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Mahindra Singh Dhoni has announced
SPORTS (JANUARY)
India won the Asia Junior under-14 cup at the
Khalifa Tennis Complex at Doha outplaying
Uzbekistan 2-0 in the final.
Sports Minister Vijay Goel has constituted a
committee to suggest improvements in the
National Sports Development Code. The
Kapil Dev was inducted into..?
committee is headed by secretary (sports) to
suggest improvements in the National Sports
Development Code and functioning of Sports
Federations etc.
Brijesh Patel, Ashok Anand and Dayanand
Pai, Karnataka State Cricket Association
office-bearers resigned in the light of the
Supreme Court's setting out conditions based
on Lodha committee recommendations for
their removal.
India defeated Bangladesh 3-1 to win their
fourth consecutive South Asian Football
Federation (SAFF) Women's Football
Championship title in Siliguri. With this
Indian eves are now unbeaten in 19 match-
es having won 18 and drawn one.
Note: This was 15th time in the last 19 editions
The National Ice Skating Championship 2017
held in Gurugram, Haryana. Around 300 ice
skaters across the country are participating in
the two-day event being organized by the Ice
Skating Association of India. VASUDHA
Trophy will be distributed for girl candidates.
A nine-member government panel formed to
make recommendations for bringing out a
comprehensive National Sports Development
Code across all disciplines. The committee is
headed by Sports Secretary Injeti Srinivas.
Former Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra
and legendary Prakash Padukone are part of
the panel.
Note: Other notable members are - Anju Bobby
George (India's lone world championship
medallist), Narinder Batra (President of
International hockey federation),
Bishweshwar Nandi (Gymnast Dipa
Karmakar's coach), Nandan Kamath
(Lawyer), Vijay Lokapally (Sports
journalist).
Russia U-18 defeated India's U-17 World
Cup squad 8-0 in a Group B match of the
Valentin Granatkin Memorial Cup in St.
Petersburg.
Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has
decided to launch diploma course for sports
training in SAI centre of Rohtak.
Cricket icon Kapil Dev was inducted into
Legends Club 'Hall of Fame' in presence of
former India captains Ajit Wadekar, Sunil
Gavaskar and Nari Contractor at the Cricket
Club of India in Mumbai on 17th Jan, 2017.
Kapil Dev, who led India to the emphatic
World Cup victory in 1983, is considered as
the country's greatest all-rounder.
Punjab Royals have
bagged the Pro
Wrestling League
Season 2 title. In the
summit clash in New
Delhi today, the Punjab
team beat Haryana
Hammers 5-4.
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his decision to step down as captain of
Team India's limited over cricket
matches. Dhoni had earlier stepped
down as Captain of India's Test team.
Under Dhoni, India had won a T-20 and
ODI World Cup and a Champions
Trophy title.
Jeonbuk Motors banned from Asian
Champions League 2017 after being disqual-
ified due to a bribery scandal. The decision
was taken by the Entry Control Body, a com-
mittee independent of the Asian Football
Confederation that operates the competition.
India clinched three match series 2-0 after
defeating England by 15 runs in the second
One-Day International at Cuttack on 19th
Jan, 2017. The two added 256 runs for the
fourth wicket. Yuvraj made 150 which were
his 14th ODI hundred.
England beat India by five runs in the third
and final cricket One-day international in
Eden Gardens Kolkata. The visitors made
321 for 8 in their 50 overs. England's Ben
Stokes was declared Player of the Match for
his fine all-round display, unbeaten 57 runs
and three wickets for 63 runs. India's KM
Jadhav was adjudged the Man of the Series.
India has lifted the Irani Cup Cricket Trophy
by chasing down the 379 run target set by
Gujarat with six wickets still in hand in the
fourth and final day at Mumbai.This together
with skipper Cheteshwar Pujara's unbeaten
116 helped Rest of India overhaul the target.
that Rest of India had won the tourna-
ment, which is in its 55th year.
Sports Personalities in News
Somdev Devvarman (31-year), India's tennis
singles player has announced his retirement
from professional tennis. Somdev touched a
career-high rank of number sixty two in 2011.
Li Xiaoxia , table tennis Olympic champion
from China has announced her retirement
through social media. Li helped China win the
team gold medal at the Rio Olympic Games
last year when she also finished the runner-
up in the singles event. She is the eighth
table tennis Grand Slam winner in history
with singles crowns from the 2008 World Cup
in Kuala Lumpur, 2012 Olympics in London
and 2013 world championships in Paris.
Rio Olympian Sathish Sivalingam from
Railways won the gold, for the sixth consecu-
tive year, in the men's 77 kg category in the
69th men's and 32nd women's Senior
National Weightlifting Championship, at the
Ponjesly College of Engineering. Sivalingam
Sathish lifted a total of 317 kg (141 (snatch)
and 176 (clean & Jerk)) while Ajay Singh from
Services won the gold in the clean & jerk cat-
egory by lifting 177 kg and 137 kg in the
snatch category and finished second with a
total of 314 kg.
