Indian boxers Nikhat Zareen (52kg) and Nitu (48kg) struck gold at the 73rd Strandja Memorial Tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Hyderabad-based Zareen, who is a multiple-time national medallist, had won a gold medal at the Strandja Memorial’s 2019 edition as well. With another one added to her kitty this time, she became the first Indian boxer to claim two gold medals at the tournament.
Bihar’s 22-year-old batter Sakibul Gani etched his name on the history books by breaking the record for the highest individual score by a cricketer on first-class debut.
Becoming the first batter to score a triple hundred on first-class debut, Gani amassed 341 runs off just 405 balls with the help of 56 fours and 2 sixes in a Ranji Trophy Plate Group match against Mizoram at Jadavpur University Campus 2nd Ground in Kolkata on Friday.
He maintained a strike rate of 84.20.
Bihar
India beat the West Indies in a thrilling second T20I at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday night to take a 2-0 unassailable lead in the three-match T20I series.
The victory helped India become only the second team after Pakistan to win 100 T20Is in men’s cricket.
India have played a total of 155 matches, winning 100 (including Super Over wins), losing 51 and 4 no results.
Pakistan have played 189 T20Is and have registered 118 victories. India (65.23 per cent) incidentally have a better win percentage than Pakistan (64.4 per cent).
Ramkumar Ramanathan continued his dream run in doubles, winning his third title of the year, with his doubles partner Saketh Myneni .
They beat the French pair of Hugo Grenier and Alexandre Muller 6-3, 6-2 to clinch the Bengaluru Open ATP Challenger.
The 16-year-old from Gujarat, who became the first Indian woman shuttler to claim the world no. 1 status in u-19 singles, beat second seed Susato 21-11, 11-21, 21-7 in 51 minutes.
En route to the title, Tasnim defeated Iran’s Nazanin Zamani, Armenia’s Lilit Poghosyan, Iran’s Fatemeh Babaei, India’s Samayara Panwar before outwitting top seed and World Number 71 Martina Repiska in the semifinals.
India’s veteran Indian field hockey Goal Keeper PR Sreejesh wins the award of ‘World Games Athlete of the year 2021.
Winning this makes Kerala’s PR Sreejesh the First Indian Man to Win this honour.
Sreejesh beat competition from sport climber Alberto Gins Lopez of Spain and Italy’s wushu player Michele Giordano for the award.
The men’s doubles title was Rohan Bopanna’s 20th on the tour and the first for Ramkumar Ramanathan.
The Indian pair defeated the top-seed pair of Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo in the final on Sunday, January 09th, 2022
Hapreet ‘Polar Preet’ Chandi, an Indian-origin British Army Captain created history by becoming the first Indian-Origin woman and the first woman of colour trekking on a solo expedition of 700 miles (1127 Km) to reach the South Pole in just 40 days.
She is a trained Physiotherapist and part of the medical regiment of the British Army.
India wins Sri Lanka by 9 wickets in the final show down in Dubai, December 31st, 2021
JANUARY 01st, 2022 – Saturday
Prithvi Shaw scored 546 runs in a little over 4 sessions of school cricket in ‘The Lord Harris Shield’ inter-school tournament making him the highest scorer ever in India’s school cricket fixtures.
14 year old, 5’1″ Prithvi Shaw, a school boy re-wrote history by scoring 546 runs (367 minutes, 330 deliveries, 85 fours and 5 sixes) for his school Rizvi Springfield at Bandra, Mumbai whilst playing aginst D’Assisi School at the Azad Maidan on Wednesday – November 20th, 2013.
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