Name: India beat New Zealand, take an unassailable 3-0 lead in series
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Description: It was yet another clinical performance by the Indian team as they beat New Zealand by 7 wickets in the 3rd ODI to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5 match ODI series.

It was yet another clinical performance by the Indian team as they beat New Zealand by 7 wickets in the 3rd ODI to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5 match ODI series.

With cricket set to return with the West Indies tour of England in July, 3 Windies&nbsp;players&nbsp;Darren Bravo,&nbsp;Shimron Hetmyer&nbsp;and&nbsp;Keemo Paul have decided not to be a part of the tour due to the fear of the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. Cricket West Indies though has said that they fully respect their decision and as previously stated, the board will not hold this decision against them when considering future selection. West Indies&nbsp;will fly to England on June 8 on private chartered planes&nbsp;after being tested for Covid-19. First of the 4 Tests starts July 8&nbsp;without fans in Hampshire.

Despite the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, Rafael Nadal&nbsp;had a very special 34th birthday. On Wednesday, over 70 players from his academy in&nbsp;Mallorca, Spain welcomed the world number 2 on center court while the youngsters sang the birthday song. Interestingly, all the players followed social distancing and were seated away from each other. 19-time Grand slam champion Nadal&nbsp;was also gifted a cake to mark the occasion.

The delayed Formula 1 season is set to&nbsp;get underway with back-to-back races in Austria from 5th July and&nbsp;Formula One CEO Chase Carey talked about the new protocols&nbsp;related to covid-19. He said that an individual having been found with a positive infection will not lead to cancellation of a race, and we would encourage teams to have procedures in place that if an individual has to be put into quarantine, then we would have a hotel room.
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Indian all-rounder Hardik&nbsp;Pandya&nbsp;who plays for Mumbai&nbsp;Indians in the lucrative Indian Premier League is grateful to have played under the guidance of former Aussie captain Ricky Ponting. While talking about his tough phase at the beginning of his career back in 2015, the 26-year-old called the former Australian cricketer a fatherly&nbsp;figure. He said that Ricky Ponting&nbsp;looked after him in the best way and that he has learned a lot from him. Pandya also revealed that Ponting&nbsp;used to sit with him before the game which helped him in understanding situations and mindsets.&nbsp;&nbsp;

On Tuesday the Spanish football club Barcelona announced an initiative called 'We all Play' to fight against&nbsp;the negative socio-economic impact of the&nbsp;Covid-19 crisis. The club&nbsp;has decided that 15000 Barca jerseys with special inscriptions will be put on sale on the official website from June 15. While each jersey will cost 65 euros, a part of the sales proceedings will be contributed to the club's charitable foundation. The initiative will coincide with the game at home against Atletico&nbsp;Madrid in early July 2020.

England cricketers may return to action when they take on West Indies in a 4-match Test series starting July 8, but skipper Joe Root may have to wait to make a comeback. The 29-year-old&nbsp;has said that he would miss the 1st home test if it clashes with the birth of his child.&nbsp;Root&rsquo;s wife is due to give birth to their second child in early July and Root isn't sure if he would be allowed to&nbsp;leave the on-site hotel mid-way and return to the bio-secure venue. Root though backed vice-captain Ben Stokes to be a fantastic stand-in skipper in his absence. He said that the example Stokes sets as a vice-captain&nbsp;is one of his great qualities.&nbsp;He drags people with him, gets the best out of players around him and gives the whole team a lift. Root added that people always follow him, look up to him and want to play for him whether he is captain or not.

MS Dhoni's love for automobiles is well known and the former India captain has added yet another beast to his collection. But this time it's not a car or a bike but a tractor. MSD&nbsp;has reportedly bought a new tractor and was seen driving it around in his farmhouse. Fans may not have seen Dhoni&nbsp;on the field&nbsp;for almost a year now but&nbsp;IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings let fans know what Thala Dhoni is up to by sharing such videos very often.&nbsp;

English club Manchester City's footballer Phil Foden&nbsp;was seen breaking social distancing norms amid the pandemic scare reported the local British media. While he was spotted playing football on the Formby&nbsp;beach on&nbsp;Merseyside, the 20-year-old clicked pictures with his fans as he violated the government guidelines. Manchester City has confirmed that it will remind the player of his responsibility and will ask him to strictly follow the guidelines. Premier League players have returned to contact training as the league prepares for the restart of the season from June 17.&nbsp;

Ace Indian speedster Mohd&nbsp;Shami&nbsp;is confident that despite the ban on using saliva in International&nbsp;cricket, he will be able to produce the magical reverse swing if the shine is maintained on the ball. Shami&nbsp;said that it will be tough to maintain the shine on the ball but if it can be achieved then there should be no issues for him to produce the deadly reverse swing. Shami&nbsp;added that since childhood all bowlers have a natural instinct to apply saliva to shine the ball as the International Cricket Council plans to ban the use of saliva once cricket resumes in the times of Covid-19.

Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;is an aggressive leader and that's visible every single time his team picks up a wicket. Veteran Indian speedster Ishant&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;revealed an interesting piece of&nbsp;advice from Virat&nbsp;during a Test series in Sri&nbsp;Lanka&nbsp;in 2015. After getting banned for a Test match in Sri&nbsp;Lanka, Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;told Ishant&nbsp;to do everything he wants but not to get banned again. Ishant&nbsp;was referring to an incident with&nbsp;Sri&nbsp;Lankan&nbsp;cricketer&nbsp;Dinesh Chandimal&nbsp;after which the Delhi pacer was banned for 1 Test match.&nbsp;

Badminton Association of India&nbsp;recommending doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty and men&rsquo;s singles player Sameer Verma for the&nbsp;Arjuna Award has left shuttler&nbsp;HS Prannoy&nbsp;miffed. He took to twitter to slam the&nbsp;selection criteria and said that a player who has medals in Commonwealth Games&nbsp;and Asian Championships not even recommended by the association. Prannoy even used the hashtag #thiscountryisajoke.&nbsp;Prannoy was left out from the list last year as well. He also found support from fellow countryman&nbsp;Parupalli Kashyap,&nbsp;who wrote that he never actually understood the system of applying for an award and hoped for it to change.

Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami&nbsp;misses the presence of former captain MS Dhoni&nbsp;in the team. Shammi&nbsp;said that he has played in all formats with him barring IPL&nbsp;and the former India captain treats his teammates&nbsp;in such a way that one won't feel that he is MS Dhoni. As the 29-year-old went on to praise Captain&nbsp;Cool, he also added that one thing that he likes about Dhoni&nbsp;is that although he is such a big player, he likes to sit with everyone and have dinner.&nbsp;

Pakistan Cricket Board's plan to resume the sport and bring their players back to the field has hit a roadblock. According to reports, PCB&nbsp;wanted to prepare a bio-secure environment planned to bring 25-30 players to the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. The idea was to bring in the players where they would train in pairs and also stay&nbsp;there from June.&nbsp;The problem however is that the NCA's lodging facilities currently have only 21 rooms available, while 40 are needed to implement proper social distancing. Moreover, no one will be allowed to enter or leave the premises as per&nbsp;the medical panel's brief about training in a controlled environment. It is slowly becoming a headache for the PCB&nbsp;which may consider&nbsp;splitting the camp between two venues, the NCA&nbsp;facility and the&nbsp;Gaddafi stadium next door. The issues need to be sorted soon as elected players for the upcoming England tour are set to fly to England in early July.

Ukrainian football club Karpaty&nbsp;Lviv&nbsp;has witnessed 25 new positive cases of Covid-19 as the entire team along with staff has been put into isolation. Since the Ukrainian&nbsp;league restarted just last week after 2 months, Karpaty&nbsp;Lviv's next 2 games have been cancelled as the club has gone into a 2-week quarantine.&nbsp;Ukraine has seen over 24 thousand cases and 727 deaths till Tuesday from Covid-19.
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Brazilian veteran footballer Fred on Monday started a long and tiring journey from&nbsp;Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro, where on Saturday he will be unveiled by his former club Fluminense as their new signing. Usually, footballers take chartered flights but this 36-year-old will ride a bicycle for 600 km to raise money for charity. The sponsors have pledged to donate 4 food supply packets for every kilometre&nbsp;he rides on this journey for families struggling with food due to the global pandemic. The striker is aiming for almost 150 km a day which will help him finish the journey in 4 days.&nbsp;

Spanish football giants Barcelona have started to sell face masks in their official team colours as fans are shelling out as much as $20 to buy them from the club shops in Spain. The shops are lined up with mannequins with masks as Barcelona have released 3 designs which represent the colours of their various jerseys. It isn't just Barcelona, many other teams in La Liga have released their official masks as the league prepares to return to action from 11th June after a gap of almost 3 months.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The Formula 1 management has announced 8 races to kick off the first part of the season which has been hit by Covid-19. Austria will kick off the proceedings on 5th July along with another race in Austria on 12th. The Hungarian Grand Prix will be the 3rd race of the calendar&nbsp;followed bt two races at the Silverstone for the British Grand Prix. Spain, Belgium &amp; Italy will also host a race each which will end the European leg of the 2020 Formula 1 season. The rest of the dates have not been announced yet but the Formula 1 management is already in talks with the rest of the hosts and will finalise the 2nd half of the calendar soon.&nbsp;

England and Wales Cricket Board on Tuesday announced the dates for their upcoming home series vs the West Indies in July. This will be the first International series since Covid-19 forced cricket into a long break. The West Indies cricket team will travel to England&nbsp;on 9th June and remain in a 3-week quarantine before playing 3 Test matches in July. First Test will be in Southampton followed by the next two in Manchester. The Tests will be played in empty stadiums and Birmingham's Edgbaston Cricket Ground has been selected as a contingency and training venue.&nbsp;

Hockey India on Tuesday nominated Indian women's team captain Rani&nbsp;Rampal&nbsp;for the prestigious&nbsp;Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna&nbsp;award. She was rewarded for her constant&nbsp;show over the years. Apart from leading India to a historic victory at the Women's Asia Cup in 2017, India also won a&nbsp;silver&nbsp;medal under her at the 2018 Asian Games. Rani&nbsp;also scored the deciding&nbsp;goal in the Olympic Qualifiers in 2019, courtesy which the women in blue booked a berth for the now-postponed Tokyo Olympics. Apart from her,&nbsp;Vandana Katariya, Monika and Harmanpreet Singh have been nominated for the Arjuna Award. While former India stars Dr RP Singh and Tushar Khandker's continued contribution in the field of hockey has led to their recommendation for the Major Dhyan Chand Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather&nbsp;has offered to pay for George Floyd&rsquo;s funeral and memorial services, and the deceases' family has accepted the offer. According to the&nbsp;CEO of Mayweather Promotions, the boxer has been in touch with the family personally and will handle costs of the funeral on June 9 in Floyd&rsquo;s hometown of Houston, as well as other expenses.&nbsp;Mayweather, who retired undefeated after 50 fights, had also paid for the funeral of an opponent in 2011.

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