Here is Sportzwiki’s daily news round-up, featuring top sports news from around the world, on 24th October 2017.
Here’s all the news from sporting events, as cricket, football, WWE, Tennis and other sports took over the attention of all the sports enthusiasts.
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka 2017, 5th ODI, Sharjah
Pakistan completed a whitewash over the touring Sri Lanka, as they won the fifth and final ODI of the series by nine wickets, courtesy a five-wicket haul in just 21 balls by their new left-arm fast bowling sensation, Usman Khan.
Sri Lanka was bowled out for 103 in just 26.2 overs. Usman Khan finished with the figures of five for 34 in seven overs. Hasan Ali and Shadab Khan also picked up two wickets each. Pakistan reached the target in just 20.2 overs losing one wicket of Fakhar Zaman who fell on 48 runs.
Usman Khan was adjudged the man of the match, and Hasan Ali was chosen as the player of the series. The two teams will now meet in a three-match T20 series scheduled to begin on 26th October.
India vs New Zealand 2017, T20 Squad
The BCCI announced a 16-man squad for the upcoming T20 series, Shreyas Iyer and Mohammed Sirajj were the noticeable selections in the team. Kedar Jhadav missed out on the squad, whereas, Ashish Nehra has been picked up for just one match which will also be his last match. KL Rahul is recalled for the T20 series after being dropped from the ODI Squad.
Squad for the T20I series: Virat Kohli (c) Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra (1st T20I), Mohammad Siraj.
Zimbabwe vs Windies 2017, First Test, Bulawayo
Windies has set Zimbabwe a target of 434 runs in the first Test in Bulawayo. Kraigg Braithwaite played a composed innings of 86 runs at the top of the order, whereas, Roston Chase played a crucial knock of 95 runs which helped Windies take a lead of 433 runs and finish the innings at 373 runs.
WWE Monday Night Raw Results, 23rd October 2017
Monday Night Raw kicked off with Raw General Manager Kurt Angle coming out and recalling his in his in-ring return and announced the traditional Raw vs Smackdown PPV, Survivor Series.
He announced the championship cross-brand matches as well at the PPV. He was then interrupted by the Miz, Cesaro and Sheamus who blamed him that he stole all the spotlight at TLC. Angle then set up their match with the tag-team champions partnered by AJ Styles.
Ambrose, Rollins and Styles won the match, courtesy a phenomenal forearm on Cesaro by Styles. Later, Kane beat Finn Balor with three chokeslams
Noticeably, Brock Lesnar showed up at Raw and accepted Jinder Mahal’s challenge at the PPV. In the final segment, the Smackdown roster invaded the Raw locker room and gained the upper hand ahead of the PPV.
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World Cup Final
India’s Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu won gold in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the shooting World Cup final in New Delhi on Tuesday.
FIFA Awards
Olivier Giroud won the 2017 FIFA Puskas Award piping Oscarine Masuluke. Giroud won the award for his scorpion kick against Crystal Palace in the Premier League.
Gianluigi Buffon won the FIFA Best Goal Keeper award.
Celtic FC won the award Best fans award.
Zinedine Zidane won the FIFA Best Men’s Coach award.
Lieke Martens of Netherlands won the FIFA Best Female Player award.
Cristiano Ronaldo won the FIFA Best Male Player award.
FIFpro World XI
Buffon, Marcelo, Ramos, Bonucci, Dani Alves, Luca Modric, Tony Kroos, Andreas Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar.