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Before New Year, Babar Azam surprises Pakistan cricket fan with heartwarming surprise

Babar Azam surprised a young Pakistan cricket fan, currently undergoing treatment in a hospital, with a heartwarming gesture before the New Year. In a video shared by the PCB, it can be seen that Azam met the fan, who was all smiles, after meeting his idol. During the interaction, the fan said that his favourite cricketers include Mohammad Rizwan, Shadab Khan, and Shaheen Shah Afridi. Babar then enquired whether the youngster wanted to speak to Rizwan. “Rizwan se baat kare? (Want to talk to Rizwan),” asked Babar. The boy immediately nodded his head and to his delight was connected to the wicket-keeper batter through Babar’s phone.The fan was then seen talking to Rizwan via a video call. Our captain @babarazam258 met the number one fan of the Pakistan cricket team. pic.twitter.com/IgIoN...

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‘It was an honour and privilege to meet you’: Hardik Pandya meets Home Minister Amit Shah | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Hardik Pandya, who will lead Team India in the upcoming three-match T20I series against Sri Lanka starting on January 3, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence on Saturday on the New Year's eve.All-rounder Hardik Pandya was accompanied by his brother Krunal Pandya. He took to social media to post his picture with his brother Krunal meeting the Home Minister."Thank you for inviting us to spend invaluable time with you Honourable Home Minister Shri @AmitShah Ji. It was an honour and privilege to meet you," tweeted Hardik Pandya.Thank you for inviting us to spend invaluable time with you Honourable Home Minister Shri @AmitShah Ji. It was an h… https://t.co/KS3tBEV5oC— hardik pandya (@hardikpandya7) 1672464678000Hardik was named the captain of the T20I team and was pr...

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PCB announces free entry for second Test against New Zealand | Cricket News – Times of India

KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Saturday announced free entry for spectators for the second and final Test against New Zealand at the National Bank Cricket Arena, starting on Monday.The decision to allow free entry comes after a disappointing crowd turnout in the series-opening first Test on Friday after bad light stopped play on Friday.🚨 Free entry for spectators for the second #PAKvNZ TestMore details ➡️ https://t.co/nw2T5mCfnk#TayyariKiwiHai https://t.co/Cfcb5RgezS— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) 1672479638000"The spectators are only required to bring either their original CNIC or B-form to enter the stadium and they will be able to watch the action free of cost from any of the premium (Imran Khan, Quaid, Wasim Akram and Zaheer Abbas), first class (Asif Iqbal, Waqar Hass...

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Wolves vs Manchester United Live Score, Premier League 2022: Wolves 0-0 Man United – The Times of India

Wolves vs Manchester United Live Score, Premier League 2022: Wolves 0-0 Man UnitedManchester United have the chance to end a turbulent year by moving into the top four of the Premier League when they play Wolverhampton at Molineux. A win would move Erik ten Hag's United up to fourth position and two points above Tottenham, who host Aston Villa in the first league game of 2023 on Sunday.Read LessTHE TIMES OF INDIA | Dec 31, 2022, 18:06:52 ISTFacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail!(function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { window.TimesApps = window.TimesApps || {}; const { TimesApps } = window; TimesApps.loadFBEvents = function() { (function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) { if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq...

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Rafael Nadal says retirement not on his mind after losing season-opener

Rafael Nadal brushed off talk of retiring anytime soon after the 22-times Grand Slam champion was stunned by Cameron Norrie in the United Cup mixed team tournament on Saturday, saying he still enjoyed competing at the highest level. Nadal’s preparations for his Australian Open title defence got off to a shaky start as Norrie beat him 3-6 6-3 6-4 to seal his first victory over the 36-year-old Spaniard in their fifth career meeting. Faced with a question on whether defeats at this stage in his career left him more determined to play as long as he could or acknowledge that things were getting difficult, Nadal simply said retirement was not on his mind yet. “I lost my match. That’s it, no? Every time I come to a press conference it seems that I have to retire. So you are very interested on ...

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Nadal says retirement not on his mind after losing season-opener | Tennis News – Times of India

SYDNEY: Rafael Nadal brushed off talk of retiring anytime soon after the 22-times Grand Slam champion was stunned by Cameron Norrie in the United Cup mixed team tournament on Saturday, saying he still enjoyed competing at the highest level.Nadal's preparations for his Australian Open title defence got off to a shaky start as Norrie beat him 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to seal his first victory over the 36-year-old Spaniard in their fifth career meeting.Faced with a question on whether defeats at this stage in his career left him more determined to play as long as he could or acknowledge that things were getting difficult, Nadal simply said retirement was not on his mind yet."I lost my match. That's it, no? Every time I come to a press conference it seems that I have to retire. So you are very interes...

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DDCA director meets Pant; expresses satisfaction at medical treatment | Cricket News – Times of India

DEHRADUN: Delhi & District Cricket Association (DDCA) director Shyam Sharma on Saturday met Rishabh Pant at Max Hospital here and expressed satisfaction at the treatment being given to the cricket star at the facility."He (Pant) is being looked after well by doctors here. The BCCI is also in touch with them, taking updates on his condition. As of now, he will be kept here only," Sharma told reporters after meeting the cricketer.India's star cricketer had a miraculous escape when his luxury car crashed into a road divider and caught fire after he dozed off at the wheel on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in the early hours of Friday.The 25-year-old, who was on his way to his hometown Roorkee to surprise his mother, suffered injuries on his head, back and feet, but is in a stable condition,...

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Jiri Lehecka upsets Alexander Zverev, Czechs lead Germany 2-0 at United Cup

Jiri Lehecka scored a 6-4, 6-2 upset win over world No. 12 Alexander Zverev to help give the Czech Republic a 2-0 lead over Germany at the United Cup on Saturday. The 21-year-old Lehecka, ranked No. 81, broke four times in the Group C match at Ken Rosewall Arena in Sydney to bounce back from an opening singles loss to Taylor Fritz of the United States on Thursday. Marie Bouzkova later beat Jule Niemeier 6-2, 7-5 in the second match to give the Czechs a 2-0 lead. Czech women’s No. 1 Petra Kvitova can clinch the tie on Sunday when she faces Laura Siegemund. Zverev was competing for the first time since June when he tore three ligaments in his right ankle during his Roland Garros semifinal match against Rafael Nadal. “I knew before the match that he hadn’t played in a while but with a play...

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Cameron Norrie stuns Rafael Nadal to give Britain lead in United Cup | Tennis News – Times of India

SYDNEY: Rafa Nadal's preparations for his Australian Open title defence got off to a wobbly start as Cameron Norrie handed him a 3-6 6-3 6-4 defeat in the United Cup on Saturday to give Britain a 1-0 lead over Spain in the mixed team tournament.The 22-times Grand Slam champion, who lifted the trophy in Melbourne Park this year and added another French Open title in an otherwise injury-ravaged season, eased through the first set but gifted Norrie a way back into the contest in the next.Nadal dug himself out of a hole with an ace to hold for 2-1 in the decider but surrendered his serve shortly after as world number 14 Norrie got sharper as the contest wore on and held on for the first win over the world number two in five attempts."It was pretty crazy... I was thinking I've never won a se...

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Pele showed the most famous guy on the planet can be ‘completely normal’: Klopp

Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp is convinced no one can be greater than Pele but what he marvelled at the most was the Brazilian football great’s humility despite being one of the most popular people on the planet. Pele died on Thursday at the age of 82, and people from all walks of life mourned the death of the only man to win the World Cup three times as a player. Klopp said he did not have even “0.01%” of the skills of Pele and described how he received a signed number 10 Brazil shirt on his birthday when he met the former striker and German great Franz Beckenbauer at the World Cup in 2006. “Whatever anyone tells me in the future, Pele was the best. I will not forget that,” Klopp said. “Both of them showed me that if you are the most famous person on the planet, you can still be a compl...

