After taming the Kiwis in the first 2 ODIs, India are now just a step away from attaining an unassailable 3-0 lead in the 5 match ODI series. Onus will once again be on the wrist spinners in Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal as New Zealand batsmen have looked toothless against the duo. Another thing in India's favour is that the 3rd ODI will too be played at Bay Oval, the same venue where the men in blue thrashed the hosts by 90 runs on Saturday.

Pakistan government on Saturday announced that they will honour Darren Sammy with citizenship and Nishan-e-Haider, which is the country's highest civilian award. The Pakistan Cricket Board said it wants to&nbsp;acknowledge the former West Indian captain's role in bringing international cricket back to the country. Sammy, who is presently leading Peshawar Zalmi&nbsp;in the 5th Pakistan Super League season will be given the award on March 23 by President Arif&nbsp;Alvi. It was Darren Sammy who agreed to play in the&nbsp;PSL&nbsp;while a majority of the international players refused to do so because of security concerns.&nbsp;

Rishabh Pant may have lost his chance to impress with the bat but his wicket proved&nbsp;beneficial for the Black Caps. New Zealand&nbsp;pacer, Tim Southee&nbsp;believes that Pant's&nbsp;run-out changed the course of the Indian innings which winded up at a below-par score of 165 in the first Test on Saturday. Pant who showed some promise with his batting partner Ajinkya&nbsp;Rahane&nbsp;lost his wicket due to Rahane's&nbsp;poor call for a single. India quickly collapsed after Rahane&nbsp;was also shown the door by&nbsp;Southee. India lost 5 wickets for 33 runs after Pant's&nbsp;dismissal.

Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp,&nbsp;who is&nbsp;on his way to take Liverpool to their 1st top-flight title in 30 years, has received a rather unique letter... from a sad Manchester United fan. 10-year-old Daragh&nbsp;complained to the Liverpool manager that the Reds were winning too many games and requested&nbsp;him if he could make his team lose a few games so that they don't win the Premier League. The 52-year-old manager sent Daragh&nbsp;a warm reply saying that he can't grant his request as millions of fans want Liverpool to win. He further added that although Liverpool and United are great rivals they&nbsp;respect each other and that according to him is what football is all about. Though the date of letters is not known, interestingly, Liverpool met a shocking 1-0 defeat against Atletico&nbsp;Madrid in the 1st leg of their Round of 16 tie in the Champions League on Wednesday.

Veteran Indian cricketer&nbsp;Mithali&nbsp;Raj&nbsp;has said that India's thrilling win against Australia in the opening game of the Women's World T20 will give India a huge confidence boost moving ahead in the competition. The 37-year-old said that India's win shows that it's still an open competition and the ICC&nbsp;rankings do not matter in this tournament. Mithali&nbsp;singled out Poonam&nbsp;Yadav's performance and said that the spinner's brilliant spell of 4 for 19 was the turning point for India.&nbsp;

Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson is expected to miss around 3 weeks of action due to his hamstring injury, manager&nbsp;Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;confirmed on Friday. The 29-year-old midfielder picked up the injury in the closing stages of&nbsp;Liverpool's 1-0 Champions League defeat at Atletico Madrid&nbsp;on Tuesday night. However,&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;said the injury was not as bad as initially feared, considering the other hamstring injuries which have hit their rivals. Losing their captain comes as a blow to the Reds, who are all set to face West Ham United on Monday.

Wrestler Sakshi&nbsp;Malik&nbsp;settled for a silver medal at the Asian Wrestling Championships on Friday, after she lost to Japan's Naomi Rukie&nbsp;in the final of the 65kg freestyle category. The Indian women contingent registered their best-ever performance as they return home with 8 medals in the tournament this year. Vinesh Phogat and Anshu&nbsp;Malik&nbsp;bagged a bronze each in the 53kg and 57kg category respectively.&nbsp;

Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of the Barcelona Spain Masters after suffering a straight-game defeat against her Thai opponent on Friday. The 5th-seed Olympic medallist, lost 20-22 19-21 against her third seeded opponent in a women's singles contest that lasted exactly 45 minutes.&nbsp; The road to Tokyo looks tough for Saina, as the 29-year&nbsp;old has&nbsp;been struggling to secure her place in any&nbsp;semi-final since January 2019.&nbsp;However, AjayJayaram&nbsp;kept India's flag flying by entering the men's singles quarterfinals.&nbsp;Jayaram defeated France's Thomas Rouxel 21-14 21-15.

Jaipur is likely to host the Women's IPL matches once again this year. Last year, too, Jaipur had hosted the matches of the Women's IPL, when three teams had featured in the tournament. Reports quoting T20 officials said&nbsp;there would be 7 matches played between 4 teams. The All Star match, which was scheduled to be held before the IPL, will reportedly take place after it.
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Cricketing greats&nbsp;took to social media to congratulate the women in blue for snatching a fantastic win from defending champions Australia in the opening match of the T20 Women's World Cup.&nbsp;Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar&nbsp;called the performance by the Indian team a comprehensive one and encouraged them to keep up the good work.&nbsp;Former batsman Virender&nbsp;Sehwag&nbsp;and VVS&nbsp;Laxman&nbsp;also&nbsp;commended the effort by Poonam Yadav and the bowlers to defend 132 against Australia.

Indian women's team skipper Harmanpreet&nbsp;Kaur&nbsp;credited leg-spinner Poonam Yadav and the bowlers for turning the game in India's favour, as India toppled defending champions Australia.
"Poonam (Yadav) did a great job for us and I think the credit goes to our bowlers. They kept us in it and won the game for us," she said.

