A quickfire by Mithali Raj guided India to their T20 victory against South Africa
Mithali Raj played a strokeful innings of 54* to lead India to a 7-wicket victory in the first of the 5-match T20 series against South Africa. India had already won the ODI series 2-1 and is dominant in the series. Coming into bat, South Africa posted a respectful total of 164/4. Anuja Patil grabbed two wickets for four runs while...
Day 4: Canadian pair wins the first-ever mixed doubles final of Curling
American teenager, Chloe Kim, claimed gold in Women’s Snowboard Halfpipe by defeating China's Liu Jiayu by almost 10 points. Kim scored a near-perfect score of 98.25 on her final run. Kim is the dual gold medallist from the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Lillehammer 2016. Arielle Gold of USA who was a dual silver medal-winning YOG athlete from Innsbruck...
Day 3: Laura Dahlmeier creates history by claiming 2nd Biathlon gold
Laura Dahlmeier took her second gold medal at PyeongChang 2018, as she emerged victorious in women’s 10km biathlon. Two days prior she took the gold in 7.5km Biathlon event., thus creating history in Biathlon for Germany. Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina pipped past Anais Bescond of France by a mere 0.2 seconds. Dahlmeier was accurate in shooting and power in the...
12th Day of March
1938 Vijay Mehra, the youngest Test cricketer for India at that time, was born on this day. He was overtaken by Maninder Singh in 1982-83. An opener, Mehra played two Tests in his debut series but remained out of contention for six years. He came back against England in Calcutta in 1961-62. He played a total of 8 Tests for...
Saurav Ghosal wins Indian Open Squash title in a hard-fought final
Saurav Ghosal, the National Champion in squash, clinched the Vedanta Indian Open Squash after a playing brilliantly in the final hours of the final match against No 2 seed Nicolas Mueller of Switzerland. Top seeded Ghoshal won 11-9 5-11 6-11 11-7 12-10 in the 67-minute final. This is the second crown at home in four months on the Professional...
Davinder and Sonia win gold on Day 1 of Asian Games Invitational Athletics
India had an eventful opening day in the Asian Games invitational athletics test event by winning two gold, three silver and three bronze in Jakarta. Javelin thrower Davinder Singh Kang and 400m runner Sonia Baishya won the gold. stamped Indian dominance in the event at the Gelora Bung Karno Main Stadium. Davinder Kang, a finalist at the 2017 World Championships...
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...