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NBA  Western Conference Finals: It looks like Los Angeles Lakers have no chance of Denver Nuggets' duo Jamal Murray and Nikola Jokic. They are doing what are they want to do in a game. In this Game Lakers look like a G-league team until they made a run in the 4th quarter. Nuggets beat the Lakers with 114-106 to get back in series with 2-1.


The Denver Nuggets defense led a Nuggets to win over the Lakers in this game. One again Jamal Murray hit some big shots in a game. Once the Lakers cut 20 points Nuggets' lead to 3 points and they also have some chances to tie a game but they missed it and Jamal Murray made some important play to seal a deal for them. 



Now, the Lakers will feel that the Nuggets are not an easy team to beat. If they will not play at their highest level they will eventually not able to win against Denver Nuggets which already make comeback from a 3-1 deficit. Grant was the key factor in Denver Nuggets' win over Los Angeles Lakers. 


LeBron James registered 26th triple-double in playoff career. Rajon Rondo passes Laker legend Kobe Bryant for 9th on the all-time playoff assist rank.


Quarter 1


Lakers took 6 points lead early in the quarter with LeBron James making a pull-up jump shot. 7:40 to go, Jerami Grant made 3 points shot to tie a game at 12-12. 2:50 to go, Michael Porter Jr. made an alley-oop layup on Murray's assist. Millsap made his both free-throws to get the first lead in the quarter. Nuggets were able to take a lead of 2 points in the first quarter.


Quarter 2


Michael Porter James made a 3-pointer in the second quarter which gave 7 points lead in the game to the Nuggets. In the next play, Michael Porter Jr made a tip shot for the 9 points lead over the Lakers. Murray's knocked down 3-pointer which give 10 points led to Nuggets. 8:53 to go, Morris banged open three-pointer to take the lead of 17 points. Denver Nuggets made a 15-2 run at the starting of a second quarter. 5:45 to go, Nuggets took 16 points lead. 4:31 to go, Monte Morris made 3 points jumper to take a lead of 18 points with 55-37. Lakers was able to cut these 18 points deficit to 10 points after the first half of the play. 



Quarter 3


KCP's 3-pointer cut a lead to 7 points and in the next play, KCP stole a ball, finished a play with a 2 point shot to cut a lead to 5 points. Jokic's 3-point shot gave 13 points lead to the Lakers. 6:52 to go, LeBron shot cut a lead to 9 points. 5:37 to go, Harris made 3-pointer to gave 14 points lead over the Lakers. 3:53 to go, Murray made 2 free throws for 16 points lead to the quarter. 3:16 remaining in a quarter, Denver took 18 points to lead in the quarter. 1:30 to go, Jamal Murray made 2 point shot which gave the Lakers the biggest deficit of 20 points in the game and this year's playoff series. Denver outscored the Lakers in the third quarter and took 18 points to lead after the 3rd quarter.


Quarter 4 


10:36 to go, Murray hammered a rim with his dunk to give 20 points lead to the Nuggets over the Lakers in the game. LeBron made a 3-pointer that cut a lead to 14 points for the Lakers in a game. 8:43 to go, Lakers were able to cut 20 points lead of the Nuggets to 12 points. 8:20 to go, Lakers cut a lead to 10 points with LeBron James' dunk which was started by Rondo's defense. 7:38 to go, Lakers cut a lead to 8 points with Anthony Davis making a 10 foot shot on LeBron James dime.7:12 to go, Another great defensive play by Rondo and finished by LeBron James with the dunk. 6:31 to go, LeBron James' driving lay up shot cut a lead to 4 points. Kuzma made one of his 2 free-throws to cut a lead to 3 points. Lakers have a chance to tie a game when KCP tried to score on an open 3-pointer but he missed it. Jamal Murray made a very important 3-pointer to give 7 points lead to Nuggets which put them in winning momentum. Jamal Murray made a 30 footer 3-pointer to get a lead of 12 points in a game.  


Lakers' Scorers


LeBron James led the Lakers with 30 points, 10 boards, 11 assists, 2 steals, and 2 blocks. Anthony Davis dropped 27 points with only 2 boards, 1 assist, and 1 steal. KCP scored 12  points in a game.


Bench players 


Rajon Rondo scored 9 points with 8 assists, 2 boards, and 3 steals which turn around a game in the fourth quarter. Kuzma scored 11 points.


Denver's Scorers 


Murray was superb in this game with 28 points, 8 rebounds, 12 assists, and 2 steals. Grant scored 26 points with 3 boards, 1 assist, and 2 steals which is the highest score for him in his playoff career against the Lakers. Jokic added 22 points with 10 boards, 5 assists, 1 steal, and 1 block. 