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Rishabh Pant likely to be shifted to Delhi; DDCA Director monitoring his health

Cricketer Rishabh Pant receives treatment at a hospital after his car met with an accident, in Roorkee, on December 30. | Photo Credit: PTI The Delhi & District Cricket Association Director Shyam Sharma said a DDCA team will be at Max Hospital in Dehradun to monitor Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant's health, who met with an accident on December 30, and if needed the batter-wicketkeeper would be airlifted to Delhi for his plastic surgery.While returning from Delhi to Roorkee, Pant’s car collided with the divider on the Narsan border of Roorkee near Hammadpur Jhal on Friday.Also read: Rishabh Pant injured in car accident in RoorkeeMr. Sharma said that Pant might be airlifted to the National Capital for further surgery as he suffered multiple injuries. The 25-year-old was alone in the ca...

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When Pele was part of Kerala state syllabus | Football News – Times of India

KOCHI: Pele never came to Kerala during his life span and no one from the state could watch the Brazilian’s exploits at the World Cups live as television was still a distant dream for them then. Yet, he should be credited for making a majority of Keralites fall in love with the ‘beautiful game’.The Kerala state syllabus had a dedicated portion on the life of the Brazil football legend in the late 70s and early 80s, which was one of the primary reasons behind Pele developing an iconic image here in the state. Pele’s life was part of a three-page lesson in Class V Malayalam language textbook. “A generation started worshipping Pele by not actually watching him play, but by reading about him, especially in our school textbook,” recollects Abdul Saleem EK, the former Kerala Police football c...

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BCCI invites Chetan Sharma for review meeting | Cricket News – Times of India

MUMBAI: The BCCI had invited outgoing selection committee chairman Chetan Sharma for a review meeting to discuss India’s T20 World Cup performance along with coach Rahul Dravid, captain Rohit Sharma and National Cricket Academy chief VVS Laxman, TOI has learnt. The meeting is likely to take place here on January 1.The meeting will take place almost a month after India suffered a 10-wicket pasting at the hands of England in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup in Australia. A couple of days after the meeting, India take on Sri Lanka in the first game of the three-match T20I series at the Wankhede Stadium here on January 3.Meanwhile, though it’s not clear when the Cricket Advisory Committee would meet to pick the new selection committee, Venkatesh Prasad, Sridharan Sharath (South Zone), R...

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Rishabh Pant likely to be shifted to Delhi: DDCA Director monitoring his health | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Delhi & District Cricket Association Director Shyam Sharma said a DDCA team will be at Max Hospital in Dehradun to monitor star Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant's health, who met with a terrible accident a day back, and if needed the batter-wicketkeeper would be airlifted to Delhi for his plastic surgery.Pant met with a serious accident while returning from Delhi to Roorkee as his car collided with the divider on the Narsan border of Roorkee near Hammadpur Jhal on Friday.Sharma said that Pant might be airlifted to the national capital for further surgery as he suffered multiple injuries in the car crash.The 25-year-old was alone in the car and suffered injuries on his back, forehead and leg.Talking to ANI, Sharma said: "A team of Delhi & District Cricket Association ...

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Ranji Trophy: Anukul Roy, Shahbaz Nadeem spin Jharkhand to victory | Cricket News – Times of India

All-rounder Anukul Roy returned with 4 for 63 while his senior partner Shahbaz Nadeem took his 25th five-for in first-class cricket as hosts Jharkhand romped to a nine-wicket victory over Services in their third-round match of Ranji Trophy in Jamshedpur on Friday.The left-arm spinner duo shared all the nine Services wickets to fall on the last day of the Elite Group C match at Keenan Stadium between them to restrict the visitors’ second innings to 214, thereby needing just 31 to seal an outright win.Jharkhand reached home easily in 7.5 overs, however, they missed the opportunity to secure the bonus point, too, as opener Ishan Kishan returned to the pavilion just two runs short of the target.The win moved Jharkhand up to third position on the eight-team table with 10 points after three r...

