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Jul 16, 2019

India to ISSF World Cup 2020

The International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) confirmed the dates, March 15 to 26, for the World Cup in rifle, pistol and shot gun to be hosted at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, New Delhi in 2020.
This will be preceded by the Shotgun World Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus, from March 4 to 13, 2020.
The World Cup in rifle, pistol and shotgun, a test event for the Olympics, will be staged in Tokyo from April 15 to 27, 2020.
It will be followed by the World Cup in rifle and pistol in Munich, Germany, from June 2 to 9, 2019, and the combined World Cup for all three events in Baku, Azerbaijan, from June 22 to July 3, 2019.

BCCI to Invite Fresh Applications for Support Staff

The BCCI would soon invite fresh applications for the Indian cricket team's support staff, including the head coach, and incumbent Ravi Shastri would need to reapply once his contract expires after August 2019 tour of the West Indies.
The support staff comprising Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun, batting coach Sanjay Bangar and fielding coach R. Sridhar were given a 45-day extension following the World Cup, covering the West Indies tour from August 3 to September 3, 2019.
All of them can reapply but the team is set to have a new trainer and physio after the departure of Shankar Basu and Patrick Farhart respectively following India's semifinal exit in the World Cup.

ICC World Cup XI

Tournament top-scorer Rohit Sharma and pacer Jasprit Bumrah were the only Indians named in the ICC's World Cup XI, captained by New Zealand's admirable skipper Kane Williamson and dominated by champions England.
Player of the Tournament Williamson leads a team that includes six players from the dramatic final (2019) at the Lord's.
Newly-crowned world champions England are the most represented with four players in the XI while runners-up New Zealand have two in the team, named by a panel selected by the ICC to honour all those who performed well in the tournament.
The other representatives come from the losing semi-finalists India and Australia, who have two each, while Bangladesh's Shakib Al Hasan rounds out the team.

Jul 15, 2019

Cricket World Cup 2019

England defeated New Zealand to win the World Cup 2019.
New Zealand scored 241 for eight, England, after thriving on Ben Stokes (84 n.o.), was bowled out for 241.
The World Cup's summit clash was tied and a super-over was needed to break the stalemate at Lord's.
As a tense evening waned, England scored 15 with Stokes and Jos Buttler having a biff against Trent Boult.
New Zealand replied with 15 too, with James Neesham clouting a six off Jofra Archer in a mad over that ended once Martin Guptill got run-out while going for the winning run.
Yet, England prevailed as it had more boundaries (26) than what New Zealand (17) scored through the pulsating contest.

Wimbledon 2019

Novak Djokovic saved two match points to clinch a fifth Wimbledon title and 16th Major, shattering Roger Federer's bid to become the oldest Grand Slam champion in the longest final ever played at the tournament.
At 4 hours and 57 minutes, it was the longest Wimbledon final ever played and settled by a final set tiebreak for the first time.
Djokovic is the first man in 71 years to win the title from match points down.
He is now level with Bjorn Borg as a five-time Wimbledon winner.

Jul 13, 2019

Deepika Fourth in Olympic Test Event

Former World No. 1 Deepika Kumari was ranked fourth in the women's recurve qualifying round at the Tokyo Olympic Games test event.
Deepika shot 668 out of a possible 720 points at the 72-arrow 70-metre round to qualify for the knockout round while Atanu Das was ranked 19th in the men's section.
Deepika's impressive show enabled India to get a fourth rank in the mixed pair event at the Yumenoshima Archery Field which hosted its first international competition.

Ajay Singh Rewrites Records

Ajay Singh rewrote Commonwealth records in clean and jerk and total on his way to take the men's 81kg gold medal in the Commonwealth weightlifting championships.
Ajay did 190 kg in clean and jerk and 338 kg in total to better Canadian Alex Bellemarre's records of 183 kg and 337 kg, respectively.

Jul 12, 2019

Indian Squad for Junior WC Reach Suhl

The biggest and best, a 54-member Indian shooting contingent has reached Suhl, Germany, for the Junior World Cup scheduled to be held from 14th July.
Shreya Agrawal, Anish Bhanwala, Arjun Singh Cheema, Mehuli Ghosh, Hriday Hazarika, Vivaan Kapoor, Manisha Keer, Udhayveer Sidhu, Vijayveer Sidhu, Adarsh Singh, Esha Singh, Aishwarya Pratap Singh Tomar and Elavenil Valarivan are some of the leading shooters, expected to deliver the medals.
Some of the leading coaches like Jaspal Rana, Suma Shirur, Ved Prakash, Satguru Das and Deepak Dubey have accompanied the team.
India had topped the table in 2018 with 15 gold and a total of 26 medals. China was second with 21 medals including six gold.
About 55 countries are expected to field 652 shooters. Host Germany would have the second largest contingent of 40 shooters. Russsia (36), China (34), Czech Republic (34), Italy (32), US (31), Britain (29), France (28), Poland (25) and Japan (20) would be other countries with big teams.

Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi Masters Championship

Some of the best shooters of the country are scheduled to compete in the 12th Sardar Sajjan Singh Sethi Masters shooting championship to be staged at the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad, from July 28 to August 2, 2019.
All the shooters who have won the Olympic quota place for Tokyo 2020 - Anjum Moudgil, Apurvi Chandela, Saurabh Chaudhary, Abhishek Verma, Divyansh Singh Panwar and Manu Bhaker - are scheduled to compete in the Championship which is on the basis of invitation only.

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships

National champion Achinta Sheuli lifted a total of 305 kg to win the men's 73kg crown in the Commonwealth weightlifting championships. Sheuli also bagged the junior title.
Youth Olympics gold medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga, who competed in the 67 kg category, created a new Youth World, Asian and Commonwealth record in snatch event with a lift of 136kg but missed out in clean and jerk and could not manage a total.

Jul 10, 2019

India-New Zealand Semi-final Pushed to Reserve Day

With less than four overs to go in what was a New Zealand batting innings that never really did get going, rain halted play first temporarily for three hours, and then permanently for the day. This, then, ensured that the umpires had no other option than to push the first semi-final of this World Cup into its reserve day, where the match would resume (hopefully, considering there is rain forecast for the reserve day as well) exactly where it left off; Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowling the 47th over to Ross Taylor.

BCB Terminates Rhodes' Contract

The Bangladesh Cricket Board announced it would let go head coach Steve Rhodes after a disappointing campaign in the World Cup.
As per BCB CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury, the decision will be effective immediately.
The decision came a day after Bangladesh returned home after ending its campaign in the World Cup eighth in the league phase with only three wins in eight matches.
Head coach Rhodes joined Bangladesh in June last year and guided the team to its first-ever title in a multi-team tournament in Ireland just before the World Cup.
He was contracted with Bangladesh until the ICC World Twenty20 in Australia next year but his inability to give the team the expected results appear to have cost him his job.

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