Bench Players


Morris scored a very important 14 points in a game. Porter Jr scored 9 points with 6 boards, 2 assists, and 2 steals. 



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IPL 2020: Chennai Super Kings started their campaign with a win over defending champion Mumbai Indians. It was a record-breaking opening day for IPL as 20 crore people watched it and it is said that it is the record for the most-watched opening day in any sporting league ever. CSK will enter as a favorite in a game against RR.   


Josh Buttler will not play against CSK in their first game of this season's IPL. He will miss a game due to quarantine rules. In a series against Australia, he scored 44 and 77 runs to help his team to get series. He is a vital player for Rajasthan Royals and it is a big blow for them in the first game against Chennai Super Kings which teams moral has on a high level after the first game's win. 


Another huge blow for Rajasthan Royals as they are not sure about Ben Stokes' availability.  Ben Stokes is one of the best all-rounders in today's cricket in all formats of the game. If he will not play this season for Rajasthan than it will be the biggest loss for Rajasthan. 


Steve Smith is the pillar of Rajasthan Royals in their batting lineup. Rajasthan has a very good Indian player- Sanju Samson, Robin Uthappa. Also, they have a very good role player in a team who can contribute with the bat.


Rajasthan Royals have some issues with a bowling line up. Jaydev Unadkat will lead the bowling. 


Chennai Super already showed their form against Mumbai Indians. They have MS Dhoni, Shane Watson, Faf du Plessis, Ravindra Jadeja, Ambati Raydu who made a half-century against MI to give a win to his team.    


CSK has a good bowling line up not the best. Chennai has an upper hand and they will enter as the heavy favorite in this game against RR as Buttler and Ben Stokes will not play in a game for Rajasthan Royals. Piyush Chawla and Ravindra Jadeja both took 15+ Wickets against RR.

 

Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals played each other 21 times in IPL. CSK lead with 14 wins to RR's 7 wins. Last season CSK won both of their games. 


 


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 IPL 2020: Royal Changelers gets an easy win over Sunrises Hyderabad in their first game of IPL.   


Davdutt Padikkal hit a half-century on his debut for Royal Challenger Bangalore in a game against Sunrises Hyderabad. Padikkal came in the eye of everyone when he scored 580 runs in the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament in 2019. he was the leading scorer in that tournament and scored runs with an average of 64 and a strike rate of 175.  


Sunrises Hyderabad faced some injury problems in a game with Australian Allrounder Mithcell Marsh suffered an ankle injury while bowling against RCB in a fifth over of an RCB inning. He bowled only 4 bowls and suffered an ankle injury. It is a huge blow for Sunrises Hyderabad if he will not be fine for upcoming IPL matches. He is an allrounder who can give win his team with a bowl and a bat. 


AB de Villiers played a stunning inning in this game as he scored 51 points in just 30 balls with an outstanding strike rate of 170. Padikkal was the other player who scored 56 points with a strike rate of 133.33. Aaron Finch scored 29 runs in 27 balls. Virat Kohli scored only 14 runs who was dismissed by Natarajan.  


David gave his wicket early in the game when he was runout by Yadav. Bairstow tried to keep Sunrises Hyderabad in a game with his outstanding 61 runs in 43 deliveries. 


Until the end of the 15th over Sunrises Hyderabad had the upper hand in the game until Bairstow dismissed by Chahal. SRH had a 121/3 score when Bairstow lost his wicket. SRH lost 8 wickets in just 30 runs.  


Yuzvendra Chahal named man of the match for his performance of taking 3 wickets with an economy of just 4.50, 18 runs in 4 over which are outstanding numbers for any bowler in the T20 format. Padikkai named the player of the match. 


RCB Notable Players:


Batsman


BatsmanRunsBalls4s6sSR
Padikkai564280133.33
Finch292712107.4
AB de Villiers513042170


Bowler


BowlerOverRunsWicketsECN
B. Kumar42506.25
Natarajan43418.5
Shankar1.214110.5
Sharma21618



SRH Notable Players


Batsman 


BatsmanRunsBalls4ss6sSR
Bairstow614362141.86
Pandey343331103.03


Bowler


BowlerOverRunsWicketsECN
Steyn3.43319
Saini42526.25
Chahal41834.5
Dube31525


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Novak Djokovic with his 5th Italian Open Title and 36 ATP Master titles.
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Novak Djokovic passes Pete Sampras with 287th Week at No.1 in FedEx ATP Rankings. Pete Sampras was at the top with 286th Week. Now Roger Federer is the only one who is ahead of Novak Djokovic in this list as Roger stayed for the 310th week at the No.1 position. 


