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Nov 29, 2019

Bhutia, Gopichand, Narang & Anju in Ministry Body to Review National Sports Code

Former football captain Baichung Bhutia, ace badminton coach Pullela Gopichand, Olympic bronze-medallist shooter Gagan Narang and former long jumper Anju Bobby George were named in a 13-member expert committee formed by the Sports Ministry to review the controversial Draft National Sports Code 2017.
The experts will review the code vis-a-vis the present code and will examine the comments received by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) and various National Sports Federations (NSF) related to the new draft.
The committee, which has been formed to suggest measures to make the Sports Code acceptable to all the stakeholders, will be headed by Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd) Mukundakam Sharma as its chairman. Joint Secretary of Sports will act as the coordinator in the committee.
The National Sports Federations (NSFs) will be represented by Boxing Federation of India (BFI) chief Ajay Singh, Sudhanshu Mittal (Kho Kho Federation of India), Adille Sumariwalla (Athletics Federation of India) and B.P. Baishya (Weightlifting Federation of India).

City Football Group Buys Majority Stake in India's Mumbai City FC

Manchester City's parent company, City Football Group (CFG), has agreed a deal to buy a majority stake in Indian Super League side Mumbai City FC.
CFG is buying 65% of Mumbai City, meaning the group will now hold a stake in eight football clubs.
Bollywood actor Ranbir Kapoor owns the remaining 35% of the club along with accountant Bimal Parekh.
The group already owns controlling stakes in Manchester City, Major League Soccer side New York City FC and Australian A-League team Melbourne City as well as minority shareholdings in clubs in China, Spain, Uruguay and Japan.
Mumbai, founded in 2014, have previously been managed by Manchester City greats Peter Reid and Nicolas Anelka, while former Manchester United striker Diego Forlan played for the club in 2016.

Sathiyan Set to Make WC Debut

The 40th edition of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) men's World Cup begins on Friday, with G. Sathiyan, India's top-ranked player, all set to make his tournament debut.
A total of 20 players will take part in the three-day event at the Sichuan Provincial Gymnasium in Chengdu, China.
The top eight seeds directly qualify for the knockout round, while the remaining 12 players have been drawn into groups of three for the preliminary round, with the top two players from each progressing to the knockouts.
Seeded 17th, Sathyan is in group D along with experienced campaigners in France's Simon Gauzy and Demark's Jonathan Groth, the 12th and 14th seeds, respectively.

Bajrang Finally Gets His Khel Ratna

With the season all but over and the Olympics less than 10 months away, Bajrang Punia is in the final stretch of his preparations for the 2020 Games. And the wrestler is determined to make his maiden outing at Tokyo a memorable one.
Punia, who missed out on receiving the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna earlier this year due to his preparations for the World Championships, was handed over the same by Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju. The Asian and Commonwealth champion won bronze at the competition in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, in September to secure an Olympic spot in the 65 kg category.
Punia, who was honoured with Padma Shri this year, had caused a stir after being ignored for the Khel Ratna last year but was the unanimous choice this time around. He recently got engaged to fellow- wrestler Sangeeta Phogat.

Nov 28, 2019

Abhishek-Jyoti Claim Compound Mixed Pair Gold

Abhishek Verma and Jyothi Surekha Vennam claimed India's lone gold, in compound mixed pair event at the 21st Asian Archery Championships. Verma and Vennam won by beating their Chinese Taipei opponents Yi-Hsuan Chen and Chieh-Luh Chen 158-151. India ended with one gold, two silver and four bronze.
India missed the compound team gold losing to Korea 232-233. The top-seeded trio of Verma, Rajat Chauhan and Mohan Bhardwaj were 58-58 in the first end but Korea slowly seized the momentum by taking a one-point after the second end.

Bhubaneswar and Rourkela to Host 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup

The 2023 Men's Hockey World Cup will be held in Bhubaneswar and Rourkela, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced Bhubaneswar. The announcement was made to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup which too was hosted by Bhubaneswar. India will host the Men's Hockey World Cup for the second consecutive time after the country was picked to stage the game's showpiece event in 2023 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).
The tournament will be held from January 13 to 29, 2020.

