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Indian Premier League 2021 to becomes 5th start on April 9, final on May 30 Indian woman to play 100 ODIs LUCKNOW, MARCH NEW DELHI, noon matches and two 7: Ace Indian women’s Indian women lose first ODI by 8 MARCH 7: The IPL 2021 teams will play two after- cricketer Harmanpreet will run from April 9 to May noon matches. Kaur on Sunday achieved 30 across six venues with no The afternoon games are another milestone of play- team getting to play at slated for a 3:30 PM start ing 100 ODI for the side. home, its Governing Council while the evening games She became the fifth player announced on Sunday. will have a 7:30 PM start. to do so, as she took the Despite COVID-19 surge, “The fixtures of the tour- field in the ongoing ODI Mumbai has been named as nament have been mapped match against South Africa one of the host cities and the in a way that every team will here in Lucknow. tournament will be held be- travel only three times dur- The Indian women's hind closed doors at least in ing the league stage, thus team vice- Mithali the initial phase of the tour- As on Sunday, the BCCI’s each while Ahmedabad and reducing commute and Raj (210), nament. released schedule for the Delhi will host eight minimising risk. (183), (127) The other venues are first four weeks till May 6 matches each. “The VIVO IPL this year and Amita Sharma (116) in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, during which 33 matches “One of the highlights of at home will be played be- the elite list of players who Chennai, Delhi and will be played and not a sin- this edition of the VIVO IPL hind closed doors to begin have played 100 or more Kolkata. The Nardendra with and a call on allowing ODIs. gle game has been slotted in will be the fact that all LUCKNOW, MARCH produced fine knocks but Brief Scores: Modi Stadium in Ahmed- spectators will be taken at a Harmanpreet played a Kolkata during the phase as matches will be played at 7: Indian women suffered India never got the momen- India: 177 for 9 in 50 overs abad will host the final on later stage of the tourna- knock of 40 runs studded there will be eight-phase neutral venues, no team will an eight- loss to tum it needed as they settled (M Raj 50, H Kaur 40, D May 30 as well as the play- ment,” the statement read with six fours. Before the state assembly elections in play at their home venue. South Africa in the first ODI for 177 for nine. Sharma 27; S Ismail 3/28, offs. further. match, she scored 2,372 Bengal. All teams will play at 4 out here on Sunday. In reply, Lizelle Lee (83) N Mlaba 2/41). Defending champions The previous edition was runs in the 50-over format Each team is set to play at of 6 venues during the Playing their first interna- and Laura Wolvaardt (80) South Africa: 178 for 2 in Mumbai Indians will face played in the UAE amid the till date at 34.88 with three four venues during the league stage,” read an IPL tional match in 12 months, guided South Africa home, 40.1 overs (L Lee 83, L Royal Challengers Banga- pandemic but since then hundreds and 11 half-cen- league stage. Out of the 56 statement. skipper (50) and scoring 178 for two in 40.1 Wolvaardt 80; J Goswami lore in the tournament the COVID-19 situation has turies. league matches, Chennai, There will be a total of 11 Harmanpreet Kaur (40) overs. 2/38). opener in Chennai on April Mumbai, Kolkata and Ben- double headers where six improved drastically in In- 9. galuru will host 10 matches teams will play three after- dia. Wrestler Vinesh Phogat wins gold, New Zealand beat Australia by reclaims number one rank 7 wickets to win T20 series 3-2 ROME, MARCH 7: The Indian had entered Living up to the expecta- the event as world number WELLINGTON, MARCH 7: Ish Australia when New Zealand captain tions, star Indian wrestler three but is back to world Sodhi led a concerted attack by New Kane Williamson fell lbw to Meredith Vinesh Phogat won her sec- number one by jumping 14 Zealand’s spin bowlers before Martin first ball. ond gold medal in as many points. Guptill smashed a quickfire 71 runs to Guptill was out in the 15th over, hav- weeks with a dominant win The Canadian was set up a seven-wicket win over Aus- ing made 71 from 46 balls with seven in the Matteo Pellicone ranked as low as 40 before tralia in the fifth Twenty20 interna- boundaries and four sixes, and having Ranking Series event and the tournament but is now tional on Sunday and a 3-2 win in the set the foundation on which New reclaimed the top rank in just behind Vinesh at num- five-match series. Zealand’s win depended. the her category here. ber two. Leg spinner Sodhi came into the Phillips finished the job, hitting 34 The 26-year-old World Vinesh did not concede a match as the leading wicket-taker in from 15 balls with five fours and two ning by 64 runs, but in the fourth on a bronze medallist and the single point at this tourna- the series with 10 at an average of 18 sixes including a six for the winning only Indian woman ment, winning two of her and improved to 13 at 11.8, taking 3- pitch