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Taylor Booth of Bayern Muenchen U19 (L) competes for the ball with J'Neil Lydia Williams of Melbourne City poses during a Bennett of Tottenham U19 during the UEFAYouth League match between Bayern Melbourne City FC A-League media opportunity at Kane Williamson of New Zealand and Tim Paine of Australia shake hands during a Muenchen U19 and Tottenham Hotspur U19 on December 11, 2019 in Munich, CFA Melbourne on December 11, 2019 in media opportunity ahead of the First Test in the series between Australia and New Germany. Melbourne, Australia. Zealand at Optus Stadium on December 11, 2019 in Perth, Australia. /// Short News Asghar Afghan reappointed UCL 2019-20: Liverpool march into last : The Afghanistan 16 with 2-0 win against RB Salzburg Board re- appointed former Liverpool moved into should have been by a away defeat and home lively Japanese forward captain Asghar the last 16 of the more convincing margin. draw with Carlo Takumi Minamino. Afghan as the Champions League with Two goals inside two Ancelottis Napoli had Mane missed a good skipper across all a 2-0 victory over second-half minutes left Liverpool on edge opportunity, curling formats of the game on Salzburg on Tuesday as a from Keita and Salah, going into the final wide from the edge of Wednesday. The potentially tricky with the Egyptian round of games, their the box and then brought decision taken by encounter turned into a finding the net with an superior quality showed Salzburg keeper Cican the ACB's top second-half cruise with exquisite finish from a in the end. With much at Stankovic into action management officials comes seven months after quickfire goals from tight angle, helped stake for two attacking with a diagonal drive. Asghar was stripped from captaincy across formats. Naby Keita and Liverpool finish top of sides, the game began in Highly-rated Afghanistan's poor show in a 'home series' against Mohamed Salah. Group E with 13 points. a frantic and open Norwegian striker Erling West Indies where they lost all in three formats may Juergen Klopps side That was one point fashion and Liverpool Haaland, who has been have prompted the authorities to call back Afghan. needed a point in Austria ahead of Napoli, who keeper Alisson Becker linked with a move to "As per the decision by ACB Top management, senior player Asghar Afghan is reappointed as team to be sure of beat Genk 4-0, while had to be alert in the Manchester United, Afghanistan's captain across formats," ACB wrote on qualification and after Salzburg, who finished but we were there - thats It was a very intense seventh minute to keep failed to make the most its official Wednesday. In April, two months before the missing several good third with seven points, what I love from my game. In the second half out a close-range effort of space inside the box ODI World Cup, ACB had named , chances in the first half, will continue in the team. Salzburg did so they obviously couldnt from South Korean and his low shot was and as replacements of they ended up with a Europa League. many smart things, but cope with that intensity, Hwang Hee-chan after easily dealt with by the Asghar in the Test, ODI and T20 teams respectively. comfortable win which It was a tough game we had the big chances. said Klopp. Although the good work from the Liverpool keeper. However, after the World Cup after a disappointing show in England, where Afghanistan lost all its nine matches, all-rounder Rashid was named skipper across all formats. Under Asghar's leadership, Afghanistan replaces injured Chess wizard Viswanathan Anand turns 50 became a Full Member of the International Cricket won the World Chess won the World Rapid Council and secured their maiden Test win against Ireland in Dehradun last month. in 's ODI squad Championship for the Chess Championship in first time in 2000. He 2003 and 2017. New Delhi: Opener Shikhar Dhawan in India's white-ball debut unless Mayank Agarwal was on squad for the upcoming someone gets injured. Wednesday named as series against West Indies," Agarwal had earlier Shikhar Dhawan's replace- it added. come in as a late replace- ment in India's ODI squad India will play three ment for injured Vijay for the three-match series ODIs against the West Shankar during the ODI Chennai: India's against the West Indies as Indies in Chennai World Cup in England but chess legend and winner the southpaw has not yet (December 15), didn't get a game. of five world titles recovered from his knee Visakhapatnam (December The 28-year-old from Viswanathan Anand turned 50 on Wednesday. injury. 