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...
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...