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Oct 17, 2022

India Wins Women's Asia Cup 2022

India maintained their dominance in the Women's Asia Cup with an eight-wicket demolition of a self-destructing Sri Lanka in the final, at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium in Sylhet, for their seventh title. Sri Lanka, who were playing their first tournament final in 14 years, imploded after opting to bat on a slow and turning pitch. They could only manage 65 for nine which India knocked off in 8.3 overs. Smriti Mandhana struck a sublime 51 not out off 25 balls. Despite the wickets of Shafali Verma and Jemimah Rodrigues, Smriti continued her blitzkrieg as she along with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur, ran away with the win.

Rudrankksh Becomes 2nd Indian Shooter to Win 10m Air Rifle Gold

Rudrankksh Patil ended India's 16-year-long wait for a World Championship gold medal in the 10-metre rifle event. The 18-year-old, who broke into the senior Indian team at the start of the year, held his nerves to register a 17-15 win in the gold medal match against Italy's Danilo Dennis Sollazzo at the ISSF World Championships in Cairo, Egypt.
The last shooter to win a 10-m rifle gold in the World Championship was Olympics gold medallist Abhinav Bindra, who achieved the feat in the 2006 edition in Zagreb, Croatia. In the process, Patil also won India a quota place for the 2024 Paris Olympics. This was India's second Paris quota place in the sport. Bhowneesh Mendiratta had won a quota place in the men's trap event at the Shotgun World Championship in Osijek, Croatia.

Oct 16, 2022

Women IPL to Take Place in March with 5 Teams, Max 5 Overseas Players in XI

The much-awaited inaugural edition of Women's IPL will have five teams and is set to take place in March 2023 before the start of men's IPL.
As per a BCCI, the tournament will feature 20 league games with teams to play each other twice. The table toppers will get a direct entry into the final, while the second and third place teams will battle out in the Eliminator.
Each team can have no more than five overseas cricketers in the playing eleven.

Oct 15, 2022

Indian Cricket Team Registers Most Wins in Calendar Year, Level Australia's Record

With a seven-wicket victory over South Africa in the third ODI, India matched Australia for the most number of wins in a calendar year in international cricket.
India handed South Africa a crushing defeat in the series decider of the three-match ODI series to take the series 2-1 after Kuldeep Yadav's impressive four-wicket haul.
Australia earlier held the record for the most number of wins in a calendar year.
With 38 wins from 47 matches the Australian team was at the top and is now joined by India with 38 wins from 55 matches. The Aussie team had a stellar year in 2003 when they registered these figures.

Oct 14, 2022

India Finishes Fifth in Osijek Shotgun World Championships

India finished fifth with one gold, one silver and two bronze medals at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Championship Shotgun in Osijek, Croatia.
The Men's and Women's Skeet teams could not make it past the qualifying rounds on the final day, but India will go away happy with the Paris 2024 Olympics quota place that they earned in the Men's Trap via Bhowneesh Mendiratta, a pleasant addition to a creditable medal haul as per National Rifle Association of India.
Shotgun powerhouses Italy, Great Britain and USA, took the top three spots with China prevailing over India on the medal tally by virtue of winning a silver more. Both the Asian giants had the same medal haul.

National Games End at Surat in Gujarat

The 36th National Games concluded with a glittering concluding ceremony at Surat, Gujarat chaired by vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Prakash Birla, Governor of Gujarat Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, Sports Minister Harsh Sanghvi, dignitaries of the sports world, and a large number of players participated in the ceremony.
Services topped the medal tally with a total of 128 medals including 61 gold, 35 silver, and 32 bronze medals. Maharashtra secured the number 2 position with 140 medals including 39 gold and Haryana number 3 with 116 medals with 38 Gold. The winners were awarded on the occasion. Harshika Ramchandran from Karnataka won the best female player of the 36h National Games and Sajan Prakash from Kerala won the Best Male player of the games.
About 7500 players from 36 states and union territories participated in 36 types of sports competitions held in six cities of the state.

Oct 13, 2022

Discus Thrower Kamalpreet Kaur Banned for Three Years for Use of Steroid

Top Indian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur, who achieved stardom for her exploits at the Tokyo Games, was banned for three year for using prohibited substance Stanozolol, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) has announced.
Her ban will be effective from March 29, 2022.
Kamalpreet was handed a provisional suspension in May this year after testing positive for the steroid, which was found in her sample that AIU collected at Patiala on March 7.
Kamalpreet had finished sixth at the Tokyo Games in a splendid show.
Kaur had made a rapid rise last year when she set a national record of 65.06m in the lead-up to the Tokyo Olympics.

Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik Launches 'Football for All'

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik launched 'Football for All' in the state to take the culture of football to the grassroots.
The Programme has been initiated by FIFA in Odisha in partnership with the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) & Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS). Over 43 thousand footballs would be distributed to children in about 2000 schools. This is the first such programme of FIFA in India that aims at promoting football among school children.
Director of 'Football For Schools', FIFA, Fatimata Sow Sidbe joining over virtual platform appreciated the role of Chief Minister and Odisha Government for promotion of sports in Odisha. She said that football is a powerful platform to change society. She said that 'Football for All' is a FIFA vision to make football truly global.

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