New Delhi: The BCCI is in action after the fierce clash between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir. The Board has imposed heavy fines on Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir and Navin-ul-Haq. Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir have been fined 100 per cent of their match fees, while Naveen-ul-Haq has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee. After the match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants, both players clashed with each other.

After the match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Lucknow Super Giants, both players clashed with each other. After which the players of both teams had to come to the rescue. Bangalore defeated Lucknow by 18 runs at their home.

Batting first after winning the toss, Bangalore scored 126 runs in 20 overs on the scoreboard. Chasing this target, Lucknow lost 4 wickets in the powerplay itself. Meanwhile, after taking the catch of Krunal Pandya, Virat Kohli looked at the stands and put a finger on his mouth, then signalled the fans to cheer RCB instead of keeping quiet.

Earlier this season, when Lucknow defeated RCB in the last match, Gautam Gambhir had pointed to the fans to keep quiet by putting a finger on their mouth, perhaps Kohli gave a befitting reply to Gambhir by behaving like this.

After this, during the 17th over of Lucknow’s innings, there was a heated fight between Virat Kohli, Amit Mishra and Naveen-ul-Haq. After which there was an argument between Virat Kohli and Amit Mishra. After this, when RCB won the match, Naveen-ul-Haq and Virat Kohli were in the mood to collide with each other while shaking hands.

After this, when Gambhir and Kohli came face to face, there was a long debate between the two. The video of this is going viral on social media.

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New Delhi: The 1000th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) was very exciting. Five-time champions Mumbai Indians defeated first-season champions Rajasthan Royals by 6 wickets in the last over.

Mumbai needed 17 runs off 6 balls, Tim David finished the match 3 balls early by hitting Jason Holder with 3 consecutive sixes.

21-year-old Yashasvi Jaiswal scored his first century in IPL career, Sandeep Sharma took the best diving catch of Suryakumar Yadav and on the 36th birthday, Rohit Sharma became out by scoring 3 runs.

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New Delhi: The star doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty ended a 58-year-old drought on Sunday and became the first Indian to win a gold medal after Dinesh Khanna at the Asia Badminton Championships in Dubai.

The 2022 World Championships bronze medallists made a stunning comeback to beat the Malaysian pair of Ong Yu Sin and Teo E Yi 21-16, 17-21, 19-21 in a thrilling final.

Khanna is the only Indian to win a gold medal at the continental championship, having achieved the feat in 1965 by defeating Thailand’s Sangob Ratnussorn in the men’s singles final in Lucknow.

India’s previous best performance in men’s doubles at the Asian Championships was in 1971 in the form of a bronze-medal by Dipu Ghosh and Raman Ghosh.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet wrote, “Proud of @satwiksairaj and @Shettychirag04 for scripting history by becoming the first Indian Men’s Doubles pair to win the Badminton Asia Championships Title. Congratulations to them and wishing them the very best for their future endeavours.”

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Kolkata: Gujarat Titans defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match here today. Batting first, KKR scored 179 runs for seven wickets thanks to Afghanistan batsman Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s 81 (39).

Gurbaj hit seven sixes while Andre Russell scored 34 off 19 balls.

Gujarat achieved this target with 13 balls to spare. Vijay Shankar remained unbeaten on 51, while Shubman Gill scored 49 and David Miller scored 32 runs.

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Chandigarh: Former tennis player Sania Mirza has also lent her voice to the voice of the country’s renowned wrestler protesting against sexual harassment. She tweeted, “It is very difficult to see this as a woman apart from an athlete.

The wrestlers who have taken to these streets have brought laurels to our country at the international level and we all have celebrated with them. Now it’s time to stand with them.”

She said that this is a very sensitive matter and there are serious allegations. I hope whatever the truth is will come out and justice will be done. If not now, after some time.

Cricketers Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Madan Lal, Irfan Pathan, Abhinav Bindra, hockey star Rani Rampal and boxer Nihakat Zareen have also extended their support to wrestlers.

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New Delhi: Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra today extended his support to the protesting wrestlers and demanded immediate action from the authorities to ensure justice.

Chopra’s reaction came at a time when Indian Olympic Association president P T Usha has come under severe criticism for taking to the streets to restart their protest instead of filing a complaint against Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

Javelin thrower Chopra, who created history by winning India’s first Olympic gold medal in athletics, said it was sad that wrestlers were forced to take to the streets for justice.

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Chandigarh: In IPL 2023, Punjab Kings will face Lucknow Super Giants today (April 28). The match will be played at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium in Punjab from 7:30 pm. This is the second clash between the two teams this season.

Earlier, Punjab Kings defeated Lucknow by 2 wickets on their home ground.

In the IPL so far, the teams of Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings have come face to face a total of 2 times, in which both teams have won 1-1. The first match between the two was played in the IPL last season i.e. 2022, in which Lucknow Super Giants won by 20 runs. That match was played at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune.

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Chandigarh: Asian boxing champion Kaur Singh, who played an exhibition match with world legend Muhammad Ali, passed away at a hospital in Kurukshetra, Haryana today. He was 74 years old.

He was earlier undergoing treatment at Patiala as he was suffering from diabetes. As his condition deteriorated last night, he was rushed to a hospital in Kurukshetra where he breathed his last. A few days ago, the Punjab government had announced to print his biography in school books to teach children.

After retiring from the Indian Army, he was living in his native village Khanal Khurd in Sangrur district of Punjab. He won six gold medals in international competitions, including the 1982 Asian Games.

One of his memorable matches was a four-round exhibition match, which he played against boxing legend Muhammad Ali in Delhi on 27 January 1980. He won the gold medal in heavyweight boxing at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi.

Kaur Singh was awarded the Arjuna Award in 1982, Padma Shri in 1983 and Vishisht Seva Medal in 1988.

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New Delhi: India’s squad for WTC Final has been announced. Rahane has returned to the Indian team for the final against Australia in June. Rahane has seen a tremendous transformation in IPL 2023.

Rahane is making a splash with his batting in the IPL this time. This is the reason why he has got a place in the Indian team for the World Test Championship final.

The BCCI has announced a 15-member Indian squad for the World Test Championship (WTC) final to be played against Australia at The Oval in England from June 7. KL Rahul has returned to the team, while Jasprit Bumrah has not been included in the team. Apart from this, Shreyas Iyer is also not part of this team.

Indian team for WTC Final

Rohit Sharma (captain), Shubman Gill, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul, KS Bharat (wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Mohammad Siraj, Mohammad Siraj, Mohm. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Jaydev Unadkat.

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Sydney: A gate was named after legendary Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) today to mark his 50th birth anniversary.

Tendulkar turns 50 today. He scored 785 runs in five Tests at the SCG at an average of 157. His highest score here was 241 not out. Tendulkar termed the SCG as his favourite cricket ground outside India.

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