Новости за 22.03.2018

Striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has terminated his contract with Manchester United with immediate effect, the Premier League club said in a statement on Thursday.

Dean Elgar scored an unbeaten century but an excellent spell of bowling from Australia seamer Pat Cummins restricted South Africa to 266 for eight at the close of play on the opening day of the third Test at Newlands on Thursday.

Zimbabwe lost a World Cup qualifying thriller by just three runs to the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, allowing Afghanistan and Ireland to clash in a winner-takes-all tie for a place in the 2019 finals.

Union sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore's whirlwind visit to the Sports Authority of India, Southern Centre, created ripples on Thursday as he came down heavily on the poor quality of infrastructure at the premier national training centre.

India will fancy their chances of reaching the knockout stage after getting relatively easy draws at the BWF Thomas and Uber Cup Finals to be held in Bangkok from May 20 to 27.

A hurt but "relieved" Mohammed Shami on Thursday said that he was always confident about proving his innocence in the wake of corruption allegations levelled against him by his wife Hasin Jahan.

Jitu Rai said the imminent dropping of shooting from the 2022 Commonwealth Games would be a huge loss to the country but felt that India should not resort to a boycott of the quadrennial multi-sporting event due to the issue.

Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president Narinder Batra feels that the Sports Ministry should allow the parents of star shuttlers PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal to accompany them at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic's time at Manchester United could come to an end as early as this week with a move to Major League Soccer in the pipeline, according to a report on Thursday.

Indian Olympic Association on Thursday said that Sports Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has assured it to have a re-look at government's policy of not clearing 'extra officials' for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.

IOA President Narinder Batra slammed the Sports Ministry for raising "unnecessary issues" about the family members of CWG-bound athletes travelling with them, asking it to apply the same standards of probity for its own bureaucrats.

England Test captain Eoin Morgan will lead an ICC World XI in a T20I against the West Indies at Lord's on May 31," the ICC said on Thursday.

Beleaguered India pacer Mohammed Shami on Thursday received a fresh lease of life after the SC-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) recommended to the BCCI to include him in the list of centrally contracted players.

Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami has got a major boost after he was cleared by the BCCI of match-fixing charges levelled against him by his wife Hasin Jahan, who had claimed that the cricketer had received unaccounted money from a Pakistani woman.

Ahead of their campaign at the 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast City, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty have been given a psychological boost by entering the top 20 of the BWF rankings for the first time in their careers.

National Cricket Academy (NCA) chairman Niranjan Shah has once again protested to acting BCCI secretary Amitabh Choudhary after the latter again called for a meeting of the NCA committee without informing him.

Former national champion paddler Soumyajit Ghosh on Thursday denied allegations of rape against him, saying that the accuser has been blackmailing him after their relationship ended.

Rahul Dravid's pearls of wisdom are precious for any young cricketer and talented fast bowler Shivam Mavi is no exception as he is trying to follow the former India captain's advice: "Focus on the game and riches will follow".

Dinesh Karthik is currently basking in the glory of a heart-stopping Indian win which he orchestrated in the final of the Nidahas Trophy against Bangladesh. Now, he's prepping up for the upcoming season of Indian Premier League where he'll be leading two-time winners Kolkata Knight Riders.

Australian women maintained their stranglehold on India with a record-equalling six-wicket victory in the opening encounter of the T20 Tri-Series on Thursday.

Sakshi Malik has tweaked her leg defence on the insistence of her coach Kuldeep Singh Malik, something that has already got her a gold in the Commonwealth Championships in December last year.

Dealing with the loss of a parent dwarfs just about every other challenge in life, says India's top-ranked table tennis player G Sathiyan, who feels he is a stronger and hungrier person going into next month's Commonwealth Games after coping with the death of his father last year.

High praise has become synonymous with javelin-thrower Neeraj Chopra, at the age of 20. Former India athlete and World Championships bronze medallist Anju Bobby George termed him the most promising young Indian athlete today, while his former coach Garry Calvert termed him a “once-in-a-generation-talent". And truth be told, it is hard to argue against either of those statements.