Nov 27, 2019

Gambhir Finally Has Stand Named after Him

Gautam Gambhir finally saw a stand named after him at the Feroz Shah Kotla but the felicitation became more of a sideshow with the former India opener lamenting the current mess in DDCA and even questioning president Rajat Sharma.
Gambhir, who played all his domestic cricket for Delhi and was also captain for a long time, rued the state of affairs in DDCA. He also questioned president Sharma for the delay in naming the North Stand after him.
Current India captain Virat Kohli also has a stand named after him at the Kotla, alongside greats such as Mohinder Amarnath and Bishan Singh Bedi. Virender Sehwag has a gate named after him and so has former India women's team captain Anjum Chopra.

FIFA Inspection Team Arrives in India

An eight-member FIFA delegation started the inspection process to determine venues for the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, which will be held in India from November 2 to 21 next year.
Beginning with Kolkata, which hosted the under-17 men's World Cup final in 2017, the FIFA delegation will inspect Guwahati (on November 28), Bhubaneswar (Nov. 29), Ahmedabad (Nov. 30) and Navi Mumbai (Dec. 1).
World Cup project leader Oliver Vogt said that besides the infrastructure and training sites, we are interested in plans the different venues have for further development of women's football in the country.
As per Oliver Vogt, a final decision on the venues will be taken in the first quarter of 2020.

India's Pace Battery Storms into History

Holding, Garner, Marshall and Walsh, or Bumrah, Sharma, Yadav and Shami?
India's fast bowlers, who have rapidly changed the rules of engagement between their teams and others at home or away, bounced to a new high in 2019 by collectively averaging an astonishing 15.16 runs per wicket in eight Tests this calendar year—the lowest in the 142-year history of Test cricket.
This year, the leader of the Indian quartet, Jasprit Bumrah, missing five home Tests due to back injury didn't seem to matter as Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma and Umesh Yadav were relentless even without him on pitches that were far from seam-friendly. The three shared 19 wickets Indian bowlers took in Kolkata in the pink-ball Test against Bangladesh last week—the first time the spinners didn't take any in a home match that saw a result. In all, the Indian pacemen took 95 wickets between them in 2019—Bumrah 14 at 13.14, Sharma 25 at 15.56, Shami 33 at 16.67 and Yadav 23 at 13.65.
The World No 1 team is now way ahead atop the World Test Championship table after extending their world record for consecutive series wins at home to 12. The seventh Test win in a row is also India's best, with the Kolkata Test wrapped up in 161.2 overs making it the shortest finished game in India.

Nov 26, 2019

Sharon Maria and Kunal Kaushik Set Meet Records

Sharon Maria (Nilgiris) and Kunal Kaushik (Dadri) set new meet records in the girls' under-16 200m and boys' under-16 shot put events, respectively on the final day of the 17th Milo National inter-district junior athletics meet at Tarakarama Stadium (SV University).
The 15-year-old Sharon was third behind Soumita Paul (Chandranagore) and Simran Kaur (Chandigarh) at the top on the bend but was able to sustain her pace till the finish.
Shot putters Kunal Kaushik, Jaidev Dekka (North West Delhi) and Maurya Ganapathi (Mysuru) each went past the existing meet mark of 16.91m set by Mankirat Singh (Ropar) in Haridwar in 2014 as the trio logged throws past the 17m mark.
However, Kunal Kaushik was a clear winner with a best effort of 17.91m, improving on the 16.76m that fetched him bronze in Guntur.

Saurabh, Divyansh, Elavenil to Get ISSF's Golden Target Award

Three Indians have finished as No.1 in the year-end World rankings and will receive the International Shooting Sports Federation's (ISSF) 'The Golden Target' award.
From this year, ISSF has started the Golden Target award for the top ranked athletes. The awards will be given to top shooters from 12 categories on December 7, 2019 in Munich.
Divyansh Singh Panwar and young Elavenil Valarivan have topped the men's and women's 10m air rifle categories, respectively, while pistol ace Saurabh Chaudhary has ended the year as No. 1 in men's 10m air pistol event.
Out of the 12 Olympic categories (individual), India has maximum No. 1s, followed by China and USA (2 each).

