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England won the Cricket World Cup for the first time in extraordinary circumstances, beating New Zealand by a tiebreaker of boundaries scored after the final was tied after regulation play and again following the first Super Over in the tournament's 44-year history.

England wicketkeeper Jos Buttler ran out Martin Guptill on the last ball of the Super Over on Sunday as the New Zealand opener scrambled back for a second run that would have earned the Black Caps their first world title.

Al Jazeera's Lee Wellings reports from Lord's Cricket Ground, London.

Is this year's Women's World Cup changing attitudes towards women's football? Compared to past tournaments, the event hosted by France this year is already breaking viewership records around the world.

The event has produced a number of historic moments including Brazilian footballer Marta becoming the World Cup's all-time leading scorer, Jamaica's first-ever World Cup goal, Cameroon and Nigeria advancing to the knockout rounds for the first time, and the United States team's record-breaking 13-0 win against Thailand.

In this episode, we’ll look at the highs and lows of the tournament so far and how the global event is being used by some as a platform to speak out against gender inequality. The top-ranked US team is still in the middle of a legal fight with its own federation for equal pay, and many other women's national squads are using their World Cup platform to raise concerns surrounding gender discrimination and fair pay from their respective football federations.

The Final Quarter, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival this month, is forcing Australians to confront racism in their society.

It tells the true story of Adam Goodes - a champion sportsman who was booed simply because of the colour of his skin.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Thomas reports from Sydney.

The world's best footballers are in France to fight for their sport's biggest prize.

No, we haven't confuse it with the World Cup in Russia last year: we're talking about the Women's World Cup.
The eighth edition of the tournament is being played in nine cities over the next month.

Football's world governing body FIFA, wants to reach a record one billion television viewers.

However, the world's best female footballer, Ada Hegerberg, won't be taking to the pitch.

Why isn't she playing? And is women's football finally emerging from the shadows of the men's game?

Former India captain Saurav Ganguly has said after the terrorist attack on CRPF jawans in Pulwama that there is no possibility of a bilateral series with Pakistan. Also, they have expressed sorrow in condemning this cowardly assault.

Ganguly also said that the International Cricket Council (ICC) can not hold World Cup without India. The former captain said, "Whatever happened in Pulwama last week, it was very sad and after the attack, the reaction of the people of India came, it is absolutely fine. There is no possibility of a bilateral series with Pakistan after this brutal attack."

Ganguly said, "I can understand the feelings of the people who are saying that India should not play with Pakistan in the World Cup and I think the government should take strict action against this issue."

He said that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) works under the Supreme Court and it can not take any major decision on its own. Ganguly said, "I do not think the BCCI has the power to make its own decision. There is no official left to make a decision, but I feel that the BCCI should take a strong decision on this issue and send a very harsh message."

On the question of not playing with Pakistan in the World Cup, the former captain said that a total of 10 teams participate in the World Cup and all the teams have to play matches with each other. If India does not play a match in the World Cup then I do not think there should be any objection in it. Talking to a private news channel, he said, "The ICC will have to face many difficulties in making the World Cup without India. But you also have to see whether India has the power to stop the ICC from doing so. But I feel like a clear message must be sent."

In Orissa's Bhubaneswar, Belgium defeated England 6-0 in the one-sided match played at the Kalinga Stadium on Saturday and entered the first time in the Hockey World Cup finals. Alexander Hendrix scored two goals for Belgium in this match, and Tom Boon, Simon Goonard, Cedric Charlier and Sebastian Dociar scored one goal each.

The England team took an aggressive start from the start of the match, but Belgium introduced the best defense. The Belgian team made a quick start by retaliating. In the 8th minute of the match, Belgian star forward player Tom Boon scored the first goal for his team.

The beginning of the second quarter was fantastic for Belgium, and four minutes later Goonard scored twice in the team's lead with a penalty corner. Belgium unilaterally beat the match in the third and fourth quarters. Belgian, who reached the 2016 Rio final, played the best passing game. In the 42nd minute, Charlier scored the third goal. Hendrix scored his first goal of the match in the 45th minute on the penalty corner. In the fourth quarter England team put their arms. Hendrix scored his second goal of a penalty corner in the 50th minute and scored 5-0. Before the match ended, in the 53rd minute, Dociar scored the last goal.

