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The 36-year-old will, however, continue to feature for his country in limited-overs cricket. He is also contracted by Cricket South Africa (CSA) for white-ball cricket. “Today I walk away from a format of the game I love so much. In my opinion Test cricket is the best version of this game. It tests you mentally, physically, emotionally. It’s terrible to consider never playing another Test again but what’s more terrifying is the thought of never playing again at all....

Vegas may consider the game a pick’em, but how do the two teams stack up in Madden? Using the latest roster, which was updated following the conference championship games, the evaluation by positional group ratings favors the Patriots. Of course the result will be about more than just individual attributes, and that’s something the Madden video game struggles to portray. Last year’s Super Bowl between the Broncos and Seahawks appeared to be a fair fight until the first snap showed something completely different....

Pavard played a key role in France’s World Cup win at Russia 2018 and reports of a move to Bayern have persisted since, although both parties have previously denied any agreement. Salihamidzic has now confirmed that terms have been agreed for a switch come the end of the season, with Pavard to sign a deal that will keep him at Bayern until 2024. “I can confirm that Benjamin Pavard will join us on a five-year deal from July 1, 2019,” he told reporters in Doha....

The Blues defeated United 1-0 at Wembley in May as Eden Hazard secured silverware for Antonio Conte in his last match in charge of the victors. Opposing boss Jose Mourinho has since departed, too, and now Maurizio Sarri and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will go head to head in the last 16 of this season’s competition. With Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham already out, only two of the Premier League’s top six can make the quarter-final draw....

The England midfielder suffered the injury during the Blues’ 3-0 friendly win over New England Revolution in Boston on Wednesday. Loftus-Cheek has hit a rich vein of form over recent weeks but will miss the Europa League final against Arsenal in Baku at the end of this month as he begins a long road to recovery. England manager Gareth Southgate had already left 23-year-old out of his squad for the Nations League Finals earlier on Thursday....

Second seed Federer - a five-time champion at Flushing Meadows - was an overwhelming favourite to prevail against the world number 55 and set up a blockbuster quarter-final with Novak Djokovic. However, the 37-year-old Swiss delivered a strangely lethargic performance on Arthur Ashe Stadium - prompting some pundits to question whether he was 100 per cent fit - and Millman capitalised superbly to earn the biggest win of his career by far....

Paris Saint-Germain have confirmed the length of time the world’s most expensive footballer will miss, having hobbled out of the Coupe de France clash with Strasbourg last week. The club announced on Wednesday that “conservative treatment of the injury to the fifth right metatarsal” will keep Neymar out until mid-April, adding to their injury woes as Marco Verratti remains out. The news comes as a major blow to Thomas Tuchel’s men, who will now be without their talisman for both legs of the crunch clash with United, which begins at Old Trafford on February 12....

While Turkey could still use the IMF’s approval to reassure investors, a more interesting question may be how much the IMF needs Turkey. Its remaining debt to the Fund (about $7 billion) dwarfs that of the next largest borrower, Liberia ($500 million). But $7 billion is not what it used to be in the developing world, which underscores the IMF’s struggle now that its target market has plenty of access to capital....

The Orioles’ perfect start to the season came to an end Wednesday at the hands of the rival Red Sox. The hot-hitting O’s only have themselves to blame for the 4-2 loss. MORE: Best April rookies for every major league team Baltimore struck first on Chris Davis’ two-run home run, but left nine runners on base in the first five innings as Red Sox starter Joe Kelly allowed seven hits and five walks....

The Selecao have won eight straight competitive matches since Tite took over from Dunga as head coach following the country’s group-stage exit at last year’s Copa America. And Brazil’s fine form has seen them return to the top of the world rankings for the first time since they lost top spot to Spain after the 2010 World Cup. Brazil, who are the only team to have sealed qualification for next year’s World Cup in Russia, replace Argentina at the top of the pile, with wins over Uruguay and Paraguay in the last international break helping their cause....

