbsp;2 key components of the DRS,&nbsp;the Hawk-eye and Ultra edge will not be implemented.

Was the crushing in Wellington a one-off defeat or is it something to bother for Team India and their think tank as they prepare for the 2nd Test vs New Zealand. While Captain Virat&nbsp;Kohli played down the chatter after the Test match, the reality is that this was the first loss for his side in Tests in the ongoing World Championship. A loss is a loss but a 10-wicket defeat was nothing short of a gut punch. Despite the loss, India still sits on top of the points table but can't afford to slip further. While Kohli&nbsp;himself struggles on the pitch as he hasn't scored a hundred in the last 20 innings, the core performers of Team India like Cheteshwar Pujara, Mohd&nbsp;Shami and Jasprit&nbsp;Bumrah&nbsp;too failed to make a dent in Wellington. The 2nd Test vs New Zealand&nbsp;starts on Saturday and the fans will be hoping for a complete turnaround by Team India.&nbsp;

This one is not for the faint-hearted. A footballer by the name of&nbsp;Jane O'Toole playing in Scottish women's&nbsp;league dislocated her kneecap while playing the game. Normally, players wait for the doctors but this woman punched the kneecap back into the place. Shockingly, Jane went on to complete the game but lost&nbsp;the match 7-0.&nbsp;

The iconic Staples centre in Los&nbsp;Angeles&nbsp;which is the home of Lakers&nbsp;played host to a memorial service on Monday honouring the life of Kobe Bryant &amp; his daughter who died in a chopper crash in January. The service was attended by over 20,000 fans and a host of celebrities including&nbsp;Beyonce, Jimmy Kimmel&nbsp;&amp; former NBA star&nbsp;Michael Jordan. Earlier, Kobe's widow Vanessa sued the owner of the&nbsp;helicopter service for negligence.&nbsp;

Serie A matches in the northern Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto will not be played on Sunday due to&nbsp;fear of the coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak, the Italian govt has confirmed.&nbsp;The matches were postponed after Italy reported two coronavirus&nbsp;deaths.&nbsp;Inter Milan's game against Sampdoria is among three Serie A fixtures that have been called off. The suspension also includes Verona v Cagliari and Atalanta v Sassuolo.&nbsp;There was no indication of when the games might be rescheduled.

Chief national badminton coach&nbsp;Pulella&nbsp;Gopichand&nbsp;has chalked out his plans&nbsp;after the Tokyo Olympics get over. Gopichand&nbsp;said that he will devote more time to mentor the coaches after the Tokyo games. Gopichand&nbsp;who has trained PV Sindhu, Saina&nbsp;Nehwal&nbsp;expressed his desire of working for the Sports science research&nbsp;and help in making his country a superpower in sports&nbsp;by nurturing coaches, infrastructure&nbsp;and ecosystem.

One of the strongest football league in Asia, South Korea's K-League has been postponed due to the sudden rise in the coronavirus&nbsp;cases in the country. South Korea has been the most affected nation outside China by the deadly virus with over 1000 reported cases and close to 10 deaths. The matches which were supposed to start this weekend have been postponed&nbsp;indefinitely. The Asian sporting calendar&nbsp;has been ripped apart by the virus outbreak and major sports events like the Shanghai F1 Grand Prix have already been postponed.&nbsp;

In a thrilling clash on Monday night,&nbsp;Sadio Mane's 81st-minute strike proved a turning point for Liverpool&nbsp;who not only emerged victorious against West Ham United, 3-2 but also Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp's&nbsp;side equaled the Manchester United's long-standing record&nbsp;of 18 successive&nbsp;wins, set from Aug to December 2-17. The reds who were&nbsp;struggling at first made a dramatic escape by registering their 21st successive league&nbsp;victory at Anfield.

The Commonwealth Games Federation on Monday green-lighted India to host the shooting and archery championships in 2022. The decision also comes after India threatened&nbsp;to boycott the Birmingham Games for dropping shooting and archery from the schedule as they are considered optional sports by the federation. The 2 championships will now be held in Chandigarh&nbsp;and the medals from the 2 events will be added to the final tally a week after the conclusion of the&nbsp;Birmingham Games in 2020.&nbsp;

After beating Australia in the opening match of the Women's T20 World Cup, India beat Bangladesh by 18 runs in a hard-fought match on Monday. Without Smriti Mandhana, 16-year-old Shafali Verma gave India a solid start with a 17-ball 39. However, 2 wickets each from Salma Khatun and Panna Ghosh coupled with several confusions on the pitch restricted India to a total of 142. Bangladesh's skipper Nigar Sultana took charge scoring 35 runs in 26 balls, but leg-spinner Poonam Yadav once again displayed a fantastic performance as she took 3 wickets giving away just 18 runs in four years. With this, girls in blue have registered their 2nd straight win of the tournament and sit on top of their Group.

