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Apr 10, 2022

Hockey India Men National Championship 2022 Kick-starts in Bhopal

The prestigious 12th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship 2022 began in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
The 12-day tournament will witness 28 teams vie for top honours.
In its previous edition, the tournament was won by Hockey Punjab after they beat Uttar Pradesh Hockey in a thrilling shootout while Hockey Karnataka finished third having beaten Hockey Maharashtra 5-2 in the third/fourth placing match.

Apr 09, 2022

Korea Open: Kidambi Srikanth and PV Sindhu Storm into Semi-Finals

Top Indian shuttlers PV Sindhu and Kidambi Srikanth progressed to the semi-finals of the Korea Open Super 500 badminton tournament with contrasting wins in Suncheon. Third seed Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, notched up her 17th win over familiar foe Thailand's Busanan Ongbamrungphan 21-10, 21-16 in the women's singles quarter-finals.

Apr 08, 2022

CBI Registers Enquiry against Indian Olympic Association President Narinder Batra

The turf war within the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has reached the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) offices. The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry (PE) against IOA president Narinder Batra for using Hockey India (HI) funds for personal interests.
It is understood that the matter is related to the renovation of Batra's office situated at the second floor of the IOA Bhawan in Qutab Educational Area. As per IOA treasurer Anandeshwar Panday, who raised the issue last year, a sum of Rs 36.19 lakh was spent to redo the office. Panday alleged that a few invoices indicated that the money may have come from HI, although the federation's book has no entry of this transaction.

Apr 07, 2022

Federation Cup: Punjab's Kirpal Singh Batth Breaks Record

Punjab's Kirpal Singh Batth broke the 22-year-old men's discus throw meet record with an effort of 61.83 metres at the 25th AFI National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships.
Batth, whose previous best of 59.74 m was recorded nearly six years ago, produced a good string of throws at the CH Muhammed Koya Stadium. Four of his attempts saw the discus soar past the 60 m mark, two of them breaching 61 m as well. His first and last throws were over 59 m, giving him a series to remember.
His best effort — 61.83 m — fell short of making him only the third Indian male athlete to hurl the discus past 62 m. Anil Kumar held the old record (59.55 m).

Apr 06, 2022

Shotgun World Cup: Indian Men Trap Bronze

India opened their account at the ISSF World Cup for shotgun as the trio of Kynan Chenai, Manavaditya Singh Rathore and Shapath Bharadwaj won the bronze medal in the men's trap team event after beating Brazil in a shoot-off here.
In the bronze-medal match, both teams were tied at 5-5 after five series of five shots each, before India clinched third place in the first shoot-off shot which Brazil missed.
Veteran Shagun Chowdhary narrowly missed out on a medal, finishing fourth in the women's trap event. Shagun shot 111 in the qualifiers to make it to the second semifinal in sixth place. She made it to the final after topping the second semifinal with 24 hits out of 25.

Ross Taylor Bids Adieu to International Cricket

New Zealand legend Ross Taylor ended his final international match in style as he bid an emotional farewell to his teammates and others that have supported him throughout his career. Taylor was honoured with a special presentation after New Zealand's third ODI against the Netherlands that brought the curtain down on his record-breaking 16-year international career.
The match was Taylor's 450th appearance for the Black Caps which included many highs but arguably peaked when hitting the winning runs against India in the final of the 2021 ICC World Test Championship.
Taylor played his first ODI in 2006 and made his Test debut the following year. He retires having made 18,199 runs at an average of 42.72 across 112 Tests, 236 ODIs and 102 T20Is.

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