'The BJP has all the instruments with them and they do have a sense of purpose, so I don't think there will be a challenge.'
England captain Ben Stokes will retire from international cricket after the third Test against New Zealand, saying the demands of captaincy had burned him out after a remarkable career featuring World Cup glory and Ashes heroics.
Chelsea battled from two goals down to beat West Ham 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday with a stoppage-time Enzo Fernandez winner.
Arsenal closed out 2025 in emphatic fashion, smashing third-placed Aston Villa 4-1 on Tuesday to surge five points clear at the top of the Premier League.
Arsenal marked Mikel Arteta's 300th game in charge with a convincing 2-0 home victory over West Ham United in the Premier League on Saturday.
After Saturday's 2-1 win at Chelsea - their 12th in 13 league matches - Aston Villa have claimed 18 points from losing positions so far this season, more than any other team.
A round-up of Tuesday's action in the UEFA Champions League.
IMAGES from Premier League matches played on Saturday
Shafali returns to T20 side for England tour, fit-again Yastika also comes back
IMAGES from the UEFA Champions League matches played on Wednesday
Images from the first One-Day International between England and Australia, at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Thursday.
IMAGES from Premier League matches played on Sunday.
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Sunday.
A summary of Sunday's action in the Premier League.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday
India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin slipped a place to take the third position in the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers in Dubai on Thursday.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday night.
Suryakumar Yadav smashed a magnificent century but England held their nerve in a high-scoring thriller to win the third and final T20I by 17 runs and avoid the series sweep, in Nottingham, in Sunday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is all set for an unprecedented third five-year term as he was 'elected' to the powerful Central Committee of the ruling Communist Party on Saturday while several top leaders including Premier Li Keqiang have been left out in the major shake-up at the top.
IMAGES from Day 2 of the 3rd Test played at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Sunday
A day after Novak Djokovic won his 23rd Grand Slam title, Serbia's Nikola Jokic was named Most Valuable Player of the NBA Finals
Images from the Premier League matches played on Saturday.
Jasprit Bumrah has regained the top spot in the ICC men's ODI Player Rankings after fashioning India's 10-wicket win over England with a career-best haul of 6/19 in the first match at The Oval in London.
The Indian team on Friday dropped to the third spot in the ICC One-Day Internationals rankings after Australia regained the top position owing to their 6-0 lead in the ongoing seven-match series against England. Ricky Ponting's side beat the home team by 111 runs at Trent Bridge on Thursday and moved ahead of South Africa by a fraction of a ratings point.
Chelsea reached the Champions League quarter-finals as a first-half goal from Raheem Sterling and a controversial penalty by Kai Havertz overturned a first-leg deficit.
All-rounder Ben Stokes returns to England's squad for the first two Tests against India next month after he missed the two-match series against New Zealand in June following a finger injury he sustained during the Indian Premier League earlier this year.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Sunday night.
NBA roundup: Hornets spoil Kyrie Irving's home debut
India opener Mayank Agarwal and New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel have made huge progress in the ICC Test Player Rankings after outstanding performances in the second Test of their ICC World Test Championship series in Mumbai.
The first 100 beneficiaries of such foreign vaccines shall be assessed for seven days for safety outcomes before it is rolled out for further immunisation programme within the country, the Union health ministry said.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
Coach Roberto Mancini made eight changes to the starting line-up from the team which lost 1-0 to Portugal in the Nations League in their last outing where he in turn had made nine changes from the previous game.
IMAGES from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday.
A round-up of Wednesday's action in the UEFA Champions League.
Johnson matched Jordan Spieth's record low Masters total for the first 54 holes -- 16-under-par 200 -- while South Korean Im Sung-jae (68), Mexican Abraham Ancer (69) and Australian Cameron Smith (69) were equal second on 12-under.
Images from Sunday's action in the Premier League.
Two wickets from successive balls in Ben Stokes's third over removed Quinton de Kock (5) and Faf du Plessis (0) and ended faint South Africa hopes of mounting a rearguard action in pursuit of their nominal target of 492.
Tottenham Hotspur's hopes of a first victory over Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in 26 years disappeared as a 2-2 draw left Leicester City celebrating the Premier League title on Monday.
Asked to lead the England attack in the fourth Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, in the absence of spearhead James Anderson, Stuart Broad became only the fifth English bowler to reach the 300 Test wickets milestone.
Images from Saturday's action in the Premier League.
