Juventus and AC Milan have been requested by Amnesty International not to play their Italian Super Cup match in Saudi Arabia in January. After the killing of journalist Jamal Khasoggi, the human rights group said the two clubs should think about the signal playing a match in a country with appalling human rights record would send out. 

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.

World number 3 Roger Federer&nbsp;will miss Dubai, Indian Wells, Bogota, Miami &amp; the all important French Open as he underwent knee surgery in Switzerland on Wednesday. The&nbsp;20 time Grand Slam champion&nbsp;has just 1 Roland&nbsp;Garros&nbsp;title to his name which came way back in 2009 and hasn't won any Grand Slam&nbsp;since the 2018 Australian Open. The Swiss Maestro tweeted to say that the surgery went well and the doctors are confident of a full recovery. There's some good news for FedEx fans though as he aims to return at this year's Wimbledon.&nbsp;

With 2020 Tokyo Olympics less than 6 months away, the deadly Coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak in China has already ended the Olympic dreams of many local athletes. The ones who are still in the fray are getting affected by isolation &amp; quarantine. China's women football team resorted to practising in a hotel room in Brisbane where&nbsp;they are being quarantined. Chinese athletes are facing travel restrictions to compete&nbsp;in various qualifying events abroad. Interestingly, China finished on top of the medal tally when it hosted the Olympics in 2008. However, the deadly outbreak this year is affecting the Chinese athletes even before the competition has begun.&nbsp;

World Test Championship may have given more perspective to Test cricket but New Zealand&nbsp;skipper Kane Williamson is not a fan of its points system as every series in the longest format carries 120 points irrespective of its length. On the eve of the 1st Test vs India, Williamson said that&nbsp;there&rsquo;s an element to it that isn&rsquo;t fair but there is an effort in bringing context to Test cricket which wasn&rsquo;t there.

India may have lost the Tri-nation series final vs Australia but Harmanpreet&nbsp;Kaur's&nbsp;girls are still high on confidence&nbsp;as they gear up to take the Aussies once again but this time in the Women's World T20 opener on Friday in Sydney. Though the women in yellow have dominated the tournament with 4 titles to their name, 3-time semi-finalists&nbsp;India too boast a formidable unit to go the distance this time around.

After a one-sided win in the T20 series, Team India was at the receiving end in the&nbsp;ODIs. The Men in Blue now turn to red-ball cricket as Virat Kohli's men take on New Zealand in the 1st Test of the 2-match series in Wellington on Friday. Apart from having momentum, the Kiwis also have history by their side. Where India has failed to win any of its 6 Tests at the Basin Reserve in 52 years, New Zealand&nbsp;haven't lost any Tests at home since March 2017. However, Team India is a completely different unit in the longest format now and have won all 5 of its previous Test series and are also unbeaten in the World Test Championship. Though New Zealand's fast bowlers may give a tough time to the Indian batsmen but with the return of Ishant&nbsp;Sharma,&nbsp;Virat's men have a deadly bowling line-up which is capable of decimating any batting unit on pitches like the one in Wellington.

Just hours ahead of the new season of the Pakistan Super League, the PCB&nbsp;has suspended cricketer Umar&nbsp;Akmal&nbsp;for corruption-related charges. In a statement, the board confirmed that Akmal&nbsp;was part of an ongoing investigation and is not allowed to play cricket till the inquiry is over. This rules Akmal&nbsp;out of the PSL where his side&nbsp;Quetta Gladiators are the defending champions. Troubles seem to not stop for the wicket-keeper batsman after just a few months ago he narrowly escaped a ban for making crude remarks towards a physical trainer at the&nbsp;National Cricket Academy in Lahore.&nbsp;

India's premier Test batsman Cheteshwar&nbsp;Pujara&nbsp;has been signed by English county side Gloucestershire&nbsp;for the 1st 6 matches of the English County Championships that start from 12th April. The club signed the 32-year-old considering his ability to bat for long hours and his experience&nbsp;that he will bring to&nbsp;Gloucestershire&nbsp;who is about to play their Division One of the County Championships for the 1st time in over 10 years. Pujara&nbsp;made his Test debut in 2010 against Australia and his highest Test run is 206 which he scored against England.&nbsp;

Pakistan Cricket Board's chief Ehsan&nbsp;Mani&nbsp;on Wednesday hinted that Pakistan might give up the hosting rights of the T20 Asia Cup this year. Mani&nbsp;said that the venue of the Asia Cup will be decided after taking into consideration the earning of the associate member nations of the Asian Cricket Council. Mani's statement comes after India refused to travel to Pakistan&nbsp;and demanded that the tournament be shifted to a neutral venue. Earlier PCB&nbsp;CEO&nbsp;Wasim&nbsp;Khan had said that a neutral venue acceptable to all teams will be finalized for the tournament.&nbsp;

After thrashing&nbsp;Jamshedpur&nbsp;FC 5-0 on Wednesday, FC Goa&nbsp;has become the 1st Indian football club to enter the group stages of the AFC&nbsp;Champions League. A goal-fest lead by Goa&nbsp;also ensured that they ended the league phase of the&nbsp;Indian Super League campaign on top of the table with 39 points, 6 points clear of Atletico de&nbsp;Kolkata&nbsp;who have a game in hand. Indian clubs have earlier played only in the play-offs round of Asia's top tier football competition.&nbsp;

Manchester City registered their first win since being banned from European competitions&nbsp;for 2 years after they beat West Ham United 2-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday. The 1st goal came in the 30th minute after Hernandez connected&nbsp;a pass into the nets.&nbsp;Kevin de Bryune scored&nbsp;the 2nd goal in the 62nd minute, indicating that the defending champions are still very much in the game even after a ban that was severely bashed by fans with frequent&nbsp;anti-UEFA&nbsp;chants.&nbsp;

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