18) and Cuttack Bengaluru has been a reve- The Chennai-born chess Dhawan had suffered a (December 22). lation in the Test arena ace is celebrating the day deep cut on his left knee Agarwal, who is cur- with 872 runs in nine Tests with his family. He had during a Syed Mushtaq Ali rently playing Ranji matches, including three posted a picture of him- Press conference pre- Trophy game against Trophy match against centuries and as many half- senting the Dakar 2020 self and his son Akhil on Maharashtra in Surat and Tamil Nadu in Dindigul, centuries at an average of Twitter and wrote: Repsol Rally Team was subsequently ruled out will join the national team over 67. "Partners in crime! Yes of the ongoing T20 series. in Chennai before the first India's revised squad for there's cake tomorrow!" "The BCCI Medical Team game. three ODIs: A book "Mind Master", feels that while Dhawan's That the team manage- (Captain), penned by Anand along stitches are off and his ment is keen on Agarwal (Vice-Captain), Mayank with sports writer Susan wound is healing gradual- translating his stupendous Agarwal, KL Rahul, Ninan is being released to ly, he still needs some Test performance into the Shreyas Iyer, Manish coincide with his birth- more time before he ODI arena was first report- Pandey, day. Lidia Guerrero, Araceli Ruiz, Isidre Esteve and regains full match fitness," ed by PTI on November (WK), Shivam Dube, Anand, India's torch- Txema Villalobos attend a press conference pre- the BCCI said in a state- 18. , Ravindra bearer in chess and the senting the Dakar 2020 Repsol Rally Team on ment. However, with in-form Jadeja, , country's first-ever Grand December 11, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. "The All-India Senior KL Rahul also in the ODI , Deepak Master, has inspired a Selection Committee has side to partner vice-captain Chahar, Mohammed legion of players includ- Nervous Chelsea inch past Lille named Mayank Agarwal as Rohit Sharma, Agarwal Shami, Bhuvneshwar ing the city-based R replacement for the injured may have to wait for his Kumar. Praggnanandhaa. Anand 2-1 to reach round of 16 London: Chelsea survived Pakistan dominate Sri Lanka in first home Test after ten years a nerve-jangling Rawalpindi: Test crick- precarious 202-5 after bad Karunaratne leg-before Australia last month. finale to their 2- et made its long-awaited light stopped play 20.5 soon after lunch to trigger a He also had Angelo 1 win over Lille return to Pakistan after a overs early. At close, collapse which saw the visi- Mathews caught in the slips on Tuesday, deadly attack in 2009, with Dhananjaya de Silva was tors lose four within for 31. Mathews added 62 eventually hold- the home team led by fast unbeaten on 38 and just 31 runs in the post- runs for the fifth ing on to clinch bowler Naseem Shah domi- Niroshan Dickwella lunch session. with De Silva. Naseem, who a place in the nating Sri Lanka on 11 as Sri Lanka spoiled a Karunaratne hit nine is also included in Champions Wednesday. good 96-run start given by boundaries in his 110-ball Pakistan's squad for next League knock- Naseem, who is just 16, skipper Dimuth knock. Naseem then had month's Under-19 World out stages thanks to first-half goals from Tammy grabbed 2-51 on the open- Karunaratne (59) and Fernando caught at slip for Cup in South Africa, said he Abraham and captain Cesar Azpilicueta. Chelsea, ing day of the first Test Oshada Fernando (40). 40, an innings laced with six was happy to play the lead who needed a victory to make sure of qualifica- which marked a momentous Pakistan struggled for wick- boundaries and a six. role. "I enjoyed a lot and the tion, had gone five Champions League games at occasion in Pakistan cricket ets in the first session as Sri It was his first Test wick- whole crowd was support- Stamford Bridge without a victory, their longest at Rawalpindi stadium. Sri Lanka reached 89-0 at et after he came away ing me," he said. such run at home in the competition. They domi- Lanka won the toss and bat- lunch. Shaheen Shah Afridi empty-handed from his "Whenever I bowled a good nated almost the entire game yet Lille, who were ted and closed the day at a trapped Sri Lankan skipper debut in Brisbane against , they supported me. already condemned to the bottom spot of Group H and fielded an under-strength side, scored in the 78th minute and came close to a late equaliser that would have eliminated Chelsea. Victory left Chelsea second in the group on 11 points behind Valencia, who won 1-0 at Ajax Amsterdam, con- signing the Dutch champions to third place and elimination. Lille ended with just one point. It did get twitchy, Chelsea coach Frank Lampard said. We need to take our chances bet- ter. At 2-0, I thought it was not quite done and when Lille scored it made it a more nervy finish to the game than it needed to be. After dominat- ing the opening proceedings in a downpour and swirling wind, Chelsea went ahead in the 19th minute when U.S. striker Christian Pulisic darted forward to feed Willian and the Brazilians cut- back cross was turned in by Abraham.

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