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Sindhu Shocks Xuerui Saina Goes Through but India’s Challenge Ends in Men’s Singles

 August 14, 2015   R K Gupta

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On an extraordinary day at World Badminton Championship tournament in Jakarta, there were huge upsets in several categories with some of the top seeds just scraping through to the quarterfinals. India’s 11th seeded women singles player PV Sindhu created one of the major upsets of the day by defeating no.3 seed and Olympic gold medalist […]

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Shikar Dhawan

Centuries from Dhawan and Kohli Help India Hold Edge in Galle Test on Second Day

 August 14, 2015   R K Gupta

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India began the second day at the Galle test with caution. They were 55 runs behind the Sri Lankan score of 183 all out and the wicket still had the bounce and turn. 99 runs were added by Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli by lunch and Dhawan helped himself to his fourth century in tests. […]

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Saina Nehwal Srikanth Prannoy Make the Day for India at Jakarta But Kashyap Loses

 August 13, 2015   R K Gupta

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Saina Nehwal made a solid start to her campaign in the 2015 world badminton championship at Jakarta by an emphatic victory over Hong Kong’s Cheung Ngan Yi. With a first-round bye, Saina is already in the third round. For a place in the quarterfinals, Saina will have to beat Japan’s no.14 seed Sayaka Takahashi. In […]

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Team India Working Hard To Win Their First Overseas Test Series at Sri Lanka After Four Years

 August 8, 2015   R K Gupta

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India’s bowling coach Bharat Arun wants Indian speedsters to enhance their pace. In Arun’s opinion, this is a sure way of catching the Sri Lankan batsmen off guard. India have failed to win an overseas test series in the last 4 years and they would be looking to reverse that on this tour to the […]

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Evolution of Modern Badminton and China’s Legendary Dominance in the Game

 August 7, 2015   R K Gupta

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Interestingly, Badminton’s roots lie in India, contrary to the belief that Englishmen invented the game. In the British garrison town Poona, now Pune, the Englishmen stationed there watched children play with battledore and shuttlecock. The object was to hit the shuttlecock with battledore as hard as possible. That was the middle of the 19th century […]

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China’s Amazing Show in Women’s Doubles at World Badminton Championships

 August 6, 2015   R K Gupta

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As the 2015 World Championship at Jakarta draws nearer, China’s legendary dominance in women’s doubles easily comes to mind. Since the competition began in 1983, China lost the women’s doubles title just once. It is an amazing achievement regardless of the fact that the Chinese dominate the world in the shuttle sport. Having always won […]

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Indian Squad Arrives in Colombo for a Three-Match Test Series with Sri Lanka

 August 5, 2015   R K Gupta

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The Indian sub-continent is in the grip of monsoon and cricket matches suffer on account of rains playing spoilsport. As the Indian contingent under Virat Kohli arrived in Colombo for the three-test series, they were greeted by heavy showers and their training session at the Premadasa Stadium began with light drizzle that developed into full-scale […]

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Australia A Comfortably Win the Unofficial Test Series Against India A at Chennai

 August 4, 2015   R K Gupta

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Before their departure to Sri Lanka for a 3-match official Test Series, many cricketers played in India A team against the visiting Australia A in Chennai’s MA Chidambaram stadium. The first test, played during July 22-25, 2015 ended in a draw but the second-string Australian side led by Usman Khwaja beat India A by 10 […]

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Dipa Karmakar Brings with a Bronze at 2015 Artistic Asian Gymnastics

Dipa Karmakar Brings Glory to India with a Bronze at 2015 Artistic Asian Gymnastics Championships

 August 4, 2015   R K Gupta

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It is not every day that an Indian’s name figures in sports like gymnastics. In a nation that doesn’t boast of world-class athletes with the possible exception of Vikas Gowda in men’s discus throw, woman artistic gymnast Dipa Karmakar’s bronze medal at the recently concluded Asian Gymnastics Championships in Hiroshima is extremely creditable and heartening. […]

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Memorable Show by Indians as 2015 World Archery Championship Ends at Copenhagen

 August 3, 2015   R K Gupta

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India had a chance to win a team gold and an individual bronze on the final day of the prestigious World Archery Championship at Copenhagen but while the recurve team lost to Russia, Laxmirani Majhi went down to the Korean Misun Choi. But the Indian women didn’t gift it away to their opponents and fought […]

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