1. Anirban Lahiri makes history in Golf
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Anirban Lahiri became the first Indian golfer to finish runner-up in the Players Championship at Florida, United States. The PGA (Professional Golf Association) Players Championship title was won by the Australian golfer, Cameron Smith.
Anirban Lahiri won $2.18 million prize money. His ranking jumped to a career best 89 in the world.
The only Indian who has won a PGA title is Arjun Atwal,who won the 2010 Wyndham Championship held in the United States of America.
2. Shreyas Iyer is the ICC player of the February 2022
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The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced its player of the February month 2022.
Men player of the month : Shreyas Iyer of India. He is a batsman.
Women player of the month : New Zealand women all-rounder Amelia Kerr
ICC.
Headquarters of ICC: Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Chairman of ICC: Greg Barclay of New Zealand.
CEO of ICC: Geoff Allardice of Australia.
3. India wins test series against Sri Lanka 2-0
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India comfortably won the two test series against the visiting Sri Lankan cricket team. The Indian team was captained by Rohit Sharma and Dimuth Karunaratne was the captain of the Sri Lankan side.
The 2-0 series win followed the 3-0 sweep of the T20I series by India.
First Test match
It was played at the Punjab Cricket Association cricket stadium at Mohali, Chandigarh. The stadium is also called IS Bindra stadium.
It was played from March 4-6 2022
It was won by India by 222 runs.
Player of the match : Ravindra Jadeja
Second Test Match
It was a Day/Night test match held from 12-14 March 2022.
It was played at the Chinnaswamy cricket stadium, Bengaluru.
It was won by India by 238 runs.
Player of the match : Shreyas Iyer
Player of the series : Rishab Pant
4. India wins 16th Asian junior women's handball championship gold
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India won gold in the Asian junior women’s handball championship defeating Thailand in their last match in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 14 March 2022.
The tournament was played on a round robin basis, where the team which earned the highest points was declared the winner.
Iranian team came second and Kazakhstan came third.
The 16th edition of the Asian junior women’s handball championship was held from 7 to 14 March 2022.
The Indian team has also qualified for the World Junior women’s handball championship to be held in Slovenia in June-July 2022.
The Asian junior women’s handball championship is held every two years.
5. Rishab Pant scores India’s fastest fifty in Test Match
The wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant made history by scoring the fastest half-century by an Indian cricketer in the history of Tests during Day 2 of the Bengaluru Test against the Sri Lankans on 13 March 2022.
He scored his fifty in 28 balls beating the record of Kapil Dev who scored 50 runs in 30 balls against Pakistan in the Karachi test in 1982. He was eventually out at the score of 50.
The world record is held by Pakistani batsmen Misbah-ul who scored 50 runs in a test match against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014 in 21 balls.
Important for Exam
Bengaluru Cricket Stadium name : Chinnaswamy stadium
6. Lakshya Sen loses the German open Badminton final
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World Championship bronze medallist Lakshya Sen lost to Thailand's Kunlavut Vitidsarn in the final of the German Open Super 300 badminton tournament on 13 March 2022.
The German open was held in the German city of Mulheim.
Lakshya Sen is ranked 12th in the world while the Thailand player Kunlavut Vitidsarn is ranked 20th in the world.
7. India tops the medal table at the World Shooting Championships
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India topped the medal table at the recently concluded ISSF (International Shooting Sports Federation) Rifle/Pistol world cup in Cairo, Egypt .
The event was held from 28 February to 8 March 2022.
India won a total of 7 medals:4 Gold medals, 2 Silver medals and 1 Bronze medals.
Norway came second with a total of 6 medals: 3 Gold medals, 1 Silver medals and 2 Bronze medals .
