Sports News Highlights: Satwik-Chirag Get Decent Draw For Paris Olympics; Argentina Lift 16th Copa Title

India captain Rohit Sharma says he will continue to play Test and ODI cricket "at least for a whi🦋le" after ending his T20 international career with a World Cup win🏅 last month.

"I just said it. I don't look that far ahead. So clearly, you will be seeing me play at least for a while," the 37-year-old said at an 𝓡event here on Sunday night. (PTI)

World Cup-winning skipper Pat Cummins will be rested for Australia's upcoming limited-overs tour to Britain and Mitchell Starc will miss the T20✱ portion of the trip as part of💎 a workload management program. Australia is scheduled to play three T20s against Scotland and five ODIs against England in September.

The competition for the openers' slots has in🌺tensified following India's T20I s🧸eries win in Zimbabwe and for contender Shubman Gill, that can only be a "good thing".

Gill, who is expected to open alongside Yashasvi Jaiswal in the three T20Is in Sri La⛄nka later this month, was the leading run getter in the five-match series in Harare. He was not part of the T20 World Cup squad in the USA and the Caribbean.

"It's a good thing that everyone's performing. It shows that everyone is hungry and nobody is ready to take it easy. F🌊or any country or board, that's always a good thing," said Gill on Sunday referring to the openers. (PTI)

Indian cricket's reigning superstar Virat Kohli has urged the nation to get behind its Olympic-bound contingent, asking the fans to join him in supporting the athletes♕ as "they inch closer to the podium with dogged determination" in the quadrennial showpiece starting July 26 in Paris.

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Former NFL wide receiver Jacoby Jones, a ❀key member of the Baltimore 🍨Ravens' Super Bowl XLVII championship team, has passed away at the age of 40.

Tadej Pogacar extended his dominance in the Tour de France with another stage win, solidifying his position as the top contender for the overall title. The S🌠lovenian cycling sensation showcased his incredible climbing abilities once again, leaving rivals in his wake.

The Pakistan Cricket Board wants the BCCI to provide written proof of the Indian government's denial of permission in case the team refuses♏ to come here for next year's Champions Trophy citing a travel ban on security grounds, a PCB source has said.

The host Board also wants the matter to be sorted as soon as possible, given th꧟at the tournament is scheduled for February-March. (PTIꦐ)

India’s Anahat Singh and Shaurya Bawa entered the girls’ and boys’ singles quarterfinals 🦄respectively in the World Junior Squash Championships in Houston. Anahat, the 16-year-old women’s National🅰 champion, beat Japan’s Akari Midorikawa 11-6, 13-11, 11-2 in the pre-quarterfinals. She will take on Egypt’s Nadien Elhammamy in the last eight. (PTI)

ISL side Mumbai City FC on Monday brought on board 24-year-old defender Sahil Panwar on a free transfer for one year, which will keep him with the club until the end of the 2024-25 seasoജn, according to PTI reports.

Panwar, who hails from Dehradun, began his professional✃ career with the Pune FC academy, earning a spot after impressing in the Subroto Cup. While with the club, Sahil als⛄o captained its U-18 side.

Germany forward Th🐓omas Muller announced his retirement fꦉrom international football on Monday after a 14-year career that included the 2014 World Cup title, according to reports from AP.

The 34-year-💜old Bayern Munich striker played 131 times for his country, scoring 45 goals.

D Gukesh finished in the seventh spot, the best among Indians, while to♐p-seeded Fabiano Caruana c𒊎linched the Superunited Rapid and Blitz with a dominant effort in Zagreb, according to PTI reports.

Gukesh logged 14 points in the event, while the other Indian player in the fray Vidit Gujrathi fin❀ished ninth with 11 points. It turned out to be a fine performance bꦆy Caruana following his victory in the Superbet Classic.

The Pakistan Cricket Board has appointed Australia's Tony Hemming as its new chief curator on a two-year contract, ⛎according to PTI reports. In the past, PCB had hired the services of foreign curators like Andy Atkinson to help improve the quality of pitches in the country but this is the first time it has offered a long-term contract to a foreign curator. Hemmings hails from Western Australia.

Center-back Willy Kambwala joined Villarreal from Manchester Uni📖ted on Monday after agreeing a five-year contract. The clubs did not disclose the transfer fee, which was reportedly worth 11.5 million euros (USD 12.6🐲 million).

Kambwala joined United from Sochaux in 2020 and had a year remaining on his contract. The 19-year-old Kambwala made 10 fi💫rst-team appearances for United, including three starts in the Premier League, according to AP reports.

It was a grand homecoming for Hardik Pandya here on Monday as the legion of fans welcomed the all-rounder, a key component in India's T20 World Cup triumph in the Ame🦹ricas, to the city, waving the national flag and chanting his name, according to 🤡PTI reports.

Quite reminiscent of the open🌠-top bus parade of the Indian team from Marine Drive into the iconic Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Pandya's fans arranged a grand show for h🔯im in Vadodara.

Switzerlan🍃d forw𒆙ard Xherdan Shaqiri ended his national-team career on Monday at the age of 32, according to AP reports.

The Chicago Fire playmaker announced the news nine days after his 125th game for Switzerland, which ended in a 🔥penalty shootout loss to England in the🍸 European Championship quarterfinals.

World Championship gold-medallist para shuttler Manasi Joshi on Monday strongly criticised former Indian cricketers Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina for allegedly moc⛎king people with disabilities saying that the now-deleted video uploaded on Instagram set a very bad precedent, according to PTI reports.

A police complaint has also been filed against🙈 the t꧟hree former cricketers.

Victorious on his first outing since May, Rafael Nadal has teamed up with Casper Ruud to defeat second seeds Guido Andreozzi and Miguel Reyes-Varela in the Swedish Open 2024 doubles at Bastad. Returning to the clay in Sweden for ꦯthe first time since he won the singles title as a teenager in 2005, Nadal looked comfortable alongside the world number nine.

Junior Asian Championships silver meda♈llist Bhavtegh Singh Gill has clinched silver in the men’s skeet event on the final day of the ISSF Junior World Cup in Porpetto (Italy). Bhavtegh 🦋has shot 52 in the six-man final to finish behind American Benjamin Keller, who shot 56 out of the 60 allotted clay targets, to grab the gold medal, PTI reports.

Bhavtegh’s effort comes after Sabeera Haris baggeဣd the bronze in the junior women’s trap earlier. Wiꦉth these two medals, India finish third behind USA and Italy in the standings.

With that, we conclu𝐆de our coverage of toda🎃y's sports news and events. We will be back tomorrow with all that is current from the various fields of play. Until then, goodbye.