Indian Women’s Cricket Team captain Mithali Raj entered the record books becoming the leading run-scorer in women’s ODI cricket. She achieved this while playing against Australia, yesterday. Mithali needed just 33 runs to break the record set by England’s Charlotte Edward (5992 runs in 191 matches). She not only went past the record but also…
Mandya’s chess prodigy A.N. Shefali, a fourth standard student of Santhome Public School, representing India in the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2017 won the gold in the U-8 Girls category on the concluding day of the championship in Delhi, yesterday. Shefali, who won her second successive gold in the Commonwealth Chess Championships, is also the reigning…
Sam Querrey sent defending champion Andy Murray crashing out of Wimbledon yesterday, reaching his first Grand Slam semi-final in the 42nd attempt. One year after knocking out 2015 champion Novak Djokovic in the third round, 29-year-old Querrey, the world number 28, won 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 6-1, 6-1. World number one Murray’s challenge petered out…
The Karnataka State Cricket Association will be organising Dr. (Capt.) K. Thimmappaiah Memorial Tournament in Bengaluru and Mysuru from July 22 to Aug. 6. KSCA Mysuru will be hosting Group B matches comprising of Mumbai Cricket Association, Punjab Cricket Association, Kerala Cricket Association and Gujrat Cricket Association. The matches in Mysuru will be played at…
Five Mysuru Zone players, J. Suchith and M.G. Naveen (President’s XI), Nikin Jose, B.R. Yogesh & M.B. Darshan (all three for Combined XI) have earned selection to take part in the Safi Darashah Tournament 2017-18 conducted by KSCA which gets off to a start at Alur grounds in Bengaluru from today. President’s XI, Vice-President’s XI,…
Dhruthi T. Venugopal of Mysuru taking part in $15,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Tournament at Hua-Hin, Thailand on Wednesday won her women’s doubles quarter-final match and entered semi-finals. The second-seed Dhruthi and Chieh-Yu-Hsu of Taipei, combined well and staved off the challenge put up by Watsacho Sawar Dee and Dolavee Tumthong (Thailand) 6-1, 6-3 and entered…
International squash player Joshna Chinnappa was yesterday appointed senior sports officer of Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco). Joshna Chinnappa met chief minister Edappadi K. Palanisamy at the Secretariat and received the order in the presence of Power Minister P. Thangamani, Energy Secretary Vikram Kapur and Tangedco Chairman M. Saikumar. The decision to make…
The BCCI yesterday named Ravi Shastri as the new chief coach of Indian cricket team with Zaheer Khan appointed the bowling coach for a period of two years. Meanwhile, the board has also appointed Rahul Dravid as the batting consultant (Test cricket) as India will be playing overseas Test Series in the next two years….
Johanna Konta beat Romanian second seed Simona Halep in a thrilling match to become Britain’s first women’s Wimbledon semi-finalist since 1978. Sixth seed Konta, 26, fought back to win 6-7 (2-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 and match Virginia Wade’s feat of 39 years ago. With Wade watching from the Royal Box, Konta served superbly to win…
Sri Ramakrishna Vidyashala emerged as champions in the District Level U-17 Basketball Tournament 2017 organised by Department of Public Instruction at University Grounds recently. They beat Baratiya Vidya Bhavan High School 39-18 in the final. In a keenly contested match, BVB took an early lead 12-06 at the end of second quarter but SRKVS reduced…
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