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Real Madrid legend Amancio Amaro dies aged 83
"Born on 16 October 1939 in La Coruna, he arrived at Real Madrid from Deportivo (la Coruna), where he had just topped the scoring charts in the Second Division. Amancio went on to become the connection between the team that won the first five European Cups and the Real Madrid yeye. (team of the 1960's)," explained the Real Madrid website.
Lack of access and opportunities is what kills a young sportsperson's dreams: Virat Kohli
Speaking at the launch of the project, Kohli said, "Six years ago, the Forca Goa Foundation started working in grassroots football in India. The Foundation started a revolution by investing in pitches across the state of Goa, to keep the dreams of young kids alive. Infrastructure and access is one of the key pillars for any sport to develop and for a nation to be world-class in that sport."
Bumrah yet to get clearance from NCA, BCCI to monitor workload ahead of IPL: Report
One of the players the fans want to see returning to action is Jasprit Bumrah, who is recuperating from his injury and has missed a few series in the last few months. The right-arm quick has not played any cricket since the T20I series against Australia at home in September 2022 and has undergone rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.
IND v AUS: Absence of Delhi boy Rishabh Pant felt by fans during second Test
"There was a great feeling inside that I would get to see Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant play in a Test match and even batting together in the stadium. It would have been a very rare sight to witness as it's not every time you get a Test match in Delhi, and more so, India playing against Australia. But because of something, it didn't happen," Luvpreet told IANS.
Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Wish Nathan Lyon had bowled over the wicket, more into the stumps, says Whitney
After having figures of 1/126 in Australia's crushing defeat by an innings and 132 runs in Nagpur, Lyon? captured 5/67 and 2/49 in both innings in New Delhi, with six of his scalps coming from around the wicket. "Look, I'm never going to criticise Nathan Lyon; he's got 450-plus Test wickets. But he continually bowled around the wicket to that leg-side field. I wish he had have bowled over the wicket, attacking the pads and bowling into the stumps."
Atletico de Madrid are back: Simeone leads his team back to winning ways
They'd just seen their team win 1-0 against Athletic Club, thanks to an Antoine Griezmann strike and thanks to a solid defensive performance that allowed Los Colchoneros to collect yet another clean sheet. Since the World Cup, Atleti have earned five clean sheets from eight LaLiga Santander matches, with Jan Oblak conceding just three league goals overall since the return of club football.
ISSF World Cup: Rudrankksh Patil bags 10M Air Rifle gold; India's tally reaches four
The 19-year-old Indian beat Maximilian Ulbrich 16-8 in the final. Croatia's Miran Maricic took the bronze medal. This was Patil's second gold at the ongoing competition, having won the mixed team gold on Monday. After finishing seventh in the qualification round with 629.3, Patil topped the ranking match with 262 on the back of some sensational shooting to make it to the gold medal play-off against the German, who finished second with 260.6.
National Poker Series to begin on March 29
This year's edition will award gold, silver and bronze medals to podium finishers in a total of 107 tournaments and three NPS podium medals for the finishers with the highest medal tallies who will be crowned the NPS India 2023 champions. The tournaments will also award prize money of INR 25 crore and begin on March 29, , however, players can already register.
Women's T20 World Cup: Dot balls are something which is already worrying us, says Harmanpreet
After playing 51 dot balls in their 11-run loss to England, India showed some improvement by playing 41 dot balls in their rain-affected victory over Ireland in their final Group B match at Gqeberha on Monday. But against a team like Australia, India will be aware that they cannot afford to play that many dot balls. We did discuss these things in the previous meeting also.
Qatar Open: Murray rallies past Sonego after saving three match points
The 35-year-old Briton showed trademark resilience to rally to a 4-6, 1-6, 7-6(4) first-round victory against Lorenzo Sonego on Monday. The two-time Doha champion saved three match points before prevailing at the ATP 250 tournament. "It was really tough," Murray was quoted by the ATP Tour website. "We never played together, or practised with each other before, so I didn't know exactly how the match was going to go and it took a while to get used to his game.
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