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Sep 19, 2021

Ramandeep Kaur Win Gold at Athletics Nationals

Punjab's Ramandeep Kaur won the gold medal in the women's 35km race walk event in the 60th National Open Athletics Championships.
She finished the race in 3 hours, 15 minutes, 17 seconds. Rajasthan's Sonal Sukhwal (3:18:35) and Uttar Pradesh's Priyanka Patel (3:27:56) finished second and third, respectively.
In the men's 35m race walk event, Uttar Pradesh's Ram Baboo (2:46:31) broke the national record. Gujarat's Sagar Satishchandra (2:53:43) was second, while Punjab's Surinder Singh (2:54:22) was third.
Railways' Karanveer Singh won the men's shot put gold with a throw of 18.46m. Punjab's Devinder Singh won silver, Rajasthan's Vanam Sharma finished third.
In mixed 4x400m relay, Punjab finished second, behind Tamil Nadu.

Sep 18, 2021

BCCI Looks to Reappoint Anil Kumble as Head Coach

With Ravi Shastri's tenure as Team India's head coach coming to an end after the T20 World Cup in UAE and Oman, former India spinner Anil Kumble is likely to return for a second term in that position.
Kumble is currently working with IPL franchise Punjab Kings and was the head coach of Team India for a year until 2017 before stepping down from the position. The spinner had then decided to quit after reports of differences between him and captain Virat Kohli emerged, with the former even expressing shock upon learning that the skipper had reservations with his style. He had then guided India to the finals of the ICC Champions Trophy, which the Men In Blue lost against Pakistan.

Sep 17, 2021

Virat Kohli to Step Down as India's T20I Captain

Virat Kohli will step down as India's captain for T20 International after the ICC T20 World Cup, scheduled to take place in October-Novemeber this year.
For some time, there has been speculation about Kohli's future as white-ball captain especially in the backdrop of Rohit Sharma's brilliant track record of winning five IPL titles for Mumbai Indians.
Rohit is Kohli's deputy in the white-ball formats and is most likely to take up the leadership role when India clashes with New Zealand in a home series in November that will feature three T20 Internationals along with two Test matches.
Kohli took over India's limited-overs captaincy in 2017, succeeding Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Sep 16, 2021

Brendan Taylor Announces Retirement from International Cricket

Former Zimbabwe captain and wicketkeeper-batsman Brendan Taylor announced retirement from international cricket during the 3rd and final ODI against Ireland in Belfast in September 2021. Taylor has played 34 Tests, 204 ODIs and 45 T20Is.
Brendan Taylor made his debut for Zimbabwe in 2004.
Brendan Taylor has scored 6677 runs in ODIs, 2320 runs in Tests and 934 runs in T20s.

Raja Randhir Singh is Olympic Council of Asia's Acting President

India's Raja Randhir Singh has taken over as acting president of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) as Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah appeals a guilty verdict in a Swiss forgery trial.
A five-time Olympic shooter and an Asian Games gold medallist in 1978, Singh was promoted to the role from his position as an honorary life vice president.
Sheikh Ahmad was convicted of forgery in a trial over whether he used a bogus Kuwaiti coup plot to gain advantage over political rivals. He has led the OCA since 1991.

Sep 15, 2021

Joe Root, Eimear Richardson Named ICC Players of the Month for August

England Test skipper Joe Root and Ireland's Eimear Richardson were voted as the winners of the ICC Players of the Month for August 2021. Root was voted the ICC Men's Player of the Month for August for his consistent performances in the Test series against India that was part of the next cycle of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC).
In women's cricket, Ireland's Eimear Richardson has had a sensational August as well and was adjudged the ICC Women's Player of the Month for August 2021. During the ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe qualifier, Richardson won the Player of the Tournament award for her superb performance with the bat and the ball, starting off against Germany, she returned figures of 2/6, as the Irish cruised home to a comfortable 164-run victory.

Lanka Fast Bowler Malinga Announces Retirement

Sri Lanka pace veteran Lasith Malinga, who terrorised the world's best batsmen with his toe-crushing yorkers announced his retirement from all forms of cricket.
Malinga who was captain of Sri Lanka's 2014 T20 World Cup winning team, posted a message on his social media account announcing his decision.
Malinga had retired from Test and ODI cricket in January 2021 but was yet to call it quits from T20 internationals.

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