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Belgium and Netherlands to jointly host 2026 women's and men's hockey World Cups
The combined event will take place in July or August 2026 in Amsterdam/Amstelveen, Netherlands and Wavre, Belgium, with female and male teams playing in both venues, the FIH informed in a release on Thursday. The proposed format for the match schedule -- with one local team, Belgium or the Netherlands, playing each day to make sure to fill the venues every day, seems to have influenced the EB's decision.
FIFA World Cup: 'Ticketless fans can enter Qatar after group stage'
To gain entry into the Gulf country after the conclusion of the group stage on December 2, non-ticketed fans will have to obtain a Hayya card, a key document introduced by Qatar for the tournament. Qatar, the first Middle East country to host the FIFA World Cup, has lined up curated festivities in addition to building eight futuristic stadiums in which matches will be played from November 20 to December 18.
Asian Squash Team Championship: Indian men beat Malaysia to reach final; women bag bronze
The Indian team comprising Commonwealth Games individual bronze medallist Saurav Ghosal, Abhay Singh, Ramit Tandon and Velavan Senthil Kumar defeated Malaysia 2-1 in the semifinal, setting up a summit clash with Kuwait on Friday. Kuwait defeated Hong Kong 2-1 in the other semifinal.
Germany forward Timo Werner ruled out of FIFA World Cup with ankle injury
"Timo Werner suffered an ankle injury last night in the win over Shakhtar Donetsk. Scans today in Leipzig showed that he has unfortunately torn the syndesmosis ligament in his left ankle and will therefore be out for the rest of 2022," the German football club said in a tweet.
FIFA Club World Cup: Flamengo's Gabriel Barbosa primed for Real Madrid battle
Dorival Junior's men will be favourites to advance to the final, which is almost certain to be against European champions Real Madrid. It will provide a chance for the Rio de Janeiro outfit to seek redemption for their 1-0 loss to Liverpool in 2019 final, reports Xinhua.
Para-Badminton Worlds: India's doubles pairs continue good run; enter quarters
Ale and Hubaida, the world No.6 pair in men's doubles WH1-WH2, got the better of the Spanish pair of Ignacio Fernandez and Francisco Motero 21-12, 21-8 to top their group. However, Ale highlighted Wednesday's win against Thailand's Dumnern Junthong and Anuwat Sriboran 21-17, 23-21 as the turning point.
T20 World Cup: My focus was always on consistency, says Arshdeep Singh
But after rain changed Bangladesh's target to 151 in 16 overs, Arshdeep landed the killer blow on the side's chances of making an upset win. In the 12th over, he took out Afif Hossain and Shakib Al Hasan by having them caught in the deep in a bid to go for the big shots.
T20 World Cup: Shadab, Iftikhar, Shaheen keep Pakistan's slim semifinal hopes alive with 33-run win over South Africa
The victory for Pakistan, who made 185/9 in 20 overs and restricted South Africa to 108/9 in 14 overs as per the adjustments by the DLS method, in Super 12s also meant that they maintained their perfect record over the Proteas in the history of Men's T20 World Cups with their fourth victory in as many meetings.
WTA Finals: Sakkari enters into semifinals with win over Sabalenka
Maria Sakkari needed to win in two sets on Wednesday to guarantee herself a second consecutive appearance in the final four of the WTA Finals. She did just that with a straight-sets victory over Aryna Sabalenka in Fort Worth. "If you're not aggressive on this court, then it's just game over," Sakkari said afterwards. "If I was passive, especially against (Sabalenka), the biggest hitter on the tour, then it's just bye-bye. I just went for it. If I'm not going to go for it here, when am I going to do it?"
T20 World Cup: Bangladesh wicketkeeper Nurul Hasan accuses Virat Kohli of fake fielding in India's tense victory
The incident that Hasan talked about going unnoticed took place in the seventh over of Bangladesh's chase when Kohli feigned a throw while standing at point, as if he was relaying a throw coming from Arshdeep Singh from the deep off the bowling of Axar Patel. Neither the on-field umpires, Marais Erasmus and Chris Brown, spotted it, nor did the two Bangladeshi batters, openers Litton Das and Najmul Hossain Shanto, out in the middle, pointed it out.
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