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The selectors named two one-day squads and a Test squad for the New Zealand tour on Friday. Shubman Gill will leave the ODI series early to prepare for the Tests, and Shreyas Iyer takes over in Mount Maunganui.
More than half the field was still on the course at Delhi Golf Club when play was called off on Friday, after Thursday's storm pushed the schedule back. Om Prakash Chouhan is four off the pace, and a clutch of Indians are hovering around the cut.
The BCCI added the 36-year-old seamer to India's squad on Friday and said a call on Arshdeep Singh will be made before Saturday's fifth T20I. Bowling coach Morne Morkel said Bhuvneshwar's experience will steady a young attack.
Australia's Durban match-winner expects Scott Boland to play a part in the series, while South Africa's fielding coach Kruger van Wyk called Ryan Rickelton 'a first-choice keeper' before Sunday's second Test in Gqeberha.
India's paddlers won all four of their singles matches in Nagoya on Friday, and Suhas Yathiraj dropped only 19 points in his first badminton group match, two days before the opening ceremony.
The 59kg wrestler beat Kazakhstan's Viktoriia Khusainova 7-2 for bronze in Las Vegas. Pujari, from Solapur, won both her bouts by fall and meets Ukraine's Iryna Zablotska for gold.
The top-order batter played 73 ODIs, four Tests and 35 T20Is over 12 years, and made a Test hundred against South Africa. She last played for India in 2021.
India women meet Zimbabwe for the first time in a bilateral series, starting with three T20Is in Raipur. Harmanpreet Kaur, who gave up the captaincy ten days ago, is in the side as a player.
The series is level at 2-2 before Saturday night's decider at the Chinnaswamy. India squeezed in a trip to Delhi to meet the Prime Minister, and still have no word on their left-arm seamer.
The Indian women's doubles pair beat Indonesia's fifth seeds in Odense, and Tanvi avenged Sindhu's defeat by beating Yvonne Li. Kidambi Srikanth let a lead slip in the decider against Alex Lanier.
Para badminton, para table tennis and blind football get under way in Aichi on Friday. Suhas Yathiraj, Krishna Nagar, Manasi Joshi and Bhavina Patel are among the first Indians on court.
Jhon Durán scored twice as Benfica won 4-1 in Lisbon. Sunderland and Bournemouth kept their perfect starts in the Europa League, but Crystal Palace were beaten 3-2.
Lightning and 24 mm of rain halted play for nearly five hours at Delhi Golf Club. Om Prakash Chouhan is two behind the Dane, while Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood opened with 70s.
The seventh seed has not dropped a set in a draw that has lost Sabalenka, Pegula and Muchova. World No. 170 Sonay Kartal dropped only two games against Jasmine Paolini.
The shuttler from Nabha in Punjab came from a game down to beat Chinese Taipei's Yuan-Syue Jhuang in Cairo and reach the boys' singles semi-finals.
Yashasvi Jaiswal is set to join India A for New Zealand, and new vice-captain Ayush Mhatre has torn a hamstring. Suryansh Shedge and Angkrish Raghuvanshi come in for the second round.
Shreyas Iyer and Harmanpreet Kaur handed the Prime Minister signed jerseys at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium, where he told the 85-medal contingent it had made the country proud.
Both sides lost late in their ISL openers. Bagan, who skipped their pre-match press conference, face Tomasz Tchórz's Delhi at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Friday.
The conclave of franchises, broadcasters and state associations was due in Mumbai on Thursday evening. Teams still have until 15 November to name retained players before a December auction in Goa.
Coach Andrew McDonald says Cameron Green is progressing but has not batted yet. Cooper Connolly's spin is back in the reckoning for the second Test from Sunday.
The second round of the Elite group stage runs from 18 to 21 October. Four teams lead their groups with seven points after innings or ten-wicket wins in round one.
Ryan Rickelton will take the gloves and Kagiso Rabada is fit again as the hosts try to level the series against Australia at St George's Park from Sunday.
The left-arm seamer was hit by a Shamar Joseph bouncer in Hyderabad and is icing his shoulder. India must find a way to stop West Indies' 240-plus totals before Saturday.
The 55kg wrestler, a bronze medallist at the last two editions, went down to Georgia's Koba Karumidze in the closing seconds in Las Vegas.
The lucrative men's exhibition featuring Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic will now be played in Riyadh from 27 to 30 December, its organisers said.
Antonio Rüdiger's 89th-minute finish completed a comeback from 3-1 down in Rome. In Manchester, the holders led 3-0 before Erling Haaland's double made him City's top Champions League scorer.
The $4 million India Championship starts at Delhi Golf Club on Thursday, with defending champion Tommy Fleetwood, Rory McIlroy and a new generation of Indian professionals in the field.
West Indies made 247 for 3 in Hyderabad and beat India by 24 runs to level the five-match series 2-2. The final T20I is at the Chinnaswamy on Saturday.
The fifth seeds lost in three games to China's He Jiting and Ren Xiangyu in Odense, and Ayush Shetty and Unnati Hooda also went out in the first round.
The forward struck inside a minute and again five minutes into stoppage time to give Punjab a 2-1 win in their ISL opener in New Delhi.
Sunday's race will start and finish at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, with minor changes to the half marathon route that organisers say are about runners' safety.
The KZN Inland seamer finished with 6 for 26 against Titans in the Pro20 Cup, including four wickets in four balls, though his side still lost by 21 runs.
Bengal knocked off 89 inside 16 overs to win by nine wickets at Kalyani. Champions Jammu and Kashmir hung on seven down against Madhya Pradesh, and Haryana finished off Himachal.
