Sardar Singh announces international retirement

In the interim, Rohit, who had joyfully surrendered the phase to the pacy youth this time, slipped once again into his job as the group's driving pillager. His commitment of 10 attack focuses was particularly vital in the diversion against Tamil Thalaivas. The Thalaivas had been fruitful to keep Sehrawat out for vast parts of the match through their correct corner Anil Kumar . In any case, Rohit, the more prepared pillager, could utilize his tallness to abuse the noticeable frail connections in the Tamil resistance. His Super Raid with four minutes to go sprung open the limited hole between the two groups and made ready for a major win for Bengaluru. Rohit lined it up with another shining execution against Patna Pirates. With 13 he was the most productive plunderer in the match yet at the same time wound up on the losing side. He had been basic to his group's second-half recovery when they valiantly attempted to shut down a 12-point hole. In any case, the Patna Pirates had q...

KL Rahul is a solid contender for the opening spaces for India's first Test against Australia one week from now yet his skill of "finding better approaches to get himself out" has not run down well with partner mentor Sanjay Bangar. Rahul was the main noticeable batsman to pass up a critical score in India's 358 full scales on day two of the four-day visit amusement. He was out for three runs while playing a free drive on the up and was gotten at mid-off inside the main hour of play. Upwards of five diverse Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli and Prithvi Shaw, scored half-hundreds of years in what Bangar named as an attractive excursion. Bangar said Rahul was never again an unpracticed player and he should bear greater obligation. He (Rahul) has been looking fit as a fiddle, including today. It is only that he is finding better approaches to get out. Indeed, even today, the ball was a remote place when he played it far from his body and lost h...

Last year, credit goes to her outstanding performance as the captain of the Indian team , Mithali Raj became a household name. Her brilliance as a batswoman, to the point strategic approach as a captain has made the Indian Women's Cricket team a name in the world Women Cricket. In the recent match, girls prove mettle against Ireland. With a strong batting line-up and some magnificient fielding, the Irish players had no room to play! Let’s take a look at some of the best highlights from Mithali's career: T20I Champion Mithali achieved a milestone that no other Indian Women cricketer has. She won ICC Women's World T20 and that too with a total of 2,232 runs. Thanks to a brilliant fifty against Pakistan, she now has more T20I runs than both brilliant Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli. She now has the best tally in the format after 84 matches with the best score of 97 at an average of 37.20, She’s a Record Breaker In July 2017, Mithali also broke the record for most...

Playing sports is a source of excitement and fun, but getting hurt is not. Keep these five steps in your mind to keep injuries at a bay: Don’t forget your Protective Gear Protective gear is anything you wear that protects you from getting hurt. The gear you wear depends on the sport you want to play. A helmet is the most common protective gear. They protect your head while you're playing football, hockey, baseball, softball, skateboarding, and inline skating and the list goes on! Make sure you're wearing the appropriate helmet for your sport. For instance, don't wear your baseball batting helmet when you're playing softball! Your helmet should snug but comfortable, and if it has a strap, you need to fasten it. Many sports require eye protection, mouth guards, pads, wrist, elbow and knee guards. Cleats are worn in football, baseball, softball, and football. These shoes have special rubber or plastic points on the soles to help your feet grip the ground wh...

M.C. Mary Kom had spent sleepless nights in training for her final, said her sixth and latest World championships. She said sixth and the latest World Championship crown was the most difficult one because of the pressure of performing in front of home crowd. Mary cried for a few minutes while thanking thousands of supporters in the stands, said this series of the Worlds posed the toughest challenge for her. It was the most difficult edition due to the pressure. From the very beginning,"I faced all the strong opponents,” said Mary at the press conference. “Today I could not control my emotions as I got to know that I am the only one from India to win six gold medals.” The 35-year-old boxing champion said her experience was her biggest asset. She said she cannot remember (how she won) the previous World titles. She also said that previously, she used to fight with tremendous energy but now her experience makes things easier for her." “Even today I train quite hard. There is no...

India will reassess their playing combination, after their narrow loss in T20I Australian team took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, which has three back-to-back matches in a short time period of five days. After winning seven consecutive bilateral T20 series , Kohli and his men would like to make it eight in a row. In order to keep up with the winner tag, they may be forced to reshuffle both their batting and bowling combinations. Bidding for an eighth win on the bounce now doesn’t seem as straightforward as it looked earlier with Australian team ready to come all guns blazing after their all-round show in the first game. The Indian batting line-up could see some reshuffling in light of KL Rahul’s patchy form. After scoring 101 not out in the first T20I against England at Manchester, Rahul hasn’t been able to cross the 30-run mark in consecutive six matches. The team management has persisted with KL Rahul at number three. Consistency is expected from Rahul, especia...

