FIFA World Cup-winning captain and Ballon d'Or 1990-winner Lothar Matthaus was announced as the official ambassador of the Bengal Super League (BSL).

The Justice John Michael D'Cunha Commission, appointed by the Karnataka Government, has deemed the Chinnaswamy Stadium "unsuitable and unsafe for mass gathering".

Star Indian chess player D Gukesh is embracing the "new level" of competition where he is confident of handling the challenges and "meeting the expectations".

After the match, Kramnik expressed his frustration over the game's quality, calling a critical blunder by Ding Liren "childish".

During the second day play of the first Test in Perth, Jaiswal took a dig at Starc, saying, "You are coming too slow at me". The left-arm fast bowler, had a smile on his face while walking back to his mark.

The 61-year-old also wrote in his post that the "children" of Viswanathan Anand are on the "loose".

Karim Benzema said he had become more ambitious with age as the Real Madrid and France striker won the Ballon d'Or on Monday, and dedicated his trophy "to the people".

India had booked an automatic berth in the age-group showpiece as hosts and they are one of the three debutants in the tournament along with fellow Group A side Morocco and Tanzania (Group D).

The Indian team was on Thursday drawn alongside Hong Kong, Afghanistan and Cambodia in Group D of the 2023 AFC Asian Cup final round qualifiers to be played in Kolkata in June this year.

Cheteshwar Pujara endured a horror Saturday after first being dismissed without troubling the scorers and then getting the news of being axed from Indian Test team as defending champions Saurashtra were made to follow-on in a group D Ranji Trophy match by 44-time champions Mumbai.

Virat Kohli scored a total of 26 runs in the three-match ODI series against the West Indies, but Rohit Sharma said the "the team management is not at all worried".

Nathan Chen said "he never thought he'd be able to make it this far" as he won Olympic figure skating gold in Beijing on Thursday, easily beating defending champion Yuzuru Hanyu, who fell twice and finished fourth.

The Ivory Coast crushed an abject Algeria 4-1 on Thursday with Nicolas Pepe among the scorers as the reigning champions crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations in the group stage.

Serie A: Paulo Dybala explained the glare by saying he was looking "for a friend who I'd invited to the game".

Ahead of the 2022 ICC Under-19 Men's Cricket World Cup that begins on January 14, here is a preview of Group D.

Robert Lewandowski, Lionel Messi and Mohamed Salah were named on Friday as the three finalists for the FIFA Best Men's Player award, while Ballon d'Or winner Alexia Putellas was nominated for the women's prize.

Venkatesh Iyer smashed 151 with the bat and took two wickets with the ball as he helped Madhya Pradesh beat Chandigarh by five runs in a Group D match of the Vijay Hazare Trophy in Rajkot on Sunday.

Unstoppable Ruturaj Gaikwad churned out a third century on the trot but the Maharashtra skipper's effort went in vain as they went down to Kerala by four wickets in their group D clash of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.

Some might question whether Lionel Messi really deserved to win his latest Ballon d'Or prize ahead of other worthy candidates, but the Argentinian has been rewarded for continuing to be so good for so long.

Shardul Thakur said Virat Kohli's decision to step down as T20I captain after the ICC T20 World Cup was "quite surprising".

Ronaldinho said that his arrest and subsequent house arrest in Paraguay for using a false passport was "a very hard blow".

Defending champions India will be overwhelming favourites to win the junior global meet for the fifth time with at least six players, including skipper Priyam Garg having played senior cricket (first-class, List A or T20).

The gold medal was won by Jiang Huihua of China with an effort 212 kg (94kg+118kg).

Virat Kohli will be facing the toughest battle of his nascent ODI captaincy career when India take on SA in a do-or-die virtual 'quarter-final'.