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MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – England midfielder Kalvin Phillips returned from the World Cup overweight and not in the right condition to play, Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has said.

(Reuters) – Rafa Nadal is aiming to successfully defend his Australian Open title at the first Grand Slam of the year in January after an injury-plagued 2022 despite arriving a bit short of his peak level, the Spaniard said yesterday.

NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – England all-rounder Sam Curran became the Indian Premier League’s (IPL) most expensive ever buy in the players’ auction today as the world’s richest cricket league spent big ahead of the 2023 season.

A final with an international flavour will decide the KFC Goodwill Schools Football Championship tonight, as Region #7 outfit DC Caesar Fox opposes St.

The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) has partnered with emerging football fandom platform, FIFA+, to present the country’s national football tournaments to live audiences around the globe.

Region #6 overcame a one goal deficit to defeat Region #8 by a 3-2 score when the ‘One Guyana President’s Cup’ Football Championship continued last night at the Albion Cricket ground, East Berbice.

(Reuters) – India seamer Umesh Yadav and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin claimed four wickets apiece as the tourists bowled out Bangladesh for a below-par 227 on the opening day of the second and final test in Mirpur yesterday.

(Reuters) – Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has been sacked as chairman of the country’s cricket board (PCB) after the 3-0 test series whitewash by England, his interim replacement Najam Sethi said yesterday.

(Reuters) – England have named fast bowler Jofra Archer in their 14-man squad for the three-match One-Day International series in South Africa next month, while there is a first call-up in the 50-over format for in-form batsman Harry Brook.

(Reuters) – Benetton Treviso rugby club said yesterday they had suspended one of their players after a Black team member revealed he had received a banana as a Christmas gift from a team mate in the latest act of racism to hit Italian sport.

(Reuters) – China’s three-times Olympic champion Lyu Xiaojun has been provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance, the International Testing Agency (ITA) said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Australia captain Meg Lanning has ended her break from cricket and was included in the squad for their one-day international series against Pakistan next month, giving the team a boost ahead of the women’s Twenty20 World Cup in February.

(Reuters) – Italy’s soccer prosecutors are seeking the partial cancellation of a ruling that cleared Juventus and other clubs and their executives following an accounting investigation involving capital gains, the football federation (FIGC) said yesterday.

(CMC) – Carlos Brathwaite, Andre Fletcher, and Fabian Allen are out, but Dominic Drakes, Romario Shepherd, and the Colombo Stars are into the final of the Lanka Premier League.

(Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) yesterday raised the possibility of boxing being excluded from the 2024 Paris Games, saying its Russian-led world body showed it had “no real interest” in the sport or its athletes.

(CMC) – An enterprising 45 from West Indies Under-19 batsman Kevin Wickham proved decisive and set up Settlers for a five-run win against Guardians to take the inaugural BIM10 title yesterday.

(Reuters) – Men will be allowed to compete in artistic swimming at the Olympics from the Paris 2024 Games, World Aquatics said yesterday, as part of a drive towards inclusivity hailed by athletes as the realisation of an “impossible dream”.

(Reuters) – The distasteful taunting of France striker Kylian Mbappe by some Argentina fans amid celebrations in Buenos Aires to welcome back the World Cup winners should be investigated by soccer’s world governing body FIFA, a senior French cabinet minister said.

(Reuters) – Argentina have climbed one place to second in the latest FIFA rankings behind arch-rivals Brazil after their World Cup triumph in Qatar, while the tournament’s surprise package Morocco were big movers and are on the verge of cracking the top 10.

(Reuters) – Manchester City will travel to Southampton in the League Cup quarter-finals after knocking out holders Liverpool and Manchester United were handed a home tie against third-tier Charlton Athletic in the draw yesterday.