Nov 25, 2019

Junior Grapplers win 4 more Golds

Sagar Jaglan erased a massive 1-6 deficit to grab a gold in the freestyle 68kg category as India concluded its campaign at the Under-15 Asian Wrestling Championships with 28 medals, including 13 gold, in Taichung. Led by 2019 Cadet World Championships bronze medallist Deepak Chahal, the freestyle grapplers continued their heroics to capture four gold medals on the final day of the competition.
While Chahal won the gold in 75kg, Haryana's Vishal (62kg), Sagar Jaglan (68kg), and Madhya Pradesh's Jatin (85kg) were the others who finished on the top podium. Most impressive of the lot was Sagar. He was down 1-6 against Bexultanov Yerkhan of Kazakhstan, he made a remarkable turnaround in the last 20 seconds to win 7-6.

Chelsea Win Battle Of The Ball

Pep Guardiola has built his decade of football success on creating teams that dominate possession but for the first time in his career — one of his teams had less of the ball than the opposition.
From Barcelona to Bayern Munich and on to Manchester City, the 'Pep way' has been built around an obsessive attention to keeping hold of the ball.
But something strange happened — his City side beat Chelsea in the Premier League without having a majority of the possession.
The possession stat of 46.74 during City's 2-1 win was the lowest recorded by a side managed by Guardiola in any of his 381 top-flight matches in charge at his three clubs.

Kipchoge, Dalilah World Athletes of Year

Kenya's marathon sub-two hour man Eliud Kipchoge and American 400m hurdles world record holder Dalilah Muhammad were named World Athletics athletes of the year.
Their titles were announced at the annual awards ceremony of the sport's governing body in Monaco.
Kipchoge retained the award thanks to his barrier-busting marathon in Vienna in October 2019.
The Kenyan Olympic champion clocked one hour, 59 minutes and 40 seconds over the 42.2km distance, though the record is unofficial because he used rotating pacemakers.

Australia Thrash Pakistan by an Innings & 5 Runs

Australia duly wrapped up victory over Pakistan by an innings and five runs in the first test in Brisbane but they were forced to wait until late on day four by a magnificent rearguard action from Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan. The hosts needed only seven wickets to ensure they would take a 1-0 lead to Adelaide Oval for the second and final match of the series but Azam's second test century and 95 from Rizwan stalled their march to victory. The pair were finally dislodged after a 132-run partnership and the Australian quicks finished the job with the second new ball, dismissing the last four batsmen for 30 runs to maintain Australia's 31-year unbeaten run at the Gabba.

Croatia to Face India or Pakistan in Davis Cup Qualifier

Croatia will play either India or Pakistan to qualify for next year's Davis Cup, after the draw for the qualification stage was made on 24 November 2019. The 2018 champions crashed out in the group stage of this week's tournament in Madrid, with the final pitting Rafael Nadal's Spain against Canada.
Spain, Canada and the two losing semi-finalists, Great Britain and Russia, automatically qualify for the competition in 2020, as well as Serbia and France, who have been granted the two wild card slots. It leaves 12 places for the winners of the qualifiers, which will be contested on the weekend of March 6 and 7, 2020.
Ties will consist of four singles matches and one doubles, with all rubbers played over the best-of-three tie-break sets.
Other stand-out fixtures include Colombia facing 2016 champions Argentina, and 28-time winners Australia taking on Brazil. Germany, who lost to Britain in this year's quarter-finals, will be up against Belarus.
Croatia, Colombia, Australia and Germany will all be at home.

New Zealand Beat England by Innings in First Test

New Zealand wrapped up an impressive innings and 65-run victory over England shortly after tea on the fifth day of the first test at Bay Oval on November 25, 2019 with Neil Wagner running through the lower order.
Wagner took three wickets in 17 balls for just one run as England collapsed from 132-5 to 138-8 before tea, then broke a 59-run ninth-wicket partnership between Jofra Archer and Sam Curran after they had threatened to thwart the hosts.
The left armer then trapped Stuart Broad in front for a first ball duck to end England's resistance at 197 and end with figures of 5-44 from 19.2 overs.

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