In cricket, following their 4-1 humbling of England at dwelling, India occupied the highest spot within the new ICC Test Team Rankings. The bounce within the red-ball rankings has India reign supreme in ICC Team Rankings throughout all codecs. Occupying a ranking of 122, Rohit Sharma and Co lead the tally having two extra factors than Australia, and are assured to maintain the highest spot regardless of the Pat Cummins-led facet’s three-wicket win towards New Zealand to clinch the sequence 2-0. India additionally sit atop the 2023/25 World Test Championship standings with a 68.51-point proportion from the 9 video games they’ve performed thus far. In the batting division, Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal rose within the Test rankings.

On Wednesday, March thirteenth, in Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka 1st ODI, Kusal Mendis and Janith Liyanage steadied Sri Lanka’s ship within the center as their fifties helped the guests submit 255 towards Bangladesh within the 1st ODI. Shoriful Islam, Taskin Ahmed and Tanzim Hasan Sakib all took 3 wickets every because the Lankan Lions have been bundled out in 48.5 overs. Pathum Nissanka and Avishka Fernando had began Sri Lanka off on the proper foot after they shared a 71-run partnership scoring 36 and 33 respectively. Mendis and Liyanage would then take it from there with a 66-run partnership earlier than Sri Lanka misplaced wickets at common intervals. Earlier, Sri Lanka received the toss and opted to bat first.

India has just lately received the five-match Test sequence towards England 4-1. In a chat with Sky Sports Podcast, Former England captain Nasser Hussain mentioned, “Don’t confuse (Rohit with Virat’s captaincy) because he has come off the back of Virat Kohli. In your face, aggressive captain. In the huddle at Lord’s, saying let’s unleash hell on the England. Rohit is not quite the same sort of person. He has that fire burning within.” In the early a part of the sequence, Rohit avoided giving the brand new ball to veteran R Ashwin nonetheless, because the sequence went alongside the skipper can be versatile together with his techniques and threw the brand new SG ball to the off-spinner within the second innings which bore fruits.

Steve Smith’s reinvention as an opener in Tests for Australia has thus far been a catastrophe, with the batter managing simply 171 runs at a median of 28.50 since taking over the brand new function. Slotting in as an opener after David Warner’s Test retirement, Smith has scored simply 51 runs at 12.75 through the current Test tour of New Zealand. This has led to requires Down Under to desert the Steve Smith experiment. Australia are at the moment second within the standings for the World Test Championship remaining with 90 factors, behind India. But Smith has acquired essential backing to proceed within the function from Australia coach Andrew McDonald. McDonald mentioned he anticipated Smith to come back again as a greater opener.

In badminton information, Aakarshi Kashyap thought she was within the recreation until 13-14 in her first spherical towards Pai Yu Po, however finally misplaced the match 21-16, 21-11 on Tuesday, twelfth March on the All England Open. Talking concerning the struggles, Aakarshi mentioned, “People see us only on court. They don’t know how tough it is before and after the match. Maybe because I don’t win much on the international circuit, there’s this feeling that I’m lacking in strength. But I can hit from my rear court to the opposite corner.” She mentioned the most important problem has been not getting the amenities that Sindhu or Saina obtained. We don’t have our personal physios, sparring companions and coaches.

In chess, Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik claimed on social media that almost all top-level gamers have resorted to taking part in out attracts at one level or one other that have been organized between the opponents earlier than the sport began. In a sequence of posts on X, Kramnik mentioned, “In contrary to buying and selling a game, which is a clear misconduct, agreeing to a draw before a game (sometimes even a minute before the start) is not a crime, due to the nature of the game. Otherwise, 99% of the best players in history are criminals. So this hypocrisy about this matter is not justified, because it is and was very rare in chess, and most of the time has certain concrete reasons.”

In soccer, on Tuesday, March twelfth, through the Champions League Round Of 16 recreation between Arsenal and Porto, there was a heated change after the previous received 4-1 penalties on the Emirates. In a post-match press convention, Porto boss Conceicao mentioned, “Mikel Arteta (Arsenal manager) turned to the bench during the game and insulted my family in Spanish. In the end, I told him that the person he insulted is no longer among us.” Conceicao additionally recommended that Arteta ought to fear about his personal and their coaching. He mentioned, “Let him worry about training his team, which has more than enough quality to play a lot better.”

Lastly, In wrestling information: Anshu Malik beat World Championship medallist Sarita Mor to seal a spot in Asian and World Olympic qualifiers. Anshu after successful the 57kg trials at NIS Patiala on Monday, eleventh March mentioned, “It’s robust to get an invite to coach in Japan, so once I obtained the chance to face World and Olympic champions from their nation, I gladly accepted it. We Indians work laborious however lack approach. Even at the moment, I received the final bout by tossing my opponent out of the ring, one thing that I didn’t know find out how to do earlier.” In Japan, the Indian world championship medallist sparred with the likes of four-time Olympic champion Kaori Icho and gold medallist Yui Susaki.

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