Here is Sportzwiki’s daily news round-up, featuring top sports news from around the world, on 18th October 2017. Here’s all the news from sporting events as cricket, football and WWE which took over the attention of all the sports enthusiasts.
Kerala High Court upholds BCCI appeal, reimposes life ban of tainted fast-bowler S Sreesanth:
A division bench of the Kerala High Court, on Tuesday (October 17), stated that Sreesanth would have to stay away from all cricketing activity conducted by the BCCI. The World Cup-winning bowler was handed a life ban by the BCCI in 2015 after he was charged with corruption during the 2013 Indian Premier League.
However, in August this year, the Kerala High Court had revoked the BCCI’s decision, telling the board it had no incriminating evidence against the player and hence the ban should be “quashed”. The board, in return, challenged the decision and the court has now given its verdict in its favour.
Sachin Tendulkar coming soon as a comic hero:
After entertaining one and all on the cricket, batting legend Sachin Tendulkar is all set to wow the upcoming generation as his autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’ is being converted into a comic book.
According to The Times of India, an abridged version of the book will be made available in about a week’s time. Hachette India, the publishers of the comic book, have confirmed the developments.
India to take on South Korea in Asia Cup:
High-flying India will be looking to extend their winning run when they take on tricky opponents South Korea in their first match of the Super 4 stage in the 10th Asia Cup hockey tournament on Wednesday (October 18).
India finished the pool stage with an all-win record and had looked the best team in the tournament so far. On the other hand, their opponents, South Korea have struggled for rhythm and finished the pool stage in the second position.
Champions League roundup:
Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur played out an entertaining draw at Bernabeu:
Riding on goalkeeper Hugo Lloris’ excellent show, Tottenham held reigning Champions League holders Real Madrid to 1-1 as both the club continue to lead Group H.
Mauricio Pochettino’s were the first to get on the scoreboard when a dangerous cross was turned into the goal by Real defender Raphael Varane before Cristiano Ronaldo equalised from the spot just before the break.
Borussia Dortmund’s drop points:
The Germany outfit’s hopes of making it to the knockout stage took a huge blow after they were held to a frustrating draw by minnows APOEL Nicosia. The Cypriots, who had lost both of their opening matches 3-0, took the lead when Mickael Pote seised on a Roman Burki error. The visitors then equalised through Sokratis Papastathopoulos but failed to find the winner.
Dortmund are now level on points with APOEl, having managed just one draw in three games.
Other results:
Feyenoord 1-2 Shakhtar Donetsk
RB Leipzig 3-2 Porto
Monaco 1-2 Besiktas
Maribor 0-7 Liverpool
Manchester City 2-1 Napoli
Spartak Moskva 5-1 Sevilla
FIFA Under-17 World Cup:
England and Spain advance to quarterfinal:
England progressed to the U-17 World Cup quarterfinals after beating Japan 5-3 in the tie-breaker of their Round-of-16 match at the Salt Lake Stadium on Tuesday. Spain also joined England in the last 8 with a win over France courtesy of a late penalty from Abel Ruiz.
Jindar Mahal challenges Brock Lesnar in Survivor Series:
“At Survivor Series, I am challenging The Beast. At Survivor Series, I am challenging Brock Lesnar,” said Mahal.
The #ModernDayMaharaja @JinderMahal has just laid down a challenge for #SurvivorSeries…to #UniversalChampion @BrockLesnar?! #SDLive pic.twitter.com/gXah8sYOwt
— WWE (@WWE) October 18, 2017