BCCI&nbsp;president &amp; former India captain&nbsp;Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;believes that set split captaincy isn't a good option for Team India. In an interview to&nbsp;the Hindustan Times dada&nbsp;said that he doesn't think that split captaincy is required to be&nbsp;even discussed. Earlier, many experts believed that having split captains in Test and the shorter formats would ease pressure off Virat&nbsp;Kohli and will also help team India deliver better results.

BCCI president & former India captain Sourav Ganguly believes that set split captaincy isn't a good option for Team India. In an interview to the Hindustan Times dada said that he doesn't think that split captaincy is required to be even discussed. Earlier, many experts believed that having split captains in Test and the shorter formats would ease pressure off Virat Kohli and will also help team India deliver better results.

Former Brazil and Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo&nbsp;has revealed that he has tested positive for Covid-19.&nbsp;The 68-year-old currently coaches Brazilian club Palmeiras. The club said in a statement that Luxemburgo will stay home until he has recovered.&nbsp;The coach said in a video published on his social media channels that he is asymptomatic for now.&nbsp;Luxemburgo coached Brazil from 1999-2000. Spanish giants Real Madrid signed him in 2004 and fired him almost one year later, shortly after a 3-0 defeat to arch rivals Barcelona.

Many cricket pundits&nbsp;may have labeled the IPL&nbsp;as a money making machine for the BCCI&nbsp;but board treasurer Arun&nbsp;Dhumal&nbsp;had a contrary argument. During an interview to Cricbuzz, he said that this whole talk of&nbsp;IPL being a money-making machine, so be it. Questioning the opposition to money, Dhumal&nbsp;explained that the money goes to the players and not to the office bearers. He added that the money also helps in the welfare of the nation, the travel and tourism industry, in terms of industries being revived and taxes being paid. Dhumal&nbsp;also urged the media to change its stance and tell everyone about the benefits of IPL. He though reiterated the fact that the postponed cash-rich league will only happen if it is safe to play.

Juventus&nbsp;had yet another easy outing in the Serie&nbsp;A on Saturday as they thrashed&nbsp;Torino&nbsp;4-1.&nbsp;It took Cristiano Ronaldo&nbsp;43 attempts to finally score a free kick for Juvetus&nbsp;as he became the first player to score 25 Serie A goals in a season for the club in almost 60 years. Juventus'&nbsp;5th consecutive win helped them strengthen their lead at the top of the table as they now have 75 points, 7 clear of second placed Lazio.

Arsenal had a comfortable outing in the Premier League on Saturday as they beat Wolverhampton 2-0.&nbsp;Bukayo Saka&nbsp;had a memorable stint as the teenager celebrated signing a new long-term contract with Arsenal by scoring his first Premier League goal.&nbsp;Alexandre Lacazette&nbsp;sealed the game with a second in the dying minutes of the game as The Gunners&nbsp;won 3 consecutive league games without conceding for the first time since November 2017.&nbsp;Arsenal are now at the 7th spot with 49 points and will host Leicester City on Tuesday.

Manchester United leapfrogged Chelsea at the 4th spot for a while on Saturday&nbsp;but The Blues regained it on the same night by beating Watford&nbsp;3-0 in the Premier League.&nbsp;Olivier Giroud opened the scoring for the Blues in the 28th minute before&nbsp;Willian converted from the spot to double his side's lead just before half-time.&nbsp;Ross Barkley then made it 3-0 in injury time, as Chelsea&nbsp;won 4 consecutive Premier League games at Stamford Bridge for the first time since winning 7 in a row at home between October and December 2017.&nbsp;

Sri Lankan&nbsp;wicketkeeper-batsman Kusal&nbsp;Mendis&nbsp;was arrested following a fatal car crash on Sunday.&nbsp;PTI reported citing a statement from Sri Lanka police that the 25-year-old while driving, allegedly hit a 74-year-old man on a bicycle in Colombo.&nbsp;The man has reportedly died after the accident.&nbsp;Further investigations into the accident are being conducted at the moment and&nbsp;Mendis is expected to be produced before a magistrate soon.

