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.