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Australia defeated India by 21 runs in the fourth ODI at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday.

Australia batted first with a huge goal of 335 runs in front of India.

The Indian team could score 313 runs losing eight wickets in 50 overs. Kedar Jadhav scored the highest 67 runs from India.

Rohit Sharma scored 65 and Ajinkya Rahane scored 53 runs. Ken Richardson took two wickets for Australia.

Earlier, Australia won the toss and chose the batting first and scored the first wicket between David Warner (124) and Aaron Finch (94) after scoring 231 runs for the first wicket on 50 overs after scoring 334 runs for five wickets.

Warner made 12 fours and four sixes in 119 balls. Finch hit ten fours and three sixes in 96 balls.

India have won the third one-day match against Australia in Indore by five wickets. In addition, India has achieved an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

Australia had given India the target of 294 runs, which India achieved on five wickets in 47.5 overs.

This is the ninth successive success in India's one-day cricket.

On behalf of India, Hardik Pandya scored a maximum of 78 runs. He played 78 runs off 72 balls.

Prior to this, Rohit Sharma (71 runs) and Ajinkya Rahane (70 runs) have played the innings of 71 runs and 70 runs and put India on the road to victory. Captain Virat Kohli could not stand long on the pitch. He made 28 runs off 35 balls.

Earlier, Australia had scored 293 runs in the last 50 overs with 6 wickets.

David Warner and Aaron Finch gave Australia a strong start and both of them added 70 runs for the first wicket. Hardik Pandya did out Warner on 42 runs. It was followed by a partnership of 154 runs between captain Steve Smith and Finch.

Finch played a magnificent innings of 124 runs, while Steve Smith scored 63 runs and was the second highest scorer of the Australian innings.

Jaspreet Bumrah and Kedar Jadhav took two wickets each from India. At the same time, Yujavendra Chahl and Hardik Pandya picked one-one player out. Kedar Jadhav proved to be the most expensive bowler. He gave 75 runs in 10 overs.

India is leading 3-0 in the five-match ODI series.

Indian badminton player PV Sindhu created a new history by winning the Korea Open Badminton Tournament on Sunday defeating Japan's Nozomi Okuhara and she became the first Indian player to win the Korea Open Badminton Tournament.

In the women's singles match lasted one hour and 24 minutes, Sindhu won the match by defeating Okuhara 22-20, 11-21, 21-18. For Sindhu though, this victory was not easy.

In this match, Sindhu was seen knee-deep several times in front of aggressive Okuhara. Small in the stature of Sindhu, but Okuhara further forwarded no opportunity to overtake Indian athlete.

In the first game, Sindhu defeated Okuhara 22-20, while in the second game, she looked weak ahead of Okuhara and lagged behind 11-21. The third game was important among both, because it was about deciding to win the title.

In the third game, Sindhu got some success in defeating Okuhara by Stinging all her energy and strength.

During this game, at one time, Sindhu got almost tired on mat, but she was not willing to give up and therefore, she got up again and she won the third set 21-18 to beat Okuhara.

It is worth mentioning that this year, Okuhara won the gold medal by defeating Sindhu in the final of the World Championship and Indian player had to be satisfied with the silver medal.

Now, after completing her revenge, Sindhu won not only Korea Open, but also compared the number of matches against Okhara to 4-4.

This is the second Super Series title of Sindhu. Earlier, she won the title of India Open by defeating Carolina Marin of Spain.

Virender Sehwag said on Friday that due to lack of preservation of officials in the BCCI, he missed the main coach of the Indian cricket team and would not apply for the post again.

Sehwag lagged behind Ravi Shastri in the race for this post, which was considered as the choice of captain Virat Kohli.

This decision though was not unanimous and former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, who was involved in the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), was against it.

Sehwag said during a 'chat show' in the Hindi news channel 'India TV', "Look, I could not become a coach because I did not have any settings from who was selecting the coach."

This former aggressive opener claimed that when he was applying for this post, a section of the BCCI had given him a stray.

Sehwag said, "I never thought of giving coaching to the Indian cricket team. I was offered to be the coach of the team. BCCI Secretary (Ambitabh Chaudhary) and General Manager (Sports Development) MV Shridhar came to me and requested me to think about this offer. I took the time and then applied for this post."

