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kriralok desk: India captain Virat Kohli is expected to fly back from Australia ahead of the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) to attend the birth of his child. Kohli’s wife, Anushka Sharma, is due to give birth in the first week of January. Efforts will be made to enable the 32-year-old to return for the last ...

kriralok desk: Spain coach Luis Enrique had no hesitations in handing Alvaro Morata an international recall after claiming the forward has turned himself into a different player at Juventus. Morata last played for Spain in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Romania last November, seemingly falling out of favour since. But the 28-year-old re-joined Juventus on loan from Atletico Madrid in ...

kriralok desk: Kylian Mbappe has been included in the France squad despite being a doubt for Paris Saint-Germain’s next game due to a hamstring injury. The 21-year-old attacker sat out PSG’s 2-1 Champions League loss to RB Leipzig on Wednesday with a muscular problem sustained against Nantes last weekend. Thomas Tuchel said the issue was “very minor” and Mbappe was ...

kriralok desk: Lionel Messi will not be given special treatment by Barcelona as the LaLiga giants look to reduce their wage bill ahead of presidential elections that are set to take place around Christmas. The Catalan club are desperate to reduce their expenditure by €300million in order to remain financially stable as they play behind closed doors amid the coronavirus ...

kriralok desk: Lewis Hamilton made the most of his luck to lead team-mate Valtteri Bottas home in Sunday’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix as Mercedes sealed a record seventh consecutive constructors’ championship triumph. The six-time champion capitalised on pole-sitter Bottas’s ill fortune in picking up a debris-damaged floor to win with a near-flawless tactical drive and the fastest lap of a dramatic ...

kriralok desk: World 100 metres champion Christian Coleman will miss next year’s Tokyo Olympics after being banned for two years for breaching whereabouts rules, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Tuesday. Coleman, who narrowly escaped a ban last year for missing three doping tests, was provisionally suspended by the AIU in June. AIU said in a statement on its ...

kriralok desk: England all-rounder Ben Stokes has dedicated his biggest Indian Premier League innings to his father, who is battling cancer in New Zealand. Stokes smashed an unbeaten 107 off just 60 balls to help Rajasthan Royals beat holders Mumbai Indians by eight wickets on Sunday, keeping the inaugural IPL champions in the hunt for one of the four playoff ...

kriralok desk: Beleaguered Cricket South Africa (CSA) acting president Beresford Williams has resigned along with four other board members, the organisation said on Sunday. The cricket board has been plagued by claims of mismanagement with a damning internal report providing a long list of concerns about the actions of various staff members. Sports minister Nathi Mthethwa had told the International ...

kriralok desk: UFC world lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov announced his shock retirement from the sport on Saturday after revealing he “promised his mother” that his clash with Justin Gaethje would be his last fight. The Russian, who won by a second-round technical knockout, was fighting for the first time since the death of his father and coach Abdulmanap in July. ...

kriralok desk: Once the undisputed greatest fixture in world football, the Clasico has lost much of its lustre. Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Andres Iniesta were among the superstars to move on from Real Madrid and Barcelona in recent years, and this year Gareth Bale and Luis Suarez departed too. Lionel Messi would have left as well, had Barcelona let him. ...