India vs South Africa Match Live Score.India vs South Africa 1st Test Live Score and Updates: India reached 157 for 2 at tea on the first day of the opening Test against South Africa here on Sunday. KL Rahul was going strong on 68 and captain Virat Kohli was giving him company on 19 at the break. Opener Mayank Agarwal made 60 while Cheteshwar Pujara was out for a duck. Earlier, Agarwal and Rahul played with the required discipline in testing conditions to take India to 83 for no loss at lunch. India skipper Virat Kohi made a brave call…
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Boxing Day takes place the day after Christmas – but where does it get its name from? In the UK, it’s been a bank holiday since 1871 and is still one today. In fact, it’s so important that if it falls on a Saturday, it’s moved to the following Monday – similarly, because it falls on a Sunday this year, we get an extra bank holiday on the following Tuesday. Despite the name, Boxing Day has nothing to do with fighting in a ring or even boxes themselves, at least nowadays. To understand where the holiday got its name from,…
Novak Djokovic “drives you crazy” with how good he is, according to world No 13 Diego Schwartzman. Djokovic won three of this year’s four Grand Slam events to go level with Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on a record 20 men’s major singles titles. The Serbian has also gone way beyond Federer’s record of most weeks at No 1 in the world.Schwartzman has lost all six of his matches against Djokovic in his career, winning just three sets in the process.And the Argentine has explained the difficulty in facing the 34-year-old.Schwartzman admits there are occasions where you cannot stay within…
Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. NHL postpones 14 games, will not resume before Tuesday The National Hockey League (NHL) pushed back its return from the holiday break by another day after postponing Monday’s 14-game schedule to allow the league and teams time to complete COVID-19 tests and assess their ability to compete. With the latest postponements taking the total to 64 games, the NHL said in a statement on Friday that it plans to resume the regular season on Tuesday. Soccer-Villa manager Gerrard to sit out two games after positive COVID test Aston Villa manager…
With a loss last week to the Rams in a rescheduled game, a playoff berth for the Seahawks looks extremely unlikely. They’re 5-9, a full two games out with three games left. Pete Carroll is on a contract through 2025, but the conclusion of this season will have a lot of hoopla surrounding Russell Wilson. While Wilson and his camp have never spoken on it, trade rumors are continuing to swirl around the star quarterback, who has struggled at times since returning from a finger injury he sustained in Seattle’s first meeting against Los Angeles. In the exact opposite situation,…
James Harden returns to action with a vintage performance for Nets. LOS ANGELES — To both his admirers and critics, James Harden looked awfully familiar. To his admirers, he handled scoring and play-making duties with stunning accuracy. To his critics, he earned trips to the free-throw line by either flailing or invading an opponent’s airspace. Add it all up in the Brooklyn Nets’ 122-115 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Christmas Day, and Harden collected a triple double in points (36), assists (10) and rebounds (10) much in the same fashion he always has in his 14-year NBA career. But…
It was an action-packed year for local sports with East Tennessee State’s first outright conference football championship in 52 years and the unexpected retirement of the team’s head coach.There was the first NASCAR Cup Series dirt race in over 50 years held at Bristol Motor Speedway, also the site of a tremendous September racing weekend.Controversy and a coaching change came with the ETSU basketball program. Science Hill won state championships in two different sports and the new Appalachian League was unveiled.Milligan made history with cross country national championships and three Carter County teams advanced to the state football semifinals. These…
MLB.com | Sam Dykstra, Jonathan Mayo, and William Boor: MLB looked back on some of the prospects across the 30 MLB clubs who broke out during the 2021 season and compared them to the preseason picks. The Yankees’ original 2021 pick actually wasn’t bad — Oswald Peraza, who probably would’ve fit the end-of-season bill for most teams after hitting 18 homers and reaching Triple-A. However, it was another shortstop who stole the show: Anthony Volpe. The 20-year-old surged to become one of the best prospects across the entire major leagues, blowing away scouts and analysts. By the end of the…
First Team VICTORIA KIM, senior, West Chester East – The 2020 Daily Local News Player of the Year, Kim had another strong season this fall. As an individual, she placed third overall in the state thanks to a 3-over 75 at the PIAA Championship. Kim also registered top-5 finishes at both the Ches-Mont (fourth) and District 1 (fifth) tournaments. “She was a reliable and consistent player who always shot one of the top scores on our team while playing with the boys,” said her coach Mike Orenshaw. MIA PACE, sophomore, Downingtown East – A key piece on a Cougars squad…
Back in June 2020, we identified 20-year-old Thomas Roberts as well on his way to becoming the best ever soccer player from Arkansas. It’s been just over a year since that report, and a lot has happened to the young US midfielder since that point. Fast forward to December 2021 and Roberts has now become the first native Arkansan to play for a major European domestic league – the Austrian Bundesliga on the club SK Austria Klagenfurt. It’s a temporary loan deal for the moment with Thomas’ American team, FC Dallas, still retaining the player’s registration but the move says…