With the World Cup just round the corner, India's fielding coach R Sridhar feels that it's high time to test the reserve players in order to avoid a situation where they directly get a go ahead in a crucial World Cup tie without much experience at the highest level.

BITE: R Sridhar

With the World Cup just round the corner, India's fielding coach R Sridhar feels that it's high time to test the reserve players in order to avoid a situation where they directly get a go ahead in a crucial World Cup tie without much experience at the highest level. BITE: R Sridhar

A nine-year-old Australian boy who was bullied at school over his height was the star of a rugby exhibition match on Saturday.&nbsp;Quaden&nbsp;Bayles received a warm reception as he led out the National Rugby League&rsquo;s Indigenous All Stars team for their match against the Maori All-Stars. The team&rsquo;s fullback, Rabbitoh Latrell, had extended him the invite after a heart-wrenching video of Bayles went viral on&nbsp;Facebook. In the video shot by his mother after a bullying incident at school, an inconsolable Bayles was heard saying he wants to kill himself. He was reportedly bullied by one of his schoolmates over his height. Bayles, in fact, has a genetic disorder that results in dwarfism.&nbsp;

After Barcelona's emergency signing, Martin Braithwaite&nbsp;had an ideal debut where he assisted Lionel Messi&nbsp;with his fourth goal on Saturday against Eibar.&nbsp;The Danish player just like any regular Messi&nbsp;fan was overwhelmed after the football&nbsp;star hugged him. The footballer jokingly vowed to never wash his clothes after he gave his 'first' assist to&nbsp;Messi. The 28-year-old expressed his admiration, saying that Messi&nbsp;made him feel comfortable on the pitch and was very happy to have an 'extraordinary' debut.

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.

The 3rd day of the 1st Test started with India taking a wicket on the first ball as&nbsp;Ishant&nbsp;Sharma&nbsp;registered impressive&nbsp;figures of 5 for 68. However, the Kiwi batting line up survived the attack long enough to take a 183 run lead before they were bowled out. India was hoping to not repeat the day 1 disaster but with Prithvi Shaw, Pujara and Kohli&nbsp;removed early by Trent Boult, the task fell on Mayank&nbsp;Agarwal's&nbsp;shoulder to carry the innings forward. Agarwal&nbsp;smashed a 99 ball 58 to bring India's game back to life before he was dismissed by Tim Southee. Day 3 ended with India on 144 for 4, trailing by 39 runs, indicating that the Kiwis are still very much in control.&nbsp;

Levante&nbsp;registered a shocking 1-0 win against Real Madrid in La Liga&nbsp;on Saturday, inflicting Real's first league defeat since October last year. The Zinedine&nbsp;Zidane's side displayed a lukewarm&nbsp;performance&nbsp;which was used by the visitors to score through&nbsp;Jose Luis Morales' volley in the 79th minute. Eden Hazard failed to convert in the 2nd half before he limped off the field with a foot injury that has been confirmed to be serious by Real's&nbsp;manager.&nbsp;

Barcelona hammered Eibar&nbsp;5-0 in La Liga&nbsp;on Saturday as Lionel Messi&nbsp;tore through Eibar's&nbsp;defenses, netting 4 goals. The star-forward opened the scoring for his side and added another 2 before half time. Barca's&nbsp;emergency&nbsp;signing&nbsp;Martin Braithwaite&nbsp;then assisted Messi&nbsp;in scoring his 4th goal of the game. With this, the Catalan giants move on top of La Liga&nbsp;charts with 55 points.&nbsp;

Chelsea landed a huge blow to Tottenham's&nbsp;top-4 hopes after they beat the visitors 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday. Playing against the team of their former manager Jose Mourinho, the blues showed fantastic&nbsp;skills and added 2 goals to the scoreboard. An own goal by&nbsp;Antonio Rudiger&nbsp;that deflected into the net was the only achievement of the game for Tottenham who were playing without Harry Kane and Son&nbsp;Heung-min. With this, Chelsea sits on the 4th spot on the table, 4 points clear of Tottenham.&nbsp;

Defending Premier League champions Manchester City registered their 2nd win since the 2-year ban by UEFA&nbsp;after they beat Leicester&nbsp;City 1-0 on Saturday. Both sides wasted numerous opportunities to add to the score, after which striker Gabriel Jesus came off the bench and scored a late winner in the 80th minute. City has now solidified its place in the 2nd spot on the Premier League table, 19-points behind Liverpool.&nbsp;

Ishant Sharma&nbsp;arrived in New Zealand&nbsp;just 4 days before the Wellington Test, thanks to his last-minute drafting in the squad, the Delhi lad brought India's game to life after they were toppled by the Kiwis in the first innings. The 31-year-old took 5 wickets giving away just 68 runs to complete his 11th 5-wicket haul in Test format. This is the 2nd time Ishant&nbsp;has registered a 5-wicket haul on the Wellington pitch and&nbsp;now he&nbsp;is just 3 wickets shy from claiming a total of 300 wickets in Test cricket.&nbsp;

Juventus' star forward Cristiano&nbsp;Ronaldo marked his 1000th appearance&nbsp;in a senior game with style after he scored in his 11th straight Serie A game on Saturday. Playing against SPAL, Ronaldo&nbsp;opened the scoring post which Aaron Ramsey doubled Juventus' lead after which SPAL&nbsp;fought back with a penalty goal in the 69th minute but in vain. With this the&nbsp;Maurizio Sarri's&nbsp;side&nbsp;move four points clear at the top of Serie A table.&nbsp;

Top seed Simona Halep came back from a set down for the third time in the tournament to beat Kazakhstan's&nbsp;Elena Rybakina,&nbsp;to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships for the second time on Saturday.&nbsp;A 2-time Grand Slam champion,&nbsp;Halep&nbsp;lifted her 20th singles&nbsp;title with the Dubai win.&nbsp;This is also the Romanian's 3rd Dubai Open title after victories in 2014 and 2015, and her first title since winning the Wimbledon in July 2019.&nbsp;

Wrestler Ravi Kumar&nbsp;Dahiya won his first Asian Championships gold, after beating Tajikistan's Hikmatullo Vohidov in the 57kg freestyle category, whereas Bajrang Punia had to settle for silver after losing medal bout to Japan's Takuto Otoguro&nbsp;in the 65kg category. Wrestlers&nbsp;Gourav&nbsp;Baliyan&nbsp;and Satyawart&nbsp;Kadiyan&nbsp;also settled for silver in the 79kg and 97kg categories.

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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