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Nov 10, 2019

Aradhya Garg, Srishti Pandey become National junior chess champions

Delhi's Aradhya Garg capped a dream run with a sixth straight victory and became the National junior chess champion.
The girls' title went to Maharashtra's Srishti Pandey who emerged worthy champion with a one-point margin, with nine players tied for second.
Garg was seeded a distant 20th and Srishti sixth.
In the final round, Garg defeated overnight leader and top seed Koustav Chatterjee with black. As it turned out, this first-year student of Kirori Mal College faced rivals from Bengal in the last four rounds, including fourth seed Rajdeep Sarkar (2362) and second seed Mitrabha Guha (2443).

Sixth win on the spin lifts Chelsea to second

Abraham ended Palace's dogged defensive resistance with a simple finish from Willian's deft through ball seven minutes into the second half before Pulisic headed home a loose ball 11 minutes from time to seal all three points.
Chelsea edge a point clear of Manchester City and to within five of leaders Liverpool, who host City in a highly-anticipated clash.
A 4-4 draw with Ajax took the tally of goals Chelsea's prior 18 games this season to 70 at an average of nearly four per game.
However, the Blues free flowing football under Frank Lampard was met with a brick wall of a Palace defence for the first 45 minutes.
Pulisic had scored four goals in his last two Premier League games as the American begins to deliver on his £58mil (RM306mil) price tag and only a fine save from Vicente Guaita denied the United States captain another strike early on.
Thereafter, Chelsea were largely restricted to efforts from free-kicks on the edge of the box before the break as Willian curled inches wide.

Tejaswini books Tokyo ticket

Tejaswini Sawant won the Olympic quota in the women's rifle 3-position event by qualifying for the final with an impressive score of 1171 in the Asian shooting championship.
It was the third in the ongoing championship after Deepak Kumar (men's rifle 3-position) and Chinki Yadav (women's 25-metre sports pistol).
With this, Indian shooters' Olympic quota climbs to 12.

Rohit Sharma tops dubious list with dismissal in 3rd T20I

Team India have a tough task at hand in the 3rd T20I against Bangladesh at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur.
After winning the toss, Mahmudullah opted to bowl and invited India bat first. Bangladesh managed to make a great start to their innings as Shafiul Islam removed Rohit Sharma early for just two runs.
Rohit went for a leg flick and missed the line completely. The ball crashed into the stumps after taking an inside edge off Rohit's bat.
Rohit has been breaking a lot of T20I records recently. He is the most-capped Indian in T20I while also being the top-scoring batsmen in the format.
But Rohit broke another record in the 3rd T20I and it was something that he would have liked to avoid.

Nov 09, 2019

India To Host Men's Hockey World Cup In 2023

India will host the Men's Hockey World Cup for the second consecutive time after the country was picked to host the game's showpiece event in 2023 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in Lausanne.
According to the FIH, the Men's Hockey World Cup will be held in India from January 13 to 29, 2020.
Spain and the Netherlands were named as the co-hosts of the 2022 Women's World Cup scheduled to be held from July 1 to 22, 2020.
India will, thus, become the first country to stage four men's Hockey World Cups after having hosted the showpiece in 1982 (Mumbai), 2010 (New Delhi) and 2018 (Bhubaneswar). The Netherlands' had hosted three men's tournaments.

Nov 08, 2019

Rohit Sharma Becomes First Indian Male Cricketer To Play 100 T20Is

Stand-in captain Rohit Sharma became the first Indian cricketer and second in world cricket to complete 100 T20 Internationals when he took the field during the second match against Bangladesh.
Shoaib Malik (111 games) from Pakistan is the only player to have played more than 100 T20 Internationals. Rohit had earlier surpassed Virat Kohli's record to become the highest run-getter in the T20I format of the game.

Nov 07, 2019

Davis Cup: Pakistan Tennis Federation To Appeal Against Shifting Of India Tie To Neutral Venue

The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) decided to appeal against ITF's decision to shift their Davis Cup tie against India to a neutral venue, saying the world governing body and the Indian tennis federation have lowered their stature with this move.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) agreed with the safety concerns in Islamabad, raised by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and moved the Nov 29-30, 2019 tie out of Pakistan's capital city.

Melanie Jones Appointed Cricket Australia's New Director

Cricket Australia announced the appointment of former player Melanie Jones as their director.
A former international cricketer, Jones made her debut for Australia in 1997. She also scored her first Test century on debut (131), in her first of two successful Ashes campaigns (2004).
Jones was recognised in 2019 with one of Australia's highest honours, the Medal of the Order of Australia, for services towards cricket and the community among a long list of accolades and acknowledgements.

Thaawarchand Gehlot Announces Setting Up Of Sports Training Centres For Differently-Abled

Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot has said that the government is establishing sports training centres at five locations in the country, exclusively for the differently-abled people.
He unveiled the Standing Wheelchair, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for commercial production at a function held in Chennai today. He said works with regard to one of such spot centre have already started.
The Standing Wheelchair has been developed indigenously at the Research Park of the Madras IIT.
It helps the differently-abled people not only to move from one place to another like the normal wheelchair but also enable them to stand on their own, without seeking other's help.

