🚣🚴🏇🏊 SPORTS
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1. Neeraj Chopra winds down a sparkling year with Diamond League Champion title. Neeraj Chopra’s 88.44 metres in Round 2 proves to be the winning throw, Czech Jakub Vadlejch is second with 86.94 metres. The first Indian to win a track and field gold at the Olympics, the first Indian to win a silver at the World Championship is now the first to win the title of Diamond League Champion.
2. ASIA CUP 2022
India vs Afghanistan, Super Four, Match 5 (A1 v B2)
India won by 101 runs
IND – 212/2 (20)
AFG – 111/8 (20)
CRR: 5.55
Player of the Match
Virat Kohli
Former Team India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday recorded the highest-ever score by an Indian in T20I cricket after scoring 122* off 61 deliveries against Afghanistan in Asia Cup 2022. He broke the previous record held by Rohit Sharma, who had slammed 118(43) against Sri Lanka on December 22, 2017. Kohli has now slammed 71 hundreds in international cricket.
3. Sep 09, Fri
Sri Lanka vs Pakistan
Super Four,
Match 6 (B1 v A2) at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai
19:30 IST / 14:00 GMT
4. The second day’s play in the third England-South Africa Test at Kennington Oval in London will not take place on Friday as scheduled due to the demise of Queen Elizabeth II,
the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced. Further, all scheduled matches in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, will also not take place on Friday.
5. After contrasting semifinals, Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur set up US Open final
World No. 1 Swiatek overturned a one-set deficit to defeat Aryna Sabalenka, while fifth seeded Jabeur thrashed Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-3 on Thursday. On Saturday, with a championship on the line, Jabeur will go up against No. 1-ranked Iga Swiatek, who grabbed the last four games, and 16 of the last 20 points, to come back and beat No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the second semifinal.
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