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Central government formally recognises yoga as competitive sport
The announcement was made at a joint press conference held here by the Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik and Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju. While addressing, Naik traced the origins of yogasana competitions to the Indian Yoga tradition.
Adelaide Test: Australia take Day 1 honours as India reduced to 233/6
The Aussies were fortunate to get a run-out with Kohli caught out of crease at the non-striker's end after Rahane pulled back an erroneous call for a run. Josh Hazlewood swooped on the ball at cover and sent it back to off-spinner Nathan Lyon who whipped the bails off to send Kohli back.
We should dream of qualifying for 2026 Fifa WC: Patel
The Fifa World Cup will be expanded to 48 teams from the current 32 from the 2026 tournament. The number of teams that can qualify from Asia has been increased to eight from four. Patel said that he expects a tough competition for India in their effort to successfully bid to host the 2027 Asian Cup. India will be up against Asian champions Qatar who are hosting the upcoming 2022 World Cup, apart from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Uzbekistan.
Indian Super League: Mumbai City FC announces partnership with Cisco
Cisco will feature on the club's matchdays in the Indian Super League and at the Islanders' training facility at the Nagoa Village Panchayat Football Ground; support all aspects of the club's business through their networking solutions, and connect the first team to fans in Mumbai and across the country via Cisco Webex in this ISL season.
Adelaide Test: How Ponting 'exactly' predicted Shaw's dismissal
Ponting, who was in the commentary box for 7 cricket when play began in the pink-ball Test, explained how Shaw has a tendency to leave a gap between his bat and pad while playing in-coming deliveries. The left-arm quick bowled a full in-swinging delivery outside the off-stump and Shaw went for a drive. The ball, however, got an inside edge and went on to hit the stumps, thus sending the Indian opener back to the dressing room for a golden duck.
Australian Open to start from February 8, announces ATP
Australian Open was earlier scheduled to start from January 18, however the schedule has been updated because of the Covid-19 restrictions. The ATP release said men's qualifying for the Australian Open would take place in Doha from January 10-13 before players relocated to Melbourne to enter 14-day quarantine.
Adelaide Test: India opt to bat against Australia (Toss)
India had already announced their playing XI on Wednesday for the pink-ball Test, choosing Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal as openers. This is the only Test that Kohli would be playing in the series as he will return to India to be with his wife Anushka Sharma who is expecting their first child. Australia have gone with Joe Burns and Matthew Wade as openers. Also, all-rounder Cameron Green makes his Test debut for the hosts.
Doha to host 2030 Asian Games, Riyadh awarded 2034 edition
Qatar's capital Doha was announced as the winner after a vote by 45 OCA member committees at the 39th OCA General Assembly held in Muscat, Oman and online. The process was hampered by repeated delays caused by problems with the online voting system.
Adelaide Test: India take conservative approach for 1st Test, choose specialists
Back in 2018, when India toured South Africa and England, skipper Virat Kohli's strategy of playing five specialist batsmen and five bowlers, in order to be able to pick 20 wickets and win Tests, came under scrutiny after his team lost both those overseas series with that combination.
Aatmanirbhar Bharat: All 11 Indian Super League clubs now have Indian goalkeepers
ISL teams are only allowed to have seven foreign players in their squads and out of them, only five can play at any point in a match. Goalkeepers are rarely substituted in a game, and it means that teams will be left with four foreign players to choose from for their outfield positions if they have one of the five between the sticks.
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