ghana: Indian men’s hockey team starts Commonwealth Games 2022 campaign with 11-0 win over Ghana

The Indian men’s hockey team got off to an impressive start with an 11-0 win over Ghana in their opening match of the 2022 Commonwealth Games here on Sunday.

Dragflicker Harmanpreet Singh (10′, 35′, 53′) starred with a hat-trick, while Jugraj Singh (22′, 43′) grabbed a brace in the match. Abhishek (2′), Shamsher Singh (14′), Akashdeep Singh (20′), Neelkant Sharma (38′), Varun Kumar (39′) and Mandeep Singh (48′) scored a goal each to give India a goal. did. Huge win in Pool B. An aggressive start to the match saw India take the lead in the second minute of the match through Abhishek, who scored from a rebound off the Ghana goalkeeper’s pads after Harmanpreet took a shot from a penalty corner. Ghana, on the other hand, responded swiftly and earned themselves a penalty corner in the third minute but the Indian defense managed to avert the threat. The Indians continued to put pressure on Ghana’s defense and scored two more goals in the first quarter.

Harmanpreet scored the second goal from a penalty corner in the 10th minute, while Shamsher scored the third goal of the match in the 14th minute. A graceful move from the left by Abhishek allowed Shamsher to calmly take the ball home at the end of the first quarter to make the scoreline 3-0. With forward line pressure on Ghana’s defence, the Indians looked more dangerous in the second quarter. He earned a PC in the 19th minute, but Varun Kumar missed to convert it. A minute later, courtesy a flamboyant shot from Akashdeep, India extended their lead to 4-0.

Young drag-flicker Jugraj entered the scoresheet to convert a penalty stroke 5-0 in the 22nd minute. A rare attacking move from Ghana helped them earn a back-to-back penalty corner in the 25th minute, but they missed to convert their chances. Gaining some strength, Ghana started the second half brilliantly as they immediately earned a penalty corner. However, a good video referral by India ensured that Ghana were denied a short corner. Minutes later, India won another penalty corner, but Ghanaian goalkeeper Duisburg Offei made an acrobatic save to deny the Indians the scoring.

India continued their relentless attack as they scored four goals in the last 10 minutes of the third quarter. After Harmanpreet’s second PC conversion in the 35th minute, Neelkanth (38′) and Varun (39′) also joined the party. Meanwhile, Jugraj converted PC at the end of the third quarter to add a ninth goal to the tally. In the final quarter, India continued their attack by making dangerous inroads into Ghana’s circle. Experienced forward Mandeep captured the scoresheet in the 48th minute by scoring the 10th goal for India. Minutes later, Harmanpreet completed her hat-trick and successfully converted a PC to extend India’s lead to 11-0.

Ghana got a chance to score their first goal in the final moments, but India avoided the threat. The Indians kept the majority of the ball in the final minutes of the match and made sure to keep a clean sheet.

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pakistan: CWG: India beat Pakistan by 8 wickets in rain-hit T20

India put up a brilliant performance to dominate Pakistan by eight wickets in a rain-hit women’s Group A match of the 22nd Commonwealth Games here on Sunday. Opting to bat, Pakistan were on 99 with Sneh Rana (2/15) and Radha Yadav (2/18) taking two wickets each when the match was reduced to 18 overs due to rain.

Renuka Singh (1/20), Meghna Singh (1/21) and Shafali Verma (1/8) took a wicket each.

Opener Muniba Ali scored 32 runs in 30 balls for Pakistan.

In reply, India chased down the target in 11.4 overs with Smriti Mandhana’s unbeaten 63 off 42 balls.

Brief Scores:

Pakistan Women: 99 runs in 18 overs (Muniba Ali 32; Sneh Rana 2/15)

India Women: 102 for 2 in 11.4 overs (Smriti Mandhana 63; Tuba Hasan 1/18).

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Commonwealth Games 2022: Bindyarani Devi clinches silver, India’s fourth medal in Weightlifting – The Economic Times Video

Bindyarani Devi won India its fourth medal on a successful day in the weightlifting field of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, securing a silver medal in the women’s 55 kg weight category. The 22-year-old from Manipur lifted a total of 202kg in her final turn in the clean and jerk with a scintillating effort of 116kg, surpassing England’s Fryer Morrow (198) and just 1kg ahead of Nigeria’s Adijat Edenique Dalrinde . Finished with a total of 203 kg, a sports record.

