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KL Rahul and Virat Kohli helped guide India to a six-wicket win over Australia on Sunday at Chennai's Chepauk stadium. Despite hitting the winning run with a six and bagging the man of the match award for his unbeaten 97 off 115 balls, Rahul has a small regret. He could not bring up his hundred.

Rohit Sharma said he wanted his white-ball teams to be prepared for situations where top order fails. “We have to prepare for when the team is 10 for 3,” he said on the Backstage with Boria show. “That’s how I want to move forward and get the message across to the boys who are batting at No.

Powerball jackpot will continue to grow as Saturday's drawing failed to produce any winning tickets, according to the game's website. The jackpot, initially at $1.4 billion, has now increased to $1.55 billion, although it still ranks as the third-largest in Powerball's history. The second-largest jackpot reached $1.586 billion in 2016. The most recent Powerball jackpot was won after the July 19 drawing when a $1.08 billion prize was claimed by a lucky ticket holder in California. Lottery games have been consistently offering jackpots of around $1 billion or more two or three times a year.

ALSO READ: India vs Australia Live Score, Cricket World Cup 2023 Updates Also, this is the seventh time in the history of the men's ODI World Cup, that both the openers walked back to the pavilion with a big zero on their scorecard. Earlier in 2004, both Indian openers were dismissed for a duck in a men's ODI at the VB series against Zimbabwe. As per details, on Sunday, Australia's left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc delivered a crucial blow to Ishan Kishan in the 4th fourth delivery of the first over, which resulted in Kishan's wicket.

MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai as the storied ground got ready to put on a show. When India take on Australia in their opening match of the tournament today, the organisers will be hoping this is indeed the day in which the World Cup comes alive. The World Cup has come to India after 12 years and around the traps, people have commented that the buzz is simply not the same as 2011.

IPL), Australian allrounder Marcus Stoinis has a good understanding of the Indian conditions. That makes him one of the key players in the Australian side at the World Cup. Ahead of their opening game against India in Chennai, Stoinis speaks with Boria Majumdar.Excerpts: Australia are one of the favourites going into the World Cup. Having played an ODI series against India in India just 10 days back, how is the side shaping up? I tend to agree with you that we have a very good side.

On Saturday, the superb performance of Mehidy Hasan Miraz ensured Bangladesh’s smooth six-wicket victory over Afghanistan in their World Cup opener in Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh.

ALSO READ: LIVE South Africa vs Sri Lanka, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Score Updates Rassie van der Dussen (108) and Quinton de Kock (100) also hit centuries in the first World Cup match to feature three tons in the same innings. "It was a perfect day for us with the bat.

South Africa posted a huge score of 428 runs against Sri Lanka in its opening match for ICC World Cup 2023 which is being played at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The team was able to set the target for Sri Lanka when all the players, Quinton de Kock, Rassie van der Dussen and Aiden Markram, scored centuries leading the total score to 428 for five.

Asian Games here on Saturday. The Indians, ranked seventh in the world, were the favourites to win the gold here but one bad match cost them dearly as hosts China thrashed them 4-0 in the semifinal on Thursday. The Indian women thus avenged their 0-1 defeat against Japan in the last edition of the Games in Jakarta in 2018.

Bristol Rovers manager Joey Barton has supported Kevin Keegan’s assessment that he doesn’t enjoy female footballers talking about men’s football. Talking to an audience at a Bristol event recently, the former manager of Newcastle, Fulham, and England national team said that he doesn’t like to “listen to ladies talking about the England men’s team at the match because I don’t think it’s the same experience. I have a problem with that.”

Jayesh Mehta, MD & India Country Treasurer, BoA, says for the time being, RBI MPC would like the overnight rates to be more towards MSS rather than the repo rate. It looks very clear. The market had expected that to continue. In fact, people were expecting all kinds of stuff including CRR hike, more VRRR and stuff like that. How are you analyzing the liquidity situation? ICRR is gone now. We are heading into a festive season where demand for cash in circulation goes up. What is your assessment? We do expect that liquidity will come back.

Tilak Varma reached his half century at the Asian Games semi-final T20 match against Bangladesh, he celebrated in style: He lifted his jersey to show his parents' tattoos… Tilak Varma scored an unbeaten 55 off just 26 balls. His stroke-filled innings included 2 fours and 6 sixes helped India beat Bangladesh by 9 wickets in the first semifinal and keeping India in hunt for the gold medal. Tilak Varma trended on social media platform X for his unique celebration style.

Eddie Jones and the Wallabies have spent this week preparing for the remote possibility of making the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals after a disastrous campaign. Their chances hinge not on their own performance, but a mathematical miracle in Portugal’s upcoming game against Fiji.

India endured a forgettable 0-4 drubbing at the hands of China in the women's hockey semifinals, a result that not only pushed the team out of the gold medal race but also denied it a direct entry to the Paris Olympics. Last edition's silver medallist India, the highest-ranked team in the tournament at world number seven, was no match to world number China, who were the bronze medallist in 2018 in Jakarta. Jiaqi Zhong (25th minute), Meirong Zou (40th), Meiyu Liang (55th) and Bingfeng Gu (60th) scored the goals for China.

ODI World Cup has officially commenced in Ahmedabad, with England and New Zealand locking horns at the world's largest cricket stadium. The event has garnered immense excitement among cricket enthusiasts worldwide, as teams from around the globe vie for the coveted title. India, one of the tournament favorites, faced an unfortunate setback as both their warm-up matches were washed out without a single ball being bowled. Nevertheless, the Indian cricket team remains a formidable contender in this prestigious competition, led by the experienced hitman Rohit Sharma. Here's a SWOT analysis of Team India, emphasizing their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as the players who could serve as X-factors in their quest for glory: Strengths:

World Cup 2023. New Zealand captain Kane Williamson has been ruled out of the match due to fitness issues; so is Tim Southee who is recovering from a fractured thumb. New Zealand earlier said in a release that Williamson would take part only as a batsman in the warm-up match against Pakistan.

But, there are many ways of looking at this. The most obvious is the cricketing one. There’s a good chance the trophy will actually stay in India.

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cricket and a chance to show how the 50-over game has evolved since India last staged the tournament in 2011. One of the criticisms of ODIs, once the economic driving force of the global game, is that they are too often reduced to ‘meaningless’ bilateral series. The format is also viewed as too pedestrian in the slipstream of the high velocity, smash-and-grab T20 format. “The ODI has been reduced to virtually depending on a World Cup year for its importance,” wrote former Australia captain Ian Chappell in a recent ESPNCricinfo column. Meanwhile, India great Sachin Tendulkar, a 2011 World Cup winner, believes the format is now too formulaic.

world cup fame, Sachin Tendulkar to be the "ICC Global Ambassador for Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023." Tendulkar will walk out with the Men’s Cricket World Cup Trophy before the opening match at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, declaring the tournament open, ICC said. «It’s a real honour to have Sachin as our Global Ambassador as we celebrate the one-day game and get set for what we know is going to be the biggest Men’s Cricket World Cup ever,» said Claire Furlong, ICC General Manager, Marketing & Communications. The Indian legend said that world cups have always held a special place in his heart and he hopes that this edition will inspire youngsters across country to pick up sports and represent their countries.