India started their World T20 campaign with a bang as the women in blue slayed hosts and defending champions Australia in their own backyard to snatch a thrilling 17-run victory from the jaws of defeat. After restricting India to 132/4, Aussies were cruising towards a win as Alyssa Healy smashed her 3rd fifty in T20 World Cups. The visitors looked buried but Poonam Yadav had other plans. She spun her web of destruction and turned the match on its head with figures of 4/19.&nbsp;She could have also taken a World Cup hat-trick had Taniya Bhatiya taken a tough chance. Shikha Pandey too picked up 3 wickets as the hosts were bowled out for mere 115.&nbsp;With that India completed a hat-trick of wins against Australia in both the 50 over and T20 World Cups combined.

Brazilian Soccer Team Museum in Rio de Janeiro&nbsp;honoured legendary footballer&nbsp;Pele&nbsp;by unveiling his statue on Thursday. The event was attended by a&nbsp;number of Pele's teammates from the Brazilian squad that won the World Cup in 1970, as the statue&nbsp;was commissioned to mark the 50th anniversary of that historic victory.&nbsp;

World number one Novak Djokovic surprised some young fans in his home city of Belgrade with an unplanned game of tennis under the street lights. Interestingly, a resident filmed the whole scene from his balcony as&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;enjoyed a game of doubles with the lucky kids.

Indian skipper Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;may have given nightmare to bowlers for quite a while now, but the tour to New Zealand&nbsp;seems to be giving him the taste of his own medicine. The Delhi lad is going through a rare poor run of form and after a quite T20 and ODI series, Virat was dismissed cheaply for just 2 in the first innings of the Wellington Test. On the tour, he has managed to score just 1 half-century in 8 innings across&nbsp;all formats. Virat&nbsp;has also gone 19 International innings without scoring a hundred,&nbsp;his worst run of form since the horrid 2014 England tour. India would hope that the number 1 Test batsman finds his mojo back and does what he does best.

Indian cricketer Pragyan&nbsp;Ojha&nbsp;decided to bid his international career an adieu as he announced his retirement from all forms of cricket with immediate effect&nbsp;on Friday. 33-year-old Ojha&nbsp;made his International debut in 2008 and donned the India jersey in 24 Tests, 18 ODIs and 6 T20I. Though his professional career spanned for 16 years but Ojha&nbsp;last played for India in November&nbsp;2013. That Test match also happened to be Sachin&nbsp;Tendulkar's farewell game.&nbsp;

New Zealand's&nbsp;Ross Taylor etched his name in history books when he took the field in the 1st Test vs India on&nbsp;Friday as he became the only cricketer ever to have played 100 international matches in each of the 3 formats. The day was made even more special as Taylor was accompanied&nbsp;on to the field by his kids. The 35-year-old also became the 4th Kiwi to play 100 Tests joining Stephen Fleming, Daniel Vettori and Brendon McCullum&nbsp;on the elite list.&nbsp;Taylor who made his debut in 2006&nbsp;is&nbsp;already the leading run-scorer in Tests and ODIs&nbsp;for New Zealand.

Day 1 of the Wellington Test proved to be a nightmare for India as a batting collapse saw the visitors end the opening day at 122/5 with New Zealand clearly on top. Kiwi fast bowlers ran through India's top order which fell like 9 pins. Kyle Jamieson breathed fire on his Test debut as Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli and Hanuma Vihari fell victims to his lethal pace and swing. Ajinkya Rahane, however, looked solid and led India's fightback with an unbeaten on 38. Making a return to the side Rishabh Pant&nbsp;held one end&nbsp;and remained not out on 10 before rain gods interveined. The downpour never stopped as the entire final session was washed away. As a result, 98 overs will be bowled on each of the remaining 4 days.

In the absence of Rohit&nbsp;Sharma, the onus to take India off to a good start&nbsp;was on Prithvi Shaw and Mayank&nbsp;Agarwal&nbsp;but the young openers failed to impress. Their stand of 16 runs lasted for less than 5 overs&nbsp;as a clueless Shaw was cleaned up by Tim Southee. His partner though showed some resistance and even though he became the first Indian opener to survive the first session of a Test in New Zealand&nbsp;since 1990, Agarwal&nbsp;was dismissed for 34. India's opening woes are surely alarming and since there's not much time to adjust to the conditions in a short 2 -match Test series, it&nbsp;may haunt the visitors.

India's women contingent was on a roll at the Asian Wrestling Championship as after&nbsp;Divya&nbsp;Kakran&nbsp;defeated all 4 opponents convincingly to win Gold in the 68 kg freestyle category, Sarita&nbsp;Mor&nbsp;and Pinki&nbsp;also thrashed their Mongolian opponents to clinch a gold each in 59kg and 55kg category respectively. Interestingly, before the current championship, only 1 Indian woman wrestler had finished at the top of the podium in the history of the competition. With that, India's gold medal tally rose to 4&nbsp;as&nbsp;Sunil&nbsp;Kumar&nbsp;too won a historic gold in&nbsp;Greco-Roman on Wednesday.

Suraj Lata Devi, Arjuna Awardee and former captain of Indian Women's Hockey team has alleged that she was brutally beaten by her husband over dowry. In her complaint, she says her husband tied her up and mercilessly thrashed her for nearly three hours in a drunken state. The former hockey captain claims that her husband wanted a piece of land, for which he subjected her to physical and mental abuse. Suraj Lata Devi has led India to win gold for three consecutive years &mdash; during the 2002 Commonwealth Games, the 2003 Afro-Asian Games and the 2004 Hockey Asia Cup.

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