A Brazilian judge has cancelled Sunday’s friendly game between Brazil and England in Rio’s iconic Maracana stadium on grounds that security conditions for the public are inadequate, press reports said Thursday. The O Estado de Sao Paulo daily quoted judicial sources as saying that the Rio judge acted following a request from state authorities who argued that there the stadium did not “meet the minimum necessary conditions to host games or events”....

The government is taking “all necessary steps” to ensure security in major sports events and these steps will “ensure security of the events”, he said in a statement Tuesday. The statement was made one day after two explosions killed three people, including an eight-year-old child, and injured over 100 others near the finishing line of the traditional Boston Marathon in the United States. On the occasion, Patriota expressed Brazil’s solidarity with the US and said the Brazilian government will follow the investigations in order to understand the motivation behind this act....

The judge’s order came just a few days after Brazil reported more than 1 million of its citizens had been diagnosed with the coronavirus since the pandemic began spreading across the globe. So far, the only other country to report more cases than Brazil is the U.S., where more than 2.3 million cases were reported Tuesday. The decision was handed down by federal judge Renato Borelli and made public on Tuesday, Reuters reported....

Porto Alegre, Feb 16: Brazil’s Beira-Rio became the eighth stadium to be ready for this year’s football World Cup when it officially opened almost two months behind schedule. The venue’s owner, Internacional football club marked the occasion with a 4-0 victory over local rivals Caxias in the Rio Grande do Sul state league Saturday, reports Xinhua. It is only the second of Brazil non-Confederations Cup stadiums to be ready for the World Cup, despite a December deadline set by football’s governing body FIFA....

Rio De Janeiro, Feb 19: Brazil is prepared to ensure the security of Brazilians and visitors during the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup games, President Dilma Rousseff said Tuesday. Brazil has invested heavily in defence and is fully capable of handling security in the 12 cities hosting games during the June to July event, Xinhua quoted Rousseff as saying in an interview to a daily. “Brazil is prepared to ensure the safety of its citizens and of visitors,” the president said, adding “federal government spending on security has amounted to 1....

The increase in military participation in security plans for the 2016 Games was requested by the regional government and authorised in a decree issued by Brazil’s acting President Michel Temer that was published on Monday in a special edition of the Official Gazette, reports EFE news. In addition to Atlantic Avenue, the street that runs along Copacabana Beach, and other areas in Rio’s most emblematic district, security will also be reinforced at the Santos Dumont airport, the newly-reconfigured facility that is one of the main legacies of the city’s hosting of the Olympic Games....

The Blues have employed those Hall of Fame goalies in their 48-year history. The 42-year-old Brodeur made his St. Louis debut Thursday in Nashville. MORE: Car-crash potential with signing | Worst sports comebacks | Familiar faces in new places | Just Passing Through Team He stopped just 20 of 24 shots (.833 save percentage) against the Predators, but he also didn’t get a lot of help in a 4-3 loss....

Montreal: During the WWE tag team match between Kane & Daniel Bryan and The Prime Time Players tonight on Monday night WWE Raw here in Montreal, it was seen that the audience at the arena and the WWE medical team were looking towards the commentator’s booth. It is learned that the WWE Hall of Famer, Jerry “The King” Lawler collapsed at the announcers’ table and was tended to in the locker room area by WWE medical staff....

New signing Gonzalo Higuain featured in this third game for the Blues, and after not having found the back of the net yet for the reputation that surrounds his stature, the Argentine was under immense pressure to deliver. Not only for himself but for the team that was struggling to score goals despite chunks of recycled possession. He did so emphatically, by drilling in two fantastic goals and proving to West London, how lethal a finisher he has been over the years....

Buffon’s 17-year stay in Turin came to an end following Juve’s seventh successive Serie A title triumph and he could play beyond his 42nd birthday after penning a one-year deal with the option for a second with the Ligue 1 giants. The goalkeeper, who said last month he was open to continuing his Italy career, is expected challenge Alphonse Areola for selection, with doubt cast over Kevin Trapp’s future at Parc des Princes....