World No. 4 Dominic Thiem&nbsp;came from behind to beat German&nbsp;no. 1 Alexander&nbsp;Zverev&nbsp;in a gruelling battle that lasted for 3 hours and 42 minutes to reach his first-ever Australian Open final. Moreover, the 26-year-old is now the first Austrian to reach the final of the first Grand Slam of the year. After a slow start and two tie-breaks,&nbsp;Thiem took over the 7th seed and beat him 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6.&nbsp;Thiem&nbsp;will face World No. 2 and defending champion&nbsp;Novak&nbsp;Djokovic&nbsp;in the final showdown on Sunday.

World No. 4 Dominic Thiem came from behind to beat German no. 1 Alexander Zverev in a gruelling battle that lasted for 3 hours and 42 minutes to reach his first-ever Australian Open final. Moreover, the 26-year-old is now the first Austrian to reach the final of the first Grand Slam of the year. After a slow start and two tie-breaks, Thiem took over the 7th seed and beat him 3-6, 6-4, 7-6, 7-6. Thiem will face World No. 2 and defending champion Novak Djokovic in the final showdown on Sunday.

BCCI chief Sourav&nbsp;Ganguly&nbsp;on Sunday said that India will play day-night Test during Australia's tour later this year, for which a formal announcement will be made soon. The former skipper added that the second Test of the next home series against England will be a day-night Test and&nbsp;the board will try to have at least one day-night Test in each series in the future. Interestingly, last month Indian skipper Virat&nbsp;Kohli&nbsp;had said that team India is ready for a day-night Test anywhere in Australia.&nbsp;

Mayank Agarwal&nbsp;ended his poor run and wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh&nbsp;Pant found his form as India's warm-up match against New Zealand&nbsp;XI ended in a draw. Agarwal&nbsp;who was going through a wobbly form since the 2nd Test against Bangladesh scored 81 off 99 balls while Rishabh&nbsp;Pant found composure&nbsp;with his aggressiveness and scored 70 off 65 balls. The match was called off an hour after lunch with India scoring 252/4 in 48 overs&nbsp;in their 2nd inning.&nbsp;

A below-par show by the Indian batsmen vs New Zealand&nbsp;XI was overshadowed by the fast bowlers on day 2 of the 3-day tour game as the hosts were bowled out for 235, 28 runs short of India's 1st innings total. Mohammad Shami who was rested for the final 2 ODIs&nbsp;against the Blackcaps&nbsp;was at his usual best and finished as the highest wicket-taker with 3 scalps. His partner in crime Jasprit&nbsp;Bumrah&nbsp;whose form was a bit concerning after going&nbsp;wicketless in the ODI series also struck form and picked up 2 wickets, giving away just 18 runs in 11 overs. Umesh Yadav and&nbsp;Navdeep Saini&nbsp;too picked up 2 wickets as India's pace attack once again looks lethal ahead of the 2-match Test series.

18-yr-old rising shuttler&nbsp;Lakshya Sen registered a glorious&nbsp;21-18, 22-20, the biggest of his career, over World Number 7&nbsp;Jonatan Christie, to almost snatch victory for India in the Asia Team Championships on Saturday. However, Lakshya's heroics went in vain as India lost 2-3 to defending champions Indonesia settling for a Bronze along with Japan. The 18-year-old's&nbsp;sensational game kept India in the fray after Sai&nbsp;Praneeth&nbsp;retired&nbsp;hurt in the opening game of the first singles.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India has asked its Pakistani counterpart not to allow the unauthorized Indian kabaddi&nbsp;team to use the national flag in the final of the circle style World Cup. The Indian team will play Pakistan in the finals on Sunday in Lahore. The contingent is under investigation by the Sports Ministry because it reportedly went to Pakistan without any official permission or for an unrecognized Kabaddi&nbsp;World Cup. The&nbsp;Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India&nbsp;in a statement said that the players don't represent India and also&nbsp;added that it had not received any invitation for a World Cup in Pakistan

