The Indian women’s cricket team will play a historic one-off Test against England in Bristol as part of a multi-format series that will also feature three ODIs and as many T20Is across June-July. While the Indian women’s team will take part in a Test for the first time since 2014, England last played a red-ball game during the 2019 Ashes. After announcing its home fixtures, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive officer Tom Harrison, said: “We’re really looking forward to a busy summer in what is a huge year for our England Women’s team, and we’re very excited about hosting India and New Zealand.“With the 2022 ICC Women's World Cup around the corner it is of paramount importance that our England team is able to prepare accordingly, and with the team also due to travel to Pakistan in October we can look forward to an exciting 12 months of international women's cricket."

BCCI to send extended squad of 30 for the senior Test tourIndia-A’s tour of England this summer has been postponed and the senior team will now have an integrated jumbo squad for the five-match Test series in England later this year, the ECB and the BCCI agreed on Tuesday. The senior team, which is to play five Tests against England in August-September, will now have only two intra-squad practice games instead of the First Class fixture between the India seniors and India-A teams planned earlier.“The ECB and BCCI have agreed to postpone this summer's men's India-A tour," ECB said in a statement on Tuesday.

Harshal, who has played only 18 IPL matches since 2016, is now regarded as the answer to RCB’s death bowling troubles. Death bowling is something I've worked on for a long period of time, and I am confident enough now to take all that practice into the game,” Harshal said at a media interaction on Tuesday. Harshal was traded to RCB from Delhi Capitals earlier this year, a move that has worked in his favour. The trade is a welcome decision because I knew that with Kagiso Rabada and Anrich Nortje in the DC team, I wasn't going to get an opportunity,” Harshal said.

The next time I believe he will hit 10 yards further to win us a game, says Royals’ director of cricketKumar Sangakkara, Royals’ director of cricket, was all praise for Samson’s extraordinary innings. The next time I believe he will hit ten yards further to win us a game.”Sangakkara also was impressed with the efforts from youngsters Riyan Parag, whose 52-run stand with Samson for the fifth wicket kept Royals in the game, and Chetan Sakariya, the 22-year-old left-arm seamer who made a sparkling debut.

Rohit’s side suffers a collapse — from 86 for one to 152 — but suffocates Kolkata’s chase in back-10, thanks to Chahar, Krunal, Bumrah and BoultKKR needed to score 30 off the last four overs with five wickets in hand when left-arm spinner Krunal Pandya and speedster Jasprit Bumrah bowled two tight overs to Andre Russell and Dinesh Karthik, conceding just seven runs. Earlier, introduced into the attack in the 18th over, Russell came out of nowhere to pick up a five-for in his two overs, bowling around the wicket to right-handers. The other four to fall to Russell were Krunal, Jansen, Chahar and Bumrah.

The AFC Champions League will be played in India for the first time here from Wednesday with FC Goa becoming the only team from the country to feature in the group stage of the continent’s top-tier competition in club football. The Gaurs will take the field against Qatar’s Al-Rayyan SC at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and head coach Juan Ferrando will hope that his team can fully utilise the advantage of playing at home. Ferrando described it as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity for the players to compete against some of the biggest names in Asia.“This is an opportunity for our players to play against some of the biggest names in Asia.

Very hungry for my first game, says coach PezzaiuoliA fancied Bengaluru FC will mark the start of a new era when it takes on Nepalese side Tribhuvan Army FC in a preliminary stage two clash of the AFC Cup here on Wednesday. The fixture will be Marco Pezzaiuoli's first competitive game in charge of the Blues since his appointment as head coach in February.“I’m very hungry for my first game.

Lionel Messi scored twice as Barcelona beat Athletic Bilbao 4-0 to win the Copa del Rey final on Saturday, giving Ronald Koeman his first title as coach of the Catalan club. Messi’s two goals came after Antoine Griezmann finally beat Bilbao goalkeeper Unai Simón with the opener on the hour-mark. Koeman, a former Barcelona defender, returned to coach the club last summer after Barcelona finished last season without a title for the first time since 2008. Bilbao has now lost two Copa del Rey finals this month at La Cartuja Stadium in Seville.

