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Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone dodged questions about his club's alleged interest in Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo, who ended up staying at Premier League side Manchester United despite his desire to leave. Ronaldo was linked with Atletico in the transfer window due to his wish to play in the Champions League, but remained at Old Trafford after the deadline for a move passed on Thursday.
What Suryakumar Yadav has managed to do in these 17 months in the shortest format would definitely have been one of his own biggest fantasies when he was hoping against hope that he would be picked for the Indian national team. After all, that wait was a very long one. Suryakumar made his First Class and List A debuts for Mumbai in 2010. His First Class debut was in a Ranji Trophy match in December 2010 vs Delhi in Delhi. Batting at number six, right after Rohit Sharma, he scored 73 off 89 balls with 15 fours, in Mumbai's first innings. He was sent back thanks to a catch taken by Virat Kohli off the bowling of Pradeep Sangwan. In the second innings he managed to make just 7.
BCCI, which had made a winning bid of Rs 1.5 crore for Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra's javelin when Prime Minister Narendra Modi's collection of mementos was e-auctioned last year, a Cricket Board official told PTI on Friday. Chopra had presented one of his javelins to Modi when the Prime Minister hosted Indian athletes after the Tokyo Games. The javelin was part of many items that were presented during the e-auction, the proceeds of which went to 'Namami Gange Programme'. 'Namami Gange Programme', launched in 2014, integrates the efforts to clean and protect the Ganga river. The auction was held between September and October in 2021.
The 25-year-old, who came through the Chandigarh Football Academy before joining the AIFF Elite Academy, signed his first top-flight contract with Bengaluru FC in 2016. He played in the AFC Cup and was also a part of the Federation Cup winning squad in 2017.
Twenty20 World Cup in Australia beginning next month. Roy has been an integral part of England's white-ball squad and his explosive batting at the top of the order embodied the team's aggressive approach as they won their maiden 50-overs World Cup title in 2019. The 32-year-old has struggled for runs this summer and hit 76 runs in total in his last six Twenty20 Internationals which made his position untenable for the World Cup and the preceding seven-match Twenty20 series in Pakistan.
Commonwealth Games (CWG) was "hard to accept" as she could not compete in Birmingham Games after contracting COVID-19. The 27-year-old Navjot got infected after reaching Birmingham and was forced to fly back home. "It was disappointing to leave like that.
Football Federation (AIFF) on Friday got a former player as its first president in its 85-year history with Kalyan Chaubey beating the legendary Bhaichung Bhutia in the election for the top post here. The 45-year-old Chaubey, a former goalkeeper with Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, won 33-1, a result that was expected as former captain Bhutia did not have many supporters in the 34-member voters' list made up of state association representatives. The 'Sikkimese Sniper', also 45, could not even get his state association representative as proposer or seconder for filing his nomination papers.
Harbhajan Singh and Irfan Pathan will lead Manipal Tigers and Bhilwara King, respectively, in the upcoming Legends League Cricket. The league will start from September 16 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Off-spinner Harbhajan took 417 Test wickets in 103 matches, besides representing India in 28 T20 Internationals and 236 ODIs.