Spain's Jorge Martin won a thrilling Thailand MotoGP race Sunday to close the gap on Francesco Bagnaia in the world championship race.

South Africa produced a magnificent defensive display to edge 14-man New Zealand 12-11 in an arm-wrestle of a Rugby World Cup final on Saturday and win the Webb Ellis Cup for a record fourth time.

Fahad currently shares the third place alongside 13 players in the competition.

The 26-year-old Dutchman, who started sixth on the grid in his Red Bull car, worked his way through the field to take control before he came home 2.225 seconds ahead of resurgent seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who was disqualified hours after the race when his Mercedes car failed a technical inspection.

The inaugural Amateur Table Tennis tournament, organised by the Rotary Club of Gulshan One and Smash Station Table Tennis Club, concluded yesterday with the participation of 37 players.

Djokovic will spearhead Serbia at the tournament from December 29-January 7 in Sydney and Perth as he builds towards the defence of his Australian Open title.

Squash, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and baseball-softball are five sports added to the programme after being approved by the International Olympic Committee as it looks to tap into new global audiences.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed Saturday that his country would bid to host the 2036 Summer Olympics and become just the fourth Asian nation to stage the Games.

But all the new sports will still need to be voted in by the IOC membership in a ballot due to be held on Monday before they are assured of a place at the 2028 Games.

"It has been a milestone in the country," remarked the state minister for youth and sports.

Commemorating Lay’s ‘Made In Bangladesh’ initiative, Lay’s have released a light-hearted ad that shows the cricketers engaged in a friendly banter while celebrating their shared love for made-in-Bangladesh Lay’s chips.

Twenty-eight sports are already confirmed on the schedule but cricket was one of five new sports formally proposed for inclusion by organisers for the Games on Monday.

“Look at the other small countries, they have improved. But we are stuck in the same place," a frustrated Bangladeshi athlete said this at the breakfast table of the Dining Hall of Hangzhou Athletes’ Village yesterday, a few hours before the closing ceremony of the 19th edition of the Asian Game

India's men's teams won chaotic kabaddi and washed-out cricket finals, the South Korean men's football team earned exemptions from military service, and China achieved a record gold haul at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Saturday.

Max Verstappen said his third consecutive drivers' world title triumph, achieved in Saturday's sprint race at the Qatar Grand Prix, was "the one I am most proud of – the best."

Afghanistan, ranked 10th in the ICC's T20 rankings versus world number one India, were left with silver and powerless to do anything about it after rain halted the match when they were 112 for five after 18.2 overs of the first innings.

The world number two said he had been "out of my mind" during his semi-final match against Jannik Sinner in the Chinese capital, which the Italian won 7-6 (7/4), 6-1.

The lad from Rajshahi fought neck and neck in all three three-minute rounds against Japan's Shudai Harada

Archer Ruman Sana failed to make the cut on his return to the international scene, failing in the to secure a place in the men's individual recurve event as only top two archers from each country were allowed into the elimination round.

Suro Krishna extended his unbeaten record in pro-boxing to six in the main-event of the evening when he defeated his Nepalese opponent on judges decision in an eight-round fight that went the distance.