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Carelessness cost India the second T20 against Zimbabwe

  • Zimbabwe had never won a T20 International at Harare before 19 July. They had lost nine out of nine. They had also never beaten India in a T20I.
  • Both streaks came to a screeching halt at the end of 40 overs on Sunday as Zimbabwe celebrated a famous win. They had learned from their mistakes, while India hadn’t.
  • It was poor running, irresponsible batting and undisciplined bowling that undid India.
  • It started off with the pace bowlers bowling too short and then too wide. The Zimbabwe batsmen were ready to take on the short stuff but bowlers refused to adjust. Nearly 43 percent of the balls India bowled were short of a good length.
  • It took some brilliant death bowling from Bhuvneshwar Kumar to restrict Zimbabwe to 145 for 7 as India conceded just 33 runs from the last five overs, while taking four wickets.

Sangram Singh wins WWP Commonwealth Championship

  • Indian wrestler Sangram Singh made the country proud by defeating Canada’s Joe Legend to win the WWP Commonwealth Championship at Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in South Africa.
  • This was sangram singh’s first professional fight after a hiatus of three years and he signed a death contract for this fight

Australia level Ashes series 1-1 at Lord’s

  • England descended to an embarrassing 405-run defeat inside four days at Lord’s as Mitchell Johnson hastened their collapse and Australia levelled the Ashes at 1-1.
  • The hosts, set a notional 509 to win after Australia declared on 254 for two shortly before lunch in this second Investec Test, were all out for a hapless 103 in 37 overs by late Sunday afternoon.
  • England’s costly habit of losing their top order cheaply was revisited, and then Johnson’s double-wicket maiden immediately after tea cast aside any remaining doubts.

Haryana boy wins Junior World Golf title at age 10

  • Shubham Jaglan, a 10-year-old son of a milkman from rural Haryana, scripted a scintillating one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships at the Welk Resort Fountain Course in San Diego on Friday.
  • His three-day total of seven-under par 179 was better than rest of the field to become the Junior World Champion in his age category.
  • Shubham blitzed the golf course over the course of three days of the tournament with as many as thirteen birdies during his three rounds.
  • Five of them came during Friday’s final round, which proved to be the difference as he was in the joint lead at the end of round 2.
  • Shubham, who had missed out last year with a runner-up finish but through sheer determination, he made sure he got the top billing this year.
  • Shubham was taken under the wings of the Golf Foundation pioneered by Arjuna Awardee and Asian Games gold medallist, Amit Luthra.
  • The foundation saw the potential and have given him their unconditional support to make the game accessible to him and he is repaying their faith with his outstanding results.

Indian hockey coach sacked

  • Current Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal would sit on a chair when Ajax manager Ronald Koeman would put his team through the paces.

  • Not once or twice, but for a whole week. Van Gaal was technical director of Ajax then. In one instance, he also asked Zlatan Ibrahimovic to position himself in a particular area — and the striker scored. All this was a complete disrespect of the manager’s authority.

  • Koeman may have won that battle with Van Gaal [he used the media to force the latter out] — but another Dutch coach — in another sport, hockey, has lost his job.

  • Paul Van Ass claimed today that he was sacked by Hockey India (SAI and Batra have claimed otherwise — so this is still a subject of some debate). This is after Hockey India chief Narinder Batra gave a post-match team talk to the side after the 3-2 win over Malaysia in the Hockey World League semifinals in Belgium. Van Ass, rightly, asked Batra to leave the field — team talks were his department — and while the HI chief left the pitch, he made sure Van Ass knew that his behaviour was not acceptable.ckey India

Eden garden will host World Twenty20 final

  • The iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata will host the World Twenty20 final in April next year, the Indian board said on Tuesday as it announced the venues for the tournament.
  • The BCCI named eight venues for the biennial event, which has been staged across three cities in each of its previous five editions.
  • The 16-nation men’s tournament will be played alongside the women’s event across various venues in India from March 11 to April 3.
  • Bangalore, Chennai, Dharamsala, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur and New Delhi will be the other venues for the competition, the board said in a statement.
  • India co-hosted the 50-over World Cup in 2011 with Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and went on to win the tournament.
  • BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya will head a managing committee for the 16-team tournament featuring 10-Test playing nations and six associate teams.
  • The final schedule will be announced in consultation with the International Cricket Council (ICC).
  • The 2016 event will be the sixth edition of the popular tournament that began in 2007. The last event was won by Sri Lanka in Bangladesh in 2014.

Duleep Trophy vanish from BCCI calendar

  • The Indian cricket board on Tuesday clarified that the prestigious Duleep Trophy has been shelved, and that the tournament remains an “integral part of the domestic calendar” and will be the curtain-raiser of the 2016-17 domestic season.

  • Several reports on Monday suggested the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has scrapped the traditional tournament for good from the upcoming 2015-16 domestic season.

  • “BCCI wishes to clarify that this is incorrect and reiterate that the Duleep Trophy remains an integral part of the domestic calendar,” the board said in a release on Tuesday.

  • “India will play 12 Test matches at home in the next season (2016-17) between October-March. Duleep trophy will be the curtain-raiser for the forthcoming domestic season and provide a platform for the players to stake a claim.”

  • The BCCI on Monday revealed its plans to conduct 900 matches in six months during its 2015-16 domestic season, which will start from October this year and end in March 2016. The 2015-16 domestic fixtures list, released on Monday, did not have a place for the Duleep Trophy.

  • The BCCI decided not to hold the Duleep Trophy in the 2015-16 season in order to accommodate the 2016 World Twenty20 championship, which will be played in India after the completion of the domestic season in March 2016

Hockey magician Major Dhyan Chand to be honoured in British Parliament

  • Indian hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand will be confered with the ‘Bharat Gaurav’ Lifetime Achivement Award by NRI orgainsation Sanskriti Yuva Sangstha at the House of Commons inside the British Parliament of July 25.
  • On behalf of Dhyan Chand, his son and former Indian hockey player Ashok Kumar will receive the award.
  • Dhyan Chand had helped India win three successive gold medals in Olympics. To his credit, he had scored over 400 goals in his international career.
  • Dhyan Chand was one of the nominees in 2014 for the prestigious Bharat Ratna, an award which cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and scientist C N Rao eventually received.
  • In 1936, when India won the gold medal in Berlin Olympics, Hitler offered Dhyan Chand to join the German team but he denied the offer.

Shubham Jaglan wins second junior world golf title in two weeks

  • Ten-year-old Shubham Jaglan added another feather to his cap when he created history by winning the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in Las Vegas on Thursday.
  • The son of a milkman from rural Haryana shot a three round score of 106 winning by a five-stroke margin, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand’s Pongsapak Laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years category title at the Angel Park.
  • Last Sunday, Jaglan had clinched a one-stroke win at the Junior World Golf Championships at the Welk Resort Fountain Course in California.

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