Sports 2021- A Glimpse- Part 2

Read- Part-1- https://anniedais.blogspot.com/2022/02/sports-2021-glimpse.html

BOOKS AND AUTHORS

            1)  India’s 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph - by R Kaushik - unveiled by Former Indian all-rounder and current Indian head coach Ravi Shastri in Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground. (Jan 2021)

            2) STARGAZING: The Players in My Life - Ravi Shastri (August 2021) 

            3) Believe: What Life and Cricket Taught Me - Suresh Raina and Bharat Sunderesan (April 2021)

            4) The Most Incredible Olympic Stories - Luciano Wernicke  (August 2021)

            5)  Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis -Anindya Dutta (March 2021)

AMBASSADORS

Sachin Tendulkar	Unacademy  (February 2021)
Rohit Sharma	Candid Powder of Glenmark Pharma(March 2021)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni	HomeLane (August 2021)
Kartik Aaryan	First-ever brand ambassador of Doritos in India (March 2021)
Ajinkya Rahane	NeoGrowth
Prithvi Shaw	SportzXchange  (April 2021)
Suresh Raina	Elista  (April 2021)
Yuvraj Singh	PUMA Motorsport in India (June 2021)
Washington Sundar and Devdutt Padikkal	Puma (April 2021)
Ravindra Jadeja (April 2021)  Squash player Joshna Chinappa (September 2021)	ASICS
PV Sindhu and Michelle Li	Athlete ambassadors for IOC's 'Believe in Sports' campaign (May 2021)
Daren Sammy	Fun88 (July 2021)
Neeraj Chopra	RBI’s Ambassador awareness for campaign against growing cyber frauds.  (August 2021)
Mirabai Chanu(August 2021) Amitabh bachchan (October 2021)	Amway India
Avani Lekhara	'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign in Rajasthan
Mirabhai Chanu and Bajrang Punia	Amrutanjan Healthcare (October 2021)
Cyrus Poncha	Vice-President of the Asian Squash Federation  (September 2021)
Rahul Dravid	Brand ambassador of Plaeto (November 2021)
Thomas Bach	President of the International Olympic Committee (March 2021)

 APPOINTMENTS

    1)Ajay Singh - re-elected as the President of the Boxing Federation of India  (February 2021)

    2) Mary Kom- Chairperson of AIBA's Champions & Veterans Committee (March 2021)

    3) Ramesh Powar- Head coach of the India Women Cricket Team (May 2021)

    4) Shiv Sunder Das was appointed as the batting coach of the Indian women’s cricket team (May 2021)

    5) Narinder Batra - President of the International Hockey Federation (FIH)  (May 2021)

    6) Sanjay Kapoor - President of the All India Chess Federation (AICF) 

    7) Former India striker Abhishek Yadav -  AIFF's first Deputy General Secretary 

    8) Jay Shah to be named BCCI's representative to ICC board. He will replace BCCI president Sourav Ganguly (January 2021)

    9) Debbie Hewitt -First Chairwoman of the England Football Association (June 2021)

AWARDS

1) ICC AWARDS OF THE DECADE

             ICC Spirit of Cricket Award of the Decade- Mahendra Singh Dhoni

             ICC Men's Test Cricketer of the Decade- Steve Smith

	Male	Female
ICC Cricketer of the Decade (Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy)	Virat Kohli	Ellyse Perry
ICC  T20I Cricketer of the Decade	Rashid Khan	Ellyse Perry
ICC ODI Cricketer of the Decade-	Virat Kohli	Ellyse Perry
ICC Associate Cricketer of the Decade	Kyle James Coetzer	Kathryn Bryce

2) Former pacer Merv Hughes was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.  (February 2021)

3) ICC Player of the Month Awards  

ICC Men's Player of the Month Awards  

ICC Women's Player of the Month Awards  

4)  Steve Smith won the third Allan Border Medal and Beth Mooney bagged her maiden Belinda Clarke Award  (February 2021)

            Mitchell Starc wins maiden Allan Border medal, Ashleigh Gardner bags Belinda Clarke award (January 2022)

5) India captain Virat Kohli was named Wisden Almanack's ODI player of the 2010s, 

while England all-rounder Ben Stokes was declared the 'Cricketer of the Year' for a second successive time.  (April 2021)

6) Muhammad Yunus- 2020 Tokyo Olympic laurel  (July 2021)

7) Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka win top 2021 Laureus sports awards  (May 2021)

8) Rafael Nadal wins his fourth Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship Award in the ATP Awards 2020 (January 2021)

9) India’s teen Shooter Manu Bhaker won the BBC’s Emerging Player of the Year Award 2021 (March 2021)

 Former Olympian and long jump star Anju Bobby George was conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 (March 2021)

10) Ngangom Bala Devi and Sandesh Jhingan - AIFF Footballer of the Year awards  (July 2021)

11) Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted Manchester United's Player of the Month for September 2021 by the supporters of the Manchester United football club (October 2021)

12) Stefanos Tsitsipas wins Monte Carlo Masters 2021 (April 2021)

