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Umpires Appointed For India VS Australia Final Match

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The umpires and officials for ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 to be played on Women’s Day have been appointed. Kim Cotton and Ahsan Raza will stand as on-field umpires for the final. The final match will be played between India and Australia.

Selection of umpires and officials

The selections were made on the conclusion of the semi-finals in Australia. Kim Cotton, the New Zealand umpire, will be joined Ahsan Raza, a Pakistani umpire. It is the first time that the 42-year-old Cotton will take charge of the women’s T20 World Cup final. He also stood in the semi-final match between Australia and South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).

Ahsan Raza has experience of ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup 2017 final played between India and Australia. Also, he was selected for the semi-final between India and England.

Supporting umpires

Gregory Brathwaite of West Indies will be the TV umpire for the historic final match between India and Australia in Melbourne. Langton Rusere of Zimbabwe will be the fourth-umpire while Chris Broad of England is made match referee. Rusere was on-field official for 2018 final.

Music concert

Global music superstar Katy Perry has been called to perform during the match and return for post-match concert after the on-field presentations are concluded.

Final match

Four times champion Australia will play with the first time finalists India in the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup 2020 final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on March 8.

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Jonty Rhodes Named His Daughter After India

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Former South African cricketer, Jonty Rhodes, took to Twitter to post a picture of him taking a holy dip in the river Ganges. He was in Rishikesh on Wednesday.

Jonty Rhodes captioned his picture

The caption of the Jonty Rhodes picture in the river Ganges read that benefits of immersion in Ganges were both spiritual and physical. Jonty Rhodes has a special connection with India and it is evident from his naming his daughter, India Jeanne Rhodes.

Jonty Rhodes named his daughter India

Born in 2016, daughter of Jonty Rhodes is India Jeanne Rhodes. The cricketer had spent a lot of time in India and what he loved about India was the rich mix of culture, heritage and tradition. He said that India was a very spiritual country and a very forward-looking nation. He said that he liked the combination. He further said that with name like India Jeanne Rhodes, she would have the best of both the worlds and that sort of balance.

Jonty Rhodes in IPL

The 50-year-old cricketer was in India for the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that is set to begin on March 29. He’s the fielding coach of IPL franchise Kings XI Punjab. Before joining KXIP, he served as the fielding coach of Mumbai Indians from 2009 to 2017. Also, he was part of three IPL title campaigns for the most successful team in the tournament.

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Highlights Of The Manchester United V/S Club Brugge Match

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Manchester United scored its spot in the last 16 of the Europa League by beating Club Brugge with 6-1. And what was more exciting is that almost all the Reds including Bruno Fernandes, OdionIghalo, Scott McTominay and Fred were on the scoresheet.

Reds bag five

Winning by five goal-margin was a big win in a European game for the Reds. Last time Reds performed in the Old Trafford was four years ago when they beat Midtjylland in the same competition. On the Thursday match, the Reds dominated the ground from the beginning.

The last 16 awaits

Thursday’s victory mean that the Reds have progressed to the last 16 of the Europa League for the fourth-time in their history. And now they must get ready to meet bigger challenges from peers of the Premier League side like Wolverhampton Wanderers and Scottish club Rangers.

Ighalo off the mark

The striker appeared physically imposing on the ground especially when he held off a Brugge defender while looking for a team-mate to give the pass. His impressive game kept the Reds attacking on the Brugge.

Bruno pulls the strings

The midfielder looked better against the Brugge. His ability to attack was simply great and the continued to slip balls in the opposition box. Also, he often dropped deep into the game to spay passes.

Together the Reds created history on Thursday. The looked the most consistent players on the field. The team played like united and keep attacking on the Brugge.

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Chelsea VS Bayern- 3 things we learned from this incredible knockout!

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The knockout between Chelsea and Bayern was thrilled to watch. Now, Bayern will take a lead to Bavaria after the historic 3-0 win in 16the leg in Chelsea. With this champion’s league, we have learned the five things which you should know about.

