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Dec 09, 2019

Vidarbha Seeks Ranji Hat-trick

Vidarbha will look to become the only team other than Mumbai to win three consecutive Ranji Trophy titles when the 86th edition of India's premier domestic cricket competition gets underway.
Mumbai, then Bombay, won 15 titles in a row across three decades, starting in the 1950s before winning three consecutive titles in the 1970s. There have been a few states, including Delhi and Karnataka, who have won two in a row but never three. Vidarbha, who depend mostly on solid teamwork as they have no major, current international stars, won the last two titles and will be eyeing their third title.

Russia Doping Scandal

Russia could face an unprecedented four-year ban from major international sporting events over accusations that it manipulated laboratory doping data.
The decision will be made later at a meeting of the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Russia could be banned from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. It could also be ruled out of the 2022 Football World Cup in Qatar.

Indian Junior Women's Team Wins Three-nation Hockey Tournament

The Indian junior women's team won the three-nation hockey tournament even though they lost to Australia 1-2 in the final game at Canberra. The Indian eves finished top on the point table, with seven points from four matches. They were ahead of the hosts, Australia on goal difference. New Zealand finished third, with only three points from their four matches.

Dec 08, 2019

Smith Approached to Become SA Director of Cricket

Former captain Graeme Smith is set to become Cricket South Africa's (CSA) director of cricket, the governing body's president Chris Nenzani announced.
If Smith agrees to take the job he will have just over two weeks to put a selection panel and coaching staff in place before the first of four Tests against England, starting in Centurion on December 26, 2019.

South Asian Games: India Crosses the 200-mark

India breached the 200-mark in medal count, backed by a century of gold, in the South Asian Games as the swimmers and wrestlers produced strong performances.
With a whopping 49 medals, including 29 gold, on Saturday (7-12-2019), India tally stood at 214 (110 gold, 69 silver, 35 bronze).
Nepal was in the second spot with 142 (43 gold, 34 silver, 65 bronze).

Dec 07, 2019

Praggnanandhaa Youngest Indian to Cross 2,600 Rating

R. Praggnanandhaa crossed the Elo rating of 2,600 at the age of 14 years, 3 months and 26 days, becoming the youngest Indian ever to get past the 2,600 milestone, and the second-youngest in the world.
Praggnanandhaa achieved this career-high rating at the London Chess Classic. Praggnanandhaa, who is also India's second-youngest Grandmaster, broke Nihal Sarin's record of being the youngest Indian to cross 2,600 — Sarin did it at the age of 14 years and 10 months in June 2019. Sarin had beaten the record set by Parimarjan Negi in 2009. The youngest-ever player to reach the 2,600-mark in Elo is USA's John Burke, who rose to 2601 in September 2015 at the age of 14 years and 2 months.
Viswanathan Anand remains the top Indian player at world No. 15, with an Elo rating of 2,757. Chess's rating system is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.

South Asian Games

Shuttlers led the way as India clinched 41 medals, including 19 gold and 18 silver, on the fifth day of the 13th South Asian Games. India's tally now reads 165 medals (81 gold, 59 silver, 25 bronze).
The badminton stars won four gold and two silver on the day, while table tennis players took gold and silver in both men's and women's singles. Weightlifters also added to the tally with three gold and a silver.
Track and field athletes, who were leading the Indian charge in the past few days, fetched the maximum 12 medals but just two were gold.
In shot put, Tejinder Pal Singh Toor broke the Games record with an 20.03m effort, while Abha Khatuwa won the women's event.

Dec 06, 2019

India's Medal Rush Continues at South Asian Games

Led by strong performances from the wushu players and swimmers, India breached the 100-mark by winning a whopping 50 medals on the fourth day to consolidate its top position in the South Asian Games (SAG).
India secured its best medal haul on a single day so far in the Games to lead the table with 58 gold, 41 silver and 19 bronze for a total of 118. Nepal is far behind in the second spot with 36 gold, 26 silver and 34 bronze, followed by Sri Lanka (16 gold, 31 silver, 52 bronze) at third.

G. S. Lakshmi Set to Make History

G. S. Lakshmi from India is all set to go down in the history books of cricket as she has been appointed the match referee for the third series of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 which will kick off in UAE this weekend.
This is the second significant achievement for Lakshmi this year, following her appointment as the first woman in the ICC International Panel of Match Referees in May.

ICC Extends its OPPO Tie-up

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the extension of its global partnership with smartphone brand OPPO till the end of 2023.
The Chinese smartphone major had in July 2019 opted out of its deal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India, passing on the Team India sponsorship rights Byju's and still taking a major cost for the transfer deal. But it continues its innings with the global governing body for the sport.
OPPO as part of the revised contract will continue to be the official mobile handset and headset partner of the ICC and all associated ICC events starting with the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020 in South Africa and both the men's and women's T20 World Cups in Australia 2020.

Dec 05, 2019

Arthur to Be Sri Lanka's Next Coach

Mickey Arthur, who previously coached South Africa, Australia and Pakistan, is set to take up the next assignment in his coaching career, as head coach of Sri Lanka, ahead of their upcoming two-Test series in Pakistan.
Grant Flower will join the set-up as the batting coach, while David Saker and Shane McDermott will take over as bowling and fielding coach respectively. Sri Lanka Cricket has agreed to a two-year contract with the new staff, although Flower will only work with the limited overs team.

Alka Rehani Bhardwaj is CAG Nominee in BCCI Apex Council

The BCCI will have senior India Audit and Accounts Service officer Alka Rehani Bhardwaj as the Comptroller and Auditer General (CAG) representative in its Apex Council as per the new constitution approved by the Supreme Court.
Rehani Bhardwaj is a 1993 batch IA&AS officer and is currently serving as a Director of Regional Training Institute in Mumbai.
As per the SC-approved BCCI constitution passed on August 9, 2018, the apex council will constitute a representative of the CAG as its member.
Accordingly, Rehani Bhardwaj will officially become the first government nominee in a BCCI working group.

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