- India Vs Sri Lanka T20: Newcomers to be given chances.
- India’s Chess Champion Vishwanath Anand has won the Tal memorial chess title defeating Boris Gelfand of Israel in a draw points knock out.
- Football: Neymar, post successful foot operation has decided to rest and recover in his Villa at the Mangaratiba beach resort approx 100 Kms away from Re De Janeiro
- Women Hockey: India beats South Korea in the first match of the five-match series.
- World Men Tennis: In the Dubai ATP Event doubles (quarterfinals), the combination of an Indo-American team consisting Leander Paes and Jamie Cerretani of USA has beaten the double combination of Raven Klaasen of South Africa and Michael Venus of New Zealand on Thursday.
- World Women Badminton: Sania Nehwal to face World No1 title retainer on the upcoming tour of ALL-England Championship.
- (BWF) Badminton World Federation: the new rules to come into action replacing the old system of 21 points to the 11 points in 5 games format.
- Cricket World cup: The Qualifiers like UAE, Afganistan and many new teams have made the series to be more interesting where the old teams like West Indies have to fight and perform and retain their qualifier legacy to the world cup to come.
