Ritu Phogat bags silver in U-23 World Wrestling Championship
Haryana girl Ritu Phogat won the the silver medal in the Under-23 Senior World Wrestling Championship at Poland. In the final she lost to Turkish wrestler Demirhan. Ritu defeated Chinese Wrestler Jiang Zhu 4-3 points in the semi-final. In the quarter-final, she went past Bulgarian Wrestler Selishka in 4-2 points. Ritu Phogat is performing well in recent times. She had...
24th Day of December
1932 Colin Cowdrey, the most durable English cricketer with a Test career spanning more than two decades, was born on this day. Cowdrey was the first man to play 100 Tests, captained England 27 times and scored almost 43,000 first-class runs - 7,624 of them in Tests. He celebrated his 100th Test appearance with a century against Australia in Edgbaston...
From meltdown to triumph –Jana Novotna left abundant memories to cherish
Jana Novotna was a true champion. The tall, blonde Czech was one of the most watchable players on the circuit with powerful serve and aggressive volley. Her mastery of the backhand smash fetched her 100 tennis titles, 24 for singles and 76 for doubles. But still she is best remembered for one of the most heart-rending meltdowns in sports. The...
22nd Day of November
1873 JT Tyldesley, a fleet-footed right-handed stroke-maker, was born on this day. The Englishman made almost 40,000 first-class runs in a long career with Lancashire and England. He played 31 Tests, making 112 in his second Test to set up a 210-run victory over South Africa in Cape Town in 1898-99. He was popularly known as ‘Johny’. 1943 Mushtaq Mohammad, the wristy...
22nd Day of December
1929 Wazir Mohammad, brother of Hanif Mohammad who often remained under the shadow of Hanif, was born on this day. Wazir was one of four Test-playing Mohammad brothers. He scored both his Test hundreds in the Caribbean series of 1957-58. 1947 Dilip Doshi, the left-arm spinner for India, was born on this day. Doshi made his debut at the age of 31...
‘Pocket Hercules’ left world as Turkey wept ‘Long Live Naim Süleymanoğlu’
He was the man who could snatch 2.5 times his body weight; he was the one who could clean and jerk 3 times his body weight. At 15, he set his first world record. At the end of his career he won 3 straight Olympic gold medals and 6 world records. He was weightlifting champion, Naim Süleymanoğlu, who died...
20th Day of December
1905 Bill O'Reilly, a leg-spinner with the speed of a medium pacer, was born on this day. Also known as ‘Tiger’, Bill was 6feet 2inches tall who played 27 Test matches and took 144 wickets. 1948 A Test match, that remains the only match to be won off the last ball. The match was held between England and South Africa in Durban. 1970 Grant...
19th Day of December
1916 Merv Wallace, one of New Zealand's most underrated cricketers, was born on this day. Wallace scored two half-centuries on debut at Lord's in 1937 and returned after the war to score 1722 runs on the 1949 tour of England. 1969 Nayan Mongia, a wicketkeeper-batsman for India, was born on this day. Mongia made 107 dismissals in 44 Tests. His most notable...
18th Day of December
1910 Eric Tindill, an extraordinary sportsman for New Zealand was born on this day. Tindill is the only man to play Test cricket and rugby, as well as becoming a Test umpire and international rugby referee. He made his Test cricket debut in 1936 against England and kept wicket in five matches of a career interrupted by the Second World...
India protest against the decision of reducing participants in Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games Federation has decided to slash the number of participants in the Indian contingent for the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In response to the decision, sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore has written to the Federation to reconsider the decision. The letter states that, “Government of India in consultation with Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has examined critically the probability of...