which had slowed considerably runs in the 16th over off Adam Zampa. and favored spin it defended a total of wrestler to have qualified three bouts by pinning her 24 as Australia was held 142-8 after “The other night we took a backward for the Tokyo Games, Vi- rivals while getting injury choosing to bat on winning the toss. just 156-6, winning by 50 runs. step and today we wanted to not back nesh blanked Canada’s Di- and held on to her lead in this performance would walkouts in the other two in New Zealand surpassed that total Until Sunday, each match in the se- down from the fight and we showed ana Mary Helen Weicker 4- the second to ensure a top- give her the belief that her the eight-woman field. with 27 balls to spare, steered by Gup- ries had been won by the team batting that with a good opening stand,” Gup- 0 in the 53kg title clash. of-the-podium finish. preparations for the Sarita Mor had won a sil- till and Devon Conway who put on 106 first. New Zealand won the first two by till said. “Today Devon (Conway) was Vinesh scored all her Vinesh had won a gold biggest sporting event are ver in the 57kg on Satur- for the first wicket in 11.5 overs. 53 runs and four runs but hadn’t previ- brilliant out there. points in the first period medal in Kiev last week and on the right track. day. Sodhi was supported during Aus- ously been able to put together a sub- “I wouldn’t say I went after them tralia’s innings by left-armer Mitchell stantial innings when chasing in from ball one. But it was just good to Santner who took the new ball and Wellington. spend a bit more time out there and bowled his four overs at a cost of only It needed a stronger foundation create a partnership with Devon. He from its openers: Guptill and Tim India’s Lalrinsanga Tlau clinches 21 runs. Having noted the influence of got off to a good start, I caught up and spin in the previous match in the se- Seifert put on only 20 in the third pushed on and the best part about it ries, New Zealand also used part-time match and 21 in the fourth as Australia was we got the win.” spinners Mark Chapman, who took 1- fought back to level the series. While Australia couldn’t contain WBC youth world title Conway was promoted to open with 9 from two overs, and Glen Phillips Guptill, New Zealand managed to NEW DELHI, Sulaiman, was conducted urday night. Pachuau) at R. Dength- Guptill on Sunday the new opening whose two overs cost 21 runs. mostly neutralize Australia’s big hit- MARCH 7: Indian boxer under the technical supervi- “I am extremely happy uama Multi-Purpose Sta- pair immediately struck gold, reach- The spinners shared 12 of New ters. Lalrinsanga Tlau defeated sion of the Indian Boxing and thankful to all those dium,. ing their century partnership in the Zealand’s 20 overs, more than in any of Australia also tried a new opening Ghana’s Eric Quarm to Council (IBC), which is who supported me in the Mizoram Sports Minister 12th over. the Black Caps’ previous T20 interna- combination, promoting Josh claim the vacant WBC headed by former national journey to this title,” the 21- Robert Romawia Royte Guptill posted his 17th T20 from 33 tionals. That followed Australia’s Philippe to join Aaron Finch but the youth world super feather- federation secretary gen- year-old champion said af- was among those who wit- balls and moved to second place be- record in the fourth match when As- move was unsuccessful and Philippe weight title in an eight- eral Brigadier PKM Raja. ter the bout. nessed the title fight. hind Virat Kohli on the list to top run- ton Agar, Adam Zampa and Glenn was out for 2 in the second over, round contest held in All three judges ruled in The ‘LPS Fight Night’ The Mizo boxer will have scorers in T20 internationals. Maxwell bowled 11 overs. trapped lbw by Trent Boult who took 2- Aizawl. favour of the Indian with was organised by Grassroot to defend his title within The partnership finally was broken The drop-in pitch at Sky Stadium 26. The bout, sanctioned by the score-line reading 80- Boxing Promotions (Kamal the next 90 days and then by Riley Meredith in the 12th over hosted the last three matches of the se- Finch made 69 in the third match World Boxing Council 72, 80-72, 80-72 in the Mujtaba) and LPS Vision once every 120 days there- when Conway was caught in the deep ries in the space of six days. Australia and carried his bat for 79 in the fourth. (WBC) President Mauricio fight that took place on Sat- Production (Lal Sawmliana after. made 208-4 in the third match, win- for 36. There was a flicker of hope for But he was out for 36 Sunday. Washington Sundar can perform role I used to play for India: Shastri India’s Aditi Ashok moves level and he can go a long way. If he could can relate to as I scored hundreds overseas. was injury free and he made the most of it. focus on his bowling (in Tests), India could What you can never take away is exuber- Try thinking about India playing in India up to Tied-24th at LPGA have a very good number six for overseas ance of youth. It’s only when the baggage without Jadeja, one of