The  2020 Summer Olympics   is officially known as the  Games of the XXXII Olympiad  and locally known as  Tokyo 2020 . It is an advancing international multi-sport event that is scheduled from 24 July to 9 August 2020. What’s new in this season? Under new IOC policies that allow sports to be added to the Games' programme. These games will be making their debut in the list: karate, sports climbing, surfing, and skateboarding. After humungous For the Paralympics, two new sports were introduced Badminton and Taekwondo. Baseball and Softball will return to the Olympic programme, after marking a long absence since the 2008 games in Beijing. Baseball and Softball being major sports in Japan, they are capable enough to attract plenty of enthusiastic fans to the stadiums in Fukushima and Yokohama. Coca-Cola proudly becomes presenting partner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay. Globally Olympic partner  coca-cola , which has support...

Sports in India has always been a quite underrated   career option . But this underdog option has come a long way to prove its mettle. SparkFaces would like to list some advantages of opting sports as Career : Honour to represent your nation   It has been every sportsman's dream to represent his/her nation on the global platform. Winning gold for his/her country has been every sportsperson's prime motto. Name and fame Make the most of 'your day.' Fame may fall in your lap on after a goal in a   breathtaking football   match or after hitting a six on the last ball of a cricket match. Make the most of that day. Endorsement deals Once you have become a sports star, get ready to sign 6 digit endorsement deals. Get ready to make an appearance in television and digital advertisements and start making fortunes. Foreign trips during International Games During your international matches, you get tickets to foreign lands. Along with your game, you get a chance to visit...

The unbelievable   MC Mary Kom   on Tuesday guaranteed herself the seventh award at the Women's World Boxing Championship to end up the best pugilist in the occasion's history, while debutant Lovlina Borgohain was likewise ensured a platform wrap up. Mary Kom , a mother-of-three, vanquished China's Wu Yu 5-0 in the light flyweight (48kg) classification quarterfinals to enter the semis and be guaranteed of somewhere around a bronze. Joining the 35-year-old Manipuri in the last-four phase was debutant Borgohain (69kg), an Asian Championships bronze-medallist a year ago. The 21-year-old from Assam asserted a 5-0 decision over Scott Kaye Frances of Australia. Borgohain won a gold at the debut India Open prior

The 2020 Summer Olympic is going to be held in Tokyo, Japan. This summer Olympic is officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, generally known as Tokyo 2020. This international multisport event will span over 17 exciting days, calendarized to be in progress from July 24th to August 9th, 2020. Tokyo was chosen as the host city amid the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires on 7 September 2013. New National Stadium(Tokyo) will serve as the key stadium for the inauguration and ending ceremonies, as well as being the venue for track and field events at the 2020 Summer Olympics as well as 2020 Summer Paralympics. The motto of this game is “Discover Tomorrow” and the 2020 Games Vision is “sport has the power to change the world and our future” It is expected that more than 11000 athletes from 207 different nations will take part in the Tokyo 2020 games. The games will include 339 events in 33 different sports , enclosing 50 disciplines. The Tokyo 2020 Organizing Commit...

The craze for women cricket has been increasing. Australia has to rebuild the innings as Lanning and Gardner are the new batters at the crease. Mooney is now bowled around her legs off the very next ball. Deepti has taken out the dangerman. She gets a double strike. She first has Villani caught in the deep for 6. Patil continues and after 3 runs is taken to the cleaners by Mooney for a four. Deepti comes into the attack and gives 6 runs in the over. Off-spinner Patil comes off the over and just 3 runs come off the over. Mooney and Villani open the innings for Australia as they chase 168 for victory. Reddy opens the bowling for India and Mooney takes her apart for back-to-back boundaries. A single to end the over as 11 come off the over. Mandhana scores brilliant 83: India finishes with 167 for 8 in their 20 overs thanks to some great batting by Smriti Mandhana (83) and Harmanpreet Kaur (43). For Australia, Perry took 3 wickets. Yadav is the new battery but...

