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Mar 10, 2022

Sreesanth Hangs up His Boots

World Cup-winning fast bowler Sreesanth announced his retirement from all forms of domestic cricket. He played 27 Tests, 53 ODIs and 10 T20Is for India, picking up 87, 75 and 7 wickets respectively.
Having made his international debut in an ODI against Sri Lanka at Nagpur on October 25, 2006, Sreesanth went on to win the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and also the coveted ODI World Cup in 2011 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy.
He signed for Rajasthan royals for the 2012 competition. But he didn't play in 2012 due to injuries. With his spot-fixing controversy coming into light during the 2013 IPL competition, Rajasthan Royals terminated his contract.

Jadeja Becomes World's Number One All-rounder in Latest ICC Test Rankings

India's Ravindra Jadeja became the top-ranked all-rounder in the latest ICC Test rankings. Jadeja's Player of the Match performance, where he made a career-best, unbeaten 175 with the bat and had a match haul of 9/87 in India's win by an innings and 222 runs against Sri Lanka in Mohali was enough to catapult him to the pole position.
During the Test match at Mohali, Jadeja had become the first player in Men's Test cricket history to score more than 150 runs and take nine wickets in a single Test. Apart from the all-rounder rankings, Jadeja's unbeaten 175 lifted him up to 17 places from 54th to 37th rank with the bat.
The nine wickets scalped by him helped Jadeja to move up to 17th position with the ball. His all-round contribution was enough for him to regain the top all-rounder spot from West Indies' Jason Holder, who had held it since February 2021.
Holder, meanwhile, is now at second place while Ravichandran Ashwin is at third position.

Mar 09, 2022

Priyanka Nutakki Becomes the 23rd Woman Grandmaster of India

Priyanka Nutakki secured her final WGM-norm at MPL's forty-seventh National Women Chess Championship. She became India's twenty-third Woman Grandmaster. She is from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Priyanka Nutakki scored her first WGM-norm in January 2019 and crossed the 2300 rating criteria in the next two months. However, much like a lot of players, the Covid-19 pandemic delayed her title hopes.
Priyanka braved the odds, resumed playing over-the-board tournaments in October 2021 at ChessMood Open. In her third over-the-board tournament of the year, she scored her second WGM and maiden IM-norm at the 7th Sunway Sitges Open 2021.

Lance Klusener Rejoins Zimbabwe Cricket Team as Batting Coach

Months after he quit his job as Afghanistan's head coach, former South African all-rounder Lance Klusener rejoined the Zimbabwe senior men's national team as their batting coach. The 50-year-old Klusener's appointment was confirmed by the Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) Board.
Klusener will take over from former Zimbabwe cricketer Stuart Matsikenyeri, who will now move to the position of assistant coach, while India's Lalchand Rajput remains in charge as head coach of the national side. Klusener previously served as Zimbabwe's batting coach between 2016 and 2018. Klusener had quit his job as Afghanistan head coach in November last year, announcing that he won't be seeking an extension after 2021.

South Africa's Mokoka Breaks World Record in First 50 km Race

South Africa's Stephen Mokoka, who had never run a 50 km race before, broke the world record on home soil in Gqeberha.
Mokoka crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 40 minutes and 13 seconds, beating the record set by Ethiopian Ketema Bekele Negasa (2:42:07) last year.
Ethiopia's Amelework Fikadu Bosho dominated the women's race to finish in a time of 3:04:58, nearly four minutes ahead of the rest but 34 seconds short of the world record.

Mar 08, 2022

ISSF World Cup

India's Rhythm Sangwan and Anish Bhanwala won the gold medal in the 25m rapid fire pistol mixed team event on the concluding day of the ISSF World Cup.
The duo emerged victorious by a margin of 17-7 over Thailand in the gold medal match.
India topped the medal's tally with four gold, two silver and one bronze as the year's first marquee shooting event concluded in Cairo, Egypt. On the final day of the competitions, India won a silver in the men's 25m rapid fire pistol event, going down to Germany 7-17 in the decider.
With two medals on the final day, India topped the medals tally ahead of Norway, who won six medals - three gold, one silver and two bronze. France was third, with three gold.

Mar 07, 2022

Mithali Raj Becomes 1st Woman Cricketer to Appear at 6 Cricket World Cups

Indian women's cricket team skipper Mithali Raj on Sunday became the first woman, and only the third cricketer ever, to appear at six ICC Women's Cricket World Cups.
Mithali ensured the record enters a new decade -- former Pakistan cricketer Javed Miandad appeared in the first six Men's Cricket World Cups between 1975 and 1996 with Sachin Tendulkar beginning his World Cup career in 1992.
As skipper the records keep coming, the right-hander now equals Australian legend Belinda Clark by captaining at her fourth ICC Women's World Cup -- Clark's tenure spanned from 1993 to 2005.

Ravi Shastri Launches Cricket Academy in Hyderabad

Former Indian Cricket Team captain and coach Ravi Shastri launched Coaching Beyond, a cricket academy in Hyderabad. Shastri launched the academy along with Bharat Arun and R. Sridhar.
Shastri also inaugurated St John's Sports Foundation at the launching event of the cricket academy.
Shastri said that at Coaching Beyond, we are committed to making the youth sports experience positive and enriching for all our trainees. We would want to make sports a part of their life, whether they pursue it professionally or otherwise.

Mar 06, 2022

IPL 2022: RuPay Official Partner

Domestic card payment network RuPay will be an official partner for the IPL tournament 2022.
This is a multi-year partnership," National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said.
NPCI had launched RuPay, the first-of-its-kind domestic card payment network in the country.
The announcement regarding RuPay becoming an official partner was made by the Indian Premier League Governing Council (IPL GC).

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