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Nov 07, 2019

Davis Cup: Pakistan Tennis Federation To Appeal Against Shifting Of India Tie To Neutral Venue

The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) decided to appeal against ITF's decision to shift their Davis Cup tie against India to a neutral venue, saying the world governing body and the Indian tennis federation have lowered their stature with this move.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) agreed with the safety concerns in Islamabad, raised by the All India Tennis Association (AITA) and moved the Nov 29-30, 2019 tie out of Pakistan's capital city.

Melanie Jones Appointed Cricket Australia's New Director

Cricket Australia announced the appointment of former player Melanie Jones as their director.
A former international cricketer, Jones made her debut for Australia in 1997. She also scored her first Test century on debut (131), in her first of two successful Ashes campaigns (2004).
Jones was recognised in 2019 with one of Australia's highest honours, the Medal of the Order of Australia, for services towards cricket and the community among a long list of accolades and acknowledgements.

Thaawarchand Gehlot Announces Setting Up Of Sports Training Centres For Differently-Abled

Union Minister for Social Justice and Empowerment Thaawarchand Gehlot has said that the government is establishing sports training centres at five locations in the country, exclusively for the differently-abled people.
He unveiled the Standing Wheelchair, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, for commercial production at a function held in Chennai today. He said works with regard to one of such spot centre have already started.
The Standing Wheelchair has been developed indigenously at the Research Park of the Madras IIT.
It helps the differently-abled people not only to move from one place to another like the normal wheelchair but also enable them to stand on their own, without seeking other's help.

Todd Wins In Bermuda With Final Round Birdie Blitz

Brendon Todd fired a nine-under-par final round of 62 to win the PGA Tour's inaugural Bermuda Championship.
The journeyman US professional surged to victory by four shots at the Port Royal Golf Club course in Southampton after a spectacular birdie blitz on the front nine.
The 34-year-old, whose only other PGA Tour win came at the Byron Nelson in 2014, reeled off seven consecutive birdies during a remarkable display to reach the turn at seven under.

Nov 06, 2019

PV Sindhu Suffers Shock Defeat

World Champion P V Sindhu suffered a shock defeat to lower-ranked Pai Yu Po of Chinese Taipei in the opening round to be ousted but India's doubles campaign was off to a good start in the China Open.
World No.6 Sindhu, who made early exits in China, Korea and Denmark, lost 13-21 21-18 19-21 to world No.42 Pai in a 74-minute women's singles match
However, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy gave the Indian camp reason to be cheerful with twin victories in the men's and mixed doubles categories.
Thailand Open champions Satwik and Chirag Shetty, who had reached the French Open finals last month, defeated the American pair of Phillip Chew and Ryan Chew 21-9 21-15 to set up a second-round meeting with sixth seeds Japanese Hiroyuki Endo and Yuta Watanabe.
Earlier, Satwik and Ashwini Ponnappa, ranked 30th, defeated Canada's Joshua Hurlburt-Yu and Josephine Wu 21-19 21-19 to make a positive start in the mixed doubles competition.
They will face fifth-seeded Korean pair of Seo Seung Jae and Chae Yujung next.

Special Umpire to Monitor 'No Balls'

The 2020 edition of the IPL could have a special umpire just to monitor no balls. The idea was floated and accepted well at a meeting of the IPL Governing Council, chaired by former India batsman Brijesh Patel, at the BCCI HQ.
It's still not clear, though, if that 'special umpire' would be the third or fourth umpire, or a new gentleman in the umpiring team altogether.
The need for this new rule seems to have been instigated by a number of cases in the last IPL when the umpires didn't give genuine no balls, costing teams matches from a crucial position.
A primary case was India and Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli coming down heavily on umpire S Ravi after the final delivery of their match against the Mumbai Indians, bowled by pacer Lasith Malinga, turned out to be 'no-ball' which was not awarded to the losing team.
The innovative concept of having such umpires could be tried at any of the domestic tournament before a final call will be taken on it. This isn't the first time that this rule will be applied in top-level cricket— it was implemented by the ICC during the 2002 Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka too.