After a win over Argentine Schwartzman with 7-5, 7-6 in an Italian Open Djokovic extend his big title lead over his arch-rival Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. Rafael Nadal has 55 big titles while Roger has 54 big titles. Novak Djokovic is going ahead of these 2 in many ways. Now he is just behind in Grand Slams with the 17 titles where Roger Federer leads with 20 and Rafael has 19 titles. After this win, Novak has a better chance to win French Open than any other player.


This match was watched by 1000 fans with maintaining a social distance. This is Novak Djokovic's 36th Master title and this is his 5th Italian Open title. This is Novak's first title after he defaulted from the US Open. 


Set 1


Schwartzman finished a play with a magnificent touch but first, he made a lob shot over Djokovic and Djokovic replied with a pretty good one but Schwartzman hit a shot with a very solid bounce smash. Schwartzman got a point for the deuce. Schwartzman had an advantage in a game, Djokovic hit a ball into a net to give a game to Schwartzman.  Schwartzman broke the first game of Djokovic's serve. 


Djokovic also hit a shot into a net in the 3rd game of a set to give it to Schwartzman. It was another error by Novak Djokovic. Djokovic got one break back in the fourth game of a set. Djokovic got another game on Schwartzman to serve with a backhand down the line, Schwartzman was unable to clear a shot to the other side and hit it into a net. Djokovic got an advantage in that game. There was some rainfall in Rome. Schwartzman gave a point and game to Djokovic with an unforced error.  Djokovic got break, game, and set point on the Schwartzman's serve. but it was saved by the Argentine. Schwartzman saved a game point and set. In the 12 games of a set, Djokovic got the set with an unforced error from Schwartzman.


Set 2 


Schwartzman made some very good plays in the second set of the game with his drop shots. 


Djokovic got the 8th game of a set with a powerful down the line shot, Schwartzman had no answer of it. What a way to do it and get a game and break on Argentine serve. In the last game of a set and match, Djokovic started a game with powerful shots. In the last play of a game, Schwarzman made an unforced error and hit a ball outside of an outline on Djokovic's drop serve. Djokovic got the game, set, and match with some records on his name.


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Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Sunrises Hyderabad, It's a match-up between two South Indian Teams at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. 


RCB played 3-times in the finals but they never won any titles in these all seasons of IPL. Now This season RCB has a better opportunity to win a title with their star-studded team. RCB will start their campaign against Sunrises Hyderabad in the IPL. Royal Challengers Bangalore has a chance to win the title in 2016 but they failed to win against the same team Hyderabad Sunrises. 

 

IPL's matches become more exiting ever this season than with the result of the first 2 games. CSK defeated Mumbai Indians in the opener of the IPL. The second match went to super over where Delhi Capitals beat Kings XI Punjab in the super over. 


RCB has players like Virat Kohli who is in great form for India and he will try to do the same thing for his club. AB de Villiers is the other superstar who can give win RCB single-handedly. RCB has other good foreign players like Finch and  Moeen Ali(all-rounder) who are capable of changing a result of a match on their own. 

    

Sunrises Hyderabad has Kane Williamson, Jonny Bairstow, David Warner, Manish Pandey. Kane Williams, David Warner, and Jonny Bairstow are the players who can change a result at any Moment, Especially David Warner. 


Sunrises Hyderabad has a very good mixture of fast bowling and spin bowling. Bhuveneshwar Kumar will lead Sunrises Hyderbad's pace bawling with Ahmed and Sandeep Sharma while They have Rashid Khan who is one of the best spin bowlers in this format of a game. Nabi and Nadeem are the other 2 who rarely disappoints.  


RCB has not good bowling lineup as SRH. Umesh Yadav will lead the pace bowling line up meanwhile Chahal and Pawan Negi will lead the spin department. Moeen Ali is an allrounder who can give a headache to the opposition batsman with his spin bowling. 


SRH has one of the best batting lineups at the top order but they are not good in the middle order. RCB has the same problem as SRH as they don't have a strong middle order.      


It's a 50-50 to tell who will win this match: RCB or SRH. RCB has a better chance to win a game because they have an energetic captain like who will boost  RCB to play at their highest level in a game. Virat Kohli and AB Devilliers made the highest partnership for RCB against SRH in IPL and it is 157. 


Both teams played each other 15 times, in that SRH lead with 8 wins and RCB win 6 games.  


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