The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) gave its nod to permit a team from Pakistan to play in Champions League-T20 Championship to be held in India in October. Thus it would be the first time that a team from Pakistan would play on Indian soil after the 26/11 Mumbai Terror attacks.

India's Aditya Mehta stunned compatriot Pankaj Advani to become only the third Indian ever to clinch the Asian Snooker Championships in Doha. Aditya sealed the match 7-5. Aditya is the 3^rd Indian to lift the Asian Snooker Title and gets the championship trophy home after 8 year long wait.

In Britain the official London 2012 motto has been revealed as 'Inspire a generation'.

‘Wisden Cricketers' Almanack’ (Wisden) expressed severe fears in its latest edition about the future of international cricket. It also criticised India for the slow death of Test matches.

In its 149^th edition, Lawrence Booth, the youngest editor of Wisden at 37, has held that international cricket "stands at a precipice" due to the ever-growing popularity of the Twenty20 format of Cricket. He held that held the Indian officials (BCCI) and the lucrative IPL (Indian Premier League) are responsible for the current state of International Test cricket.

As per him the disintegration of India's celebrated batting lineup has co-occurred with the rise of a Twenty20-based nationalism, the growth of private marketeers and high level conflicts of interest.

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The 18-year old Assam’s Shiva Thapa (56kg) has become the youngest Indian boxer to make the cut for the Olympics. In Astana, Kazakhstan, he defeated Japan's Satoshi Simizu to enter the final and book himself a London berth.