Two of the most successful&nbsp;IPL sides Mumbai&nbsp;Indians and Chennai Super Kings will open the 2020 edition of the tournament.&nbsp;Defending champions&nbsp;Mumbai&nbsp;will host their arch-rival Chennai for the 13th edition of the glitzy tournament at the Wankhede on 29th March. Although BCCI has not released the official schedule, the franchises&nbsp;tweeted out&nbsp;their fixtures and reports say the final will be played on 24th May in Mumbai. Reports also suggest that the league phase will be extended by a week to avoid double-headers on Saturdays.&nbsp;

Barcelona edged past Getafe&nbsp;after a hard-fought 2-1 win in the La Liga&nbsp;on Saturday to go level with table toppers Real Madrid. Barcelona scored twice in 6 minutes after Antoine Griezmann&nbsp;opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. However, Getafe&nbsp;fought back with a goal in the 66th minute but were denied further goals by the Barca keeper. Now, both Barcelona and Real Madrid have 52 points on the table with a 2-goal difference.&nbsp;

"This is insane!", is what Liverpool manager Jurgen&nbsp;Klopp&nbsp;had to say after his side registered a narrow 1-0 win against Norwich City in the Premier League on Saturday, moving closer to winning their first top-flight title in 30 years. Attacking midfielder&nbsp;Sadio&nbsp;Mane came off the bench and netted the only goal of the game with just 12 minutes remaining on the clock. With this win, the Reds have extended their gigantic&nbsp;lead with 76 points on the charts and are now unbeaten in 43 league games.&nbsp;

Rajasthan's Bhawana&nbsp;Jat&nbsp;booked a berth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, after bagging gold in the 20km race walk event at the National Championships in Ranchi. Bhawna&nbsp;clocked a record timing&nbsp;of 1 hour 29 minutes and 54 seconds. The qualifying time for Olympic is 1 hour 31 minutes, and Bhawana was well within the stipulated limit. Uttar&nbsp;Pradesh's Priyanka&nbsp;Goswami&nbsp;came second, missing the&nbsp;qualifying mark by just 36 seconds.
Sports was a tough choice for Bhawana. Daughter of a farmer from a small village in Rajasthan's&nbsp;Rajsmand district, Bhawana's fortunes changed after she got a job with the Indian Railways in 2016 on a sports quota. She went from strength&nbsp;to strength&nbsp;winning district level tournaments to Rajasthan's state-level athletics championships.

Fast bowler Ishant Sharma&nbsp;is all set to fly to Wellington to join the Indian squad for a 2-match Test series that starts from 21st February after he cleared a fitness test at the National Cricket Academy. The 31-year-old was ruled out for 6 weeks after he picked up an ankle injury during Delhi's Ranji&nbsp;Trophy game against&nbsp;Vidarbha&nbsp;on 21st January. On February 4&nbsp;Ishant&nbsp;was named in the Test squad subject to a fitness clearance.&nbsp;

Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 12-year-old student from Mumbai just scripted history by becoming the youngest in the world to scale South America's highest peak. Karthikeyan, who studies at the Navy Children School, scaled Mt. Aconcagua which is at an elevation of 6962 metres, on the 1st of February and unfurled the Indian flag. Earlier, she had conquered Ladakh's Mt. Stok Kangri, followed by Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.

Brazilian football legend Pele's life has hit a rough patch as the 79-year-old is suffering from depression and refuses to leave his house unaided due to mobility problems. The 3-time World Cup winner has made all his recent appearances&nbsp;in a wheelchair and according to his son, Pele's&nbsp;condition has worsened due to inadequate&nbsp;rehabilitation after a transplant&nbsp;operation which has left the 3-time World Cup winner too afraid to even leave his house.&nbsp;

After being surrounded by heavy&nbsp;criticism last month, Umar&nbsp;Akmal&nbsp;managed to escape a ban from the Pakistan Cricket Board&nbsp;for allegedly misbehaving and undressing in front of the foreign&nbsp;trainers&nbsp;during the fitness test.&nbsp;After concluding its proceedings the PCB&nbsp;declared that the misconduct was the result of a misunderstanding and that the authorities had accepted Akmal's&nbsp;apology and have reprimanded and reminded him of his responsibilities as a senior cricketer.

