Captain Faf du Plessis led from the front with an impressive 120 as he single-handedly took South Africa to 269 for 8 in the first One-Day International against India, in Durban, on Thursday.
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Lionel Messi came off the bench to inspire Barcelona to a 3-1 win over a dogged Leganes side on Sunday, creating one goal and scoring another to keep the Catalans five points clear at the top of La Liga.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday
West Indies suffered to their second successive series whitewash when they lost to Pakistan in the third ODI by 22 runs.
Images from Day 5 of the Australian Open in Melbourne on Friday.
New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 38 runs in the second Test to win the two-match series 1-0.
A summary of all the Champions League matches played across Europe on Wednesday
The reason: Vitaly Mutko has delivered victories on the sports field for the past decade and a half to match Putin's ambition of restoring national pride, and the Russian leader stands by the people who give him loyal service.
Juventus striker Gonzalo Higuain again showed his killer instinct with two expertly-taken goals in a late 3-1 win at Torino after their less illustrious neighbours had scored first and dominated the Serie A game on Sunday.
Yousuf Youhana scored a century as Pakistan joined Australia in the final of a one-day series with a 30-run win over West Indies.
All-rounder Yuvraj Singh claimed five wickets as the visiting England team grabbed a 57-run first innings lead over India 'A' in the three-day practice game which ended in a tame draw, in Mumbai, on Thursday. England, replying to the home side's first innings total of 369, were dismissed for 426, half hour after lunch, with Yuvraj finishing with impressive figures of 5 for 94 in 26.5 overs.
Abdul Razzaq's century helped Pakistan coast to a 144-run victory in the first match of the triangular one-day series.
IMAGES from matches played at the Miami Masters in Key Biscayne, Florida
Mike Okoro's goal gave the Kolkata giants a 1-1 draw in the Group 'E' Asian Football Confederation Cup match.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
The defending champion beat Vassily Ivanchuk 2-0 to take second place in the combined standings with 12 points in the Amber Blind and Rapid chess tournament.
The Scots held the defending champions in the first half to go level into the break, but Australia ran away with the match in the second term to set up a semifinal against the All Blacks.
The Kolkata pro played a brilliant round of three-under 69 on the penultimate day of the Cotton City Open.
A look at Sachin Tendulkar's time at the crease on Day 1 of the second Test against the West Indies.
Replying to South Africa's mammoth 558 for six, India were 25 for no loss at stumps on day two of the opening Test in Nagpur on Sunday.
The Kanpur pro leads the field at the half-way stage in the HT Pro Golf 2003.
Champions Manchester United delivered a superb display to win 3-1 at title rivals Arsenal in the English Premier League on Sunday. AS Roma moved level on points with stuttering AC Milan in second spot in Italy's Serie A after a 2-1 win over bottom side Siena.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
Yuvraj Singh knocked at the doors of national team selectors following a superb, quick-fire century (89-ball 123) to lead India 'A' to a thumping 77-run victory over West Indies 'A' in the first of the three-match One-day series, in Bangalore on Sunday.
An inexperienced Germany suffered an embarrassing 3-1 defeat to Slovakia in a storm-affected friendly ahead of Euro 2016.
Being one of the most ecologically modernized state in the world, Japan heads to Copenhagen with its ambition of green leadership in the post Kyoto regime. Japan has nurtured this ambition through smart diplomatic endeavors, ecological restructuring of policies and technological innovations.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Saturday
India pacer Ishant Sharma wrecked havoc with the ball as he claimed a five-wicket haul to leave the Sri Lanka Board President's XI in tatters on Day 2 of the three-day tour match, in Colombo, on Friday.
IMAGES from the matches played on Day 4 of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on Thursday
Chelsea came from behind to secure a 3-1 win at Manchester City and forge further clear at the top of the Premier League as a dramatic top-of-the-table clash ended in a mass brawl and two City players being sent off on Saturday.
Photographic summary of the football matches played across Spain, Italy and France
India's Monica Devi win's bronze in 75 kg category in the weightlifting event of the Commonwealth Games on Saturday.
Claude Arpi captures the fan's passion for football in these entertaining e-mails to Ivan Crasto,Rediff.com's Sports Editor.
- 'Always strong at the psychological game, the Aussies put the pressure on the opponents, knew how to handle the pressure themselves and exploited virtually every situation to their advantage' - 'They are firmly and categorically told never to allow success to go to their heads. You don't find Australian cricketers getting even a little complacent'
'No, that is not an abbreviation for the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha,' says T V R Shenoy, 'but for J Jayalalithaa-Mamata Banerjee-Mayawati-Mulayam Singh Yadav... If the AIADMK, the Trinamool Congress, and other regional forces do extremely well, we could be heading for a repetion of the 9th Lok Sabha (1989 to 1991) and the 11th Lok Sabha (1996 to 1998), each of which saw multiple prime ministers and neither of which lasted even half of its five-year term.'
In other matches in the Champions Chellenge hockey tournament, New Zealand beat England while Argentina beat Japan.
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