Bahrain’s Rizwan Butt on Wednesday became the first player to take a five-wicket haul in T20I cricket in six consecutive deliveries. Rizwan made the record against Singapore in a T20I in Bangi, Malaysia. The bowler picked wickets on the third, fourth and sixth delivery of Singapore’s 18th over and then took two wickets off the first two deliveries in the 20th over. Rizwan Butt did not take any wicket in his first 14 balls. However, he took five wickets in the next 6 balls. The bowler took the wicket on the third and fourth balls of the 18th over, but could not take any wicket on the fi
Odisha Chief Secretary S C Mohapatra on Monday said that India’s biggest hockey stadium and an airport in the steel city of Rourkela have been completed to host the upcoming Men’s Hockey World Cup. The airport will be operationalised in a few days. Mohapatra said this while inspecting the newly built facilities. With a few formalities remaining to be completed, after which regular flight services between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela will begin, he said. The State Chief Secretary said Alliance Air will run four daily flights between Bhubaneswar and Rourkela during the World Cup. The state g
India has won the inaugural FIH Women's Nations Cup title with a 1-0 win over Spain in the summit clash on December 17, sealing a berth in the FIH 2023-24 Pro League. The FIH Pro League is a key event ahead of next year’s Asian Games and the 2024 Paris Olympics. In Saturday’s FIH Women's Nations Cup title match, it was Spain who first earned an early penalty corner but Indian captain and goalkeeper Savita Punia made an excellent save. India, the Commonwealth Games bronze medalists, earned their first penalty corner in the sixth minute and converted it to take the lead. Gurjit Kaur scor
The Indian national blind cricket team made history on Saturday as they won the T20 World Cup for the Blind for the third consecutive time. The Indian team beat Bangladesh by an impressive margin of 120 runs at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. India captain Ajay Kumar Reddy won the toss and elected to bat. The team set a target of 278 runs for Bangladesh. Bangladesh, in response, could only manage to reach 157 in 20 overs. India’s Sunil Ramesh scored 136 runs off just 63 balls. He was named both Man of the Match and Man of the Series in the B3 category. Reddy reached the three-digit m
South American giants Argentina won the FIFA World Cup 2022 on Sunday in Qatar after beating defending champions France 4-2 on penalties, following a dramatic 3-3 draw after extra time. Argentina goal keeper Emiliano Martinez saved Kingsley Coman’s penalty and Aurelien Tchouameni fired wide to take Argentina to their third world title. After winning the 2022 World Cup final, Lionel Messi has surpassed Lothar Matthäus (Germany) for the record of most FIFA World Cup matches played by a player (26). Argentina extended their record for the most penalty shoot-out victories in FIFA World Cup
France ended Morocco’s historic run at the FIFA World Cup 2022 on Wednesday, defeating the team by 2-0 in the semi-final. The defending champions will now face heavyweights Argentina in the final on Sunday in Qatar. Goals from Theo Hernandez in the fifth minute and substitute Randal Kolo Muani in the 79th minute helped French beat Morocco, the first African and Arab country to get this far at the World Cup. The team knocked out three of the of the world's top 10 ranked teams, Morocco will now face Croatia on Saturday December 17 at Khalifa International Stadium in the World Cup third pla
Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan on Saturday launched a $75 million global investment fund to invest in sportstech start-ups with an initial corpus of $75 million and a greenshoe option of $25 million. A multi-stage fund, it is the first organised venture capital fund by an Asian sportsperson and the first by an Indian celebrity. The 37-year-old opener, his partners and team announced the fund, Da One Global Ventures (DOGV), at the LP-GP Summit by 256 Network (a private, invite-only organisation of asset allocators) during the annual Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Finance Week. Global finan
England Test captain Ben Stokes on Sunday matched the world record for smashing most sixes in Test cricket. With his only six in the second innings of the second Test against Pakistan, the all rounder levelled the record of former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum of 107 sixes. Currently the head coach of England team in Test cricket, Brendon McCullum retired as New Zealand's most destructive batter across formats. He scored over 14,000 international runs. He finished his career with 398 international sixes, 107 of which came in Test cricket. Stokes played an important knock of 41 ru
Track and field legend PT Usha was elected as the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) on Saturday, ushering in a new era in the country’s sports administration. The 58-year-old sportsperson, a multiple Asian Games gold medallist and fourth place finisher in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 400m hurdles final, was declared unopposed for the top post in the polls. She emerged as the lone candidate for the top post, as nobody was willing to fight against her. The athlete was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by Bharatiya Janata Party in July. With the election, PT Usha has
Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu won a silver medal at the World Championships with a total lift of 200 kg in Bogota, Colombia, on Wednesday. It is her second World Championships’ medal after the gold medal in 2017. The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist, competing in 49 kg category, lifted 87 kg in snatch, and in clean and jerk her best effort was a lift of 113 kg. China’s Jiang Huihua won the gold with a total effort of 206 kg (93 kg and 113 kg). Her compatriot and Tokyo Olympics champion Hou Zhihua took home the bronze medal after listing 198 kg (89 kg and 109 kg). The 27-year-o