Manchester United had a memorable outing against&nbsp;Bournemouth on Saturday night as they came from a goal down to beat&nbsp;the Cherries 5-2&nbsp;at the Old Trafford.&nbsp;Bournemouth took a shock lead in the 15th minute before&nbsp;Mason Greenwood equalised 14 minutes later. He netted another in the second half to&nbsp;complete his first brace in the Premier League.&nbsp;Marcus Rashford , Anthony Martial and&nbsp;Bruno Fernandes&nbsp;also scored a goal each as&nbsp;The red Devils netted 5 in a Premier League game for the first time since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first match in charge in December 2018. In their quest to finish in the top 4, Manchester United next take on Aston Villa on Thursday.

Former Pakistan captain Shahid&nbsp;Afridi&nbsp;who was recently tested positive for Covid-19 claimed that Indian players used to ask for forgiveness after losing to the Pakistan team. On a YouTube show, the 40-year-old claimed that he enjoyed playing against India and even though the pressure was high, Pakistan thrashed the men in blue a lot. Though Pakistan enjoy a 73-55 record over India in ODIs, but India's record over its arch rivals&nbsp;has been superior ever since Afridi's&nbsp;debut in 1996. The men in blue have outplayed Pakistan 51 times in ODIs&nbsp;with the men in green winning 47 since then.&nbsp;

After raising conflict of interest&nbsp;issues against former Indian legends like Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar, Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;and VVS&nbsp;Laxman, it seems that&nbsp;Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;is now on Sanjeev&nbsp;Gupta's radar. Gupta, who is a member of the Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association has written a mail to ethics officer&nbsp;DK Jain questioning the Indian captain's business ventures which is a blatant&nbsp;violation of the Lodha&nbsp;committee recommendations. In the mail Gupta pointed out that Virat&nbsp;currently holds 2 positions and said that he must relinquish one of those. Apart from being a player, Gupta mentioned Kohli's&nbsp;involvement with VIRAT KOHLI&nbsp;SPORTS LLP&nbsp;which Kohli&nbsp;owns in partnership&nbsp;with 2 more directors.&nbsp;

As a heartfelt gesture, teams at a number of English Premier League fixtures including Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea&nbsp;gave a round of applause for healthcare works ahead of their matches on Saturday. UK's National Health Service will celebrate its 72nd birthday on Sunday and its importance has been underlined in recent months following the coronavirus pandemic.

America's&nbsp;Frances Tiafoe has become the latest tennis star to test positive for coronavirus.&nbsp;The world number 81 had been playing in the All-American Team Cup in Georgia, the first event in the US that allowed fans to attend since the Covid-19 shutdown. As a result,&nbsp;Tiafoe&nbsp;pulled out of the event but revealed that he had tested negative for the virus while training in Florida a week ago. Earlier, 4 tennis stars including World Number 1 Novak&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;contracted the deadly virus at an even in Belgrade last month.&nbsp;The increasing number of positive results are surely going to affect the ATP and WTA calendar which is expected to restart later in the month.

FIFA&nbsp;has charged English club Arsenal with a fine of 40,000 Swiss Francs and also issued a warning to the club regarding player transfer in relation to&nbsp;2 deals.&nbsp;FIFA&nbsp;investigated the 2018 transfer of Chuba&nbsp;Akpom&nbsp;to Greek club PAOK&nbsp;and Joel Campbell's transfer to Italy's Frosinone. FIFA&nbsp;has claimed that the sell-on clause for both transfers was variable,&nbsp;which means that if either returned to clubs in Britain, Arsenal would receive a larger fee. According to Arsenal's contract, the club would receive 40% of the fee if Akpom&nbsp;was sold to a British club and 30% for any other team. In response to FIFA's&nbsp;charges, Arsenal&nbsp;said that they had not broken any rules and were waiting for FIFA's&nbsp;full-written reasons.

Seven-time cup series champion Jimmie Johnson has backed out from the Indianapolis Motor&nbsp;Speedway's&nbsp;Brickyard 400 competition after he tested positive for Covid-19, the officials confirmed on Friday. The American driver who is asymptomatic for Covid-19 got himself tested after his wife's result turned out to be positive for the virus.&nbsp;While he was set to compete in Sunday's race, he can now only&nbsp;return to the competition after he clears 2 Covid-19 tests, at least 24 hrs apart following which the&nbsp;NASCAR&nbsp;physicians also need to clear him. The officials announced that Justin Allgaier&nbsp;will drive on Sunday as his replacement.

