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Marking the return of the first major league, the the 7th season of India's premier football league kicks off with the defending champions ATK Mohun Bagan squaring off against Kerala Blasters FC

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With the Australian tour confirmed and scheduled to begin next month, the Indian selectors announced T20, ODI and Test squads for the tour Down Under but the talented Suryakumar failed to find a place in the team.

With majority of the senior players struggling to find the form, the aging CSK were under scrutiny and many feel the management will go for an overhaul of the team.

Riding on Ruturaj Gaikwad’s 72-run knock and Ravindra Jadeja’s match-winning unbeaten 31-run innings, Super Kings chased down 173-run target with six wickets in hand.

Therefore, I’m eagerly waiting for the Australian Test series,’’ said Vihari, who has since flown to Dubai along with Cheteshwar Pujara, Ravi Shastri and other Indian coaching staff. They are on a six-day quarantine period.

Jadeja scored 30 off 11 balls and followed up Ruturaj Gaikwad's 72 and Ambati Rayudu's 38 to take CSK to their second consecutive win.

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.