Day: January 9, 2021

Captain Joe Root hit an unbeaten 74 and Dan Lawrence 46 not out in England’s intra-squad warm-up match in Sri Lanka before the Test series.

West Ham’s club record signing Sebastien Haller has joined Ajax for around 22.5m euros (£20.25m).

English Premier League club Aston Villa has confirmed that the club has closed its training ground due to an outbreak of Covid-19.

The Indian cricket team will not be able to travel to Brisbane for the fourth and final Test of the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy if they will have to undergo another round of hard quarantine, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has reportedly told Cricket Australia.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has been forced to self isolate after being in contact with a person who has tested positive for Covid-19.

Veteran West Indies batsman Chris Gayle has stated that he would love to see T10 format of cricket in the Olympics.

Israel has postponed the next hearing in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial because of a tightened coronavirus lockdown that began Friday.

Spain’s capital Madrid and much of the neighbouring region of Castilla-La Mancha were on high alert on Friday for what meteorologists expect to be the heaviest snowfall in decades, brought by the Storm Filomena.

The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorisation dropped to its lowest level in seven years in 2020, the EU border and coast guard agency Frontex said Friday.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan declared a major incident in the British capital on Friday, saying hospitals in the city were at risk of being overwhelmed if people do not stay at home.