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The 2026 World Cup, set to be hosted in the US, Mexico and Canada, may still be three years away but the 46 nations that make up the Asian Football Confederation now know the path they will have to tread on the road to qualification.
RIYADH: Cristiano Ronaldo scored his first goal of the season as Al-Nassr defeated Tunisian club Union Sportive Monastirienne in their second Group C match of the 2023 King Salman Club Cup taking place in Saudi Arabia.
JEDDAH: Brazilian midfielder Fabinho has signed for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad from Liverpool on a three-year deal, according to a club announcement on Monday.
The fourth edition of the Lanka Premier League kick-started on Sunday with Jaffna Kings emerging victorious against Colombo Strikers. Asked to bat first, Jaffna posted a good total of 173/5 in 20 overs with Towhid Hridoy top-scoring with 54 off 39 balls. Later, the Strikers got bundled out for 152 with Hardus Viljoen getting a three-wicket haul. The inaugural match of the season also had a heated moment, when pacer Naseem Shah dismissed Jaffna opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz and gave him a fiery send-off.
India and Pakistan don't play each other too often but the hype around the contest is as fierce as ever. With the two teams now set to face each other in the Asia Cup and the ODI World Cup this year, the chatter around the subject is intense. In an interview, when legendary Indian cricketer Kapil Dev was asked if there's 'too much pressure' around Indo-Pak cricket match, highlited a different aspect of the game, explaining where the pressure in such games actually come from.
The Indian cricket team went down to West Indies in the 2nd ODI on Sunday after a catastrophic batting collapse saw the team score only 181 runs. India's defeat in the match left a sour taste in the mouths of fans, especially considering the opening stand that Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan had put. In fact, during the course of his 34-run knock in the match, Gill went on to break Pakistan superstar Babar Azam's long-standing record.
Namibia were crowned champions of the Africa Qualifier and have booked their berth for the ICC U19 Men's Cricket World Cup in Sri Lanka next year, informed ICC on Sunday. Namibia became the third team to punch their tickets for the U19 World Cup 2024 through the Qualifier route. Last month, New Zealand went through from the East Asia-Pacific Qualifier while Nepal advanced from Asia in February 2023. The three teams join 11 others — Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe — who automatically qualified as the best-placed Full Member nations from the previous edition in 2022.
The Indian cricket team were completely outplayed by West Indies as they slumped to a six-wicket loss in the second ODI match in Barbados. The visitors decided to rest both Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli after winning the first match of the series but their batters were unable perform on Saturday as India were all out for just 181. Former Pakistan opener Salman Butt believes that the current India team lacks players who can ideally replace Rohit or Virat at present and he had an interesting solution to the problem. Butt said that India can experiment with the opening pair of Shubman Gill and Shikhar Dhawan with Rohit and Kohli coming at No.3 and No.4 respectively.