Mithali Raj Breaks Record for most Matches Captained in Women's Cricket WC
India skipper Mithali Raj broke the record for most matches captained in the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup.
The Indian, played her 24th match as the skipper, went past Australian legend Belinda Clark for the most matches captained in the Cricket World Cup.
Mithali had completed 150 ODIs as India captain during the game against New Zealand.
Mithali Raj also became the first woman and only the third cricketer ever, to appear at 6 ICC Women's Cricket World Cups.
India's Lakshya Sen Loses Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn in German Open Final
World Championships bronze medallist Lakshya Sen's giant-killing run ended with a straight-game loss to Thailand's rising star Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the summit clash of German Open Super 300 badminton tournament.
Sen who had claimed his maiden Super 500 title at India Open in January, lost 18-21 15-21 in 57 minutes to the three-time world junior champion Vitidsarn in the final match.
Rishabh Pant Breaks Kapil Dev's Record of Fastest Test Fifty by an Indian
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant broke the legendary Kapil Dev's 40-year-old record of fastest Test fifty by an Indian on the second day of the Day/Night match against Sri Lanka.
The left-hander cruised to his fifty in 28 balls (7x4, 2x6) in the 42nd over of Indian second innings when he hit a Praveen Jayawickrama delivery through the extra cover boundary.
India's first World Cup-winning skipper Kapil Dev had cracked a 30-ball half-century against Pakistan in the Karachi Test in 1982.
Pant also set a world record for notching up the fastest fifty by a wicketkeeper-batter in Tests, bettering the efforts of Australia's Ian Smith and former India captain MS Dhoni (both scored 34-ball fifty).
Mar 13, 2022
Tiger Woods Inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame
Tiger Woods was formally inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and ushered into golf's most revered club by his daughter, Sam, who delivered a touching speech as the 82-time PGA TOUR winner and 15- time major champion's induction presenter.
The World Golf Hall of Fame presented two new distinguished service awards for the first time. Renee Powell was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Charlie Sifford Award presented by Southern Company (for her spirit in advancing diversity in golf), while Peter Ueberroth and the late Dick Ferris were honored through a Lifetime Achievement recognition for their contributions to golf.
Rajasthan Royals Appoint Lasith Malinga as Fast Bowling Coach
Rajasthan Royals roped in the services of former Sri Lanka speedster Lasith Malinga as the franchise's fast bowling coach ahead of the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League. Malinga, who had been one of the key figures for the Mumbai Indians during his playing career, had retired from the game last year. The stint with the Royals would be Malinga's maiden role as a coach in the tournament.
Malinga is currently the highest wicket-taker in the history of IPL, with 170 wickets to his name in 122 matches. He is one of the very few players who represented only one franchise in the tournament; in Malinga's case, Mumbai.
Mar 12, 2022
India's Jhulan Goswami Becomes Joint-highest Wicket-taker in ICC Women's World Cup History
Veteran Indian Jhulan Goswami equalled former Australia spinner Lyn Fullston's tally of 39 scalps to become the joint-highest wicket taker in Women's World Cup.
Jhulan Goswami playing in her fifth ODI World Cup, achieved the feat against New Zealand in the ongoing tournament when she dismissed wicketkeeper Katey Martin in the 50th over.
Fullston, who played for Australia from 1982 to 1988, had snapped 39 wickets in 20 matches while Goswami achieved the feat in her 30th game. Former England spinner Carole Ann Hodges is behind the duo with a haul of 37 wickets from 24 matches.
Mar 11, 2022
Olympic Champion Duplantis Sets Pole Vault World Record of 6.19m in Belgrade
Sweden's Olympic pole vault champion Armand Duplantis cleared 6.19 m to smash his own world record by one centimetre at the World Indoor Tour Silver meeting in Belgrade. Duplantis had set the record of 6.18 in February 2020 indoors in Glasgow.
This is the fourth world record of the 22-year-old's career. His first record came in February 2020 when he surpassed London 2012 gold medallist Renaud Lavillenie's world record by clearing 6.17 m in Torun, Poland before improving that the following week in Glasgow. In September of that year, he cleared 6.15 m at the Rome Diamond League meeting to eclipse Sergey Bubka's outdoor pole vault world best of 6.14 m set in Sestriere in July 1994.
Mar 10, 2022
Sreesanth Hangs up His Boots
World Cup-winning fast bowler Sreesanth announced his retirement from all forms of domestic cricket. He played 27 Tests, 53 ODIs and 10 T20Is for India, picking up 87, 75 and 7 wickets respectively.
Having made his international debut in an ODI against Sri Lanka at Nagpur on October 25, 2006, Sreesanth went on to win the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007 and also the coveted ODI World Cup in 2011 under Mahendra Singh Dhoni's captaincy.
He signed for Rajasthan royals for the 2012 competition. But he didn't play in 2012 due to injuries. With his spot-fixing controversy coming into light during the 2013 IPL competition, Rajasthan Royals terminated his contract.
Jadeja Becomes World's Number One All-rounder in Latest ICC Test Rankings
India's Ravindra Jadeja became the top-ranked all-rounder in the latest ICC Test rankings. Jadeja's Player of the Match performance, where he made a career-best, unbeaten 175 with the bat and had a match haul of 9/87 in India's win by an innings and 222 runs against Sri Lanka in Mohali was enough to catapult him to the pole position.
During the Test match at Mohali, Jadeja had become the first player in Men's Test cricket history to score more than 150 runs and take nine wickets in a single Test. Apart from the all-rounder rankings, Jadeja's unbeaten 175 lifted him up to 17 places from 54th to 37th rank with the bat.
The nine wickets scalped by him helped Jadeja to move up to 17th position with the ball. His all-round contribution was enough for him to regain the top all-rounder spot from West Indies' Jason Holder, who had held it since February 2021.
Holder, meanwhile, is now at second place while Ravichandran Ashwin is at third position.
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