Subsequent to overseeing 145 for 6 on a moderate track, Indian spinners kept up a tightrope on Irish ladies confining them to 93 for 8 out of 20 overs in a gathering B match of the ICC Women's World T20 on Thursday. With their third win, India with six points was guaranteed of a last-four spot alongside Australia (6 points from 3 diversions) with New Zealand, Pakistan, and Ireland effectively even before their crusade could authoritatively end. While India's batting execution leaving a ton to be wanted, the spinners Radha Yadav (3/25 out of 4 overs), Deepti Sharma (2/15 out of 3 overs), Poonam Yadav (1/14 out of 4 overs) and captain Harmanpreet Kaur (1/10 out of 4 overs) were practical also picked wickets at standard interims. India's procedure of pressing off-side cordon and knocking down some pins wide of stumps, satisfied as Ireland were never in the pursuit surrendering upwards of 65 spot balls (almost 11 overs). Captain Harmanpreet hit a six ...

In the contemporary corporate world, it’s hard to keep work and fitness on the same page. As it is well said, the Sound body is the home of sound mind. By taking up Sports as a hobby, one can manage fitness and recreation hand in hand. Before you gear up to make yourself a couch potato and your coach your second home, SparkFaces team would like to share a few tips to practice Sports as a hobby: 1.) Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Don’t stress on having long workout sessions. You may opt for a shorter morning or evening workout and have daily Sports sessions as Cricket, Tennis, Badminton etc. Side interests help enhance a man's feeling of character, handiness, and prosperity, and wipe out sentiments of uselessness and self-question. You may play ‘n’ number of sports to compensate for a lighter workout session. 2.) Be glad to see the back of gym membership Are you tired of monotonous workout schedule? Let sports get your back. There is no need to stick to a mun...

In a span of 18 months since the Australia tour of January 2016, Jasprit Bumrah has taken such a gigantic leap that he is now among the top five One Day International (ODI) and top two T20 bowlers in world cricket. In March 2015, Mohammad Shami had leapfrogged 14 places to get to No.11 in the International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking while Bhuvaneshwar Kumar had jumped seven places to become No.7 in October 2014. In this backdrop, Bumrah leaped 27 places to fourth place after India’s 5-0 win against Sri Lanka. “Jasprit has been our most effective short-format bowler in the last 18 months,” Virat Kohli said after Bumrah was judged man of the series in Sri Lanka last month. Gujarat's dream of winning Ranji Trophy threatened to come to a screeching halt. Anxiety had crept in the dressing room, and not only the junior players but even the support staff was also worried. It was the fourth day of the 2016-17 Ranji Trophy semi-final between Gujarat and Jharkhand. Gujarat's Ma...

NEW DELHI: Former Indian batsman VVS Laxman was left exceedingly awed with Rohit Sharma's captaincy as the Mumbai stalwart drove the hosts to a 3-0 decisive victory against West Indies in the T20I arrangement. In his segment for the Times of India, Laxman expressed, " Twenty20 cricket is the Windies' most favored adaptation, and they have demonstrated their enjoying for the diversion's briefest organization by winning the World T20 on two events. Against that background, they will think back on the three-coordinate shootout against India with a lot of dissatisfaction, and not just in light of the fact that Rohit Sharma drove the hosts to a 3-0 clear." India on Sunday finished a 3-0 whitewash against West Indies during the T20Is in the wake of enlisting an exciting six-wicket win in the last match in Chennai.

For extensive parts of the amusement, however, it appeared India would flee with a simple win till things got tight in the last over rocked the bowling alley by left-arm spinner Fabien Allen. The spinner had five hurries to play with and Shikhar Dhawan (92) was very much dug in. The southpaw, who batted certainly till at that point, stroked a couple and a solitary off the initial two conveyances previously his accomplice Manish Pandey pivoted the hit again with a raced to tie the score. Dhawan, however, neglected to hit the triumphant keep running from the fourth conveyance. Presently, with one required of the last two, the weight assembled and Dhawan disintegrated as he holed out to long on. The batsmen crossed and everything came down to Pandey. The 29-year-old, however, held his nerves and tapped Allen's last ball delicately towards mid-on. On the off chance that Allen had not misfielded off his own rocking the bowling alley, a run-out was on the cards, yet fortunat...

Teenage shooting prodigy  Saurabh   Chaudhary led a golden sweep, while  Manu Bhaker   missed out on the medal at the ongoing 11th Asian Airgun Shooting Championship here, on Thursday. In the 10m Air Pistol men's junior event,   Saurabh   succeeded into the second stage of the final after scoring 98.2. He went onto clinch the medal round with 24-shot final and logging a total of 220.5.   The silver went to  Arjun Singh Cheema   who registered 218.8, while  Wei-Te Huang   of  Taiwan   settled for bronze. Meanwhile, Anmol Jain settled at the fourth position due to unlucky last two shots of 8.6 and 9.4. Saurabh   along with his compatriots Arjun and Anmol shot scores  off  to win the gold medal in the men's team event 576, 578 and 577 respectively, however, missed the world record by a whisker. Bhaker , in women's junior event, scored 99 to qualify for the eliminators. She started the me...

