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Jul 08, 2019

Women's Football World Cup

The United States won a record-extending fourth women`s World Cup with a 2-0 victory over the Netherlands as second-half goals from Megan Rapinoe and Rose Lavelle confirmed their status as the leading power in the women`s game.

Commonwealth Chess Championship

Favourite Abhijeet Gupta claimed his fifth title as India swept medals in all 16 sections of the Commonwealth chess championship.
After two other leaders, S. L. Narayanan and Aravindh Chithambaram, drew their top board battle in 32 moves, Abhijeet caught Arjun Erigaisi in a checkmating net in 39 moves to reach 7.5 points.
Aravindh topped a three-way tie for the second spot with Swapnil Dhopade and Narayanan at seven points.
Tania Sachdev retained the women's title after an anxious wait. After being tied at six points with Divya Deshmukh, Tania took the title on superior tie-break score. Bhakti Kulkarni came third.

Rohit Sharma on Verge of Breaking World Cup Records

India vice-captain Rohit Sharma is in the form of his life. He has been breaking records for fun in ICC World Cup 2019. 5 centuries, the most by any batsman in a single edition of World Cup, most runs (647).
Rohit is on verge of breaking two World Cup records and both of them belong to Sachin Tendulkar. Rohit, who has 647 runs to his name in just 8 innings in this World Cup is just 27 runs away from eclipsing Tendulkar to become the highest run-scorer in a single edition of the world event.
Tendulkar had scored 673 runs in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. The second on the list is Australia's Matthew Hayden, who had scored 659 runs in 2007 World Cup in West Indies.
If Rohit manages to score 53 more runs against New Zealand in the first semi-final then he would also become the first cricketer to score 700 runs in a World Cup.

Wrestling Grand Prix of Spain

Putting up a dominating show, India's top wrestler Vinesh Phogat won her first gold medal after shifting to 53 kg category, while Divya Kakran claimed the top honours in the 68 kg category at the Grand Prix of Spain.
Vinesh, one of India's medal hopefuls at the 2020 Tokyo Games, competed in her third tournament in the new category.

National Under-17 Chess Championship

West Bengal's Neelash Saha stayed steady and won the open title while State-mate Samriddhaa Ghosh pulled off a big surprise to pocket the girls' trophy in the 30th National under-17 chess championship at the Oberon Mall here on Sunday.
The second-seeded Neelash, the overnight leader and a former under-13 National champion, had a good run here and defeated Gujarat's Aditya P. Melani in the final round.

Jul 06, 2019

Shoaib Malik Retires from ODI Cricket

Pakistan batsman Shoaib Malik confirmed his retirement from one-day cricket without making a farewell appearance in his side's victory over Bangladesh in the ongoing (2019) World Cup.
Malik had admitted last year that he intended to quit one-day cricket after the World Cup and he followed through with that plan after Pakistan's 94-run win at Lord's.
The 37-year-old would continue to play the Twenty20 format.
Malik's decision came after a Pakistan win which was not enough to take the 1992 champions into the semi-finals.
Malik appeared in 287 one-day internationals and scored 7,534 runs with nine hundreds.
His last appearance came in the defeat against arch rivals India in Manchester on June 16, 2019.

Jul 05, 2019

Hima Das Wins Gold

Star Indian sprinter Hima Das won the women's 200m gold, while national record holder shot putter Tajinder Pal Singh Toor bagged a bronze in the Poznan Athletics Grand Prix in Poland.
Hima, the world junior champion and national record holder in 400m who had been struggling with a back problem for the past few months, clocked 23.65s on her way to the 200m gold.
This was Hima's first competitive 200m race of the year. She has a personal best of 23.10s, which she clocked in 2018.

Jul 04, 2019

Ambati Rayudu Announces Retirement

Indian middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket. Rayudu wrote a letter to the Board of Control for cricket in India (BCCI) to inform about his decision.
The sudden move by the Indian batsman comes after he was overlooked by the BCCI despite two key players - Shikhar Dhawan and Vijay Shankar - suffering injuries during ICC World Cup 2019. Notably, Rayudu featured in the list of reserves for the Indian squad ahead of the World Cup.
Rayudu is a right handed batsman and a right arm offbreak bowler. Born in Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, Rayudu went on to become the captain of the India Under-19 team and under his captaincy, the team had reached the semi finals of the 2004 U-19 world cup.

Jul 03, 2019

India Qualify For Semi-finals

India sailed into the Cricket World Cup semi-finals and eliminated opponents Bangladesh after Rohit Sharma`s century and Jasprit Bumrah`s four-wicket haul secured a 28-run victory over their neighbours.
Rohit smashed his fourth century of this year`s tournament and featured in a massive 180-run opening partnership with KL Rahul to help India to a commanding 314-9.
India are now second with 13 points, one behind leaders Australia, and would play Sri Lanka in their final group match on 6 July 2019.

MLB Comes to India

After some of the most prestigious American sports organisations such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) made their way into the Indian market, the USA's Major League Baseball decided to join the party, not only with the hopes of high audience participation but also to churn out some of the best athletes from all over the country.
One of the finest fielders of the Indian cricket team and the field coach of the Indian Premier League franchise, Delhi Capitals, Mohammad Kaif welcomed MLB and its Senior Vice President, International, Jim Small as the two exchanged jerseys.
Bringing in their 'First Pitch' initiative to India after experiencing success in countries like Mexico and China, the MLB hopes the Indian audience "adopts baseball as their own game just like cricket.

Sania Mirza Turns Expert

Tennis star Sania Mirza would join broadcasters Star Sports as an expert to analyze the day-to-day action of the ongoing Wimbledon for fans across the country.
Sania is a six-time grand slam winner and former Wimbledon double's champion.

Dale Steyn Joins Euro T20 Slam

South Africa pacer Dale Steyn joined the Euro T20 Slam as a 'marquee player'.
The first edition of the tournament wouold commence in August 2019. The tournament would be played between six franchises and jointly hosted by Ireland, Netherland, and Scotland.
Shortly after the competition was announced, six cricketers, Shahid Afridi, Chris Lynn, Shane Watson, Babar Azam, Brendon McCullum and Luke Ronchi, were designated as icon/marquee players by the league.

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