The 38th National Games Technical Committee (GTCC) has expelled the Director of Competition (DOC) for Taekwondo, T Praveen Kumar, following allegations of fixing medal winners even before the competition began.
Sri Lanka opener Dimuth Karunaratne has decided to call time on his career after the second Test against Australia at Galle, which will also be his 100th Test. This is also Sri Lanka's final Test of this World Test Championship cycle.
Hyderabad Falcons scored a massive 96-71 win over the Gujarat Stallions in the inaugural edition of InBl Pro U25, to kick start their campaign in a dominating fashion in the country's professional basketball league, at the Thyagraj Indoor Stadium here on Monday.
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova announced her return to professional tennis following a 15-month break from the sport.
Atletico Madrid and FC Barcelona both won their respective matches this weekend, while Real Madrid lost away to Espanyol as the title race once again got congested in Spain.
With the announcement, de Villiers ends his decade-long association with RCB, scoring 4,491 runs in 156 matches. He finished as the second-highest run-getter for the side behind Virat Kohli.
In the women's recurve final, the Korean team of Ryoo Su Jung, Oh Yejin, and Lim Haejin defeated the Indian trio of Ankita Bhakat, Ridhi Phor, and Madhu Vedwan 6-0, while in men's final, the Korean trio of Leo Seungyun, Kim Pil-Joong, and Han Woo Tack outclassed the Indian team of Pravin Jadhav, Parth Salunkhe, and Kapil 6-2.
"It's my wife's birthday, a perfect gift from him," Suryakumar Yadav said on Wednesday night, tongue firmly in cheek, after helping India start the series with a win.
Sindhu, the 26-year-old two-time medallist at the Olympic Games and a World Champion, lost the first game but powered back to win the next two to beat Clara Azurmendi 17-21, 21-7, 21-12 in a 47-minute encounter in the BWF World Tour Super 750 event.
The ICC Board also endorsed the continuation of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) in its current format, which consists of a nine-team league played over two years with a final between the top two teams at the end.
