(Current Affairs) Sports | August: 2014

Sports

Ceat Awards (Free Available)
Riskiest online searches list for footballers (Free Available)
National Sports Talent Search System (Free Available)
Nadal’s ninth title (Free Available)
Seventh women’s hockey World Cup title (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Viswanathan Anand joint ninth (Only for Online Coaching Members)
India fifth in the shooting World Cup (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Amla named South Africa test captain (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Sourav Ganguly joined Mudgal Committee (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Srinivasan set to take over as chairman of ICC (Only for Online Coaching Members)
Saina Nehwal won Australian Open Super Series title (Only for Online Coaching Members)
35th National Games to be held in Kerala (Only for Online Coaching Members)

India’s top batsman Virat Kohli has won the Ceat International Cricketer of the Year award while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, the fastest player from the country to pick 100 Test wickets, bagged the Indian Player of the Year award for 2013-14.
Left-handed opener Shikhar Dhawan was named the International Player of the Year while Robin Uthappa, who was part of the triumphant Karnataka Ranji Trophy team, clinched the Domestic Cricketer of the Year honour.
Kohli had won the best player award in 2011-12 too. India’s under-19 cricketer Vijay Zol got the Young Player of the Year award while yesteryear stumper Syed Kirmani, one of the finest behind the stumps who was also part of the 1983 World Cup winning team, was honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Kirmani played in 88 Tests and 49 ODIs.
Australian Mitchell Johnson, who was instrumental in his country winning the Ashes Series in overwhelming fashion against England at home, and compatriot Glenn Maxwell received the Test Player of the Year and Popular Choice awards respectively, while Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan got the T20 Player of the award.

Cybercriminals are most likely to use names of famous footballers like Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi to lure netizens to malicious webpages designed to infect them with malware, cyber security firm McAfee said.
McAfee, part of Intel Security, has brought out ‘Red Card Club’ list showcasing the top 11 Brazil-bound football players whose web pages are considered to be risky for fans to search for online.
Other names in include Spain’s Iker Cassillas, Karim Ziani (Algeria), Karim Benzema (France), Paulinho (Brazil), Edinson Cavani (Uruguay), Fernando Torres (Spain), Eden Hazard (Belgium) and Gerard Pique (Spain).

Government has promised to facilitate development and promotion of sports, particularly rural sports, and said it will launch a National Sports Talent Search System.
Addressing the first joint sitting of Parliament after the recent Lok Sabha polls, President Pranab Mukherjee said the new government will also formulate a National Education Policy and set up IITs and IIMs in every State. Maintaining that India is the world’s oldest civilisation and today it is also a country with the largest population of the youth, the President said government must equip and nurture the youth with the right kind of education, skill-set and opportunity to reap this demographic dividend.

After all the consecutive victories and the confidently clenched fists, after the new hires and the new attitude, the 2014 French Open was just another red-clay rerun for Novak Djokovic.
He arrived in Paris full of fresh and legitimate hope.