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‘Decide your future after Champions Trophy’: BCCI’s clear-cut instruction to Rohit Sharma; Virat Kohli not in danger yet

‘Decide your future after Champions Trophy’: BCCI’s clear-cut instruction to Rohit Sharma; Virat Kohli not in danger yet

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With an eye on the future, the BCCI has told Rohit Sharma to decide on his future after the completion of the Champions Trophy 2025. Irrespective of how India perform in the marquee ICC tournament, the India captain has been asked to discuss his future so they can groom the next captain accordingly. Rohit, 38, finds himself in a race against time. While there is no doubt he wants to play on – he made it abundantly clear during the Sydney Test, which he sat out – his current returns don’t support him. Unless Rohit does something extraordinary to roar back to form, such as enjoy a record-breaking CT or set the IPL 2025 on fire, his chances of going to England look slim. If that is the case, the BCCI needs to finalise India’s next captain – at least for ODIs and Tests, for which they need an answer soon. Rohit Sharma (L) has been handed a shorter lifeline by the BCCI compared to Virat Kohli(Getty) “The selectors and people in the board had …

There’s no clear-cut answer to who-next after Messi, Ronaldo; and that’s not necessarily a bad thing | Football News

There’s no clear-cut answer to who-next after Messi, Ronaldo; and that’s not necessarily a bad thing | Football News

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Late last week, Cristiano Ronaldo reminded the world that glory has not departed his goal-scoring boots. Against Poland, he struck a delightful bicycle kick. Across the Atlantic, his timeless peer Lionel Messi has been essaying hat-tricks. Even after their departure from the mainstream football map, they dwell in footballing consciousness, and continue to pull eyeballs to the games and leagues they inhabit. Primarily this is because they were not just the finest of their generation, but two of the greatest of all time, cutting across eras. Partly, this is because they have left an unfilled vacuum in European football. It’s difficult to fill in the throne they have vacated. They have refined their yardsticks of greatness to such an elevated space that even greatness in any other milieu would seem plainly ordinary in these times. It’s like the sprinters after the Usain Bolt era, or the racquet-wielders after the farewells of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. Like in tennis and athletics, there is no definite undisputed answer to the question: “Who is the best footballer …

Sebastian Coe wants clear-cut transgender policies from IOC: ‘Protecting women’s sport is a non-negotiable for me’ | Sport-others News

Sebastian Coe wants clear-cut transgender policies from IOC: ‘Protecting women’s sport is a non-negotiable for me’ | Sport-others News

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Former Olympic champion Sebastian Coe has said the International Olympic Committee needed clear-cut policies to protect women’s sport to avoid controversies such as the one in boxing at this year’s Paris Games. Coe is one of seven people in the running to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee after Thomas Bach and made it very clear he would push for immediate change in the participation of trans athletes and those with Differences of Sexual Development (DSD) in women’s events, reported Reuters. Athletics was at the forefront of formulating a policy that largely excluded them, but the IOC failed to follow suit, instead handing the responsibility to individual sports federations. When the IOC took over the running of amateur boxing for the Paris Olympics, however, that lack of clarity was thrust into the spotlight by the gold medal success of Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting, who had previously been banned after adverse sex chromosome tests. “I felt uncomfortable with that,” Coe said. “I think the lesson was that you need clear-cut …

Ravi Shastri reveals clear-cut stand on coaching IPL team after Team India stint: ‘You never know what can…’

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Dropping a major hint about his return as a head coach, former India all-rounder Ravi Shastri recalled his bitter-sweet stint with the senior men’s cricket team in his freewheeling chat with Rajasthan Royals superstar – Ravichandran Ashwin. Under Shastri’s watch, India became the first Asian team to defeat the Baggy Greens in Australia in the 2018-19 Test series. Shastri-coached Team India repeated the incredible feat by outclassing Australia in 2021. The former India cricketer coached the men’s senior team from 2017 to 2021. Shastri was recently quizzed about taking up a coaching job in the IPL(Getty Images) Shastri‘s Team India contested the final of the inaugural World Test Championship against New Zealand. India also made it to the semi-final of the 2019 World Cup. Replacing legendary cricketer Anil Kumble in 2017, Shastri was succeeded by Rahul Dravid, who was appointed the India head coach on a two-year term in 2021. After ending his seven-year association with the Indian team, Shastri returned to the commentary box for domestic cricket’s biggest extravaganza – the Indian Premier League. …