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(Reuters) – Afghanistan captain Asghar Afghan has criticised his Australia counterpart Tim Paine for questioning the Asian team’s right to participate in major events such as the Twenty20 World Cup.

(Reuters) – India’s cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly said their players refused to play the fifth and final test against England due to COVID-19 concerns and denied that the upcoming Indian Premier League had played any part in the decision.

(Reuters) – Zimbabwe batsman Brendan Taylor has announced his retirement from international cricket, posting on social media that yesterday’s 50-overs match against Ireland in Belfast will be his last.

(Reuters) – Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said he will carefully manage Cristiano Ronaldo’s playing time but has to balance that with getting the 36-year-old Portugal forward settled into the side.

LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – Mohamed Salah’s 100th Premier League goal helped Liverpool cruise to a 3-0 victory at 10-man Leeds United on Sunday in a match that was marred by teenager Harvey Elliott suffering a dislocated ankle.

(Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has been elected the new chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for a tenure of three years after winning an unopposed election, the country’s cricket board announced yesterday.

From the get go let’s just say that being a selector is not an easy job.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – A 20-ball fifty from captain Kieron Pollard was enough to ensure Trinbago Knight Riders finished top of the standings and deny St Kitts and Nevis Patriots that honour, as the reigning champions ended the preliminary phase of the Caribbean Premier League with a four-wicket victory here Sunday night.

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Deandra Dottin’s 20th One-Day International half-century proved insufficient as West Indies Women slumped to a heavy eight-wicket loss, to hand South Africa Women their first-ever series triumph on Caribbean soil.

(Reuters) – India’s cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly said their players refused to play the fifth and final test against England due to COVID-19 concerns and denied that the upcoming Indian Premier League had played any part in the decision.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Lionhearted Romario Shepherd brushed aside the disappointment of his omission from West Indies’ Twenty20 World Cup squad, to produce a stellar all-round performance and single-handedly dump Jamaica Tallawahs from the Caribbean Premier League here last night.

Cricket West Indies on Thursday announced it’s 19-member squad that will defend their T20 World Cup title next month in the United Arab Emirates from October 17 to November 14.

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Kyle Mayers and Glenn Phillips carved out high-class, unbeaten half-centuries as Barbados Royals completed the tournament’s highest successful run chase, to stun St Lucia Kings by eight wickets and end an otherwise dismal campaign on a high here yesterday.

Guyana’s Lennox ‘Too Sharp’ Allen suffered a 10th round KO loss to Kazakhastan’s, Aidos Yerbossynuly (16W (11KOs)-0) on Saturday when they matched gloves for the WBA (Interim) Super middleweight title.

Dexter Jameer was elected as president of the Melanie Football Club, when the entity staged its electoral congress on September 10th at the Melanie Community Centre ground.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Novak Djokovic’s quest for a record 21st major title that would have completed the calendar-year Grand Slam collapsed at the final hurdle in a stunning 6-4 6-4 6-4 defeat by Russian Daniil Medvedev in the U.S.

(Fightnews) Vitor Belfort, a 44-year-old UFC legend scored a first round TKO over 58-year-old former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (44-11-2, 29 KOs) on Saturday night at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

(Reuters) – Two world records tumbled on Saturday when Kenya’s Agnes Tirop surged to victory in the 10 km race and Ethiopia’s Senbere Teferi triumphed in the 5 km distance at an event in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s Derara Hurisa won the Vienna City marathon yesterday but was disqualified soon after when the soles of his shoes were found to be one centimetre too thick in violation of the rules.

(Reuters) – South Africa beat Sri Lanka by nine wickets in a rain-hit Twenty20 international in Colombo yesterday to win the three-match series with a match to spare.