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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.

Jul 09, 2019

Serena Williams in Wimbledon Quarter-finals

Serena Williams reached her 14th Wimbledon quarter-finals by overwhelming Spain`s Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2 6-2.
The 37-year-old American is aiming for a record-equalling 24th Grand Slam title.
Serena Williams would face Alison Riske in the quarter-finals

Head of Cricket at National Cricket Academy

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) appointed former Indian captain Rahul Dravid as Head Cricket, National Cricket Academy (NCA), Bengaluru.
The BCCI said that Dravid would oversee all cricket-related activities at NCA and would be involved in mentoring, coaching, training and motivating players, coaches and support staff at the NCA. The former Indian batsman, popularly known as The Wall, would also work with the National Men's and Women's Head Coaches and Cricket Coaches for India Developmental teams, including India A, India Under 19, India Under 23 teams, and identify key training and development objectives.

Kashyap Loses Final

Former Commonwealth Games champion Parupalli Kashyap's impressive run at the Canada Open Super 100 tournament came to an end after he lost a three-game thriller to China's Li Shi Feng in the men's singles summit clash.
Sixth seed Kashyap fell short against Feng, going down 22-20 14-21 17-21 in the final that clocked an hour and 16 minutes.

Jul 08, 2019

Women's Football World Cup

The United States won a record-extending fourth women`s World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands as second-half goals from Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle confirmed their status as the leading power in the women`s game.

Commonwealth Chess Championship

Favourite Abhijeet Gupta claimed his fifth title as India swept medals in all 16 sections of the Commonwealth chess championship.
After two other leaders, S. L. Narayanan and Aravindh Chithambaram, drew their top board battle in 32 moves, Abhijeet caught Arjun Erigaisi in a checkmating net in 39 moves to reach 7.5 points.
Aravindh topped a three-way tie for the second spot with Swapnil Dhopade and Narayanan at seven points.
Tania Sachdev retained the women's title after an anxious wait. After being tied at six points with Divya Deshmukh, Tania took the title on superior tie-break score. Bhakti Kulkarni came third.

Rohit Sharma on Verge of Breaking World Cup Records

India vice-captain Rohit Sharma is in the form of his life. He has been breaking records for fun in ICC World Cup 2019. 5 centuries, the most by any batsman in a single edition of World Cup, most runs (647).
Rohit is on verge of breaking two World Cup records and both of them belong to Sachin Tendulkar. Rohit, who has 647 runs to his name in just 8 innings in this World Cup is just 27 runs away from eclipsing Tendulkar to become the highest run-scorer in a single edition of the world event.
Tendulkar had scored 673 runs in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. The second on the list is Australia's Matthew Hayden, who had scored 659 runs in 2007 World Cup in West Indies.
If Rohit manages to score 53 more runs against New Zealand in the first semi-final then he would also become the first cricketer to score 700 runs in a World Cup.

Wrestling Grand Prix of Spain

Putting up a dominating show, India's top wrestler Vinesh Phogat won her first gold medal after shifting to 53 kg category, while Divya Kakran claimed the top honours in the 68 kg category at the Grand Prix of Spain.
Vinesh, one of India's medal hopefuls at the 2020 Tokyo Games, competed in her third tournament in the new category.

National Under-17 Chess Championship

West Bengal's Neelash Saha stayed steady and won the open title while State-mate Samriddhaa Ghosh pulled off a big surprise to pocket the girls' trophy in the 30th National under-17 chess championship at the Oberon Mall here on Sunday.
The second-seeded Neelash, the overnight leader and a former under-13 National champion, had a good run here and defeated Gujarat's Aditya P. Melani in the final round.

Jul 06, 2019

Shoaib Malik Retires from ODI Cricket

Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik confirmed his retirement from one-day cricket without making a farewell appearance in his side's victory over Bangladesh in the ongoing (2019) World Cup.
Malik had admitted last year that he intended to quit one-day cricket after the World Cup and he followed through with that plan after Pakistan's 94-run win at Lord's.
The 37-year-old would continue to play the Twenty20 format.
Malik's decision came after a Pakistan win which was not enough to take the 1992 champions into the semi-finals.
Malik appeared in 287 one-day internationals and scored 7,534 runs with nine hundreds.
His last appearance came in the defeat against arch rivals India in Manchester on June 16, 2019.

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