Новости за 07.03.2018

The Punjab cabinet on Wednesday decided to offer a government job to wrestler Navjot Kaur, who scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold in the Senior Asian Championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

League table toppers Bengaluru FC and fourth-placed FC Pune City played out a listless goalless draw in the first leg semi-final of the Indian Super League match at the Shiv Chhatrapati sports complex on Wednesday.

Pistol shooter Anish Bhanwal, 15, who had to miss his standard X board exams to participate in first-ever senior World Cup in Mexico, has heaved a sigh of relief as the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has accepted his request of conducting separate exams for three subjects.

India's new golfing sensation Shubhankar Sharma says the pain of not winning the World Golf Championship in Mexico was "washed away" when he got the invite for the Augusta Masters, where he considers himself a real contender for the title.

Delhi youngster Tejaswin Shankar smashed his own national record to claim the high jump gold as three athletes booked their Commonwealth Games berths on the third and penultimate day of the 22nd Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships on Wednesday.

BCCI sprung major surprises in the new contract system by removing MS Dhoni and R Ashwin from the top-bracket while Mohammed Shami found himself out of the contract owing to the allegations of domestic violence and adultery by his wife.

India produced a scintillating game, especially in the final quarter, to thrash Malaysia 5-1 in their fourth match of the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Cup hockey at Ipoh in Malaysia on Wednesday.

India's Muskan Kirar and Promila Daimary clinched gold medals in the women's compound and recurve events respectively at the Archery Asia Cup in Bangkok on Wednesday.

Despite his starring role in India's only Test win in the recent tour of South Africa, Indian pacer Mohammed Shami's name was not there in the list of 26 contracted players released by the BCCI on Wednesday. The in-form Shami claimed a career-best 5/28 in the second innings of the match.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior off-spinner R Ashwin found themselves relegated from the top-paid bracket with the BCCI introducing an A+ category in the central contracts for which only five players, including skipper Virat Kohli, were picked.

Former India coach Roelant Oltmans was appointed as the new chief coach of the Pakistan men's hockey team for a two-and-a-half-year tenure, the Dutchman announced himself.

Australia vice-captain David Warner has been fined 75 percent of his match fee for his altercation with South Africa's Quinton de Kock in the first Test match this week, the ICC said on Wednesday.

The Sports Ministry insisted that it has not curtailed the funding for the Sports Authority of India (SAI) in the union budget, claiming that the money has merely been re-arranged.

Just four months into the job, India's javelin throw coach Uwe Hohn said he is fast losing his patience, thanks to dilly-dallying by the authorities on his demands for performance based bonus and other perks.

Australia wicketkeeper Tim Paine has suggested South Africa are not being truthful with their version of events in the build-up to the confrontation between David Warner and Quinton de Kock in the first Test in Durban.

Gautam Gambhir, 10 years after he last played for Delhi Daredevils, has been appointed captain of the franchise for IPL 2018.

Injury-hit Ross Taylor played through the pain to score an unbeaten 181 and remarkably seal a series-levelling five-wicket win for New Zealand in the fourth one-day international against England Wednesday.

India's inexperienced cricket team will have to recover quickly from the eye-opening loss to Sri Lanka and lift its game by a few notches against an unpredictable Bangladesh in the Nidahas Twenty20 Trophy, on Thursday.

"It was in the first six overs that they took the game away from us. After the first six overs even they weren't hitting the ball that frequently - it wasn't like 10 an over against the spinners in the middle overs. That's because the wicket was a little slow," Shikhar Dhawan said.

New Zealand’s middle-order lynchpin on Wednesday produced the innings of his limited-overs career, scoring a career-best unbeaten 181 off 147 deliveries to steer his team to a memorable chase of 336

"Practice makes a man perfect. One has to practise those conditions. The bar which we as cricketers set for these people is that you have to be good in all conditions. That's what we used to say about Allan Border or Vivian Richards or Sunil Gavaskar - they were players to play any part, anywhere, any kind of conditions, they used to perform." Kapil Dev said.

"Practice makes a man perfect. One has to practise those conditions. The bar which we as cricketers set for these people is that you have to be good in all conditions. That's what we used to say about Allan Border or Vivian Richards or Sunil Gavaskar - they were players to play any part, anywhere, any kind of conditions, they used to perform." Kapil Dev said.

Former Australia Test opener Ed Cowan announced his retirement from professional cricket Wednesday, leaving the game with more than 10,000 runs and 25 centuries to his name.