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Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are going through a lean patch in Test cricket and its high-time the duo pull up their socks in the final two Tests against Australia in Melbourne and Sydney.

India are currently placed third in the WTC points table behind table-toppers South Africa and Australia.

Sam Konstas has scored a century for Australian Prime Minister's XI against India in the tour game. The southpaw is likely to make his debut for Australia in the Boxing Day Test in melbourne against India.

Jaker Ali ran two and was about to go for the third. But after seeing Obed McCoy in pain, the Bangladesh batter decided not to run a third, in the third and final T20I. Bangladesh won the third T20I by 80 runs and completed a 3-0 whitewash.

Seventeen-year-old, Anna Leigh Waters, is set to become the highest-paid pickleball player in 2024 at $3 million annually, according to her agent Kelly Wolf.

Riding on fifties from Smriti Mandhana and Richa Ghosh, India women defeated West Indies women by 60 runs in the third and final T20I and clinch the series 2-1.

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It was also the home side's first T20I series win at home since October 2019.

Earlier on 18 December, after the Gabba Test in Brisbane against Australia, Ravichandran Ashwin announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket following India's draw against Australia.