India head coach Gautam Gambhir refused to blame an individual or a group after the team's defeat against England in the opening Test.

Mohsin Naqvi on Thursday was appointed as the president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC).

Zaheer Khan on Wednesday was appointed as the mentor of the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG).

Three fans breached security at Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday to take a selfie with former India captain Virat Kohli and one returned successful.

His counter-attacking knock put India in the driver's seat in the second Test against Sri Lanka and Shreyas Iyer asserted that batting with a defensive mind-set does not help on difficult wickets like the M Chinnaswamy track.

Robert Lewandowski scored a record-breaking 11-minute hat-trick to send Bayern Munich sailing into the Champions League quarter-finals with a 7-1 win at home to Red Bull Salzburg on Tuesday.

Sheriff Tiraspol coach Yuriy Vernydub pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history by beating Real Madrid -- months later he is shouldering arms in defence of his native Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

Bayern Munich midfielder Joshua Kimmich said his side need to question their mentality after they slumped to a shock 4-2 defeat at Bundesliga minnows Bochum ahead of Wednesday's Champions League clash with Red Bull Salzburg.

Rising T20 sensation M Shahrukh Khan and his state-mate, orthodox left-arm spinner Ravi Srinivas Sai Kishore, will be joining the Indian white-ball team as stand-by players for the upcoming six-match series against the West Indies.

Ashes 4th Test preview: They are facing a 5-0 whitewash, although rain forecast for Sydney could come to England's rescue. Veteran seamer Jimmy Anderson admitted that "the lads are pretty flat at the minute if I'm being brutally honest".

Under-fire head coach Chris Silverwood has defended his team selection despite England suffering heavy defeats in the first two Tests of the Ashes, insisting he is still the "right man for the job".

Azam Siddique, Babar's father, said in an Instagram post that his son played all three games this week "in severe distress".

Shubho Paul, 17-year-old striker who plays for Sudeva FC, was selected in Bayern Munich's "World squad".

Borussia Dortmund chairman Hans-Joachim Watzke said that the members of the European Club Association (ECA) had met Sunday evening and expressed "a clear opinion to reject the foundation of a Super League".

Serena Williams broke down in tears and cut short her post-match press conference after another failed bid to equal Margaret Court's record Grand Slam haul, calling her defeat to Naomi Osaka "a big error day".

Washington Sundar's father, M Sundar, spoke exclusively to NDTV, and said his son's performance in Australia was "special" and backed him to "become a legend".

Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge criticised the honorary president Uli Hoeness for branding David Alaba's agent a "money-hungry piranha".

Fans were riled by Bayern Munich's endeavours to be endorsed by a Chinese boy band called "Teen in Times".

German Hans-Wilhelm Mueller-Wohlfahrt has said he quit as Bayern Munich team doctor in 2015 amid a spat with Pep Guardiola because the Spaniard "knew better".

After being dismissed for scores of 44 and 38 in the 1st Test against the West Indies, KL Rahul said he was disappointed but there were a "lot of things I'm doing right".

The ICC's Dispute Panel had recently dismissed the financial claim made by the PCB against the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Mitchell Johnson said he experienced back problems during this year's IPL and "that was probably a sign that it was time to move on".

James Rodriguez will be joined by fellow new signing Corentin Tolisso, 22, who has just joined Bayern from French side Lyon for 41.5 million euros (USD 47.3m).

Reacting to a report which said that the BCCI has already spent Rs 3.90 crore for the Supreme Court-appointed Justice R M Lodha committee set up to suggest reforms in the cricket board in the wake of the recent spot fixing scandal, the BCCI said that the news was "wholly false and concocted".