At the same time, Real Madrid, the familiar scent of European glory in its nostrils, breezes past Liverpool and edges Chelsea to win a place in the Champions League final. Real Madrid would, by most measures, be the underdog in Istanbul. But it is Real Madrid, and it is the Champions League, and these things do not necessarily conform to logic. It and Barcelona, the twin, repelling poles of the Clásico, each may be no more than seven weeks from glory.

A perfect game. But is a perfect game really perfect?“I knew it was a perfect game,” she said in an interview on Tuesday.“There’s that thing about you don’t say it’s a perfect game, but I could hear my teammates behind me.

Olympic hopeful Sajan Prakash clinched the gold in the men’s 200m butterfly with a timing of 1:57.85s, but it was well short of the A-mark Olympic Qualifying Time (1:56.48s), at the Uzbekistan Open swimming championships on Tuesday. The result, however, was a significant improvement from the timing of 1:59.31s he had clocked at the Latvian Open last month. Sajan had achieved the B-mark Olympic Time (1:59.97s) at the 2019 FINA World Championships, finishing in 1:58.45s.A.S. Anand was the bronze medallist in the men’s 100m freestyle with a timing of 51.95s, a personal best.

French Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu said it was possible the French Open could be postoned for the second year amid the COVID-19 crisis. The French Open, which last year was postponed by four months and took place in front of limited crowds, is due to start this year on May 23.“We are in discussion with them (the French Tennis Federation, which organises the event) to see if we should change the date to coincide with a possible resumption of all sports and major events,” Maracineanu told France Info radio late on Saturday.“Today, although high-level sport has been preserved, we try to limit the risks of clusters, of spreading the virus within professional sports.”

Ziyech scored in the 55th minute when he tapped into an empty net from a cross by Timo Werner with City goalkeeper Zack Steffen in no man’s land after racing off his line. Chelsea beat Manchester City 1-0 on Saturday to book a place in next month’s FA Cup final thanks to a second-half goal by Hakim Ziyech which ended City manager Pep Guardiola’s dream of steering his side to an unprecedented quadruple of titles. Ziyech scored in the 55th minute when he tapped into an empty net from a cross by Timo Werner with City goalkeeper Zack Steffen in no man’s land after racing off his line to close Werner down but then seeming to change his mind. Premier League leaders City’s woes were compounded by the loss of midfielder Kevin de Bruyne early in the second half with an apparent ankle injury ahead of a busy end to the season for City who have a Champions League semi-final against Paris St Germain and the League Cup Final against Tottenham Hotspur.

It shows how a tainted Gulf royal linked to other cases of corruption has been able to exert significant control over one of soccer’s largest governing bodies even though he has no official role in its affairs. Mohamed’s case had roots in FIFA’s response to its own problems with discrimination: To address a lack of women on its governing board, the organization since 2013 set aside specific seats for women, starting with one voting member in 2013 and now a minimum of one from each of FIFA’s six regional confederations. It did not take her long to realize that the power brokers of Asian soccer had already decided the election’s outcome. Its lawyers offered no witnesses to challenge Mohamed’s testimony that a top confederation official and the head of the soccer federation of Qatar had been present in a luxury hotel suite when the Kuwaiti sheikh, Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah, told Mohamed he had decided that his preferred candidate, Mahfuza Akhter Kiron of Bangladesh, would be elected as the A.F.C.’s female representative to the FIFA Council.

Joe Willock came off the bench and was the hero after heading in the winner just minutes after the Hammers equalized through Jesse Lingard’s penalty at St. James’ Park. Joe Willock came off the bench and was the hero after heading in the winner just minutes after the Hammers equalized through Jesse Lingard’s penalty at St. James’ Park. Diop’s header in the 73rd minute cut the lead before Lingard, on loan from Manchester United, tied the match seven minutes later from the spot — his ninth goal in 10 games. But the 21-year-old Willock’s goal lifted Newcastle to 15th place, nine points above the relegation zone with six games remaining.

For years, only Cuban players who had contracts with INDER, the country’s governing body for sports, were selected to represent the national team. Cuba has called in several players who are based abroad — and outside the official Cuban sports system — to play in a set of World Cup qualification matches. It also means a return to the national team after six years away for defender Jorge Luis Corrales.“The images of many years playing with the national team and all the great moments went through my mind.