US President Donald Trump's 2 days visit to India is subject to a number of&nbsp;memes and trolling on social media. After Trump's speech at the Motera&nbsp;Cricket Stadium on Monday, ICC&nbsp;too jumped in to action. During his speech, Trump praised Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar&nbsp;and Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;and in the process mispronounced the little master's name, calling him 'Soochin' with his signature pout. ICC&nbsp;took to Twitter to troll Trump, tweeting various pronunciations and asking if anyone knows the right one.&nbsp;

He might be surrounded by American football and baseball all the time but visiting President Donald Trump does know a thing or two about cricket. During his rally at Ahmedabad's&nbsp;Motera&nbsp;Cricket Stadium, Trump praised the two stalwarts of Indian cricket.&nbsp;&nbsp;

A piece of good news for an already struggling team India, the all-rounder&nbsp;Hardik&nbsp;Pandya&nbsp;is all set to make a come back after he was out of action for five months&nbsp;due to a lower back injury. The fit-again 26-year-old will first play in the DY Patil&nbsp;T20 tournament.&nbsp;Pandya&nbsp;who&nbsp;last represented India&nbsp;on September&nbsp;22 last year against South&nbsp;Africa&nbsp;will be&nbsp;assessed on the basis of&nbsp;his performance and progress by the national selectors and could be available for national team selection.&nbsp;

The iconic Motera cricket ground that hosted American President Donald Trump and PM Narendra Modi has got a rich history of its own.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s the largest cricket stadium in the World and the 2nd biggest stadium overall after North Korea&rsquo;s &nbsp;Rungrado May Day Stadium.&nbsp;The new facility can seat over 1,10,000 fans which is over 10,000 more than the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. It was recently renovated by the Gujarat Cricket Association at a cost of over Rs 800 crore.&nbsp;Back in the day, Motera first hosted a match in Nov 1983 when India played West Indies in a Test match. The last match played at this ground was a T20 encounter between India and arch-rivals Pakistan. At Motera Cricket Ground, Sunil Gavaskar completed his 10,000 career runs during a series vs Pakistan in 1987.&nbsp;Kapil Dev also broke Richard Hadlee&rsquo;s then world record of 431 wickets. In 1999, Sachin Tendulkar also smashed a double hundred in Motera against New Zealand.&nbsp;
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In a not so happening Ice hockey match, a 42-year-old emergency back up keeper David Ayres&nbsp;proved a blessing in disguise for the Carolina Hurricanes who were playing against Toronto&nbsp;Maple Leafs.&nbsp;After the team lost its top 2 stoppers to injury,&nbsp;Ayres, who generally&nbsp;drives the ice resurfacing machine lived hs chance to the best when&nbsp;his saves helped his team.

After losing the 1st Test to New Zealand in just 4 days, Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;blamed the batsmen for the loss. Kohli&nbsp;said, "It's a game where we didn't show enough competitiveness. We let ourselves down massively in the first innings with the bat". Despite suffering their 1st loss in the World Test Championship, Captain Kohli&nbsp;is optimistic for a quick turn around, "There is no doubt that we will try to win the next Test. We are not going to win in any other fashion. Whatever is required to do as a batting, bowling and fielding unit to be able to do that, we will do it. We are not bothered about another loss but we are not going to take a backward step."

South Africa staged an incredible comeback to level the 3-match T20 series vs Australia as they won the 2nd encounter in Port Elizabeth on Sunday. Quinton de Kock&nbsp;smashed a 47 ball 70 which helped South Africa post 158/4 from their 20 overs. In reply, Australia were in cruise control with David Warner scoring a quick 67 not out. Needing 25 from their last 3 overs, the Aussies cracked under pressure as they fell short of the target. The 12 run win for the hosts ensures that the 3rd and final match will be the series decider.&nbsp;

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang&nbsp;netted a brace as Arsenal edged past Everton a goal fest on Sunday night. The Gunners who are still in the 9th spot on the table beat Everton&nbsp;3-2 despite going a goal down in the 1st minute of the game itself. The win helped Mikel Arteta's&nbsp;side to remain 9th on points as they avoided a loss once again in their last 10 games in all competitions.&nbsp;

Bruno Fernandez scored his maiden goal for Manchester United as they thumped relegation-threatened Watford in the Premier League on Sunday. Anthony Martial and Mason Greenwood too got on the scoresheet as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men registered a comfortable win which took them to the 5th spot in the league, 3 points behind Chelsea in a race for a Champions League berth next season.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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