Andy Murray received a knighthood in Queen
Elizabeth II's New Year's Honours List, recog-
nition for winning his second Wimbledon and
Olympic titles on his way to topping the rank-
ings. Joining Murray was Mo Farah, who
retained his 5,000 and 10,000m titles at the
Summer Olympics.
Lee Pearson, who won his 11th Paralympic
gold in equestrian in Rio, was also knighted,
while Damehoods went to heptathlete
Jessica Ennis-Hill and rower Katherine
Grainger.
Rafael Nadal defeated David Goffin to win in
Abu Dhabi. Rafael Nadal defeated Belgian
David Goffin 6-4, 7-6 to win the Mubadala
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Cristiano Ronaldo was named the world's
best player at the inaugural Best FIFA
Football Awards in Zurich. Real Madrid and
Portugal forward Ronaldo beat Barcelona's
Lionel Messi and Atletico Madrid's Antoine
Griezmann to the prize. Ronaldo also won
the Ballon d'Or in December with both hon-
ours recognition for success in the
R. Ashwin Ravindra Jadeja Champions League with Real and Euro 2016
with Portugal.
R. Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja held on to Carli Lloyd of the United States was named
the top two positions in the ICC Test the world's best female player.
bowlers rankings, while the National team
West Indies' former batsman Jimmy Adams
ended the year as the Numero Uno side in
was named the new director of cricket.
the latest list issued. Ashwin also contin-
Adams played 54 Test matches for the
ued to lead the all-rounder's table with no
Caribbean side and will be able to draw upon
change among the top five in the list.
from his vast experience as he turns his
Jadeja remained at third spot. In the Test
attention to overseeing the development of
batsmen's ranking, India skipper Virat Kohli
West Indies cricket at all levels. He replaces
ended the year at second position, behind
Englishman Richard Pybus who had been in
Australia captain Steve Smith.
the position since November 2013.
World Tennis Championships. Rafeal Nadal, The Indian hockey team captain PR Sreejesh
30, trailed at 1-3 in the first set but regained became a member of International Hockey
advantage over Goffin, who overcame world Federation Athletes' Committee. The
No.1 Andy Murray in the semi-finals. Committee comprises a total of eight current
Priyank Panchal has become the first Gujarat and former hockey players who have the
batsman to achieve fifth century of the sea- responsibility to act as a liaison between the
son on the opening day of its Ranji Trophy FIH and the athletes to make sure the players
semifinal against Jharkhand at the Vidarbha have voice in the FIH decision making
Cricket Association stadium here on 1st Jan, process.
2017. Tanzania's Alphonce Simbu won the men's
President of Madhya Pradesh Cricket
elite full marathon event while Kenya's
Association (MPCA) Sanjay Jagdale and
Bornes Kitur bagged the women's title at the
Chairman Jyotiraditya Scindia demitted their Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on
posts in in compliance to the Supreme
14th Jan, 2017.
Court's order on implementation of the Lodha
Neeraj, Indian women pugilist won gold
committee recommendations.
medal at the 6th Nation's Cup held in Vrbas,
Kane Williamson, New Zealand captain has
Serbia. The former World Championships sil-
become the second batsman after Indian
ver-medallist Sarjubala Devi (48kg), Priyanka
skipper Virat Kohli to feature in the top-five of
Chaudhary (60kg), Pooja (69kg) and Seema
the ICC rankings for all three formats by
Poonia (+81kg) won silver medals.
climbing to fourth in the latest Twenty20 list
Former World No 1 Saina Nehwal stayed on
issued in Dubai. He has broken into the top
course for the women's singles title at the
five after a good series against Bangladesh
season-opening Malaysia Masters after she
which his side won 3-0. Virat Kohli is the only
advanced to the semifinals of the USD
other batsman in the world who presently fea-
120,000 Grand Prix Gold badminton tourna-
tures in the top five of all three formats.
ment. The top seeded Indian, who had
Basit Ahmed and Mohammed Asrar Rehbar,
clinched the Australian Open Super Series
both aged 18, hail from Srinagar have been
title last year, will face Hong Kong's Yip Pui
selected to play in the Spanish Football
Yin in the semifinals. Saina has a 6-2 head-
league, 'La Liga'.
to-head record against Yin, who had last
Note: The 2016-17 La Liga season, also known
beaten the Indian at 2010 Asian Games.
as La Liga Santander for sponsorship
Former Indian opener Virender Sehwag, who
reasons, is the 86th since its establish-
is currently the mentor of Kings XI Punjab,
ment. The season began on 19th August
will also be heading Cricket Operations and
2016 and will conclude on 21st May
Strategy in the upcoming IPL season.
2017.
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli was officially appointed captain
for all three formats of the game. Virat Kohli
will lead a 15- member squad in both ODIs
and Twenty20s against England. Mahendra
Singh Dhoni, after more than nine years at
the helm, will play only as keeper-batsman.
Indian test and ODI captain Virat Kohli has
become the fastest captain to score 1000
runs. He took just 17 innings as captain to
Zealand)-20 innings, Alastair Nathan Cook
get the milestone. Kohli has overtaken the
(English cricketer)-21 innings and Sourav
previous record of AB de Villiers (South
Ganguly (former India captain)-22 innings.
Africa)-18 innings, Kane Williamson (New