SPORTS NEWS THIS MONTH ********************** o March 2: Rashid Khan of India claimed a play-off victory over Bangladeshi Siddikur Rahman at the SAIL-SBI Open with a birdie on the first extra hole at the Delhi Golf Course (DGC) in New Delhi. o March 2: South Africa lift the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2014. Note: They defeated Pakistan by six wickets at Dubai. o March 2: Roger Federer won singles title of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championship by defeating Tomas Berdych in the final. o March 5: Graeme Smith, the South African cricket team Captain announced that he will retire from international cricket at the end of the test match against Australia at Newlands. Smith is the longest serving captain for South Africa in international cricket. o March 7: Tamil Nadu men and Railways women won the XXVII (twenty seventh) Federation Cup Volleyball titles in the finals at Kizhakkambalam, Ernakulam in Kerala. o March 8: India managed to hold to their second position in the Reliance ICC T20I Team Rankings. o March 9: Sri Lanka regained the Asia Cup trophy with a comfortable five-wicket victory over defending champions Pakistan. o March 9: Mizoram won the 68th senior National football championship of Santosh Trophy by defeating Railways 3-0 in the final match played at Kanchenjungha Stadium in Siliguri, West Bengal. o March 9: Virat Kohli has reclaimed the No.1 position in the latest ICC rankings for One-Day International (ODI) batsmen released at the conclusion of the Asia Cup which was won by Sri Lanka. o March 10: Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will captain Rajasthan Royals in the upcoming Indian Premier League. o March 11: Ace paddler Sharath Kamal will lead the 10-member Indian contingent including five women in the World Table Tennis championships to be held in Tokyo from April 28 to May 5. o March 11: Vishnu Prasad and Gaurav Gill got tremendous applause at the FMSCI (Federation of Motor Sports Club of India) 2013 awards function. Note: The former was named the Motorsport Person of the Year, the latter became the first Indian to win the APRC title. o March 11: Chain Singh and Heena Sidhu claimed gold medals in the seventh Asian Air Gun Championship in Kuwait City. o March 11: Pooja Ghatkar asserted the Indian supremacy against tough Chinese competition by clinching the gold in women‘s air rifle in the seventh Asian air gun championship in Kuwait City. o March 13: Sachin Tendulkar is among the three greats to have emerged as the leading contenders for ESPNcricinfo‘s Cricketer of the Generation award; even as the Indian‘s long-time fierce rival from the West Indies Brian Lara missed out on a place in the final three o March 13: The Committee recommended a ban of six months on Sarvanjit Singh and Karamjit Singh, players for Punjab & Sind Bank and Gurpreet Singh, player Air India with effect from April 1, 2014 from all Hockey India and Hockey India sanctioned tournaments. o March 15: Iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the Cricketer of the Generation by a 50-member jury of current and former cricketers and journalists, beating the likes of spin legend Shane Warne and all-rounder par excellence Jacques Kallis. o March 16: The world‘s number two Novak Djokovic defeated Roger Federer to win the BNP Paribas Open Final in Indian Wells ATP Tennis Masters in California. o March 19: Karnataka won the Vijay Hazare Cricket Trophy 2013-14 by defeating Railways by four wickets at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. o March 20: The seventh edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will start on April 16, with Abu Dhabi hosting the opening match between defending champions Mumbai Indians and 2012 winners Kolkata Knight Riders. o March 20: India‘s ace men‘s shuttler Parupalli Kashyap has jumped a rung to the 24th spot in the latest Badminton World Federation rankings o March 23: Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) shocked defending Champions Haryana 4-0 to clinch the 4th Hockey India Senior Women National Championship (Division A) in Bhopal o March 27: In a big setback BCCI President N Srinivasan, the Supreme Court proposed his replacement by Sunil Gavaskar and suspension of Chennai Super Kings (CSK) along with Rajasthan Royals (RR) from IPL 7 till the pendency of case of betting and spot fixing scandal before it. o March 27: Olympian and former India captain Jude Felix was appointed coach of the National men‘s hockey team. o March 28: The Supreme Court handed over the reins of BCCI to former player Sunil Gavaskar during IPL 7 and did not bar Srinivasan-promoted Chennai Superkings (CSK) and Rajasthan Royals (RR) from participating in the tournament. o March 28: West Zone won the crickets Deodhar Trophy 2014. They lifted the trophy after defeating North Zone in the Day-Night final at Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam by a margin of 133 runs. o March 29: World number two air pistol shooter Heena Sidhu continued her impressive form as she clinched a silver medal at the ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, USA, the feat taking her closer to the numero uno spot in her event. o March 29: Darren Sammys twin sixes in the final over sealed a six-wicket win for the West Indies against Australia in the ICC World Twenty20 match. o March 30: Novak Djokovic won his fourth career title at the Miami Masters. o March 31: Britains Lewis Hamilton won the Malaysian Grand Prix with a pole-to-flag victory ahead of Nico Rosberg
Posted on: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:44:34 +0000
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