Vishakhapatnam, Dec 23 (PTI) World championships bronze medallist Sarita Mor (59kg) and Sangeeta Phogat (62kg) retained their respective titles at the senior national wrestling championships as they cruised through the depleted fields, here on Friday. Sarita, an RSPB athlete, got the better of Delhi’s Simran in the 59kg final while Sangeeta, wife of Tokyo Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia, defeated Delhi grappler Sumitra in her gold medal match. Bhagwan Shri of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh’s Pooja Yadav bagged the bronze medals in the 59kg weight category. Himachal Pradesh’s Sanika and Vaishnavi of Maharashtra clinched the 62kg bronze medals. Elsewhere on the…
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Guwahati, Dec 23 (PTI) Opener Dhruv Shorey continued from where he had left off in the first innings, scoring an unbeaten 150 on the last day to add to his unconquered 252 in the first innings as Delhi managed to secure a draw against Assam in a Ranji Trophy Group B match here on Friday. Shorey, thus, ended up scoring a total of 402 runs and would like to continue his rich form when the team takes on Tamil Nadu in its third Ranji fixture from December 27. The 30-year-old flourished in the company of fellow opener Anuj Rawat (109),…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI) Sports Minister Anurag Thakur on Friday launched the ‘Khelo India Dashboard’, a one-stop platform, which will give people all the information they need with regards to the various schemes that come under the programme. The digital platform will have statistical data on athletes, coaches, venues and schemes related to the Khelo India programme. The dashboard will be updated in real time and will aim to give “every citizen of the country access to all the information regarding the various offerings of Khelo India,” said a Sports Authority of India (SAI) statement on Friday. “Easy accessibility…
Mirpur, Dec 23 (PTI) The constant talk about his apparent weakness against short pitched delivery did affect him at one point of time but Shreyas Iyer on Friday said that he turned a “deaf ear” to outside comments and focussed on taking corrective measures which is yielding results. Iyer, who scored 87 off 105 balls to take India out of trouble in the second Test against Bangladesh here, was targeted for a brief period with short balls by the home side bowlers. He said he was confident of doing well against the tactics as he had done a lot of…
Jamshedpur, Dec 23 (PTI) Bengaluru golfer S Chikkarangappa stormed into the third round lead after firing a sublime 10-under 62, the week’s lowest score so far, at the TATA Steel Tour Championship here on Friday. With a total of 17-under 199, Chikka took a one-shot lead at the Rs 3 crore season-ending tournament being played at the Beldih and Golmuri Golf courses. Fourteen-time PGTI winner Chikka (66-71-62), who has been a runner-up on two previous occasions in Jamshedpur, zoomed 12 spots from his overnight tied 13th after his extraordinary third round effort that featured two early eagles. Delhi’s Kapil Kumar…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI) Chennai Super Kings management, known for its practicality and prudence, pulled off a coup by buying England Test captain and world’s premier all-rounder Ben Stokes in what looks like a leadership succession plan as and when Mahendra Singh Dhoni decides to hang his boots. Mumbai Indians, a team that has been in transition in the last two years and had some baffling buys at the mega auction last season, opted to invest in Stokes’ skill-set heir apparent Cameron Green. Sunrisers Hyderabad have added Harry Brooks in their roster but what they needed more was an…
Nagpur, Dec 23 (PTI) Spinners Akshay Wakhare and Aditya Sarwate shared seven wickets between them to guide Vidarbha to a 220-run win over Tripura, their second consecutive in the Ranji Trophy Group D on Friday. Vidarbha declared their second innings on 379 for 8 after resuming the day at 348 for 6, thereby setting Tripura an improbable target of 345 runs. Ganesh Satish (151) top-scored for Vidarbha in their second innings while wicketkeeper Akshay Wadkar made 88. Chasing, Tripura were bowled out for 124 in 51.2 overs with off-spinner Wakhare (4/50) and left-arm tweaker Sarwate (3/45) shining with the ball…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (PTI) Himachal players Prashant Chopra (109) and Ankit Kalsi (82) batted with gumption on the final day of their Ranji Trophy Group A match to deny hosts Bengal victory at the Eden Gardens on Friday. The visitors, who faced an uphill task to save the match on day four, lost just three wickets as the game ended in a draw with Himachal scoring 348/4, denying the hosts a golden opportunity to take full points. Chasing a target of 472, Himachal, who were 79/1 overnight with Chopra and Kalsi unbeaten on 44 and 17 respectively, started the tough…
New Delhi, Dec 23 (PTI) Ajay Mandal came up with a splendid all-round show to power Chhattisgarh to a comprehensive 10-wicket win over Services that took the winners three points clear at the top of Group C in the Ranji Trophy here on Friday. Resuming at the overnight score of 145 for 4 with an arrear of 31 runs, Services provided resistance through Rahul Singh (71) and skipper Rajat Paliwal (58). But left-arm spinner Mandal, who cracked a century (114) in Chhattisgarh’s first innings score of 389, made inroads on the final day morning session as he ended the duo’s…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (PTI) Brothers sacrificing their careers for their younger siblings is not new in Indian cricket. On Friday, the latest IPL millionaire Vivrant Sharma credited brother Vikrant for the biggest achievement of his career — a Rs 2.6 crore pay cheque to don the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) jersey in the 2023 edition of the league. Two years after he started following into the footsteps of his elder brother, Jammu & Kashmir’s left-handed batter Vivrant lost his father Sushant to kidney failure. The Sharmas were suddenly left with no one to take care of the chemical business. And 26-year-old…