China's badminton superstar Lin Dan has announced his retirement. The 36-year-old is a 2-time Olympic Gold Medallist and a 5-time World Champion and one of the most decorated players in the modern era. Super Dan as he is famously called put up a social media post to announce his future plans. Apart from Olympic and World Championship glory, Lin Dan has been a 5-time Sudirman&nbsp;Cup winner &amp; has won 6 gold medals at the Thomas Cup. Lin Dan is the first and only one to win all 9 major titles in the badminton world &amp; was the first&nbsp;men's singles player to retain the Olympic gold after successfully defended his 2008 win with a gold in 2012 London Olympics.&nbsp;

Everybody wants to see MS Dhoni&nbsp;play again, but former Australian cricketer Michael Hussey&nbsp;feels that it completely depends on Dhoni&nbsp;himself if he wants to play for his country at the international level or not. As he went on to heap praises on India's World Cup-winning captain, Hussey&nbsp;said that one should never write off champions. Speaking in the Hotspot&nbsp;podcast,&nbsp;Hussey&nbsp;added that Dhoni&nbsp;has given so much to the country as a player and as a leader &amp; has a great understanding of his game. The former Aussie batsman and Dhoni's&nbsp;teammate in Chennai Super Kings said that he&nbsp;is least worried about Dhoni&nbsp;from the perspective of skills. Dhoni&nbsp;who last played for India in the semi-final of 2019 World Cup was scheduled to play for CSK&nbsp;in the IPL&nbsp;13 which has been postponed indefinitely because of the pandemic.&nbsp;

English cricketer Sam Curran has tested negative for Covid-19 and will now resume training confirmed the England and Wales Cricket Board. The 22-year-old who gave his sample on Thursday was self-isolating himself at his hotel room after he complained of illness. He will now appear for the 2nd test along with the rest of the squad on Sunday.&nbsp;ECB&nbsp;also informed that Curran had missed the 3-day practice match due to the same reason. Before he fell ill, the all-rounder was present on the first day of England's&nbsp;warm-up match. The Test series between England and West Indies that starts on July 8 will mark the end of over 3 month-long break due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Just like the rest of the country, Indian skipper, Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;too is stuck at his home but that does not deter the fitness freak in him. The 31-year-old on Friday took to his Instagram&nbsp;to post a video in which he can be seen doing the power-snatch exercise. In his caption, Kohli&nbsp;wrote, 'If I had to make a choice of one exercise to do every day, this would be it.' Since the beginning&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Lockdown, Kohli&nbsp;did not fail his fans and has constantly posted images and videos of him working out at his home in Mumbai.&nbsp;&nbsp;

German Winger Leroy Sane has finally completed his much-awaited move from Manchester City to Bayern&nbsp;Munich. Bayern&nbsp;has reportedly paid around $67m for the 24-year-old who had spent 4 years with the English football club. He has now signed a five-year contract with the Bundesliga champions till&nbsp;June 2025. City Manager Pep Guardiola&nbsp;who wanted the&nbsp;former Schalke&nbsp;player to stay said that Sane had rejected 2 or 3 offers for extending his contract. However,&nbsp;he cannot play for the club until next season and will also not appear in their remaining Champion's league fixtures when the competition restarts in August.&nbsp;

Sri Lankan&nbsp;police on Friday confirmed that they've dropped the probe on the 2011 World Cup final fixing allegations due to lack of evidence. Former selector Arjuna&nbsp;Ranatunga, former skipper Kumar Sangakkara, Mahela&nbsp;Jayawardene&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Upul&nbsp;Tharanga&nbsp;were questioned by the police as the probe was launched after the sports minister alleged fixing charges against the team. The police after speaking to all 4 cricketers decided to drop the charges confirmed that they were satisfied with their explanations. Hosts India had beaten Sri&nbsp;Lanka in the 2011 World Cup final and according to many conspiracy theories, the final was fixed as Sri&nbsp;Lanka&nbsp;made 4 changes to the side for the last game.&nbsp;

Pakistan Cricket Board and the Pakistan&nbsp;national team have declined to comment on their national team's former batting coach Grant Flower's charges against ex-skipper Younis&nbsp;Khan. In a shocking revelation in a cricket podcast,&nbsp;the 49-year-old claimed that Khan once held a knife to his throat after Flower gave him unwanted advice during his term with Pakistan from 2014 to 2019. A source from PCB revealed to PTI&nbsp;said that the incident was a friendly banter and Younis&nbsp;Khan&nbsp;had jokingly picked up a butter knife on the breakfast table and waved it around Flower asking him to let him have his breakfast and not give advice while eating.&nbsp;

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