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Actors Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher meet cricketer Rishabh Pant | Cricket News – Times of India

DEHRADUN: Bollywood actors Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher on Saturday met cricketer Rishabh Pant who is recuperating at Max Hospital here after suffering injuries in a car crash.India's star cricketer had a miraculous escape when his luxury car crashed into a road divider and caught fire after he dozed off at the wheel on the Delhi-Dehradun highway in the early hours of Friday."He (Pant) is doing fine. We met him as fans. Let us pray that he recovers soon and we see him playing again," Kapoor told reporters after coming out of the hospital.Kher, who accompanied Kapoor, said they made the cricketer laugh a lot."Everything is fine. We met Pant, his mother and relatives, they are all fine. We made him laugh a lot," he said.The 25-year-old, who was on his way to his hometown Roorkee to surpris...

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‘Football’s next Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo?’: Erling Haaland plays down rivalry with Kylian Mbappe

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland has played down his future rivalry with Kylian Mbappe over who could become football’s next Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. In the chat with former Liverpool midfielder Jan Molby, Haaland on his possible rivalry with Mbappe said: “It’s impossible to say.” “I don’t like to compare myself with others. I think you need to be your own player when it comes to that so I don’t like to compare or anything with that.” “I think the media has been doing that with Ronaldo and Messi for the last 10 years and I think they’ve been pushing each other as well,” he added. “I think it’s been a positive thing. Barcelona and Madrid against each other. “It’s been the perfect rivalry. But I don’t think about this [rivalry between him and Mbappe], honestly.” Last yea...

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Ranji Trophy: Vaibhav Rawal’s defiance helps Delhi escape with draw | Cricket News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: Ten years after making a century on firstclass debut against Tamil Nadu, having managed to play just 20 games, Vaibhav Rawal scored a defiant unbeaten 95 on the last day of the Ranji match against the same opponents to help Delhi avert another loss in the season. At the end of the day, Tamil Nadu may have felt hard done by Delhi’s slow over-rate while chasing the 139-run target in the last hour. They finished with 54/3 in six overs. However, it was always difficult to get all overs in with the light fading rapidly. Delhi, having lagged all match, managed a jailbreak and managed a point while Tamil Nadu walked away with three points. It was always Tamil Nadu who were looking to make a match out of this here at the Ferozeshah Kotla when Delhi resumed their second innings at 28/...

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South Africa’s Theunis de Bruyn to miss third Test against Australia for birth of his first child | Cricket News – Times of India

SYDNEY: South Africa batter Theunis de Bruyn will miss the third and final Test against Australia next week as he is set to return home for the birth of his first child.The 30-year-old came into the side for the Boxing Day Test in place of Rassie van der Dussen. Batting at number three, de Bruyn had scores of 12 and 28 in South Africa's innings-and-182-run defeat in Melbourne.He also made headlines when Australian quick Mitchell Starc warned him for backing up at the non-striker's end during the second innings."Batter Theunis de Bruyn will miss the third #AUSvSA Test in Sydney as he returns home for the birth of his first child. We wish him everything of the best for this exciting part of his life," Cricket South Africa (CSA) tweeted on Saturday.De Bruyn's absence means either van der D...

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Alexander Zverev crashes in first ATP match since June injury at United Cup | Tennis News – Times of India

SYDNEY: Rusty former world number two Alexander Zverev crashed to defeat Saturday in his first ATP match since tearing ankle ligaments at the French Open in June.The two-time ATP Finals champion hit eight double faults in losing 6-4, 6-2 to 81st-ranked Jiri Lehecka at Sydney's Ken Rosewall Arena to give the Czech Republic a 1-0 lead in their tie against Germany.It was Zverev's first competitive match since tearing three right ankle ligaments during his Roland Garros semi-final against Rafael Nadal, when he left court in a wheelchair.A planned return at the Davis Cup in September came up short when Zverev pulled out after experiencing "extreme pain".The Olympic champion, who has dropped to 12 in the world from a career-high two before his injury, was clearly still struggling against Lehe...