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While the Indian cricket team fans will look forward to Virat Kohli and co's tours of South Africa, England and Australia, the football fans will have their plans chalked out for the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia. If that's not enough, there will be Commonwealth Games, Asian Games and much more in 2018. Here's your one-stop guide of schedule of some of the biggest sporting events this year:- A bumper year is in store for all sports fans as 2018 will see Russia host the biggest extravaganza: The football World Cup. Asian Games, Hockey World Cup and CWG too should keep you hooked if you are a lover of sport. Starting with cricket, after a year of dominating performances in home season, year 2018 promises to be the acid Test for Virat Kohli and boys. First India's tour of South Africa January 5 to February 24 3 Tests, 6 ODIs and 3 T20Is Under-19 World Cup January 13 to February 5  New Zealand India's tour of England July 3 to Sep...

Bittersweet is perhaps the best phrase to sum up India’s sporting record in 2017. The Indian team under Virat Kohli played brilliantly in the Champions Trophy in England in June to make the final, but eventually ended up second best to Pakistan. Uday Deb The women repeated the performance a month later. Beating Australia in a pulsating semi-final, they were in a position to close out the final but eventually fell short by an agonising margin of 9 runs, to finish runner up behind England before a packed house at Lord’s. PV Sindhu, who had another good year following her breakthrough performance in Rio in 2016, twice ended up second best in two closely contested finals. In fact, the world championship final between Sindhu and the Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in Glasgow will rank as one of the best badminton matches ever played. Among men, India now has four players in the top 20 in badminton with Kidambi Srikanth being the stand out performer winning a record four super series ti...