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Why is Pakistan not playing in ongoing Hockey World Cup 2023 in India? Know here
Pakistan has been among the best teams in the world in terms of hockey. It is the only team in the world to win the Hockey World Cup title four times

Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 is being organised in Odisha, India. It has started from Friday. In the first match of the tournament, Argentina beat South Africa by 1–0. While in the second match, Australia crushed France by a score of 8-0. But the Pakistan hockey team is not playing in this tournament. There is a dispute going on between India and Pakistan for a long time. But there is another reason behind Pakistan not playing in India. Actually the Pakistani team could not qualify for the Hockey World Cup.
Actually Pakistan Hockey team could not qualify for World Cup 2023. For this reason, the Pakistani team, could not come to India for the Hockey World Cup. According to the rules of the International Hockey Federation, the top 4 teams of Asia can play the World Cup. But Pakistan was not included in the top four. In the Asia Cup 2022, Pakistan played a 1-1 draw against India. After this, Japan defeated the Pakistani team by 2-3 in the second match. After this, Pakistan’s team remained in third place and could not even reach the semi-finals. Whereas India, Japan, Korea and Malaysia had qualified.
Pakistan has been among the best teams in the world in terms of hockey. It is the only team in the world to win the Hockey World Cup title four times. The Pakistan team won the titles in 1971, 1978, 1982 and 1994. But did not get a single title after this. The Pakistani team could not even reach the semi-finals after 1994. Pakistan’s hockey team, once among the best in the world, is no longer a part of the World Cup 2023.
The Hockey World Cup was inaugurated by Odisha Chief Minister Naveen patnaik in the presence of Union Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Anurag Thakur.
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Virat set to break records as India takes on Australia in World Test Championship Final at the Oval
Virat has always performed well against Australia.

It will be a clash of the Titans as India takes on Australia in the World Championship Final at the Oval on June 7. The fans have set have set their eyes on how both the teams play with Virat Kohli being the star attraction at the match. Virat is on the verge of breaking many ICC records in the upcoming WTC final on Wednesday. Virat has always performed well against Australia.
Records that Kohli might break during the match are
Most runs by a player in ICC tournament knockout matches
Virat has scored 620 runs in ICC tournament Knockout matches at an average of 51.66. He has scored six fifties in the knockout matches with the best score of 96*. In case he scores big, he will move ahead of legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting to become the king of Knockout matches.
Most test runs against a bowler- A massive score by Virat will take him ahead of Superstars like Cheteshwar Pujara (570 runs against Nathan Lyon), Steve Smith (520 runs against Stuart Broad), and Kumar Sangakkara (531 runs against Saeed Ajmal)
Most international runs by an Indian batsman in England-
Virat has scored 2574 runs tailing behind Sachin Tendulkar who scored 2626 runs, and Rahul Dravid, who has scored the maximum 2645 runs. Virat needs 72 runs to reach the top position.
In Tests, Virat needs 21 runs to reach 2000 runs against test cricket in Australia. He needs to score 55 runs to reach the 5000 run mark in international cricket against Australia.
Virat will move to the third position in the maximum ICC Knockout matches played moving ahead of Sachin Tendulkar and Mahendra Singh Dhoni. In case Virat scores a century Virat will become the Indian player with the second-highest test centuries against Australia (9).
Virat has scored 75 international hundreds. If he hits the 76th century against Australia in the WTC final, he will reach this position in 555 innings moving ahead of Sachin Tendulkar (587 innings).
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India’s Bharatpreet Singh, Rezoana Mallick Heena win gold medals in shot put, athletics at Asian U20 Championships in South Korea
Making the nation proud, Bharatpreet Singh stood in the first position recording a discus throw of 55.66 metre in the championship.

India showing a power packed performance on the day 1 of the Asian U20 Athletics Championship in South Korea’s Yecheon bags three medals which includes two gold and one bronze.
Bharatpreet Singh won a gold in the discuss throw, Rezoana Mallick Heena clinched gold at women’s 400m race, while Antima Pal won a bronze medal in the women’s 500-metre race.
Making the nation proud, Bharatpreet Singh stood in the first position recording a discus throw of 55.66 metre in the championship.
On his fourth trip to the circle, Singh recorded the best U20 discuss throw by an Indian in almost nine years, marking the ground at 56.18 metres.
Heena won gold in the women’s 400m clocking in 52.31 seconds to take the tag of 400-metre Asian Champion in U18 and I20.
Earlier in the fifth Asian Youth Athletics Championships held in Uzbekistan’s Tashkent, Heena secured three medals, two in the girl’s 400m and the girl’s 4×400 team relay events, and a silver in the girl’s 200m.
Pal of Uttar Pradesh winning the first medal for India in the tournament clinched the third position in the women’s 500 metre event, in the same event India’s Bushra Khan Gauri stood at the 5th place.
Pal qualified for the Indian team at the Asian U20 Championships after running her first sub-17-minute 5000-metre race in the AFI National Junior U20 Athletics Championships.
The Asian Junior U20 Athletics Championships is a championship that is open to individuals who fall under the junior age bracket. Currently, the Asian Athletics Association presides over organising it.
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MS Dhoni’s picture post his successful knee surgery goes viral
The CSK captain used to land in every match by tying a bandage around his knee and was batting lower down the order during the IPL 2023.

Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni underwent a knee surgery on Thursday, after he was seen battling with a knee problem in the 16th season of the recently held IPL.
The CSK captain used to land in every match by tying a bandage around his knee and was batting lower down the order during the IPL 2023.
According to media reports, Dhoni was at Mumbai’s Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute on May 31, Wednesday, where he was admitted for his knee surgery and at 8 am on Thursday, the operation concluded successfully.
During this period, Dhoni met Dr. Dinshaw Pardiwala, who is a specialist in sports orthopedics as well as the director of sports medicine at the hospital. He is the same doctor treating Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant. Pardiwala also operated on Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra in 2019.
Last year at the end of December, Pant had a terrible accident near Uttarakhand’s Roorkee, while he was driving his car.
After his successful knee surgery, MS Dhoni was spotted in Mumbai, the picture is viral across the internet, spreading happiness to his fans.
In the viral picture, the former Indian cricket team captain can be seen sharing a South Indian meal with another person sitting next to him.
Before travelling to Mumbai, Dhoni talked to the management of the Chennai Super Kings explaining about his condition and the franchise sent its official team physician Dr. Madhu Thottappili to accompany Dhoni to Mumbai. Earlier on Wednesday, Chennai Super Kings CEO Kashi Vishwanathan was also informed about Dhoni’s injury.
During the 16th edition of the IPL, one question that almost every cricket fan asked was about MS Dhoni’s future with CSK. To this, the Chennai CEO refuting any speculations said the team is not thinking in that direction as it has not reached that stage and it will entirely be Dhoni’s call, the team has not given a thought about it.
Dhoni, who quit international cricket on August 15, 2020, said after this year’s IPL final, he would take a call on his availability for the next edition of the tournament before the auctions.
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