London is Bayern’s desired place for playing

Bayern won three times in this league against the English teams, and guess what? All are in London. This time Bayern showed his love with London. He will be the most amazing player when he played in the UK. He plays with his heart. At this place, Bayern snatches the league by Arsenal 5-1.

Alphonso Davies will be the best player shortly

The other masterstroke of the Bayern team is Alphonso, who made the goal and shows why he is the best and left hand of Bayern’s. This 19-year old boy will be the rising star of League because it was the goal that allows Bayern to enjoy his victory.

Davies is young, thus some time he made a silly decision. But while playing a match or making goals he is the one who really appreciated.

Chelsea got a strong fight

Chelsea got hard to fight against Bayern and it seems that Chelsea has to climb a mountain. The team was completely OFF that lose their score with a high margin. In the ground, the team needs to score 3 times but failed.

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Liverpool wild win over West Ham was Delight to watch in the United States

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The much-awaiting movement for the fans finally accomplished. Liverpool has taken one more step forward in the Premier League by getting a win over West Ham by 3-2 in the United States, Monday.

This outstanding win lessens their score and all they need 11 points to win from 11 games, which is the quickest way to kiss the trophy of the league.

Liverpool is the first who breaks the record of winning continuously with high wins, which was set by themselves in 1972.

And at this win, the Liverpool Boss Klopp said, I couldn’t wish for such great victory in 11 games. It was extremely difficult, but we have done it. This win was also recorded for the 18th-century city premier league victories.

Liverpool Vs West Ham

Liverpool and West Ham have exchanged the goals for the starting 12 minutes with Georginio Wijalndum and giving the lead to the alexander by the corner-kick. Then West Ham gave the shock to Anfield by Pablo shot in the next 54th minute.

Next 64th minute, Lukasz Fabianski mishap his goalkeeper when Mohammed salah has made a shot by legs and hands.

Then after Liverpool got the lead and made a goal into the empty net, 81st minute. The warnings were ongoing, but the game won by Liverpool.

Liverpool upcoming Events

The next match of Liverpool will be vs Watford, Bournemouth, crystal palace, evertona, and more. All these matches will start on 21 March. However, it is the FA group match which may delay for a later date.

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ICC World Test Championship: India Lost Its First Match By 10 Wickets

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India lost the first Test of the two-match series with New Zealand on Monday. It was the first match of the ICC World Test Championship. It is the first in the series and 100th Test victory for the Kiwis.

Highlights of India v/s New Zealand First Test Match

• New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and put India to bat first in overcast conditions.

• On the first day, India lost five wickets before rain washed out the final session.

• Ajinkya Rahane scored highest 46 runs from India in the first inning.

• In bowling, Kyle Jamieson and Southee picked up four wickets each and Trent Boult got one.

• New Zealand batting score was 225 for seven wickets but the last three wickets added 123 runs and gave Kiwis a lead of 183 runs.

• Kane Williamsons cored highest 89 runs for New Zealand.

• India started poor in the second innings when Prithvi Shaw handed an easy catch to Tom Latham at short square-leg.

• Indian captain Virat Kohli gave his worst performance as he could manage only a total of 21 runs in the match.

• From India side, Cheteshwar Pujara faced 81 deliveries but became victim of a judgemental error when he left a length delivery from Boult on Day 3 and lost his stump.

• It was the first time that India lost a match in ICC World Test Championship.

• Tim Southeeclaimed his 10th five-wicket haul in the Test Match. He removed JaspritBumrah for a duck.

• The second match of the series will be played at Christchurch on Saturday.

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Barcelona’s Contract With Braithwaite Raises Eyebrows In The Football World

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FC Barcelona’s signing of Martin Braithwaite is the most unlikely event of the European football season. On Thursday, Barcelona signed the 20-year old Danish forward from La Liga rivals Leganes.

FC Barcelona signing Braithwaite

Barcelona triggered a $19.4 million release clause in the Leganes contract of Braithwaite to sign the player. But it also put $324 million release clause on his Barcelona contract. The release clause is used to discourage rival teams from approaching players. But the clause inserted by Barcelona is the highest by any Spanish club.