He claimed that before applying for this post, he had consulted Indian captain Virat Kohli.

Sehwag said, "I had spoken to Virat Kohli also, he told me to move forward. After this I had applied If you ask my view, I would say that I had never been interested in it."

He said, "I thought they are urging, so I should help them. I have never thought about the application itself and will never apply in the future."

Sehwag also said that Shastri had initially told him that he would not apply for the post and if he had already known his intentions, then he would not send his name.

He said, "When I was in England during the Champions Trophy, I asked Ravi Shastri why did not he apply for the post?

Shastri then told me that he will not repeat the mistake that he has done once."

Sehwag said, "If Ravi had applied earlier, I do not think there was any possibility of applying for this position. I never apply."

The host of 2024 and 2028 have been announced for the Olympic Games. Hosting of 2024 to France's capital Paris and American city of Los Angeles of 2028.

Both cities wanted to host the 2024 Olympic Games, but after getting the guarantee of funding from the International Olympic Committee, Los Angeles was ready to wait for four years.

Los Angeles said that it should get the chance to prepare for hosting, while Paris said that the proposed place for the Games in it would not be available after 2024 due to redevelopment.

In 2008 and 2012, Paris was also in the race to host the Olympic Games. There were Olympic Games a hundred years ago.

There are two Olympics in Los Angeles in 1932 and 1984.

After withdrawing their name by Hamburg, Rome and Budapest, there were only two candidates for hosting of 2024 - Paris and Los Angeles.

The International Olympic Committee decided to announce in June hosting of 2024 and 2028 together.

Star India has purchased the Digital and Television Broadcasting rights of Indian Premier League (IPL) for five years for Rs. 16,347.5 crores. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) gave its information on Monday.

Star India had made the biggest bid for the broadcast rights of IPL globally. Under this, Star India will now have the rights to broadcast IPL from 2018 to 2022.

Initially, a total of 24 companies had registered for the acquisition of IPL rights. It included companies like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, Reliance Jio, Star India, Sony Pictures, Discovery, Sky, British Telecom and ESPN Digital Media.

BCCI will benefit from an IPL match of Rs 55 crores, while it will benefit a total of 43 crores from an international level match.

Star India Chairman Uday Shankar said on this occasion, "We believe that IPL is a powerful asset and we also know that the price of this tournament at the level of digital and TV should be increased more and more among fans. After achieving this right, we will be more committed to the development of this game in the country."

Shankar said that India, cricket and IPL have undergone major changes since 2008 and this claim is a glimpse of that change.

These media rights met Star India include mobile, internet and digital rights. At the digital level, viewers use the Hot Star app to watch IPL matches.

Shankar said that watching cricket matches in India has always been a great experience despite the confrontation with the BCCI outside the field.

BCCI Chief Executive Officer Rahul Johari said, "Our main goal is to provide stakeholders a transparent process where there is no doubt in their minds."

Earlier, Sony Network had the right to broadcast the IPL. In 2009, Sony Channel bought the broadcast rights of IPL for $ 1.63 billion from the World Sports Group for nine years.

It is noteworthy that the World Sports Group had acquired the broadcast rights of the IPL for 10 years from the BCCI.

The Kerala High Court has removed the ban placed on the cricketer S Sreesanth. It was banned by the BCCI. Sreesanth was banned for spot-fixing during the IPL season 6 in 2013.

BCCI imposed a life time ban on Sreesanth. BCCI had banned Sreesanth in September 2013. The court's decision came with great relief for Sreesanth.

Sreesanth had shifted to the Kerala High Court to remove the ban imposed by the BCCI.

In year 2015, the Delhi trial court had canceled all charges against Sreesanth. Along with Sreesanth, all 36 accused, including Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan, were acquitted. But even after the trial court decision, the BCCI did not withdraw the ban on Sreesanth.

In the same year in April this year, the BCCI also rejected the appeal of Sreesanth's lifelong ban.

In his petition, Sreesanth had said that after the trial court's decision, he asked BCCI to remove the ban, but he did not take any action.

The BCCI had dismissed the appeal saying it will not compromise on zero tolerance policy against corruption.