The money, routed through the National Sports Development Fund, will pay for academies, coaching, sports science and foreign exposure for boxers after a three-gold Asian Games.
Coach Shukri Conrad called the 214-run defeat in Durban neither a calamity nor a catastrophe. Pat Cummins says Australia may change their side too, with Cameron Green expected back.
President Ajay Singh's order accuses Kumar of committing the federation to an unauthorised broadcast contract, ignoring an inquiry and trying to move a no-confidence motion against him.
Ishan Kishan and Abhishek Sharma stay first and second in the ICC rankings. In Tests, Matt Renshaw has jumped 147 places after his Durban double.
Mandeep Singh, Jarmanpreet Singh, Amit Rohidas and Nilakanta Sharma were reported to be playing their last games for India at the Asian Champions Trophy. Players say nobody told them.
Megan Schutt took 4 for 16 with five maidens, and Ellyse Perry and Annabel Sutherland shared a 137-run stand as Australia won the final ODI by eight wickets.
The Iraqi champions struck twice in three minutes after half-time and held on with ten men, leaving East Bengal with one point from two AFC Champions League Two games.
PV Sindhu let a one-game lead slip against Germany's Yvonne Li in Odense, while third seed Chou Tien Chen beat Lakshya Sen in three games.
Dilshan Madushanka is recalled and Lahiru Udara left out of the 15-man squad for two Tests in Rawalpindi and Lahore in November.
Jacob Bethell, Jofra Archer and Phil Salt return as Harry Brook leads 16-man squads for three ODIs and five T20Is in November and December.
President Paul Kagame announced the agreement in Kigali on Tuesday. The race, to be called the Formula 1 African Grand Prix, is expected from the early 2030s.
Three Ranji Trophy matches were over inside three days. KL Rahul fell for one in Karnataka's second innings, and Delhi go into the last day at Kalyani still 88 runs behind Bengal.
South Africa lost their last four wickets for five runs at Kingsmead and were all out for 206. Matt Renshaw was player of the match, and Temba Bavuma has lost a Test as captain for the first time.
Pramod Bhagat and Bhavina Patel will carry the flag in Aichi-Nagoya, where India will compete in 11 sports after tight quotas and a late selection process cut the team.
The India opener made 360 runs in seven T20Is in September, including a maiden international hundred in the Asian Games semi-final against Bangladesh.
Harmanpreet Singh will lead the defending champions in Jalandhar and Mohali, with goalkeeper Krishan Bahadur Pathak back and two young players added.
Gill beat Abhishek Sharma and Sikandar Raza to the September award, his fifth, after 333 runs in two ODIs against West Indies.
The Army Sports Institute coach, who has trained national record holders Gulveer Singh and Sawan Barwal, faces a charge of complicity in another person's doping violation.
Secretary Devajit Saikia called reports of a venue shift for the 13 December series opener inaccurate and said no such decision had been taken.
Mumbai bowled Chandigarh out for 78 and enforced the follow-on at the Wankhede. In Rajkot, Ravindra Jadeja turned an overnight 72 into a century on day two of the new season.
Leading 2-1, Shreyas Iyer's side need one more win on Wednesday. The squad has a new look since selection, and the New Zealand tour is eight days away.
The USA left-arm seamer, who took the league's first five-wicket haul, moves from UP Warriorz at her ₹10 lakh fee ahead of the auction in Kochi on 28 October.
Matt Renshaw followed his 190 with 82 and a first Test wicket. South Africa ended day four on 102 for 4, needing 319 more on the final day at Kingsmead.
Mirra Andreeva is the youngest woman to make her top-three debut in 21 years. In Wuhan, world No. 217 Shi Han beat Alexandra Eala for her first win over a top-20 player.
World No. 39 Zizou Bergs beat Carlos Alcaraz 7-5, 7-6(4). The result guarantees Alexander Zverev will be the first German to finish a year as world No. 1.
Aprilia machines filled the top four at the Indonesian Grand Prix. Jorge Martin's third place puts him two points clear of Marc Márquez with five rounds left.
The qualifier beat seventh seed Celia Cerviño Ruiz 6-4, 6-2 in the ITF W35 final in Lagos, without dropping a set all week, and also took the doubles title.
Erling Haaland, Jérémy Doku and Rayan Cherki scored after Ryan Gravenberch's red card. City have won all six league games under Enzo Maresca and lead Arsenal by three points.
The 24-year-old edged Germany's Christian Reitz by half a point in the men's 10m air pistol final for his first senior World Cup gold, in his debut in the event.
Delegations from across the BRICS group showed off their indigenous sports in Ahmedabad on Monday, as Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya proposed a shared record of games at risk of being forgotten.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen won 27 of India's 85 medals in Japan. The Defence Minister met them in New Delhi on Monday and told them to aim higher at the 2028 Olympics.
The Kenyan ran 2:01:09 to pull clear of defending champion Jacob Kiplimo. Hawi Feysa outkicked Sharon Lokedi in 2:13:33, and Catherine Debrunner set a wheelchair world record.
Ranked 54th and back from an elbow injury that dropped her to No. 160, the Olympic champion won 7-5, 6-4 in Beijing for her first title in nearly two years.
India made 223 in Indore and held West Indies to 209 for 7 to win the third T20I by 14 runs, two days after losing a 250-run total in Ranchi.
Menno Koch scored at both ends as Bengaluru FC beat Sporting Club Delhi 3-2 in the opener. Churchill Brothers beat Mumbai City, and NorthEast United stunned Mohun Bagan 1-0.
Max Verstappen led from pole for his first Singapore Grand Prix win at the 10th attempt. Kimi Antonelli's third place leaves him 102 points clear with Austin next.
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