Author: Shobhit Kukreti

There is no stopping for the Indian grandmaster in the Aimchess Rapid online event. Just the day after Arjun Erigaisi beat the World Champion Magnus Carlsen for the first time, another youngster Gukesh Dommaraju stunned the Norweigan with white. With this win, Gukesh became the youngest player to defeat Carlsen during his reign as a World Champion. Interestingly this record was held by another Indian prodigy, Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa R previously. Within two days two youngsters, Arjun and Gukesh have beaten Carlsen, inarguably the greatest player of this generation. Both have already achieved the 2700+ rating. Former record holder, Pragg beat Norweigan…

It wasn’t the final cricket fans were expecting to be. In a one-sided Asia Cup final, India thrashed the Sri Lankan team, defeating them by eight wickets. Smriti Mandhana, who blazed her way to her first half-century in the competition, and captain Harmanpreet Kaur completed the paltry 66-run chase in the ninth over. Sri Lanka’s 65 for 9 is the lowest total by a side batting first and playing out the full 20 overs in a women’s tournament final. India chased it down with 69 balls to spare, which constitutes another record in a women’s T20I title clash. Renuka Singh’s spell was enough to…

Indian contingent’s consistent run at the ISSF World Championships continued on Sunday, as the trio of Kiran Jadhav, Rudrankksh Patil and Arjun Babuta powered to victory over China by 16-10 in the 10m air rifle men’s team event of the World Championship in Cairo, Egypt. The Chinese team did try to fight back from trailing with 2-14 to 10-14 led by Yang Haoran, the World and Olympic champion, but the Indian team didn’t allow further thrill in the event and ended it with a final score of 16-10. In the women’s team event, Meghana Sajjanar, Mehuli Ghosh and Elavenil Valarivan…

It seems BCCI has finally given a nod to the Women’s IPL (WIPL) which was long awaited by cricket fans. The inaugural season of the WIPL will be held in March immediately after the Women’s t20 world cup which is scheduled in February. The BCCI’s proposal states 22 matches in total including 20 league matches. Each team shall have 18 members including 6 overseas in totally. In each XI, 5 overseas players will be allowed including one from the associate nations. BCCI, on Thursday, sent a circular to the state associations about the proposal of WIPL. The proposal also states…

Despite the hiccups and not being up to the mark batting performance, Thailand’s batting didn’t possess much of a threat and India managed to win it quite comfortably. In the end, India won by 74 runs with the help of miser bowling by Deepti Sharma, who took 3 wickets conceding just 7 runs, and Shafali Verma’s all-round performance. Now, India awaits the second semifinal between Pakistan and Sri Lanka for the opponent in the finals. “Although the Thai women did well in restricting India to under 150, the bowlers couldn’t get good support from batters.” Indian Innings Thailand won the…

Novak Djokovic, beat Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-3, 6-4 to win the Astana Open. It was the ninth consecutive match win for the Serb as he had won the title in Tel Aviv last week. The Greek was playing his ninth ATP 500 final, having lost all nine times. With this defeat, the head-to-head between the two has reached 8-2 in Djoker’s favour. He has won the last 7 times against the Greek. Tisitspas will return to the top 5 after making it to the final.  It was the 90th career tour-level title for Djokovic and the fourth of 2022. With this…

Having already won the T20i series. team India continued its run of the consecutive series win by crushing South Africa in the third ODI in Delhi. India’s bowling unit bundled out South Africa for 99 in just 28 overs, which is their lowest ODI total against India and fourth lowest overall. Indian bowlers, especially spinners Kuldeep Yadav, Washington Sundar and Shahbaz Ahmed did very well grabbing eight wickets between them. Kuldeep took his third four-fer against the Proteas. This loss has resulted in South Africa ending up at 11th in the Super League table. As they have already cancelled their ODI…

Suicide rates in 2020 were higher than the previous year. They signify that depression is a real thing. 10th October was World Mental Health day, a day to create awareness around the topic which is still taboo or lesser talked about. Ironically, on the same day, the video of cricketing legend Kapil Dev surfaced stating that he doesn’t understand the terms like “pressure” or “depression” and all these words are “west imported” terms. Context The world cup winning captain was speaking at the “Champions of Aakash 2022” event addressing the students and many other personalities. Here he spoke that when…

Shreyas Iyer’s brilliant 113* and Ishan Kishan’s 93-run knock helped India to chase the target of 279 quite comfortably in Ranchi. Playing in his hometown, it was Kishan’s highest score in his short ODI career. The Iyer-Kishan duo added up 161 runs in their partnership. While batting first, South Africa scored 278 with the help of Markram’s 79 and Hendricks’ 74. Siraj bowled quite well taking 3 wickets for 38 runs. In reply, India chased the total with the loss of only three wickets and 25 balls to spare. South Africa Innings South Africa was playing without regular captain Temba…

It was a consolation for South Africa as the visitors won the final match. Although a dead rubber, it was an important match practice for both teams. While batting first, South Africa put on a total of 227 losing just 3 wickets in the process. Indian bowlers continued to disappoint. Indian batting never looked settled and kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. India could only make 178 runs and lost all their wickets. South African batting The bad form of the skipper continued and Bavuma departed soon at 3. Came Rossouw, who hadn’t scored a single run in his…