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Rashford's late goal earned United a 2-1 victory away to Paris Saint-Germain last week and at Old Trafford the England striker came on as a second-half substitute and scored three times

The 19-year-old Lakshya withdrew on Wednesday after his father D K Sen returned a positive test for the dreaded virus. D K Sen is asymptomatic at this point.

It has been a dramatic turnaround for the KL Rahul-led side after a string a losses earlier in the tournament.

Green, 21, was a surprise inclusion for three ODIs and three Twenty20s starting next month, with his call-up following a classy 197 in the domestic Sheffield Shield last week.

Team India coach Ravi Shastri took to twitter to laud the cricketer after his 43-ball unbeaten 79-run knock in the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore that saw his side record a five-wicket victory.

"Earlier it was told that he is unwell, if he is unwell then what is he doing inside the stadium?", Sehwag said.

After bowlers pulled things back by restricting RCB to 164/6 despite a good start, Suryakumar Yadav, who was ignored for the Australian Tour, scored an unbeaten 79 from 43 balls to steer his team home.

Barcelona are top of Group G with six points after two games with Juventus on three. The reverse fixture takes place at the Camp Nou on December 8.

The home side were put under pressure by Julian Nagelsmann's team but substitute Rashford struck three times after coming on in the 63rd minute to put the result beyond doubt.

Not considered for the tour of Australia despite his consistent run in domestic cricket and IPL, Suryakumar led MI's chase of 165 and helped the defending champions reach the target with five balls to spare.

However, it was not in the case of a few young cricketers like Priyam Garg, Abdul Samad or Ishan Kishan who thought they would get quick runs through some big-hitting only, conveniently forgetting the singles and twos.

KKR with 12 points from 12 games would like to win the next two encounters to ensure a smooth passage while CSK, currently at the bottom of the eight-team table, are only playing for pride.

Saha had picked up the niggle during his match-winning innings of 87 off 45 balls against Delhi Capitals on Tuesday and didn't keep wickets with substitute Shreevats Goswami replacing him.

The IPL 2020 edition was initially scheduled to be played in March but following the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus, it was postponed indefinitely.

Liverpool and Manchester City also made it six points out of a possible six in Europe this season, after Bayern needed a late Joshua Kimmich strike to claim a 2-1 win at Lokomotiv Moscow in Group A.

"Australia and India represents one of the great rivalries in world sport and we are delighted to welcome Virat Kohli's outstanding squad to Australian shores this summer," CA chief Nick Hockley said.

“There was a study done over the last few months that revealed that soccer – or football – was voted the number one sport in the world, and cricket is now number two. It's a huge sport now,” he said.

Lahiri is back for another crack at the event where he liked the course. “Some work left unfinished,” said Lahiri about his outing at the event, which made its debut on the PGA Tour last year.

Speaking about his performance, he said, “After bowling the first ball, where I got a wicket, I knew there was something for me in the pitch. So I wanted to bowl in the right areas and that helped me.”

They felt Rahul deserves a place in all the three formats of the game. At the moment Rahul averages 50+ in all formats.

Warner led from the front with half-century off just 25 balls, hitting two sixes and eight fours.

In response to 219/2 wickets, DC were blown away for 131 and succumbed to their third consecutive defeat of the season

For a boy, who didn’t have money to buy cricket shoes, father being an auto-rickshaw driver and mother working as a maid, it has been one of the fascinating stories in Indian cricket

Infantino has travelled little during the coronavirus pandemic, but he attended a signing ceremony at the White House last month to mark normalised relations for Israel with UAE and Bahrain