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Cooper Connolly made a superb unbeaten 72 on his Indian Premier League debut as he guided Punjab Kings to a three-wicket victory over Gujarat Titans, BBC reported. 

Chasing 162, Punjab looked to be cruising to victory at 110-2 at the start of the 12th over.

But the Kings lost four wickets for eight runs to slip to 118-6 as Prasidh Krishna claimed three quick wickets en route to figures of 3-29.

However, Australia all-rounder Connolly batted with measured aggression, hitting five fours and five sixes, to get Punjab over the line with five balls to spare.

Despite a qualifying campaign in which they slumped to four defeats and finished bottom of their group, Sweden are one game away from qualifying for the World Cup in the US, Mexico and Canada thanks to a process that offers teams a number of second chances, Reuters reported. 

Sweden were so bad in Group B that they finished fourth behind Switzerland, Kosovo and Slovenia, with whom they drew twice, and they flopped so badly in their first four games that coach Jon Dahl Tomasson became the first men's head coach to be sacked by the Swedish football association (SvFF).

"It just feels like an amazing opportunity. We have the opportunity because what the team did in the Nations League. So we are where we are, and now we've got one game to play to get to the World Cup, which is a dream," Graham Potter, who took over after Tomasson, told a media conference on Monday. 

A commercial court in France has dismissed Cardiff’s claim for more than £100m compensation after the death of Emiliano Sala. Seven years after the plane crash that killed Sala, Cardiff were seeking €122m (£106m) for loss of income and other damages from the player’s former team Nantes, The Guardian reported. 

Rulings by Fifa, the court of arbitration for sport and Switzerland’s supreme court have gone against Cardiff in their legal dispute with Nantes since Sala died in January 2019.

The 28-year-old was signed by Cardiff from Nantes for a club-record fee of £15m as they tried to stave off relegation from the Premier League. The single-engine Piper Malibu aircraft in which the Argentinian was travelling from France to begin his career with Cardiff crashed into the sea near Guernsey. The pilot, David Ibbotson, also died.

Germany forward Deniz Undav came off the bench to score an 88th-minute goal that secured a 2-1 victory over Ghana in a friendly on Monday, boosting his chances of making the World Cup squad, Reuters reported. 

The VfB Stuttgart striker, who is second on the Bundesliga scorers' list with 18 goals, made the most of a second-half appearance in front of a home crowd, bagging the winner with a flick over the Ghana keeper.

The winning goal came after Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann had raised eyebrows on Friday when Undav was left on the bench as they beat Switzerland 4-3.