Medal winners of India
Gold Medal
Women’s 25m pistol team – Rahi Sarnobat, Esha Singh and Rhythm Sangwan
Men’s 10m air pistol - Saurabh Chaudhary
Women’s 10m air pistol team - Esha Singh, Nivetha Paramanantham, Ruchira Vinerkar
25m rapid fire pistol mixed team - Rhythm Sangwan and Anish Bhanwala
Silver medal
Women’s 10m air pistol event - Esha Singh
Men’s 25m rapid fire pistol team - Gurpreet Singh, Anish Bhanwala and Bhavesh Shekhawat
Bronze Medal
50m rifle 3 positions mixed team event - Shriyanka Sadangi and Akhil Sheoran
ISSF World Cup
The International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) organizes four world cups in a calendar year for rifle/pistol events .
In 2022 the venue of the World cups in chronological order are as follows: Jakarta (Indonesia), Cairo (Egypt), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Baku (Azerbaijan).
Headquarters of ISSF : Munich ,Germany
8. India Defeats Denmark to stay in the Davis cup World group stage 1
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The Indian men’s tennis team defeated Denmark 4-0 in their Davis Cup 2022 World Group I playoff tie played at the Delhi Gymkhana Club on 5-6 March 2022.
The best of five match was won by India 4-0 and the fifth match was not played.
Ramkumar Ramanathan and Yuki Bhambri won their singles title matches and Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan won their doubles ties.
Later Ramkumar Ramnathan won his return singles match,to make it 4-0 for India.
India have made it to the Davis Cup final thrice – 1966, 1974 and 1987 but it has never won the title .
Current Davis cup Champion : Russia
Davis Cup
Davis cup is an annual men tennis championship organised by International Tennis Federation
It started in 1900 as a competition between Great Britain and the United States and now 135 countries participate in the cup.
The most successful team is U.S which has won it 32 times
The second most successful team is Australia which has won it 28 times
Current Champion Russia has won it 3 times .
The women's equivalent of the Davis Cup is the Billie Jean King Cup formerly known as the Fed Cup. The winner of the Billie Jean King Cup 2021 is Russia .
9. Divya Deshmukh is the National women chess champion
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16 years old Divya Deshmukh of Maharashtra won the 47th MPL National women chess title on 2 March 2022.
The National Chess championship was held at Bhubaneshwar, Odisha.
It was her first senior level chess title.
Sakshi Chitalange came second and N. Priyanka came at the third position.
10. Novelist Madhu Kankariya wins Bihari Puraskar 2021
Author Madhu Kankariya has been chosen for the 31st Bihari Puraskar for her 2018 novel ‘Hum Yahan The’.
The Bihari award is given by the K.K.Birla foundation every year for outstanding work published in the last 10 years by a Rajasthani author in Hindi or Rajasthani
The award carries a cash prize of ₹2.5 lakh, a plaque and a citation.
Among books written by the 64-year-old Madhu Kankariya are Pattakhor, Khule Gagan ke Laal Sitaare, Salaam Aakhri and Bhaari Dupahr ke Andhere.
The 2020 Bihari puraskar was given to Mohankrishna Bohara for his work ‘Taslima: Sangharsh aur Sahitya’
K.K. Birla Prize
K.K.Birla foundation was established by Krishna Kumar Birla in 1991 . It aims to promote literature, especially Hindi literature . Every year it gives literature award for works published in the last ten years
Some of the important awards given by K.K.Birla foundations are as follows :
Sarswati Samman
It is given for work in any Indian literature.
First person to get the award was Harivansh Rai Bachchan in 1991 for his four volume autobiography, Kya Bhooloon Kya Yaad Karoon, Needa Ka Nirman Phir, Basere Se Door and Dashdwar se Sopan Tak.
The most recent 30th awardee was Marathi author Sharankumar Limbale for his work ”Sanatan” in marathi, in 2020.
Vyas Samman
It is given for best work in Hindi literature .
The first person to get the award was Ram Vilas Sharma for his work “ Bharat ke Pracheen bhasha parivar aur Hindi.
The latest person to get the award in 2020 was Prof Shard Pagare for his work “ Patliputra ki Samragi”