Rachna breaks Tintu's junior record

Haryana's Rachna marked her shift from being a single-lapper to 800m with a memorable victory in the 35th National Junior Athletic Championships, breaking Tintu Luka's 11-year-old under-20 meet record with a 2:06.12 effort in Guntur.
Luka had set the meet mark at 2:07.48 in Mysore in 2008.

IPL to Go 'International'

The newly formed governing council of the Indian Premier League (IPL) — in its very first meeting — has proposed that franchises be allowed to explore the idea of playing 'friendlies' overseas.
The decision to play friendlies in overseas destinations will bear no official stamp of the tournament or the cricket board but will be considered as potential brandbuilding exercises.
This is only a proposal and has to be tabled at the BCCI AGM at the end of this month (November 2019) for approval.
However, the Governing Council's call has, for the first time in 12 years since the inception of the tournament, considered the possibility of India's domestic cricket going global.
Till now, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) has not allowed either franchises or cricketers to play overseas, a decision that the court-appointed Committee of Administrators also stuck to.
Mumbai Indians were among the first to request the BCCI in the past that they be allowed to play some friendly matches in Canada.

NZ Takes Lead over England

A dramatic England collapse which saw five wickets fall for only 10 runs allowed New Zealand to snatch a 14-run victory in their Twenty20international in Nelson. It also put New Zealand 2-1 ahead in the series with two games to play.
England were on track to overhaul New Zealand's 180 when they reached 139 for two in the15th over, with captain Eoin Morgan in full flight as he cracked sixes off consecutive Mitchell Santner deliveries.
But with England needing 42 off the remaining 31 deliveries Santner turned the match when he had Morgan caught by Colin Munro off the final ball of the over. Dawid Malan (55) and James Vince (49) had laid a solid foundation for England at the top of the innings.
Man-of-the-match Colin de Grandhomme smacked 55 off 35 while Taylor produced a more sedate 27 from 24 in a 66-run stand after New Zealand were three down in the eighth over.

Australia's Seven-wicket Victory over Pakistan

Steve Smith struck a sparkling half-century to fire Australia to an emphatic seven-wicket victory over Pakistan in their T20 match in Canberra .
The former captain's unbeaten 80 from 51 balls gave Australia a 1-0 lead in their three-match series after the opener was washed out in Sydney .
Australia mopped up Pakistan's modest total of 150 for six with nine balls to spare.

Nov 05, 2019

India 'B' Lifts Deodhar Trophy 2019

Parthiv Patel-led India 'B' defeated India 'C' by 51 runs in the finals of Deodhar Trophy at JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi.
After winning the toss and electing to bat first, India B got off to a poor start losing both their openers early in the innings.
However, Kedhar Jadhav's 86 off 94 balls and a half-century by Yashasvi Jaiswal helped the team recover from the early damage as they posted 283/7 in their respective 50 overs.

Wesley So Wins Fischer Random World Championship

Wesley So has won the first FIDE-sanctioned Fischer Random World Chess Championship, sweeping aside Magnus Carlsen in the final.
So needed just two fast-rapid games to dispatch Carlsen and become the first official Fischer Random chess world champion.
Defending with black in the first game, So agreed to a repetition of moves from a position of strength, then crisply refuted Carlsen's desperate attack in the second game.
In the bronze final, Ian Nepomniachtchi demonstrated a continued return to form with a convincing performance against Fabiano Caruana. His sparkling victory with black in the third fast-rapid ended their contest and the event.

WGC-HSBC Champions: Rory McIlroy Beats Xander Schauffele in play-off to win in China

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy has won the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai after a play-off.
The 30-year-old beat defending champion Xander Schauffele after the pair were tied at 19 under par after four rounds.
Schauffele, 26, sunk a six-foot birdie putt on the last to force the play-off with the four-time major champion.