13) Golfer Patrick Cantlay won the PGA Tour Player of the Year award for 2021 (September 2021)

14) Paralympic-bound shuttler Pramod Bhagat was named Differently abled Sportsman of the Year for 2019 (July 2021)

15) Hockey India won Etienne Glichitch Award (in recognition of its contribution to the growth and development of the sport in the country ) (May 2021)

16) V. Karthikeyan Pandian - FIH (International Hockey Federation) President’s Award  (May 2021)

17)  Hockey India withdrew from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, citing COVID-19 concerns and UK's discriminatory quarantine rules for travellers from India. (October 2021)

OBITUARIES                         

CRICKET	*England             John Edrich (January 2021)            Robin Jackman (January 2021)            Joey Benjamin  (March 2021)    *New Zealand            Alan Burgess  (Jan 2021)            John Fulton Reid (January 2021)            Bruce Taylor (February 2021)            Anna Peterson (October 2021)            Umpire- Fred Goodall (October 2021)   *India            Yashpal Sharma   (July 2021)            Indian Cricket coach- Tarak Sinha (November 2021)   * Australia             Alan Davidson (October 2021)             Ashley Mallett (October 2021)
WRESTLER	Jon Huber known as Luke Harper (January 2021)
FOOTBALL	Indian -             Nikhil Nandy  (January 2021)             Ahmed Hussain (Aril 2021)              M Prasannan              O.Chandrasekharan  (August 2021)              Bhabani Roy - (September 2021)   French Footballer Jean Pierre Adams  (September 2021) Jimmy Greaves -Former England football player (September 2021)
TENNIS	Australian tennis coach Bob Brett(January 2021)              Indian tennis legend Akhtar Ali, a former Davis Cup coach(March 2021)
HOCKEY	Michael Kindo (January 2021)     Balbir Singh Junior (April 2021)     Anupama Puchimanda- International Hockey Umpire (April 2021)      Ravinder Pal Singh (May 2021)      Saranjeet Singh (October 2021)
BOXER	USA's Marvin Hagler  (March 2021)  OP Bhardwaj- Boxing Coach (May 2021)  Shakti Mazumdar (May 2021)   Dingko Singh Ngangom  (June 2021)
SHOOTING	Sanjay Chakravarty- Shooting Coach (honoured with the Dronacharya Award in 2017)
Volleyball	Nirmal Kaur Former India captain -She was the wife of Milkha Singh  (June 2021)
Badminton	Nandu Natekar (July 2021)
Athletic coach	Othayothu Madhavan Nambiar- He was the coach of P. T. Usha.(August 2021)
Table Tennis	Venugopal Chandrasekhar (May 2021)
‘Godfather of Sudoku’	Maki Kaji (August 2021)

 

BANNED

                Russian badminton player Nikita Khakimov banned for five years over betting and fixing offences (January 2021)

                FIFA suspends the membership of the Pakistan Football Federation & Chadian Football Association (April 2021)

                Former Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak was banned for 8 years for breaching the ICC anti-corruption code  (April 2021)

                Former Sri Lanka batsman Dilhara Lokuhettige banned for eight years under the ICC Anti-Corruption Code  (April 2021)

                UAE's Qadeer Ahmed Khan was banned for five years for breaching the ICC anti-corruption code  (April 2021)

OTHERS

                    1) Jigmet Dolma wins 4th position in the Dhaka Marathon (January 2021)

                    2) Indo-Tibetan Border Police won the IHAI National Ice Hockey Championship in Gulmarg, J&K (January 2021)

                    3)  Drass Red won the 13th CEC Cup Ice Hockey Championship 2021 beating Hockey Club Chiktan team in the final match held in Kargil, Ladakh (February 2021)

                    4) India topped the medal tally with 11 medals at the first Asian Online Shooting Championship (four gold, two silver and five bronze medals). (February 2021)

                    5)England's Jasmine Harrison became the youngest woman to row solo across the ocean. (February 2021)

                    6) Manika Batra won the Women's Singles Title(February 2021) for the second time in the National Table Tennis Championship (February 2021)

                    7) International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced Brisbane as the ‘preferred partner’ to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games (February 2021)

                    8) Odisha hosted the 5th edition of the Indian Women's League (2020-21) 

                    9)  India is scheduled to host the AFC Women's Asian Cup in 2022 which will be followed by the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in 2022. 

                  10) J&K topped the medals (34 medals) tally at the Khelo India Winter National Games in Gulmarg.(March 2021)

                 11) Tamil Nadu’s Dhanalakshmi broke PT Usha's Federation Cup record (March 2021)

                                                            She clocked a meet record time of 23.26 seconds in the Women’s 200m semi-finals at the 24th National Federation Cup Senior Athletics Championships in Patiala, Punjab.  Her timing broke PT Usha’s long-standing meet record of 22.30 seconds set in Chennai in 1998. 

