MEET LEICESTER CITY'S UNSUNG HERO

Table topping Leicester City has been the team to beat this season and the club's success has been mostly linked with attacking duo of Riyad Mahrez and Jamie Vardy.

Few people seem to be noticing the influence of  French midfielder, N'golo Kante. The 24 year old defensive midfielder joined  joined Leicester City earlier this season from Ligue 1 club Caen in France for a fee of 5.6 million Britain Pounds.

Kante has formed a rock solid midfield partnership with Danny Drinkwater. Earlier this season the club manager Claudio Ranieri compared the qualities of Kante to those of former Chelsea midfielder Claude Makelele.

The Parisian born midfielder has scored one goal and creating three assists in the process for Leicester City this season.

His only goal for Leicester came on a 2-1 victory over Watford at King Power Stadium on 7 November 2015.

AMLA, DE KOCK STEER PROTEAS TO COMFORTABLE VICTORY

South Africa's Quinton De Kock and Hashim Amla  produced a batting masterclass to steer the Proteas to a comfortable seven wicket victory over England at SuperSport Park on Tuesday.

The Proteas came into the clash trailing 2-0, after losing previous matches played at  Mangaung Oval and St Georges Park.

England had earlier won the toss and elected to bat first. The visitors posted 318/8 after 50 overs, leaving the host needing a massive 319 runs to win the match.  Joe Root was the only centurion from the England team. Root was eventually dismissed on 125 runs by David Wiese's run out.

South Africa produced the first wicket partnership score of 239 runs.

Quinton De Kock became the youngest batman in ODI history to reach 10 centuries. The Johannesburg-born batman broke the previous record set by India's Virat Kohli.

• Virat Kohli            :23 Years, 129 days
• Quinton De Kock  :23 Years, 54 days

De Kock scored 135 runs from 117 balls and was awarded man of the match performance award, while Hashim Amla scored his 22nd ODI ton.

South Africa need to win the remaining matches to clinch the series.

    

SEXWALE'S CHANCES OF LEADING FIFA LOOKS SLIM

South Africa's Tokyo Sexwale chances of leading the football governing body took a huge blow when CAF annnounced they will back President of  Asian Football confederation  Shaikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa for the upcoming FIFA elections.

According to CAF Sexwale has withdrawn from the race to land the FIFA hot seat in order to "support the interest and unity of African football".

In a statement released by CAF on 5 February, the Federation argued all 54 African countries to rally behind the Asian.

"While respecting the principles of democracy, the sovereignty and latitude of each member association to vote for the candidate of its choice the Executive committee urges all the 54 member associations of CAF to reserve their votes for Shaikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa  during the 26 February 2016 elections for the Presidency of FIFA in Zurich," CAF said.

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)  reported that almost half of African countries will oppose  CAF instructions to support Sheikh Salman.

Despite being betrayed by his own continent, Sexwale has come out and told everyone that he is an active candidate for the FIFA Presidency elections.

"It goes ahead because I have been sent by my own association from South Africa and Iam also representing the aspirations of many associations across the world who have nominated me to be a candidate as well as many other people who are ready to vote when we reach Zurich," Sexwale told BBC Sport.

 The competing candidates will be Gianni Infantino , Jerome Champagne, Prince Ali, Tokyo Sexwale and early favourite Sheikh Salman.