Indian captain Virat Kohli was all praise for God's own land- Kerala, as the team arrived in the state for the 5th and final ODI. In a hand-written note in the visitor's diary of a hotel, Virat wrote that he loved coming to Kerala, and praised the state for its zeal and show of strength in overcoming the devastating floods. He urged the people to visit Kerala as it was 'absolute safe'.

Responding to Michael Clarke's comments that the Aussies went easy on Virat&nbsp;Kohli during India's tour of Australia, skipper Tim Paine revealed that the team never went easy on the Indian captain. Paine said that the players didn't sledge Kohli&nbsp;as they wanted him to remain quiet. After Clarke said that many players kept away from Kohli&nbsp;as they wanted lucrative IPL&nbsp;deals, Paine rubbished the claim and said that&nbsp;the Aussies didn't want to provoke any fight with Virat&nbsp;as the hosts thought&nbsp;that's when he plays his best cricket.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Responding sharply to Shoaib&nbsp;Akhtar's&nbsp;proposal of Indo-Pak&nbsp;series for raising funds amidst the Covid-19 crisis, Cricket&nbsp;great Kapil&nbsp;Dev said that India doesn't need the money and it was not worth risking a life for a cricket match. While reminding that the game will resume after things get normal, the&nbsp;World Cup-winning captain also&nbsp;said that BCCI&nbsp;has already donated 51 crore&nbsp;rupees and will further donate if need be.&nbsp;Earlier on Wednesday, Akhtar&nbsp;had proposed a television only 3-match ODI&nbsp;series to generate funds for the fight against Covid-19 which would help both the nations.&nbsp;

As Covid-19 wreaks havoc on the cricketing calendar, Australia's two-match Test series in Bangladesh has also been postponed indefinitely on Thursday, Bangladesh Cricket Board and Cricket Australia confirmed. The series was scheduled to be played from June 11 to June 23 as a part of the World Test Championship. This is the 3rd Test championship&nbsp;series affected&nbsp;due to the pandemic after England vs&nbsp;Sri&nbsp;Lanka&nbsp;and&nbsp;Bangladesh&nbsp;vs&nbsp;Pakistan Test series were cancelled.&nbsp;

Premier League&nbsp;players including&nbsp;Liverpool's Jordan Henderson, Tottenham's Harry Kane and Arsenal's&nbsp;Aubameyang&nbsp;announced the launch of an initiative to generate funds for Britain's National Health Service to help those affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic. The idea has been named as #PlayersTogether. A statement from the group said that it is about we, as players, collaborating together to create a voluntary initiative, separate to any other league and club conversation.&nbsp;

Although the 2020 edition of Wimbledon&nbsp;was cancelled due to the virus outbreak, the organisers are all set to earn some big money. A whopping &pound;100 million insurance payout will be credited to All England Club as their insurance covers&nbsp;a claim on infectious diseases. Wimbledon which was cancelled for the first time since World War II was concerned after SARS broke out in 2003 and eventually got itself covered by adding the clause to the policy. The 139th edition of the only grass-court Grand Slam was cancelled last week and will now take place in 2021.&nbsp;

Formula one's managing director, Ross Brawn is considering holding races behind closed doors without spectators. While addressing the issues of travel of teams, Brawn also announced that the&nbsp;motorsport&nbsp;events are&nbsp;likely to start in Europe and chances of having 18-19 races is possible if the season resumes in July. Covid-19 pandemic has hit the sport hard, with Canadian&nbsp;GP being the latest of the 9 events that have been called off.

Former Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Akhtar&nbsp;wants India to help Pakistan during these tough times of the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic. Talking to PTI, the 44-year-old former fast bowler requested India to provide 10,000 ventilators to Pakistan and help their struggling medical infrastructure. The&nbsp;Rawalpindi Express added that Pakistan will remember this gesture forever. With over 4000 cases of Covid-19 in Pakistan, Akhtar&nbsp;urged both countries to come together leaving behind the political tensions.

From pay cuts to donating big amounts, most football clubs are doing their bit in the fight against the coronavirus&nbsp;crises, some of&nbsp;Bundesliga's brightest stars to join forces in the fight in a rather unique way. Where&nbsp;Wolfsburg players stacked shelves at supermarkets, Augsburg players handed out free drinks to healthcare workers. RB Leipzig's Lukas Klostermann and Marcel Halstenberg donated blood and Schalke&nbsp;goalkeeper Markus Schubert baked cakes for elderly fans. Surely, the sweet gesture gave many a moment to cherish despite the gloomy atmosphere.&nbsp;

Belarusian side Dinamo Brest made a brilliant attempt at filling their stadium using a variety of shirts from the world of football and accompanying face masks. Shirts from Manchester United, Arsenal and Real Madrid were draped across seats in a fun way to fill the stands. Football action may have been brought to a standstill around the world but&nbsp;Belarus is one of the only countries where the beautiful game has continued despite the ongoing coronavirus global pandemic.

As a heartfelt gesture,&nbsp;Spanish La Liga team Villarreal provided food for free to the medical staff of one of the hospitals that is fighting against coronavirus.&nbsp;The club also confirmed it will provide the same support to other medical centre in the region.&nbsp;The campaign started last week with the preparation of more than 200 meals. Spain is one of the worst hit countries with almost 15000&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;deaths.