the best all rounders conditions. comes of being a known quantity and that’s in the world. He (Jadeja) didn’t play and “Someone who can get you those 50s, 60s when life starts.” someone else (Axar) did. and 70s and then bowl for you 20 overs and And for Shastri, it couldn’t have been “When the three (Ash, Jaddu, Axar) play can pick up 2-3 wickets. That was my role more satisfying than finding that Pant has together, it will be some fun,” the coach overseas (during whole of 1980s) and I understood the value he brings into this set- couldn’t hide his excitement. think he can do that role easily,” the head up with his match-winning abilities. India now has around 25 to 30 good Test coach said during a virtual press meet on “Rishabh Pant, he came in after IPL with a players and credit to bio-bubble that the Sunday. lot of baggage and that showed in his size bench strength also got tested in adverse Washington should start batting in the and he had to lose that (weight) which he conditions. top four for Tamil Nadu across all formats, did. He worked his backside off. I can tell “Because of bio-bubble, we have to move suggested Shastri. you that he has trained harder than anyone with a squad of 25-30 players. As a result “Definitely, he should be batting in the else, and results are not just for him to see you had to dig deep and find your best 30 OCALA (FLORIDA), She got back with back- top four for his state. There is no question but for world to see,” Shastri said. players. As luck would have it, we had no AHMEDABAD, MARCH 7: Ravi MARCH 7: Indian golfer to-back birdies on fourth about that. I would like to have a word with “A brilliant match-winner, playing to his choice but to play each 30 of them. And you Aditi Ashok carded a tidy and fifth. She got pars on Shastri was both Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Tamil Nadu selectors or DK (captain Di- potential and there is no greater sight than found out who’s good and who’s not good.” Dev’s ‘go to man’ with his all-round abili- two-under 70 to jump into the next eight hole before nesh Karthik) for that matter. I think he that. There won’t be many who would be Shastri said that if someone would have the Top-25 at the LPGA picking a birdie on Par- 4 ties during the ’80s and India head coach should be batting in the top four,” Shastri able to do that in a lifetime,” said Shastri. told him six months ago that Thangarasu firmly believes that young Washington Sun- Tour’s Drive On Champi- 14th but dropped a shot on said. He was also happy for Axar Patel, who Natarajan and Washington Sundar would onship, here. par-4 17th. dar could play a similar role in the current For Shastri, Washington’s innings of 96, had lost out a number of years in interna- make their Test debuts, he wouldn’t have With rounds of 72-73- Aditi closed with a birdie Test team. coming in at 153 for 6, was a better effort tional due to injuries and saw oth- believed. 70, she is now one-under on 18th for the second suc- The left-handed specialist batsman, who than his 85 in Chennai. ers leapfrog him in pecking order. “It’s a good headache to have and some- for three rounds and cessive day and set herself also bowls mean off-breaks, scored three “Washington Sundar, this is unreal. Fac- “Axar Patel is a seasoned campaigner, I thing that’s worked well, You could have placed T-24, as she showed up to make a charge in the half centuries in his four Tests along with ing some of the toughest bowlers in the wouldn’t call him a youngster. He has been never imagined the number of players who glimpses of her expected final round. Jennifer Kup- six wickets which includes prized scalps of world. I would say this innings was far better around the Indian team for years, very un- have played for India in last six months. form. On a day when it was cho made a 12-foot eagle Steve Smith and Joe Root. as the WTC was on line,” he said. lucky with injuries, other players have got Would you have thought Natarajan and rainy, the greens were re- putt on the final hole to cut Do you see glimpses of you in him? Shastri feels that he can relate way more opportunities because of his injuries, in- Washington would have played a Test ally slow and called for a Austin Ernst (69) stayed in “I think Washy has far more natural abil- with the Washingtons and the Rishabh cluding the likes of Jadeja, Krunal Pandya,” match? No way.” lot of careful putting, Aditi the lead, but it was cut to ity than I had,” said the veteran of 80 Tests Pants because he had also tasted overseas Shastri was sympathetic for the man, who “These are things you wouldn’t have did not have a great start as one as Kupcho shot a 2-un- who had close to 4000 runs and 150 plus success as a youngster. got 27 wickets in his debut series. imagined but circumstances make it hap- she bogeyed the Par-4 sec- der 70 with an eagle at the wickets. “At 21, 22 or 23, I had similar success, so I “....because he has been injured, now he pen.” ond for the second day end at the rainy Golden “He has the ability and he belongs at this running. Ocala.