Jamshedpur FC announced the signing of one of the biggest names of Australian football, Tim Cahill. Cahill will be trying out his first Asian venture after announcing his retirement from international football. Cahill is also the all-time leading goal scorer for Australia, having scored 50 goals in 107 international caps between 2004 and 2018. He was the first Australian to score at a FIFA World Cup and has played in four World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014 & 2018).

India’s frustrating inability to defeat a middling England team despite seemingly having all the ingredients is really a cause for concern despite a healthy improvement in Virat Kohli’s team faring better than previous Indian sides. The expectations were high that this Indian team is strong and aggressive enough to counter alien conditions and are not just a backyard bully. Having said that on a closer analysis the team fared really well – the pace bowling was far better than their English counterpart, catching and fielding was far superior than England – but not enough strength in the top and bottom order to win crucial moments of the game.

The Bharat Football Club has stunned the Shaheens (Pakistan) to claim the 2018 Dosti Cup with a comfortable 12.6.78 to 3.10.28 victory. The BFC become the first Indian team to take home the Cup after three previous attempts by AFL India.

Prajnesh Gunneswaran settled for a bronze after losing 2-6, 2-6 to Uzbekistan’s Denis Istomin in a semifinal that was much more competitive than what the score-line might suggest at the Asian Games 2018. At 28, Prajnesh Gunneswaran is only getting better. From being a mere journeyman in Indian tennis, the Chennai player has suddenly pitched himself as one of the hottest prospect in men’s singles. The recent months have been nothing short of a dream sojourn for him and it continued when he climbed the podium with a bronze medal in Palembang.

Indian origin Singapore-born Sashi Cheliah won the coveted Masterchef Australia 2018 title in an intense finale of the latest seasons of the wildly popular cooking reality show.