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India continues winning gold at CWG, stands third
Sunday was another shining day for India at 21st Commonwealth Games being played at Gold Coast in Australia. India continued to bag gold medals on Day 4, with weightlifter Punam Yadav and 16-year-old shooter Manu Bhaker winning a gold medal each. Yadav bagged hers in women’s 69kg weightlifting, while Bhaker’s came in 10-metre air pistol event.
According to reports, Manu Bhaker, 16, and Heena Sidhu took a gold and silver medal, respectively, in the Women’s 10m Air Pistol event. Bhaker produced a spectacular performance, setting a new CWG record with a total of 240.9 points in the final round. Sidhu registered 234 to make it 1-2 for India at the top of the podium.
Punam Yadav won gold in the women’s 69 kg category by lifting a total of 222 kg which included 100 kg in snatch and 122 kg in clean and jerk. England’s Sarah Davies took silver with 217 kg, while Apolonia Vaivai of Fiji lifted 216 kg for the bronze. This is the fifth gold medal for India at this year’s CWG.
Among Indian men, shooter Ravi Kumar won India’s 10th medal at CWG 2018. a bronze in 10-m air rifle shooting. Deepak Kumar, who broke the Commonwealth record in the 10-m air rifle quarters, finished at the 6th position.
In boxing, five-time world champion M C Mary Kom confirmed a medal (48 kg category) as she advanced to the semi-finals of the Commonwealth Games 2018 boxing event. This is Mary Kom’s first appearance in CWG. She will face Sri Lanka’s Anusha Dilrukshi in the semi-final on April 11. Her entry into the last four stage confirms a bronze medal for Mary Kom.
Indian shooters Deepak Kumar and Ravi Kumar have qualified for the men’s 10 metre air rifle finals by securing the top two positions. Deepak created a Commonwealth Games record by shooting a total of 627.2 while Ravi secured his place in the final by total of 626.8 points.
India’s Sajan Prakash qualified for the semi-finals of swimming men’s 100 metre Butterfly. He finished second in Heat 2 of the competition after clocking 54.11 seconds only behind Australia’s Grant Irvine, who finished with a timing of 53.89 at the Optus Aquatic Centre.
As of now, India stands at the 3rd position in medals tally: with 6 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medals. Australia is at the top with a total 60 medals, while England is placed at second position with a total of 34 medals.
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IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Mumbai Indians by 24 runs
Venkatesh Iyer was the top scorer for Kolkata Knight Riders with a 70-run knock which took his side to the score as Manish Pandey scored 42 runs off his bat. Suryakumar Yadav was the lone ranger scoring 56 runs which gave Mumbai Indians some hope.
Kolkata Knight Riders registered a 24-run win against Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Friday in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League. KKR were restricted for 169 runs in 19.5 overs by the Mumbai Indians pace bowlers Jasprit Bumrah and Nuwan Thushara’s three-fers. The Mumbai Indians in response were wrapped up for 145 runs as Mitchell Starc picked up a 4 wicket haul.
Venkatesh Iyer was the top scorer for Kolkata Knight Riders with a 70-run knock which took his side to the score as Manish Pandey scored 42 runs off his bat. Suryakumar Yadav was the lone ranger scoring 56 runs which gave Mumbai Indians some hope, but once he was dismissed the hosts batting order was folded by the KKR pace bowlers to pick up their 1st win at the Wankhede stadium in 12 years.
The Kolkata Knight Riders set a target of 170 runs for the Mumbai Indians. It was a disastrous start for KKR as they lost 4 important wickets in the powerplay itself and then another wicket fell in the very first ball after the first six overs. But the impact sub, Manish Pandey played the supporting role along with Venkatesh Iyer and brought the innings back to normal as the latter went on to finish with 70 runs in 52 balls to put the visitors in contention.
