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Rio Olympics 2016 Wrestler Sakshi Malik Gives India First Medal (Bronze) At 2016 Rio Olympics: in the women’s 58 kg freestyle event, becoming the first Indian female wrestler to win an Olympics medal, defeating Kyrgyzstan’s Aisuluu Tynybekova with an 8-5 victory. India’s star shuttler PV Sindhu Enters Badminton Ladies Singles Final becoming the first Indian […]

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CRICKET West Indies Draw In 2nd Test Match West Indies put up an impressive show disallowing India from stealing victory at Sabina Park. They won the toss and put India to field. West Indies scored 196 in their first innings. Ashwin was brilliant with 5/52. India scored 500 as KL Rahul scored another century, getting […]

Renee Shines At Immaculata 2016

Fourteen year old Renee Talati from St. Anne’s High School, Fort, was awarded the ‘Best Sportsperson’ (Overall Category) and ‘Best Footballer’ (Girls Category) at the recent inter-school cultural festival, Immaculata 2016, held at St. Mary’s School (ICSE), Mazagaon. Twenty four schools across Mumbai participated with 2000 children taking part in various events. Renee been playing […]

Sports Round-up – 24 July To 30 July

CRICKET India Start Off Their Series On A Winning Note The Anil Kumble-Virat Kohli partnership has started on a positive note as India were on the top of their game against what looked like a rather weak West Indies side. Batting first the visitors notched up 566/8 (declared) in their first innings. Virat Kohli scored […]

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CRICKET Pakistan Clinch Victory At Lord’s The first Test match between England and Pakistan turned into an exciting encounter. Pakistan won the toss and made the right decision to bat first. They notched up 339 runs with skipper Misbah-ul-Haq’s top ton. In reply, the Englishmen were all out for 272 runs in 79.1 overs. Yasir […]

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CRICKET Barbados Tridents Win Caribbean Premier League After the IPL, it is now the CPL that has taken the cricketing world by storm. St. Kitts and Nevis Patriots won the toss and elected to field first. Opponents, Barbados Tridents scored 180/6 in 20 overs, thanks to De Villiers who scored 82 runs in 54 deliveries. […]

Azdeen Wins Golden Glove

Congratulations to 10-year-old Azdeen Zack for being awarded the ‘Golden Glove’ as the best goalkeeper at the recently concluded ‘Torneo Cidade Vilagarcia’- International Football Tournament held in Spain. Azdeen’s ‘Spanish Soccer School, Dubai’ won 7th place amongst forty-two teams that participated world-wide. Azdeen will soon be representing Dubai, in the ‘Under-10’ category at the ‘Gothia […]

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CRICKET England Thrashes The Lankans To Win The ODI Series The Englishmen produced top class cricket throughout the entire series. This time around too, it was no different when these two teams met at Cardiff for the fifth ODI. The Lankan lions won the toss and opted to bowl first. Roy, Vince and Root played […]

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CRICKET Jason Roy Shines As England Crushes Sri Lanka  Playing their 4th ODI, England and Sri Lanka were looking to outplay each other yet again. Winning the crucial toss, the Englishmen elected to field first. The Lankan Lions put up a massive score of 305 as their top order fired some big scores. In reply, […]

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CRICKET Anil Kumble Is Team India’s New Coach Anil Kumble has been appointed as the coach of Team India. “It’s a great honour to be back in the Indian dressing room in a different role!” says Kumble. India Win The T20 Series Against Zimbabwe The final game of the shortest format turned into a thrilling […]