Sports News: India Dominates T20 World Cup, Rohit Sharma's Milestones, and More: Weekly Sports Highlights

India levelled matters for the 2022 T20 World Cup semifinal defeat by thrashing England in this year's semi-final. India posted 171/7, driven by Rohit Sharma's 57 and Suryakumar Yadav's 47. Axar Patel, with 3/23, and Kuldeep Yadav asserted their authority with the ball, bowling out England for 103. Axar cleaned up key players like Buttler and Bairstow, and Kuldeep had Curran LBW and bowled Brook. India's spinners throttled England batsmen to take the victory by 68 runs, thus setting them up against South Africa in Sunday's final.

The struggle continued for Virat Kohli in the T20 World Cup 2024 as he again scored only 9 runs in this semi-final against England. Kohli did hit a six but he was soon bowled by Reece Topley. Rain intervened when India was 65/2, Rohit Sharma leading the charge with 37 and Suryakumar Yadav on 13. Hardik Pandya cleaned it up with a brisk 23 off 13 with little help from Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel to push India to a competitive total. Good work by England's bowlers couldn't prevent India setting a challenging score.

Rohit Sharma carried his good form into the 2024 T20 World Cup semi-final against England, making 57 off 39 balls. With this knock, he went past 5000 runs as a captain and joined this elite list of Indian captains with more than 5000 runs. Rohit now has 5033 runs from 122 matches at an average of 42.65 with 11 centuries and 30 half-centuries. All in all, he aggregated 19,069 runs in the international arena. Rohit made his debut in 2007 and is the lone player to have hit three different ODI double-centuries who is leading India in the current 2024 T20 World Cup.

Emotion flooded Rohit Sharma's face as India beat England by 68 runs in the semi-final of T20 World Cup 2024. His 57 off 39 took India to 171/7. India's spinners, Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav, shared six wickets as England were restricted to 103. Rohit expressed satisfaction over the performance of his team and underlined them for their ability to adapt and stick together at the end of the match. Cameras caught Rohit nearly crying as the emotions of relief and joy intertwined after beating the defeats of years by their hands.

Team India booked a place in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 final with a convincing 68-run victory over England at Providence Stadium, Guyana. Rohit Sharma got a solid fifty; Suryakumar Yadav contributed 47 as India put up 171 runs. Axar Patel, adjudged Player of the Match for his three vital wickets early on in bowling out England for 103, pointed out it was all about team strategy on the slow, low pitch while appreciating the vital partnership between Rohit and Suryakumar. He felt elated about the victory and was planning to enjoy the moment before getting down to preparation for the final against South Africa.

A revised version: Panama shocked the USA in their Copa America clash tonight in Atlanta after securing a 2-1 victory, and its hopes of going through to the knockout stages are now in jeopardy. Early on, a red card came for Timothy Weah, and then a newbie, Folarin Balogun, launched an attack. Panama equaled the score with Cesar Blackman, who later took advantage of their numerical advantage by scoring the winner through Jose Fajardo. Down to 10, the US dug deep and may need a victory over Uruguay to progress from Group C.

The International Olympic Committee announced last week that it had invited 22 Russian and 17 Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Paris Olympics, to which some refuse to appear. There are athletes who become eligible in sports ranging from tennis to shooting and rowing, after meeting the criteria of their respective federations under close monitoring for links related to the conflict in Ukraine or troops. Notable players have Daniil Medvedev still indecisive, while some turned down this invitation due to health problems or due to scheduling conflicts.

Jasmine Paolini ended Katie Boulter's streak on grass when she took her out 6-1, 7-6 (7/0) in the Eastbourne quarterfinals. She was overwhelming in the first set, with two breaks, and in the second, both players traded breaks. But the strong grass performance was welcomed back in style with a decisive tiebreak victory. The other semi-finalist was Leylah Fernandez after the 6-2, 6-1 win over Harriet Dart to reach her first semifinals of the season. Notably, Emma Raducanu and Billy Harris were in action playing respective matches at the tournament.