Cricket: Eden Gardens in Kolkata will host the final of the World Twenty20 next year, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said yesterday. The BCCI named eight venues for the biennial event, which has been staged across three cities in each of its previous five editions. Bengaluru, Chennai, Dharamshala, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur and New Delhi will be the other venues for the March 11-April 3 event. The 16-team tournament will feature 10 test playing nations and six associate teams.

Gymnastics: Laura Zeng (picture) was crowned the Pan American Games ‘Golden Girl’ yesterday as the 15-year-old American completed a sweep of individual events to bring her gold medal haul to five. Even without the presence of the sport’s super powers Russia and Belarus, the American teenager marked herself as a potential future Olympic champion, taking gold in the all-around and all four individual apparatus finals, ball, club, ribbon and hoop with style and authority. “That (Rio Olympics) is such a huge dream of mine and it is always going to be there in the back of my mind,” Zeng was quoted as saying. “I hope next year I can make it there.”

Rugby Union: Winger Cory Jane’s World Cup hopes remain alive after being cleared of a serious ankle injury he sustained in last week’s match for the New Zealand Barbarians. The 32-year-old Jane had been released by the All Blacks selectors to play for the Barbarians to give him some game time before moving him back into the test arena.

Golf: Masters and US Open champion Jordan Spieth will return to Sydney in late November to defend his Australian Open title, organisers said. The 21-year-old American won the Stonehaven Cup by six shots last year and with his recent run of form is bound to increase the size of the galleries at The Australian Golf Club in Sydney from Nov. 26-29. Spieth came within a stroke of joining a four-hole play-off for the British Open title at St Andrews on Monday, which Zach Johnson went on to clinch over South Africa’s Louis Oosthuizen and Australia’s Marc Leishman.

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