Todd Wins In Bermuda With Final Round Birdie Blitz

Brendon Todd fired a nine-under-par final round of 62 to win the PGA Tour's inaugural Bermuda Championship.
The journeyman US professional surged to victory by four shots at the Port Royal Golf Club course in Southampton after a spectacular birdie blitz on the front nine.
The 34-year-old, whose only other PGA Tour win came at the Byron Nelson in 2014, reeled off seven consecutive birdies during a remarkable display to reach the turn at seven under.

Nov 06, 2019

PV Sindhu Suffers Shock Defeat

World Champion P V Sindhu suffered a shock defeat to lower-ranked Pai Yu Po of Chinese Taipei in the opening round to be ousted but India's doubles campaign was off to a good start in the China Open.
World No.6 Sindhu, who made early exits in China, Korea and Denmark, lost 13-21 21-18 19-21 to world No.42 Pai in a 74-minute women's singles match
However, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy gave the Indian camp reason to be cheerful with twin victories in the men's and mixed doubles categories.
Thailand Open champions Satwik and Chirag Shetty, who had reached the French Open finals last month, defeated the American pair of Phillip Chew and Ryan Chew 21-9 21-15 to set up a second-round meeting with sixth seeds Japanese Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe.
Earlier, Satwik and Ashwini Ponnappa, ranked 30th, defeated Canada's Joshua Hurlburt-Yu and Josephine Wu 21-19 21-19 to make a positive start in the mixed doubles competition.
They will face fifth-seeded Korean pair of Seo Seung Jae and Chae Yujung next.

Special Umpire to Monitor 'No Balls'

The 2020 edition of the IPL could have a special umpire just to monitor no balls. The idea was floated and accepted well at a meeting of the IPL Governing Council, chaired by former India batsman Brijesh Patel, at the BCCI HQ.
It's still not clear, though, if that 'special umpire' would be the third or fourth umpire, or a new gentleman in the umpiring team altogether.
The need for this new rule seems to have been instigated by a number of cases in the last IPL when the umpires didn't give genuine no balls, costing teams matches from a crucial position.
A primary case was India and Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli coming down heavily on umpire S Ravi after the final delivery of their match against the Mumbai Indians, bowled by pacer Lasith Malinga, turned out to be 'no-ball' which was not awarded to the losing team.
The innovative concept of having such umpires could be tried at any of the domestic tournament before a final call will be taken on it. This isn't the first time that this rule will be applied in top-level cricket— it was implemented by the ICC during the 2002 Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka too.

Rachna breaks Tintu's junior record

Haryana's Rachna marked her shift from being a single-lapper to 800m with a memorable victory in the 35th National Junior Athletic Championships, breaking Tintu Luka's 11-year-old under-20 meet record with a 2:06.12 effort in Guntur.
Luka had set the meet mark at 2:07.48 in Mysore in 2008.

IPL to Go 'International'

The newly formed governing council of the Indian Premier League (IPL) — in its very first meeting — has proposed that franchises be allowed to explore the idea of playing 'friendlies' overseas.
The decision to play friendlies in overseas destinations will bear no official stamp of the tournament or the cricket board but will be considered as potential brandbuilding exercises.
This is only a proposal and has to be tabled at the BCCI AGM at the end of this month (November 2019) for approval.
However, the Governing Council's call has, for the first time in 12 years since the inception of the tournament, considered the possibility of India's domestic cricket going global.
Till now, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) has not allowed either franchises or cricketers to play overseas, a decision that the court-appointed Committee of Administrators also stuck to.
Mumbai Indians were among the first to request the BCCI in the past that they be allowed to play some friendly matches in Canada.

NZ Takes Lead over England

A dramatic England collapse which saw five wickets fall for only 10 runs allowed New Zealand to snatch a 14-run victory in their Twenty20international in Nelson. It also put New Zealand 2-1 ahead in the series with two games to play.
England were on track to overhaul New Zealand's 180 when they reached 139 for two in the15th over, with captain Eoin Morgan in full flight as he cracked sixes off consecutive Mitchell Santner deliveries.
But with England needing 42 off the remaining 31 deliveries Santner turned the match when he had Morgan caught by Colin Munro off the final ball of the over. Dawid Malan (55) and James Vince (49) had laid a solid foundation for England at the top of the innings.
Man-of-the-match Colin de Grandhomme smacked 55 off 35 while Taylor produced a more sedate 27 from 24 in a 66-run stand after New Zealand were three down in the eighth over.

Australia's Seven-wicket Victory over Pakistan

Steve Smith struck a sparkling half-century to fire Australia to an emphatic seven-wicket victory over Pakistan in their T20 match in Canberra .
The former captain's unbeaten 80 from 51 balls gave Australia a 1-0 lead in their three-match series after the opener was washed out in Sydney .
Australia mopped up Pakistan's modest total of 150 for six with nine balls to spare.

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