For Mumbai Indians, Nuwan Thushara gave outstanding bowling performance in the power play and picked up 3 important wickets. Hardik Pandya also supported in the middle overs by picking up 2 important wickets along with the lone wicket by Piyush Chawla. Jasprit Bumrah showed his class at the death overs by taking 3 important wickets in the latter stages of the innings as Mumbai Indians needed 170 to win the match. Mumbai Indians only needed 51 runs off the last 5 overs, but a superb effort from KKR’s bowlers put an end to their hopes.
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Hamida Banu: Google Doodle celebrates India’s first woman wrestler
May 4 has been chosen as the date to publish a Google Doodle on Hamida Banu because it was on this day in 1954 that she challenged and defeated famed wrestler Baba Pahalwan in 1 minute and 34 seconds. He retired from professional wrestling after the defeat.
Google has changed its homepage logo today to celebrate the extraordinary life of Hamid Banu. Hamida Banu, India’s first woman wrestler was born in the early 1900s near Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. Today’s Google Doodle shows an illustration of Hamida Banu in which she is surrounded by local flora and fauna.
Hamida Banu’s career spanned between the 1940s and 1950s, when she won more than 300 competitions. She often challenged male wrestlers to bouts. She even promised to marry them if they defeated her. Banu emerged as a force at a time when wrestling was still considered a male sport.
May 4 has been chosen as the date to publish a Google Doodle on Hamida Banu because it was on this day in 1954 that she challenged and defeated famed wrestler Baba Pahalwan in 1 minute and 34 seconds. He retired from professional wrestling after the defeat.
After defeating Baba Pahalwan in 1954 she received widespread coverage in international media. The Associated Press during the time reported the bout lasted 1 minute and 34 seconds, when the woman won a fall. Banu earned a lot of fame after the feat and came to be known as the Amazon of Aligarh. In a 1954 bout in Mumbai, Banu reportedly defeated Vera Chistilin, who was called Russia’s female bear, in less than 1 minute’s time.
The Google Doodle on India’s first woman wrestler has been created by Bengaluru-based artist Divya Negi. Negi said she was inspired by Hamida Banu’s fight against conservative norms of the Indian society during that time. She came to know more about Hamida Banu’s world during her Google Doodle research.
Negi was inspired to learn that she fought fiercely against the conservative norms during her time. She said going against group thinking is one of the hardest things one can do, and being a woman adds another level of complexity to it. Despite the odds, Hamida Banu fought her way through and won.
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ICC annual team rankings: India maintains top in place both white-ball formats
India continues to be ranked at the top in men’s ODIs and T20Is following the yearly update that the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Friday. India is currently ranked second in the Test rankings, with Australia holding the top spot.
According to the ICC, all series finished since May 2021 are reflected in the annual update for the Test rankings, which excludes results from the 2020–21 season. With 124 rating points, Australia, the victors of the World Test Championship, are currently top of the table.
India, who lost the top spot to them, is only four points ahead of third-place England and fifteen points ahead of them. With 103 points, South Africa is the fourth team above the 100-point threshold. India’s decline was primarily caused by their 2020–21 2-1 series win in Australia being removed from the rankings.
The teams that placed third through ninth are still in the same order. There are currently just nine countries in the rankings because Afghanistan, Ireland, and Zimbabwe have not played enough Test matches. Zimbabwe has only played three Test matches in the last three years. To be listed on the rankings table, a team must participate in eight Test matches within a three-year period.
India leads the ODI and T20I standings in terms of white-ball matches; according to the annual update, matches played before May 2023 are worth 50% of the total points, and matches played after then are worth 100%.
Despite losing to Australia in the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup final, India now leads the standings with 122 points, up from three points to six. The top ten remains unchanged, however Ireland has moved up to the eleventh spot, surpassing Zimbabwe.
In other changes, Scotland moved up to 12th place, surpassing Zimbabwe, and Pakistan fell two spots to seventh. Outside the top 20, Spain (moving up from 33rd to 30th), the Isle of Man (moving up from 44th to 41st), and Switzerland (moving up from 50th to 45th) have had the largest rating increases.
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