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Jun 30, 2021

T20 World Cup to be Held from October 17 to November 14

According to the International Cricket Council (ICC), this year's T20 World Cup, which has been moved to the UAE and Oman from India due to the COVID-10 pandemic, will be played from October 17 to November 14.
The ICC statement came a day after BCCI intimated the governing body that the event can be moved out of India.
The first round of the tournament, comprising the eight qualifying teams, will now be split between Oman and UAE.
Four of these teams will then progress to the Super 12s round where they'll join the eight automatic qualifiers.
The upcoming edition will be the first men's T20 World Cup played since 2016, when West Indies beat England in the final in India.

Gymnast Pranati Nayak Wins Quota for Tokyo Olympics

Pranati Nayak, the Asian Championships bronze-medallist in vault, earned a quota to compete at next month's Tokyo Olympics.
Pranati from Kolkata had won bronze in vault at the 2019 Asian Championships held in Mongolia.
According to an official of Gymnastics Federation of India (GFI), since the Asian Championships scheduled to be held in the last week of May in Tokyo was cancelled due to pandemic, the unused continental quotas were reallocated to the eligible athlete from the Asian zone only.

Jun 29, 2021

India's Rahi Sarnobat Wins Gold in Women's 25 m Pistol Event

India's Rahi Sarnobat won gold medal in women's 25 metres pistol event at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup.
Rahi shot 39 out of 50 in the 25m pistol final to win the first gold for India in the ongoing World Cup.
Manu Bhaker, the other Indian in fray, finished seventh in the eight-competitor final.
Mathilde Lamolle of France shot 31 in the final to win silver while Russia's Vitalina Batsarashkina took home bronze with a total of 28.

Jun 28, 2021

Zhang Zhizhen First Chinese Man to qualify for Wimbledon Draw in Open Era

Zhang Zhizhen is the first man representing China to earn a spot in the main draw at Wimbledon in the Open era, which began in 1968 when professionals were admitted to Grand Slam tennis tournaments.
Zhang won three matches in qualifying rounds for Wimbledon, capped by a victory over Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina.
Zhang is ranked 178th. He failed in three previous attempts to qualify at Grand Slam tournaments.

Czechs Beat Netherlands to Reach Euro 2020 Quarter-finals

Tomas Holes and Patrik Schick scored second-half goals to give the Czech Republic a 2-0 victory over Netherlands and a place in the European Championship quarter-finals.
Czech Republic will play Denmark in the quarter-finals.

Sajan Prakash Becomes First-ever Indian Swimmer to Make Olympic 'A' Cut

Sajan Prakash became the first-ever Indian swimmer to qualify for the Olympic Games by breaching the 'A' standard time, clocking 1:56:38 seconds in the men's 200 m butterfly event at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy.
Prakash also rewrote his own national record of 1:56.96s that he had set last week at the Belgrade Trophy swimming competition.
This will be Prakash's second successive Olympics, having represented India in the 2016 Rio Games.

Jun 27, 2021

Haryana's Shafali Becomes Youngest Indian Cricketer to Make Debut in All Formats

Opener Shafali Verma became the youngest Indian cricketer to make debut across formats after being picked for the first ODI against England Women.
On her ODI debut, Verma scored 15 runs off 14 balls before being dismissed by Katherine Brunt.
The Haryana girl took 17 years and 150 days to make her debut across formats, making her the fifth youngest cricketer overall in the list, headed by Afghanistan's Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Manu-Saurabh Win Silver in 10m Air Pistol Mixed Team Event at ISSF Shooting World Cup

The Indian duo of Saurabh Chaudhary and Manu Bhaker clinched the silver medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team event at the ISSF Shooting World Cup.
Already assured of a silver, the Indian duo was on par with Russia's Vitalina Batsarashkina and Artem Chernousov at 12-12 before losing the last two series to go down 12-16.
Representing the other Indian team in the same event, Yashaswini Singh Deswal and Abhishek Verma missed out on a bronze medal.

Jun 26, 2021

Andy Murray Picked for British Team to Defend Gold

Two-time defending champion Andy Murray will attempt to win his third consecutive Olympic gold medal after being named to the British team. Murray will compete in singles and doubles at the Tokyo Olympics, his fourth games overall. Murray is the only men's player with two gold medals in singles. He beat Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in the final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games after topping Roger Federer in straight sets for gold at the 2012 London Olympics.

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