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Oct 26, 2019

Vijay Hazare Trophy final: Karnataka Defeat Tamil Nadu to Lift Trophy

KL Rahul presented himself as a potent keeper-batsman option with a strong show while birthday-boy Abhimanyu Mithun savoured a rare hat-trick as Karnataka lifted the Vijay Hazare Trophy title with a 60-run win over Tamil Nadu in the rain-hit final.
Rahul remained in the thick of things after hosts elected to field under overcast conditions, contributing in dismissal of four Tamil Nadu batsmen.

Oct 24, 2019

India Finish With 10 Medals At Denmark Para-Badminton International

The Indian para-badminton players justified the favourites tag at the 2019 Denmark Para-Badminton International tournament by clinching a total of 10 medals.
India won gold medals in both the men's and women's singles finals.
Privileged with a dazzling form, three-time World Champion Parul Parmar won a gold medal in the women's singles SL3 category, cementing her reputation as a formidable player.
Indian para-badminton head coach Gaurav Khanna heaped rich praise on the 46-year-old Parul.

Anandan Gunasekaran Opens India's Account, Wins Two Gold Medals

Para-athlete Anandan Gunasekaran scooped two gold medals in the disabled men's 100m and 400m IT1 events to open India's medal account at the 7th CISM World Military Games.
Gunasekaran clocked 12.00 seconds to win the 100m event, India's first medal in the ongoing Games. Peru's Casas Jose was second with a timing of 12.65 while Fajardo Pardo Teodicelo of Colombia took bronze with 12.72 seconds.
Later, the 32-year-old Indian clinched his second gold by clocking 53.35 seconds in the disabled men's 400m IT1 event. Colombia's Teodicelo (58.95) and Ranchin Mickael (1:00.31) took the silver and bronze, respectively.

Sourav Ganguly Becomes BCCI President

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly took charge as the BCCI president, easily the most high-profile name to head the world's richest cricket board that has been mired in administrative turmoil for the past three years.
The 47-year-old Ganguly was officially entrusted with the task of heading Indian cricket for the next nine months at the BCCI's General Body meeting, ending a controversial 33-month reign of the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA).
He succeeds C K Khanna, who was the interim head of the Board since 2017.

Praveen Kumar Becomes First Indian Man To Win Gold At Wushu World Championships

Praveen Kumar became the first Indian man to win a Wushu World Championships gold, beating Russel Diaz of Philippines in the 48kg category in Shanghai.
The Indian saw off his Filipino opponent 2-1 in the men's Sanda event of the 15th World Wushu Championships.
Praveen had earlier defeated Uzbekistan's Khasan Ikromov 2-0 in the semi-final to set up the summit clash with Diaz.
Among other Indians in the fray, Poonam (women's 75kg) and Sanathoi Devi (women's 52kg) secured silver medals while Vikrant Baliyan bagged the bronze in the men's 60kg category.
India finished third overall in the championship in event with a gold, two silvers and a bronze.
Wushu is a Chinese martial art which combines full-contact kickboxing, including close-range punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws, sweeps and kicks catch.

Oct 23, 2019

India Beats South Africa By An Innings And 202 Runs To Sweep Series

South Africa was bowled out for 133 on the fourth day of the third Test, giving India victory by an innings and 202 runs at the JSCA Stadium.
The 3-0 series sweep strengthened India's position at the top of the ICC World Test Championship table, its points tally now up to 240.
Rohit Sharma was declared the player of the match and the series. It was nothing less than the Mumbai batsman deserved, after amassing 529 runs in four innings, with three hundreds, including a score of 212.

Oct 22, 2019

Raunak Sadhwani Becomes India's 65th Grandmaster Denmark Open 2019

Raunak Sadhwani, the Nagpur-lad lived up to Anand's words of praise and played way over his rating to complete the formalities of becoming India's 65th Grandmaster.
In the ninth round, he stunned Russian GM Alexander Motylev to reach five points — one more than needed — to be a Grandmaster in 13 years, nine months and 28 days.
Sadhwani, part of the recent training camp for chosen Indian teenagers under former World champion Vladimir Kramnik, entered the world's strongest Swiss league tournament with a rating of 2479, for a starting rank a distant 129th out of 154 participants.
In nine rounds, Sadhwani faced all Grandmasters rated over 2650, won two, drew six games on the trot and lost one for a performance-rating of 2721 to be placed 43rd.
So far, Sadhwani has gained 28 rating points, that takes him past the stipulated rating of 2500 needed to become a GM.
Sadhwani's first GM norm came in the 2019 Aeroflot Open and the second in the 2019 Porticcio Open.
For this final norm, Sadhwani started his campaign by upsetting Sanan Sjugirov (Russia, 2662) and drew with sixth seed Sergey Karjakin (Russia, 2760), Surya Shekhar Ganguly (2658), Ivan Sarin (Croatia, 2667), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine, 2663), Peter Leko (Hungary, 2670) and Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia, 2690) in succession.
Sadhwani's lone defeat came in the eighth round against Markus Ragger (Austria, 2684) but he quickly made amends in the following round by nailing Alexander Motylev (Russia, 2651).
With this, Sadhwani joins the growing list of country's teenaged GMs that includes enormously-talented Nihal Sarin, R. Praggnanandhaa and D. Gukesh, among others.

Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu Lost to South Korea's Se Young An

Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu lost to South Korea's Se Young An 14-21, 17-21 in the second round of the Denmark Open 2019. This was Sindhu's third successive early exit from a tournament since claiming the World Championship at Basel, Switzerland.
Se Young dominated from the go and won four consecutive points to take a 6-1 lead in the first game. Sindhu fought to make it 7-8 but lost six consecutive points to fall behind at 7-14. The Indian was able to win seven points further into the game, but Se Young powered through to take the game 21-14.
Sindhu began the second game strongly as she won four consecutive points to lead 8-4, but the South Korean closed in the gap by winning four points in a row to make it 8-8.
The world No. 19 pegged back Sindhu every time she took a lead, as she went from 15-16 to 20-16 and then wrapped up the match at 21-17.

Andy Murray Wins His First Singles Title

The former No. 1-ranked player won the European Open to claim his first ATP singles title in more than two years.
Murray beat Stan Wawrinka 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in Antwerp, Belgium. The 32-year-old had last won a tournament in March 2017 at the Dubai Tennis Championships.
The three-time grand slam champion -- once considered part of tennis' "Big Four" alongside Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic -- returned to the professional circuit in June 2019, initially only competing in doubles.

Dutee 'Sportsperson Of The Year'

Adding another feather to her cap, sprinter Dutee Chand has won the Vogue award for Sportsperson of the Year.
Dutee, who holds the national record in women's 100m event, has brought laurels to the country and State several times.
Earlier in October 2019, she clocked 11.22 seconds in the semi-final of women's 100m event at the 59th National Open Athletics Championships-2019 held in Ranchi and broke her own previous national record of 11.26 seconds.

Ronaldo Singh Wins Gold Medal At Asian Track Cycling Championships

Indian cyclist Ronaldo Singh bagged a gold medal in the men's junior Keirin event at the Asian Track Cycling Championships being held at Incheon in South Korea.
Apart from Ronaldo, James Singh clinched a bronze medal in the event.
The men's and women's junior sprint team won two bronze medals.
Ronaldo Singh won the gold medal in men's junior Kierin event at the Asian Track Cycling C'ships in Incheon, Korea. James Singh got bronze in same event. India also secured 2 bronze medals in men's and women's Jr. sprint team.

Rohit Sharma Overtakes Don Bradman's Record For Highest Batting Average At Home

Rohit Sharma surpassed the batting average of the legendary Don Bradman in Test cricket on home soil.
The India opener brought up his maiden double ton in Test cricket as India built a huge lead in the 3rd Test against South Africa in Ranchi.
Rohit's batting average at home is now the highest batting average in Test cricket among those who have played at least 10 innings.
Rohit, who hit 212 in India's first innings in the third and final Test against South Africa, now has an average of 99.84 in 18 innings, which is the highest by any player (with minimum 10 innings) in the longest format at home. Rohit has so far scored 1298 runs in 18 completed innings.
This record was previously held by Bradman, who had an average of 98.22 across 50 innings at home in which he scored 4322 runs.

Oct 21, 2019

Badminton: Kuhoo-Dhruv Pair Wins Egypt International Mixed Doubles Title

Kuhoo Garg and Dhruv Rawat put up a brilliant effort to win the mixed doubles title at the Egypt International 2019 in Cairo.
The unseeded Garg and Rawat held their nerves for a tight 21-16, 22-20 victory over the third seeds Utkarsh Arora and Karishma Wadkar in an all-Indian final.
Meanwhile, at the Dubai International Challenge, Rituparna Das succumbed to a 21-23, 17-21 defeat in 36 minutes to Japan's World No. 208 Mako Urushizaki. The World No. 144 was looking for her first BWF title of the year, 2019.

10m Air Rifle Is Ayonika Paul's Trigger Event; Olympics Remains The Target

PUNE 2014 Commonwealth Games' silver medalist, Ayonika Paul, representing Central Railway, shot to the second position in the individual 10m Air Rifle event at the 54th All India Railway Rifle Shooting Championship at the Balewadi Sports Complex.
The shooting championship concludes on October 22 and has several top Indian shooters competing.
Ayonika, who has numerous national and international accolades to her name, finished behind Western Railway's Shreya Saksena.
The city of Pune is familiar territory for 27-year-old Ayonika, who has spent a lot of time training in the city. Born and brought up in Mumbai, Ayonika has trained under Austrian coach, Thomas Farnik, in Delhi and Pune

Airtel Delhi Half Marathon: Ethiopa's Belihu, Gemechu Defend Titles

Defending champions Andamlak Belihu and Tsehay Gemechu produced their personal best to retain the men's and women's titles, respectively, at the 15th Airtel Delhi Half Marathon.
Belihu's timing of 59:10 was better than the 59.18 that he had clocked to win the title last year but it was four seconds short of the course record set by Guye Adola (59.06) in 2014. Gemechu, on the other hand, smashed the course record by producing a personal best of 66:00.

Ajeetesh Sandhu Clinches Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational Title

Chandigarh's Ajeetesh Sandhu pipped Delhi's Rashid Khan for the title in a photo-finish on the final day of the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational golf tournament.
Ajeetesh, playing at his home course, made a spectacular comeback in regulation play before coming through in a marathon playoff that lasted four extra holes at the Chandigarh Golf Club.
It was a classical contest for the ages that saw Sandhu collect the winning cheque worth Rs. 24,24,750 that catapulted him from 48th to second position in the TATA Steel PGTI Order of Merit.
Rashid extended his lead to over Rs 34 lakhs in the PGTI's money list despite his heart-breaking loss. Khan's PGTI earnings for 2019 now stand at a whopping Rs. 61,21,653.

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