India has declared the 12-member squad ahead of the first T20I to be played against West Indies at the Eden Gardens on November 3. Rohit Sharma will captain India in the first T20I against Windies on Sunday in absence of Virat Kohli , and former captain MS Dhoni has already been terminated from the initial team. Rishabh Pant has been assigned as wicketkeeper while Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan look set to proceed as the side's openers, and KL Rahul has been slotted in at No.3 in the absence of Virat Kohli. With Rishabh Pant as the designated keeper, the combat for the middle-order spots will hang on the cliquism of the side for the game at Kolkata. India’s 12-member for the EdenT20I squad: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul , Rishabh Pant (wk), Manish Pandey, Dinesh Karthik, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Khaleel Ahmed, Yuzvendra Chahal. “Dhoni has been such a great player for us, throughout the years. His ...

Rohit Sharma scored a record fourth T20 International century on Tuesday in India's second match against West Indies in Lucknow. This helped him overwhelm New Zealand's Colin Munro for most hundreds in T20Is. He finished the innings unbeaten on 111 off 61 balls in an innings that included seven sixes and eight fours. Rohit's innings helped India set up a sum of 196 for West Indies to pursue. Simultaneously, he additionally crossed Virat Kohli as India's most elevated run scorer in T20Is and before the finish of the innings, he was just 68 keeps running behind Martin Guptill for most keeps running in T20 Internationals. India began off gradually as West Indies pacers Oshane Thomas and Keemo Paul smothered the openers for runs. Thomas began the match with a lady over. Yet, Shikhar Dhawan and Rohit began getting into the furrow and compensated for the moderate begin. India scored 83 keeps running for the loss of no wickets in the first finished and in that period...

Barely 10 years back, an up-to-date adolescent drove the India group to the under-19 World Cup title. His energy, excitement and obviously ability, was difficult to miss. The accomplishment of Virat Kohli, who praises his 30th birthday celebration on Monday, saw him being optimized into the senior side and soon he was sharing the changing area with stalwarts like Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, and Virender Sehwag. The name - Virat Kohli - was all of a sudden among the most-utilized names in Indian cricket . In the decade passed by, he has changed himself into a cricketer second to none and a pioneer with a high achievement rate. The change hasn't occurred incidentally. It has been deliberately organized and the outcomes are telling. One of the best compliments Kohli received a few years ago came from the legendary West Indies batsman Viv Richards, who said, "I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression, and he has a serious passion that I...

Patna Pirates beat Bengal Warriors 29-27 in a Pro Kabaddki league (PKL) 2018 match on Thursday. The low-scoring match saw Patna Pirates break their losing streak at home. Both the teams struggled to get raid points and employed a defensive strategy. Patna Pirates' Jaideep got five crucial tackle points on Bengal's raiders. Ran Singh of Bengal Warriors did a great job at with seven raid points in his 10 raids. Deepak Narwal did some damage, in the end, to take Patna Pirates to the victory with seven raid points. Jaideep is now the best defender in PKL 2018 and the holder of Orange Sleeve . Patna Pirates were starting the match without their star raider Pardeep Narwal as he was tending his wrist injury while Bengal Warriors were starting without Maninder Singh. The absence of Pardeep Narwal looked prominent for Patna Pirates as they started to trail by 4 points by the third minute. It looked like another dismal start by Patna Pirates but was overturned by Tu...

Virat Kohli, India's skipper, was glad to pursue at a ground where he felt dew would be a "gigantic factor" in the second innings, under lights. Be that as it may, the match didn't last similarly as the booked 45-minute interim. West Indies have rocked the bowling alley out in 31.5 overs, and India chased down   their objective   in an insignificant 14.5, as Rohit Sharma stroked an unbeaten 63 off 56 balls, including a solid 99 for the second wicket with Kohli. Rohit hit four sixes - every spotless hit, as they should have been on one of the bigger grounds in India - to wind up just the second India batsman to move beyond 200 sixes in ODIs. The main spell of energy for West Indies was the new-ball spell of the pacy Oshane Thomas, who got Shikhar Dhawan to slash on for the second time in two ODI gatherings, had Kohli dropped by Jason Holder at first slip subsequent to motivating one to lift dreadfully at him, and had Rohit edging an away-seamer behind just fo...