Arsenal gave manager Arsene Wenger a 20th anniversary to remember as Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott and Mesut Ozil scored in a slick 3-0 victory over Chelsea yesterday.

Spinners Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin helped India gain control of the first Test against New Zealand before the hosts stretched the second innings lead to 215 on the third day in Kanpur yesterday.

Doha: Stallions Cricket Academy concluded a very successful tour of England in August. The 60 strong tour group, comprising of a mixture of players, coaches, and parents, who embarked on the second tour of the UK played over 15 matches in Leeds and London.

Manchester United dismantled Premier League champions Leicester in a ruthless 20-minute burst as Jose Mourinho’s decision to drop Wayne Rooney was rewarded with a 4-1 win at Old Trafford yesterday.

Jurgen Klopp disproved his own words of warning as Liverpool crushed Hull City 5-1 at Anfield yesterday to climb into the top four of the Premier League.

Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier was sent off against his old club as Paris Saint-Germain slumped to a 2-0 defeat away at Toulouse in Ligue 1 on Friday night.

Dubai: Pakistan outclassed world champions the West Indies by 16 runs in the second Twenty20 match in Dubai yesterday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game series.

Suddenly county cricket is sexy. The melodrama of the last round of matches was agony for the committed, fascinating for the neutral and it even captured a fresh audience, which will please everyone at the England and Wales Cricket Board since they keep stressing this goal (rather than their eagerne

Bangladesh will be hoping their long absence from international cricket does not hurt their form when they play a three-match one-day international series against Afghanistan in Dhaka today.

Slovenia’s Luka Pibernik of the Lampre team won the sixth stage of the Eneco Tour yesterday, beating Englishman Mark McNally and Belgium’s Bert Van Lerberghe in a sprint at Lanaken.

After becoming Olympic champion in Rio de Janeiro and winning the European title in Plumelec, France, Anna van der Breggen could win the only major international road race title she does not yet have at the UCI World Championships Doha 2016.

Caroline Wozniacki outlasted Agnieszka Radwanska 4-6 7-5 6-4 in a dog fight of a semi-final at the Pan Pacific Open yesterday to end the Pole’s reign at the Ariake Coliseum.