Day 2: 17-year old Redmond Gerard wins gold in Men’s Snowboarding Slopestyle
Redmond Gerard of USA scored a run of 87.16 to win gold in the Men’s Swboarding Slopestyle event ahead of Max Parrot and Mark McMorris of Canada. 17-year old Gerard, the youngest in the men’s competition, landed a perfect backside triple cork 1440 on his final run. He became the first medallist at a Winter Olympic Games to be...
She took giant strides; Jhulan Goswami is the first woman cricketer to reach 200 ODI wickets
The Indian women cricketers are in the same country as their male counterparts, playing One Day Internationals against the South Africans. They have already won their series by winning the first two matches of the 3-match series. But there was no coverage and no broadcast, live or recording. We, as audience, could not witness Smriti Mandhana’s amazing run when...
10th Day of March
1971 India won their first Test against West Indies at the 25th attempt in Port-of Spain. Dilip Sardesai's hundred and half-centuries by Gavaskar and Eknath Solkar gave India a first-innings lead of 138. In the second innings, Sunil Gavaskar hit the winning runs and remained unbeaten at 67. S Venkataraghavan took five in the second innings. 1982 Saleem Malik became the youngest...
Day 1: Charlotte Kalla of Sweden wins first gold
Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla claimed the first gold of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in skiathlon cross country race ahead of Norway’s Marit Bjoergen who was set to win her third straight gold medal in the event. Though not a gold but with silver, Bjoergen became the most decorated woman in Winter Olympics history by claiming her 11th medal. Finland’s Krista...
The Winter Olympic Torch lightens up Pyeongchang to honour fair play and harmony
At around -28 degrees centigrade with steady winds making the chill further, Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, inaugurated the 23rd Winter Olympics Games at Pyeonghang in South Korea. “This is the moment that we have all been waiting for: the first Olympic Games on snow and ice in the Republic of Korea. This is the moment that...
8th Day of March
1928 Jack Hobbs became the oldest man in Test history to score a hundred when he knocked 142 in Melbourne against Australia. He was 46 years and 82 days old. 1931 Neil Adcock, the first South African to get to 100 Test wickets, was born on this day. Adcock took 104 wickets at an average of only 21. 1984 Ross Taylor, one of the...
Mandhana’s heroic century gives India their ODI series victory against South Africa
Smriti Mandhana showed her mettle once again. She scores big when it matters and this time she slammed a quickfire 135 as Indian women’s cricket team beat South Africa by 178 runs in the second ODI to clinch the three-match series in Kimberley. Putting India into bat, South Africa surprised everyone as it was a good batting rack. Hence the...
7th Day of March
1934 Nari Contractor, a dependable opener for India, was born on this day. Contractor made his Test debut against New Zealand in Bombay. But his bright cricket career was cut short due to a fatal injury at head from a ball of Charlie Griffith in Bridgetown in 1961-62. His skull was fractured and his life was at the dead end...
6th Day of March
1956 Peter Roebuck, perhaps the most famous cricket writers, was born on this day. He played 335 first-class matches and 298 List A matches for Somerset ut never played for England. Later he became a distinguished cricket writer. Roebuck died in 2011 when he fell to his death from a hotel room in Cape Town. 1996 The highest total in one-day internationals...
Its time for the women cricketers; India girls beat South Africa in the 1st ODI at Kimberley
Indian women's team produced a clinical all-round performance to beat South Africa by 88 runs in the first ODI at Diamond Oval in Kimberley. Electing to bat, India started well with a fifty-run partnership between openers Punam Raut and Smriti Mandhana. Raut was dismissed for 19. But Mandhana then hit eight boundaries and a six in her 98-ball innings and...