                12) Indian para-athlete Singhraj won a gold medal in the 2021 Para Shooting World Cup at Al Ain in the UAE(March 2021)

                13) Thisara Perera became the first Sri Lankan to hit six 6s in an over in any form of professional cricket during a domestic tournament (March 2021)

                14) Yashaswini Deswal won the 1st gold medal for India in the Women's 10m air pistol final- ISSF World cup (March 2021)

                15) Nethra Kumanan becomes the first Indian woman sailor to qualify for Olympics 

                16) Tashkent is set to host the 2023 Men’s Boxing World Championships (April 2021)

                17) India won one gold and two bronze medals in the Asian Wrestling Championship 2021 

                                                                Sarita Mor - Gold women's 59 kg. 

                                                                Seema Bisla and Pooja - bronze medals

                18) Mirabai Chanu creates a new world record at Asian Weightlifting Championships she lifted 119 kg  (April 2021)

                19) Kerala’s Aniyan Midhun wins gold at the South Asian Wushu Championship 2021 in Nepal  (April 2021)

                20)Indian boxer Amit Panghal wins bronze medal at Governor's Cup in Russia 

                21) Star India retains media rights for Pro Kabaddi League till 2025  (April 2021)

                22) Ashleigh Barty defeats Aryna Sabalenka to lift the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2021 title  (April 2021)

                23) Sarah Gamal becomes the first Arab female basketball referee to compete in the Olympics (April 2021)

                24) All India Chess Federation launches 'Checkmate Covid Initiative' to help chess community fight COVID-19  (May 2021)

                25)Mark Selby beats Shaun Murphy in World Snooker Championship 2021 (May 2021)

                26) Sanjeet Kumar and Pooja Rani wins gold in the Asian Boxing Championships 2021 held in Dubai, UAE  (June 2021)

                27)Oman to host first-ever FIH Hockey5s World Cup  2024 (June 2021)

                28) Virendra Sehwag and Sanjay Bangar launch cricket coaching website “Cricuru”  (June 2021)

                29) Neeraj Chopra wins javelin gold medal in Meeting Cidade de Lisboa in Lisbon  (June 2021)

                30)New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard becomes the first transgender athlete to compete at Olympics  (June 2021)

                31) Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary won a silver medal in the mixed team event at ISSF World Cup 2021 in Osijek, Croatia  (June 2021)

                32)Spain’s Jon Rahm won the 121st US Open Golf title at Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California. (June 2021)

                33) Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat won the gold medal in the women's 53 kg freestyle at Poland Ranking Series (June 2021)

                34)  BharatPe became International Cricket Council’s (ICC) official partner till 2023 (June 2021)

                35) Mumbai and Pune to host the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup   (July 2021)

                36)  Karnataka is set to host the 2nd edition of the Khelo India University Games in March 2022. The first edition of the Khelo India University Games (KIUG) was held in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha  (July 2021)

                37) Australian swimmer Emma McKeon becomes the first woman to win seven medals at a single Olympics

                38)P. V. Sindhu becomes the first Indian woman to win two Olympic medals

                39)Shaili Singh wins the third medal for India at the World Athletics U–20 Championships   

                40)India’s Raunak Sadhwani won the 19th Spilimbergo Open Chess Tournament 2021.

                41) Pankaj Advani of India won the Asian Snooker Championship 2021 held in Qatar for a second consecutive time by defeating Amir Sarkhosh.   (September 2021)

                42) Indian wrestler Anshu Malik - the first Indian woman to win a silver medal in the World Wrestling Championships in Norways’s Oslo 

    

                43) Germany has unveiled the logo for the 2024 European Championship . The slogan of this tournament (Euro Cup 2024) is "United at the Heart of Europe". 

                44) Srinagar’s Taijul Islam won the gold medal in the Under-14 category of the World Kickboxing Championship that was held in Cairo, Egypt. 

                45) Former Indian men’s U-19 captain Unmukt Chand became the first Indian male cricketer to be signed by Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL). 

                46) Manu Bhaker of India and Javad Foroughi of Iran won the gold medal in the 10 m air pistol mixed team event at International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) President's Cup at Wroclaw, Poland. 

                47)  Indian boxer Akash Kumar (54 kg) - bronze medal in the AIBA Men's World Boxing Championships 2021 

                48) Senior U-23 Women's World Wrestling Championships 2021 took place in Serbia’s Belgrade

                         Shivani Pawar (50 kg) – Silver medal, 

                        Anju (55 kg) – Bronze medal, 

                        Radhika (62 kg) – Bronze medal, 

                        Nisha (65 kg) – Bronze medal  

                49)  The International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided that India and Bangladesh will jointly host the 2031 ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup

               50) Tech Mahindra signed Viswanathan Anand to mentor Global Chess League (February 2021)

                51) Hidilyn Diaz wins the first-ever Olympic gold medal for the Philippines   (July 2021)

                52)  Bermuda becomes the smallest country to win an Olympic gold medal after Flora Duffy claims triathlon gold medal (July 2021)

    

                53). Hockey India launches player-oriented web-based platform 'Heroes Connect' for hockey players in India (July 2021)

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