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CWG 2022: Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu bags gold medal in women's 49kg

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CWG 2022: Gururaja Poojary seals another medal for India in weightlifting, wins bronze in 61 KG category

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india: India announce ODI squad for Zimbabwe tour, Chahar, Kuldeep return

MUMBAI: India on Saturday announced their squad for the three-match ODI series against Zimbabwe to be played in Harare from August 18.

Most regular ODI members –

Rohit Sharma, Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya and others have been rested and Shikhar Dhawan will lead the side after India’s recent 3-0 win in West Indies.

Fast bowler Deepak Chahar, who has been out for a long time due to injury, has returned to the team.

Indian team for 3 ODIs: Shikhar Dhawan (capt), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubman Gill, Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Avesh Khan, Pranand Krishna, Mohammad Siraj , Deepak Chahar.

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Recent developments clearly indicate a shift in cricket ecosystem frominternational-dominated to league-friendly

More recently, without much fanfare or publicity, young South African batsman Dewald Brevis, known as Baby AB, was knocked out in a match against an English county second XI.

He was not with the South African A team, he was not part of the South African unit preparing for a full series in England, rather, he was playing for Mumbai Indians’ development XI. If you thought players were loyal to their franchise for the duration of the Indian Premier League, and then went back to live their regular lives where they came from, think again. On paper, there exists a window of two months, and now two and a half months for the IPL.

When the IPL plans to increase from its current 10 teams to 12, this window will have to be extended to three months. This meant that no other international cricket would be played in that period. While there was opposition to this – and recently the Pakistan Cricket Board took issue with the extension – there is also an understanding that literally no player in the world is going to choose anything over the IPL. The club versus country debate, of being loyal to the system that gave you the chance to grow, is now at length.

If anything, the IPL underestimates the size of the animal. India has been able to defend its international game for a number of reasons. First, the IPL is the leading Twenty20 league in the world, and the richest by any means. Secondly, playing for India still pays exceptionally well even if you cannot secure an IPL contract, although this situation is rare.

However, the most important thing is that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does not allow its players to participate in any other league. This means that India’s players are accountable to the BCCI at all times except in the IPL, to which they are primarily contracted. When that changes, and there are indications that the BCCI is allowing non-contracted Indian players time to play in other leagues, the end of bilateral cricket will be closer than anticipated.

You can be sure that the six IPL franchises that have bought teams in South Africa’s latest T20 league will be lobbying the BCCI to allow some participation of Indian players. It may be too soon for India’s international or centrally contracted players, but there are many Indians in the IPL who have not been signed by the BCCI or state associations. Perhaps these players will be given time to venture abroad? When this happens, the power between the National Board and the suffrage will change decisively.

Effectively, a player can be signed by Mumbai Indians or Chennai Super Kings for several months in a year in different windows. While the South African T20 league may not necessarily be an attempt to hold a second IPL in the year – the beneficiaries are entirely different – it is a decisive movement towards the system of football. The time is not far off when the player will be primarily contracted with a company or organization that owns teams in several T20 leagues around the world, and will only be released to play for his country when it is part of the parent organization. would be favorable.

The most obvious sign of the innings was South Africa’s withdrawal from the three ODI series against Australia to be played in January 2023. This jeopardized South Africa’s direct qualification for next year’s 50-over World Cup, but the problem was that the dates clashed with their own T20I match. You might think that Cricket South Africa was greedy, but, in reality, it was more need based. Cricket South Africa has faced bankruptcy more than once in the last few years and this T20 league is probably their last attempt to secure the future of cricket in the country.

What kind of future it will hold, where the World Cup is no longer the first priority and a format is in danger of extinction, is another matter entirely. Cricket also thinks that some problems exist in other parts of the world. When West Indies players openly quit playing to become T20 franchise specialists for their team, they were initially referred to as mercenaries.

Today cricketers around the world are leaving one format or the other to do so. Quinton de Kock left Test cricket, will no longer play Ben Stokes How long before an Indian player takes a decision by dodging the BCCI? Then the flood gates open.

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