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Serhou Guirassy scored twice as Borussia Dortmund beat 10-man Villarreal 4-0 at home in the Champions League on Tuesday. Dortmund’s first win in all competitions since October, took the 2024 Champions League finalists to fourth in the table with five games played. Last season’s joint top Champions League goalscorer, Guirassy had found the net just once in his past nine matches, but headed Dortmund in front seconds before halftime.  Villarreal captain Juan Foyth was sent off early in the second period when a VAR review found he handballed a goalbound shot from Karim Adeyemi, upgrading his yellow card…

South Africa’s Marco Jansen (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan) South Africa’s dominant tour of India found its perfect symbol in Marco Jansen, who walked away with the Player of the Match award after a brilliant all round display that shaped the 408 run win in Guwahati. The tall left arm quick produced a sensational 6 for 48 in the first innings and then added a vital 93 with the bat in South Africa’s imposing total of 489. His effort set the tone for a victory that completed a 2 0 series sweep and delivered South Africa their first Test series win in…

Chelsea romped to a dominant 3-0 win at home to 10-man Barcelona in the Champions League on Tuesday, while Pep Guardiola’s much-changed Manchester City went down to their first defeat of the campaign against Bayer Leverkusen. In a battle between the second-placed sides in the Premier League and La Liga, Chelsea emerged emphatic winners thanks to goals from 18-year-old Estevao and Liam Delap after a Jules Kounde own-goal had given the 2021 Champions League winners a first-half lead. The visitors played just over half the encounter a player down following captain Ronald Araujo’s dismissal for two bookable offences…

NEW DELHI: Aiden Markram etched his name into cricketing folklore on Wednesday, producing one of the greatest fielding performances in Test history. The South African star became the first cricketer ever to take nine catches as an outfielder in a Test match, breaking the long-standing record of eight held by India’s Ajinkya Rahane.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The milestone came during the second India–South Africa Test in Guwahati, where Markram has turned the slip cordon into his own highlight reel. With India still three wickets away from being bowled out in their second innings, the Proteas…

Enzo Maresca on Tuesday played down comparisons between Estevao and Lionel Messi after Chelsea’s wonderkid scored a spectacular solo Champions League goal in a thumping 3-0 win against Barcelona. The 18-year-old Brazilian emphatically won the battle of the teenage prodigies against Lamine Yamal as the London club won their third match out of five in the league phase of the competition. Estevao’s moment of magic came 10 minutes after half-time when he received the ball on the right before beating two defenders and lashing it into the roof of Joan Garcia’s net. It was the winger’s 10th goal…

South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad (X) Former India wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel has taken strong exception to South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad’s controversial remark about making India “grovel” during the ongoing second Test in Guwahati. Conrad, speaking after stumps on Day 4 when asked why South Africa delayed their declaration, responded with a grin, saying: “We wanted the Indians to spend as much time on their feet as possible. We wanted them to really grovel, to stay out there, bat them completely out of the contest, and then challenge them to survive today evening and on the final day.”…

Anil Kumble and Shukri Conrad NEW DELHI: South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad has ignited a fierce cricketing debate after using the word “grovel” while describing his team’s Day 4 strategy during the Guwahati Test. The remark — made after South Africa set India a fourth-innings target of over 500 — has drawn sharp reactions from former India captain Anil Kumble and senior batter Cheteshwar Pujara, both of whom said they were stunned by the choice of words.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Conrad, analysing South Africa’s dominant position at stumps, said he wanted India to be…

NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray has launched a sharp attack on the International Cricket Council (ICC) for awarding the 2026 T20 World Cup final to Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, accusing the global cricket body of indulging in “sudden politics of favouritism.” Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The ICC unveiled the full tournament schedule at a high-profile event in Mumbai on Tuesday, but Thackeray’s remarks quickly sparked a fresh political storm around cricket’s biggest showpiece.India vs Pakistan again at an ICC event; T20 World Cup schedule is out!In a strongly worded post on X,…

Cristiano Ronaldo will likely avoid missing any Portugal games at the World Cup despite his red card in a qualifying game for elbowing an Ireland opponent. FIFA published a disciplinary verdict on Tuesday that imposed a three-game ban, which judged Ronaldo’s action as “violent conduct” or “serious foul play,” but with two of those games deferred for a one-year probation period. Ronaldo served a mandatory one-game ban when Portugal played its final qualifying game last week — a 9-1 win over Armenia that sealed its place at the World Cup in North America. The superstar had been expected…

Smriti Mandhana-Palash Muchhal (X) Indian women’s cricket vice-captain Smriti Mandhana’s wedding celebrations in Sangli, Maharashtra, were abruptly halted on Sunday when her father, Shrinivas Mandhana, fell seriously ill. Hospitalised immediately, his condition forced the couple to postpone the much-anticipated ceremony. Mandhana’s business manager, Tuhin Mishra, confirmed that the decision to halt proceedings was made by the cricketer herself, prioritising her father’s recovery. “Smriti is very close to her father. She decided that until her father gets well, this marriage… is indefinitely postponed,” Mishra said.Medical clarification on father’s healthInitially feared to be a heart attack, Mandhana’s father was later diagnosed with…