෴Welcome! This is the last day of February and sports action continues in full flow. You will find the live updates here.
🔴Follow highlights from the sports world on Friday, February 28 right here
෴Welcome! This is the last day of February and sports action continues in full flow. You will find the live updates here.
💝Overnight football action saw Bologna stun AC Milan 2-1 in the Serie A whereas West Ham United defeated Leicester City 2-0 that increased relegation worries for the Foxes as well as increased the pressure on their manager Ruud van Nistelrooy.
🌃Fenerbahce gaffer Jose Mourinho has been banned for four games and fined a total of £35,194 for his comments after Monday's game with local rivals Galatasaray in the Turkish Super Ligue.
🍎Australian Open 2025 champ Jannik Sinner's nomination for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award has been withdrawn after he was given a three-month doping ban.
🦄NBA star Stephen Curry scored a superb 56 points and made 12 three-pointers as his Golden State Warriors registered a vital 121-115 win over Orlando Magic.
🅘Argentina’s Racing Club beat Brazil’s Botafogo 2-0 on Thursday to win the Recopa Sudamericana title by 4-0 on aggregate. Matias Zaracho opened the scoring for the visitors in the 50th minute. Bruno Zuculini scored the second goal.
🌱The 2025 season gets underway with the Thai GP at the Chang International Circuit in Buriram.
ꦓIt seems like Gregg Popovich and SA Spurs are not reuniting anytime soon. The veteran coach, who had a stroke at the team’s arena in San Antonio on Nov. 2, has been away from the team since.
🍒“I’ve decided not to return to the sidelines this season,” Popovich said in a statement distributed by the team. “(Acting coach) Mitch Johnson and his staff have done a wonderful job and the resolve and professionalism the players have shown, sticking together during a challenging season, has been outstanding.”
🌳As per reports in the British press, former U.S. Open champion Emma Raducanu is all set to compete at the forthcoming Indian Wells in her first Tour appearance since Dubai Championship, where a man exhibited “fixated behaviour” towards her and was removed from the stands during her match.
💖LeBron James played a crucial role as the LA Lakers conjured up their fourth straight victory, by beating the Minnesota 111-102 in the NBA game today.
Vidarbha's Harsh Dubey struck twice in the first session to get to a record-equalling 68 wickets in a season as visitors Kerala crawled to 219/5 at lunch on the third day of the Ranji Trophy final on Friday.
Brief scores:
Vidarbha 379 in 123.1 overs (Danish Malewar 153, Karun Nair 86; MD Nidheesh 3/61, Eden Apple Tom 3/101)
Kerala💦 219/5 in 70.4 overs (Aditya Sarwate 79, Sachin Baby 52 batting; Darshan Nalkande 2/39, Harsh Dubey 2/42)
The sixth edition of Ultimate Table Tennis ♍(UTT), the sport's premier league in India, will be held from May 29 to June 15 in Ahmedabad, the organisers announced on Friday. The matches will be played at the state-of-the-art EKA Arena in Ahmedabad.
ဣAfghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi has won the toss and elected to bat first against Australia.
Australia🌺: Matthew Short, Travis Head, Steven Smith(c), Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis, Alex Carey(w), Glenn Maxwell, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Adam Zampa, Spencer Johnson
Afghanistan🉐: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Ibrahim Zadran, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Hashmatullah Shahidi(c), Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi
ဣFerrari driver Charles Leclerc has emerged the quickest so far in Bahrain which is the final day for the F1 pre-season testing. Fernando Alonso is in the car for Aston Martin as Lance Stroll remains unwell.
Former England captains turned commentators Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain have called up Jos Buttler to step down from his captaincy role after his side's group stage exit at the hands of Afghanistan in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
ಞYuki Bhambri and his partner Alexei Popyryn are in men's doubles action at the Dubai Tennis Championships semifinal. They are up against the pair of John Peers and Jamie Murray.
🅘Yuki Bhambri and his partner Alexei Popyryn have won the first set in the men's doubles semifinals at the Dubai Tennis Championships. They beat the pair of John Peers and Jamie Murray 6-2 in the opening set.
ಞIt is stumps on the third day and we finally have a team which has inched ahead. Vidarbha have taken a 37-run lead as Kerala were bowled out for 342. Sachin Baby scored 98 while Aditya Sarwate got 79. Parth Rekhade, Harsh Dubey and Darshan Nalkande picked up three wickets each for Vidarbha.
Vidarbha 379
Kerala 342
Day 3: Stumps - Kerala trail by 37 runs
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🍸Yuki Bhambri and Alexei Popyryn advance to the men's doubles final of the Dubai Tennis Championships. They have beaten the pair of John Peers and Jamie Murray 6-2, 4-6, 10-7.
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