Melbourne Cup 2019

Vow And Declare won a dramatic Melbourne Cup while Frankie Dettori's runner-up Master Of Reality was demoted to fourth after a stewards' inquiry.
Dettori was given a nine-meeting ban after the victor, trained by Australian Danny O'Brien, won in a tight finish.
Stewards ruled Dettori, riding for Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien, impeded Il Paradiso, who was fourth past the post for Joseph's father Aidan.
Il Paradiso was promoted to third, with British raider Prince Of Arran second.
Dettori looked to have sealed his first victory in the two-mile race 'that stops a nation' but Craig Williams claimed his maiden Melbourne Cup triumph on Vow And Declare before more drama in the stewards' room.
Italian-born Dettori, 48, was banned for nine race days in the state of Victoria, up to and including 13 November, 2019.
But there was only elation for Williams, who said of his mount: "It was a privilege to ride him today and great to be associated with such a great horse."
Winning trainer O'Brien was also celebrating a first Melbourne Cup victory.

Nov 04, 2019

Lewis Hamilton Wins Sixth F1 World Championship At United States Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton sealed his sixth world drivers' title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.
The result means Hamilton becomes the second most successful F1 driver of all time - moving him to within one championship of all-time record-holder Michael Schumacher, whose tally of seven is now within his reach.
Hamilton failed in a valiant attempt to win the race by trying a different strategy to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas but that did not matter such was his points advantage.

WTA Finals: Ashleigh Barty Beats Elina Svitolina To Win Title And Record Prize

Ashleigh Barty beat Elina Svitolina in a high-quality match to claim the WTA Finals title and pick up the biggest prize money ever offered in tennis.
The Australian world number one won 6-4 6-3 to take the season-ending title in Shenzhen and a record $4.42m (£3.42m).
Barty, 23, had lost all her five of her previous matches against the Ukrainian defending champion.

Lakshya Sen wins SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament in Germany

India's Lakshya Sen has won the SaarLorLux Open badminton tournament at Saarbrücken in Germany. He defeated Sen Weng Hong Yang of China in an exciting final.
World number 51 Lakshya took 59 minutes to overcome Weng in the summit clash. The 18-year-old from Uttarakhand had entered the final beating Kiran George in an all-Indian semifinal.

Novak Djokovic Outclasses Denis Shapovalov to Win Fifth Paris Masters Title

Novak Djokovic eased to a record-extending fifth Paris Masters title by brushing aside Canadian youngster Denis Shapovalov in final, boosting his hopes of taking the year-end world number one spot.
The top seed claimed a dominant 6-3, 6-4 victory over his 20-year-old opponent, who looked nervous after being the beneficiary of Rafael Nadal's withdrawal before their scheduled semi-final.

Nov 03, 2019

Jr. National Athletics: Shaili Singh And Bharti Break National Records

Karnataka long jumper Shaili Singh and Haryana shot putter Bharti broke the under-16 National records on the opening day of the 35th National junior athletics championships.
Shaili bettered her own National record with a 6.01m effort (OR 5.94m) in the qualification round. Bharti's effort of 15.32m in the under-16 shot put was more than a metre better than the record.
Sandra Babu of Kerala qualified for next year's (2020) under-20 World championships while winning the girls' long jump with a opening round effort of 6.16m (entry standard 6.15m) and Karnataka's A.T. Daneswari broke the under-20 girls' meet record in the 100m heats, clocking 11.70s (OR 11.92).

U-23 World Wrestling C'Ships: Pooja Wins Silver, Sajan Eyes Bronze

Wrestler Pooja Gehlot (53kg) claimed India's second silver medal after going down to Japan's 2017 world champion Haruna Okuno in the finals of the UWW Under-23 World Championships.
Gehlot lost 0-2 to Okuno in the summit clash to emulate Ravinder (61kg).
Three-time World Junior Championships medallist Sajan Bhanwal (77kg), however, lost a close semifinal bout 4-5 to Japan's Kodai Sakuraba.
A terrific Bhanwal had earlier blanked Jesse Alexander Porter 6-0 in the qualifiers to move into the pre-quarterfinals, where he notched up a 3-1 win over Azerbaijan's Tunjay Vazirzade.

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