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00:13Starting with football, he may have been left out of Brazil's World Cup squad,
00:17but João Pedro has been named as Chelsea's Men's Player of the Year.
00:21Looking at his record prior to Tuesday's match against Tottenham Hotspur,
00:25Pedro scored 15 goals and set up 5 in the Premier League for Chelsea this season.
00:30The 24-year-old forward pipped Enzo Fernandes to the award, winning 60% of the votes.
00:36Pedro will not take part in this summer's competition,
00:38despite starting against Croatia in Brazil's most recent match in April.
00:43Heading to the subcontinent, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been named in India's ODI squad
00:48for their three-match series against Afghanistan in June.
00:51But Jaspreet Bhumra and Ravindra Jadeja have been rested for both the test and ODI assignments,
00:56while wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant does not feature in the ODI setup.
01:00The ODI squad will be led by Shubman Gill, with fast bowler Prince Yardov also receiving a call-up.
01:07And to the golfing greens, former champion Graham McDowell has secured one of the final nine qualification
01:13spots for this year's US Open.
01:15The man from Northern Ireland came through a 36-hole qualifier in Dallas with two rounds of 69.
01:22It will be a first major for McDowell since his 10-year exemption from winning the US Open ended in
01:272020.
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