With the 2020 Tokyo Olympics round the corner, Japan hosted a dress rehearsal for the Torch Relay that took place in Hamura&nbsp;on Saturday. With an unlit torch in hand, Japanese&nbsp;actress,&nbsp;Satomi&nbsp;Ishihara, who is one of the official ambassadors for the torch relay had the&nbsp;honour of performing the first handover of the summer games in the official white uniform. The 121-day-long torch relay will witness&nbsp;10,000 torchbearers who will carry the flame across Japan&nbsp;before arriving in Tokyo&nbsp;to light the Olympic&nbsp;flame on July 24th.

As the Australian team is all set to play the 3 T20I matches&nbsp;with South Africa starting Friday,&nbsp;Cricket South Africa's interim CEO, Jacques Faul&nbsp;has asked cricket fans to 'respect' the duo involved in Cape Town Test's&nbsp;ball-tampering&nbsp;scandal. David Warner and Steve Smith who will play in the country for the first time have been&nbsp;receiving&nbsp;a lot of booing lately from cricket fans across the board.&nbsp;Faul&nbsp;warned fans of the strict policy that the authority follows&nbsp;in terms of&nbsp;fan behaviour and also went on to say that he would evacuate&nbsp;people pertaining to misconduct.&nbsp;

Boxing Federation of India which was to host the 2021 Boxing Championship&nbsp;has landed itself into troubled water by&nbsp;failing to clear dues worth Rs 6 crores&nbsp;in total. Half of the dues were to be given to the Amateur International Boxing Association for hosting the 2018 championship&nbsp;and the other half as the hosting fees&nbsp;for the upcoming Boxing Championship. The association has also failed to pay the prize money to the participants of 2018 India open.&nbsp;The International Boxing Federation has sent BFI&nbsp;a legal notice for the delay in payment and reminder to pay the hosting fee. The notice also states that non-payment of dues might result in India losing its hosting rights.

It's not often that a driver survives a high-speed crash without a scratch but on Friday not 1 but 2 Junior World Rally Championship&nbsp;drivers Jon Armstrong and Fabio Andolfi&nbsp;miraculously escaped unharmed in their respective crashes during&nbsp;the speedway-test in Sweden.

Many NBA&nbsp;top rookies, second-year players and coaches were in for a surprise on Friday when former United States President&nbsp;Barack Obama made an unannounced appearance&nbsp;at an NBA Cares event during All-Star weekend in his hometown of Chicago.&nbsp;NBA Cares&nbsp;is the leagues' global social responsibility program and is hosting events throughout the week to benefit thousands of children across Chicago's neighbourhoods. Obama&nbsp;too got into the act and packed school supplies for students and teachers.

The reigning English Premier League Champions, Manchester City, has been banned from all European club competitions for the next two years beginning in 2020-2021 on Friday. The UEFA&nbsp;has also slapped the&nbsp;Abu&nbsp;Dhabi&nbsp;owned club&nbsp;with a fine of whopping 232&nbsp;crores.&nbsp;The shocking sanctions&nbsp;were issued&nbsp;after they were found in serious breaches of UEFA's&nbsp;club licensing and financial fair play regulations. The investigations started with leaks showing city overstated sponsorship revenue. While calling it a&nbsp;flawed decision, City said they&nbsp;were disappointed but not surprised by the decision and will appeal against it.

A construction worker in South India&nbsp;Srinivas Gowda&nbsp;made headlines on Friday when he was suddenly being compared to the fastest man on the planet, Usain Bolt. The 28-year-old from&nbsp;Moodabidri near Mangaluru&nbsp;competed in a local race called&nbsp;Kambala and sprinted 142m through paddy fields with 2 buffalos and&nbsp;was said to have finished in 13.42 seconds. Interestingly, it was claimed that he had covered the first 100m of the race in just 9.55 seconds, which comes out to be .3 seconds quicker than&nbsp;Usain&nbsp;Bolt's&nbsp;100m world record of 9.58 seconds.&nbsp;Responding to the buzz, Sports Minister&nbsp;Kiren Rijiju&nbsp;said that he will invite Srinivas Gowda for trails by top SAI coaches and also ensured that he will not let&nbsp;no talents in India will be left out untested.

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