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May 30, 2019

ICC World Cup 2019-05-30

The 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup is the 12th edition of the Cricket World Cup, scheduled to be hosted by England and Wales, from 30 May to 14 July 2019.
The hosting rights were awarded in April 2006, after England and Wales withdrew from the bidding to host the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, which was held in Australia and New Zealand. The first match will be played at The Oval while the final will be played at Lord's. It is the fifth time that the Cricket World Cup will be held in England and Wales, following the 1975, 1979, 1983 and 1999 World Cups.
The format for the tournament will be a single group of 10 teams, with each team playing the other nine once, and the top four at the end of the group phase progressing to the semi-finals.

Manu Wins Olympic Quota

Manu Bhaker missed a medal by 0.1 point but captured the Olympic quota place in women's air pistol in the shooting World Cup.
Despite shooting a 10.3 Manu was overtaken by eventual gold medalist Anna Korakaki of Greece.
Manu's quota is India's seventh for Tokyo 2020, behind Anjum Moudgil, Apurvi Chandela, Saurabh Chaudhary, Divyansh Singh Panwar, Abhishek Verma and Rahi Sarnobat.

AITA Championship Series Under-12 Tennis Tournament

Unseeded Mrinalika Swami knocked out top seed Snighda Ruhil in the girls' semifinals of the AITA Championship series under-12 tennis tournament at the Modern School courts.
Boys (semifinals): Ashravya Mehra defeated Yatharth Paliwal; Raunak Kashyap defeated Aaditya Singh Jadon. Quarterfinals: Yatharth Paliwal defeated Tavish Pahwa; Aashravya Mehra defeated Tanmay Tomar; Aaditya Singh Jadon Singh defeated Shourya Kumar; Raunak Kashyap defeated Jefrey Khushwin.
Girls (semifinals): Mrinalika Swami defeated Snighda Ruhil; Pehal Khardkar defeated Vanshika Jain. Quarterfinals: Snigdha Ruhil defeated Sharmin Dalal; Mrinalika Swami defeated Kum Kum Kumari; Pehal Khardkar defeated Swasti Singh; Vanshika Jain defeated Sirisha Dheer.

Pakistan Awarded 2020 Asia Cup

The next edition of the Asia Cup could also be UAE-bound with Pakistan given the hosting rights of the tournament in 2020, as organising it in its own country will cast serious doubts on India's participation owing to diplomatic tensions.
The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) in its meeting in Singapore awarded the continental meet, to be held in T20 format, to Pakistan, which will most likely organise it in the neutral venues of the United Arab Emirates.
Last year the Board of Control for Cricket in India hosted the Asia Cup in UAE because of the political tensions between Pakistan and India.

May 29, 2019

KSSC Gets New President

The Kerala government cleared the appointment of Olympian Mercy Kuttan as the new president of the Kerala State Sports Council (KSSC).
Kuttan is the third woman president of the apex body of sport in Kerala, following the footsteps of Padmini Thomas and Anju Bobby George.
She got Kerala its first ever yellow metal in the women's section in long jump at the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships in Lahore.

May 28, 2019

Petra Kvitova Withdraws from French Open

Petra Kvitova withdrew from the French Open due to an injury to her forearm, hours before her first match at the tournament against Romania's Sorana Cirstea.
The Czech player has been replaced in the draw by lucky loser Kaja Juvan of Slovenia.

May 27, 2019

Apurvi Shoots Gold for India

Apurvi Chandela held her own against two Chinese shooters breathing down her neck to win a gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle at the ISSF Munich World Cup.
Chandela shot 251.0 in the 24-shot final, staving off the challenge of Wang Luyao who scored 250.8. Apurvi was ahead by 0.1 point with the last shot remaining, in which she fired 10.4 to Wang's 10.3.
This was world No. 1 Chandela's second ISSF World Cup gold in 2019.
She had already earned a quota for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics during the World Championships in Changwon in 2018 with a fourth-place finish.

May 26, 2019

Messi Ends on Top in Europe

Lionel Messi has become the first player to win Europe's Golden Shoe award for three straight years after his nearest challenger Kylian Mbappe failed to score the four goals he needed in Paris St Germain's final league match of the season.
Messi earned the honour, which goes to the leading scorer in league matches in Europe's top divisions, for a record extending sixth time after finding the net 36 times for Barcelona while Mbappe ended the campaign on 33 after scoring PSG's only goal in a 3-1 loss.

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