Sreesanth has played 27 Tests, 53 ODIs and 10 T20 Internationals from India. He has taken 87 wickets in Test towards India, 75 in ODIs and 7 wickets in T20. He played last match in 2011 from Team India. Since then, he is out of the team. Last year, he also joined politics. He contested the Kerala assembly on the BJP ticket. Although he had to face defeat.

Usain Bolt, considered to be unbeaten, had to face defeat in his farewell race. The victory of this veteran of Jamaica will be expected by almost everyone, but Justin Gatlin of America, who won in his last race, is also seen as villain due to his tainted past of the dopping.

After the much anticipated 100 meters final of the world championship, at the Olympic Stadium, Gatlin the winner was shown with 9.92 seconds time. He got his compatriot Christian Coleman between the difference of 0.02 seconds.

Gatlin, who was twice banned for doping, and after being beaten by Bolt in the previous two world championships, had to face the hooting of the audience after this victory.

Coleman at the time of 9.94 seconds, he made silver medal, while bolt him 0. 01 seconds behind. The start of this stalwart of Jamaica was bad and he got the bronze medal had to be satisfied with the time of 9.95 seconds.

Bolt made many records about the speed during his career. Scientists claim that they run faster than the bullet train even after the study. But in his last race, it was proved that he is also a human and he is also seeing the effect of age.

After the event, Bolt, who embraced Gatlin, said, "I am sorry that I can not end with victory." But I express my gratitude for support."

He said, "It has been a great experience as usual."

Although Gatlin had to face the hootings of the audience once again, like heats and semi-finals. During this, the audience was shouting 'Usain Bolt, Usain Bolt'. This is the same stadium, where in 2012 Bolt and Gatlin were introduced as 'good versus evil' due to their tainted past.

Vinod Rai, president of the Committee of Administrators constituted to oversee the Board of Control of Cricket in India (CCA) by the Supreme Court, on Friday said that former Indian captain Rahul Dravid refused to become the national team's batting consultant during the foreign tours (Test), While Zaheer Khan's bowling consultant has not yet taken a decision.

According to Vinod Rai, Dravid has refused to take the position himself. Dravid has told due to the role of chief coach of India-A and Under-19 team. However, he has said that he will be available during the senior team's camp at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) on the request of chief coach Ravi Shastri.

After the BCCI meeting, Vinod Rai told reporters, "The matter has been completely settled regarding the contract of Dravid. He has a two-year contract, so he has said that he will not be available at the time of overseas tour of senior team."

Vinod Rai said that efforts are being made to create a concerted relationship between Zaheer Khan's existing contract with the Delhi Daredevils and the agreement between the proposed consultant of the Indian team.

According to Vinod Rai, "Before this, there was no such system. We are trying to resolve this matter. Zaheer is in the planning to be appointed as a consultant with the Indian team, but we can add him only when there is an agreement.''

Vinod Rai said, "We can not say to Zaheer that we will enter into a contract with you for three months or three weeks." We have to think about the agreement with their IPL contract and channels."

Vinod Rai said, "This matter can only be resolved when the person concerned will be spoken. We have talked with both Rahul and Zaheer."

On July 15, the BCCI had formed a four-member committee for assistant coaches. BCCI's acting president C.K. Khanna, acting secretary Amitabh Chaudhary, COA member Diana Edulji and BCCI's chief executive officer (CEO) Rahul Johari are included in this committee. Dravid and Zaheer were recommended by the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) of Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman to be the batting consultant and bowling consultant of the team.

But Ravi Shastri wanted his favorite people in the support staff and that is why the BCCI appointed Ravi Shastri's choice Bharat Arun as the bowling coach and Sanjay Bangar assistant coach.

The BCCI said that they have full faith in the CAC and the Board did not insult the CAC in any way. Vinod Rai said, "They were very busy person and his intent was to appoint only a good coach. CAC has the right to choose the main coach. The CEO of the Board and the executive secretary were present in meeting and all three had agreed on the name of Ravi Shastri.

According to Vinod Rai, "Though the CAC suggested Zaheer and Dravid as advisors and the CEO and the secretary knew about it. Therefore, in the first press release of BCCI, it was said that they were appointed. Vinod Rai said that the BCCI has full confidence in the CAC.