Indian Sports Highlights, January 2: Dabang Delhi wins 35-28 against Gujarat Giants at PKL

Pro Kabaddi League: Dabang Delhi wins 35-28 against Gujarat Giants in Noida leg

Parteek Dahiya's shows superb raiding skills but still Gujarat lost to Delhi in a close match at the Noida Indoor Stadium, Uttar Pradesh.

Dabang Delhi is back in top three after the win whereas Gujarat still holding the second position.

Australia Vs India women ODI: India Suffers a massive defeat by 190 runs in final ODI

India women cricket team suffered a massive defeat of 190 runs against the Australian team in the final ODI match of the series.

With this lose, they faces a cleansweep in the series after losing all three One-day matches, this was a big setback for the team after winning that historical test match earlier on the tour.

India will try to bounce back in the 3-match T20I series starting from 5th of january at the Dr. DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai. 

13-member Indian Wrestling team to participate in Zagreb Open Ranking Series

13 Indian wrestlers will represent India in the Zagreb Open ranking series, the first world ranking tournament in the Croatian capital, from January 10 to 14.

Bhupinder Singh Bajwa, Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee, appointed by the Indian Olympic Association to oversee the day-to-day conduct of wrestling affairs in the country, made the announcement here on Tuesday.

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Legendary coach Milutinovic visits Indian team's training camp in Doha

The Blue Tigers began 2024 with a rather pleasant surprise on New Year's Day when they were visited by a behemoth of the footballing world.

Former coach Bora Milutinovic from Serbia may be well past his glory days, but what glorious days they have been.

To coach five teams like Mexico (1986), Costa Rica (1990), United States of America (1994), Nigeria (1998), and China (2002) to five consecutive FIFA World Cups is no mean feat, and the man has done and seen it all.

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Argentina FA confirms interest to play in Kerala: Sports minister

Argentina confirmed its 'interest' to play in Kerala, claimed state's sports minister V Abdurahiman on Tuesday.

"We have received a mail from Argentina FA confirming their interest to play in Kerala. But we are thinking about which month to play as July is rainy season in Kerala. We will have a face to face meeting to decide the dates," said V Abdurahiman.

In June 2023, the minister said that the Argentina national football team expressed its interest in playing a match in Kerala.

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Australia Vs India Women ODI: Australia puts up a big total of 339 on the board for India

India slightly tried to pulls back the things in the second half of the innings but still has a massive total on board, which will be a very tough task for the Indian batters to chase down.

Phoebe Litchfield completes her deserving century but later got out on the bowling of Deepti Sharma. Shreyanka Patil was the star for India, as she picked up three big wickets of Beth Mooney, Tahlia McGrath and dangerous looking Ashleigh Gardner.

Alana King has another brilliant outing with the bat, she helps Australian team to finish on a high note just like the last match. Her quick-fire 26 runs including 3 sixes with a impressive strike-rate of 185.7 takes Australia over 335.

Score:- AUS - 338/7 in 50 overs

Key players:- Phoebe Litchfield 119(125), Alyssa Healy 82(85), Ashleigh Gardner  30(27), Shreyanka Patil 3-57

Judo coach banned by NADA for obstructing doping official from collecting samples

A judo coach named Naresh Arya in Delhi received a ban for six years for obstructing a National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) official from collecting samples of his trainees last year. The coach reportedly resorted to physical assault on the official and hurled abuses at him.

Along with the ban, a monetary penalty of Rs 50,000 has been imposed on the coach. His two trainees have also been banned for four and two years, respectively.

This has reportedly been the first instance of a coach facing a ban in India for stopping a doping official from practising his or her duty.

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Australia Vs India Women ODI: Australia off to a blistering start, 168-0 in 25 overs

Australia women team has started this final ODI of the series with some powerful hitting as run-rate almost touching 7 runs per over, they hasn't lost a single wicket at the halfway stage of the first innings.

Opener Phoebe Litchfield scores her third back to back half century in the series and looking comfortable to convert it into a hundred after missing the feat in the first two matches.

She has a full support from the captain  Alyssa Healy on the non-striker end who didn't had a good series so far but now playing a important innings and overtakes this first wicket partnership beyond 150 and still going strong.

Indian bowlers looks clueless so far and struggling with the line and length and also had 16 extras including 10 wides. They will try to made a comeback in the later half of this innings to repair the maximum damage already done.

Score: AUS - 168/0 in 25 overs (Alyssa Healy 70(72)*, Phoebe Litchfield 82(78)*)

India men's hockey team to play 4-nation tournament in South Africa

The Indian men's hockey team will take part in a four-nation tournament featuring host South Africa, France, and the Netherlands from January 14 as part of the preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Ahead of the tournament, Hockey India announced the 39-member core group that will train at the national coaching camp in the Sports Authority of India campus in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Following the 11-day camp, India, who have already qualified for the Paris Games, will head to Cape Town.

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Australia Vs India Women ODI: Australia wins the toss and opted to bat

Australia women wins the toss and opted to bat in the final match of the ODI series. Australia is already 2-0 up in the series and will go for clean sweep in the series.

India is making one change in the starting XI, Mannat Kashyap is making her debut and replacing Sneh Rana in the team, who got injured in the last match.