Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to BCCI President Sourav Ganguly today morning. PM also spoke to Dona Ganguly. He inquired about his health and wished him a speedy recovery, reported news agency ANI.
In response to Sri Lanka’s 157, South Africa lost opening batsman Aiden Markram early. Asitha Fernando accounted for his wicket. Earlier on day one, Sri Lanka were bundled out for a paltry total after Anrich Nortje scalped six wickets.
While Rohit Sharma and four Indian cricketers are under the scanner for allegedly breaching the bio-secure bubble, some reports suggest that Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya also broke the COVID-19 protocols during the limited-overs series. They apparently went to a baby store without their masks on. Read More.
Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw, Navdeep Saini, Rishabh Pant are set to travel Sydney alongside Indian cricket team for the third Test in spite of their potential bio-bubble breach. Read More.
Responding to reports of Indian cricket team not willing to serve 14-day quarantine in Brisbane, Queensland government came up with a blunt response, saying the team is more than welcome not to enter the state if they are unwilling to coordinate with the protocols. Read More.
Sri Lanka got off to a world possible start in the second Test against South Africa with Anrich Nortje and Wiaan Mulder rattling their top order. Four out of Sri Lanka's top four batsmen got out on single digits as Proteas side claimed six wickets inside 100 runs.
Suresh Raina has shared a super adorable video of himself with his son Rio. The video is doing several rounds on social media.
“Kuchh to bata zindagi... apna pata zindagi... “- Babies are the most innocent souls .. and they hold an answer to all our apprehensions. pic.twitter.com/nfLYoFIA8X— Suresh Raina🇮🇳 (@ImRaina) January 3, 2021
The Indian women's hockey team has left for Argentina. Rani Rampal shared the pictures of their departure on social media. This will be their first tour in almost a year.
Off to Argentina ✈️looking forward for the first tour of 2021 💪#bhartkisherniya #travelafteroneyear #RR28#playingtime❤️ #hockeylife #nike #odisha pic.twitter.com/tr8oXCUCqP— Rani Rampal (@imranirampal) January 2, 2021
Barcelona will be playing the first game of 2021 against Huesca and the team has announced the squad for the game.
The squad for #HuescaBarça
1 ter Stegen
2 Dest
4 R Araujo
5 Sergio
6 Aleñá
7 Griezmann
8 Pjanić
9 Braithwaite
10 Messi
11 O Dembélé
12 Riqui Puig
13 Neto
15 Lenglet
16 Pedri
17 Trincão
18 Jordi Alba
19 Matheus
21 F de Jong
24 Junior
26 Iñaki Peña
28 O Mingueza
29 Konrad
💪🟦🟥— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) January 3, 2021
Sourav Ganguly suffered from a mild heart attack on Saturday and the latest update is that he has been tested negative with COVID-19 and is currently afebrile.
We are back with yet another live sports blog. We will be tracking the breaking sports news throughout the day with our live updates. From live score updates to match results you will get all the major sports news here. To begin the action on January 03, Pakistan will take on hosts New Zealand in the second Test. South Africa and Sri Lanka will be in action later in the day as well. We will have live football action as well. Pakistan vs New Zealand 2nd Test 2021 Live Streaming Online Day 1: Get PAK vs NZ Cricket Match Free TV Channel and Live Telecast Details on PTV Sports.
We will be getting Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly’s health update as well, he suffered a hear attack on Saturday and underwent angioplasty. Ganguly was doing fine and is expected to be discharged from a hospital in Kolkatta. Get Well Soon DADA! Sudarsan Pattnaik Wishes Sourav Ganguly A Speedy Recovery With his Latest Sand Art.
We will keeping track of India’s tour of Australia 2020-21 as well. There were reports of Indian players breaching the bio-bubble protocol in Melbourne and then some of the players were isolated subsequently. More updates are likely to come our way today.