After players from many big clubs including Barcelona&nbsp;and Atletico Madrid took pay cuts to support their clubs financially during the coronavirus&nbsp;pandemic, LaLiga&nbsp;giants Real Madrid have finally decided to follow suit. The players and coaches of the first football and basketball teams of Real Madrid&nbsp;agreed to voluntarily take a wage cut for this year&nbsp;between 10 and 20%. All football activities in Spain including LaLiga&nbsp;were suspended in March due to the Virus scare.

Tennis world no.1 Novak&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;on Wednesday readily responded to Roger Federer's challenge by posting a video of a solo drill on his social media account. A high-spirited&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;also asked the Swiss Maestro if he was good enough.&nbsp;Although,&nbsp;Djoko&nbsp;did not&nbsp;don a hat, which was a part of the challenge other tennis celebrities like Fred Gil, Nicolas Kiefer,&nbsp;and Sofia Kenin&nbsp;took out their most colourful caps to participate in the challenge.

With many football clubs doing their bit to help&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;victims,&nbsp;Paris Saint-Germain have too joined the cause. The French club&nbsp;launched a fundraising platform to support healthcare professionals in France affected by the&nbsp;pandemic.&nbsp;The club has called on all PSG supporters to show their solidarity and donate 5, 10, 15 or 50 euros to the cause.&nbsp;Money raised will go to Paris hospitals,&nbsp;healthcare workers and to Action Against Hunger in France and abroad.

England wicketkeeper-batsman Jos&nbsp;Buttler's&nbsp;World Cup-winning shirt raised over 73,000 Euros which is around US$ 80,000 to fight COVID-19. Buttler, who ran out Martin Guptill in the final to help the 3 Lions claim their maiden World Cup title had put his t-shirt for auction last week. Since then,&nbsp;82 people placed a bid for the t-shirt before the last bid was accepted on Tuesday. The money&nbsp;will be shared with 2 specialist heart and lung centres dealing with the coronavirus crisis.

Former Pakistan cricketer Shoaib&nbsp;Akhtar&nbsp;on Wednesday proposed a 3 match ODI&nbsp;series between the two nations to&nbsp;raise funds for the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. The&nbsp;44 year-old further added that it can be a TV only affair which will yield massive viewership&nbsp;and the funds generated can be equally divided between both the countries. The 2 nations have not played a full-fledged&nbsp;series since 2007 due to diplomatic tensions.&nbsp;

English Premier League side&nbsp;Tottenham&nbsp;has reminded its players and coach Jose Mourinho&nbsp;for practising&nbsp;social distancing and abiding by the British&nbsp;government's advisory to follow the&nbsp;ongoing&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;which has been implemented in the country to battle the Covid-19 pandemic. This came after a video&nbsp;surfaced on social media in which the Portuguese&nbsp;coach and several other squad members were seen training outside and defying the social distancing norms.&nbsp;Tanguy Ndombele,&nbsp;Davinson Sanchez, Serge Aurier&nbsp;and Ryan Sessegnon&nbsp;were also seen flouting the norms.

In a heartfelt gesture, 15-year-old&nbsp;Indian golfer, Arjun&nbsp;Bhati&nbsp;sold all his hard-earned 102&nbsp;trophies to raise ₹4.3&nbsp;lakh&nbsp;for the&nbsp;PM Cares fund. In his pledge to donate towards the good cause, the teenage sensation also sold his 3 world golf&nbsp;championship titles and national championship&nbsp;title. While asking people to follow self-isolation,&nbsp;Bhati&nbsp;said that since he had no earnings of his own, he&nbsp;sold all the trophies to his relatives and friends of his parents so that he could do his bit.&nbsp;

Wisden&nbsp;Almanack&nbsp;announced its prestigious&nbsp;2020 cricketer's awards&nbsp;on Wednesday. Jofra Archer, Pat Cummins, Simon Harmer, Marnus&nbsp;Labuschagne and Ellyse&nbsp;Perry were honoured as top 5 cricketers of the year. Apart from that, Perry also featured in the leading cricketers of the world list along with England's Ben Stokes. Whereas in the shortest format, Windies' Andre Russell was honoured as the leading T20 cricketer in the world.&nbsp;

Long-serving forward Thomas Mueller has signed a 2-year contract extension with Bayern Munich, which will keep him at the club until June 2023. 2014 FIFA World Cup winner Mueller has made over 500 appearances for Bayern and has won 8&nbsp;Bundesliga titles, 5 German Cups and 5 German Super Cups in addition to the 2013 Champions League. Interestingly, social distancing norms were followed while signing the contract and fans loved it.&nbsp;

Formula 1 bosses have agreed to take a 20% salary cut as a result of the coronavirus crisis that has seen the first 9 Grands Prix races of the season being either postponed or cancelled.&nbsp;F1 chairman and chief executive Chase Carey is believed to have taken&nbsp;a much deeper wage cut than 20%. Apart from that, about half of the organisation's staff has been put on enforced leave and will take advantage of the UK government's job retention scheme.

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