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SPORTS - September 2018

Sep 2018

Jul 02, 2022

England Picks Jos Buttler as Captain of T20 and ODI Teams

Jos Buttler was promoted to England's new white-ball captain and took immediate charge of the Twenty20 and one-day international cricket teams.
Vice-captain since 2015, Buttler has deputised for Eoin Morgan on 14 occasions.
Buttler will take charge of 12 games in July, with T20 and ODI series against India and South Africa.
The wicketkeeper-batter is a ferocious striker of the ball. He has played 151 ODI games for England, scoring 4,120 runs at an average of 41.20, including 10 hundreds and 21 fifties.

Gujarat to Host National Games in Sept-Oct

Postponed several times due to different reasons, the National Games will be held in multiple cities in Gujarat in September-October 2022, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Secretary General Rajiv Mehta confirmed. IOA took the decision after Gujarat Olympic Association and the state government jointly expressed their interest to host the Games.
The Games will be held in five or six cities in Gujarat, including Ahmedabad.
The last National Games were held in Kerala in 2015 and Goa was to host the 36th edition in November 2016. After two delays in 2018 and 2019 due to the state's inability to create adequate infrastructure, the Games were further postponed to 2020.
Covid-19 then forced the postponement of the National Games in 2020.

Jul 01, 2022

Indian Olympic Association Wants CGF to Increase India's Quota

The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) requested the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) to consider increasing India's athlete quota so that high jumper Tejaswin Shankar and five others can be included in the country's contingent for the Birmingham Games.
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, is an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that is scheduled to be held in Birmingham, England from 28 July to 8 August 2022.

Asiad Medallist Poovamma Handed 3-month Ban

Senior India quarter-miler and Asian games medallist M.R. Poovamma was handed a three-month ban by the National Anti-Doping Agency for failing a dope test last year.
Poovamma's dope sample collected during the Indian Grand Prix in Patiala in February 2021 had returned positive for stimulant methylhexaneamine.
Athletics Federation of India (AFI) President Adillle Sumariwalla confirmed the development.

Jun 30, 2022

Olympic Champion Sydney McLaughlin Breaks own 400m Hurdles World Record

Olympic gold medallist, Sydney McLaughlin broke her own women's 400 metres hurdles world record at the U.S. championships in Eugene, Oregon, winning the final in 51.41 seconds. Britton Wilson finished 1.67 seconds behind with Shamier Little taking third in 53.92.
Sydney previously set the record with a 51.90-seconds performance at the U.S. Olympic trials in 2021, only to shatter that figure in Tokyo, collecting gold in 51.46.

Novak Djokovic Becomes 1st Player to Win 80 Matches in all Four Grand Slams

Defending champion Novak Djokovic survived the first round challenge against South Korean Kwon Soon-woo 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at Wimbledon.
With the win, the 35-year-old Djokovic became the first player, male or female, to record 80 singles wins at all four Grand Slams.
Djokovic next faces Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis, ranked 79 in the world, who beat Kamil Majchrzak of Poland in straight sets.

Jun 29, 2022

IWF Chooses Mohammed Jalood as President 2022

Mohammed Jalood was elected as president of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), and 11 additional new members were added to its Executive Board.
Jalood is a long time IWF official held the post of general secretary and worked closely with Al-Mana at the Asian Weightlifting Federation.
Jalood is the first permanent president since Tamás Aján stepped down in 2020 after controlling the IWF for 44 years. He faced allegations that failed drug tests were covered up and millions of dollars were unaccounted for under his presidency.
The IWF was founded in 1905, and has 192 Member Federations.

Jun 28, 2022

National Kite Boarding Championship Held in Tuticorin

The third edition of the National Kite Boarding Championship was held in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu under the aegis of Yachting Association of India (YAI) which is the National Federation for the sport of Sailing in India and Premier Kite Boarding Association, the National body representing Kite Boarding in India.
The three day event was hosted by Aqua Outback, Tuticorin and organised by Tamil Nadu Sailing Association and Chennai Sailing Academy.
The Regatta was governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing. Kite Boarding will be making its debut in Olympics at Paris 2024.

Dhanalakshmi Becomes Third Fastest Indian Woman in 200m

Ace sprinter Sekar Dhanalakshmi ran her personal best time to win 200m gold at the Qosanov Memorial Athletics Meet while the likes of shot putter Tajinderpal Singh Toor and javelin thrower Rohit Yadav returned to India without competing in the event.
Dhanalakshmi ran a creditable sub-23 second, clocking 22.89s to better her earlier personal best of 23.14s she had come up last year.
She had won a 200m gold in the national Inter-State Championships in Chennai earlier this month with a time of 23.27s.
Dhanalakshmi is only the third Indian woman to run sub-23s after national record holder Saraswati Saha (22.82s) and Hima Das (22.88s).

Handball Team Records First Win in U-20 World

The Indian women's junior handball team created history by registering its first ever win in the U-20 World Championships, held in Celje and Lasko in Slovenia. The Indian girls beat Iran 31-30 in the ranking placements. This is the first ever win for any Indian team, men's or women's, in any age-group World Championships.
The same team had won the Junior Women's Asian Championship gold to qualify for the U-20 World Championships. This was the first instance of an Indian handball team medalling at the Asian event.
The team is out of the reckoning for the knockout stage after it lost three matches to higher-ranked opponents, losing 23-41 to Japan, 18-46 to Netherlands and 12-59 to Slovakia.

England Captain Morgan to Announce Retirement from International Cricket

England's World Cup-winning white-ball captain Eoin Morgan is set to announce his retirement from international cricket, ending a career in which he played more than 300 times across 50-over and Twenty20 formats.
Morgan, who led England to 50-over World Cup glory in 2019, captained England in a record 126 ODIs and 72 T20s. His 118 wins as skipper across the two formats is also a record.
Morgan made his ODI debut with Ireland in 2006 before he was called up by England in 2009, has played 248 ODIs and 115 T20Is, scoring 10,159 runs in total. He has also played in 16 tests, scoring 700 runs.

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