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Shubman Gill’s graceful maiden double hundred guided India to a massive 587 in their first innings before pacers struck to reduce England to 77/3 at the end of the second day of the second Test in Birmingham on Thursday (July 3, 2025). England trail India by 510 runs with Joe Root (18) and Harry Brook (30) manning the crease at close. For India, Akash Deep took two wickets. En route to his 269 off 387 balls, Gill became the first Indian and Asian captain to score a double hundred in a Test match in England. The skipper also posted the highest individual score by an Indian batter on English soil, surpassing Sunil Gavaskar's 221 scored at the Oval in 1979.

Diogo Jota played 182 matches across all competitions for Liverpool, scoring 65 goals and registering 26 assists. Jota helped Liverpool win their second Premier League title in five years last season, also lifting the FA Cup and EFL Cup in 2021-22, going on to win the latter again in 2023-24

The India A team will play two matches against France, Ireland and the Netherlands along with one game each against England and Belgium

Among top seeds at Wimbledon, Jannik Sinner (12 games) has conceded the fewest games over the opening two rounds of the men's singles since Roger Federer (nine games) in 2004. Since the rankings were first published in 1973, Sinner (91.0%, 61-6) only trails Bjorn Borg (91.9%) for winning percentage while holding the ATP number one ranking

Lando Norris trails F1 Drivers’ Championship 2025 leader Oscar Piastri by 15 points, with three wins this season

India officially names Ahmedabad as its candidate city for the 2036 Olympics, with Indian Olympic Association president PT Usha and sports ministry presenting the bid to the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne