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Kolkata, Ahmedabad To Host Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Knockouts; BCCI Confirms 2 Irani Cup Ties

Kolkata and Ahmedabad will host the knockout stages of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT) and Vijay Hazare Trophy, respectively, while the BCCI will conduct two Irani Cup ties over the next months. SMAT, the domestic T20 event, will take place from October 11 to November 5 while the Vijay Hazare one-day competition will run from November 12 to December 2. Lucknow, Indore, Rajkot, Punjab and Jaipur will host the league stage of SMAT while Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata and Ranchi will stage the Vijay Hazare league fixtures.

Payas-Yashaswini pair wins gold at Asian Junior TT

The Indians won 11-9, 11-1, 10-12, 7-11, and 11-8. Incidentally, this was the first gold medal that the Indian juniors have won in an Asian Championships, and it came close on the heels of our first mixed gold at the CWG through Sharath Kamal and Sreeja Akula in Birmingham last month.

Shaji Prabhakaran Appointed AIFF Secretary General, Sunando Dhar Retained As His Deputy

Football Delhi president Shaji Prabhakaran was on Saturday appointed the new secretary general of the All India Football Federation as the long-time administrator returned to the place where he has served in another capacity in the past. The appointment, which was on expected lines, was carried out by the newly-formed executive committee of the AIFF, at the helm of which is president Kalyan Chaubey, an ex-India footballer.

Durand Cup: NorthEast United FC end campaign with win against Sudeva Delhi

Captain Dipu Mirdha (64th) scored the opener for the hosts while Gani Ahmed Nigam (90+6th) converted from the spot in stoppage time of the second half to register a well-earned victory. NEUFC finished fourth in the group while finishing their campaign with three points, while Sudeva finished at the bottom of the table with two points. Sudeva looked the better side in the first-half dominating ball possession and creating chances.

Asia Cup 2022: SKY is the limit - Why Suryakumar Yadav is India's best T20I batter currently

What Suryakumar Yadav has managed to do in these 17 months in the shortest format would definitely have been one of his own biggest fantasies when he was hoping against hope that he would be picked for the Indian national team. After all, that wait was a very long one. Suryakumar made his First Class and List A debuts for Mumbai in 2010. His First Class debut was in a Ranji Trophy match in December 2010 vs Delhi in Delhi. Batting at number six, right after Rohit Sharma, he scored 73 off 89 balls with 15 fours, in Mumbai's first innings. He was sent back thanks to a catch taken by Virat Kohli off the bowling of Pradeep Sangwan. In the second innings he managed to make just 7.

Mumbai City FC sign defender Gursimrat Singh Gill

The 25-year-old, who came through the Chandigarh Football Academy before joining the AIFF Elite Academy, signed his first top-flight contract with Bengaluru FC in 2016. He played in the AFC Cup and was also a part of the Federation Cup winning squad in 2017.

IOA mess: Anil Khanna files contempt petition against Adille Sumariwalla

On one hand is the IOA’s senior vice-president Anil Khanna, who claims to have been appointed as the Olympic body’s head by the Delhi High Court, and on the other is the Athletics Federation of India’s (AFI) boss and one of the nine vice-presidents of the IOA, Adille J Sumariwalla, who asserts to have been enjoying the support of 18 out of 31 executive council (EC) members of the NOC, who have pledged their support to his presidentship. In the midst of this drama, which has become part and parcel of the IOA’s factional infighting since the removal of its former chief Narinder Dhruv Batra on May 25, the Khanna camp has once again knocked on the doors of the high court with a plea to initiate contempt proceedings against Sumariwalla for defying an earlier court order, which had installed Khanna as IOA’s president till the time an IOA executive committee — with a new set of elected office-bearers — takes charge.

Thought I could win gold at CWG till last 500 metres: Avinash Sable

Commonwealth Games recently. "I thought I could win gold till the last 500 metres but then fell behind," Sable said on the sidelines of the launch of Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon.

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Kolkata, Ahmedabad To Host Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Knockouts; BCCI Confirms 2 Irani Cup Ties

Payas-Yashaswini pair wins gold at Asian Junior TT

Shaji Prabhakaran Appointed AIFF Secretary General, Sunando Dhar Retained As His Deputy

Durand Cup: NorthEast United FC end campaign with win against Sudeva Delhi

Asia Cup 2022: SKY is the limit - Why Suryakumar Yadav is India's best T20I batter currently

Mumbai City FC sign defender Gursimrat Singh Gill

IOA mess: Anil Khanna files contempt petition against Adille Sumariwalla

Thought I could win gold at CWG till last 500 metres: Avinash Sable