Australian Open: Franck Ramella from L'Equipe sports daily spoke with Novak Djokovic on December 18, two days after the tennis star tested positive for Covid-19.

Former world champion boxer L Sarita Devi has quarantined herself away from her home in Imphal for at least the next 10 days to ensure that her young son's "well being is not compromised".

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'.

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'.

Hungarian Zsofia Bedo, L Sarita Devi's rival in her debut pro boxing fight, on Tuesday threw a challenge at the Indian and said "Sarita is not going to last all the four rounds".

Virat Kohli scored 113 off just 50 balls to guide Royal Challengers Bangalore to a massive total of 211/3 in a rain-hit match. In reply, Kings XI Punjab could only manage 120/9 and lost the match by 82 runs (D/L).

Ten men and three women form the 13-strong team which will be in action during the Asian Qualifiers, which commences from March 25.

Suresh Raina's 104 and Sreenath Aravind 2/14 helps the Unmukt Chand-led India A defeat Bangladesh A by 75 runs (D/L method). Hosts clinch series 2-1.

Australia outclassed Ireland in a one-off ODI contest by securing a 23-run win (D/L method).

Among those who got byes and won't be taking the ring before August 30 were Shiva Thapa, Vikas Krishnan, previous edition's silver-medallist L Devendro Singh (49kg), Madan Lal (52kg), Manoj Kumar (64kg) and Kuldeep Singh (81kg).

Suresh Raina, who registered his fourth ODI ton and his first outside the sub-continent, stroked a belligerent 75-ball 100 to help India trounce England by 133-runs (D/L method).

Manoj will be seen in action in the 64kg division. The other recognisable faces in the squad are Olympians L Devendro Singh (49kg), who made the London Games quarter-finals last year, and Shiva Thapa (56kg).

Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan has said that the emergence of young seamers Irfan Pathan and L Balaji is a "good sign for Indian cricket".