NEWSPRINT: December 13, 2017

Episode 84,   Dec 13, 2017, 02:13 PM

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ENTERTAINMENT:-- After their hush-hush wedding at the world's second most expensive resort in Tuscany, power couple Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma have reportedly flown off to Rome for their honeymoon. The couple is expected to return to India next week as they will be hosting a reception in New Delhi for their relatives on December 21 which will be followed by another party for industry friends and cricketers in Mumbai on December 26. The two will then travel to South Africa where Virat will start prepping for the upcoming series and Anushka will spend New Year’s Eve with him and return in the first week of January to begin the next schedule of Anand L Rai’s film with Shah Rukh Khan in Mumbai.

SPORT:- Stand-in skipper Rohit Sharma led from the front in the second ODI against Sri Lanka in Mohali on Wednesday after India put up a dismal show in the opening game in Dharamsala. Rohit finished unbeaten on 208, his third ODI double century. He now has 3 of the 7 double hundreds scored in ODIs. The Mumbai batsman also brought up his 16th ODI hundred to not only set the platform for a blockbuster finish to the India innings, but also equalled former India opener Virender Sehwag to score his 14th century as opener in the 50-overs format.