Special emergency dispensation for Barcelona

Spanish football bosses gave special emergency dispensation to Barcelona for finding a replacement of forward Ousmane Dembele when he took six-moths leave due to a hamstring injury. The emergency window was provided for January.

But Leganes are opposing this transfer because the club loses one of the most important players. According to Leganes director general Martin Ortega, they were in a situation of serious damage.

Martin Braithwaite new contract

The player has signed four-year deal with FC Barcelona. He will play until 2024. But it isn’t the first time that Braithwaite signed a deal. He had been previously associated with Esbjerg in his Denmark, French club Toulouse and Middlesbrough in England.

Braithwaite has been a fantastic player throughout his career as he scored six goals in 24 league appearances for Leganes. Also, he played 39 matches for the Denmark national team.

FC Barcelona presently stands second in the La Liga table. It would play its next match with Eibar on Saturday, February 22.

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Manchester City Wins Its First Match Amid Anti-UEFA Slogans

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Putting their UEFA woes behind, Manchester City registered first win with a 2-0 score on West Ham on Wednesday night. The Manchester City has recently been excluded from the Champions League for two years from 2020-21 to 22 for not following financial fair play regulations.

Manchester City after UEFA ban

On the 29th minute of the game, Rodri made the first goal and put Manchester City ahead in the game. Soon Kevin De Bruyne added the second goal and sealed the win for the home team. But the fans had the UEFA ban in mind.

It was the first of match of Manchester City after receiving UEFA notice for getting banned from Champions League for two years. They even sung anti-UEFA chants during the match. The over-enthusiastic fans even unfurled a “UEFA Cartel” banner in the stadium. But Pep Guardiola had different views on the UEFA ruling.

Pep Guardiola’s opinion on City’s ban

He’s present manager of Manchester City hence his opinion on ban matters most. While he looked happy at the first win and also, he congratulated his boys for doing well. But at the same time, he asked his boys to focus on the game. He refused to get drawn to the issue. He said that he supported Manchester City 100%.

Hope from fans

Guardiola said that the team had to play for the people. He also said that he was unaware about the reaction of fans. It seems that he had some hopes from the City fans.

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Football Champions League: Erling Haaland Claim Borussia Dortmund Advantage Over PSG!

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BVB generally is known as Dortmund, a German Professional sports club. And the Famous name of Dortmund club, Erling Haaland gave his best again with this champion league season by scoring two more goals that give the greatest advantage over PSG (Paris St-Germain).

This year, a 19-year old boy showed his outstanding performance two times. One was the remarkable finish that done after Raphael Guerreiro’s shot and second, was a left-footed surprise from the 20 yards.

He is well-known for his outstanding performance so far in the leagues with 10 goals in 7 games. On Tuesday he made tenth and eleventh goal since his BVB journey. Haaland did his best rather than other players in the game. Besides all these, Erling has a 2-1 win over PSG after the 16-tie.

On this win and after the game of Tuesday, Haaland told DAZN “these are the nights you should live for”.

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IPL 2020: Mumbai Indians, CSK And Others Revealed Their Fixtures But Rajasthan Royals Withheld The Details

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The first fixture of the 13th IPL edition would be as scheduled on March 29 and the last league fixture would be on May 17. Mumbai Indians will play with three-times champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK).

IPL 2020 fixtures

The defending champion Mumbai Indians took to Twitter to announce their schedule ahead of the tournament. On Sunday, it disclosed that it was happy to play the opening fixture of the tournament. Also, it was traveling to Bengaluru to face challenge from the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).

Fresh with a new logo, RCB will kickstart their campaign against Kolkata Night Riders (KKR) at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. KKR is two-time title holder.

But Sunrises Hyderabad (SRH) were the first to among the participants to reveal their home and away fixtures. The 2016 champion SRH will start their campaign against Mumbai Indians that are the defending champions on April 1.

Rajasthan Royals will meet CSK in the first home game of CSK led by former India captain MS Dhoni. But Rajasthan Royals have still not unveiled their schedule. It is learnt that they would reveal their details only after an official announcement from the board.

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