Marco Simoncelli died after a crash at the Malaysian MotoGP in Sepang. How old was he?

Italy's Marco Simoncelli died after a crash at the Malaysian MotoGP in Sepang. He was 24 years old. The race was cancelled after just four minutes when Simoncelli fell and was hit by Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi as he slid across the track on his Honda.

Indian men's hockey team lost to Pakistan 1-4 in the bronze medal match to sign off bottom of the heap in the four-nation Lanco International super Series Hockey 9s in Perth. Rajpal Singh struck India's lone goal at the stroke of lemon break through a penalty corner.

Salgaocar made a poor start to their title-defence going down 0-1 to arch-rivals Dempo in the opening game of I-League football at the Nehru Stadium. Dempo struck through Nigerian Ranti Martins in the second half to pick up three points from the match.

Tim Bresnan was fined 7.5% of his match fee for showing dissent in the third one-day international against India at Mohali. Bresnan was charged following an incident at the end of the 18th over when he snatched his cap from on-field umpire Sudhir Asnani.

Australia recorded a 93-run win over South Africa in the first one-day international in Centurion. Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke and Michael Hussey guided the Australians to 183 for 4 from 29 overs, setting a target of 223, before the debutant Pat Cummins and Mitchell Johnson shared six wickets to lead their team to victory.

Rohit Sharma has been drafted into the Mumbai squad for the West Zone Twenty20 tournament starting in Rajkot. The India middle-order batsman, had broke his index finger courtesy a Stuart Broad scorcher in the first ODI at Chester-le-Street on September 3.

Manchester united has been voted as Britain’s most hated club by fans.The 19-time champions pulled in more than almost a third of the total vote in a survey of fans. Chelsea, three-times Premier League champs, got ten percent of the hate vote, with Arsenal just behind them with 9.3%.

England and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney became the highest-scoring English player in Champions League history. Rooney hit two penalties in Romania to take his Euro tally to 26 — and earn Manchester United their first win of this Champions League campaign

India will witness its first ever Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The event is scheduled to take place on October 30, 2011 as the 17th race of the 2011 Formula One season. The new race track was officially homologated on September 1.

Roger Federer is dropped out of the top three men's singles rankings for the first time in over eight years. The former World No.1 and holder of 16 Grand Slam titles was replaced by Andy Murray after he sealed his third straight title in as many weeks at Shanghai.