In Orissa's Bhubaneswar, the Netherlands entered the finals of the men's Hockey World Cup by defeating Australia 4-3 in penalty shoot out in the highly exciting semi-final match played at the Kalinga Stadium on Saturday. The result of the match was 2-2 at the time of the match. For this reason, the match went on to the penalty shootout and the score was also 3-3. The Netherlands scored in the sudden death, while the Australian team missed and the Netherlands reached the finals. In the final, the Netherlands will face Belgium, who beat England 6-0 in their semi-final match.

In the semifinal match, the Australians were at one time 1-2 behind, but Captain Edie Ockindon scored in the last minute to score a score of 2-2 and bring the thrill to the match. The Netherlands had an aggressive start in this match. So did happen. In the 5th minute he got a penalty corner. Although Van Der Waerden did not score this goal. The Netherlands did not have to wait much for the first goal. In the 9th minute of the game, Glenn Schurman scored a brilliant field goal and made the Netherlands 1-0 ahead. Australia tried very well, but it did not get success.

In the second quarter, the Netherlands scored another goal and brought more pressure to Australia. Sieve Van Aas gave the Netherlands a 2-0 lead in the 20th minute with another spectacular field goal. In the quarter, the Netherlands got a total of three penalty corners, but one goal could not be scored. In the second quarter Australia's parts also came in two penalty corners. Australian players failed on both occasions. The Australian team's efforts did not stop in the third quarter and, finally, in the last minute of the quarter, they were able to make the first goal and return to the match. Australia got a penalty corner in the 45th minute, on which Tim Howard scored the goal and opened his account.

The Australian team was extremely aggressive in the last quarter. Australia removed its goalkeeper and taken an additional forward player on the field. In the 57th minute, he managed to get another penalty corner, but once again Block became a hindrance in his path. When the match was over 26 seconds, then Australia equalized through a spectacular field goal. Outside D, Daniel Bail passed to Ockindon, Ockendon put the ball in the net and brought Australia into the match penalty shootout. Here also the score is equal and the Netherlands beat the Sadden Death.

Closing ceremony of 18th Asian Games concluded in Jakarta on Sunday. In this grand ceremony, thousands of participants in various sports gathering between traditional music and colorful events gathered for their last sayings. Indian women's hockey team captain Rani Rampal led the Indian team with the tricolor flag.

As always, China is dominated by these Asian Games. It is a different matter that China has won fewer medals than in 2010 and 2014. But in spite of this, he succeeded in maintaining his empire.

China, which is considered the sport's super power at the global level, won 282 medals in Jakarta with 132 gold, 92 silver and 65 bronze. Apart from this, Japan could cross 200 medals. With a total of 205 medals, Japan was second and 177 with South Korea at third position. While India also performed its best, it won a total of 69 medals with 15 gold. India had won 65 medals in 2010 and won 15 gold in 1951.

The Asian Games started in 1951. China joined the Asian Games in 1974, but despite this, he remains the country's largest medal winner in these games today. If left for Jakarta, China had won 2,976 medals in 11 editions of this Asian Games, including 1,355 Gold, 928 Silver and 693 Bronze medals.

India secured the first bronze medal in the Sepak Takara game.

At the beginning of the third day of Asian Games, India made two medals, including gold, in the shooting. In 10 meter air pistol event, Saurabh won gold and Abhishek won the Bronze Medal. After that, Sanjeev Rajput, in the shooting, gave Silver the name of the third medal of the day in India's palace.

But in the wrestling, India was not good for the third day. Indian wrestlers lost all their gold medal events.

Although India got the first bronze medal in the Sepak Takara game. Now everyone will be sighted on gymnast Deepa Karmakar. In the first two days of Asian Games, there were 5 medals in India's account.

India started well on the third day of the Asian Games. In the shooting, India made two medals including gold.

In 10 meter air pistol event, Saurabh won gold and Abhishek won the Bronze Medal.

Now everyone will be seen at the gymnast Deepa Karmakar and medal event of shooting and wrestling.

On the first day of the Asian Games, India had opened its account with a bronze medal and won a total of 2 medals on the first day. On the second day, 3 medals were put in their lap.