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A)
Stuart Broad
B)
Pat Cummins
C)
Joe Root
D)
Moeen Ali

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Stuart Broad

England cricketer, Stuart Broad has become the second pace bowler to take 600 wickets in Test cricket.

The 36 year cricketer reached the mark by removing Australia's Travis Head on day one of the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford. 
 
 


England team-mate James Anderson is the only other quick bowler to achieve the feat. Broad is fifth on the all-time list and Anderson third, with spinners Muttiah Muralitharan, Shane Warne and Anil Kumble completing the top five.

Broad made his debut against Sri Lanka in Colombo 2007, going on to make 166 Test appearances till date and be part of four Ashes-winning sides..

Source : AIR

A)
Steve Smith
B)
Virat Kohli
C)
Rohit Sharma
D)
Ravindra Jadeja

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Virat Kohli

Former Indian captain Virat Kohli has become the 10th cricketer in the world to play 500 international matches. The record of playing most international matches is in the name of India's great batsman Sachin Tendulkar.

Mahela Jayawardene (652) is in second place in terms of playing most matches. Among the players who have played more than 500 matches in world cricket, 8 players are from Asia.

Virat Kohli had become the 10th cricketer in history to have played a 500th match in international cricket after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Rahul Dravid, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Sanath Jayasuriya, Ricky Ponting, Shahid Afridi and Jacques Kallis.

Kohli will be hoping that he will be able to soldier on and reach his 30th Test on Friday (21st July 2023).

It would take his tally for the year to two Test centuries, having earlier scored a 186 in the fourth Test against Australia in Ahmedabad. It would also be his first Test century away from home since December 2018, when he scored 123 against Australia in Perth.

India's 500 internationals club :

“I’m really grateful,” Kohli had told bcci.tv before the match about reaching the milestone. “I feel very blessed that I’ve had such a long journey playing for India, and such a long Test career because I’ve had to work really hard for it. It makes you feel happy about the hard work you’ve put in, to see the longevity in the game and the results over the years as well. So yeah, I’m very grateful.”

Kohli is the fourth player from India to have reached 500 internationals. He has played with the three other players at some stage in his international career. Sachin Tendulkar, who shared a dressing room with Kohli till 2013 in international cricket, ended his illustrious career on 664 matches. Rahul Dravid, who also played with Kohli in the early stages of the latter's career and is now India's head coach, played 504 matches. Meanwhile Dhoni, who was captain of India before Kohli took over and under whom the latter made his international debut, played 535 matches..

Source : Hindustan Times

A)
Abhinav Shaw and Gautami Bhanot
B)
Urva Chaudhary and Anjali Chaudhary
C)
Abhinav Chaudhary and Sainyam
D)
Harmehar Singh Lally and Sanjana Sood

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Harmehar Singh Lally and Sanjana Sood

In shooting, India bagged one silver to stay in the second position of the medal tally on Day 4 of the ISSF Junior World Championships 2023, in Changwon, Korea 19th July 2023.

Indian pair of Harmehar Singh Lally and Sanjana Sood won a silver medal in the skeet mixed team event. Harmehar and Sanjana had to endure a gruelling 52-shot shoot-off, which they won 26-24 eventually, enroute to the final, where they lost 38-43 to the Italian duo of Andrea Galardini and Sara Bongini.
 
With that medal, India stayed in second place on the medals table with four gold, four silver and three bronze medals.


China kept rising at the top with six gold, eight silver, and four bronze medals. Italy is in the third spot with two gold, one silver and three bronze medals.

ISSF Junior World Championships 2023: India’s medal winners


Shooter Event Medal
Shubham Bisla 10m air pistol men Gold
Sainyam 10m air pistol women Gold
Abhinav Shaw and Gautami Bhanot 10m air rifle mixed team Gold
Abhinav Shaw, Srikanth Dhanush and Parth Rakesh Mane 10m air rifle men team Gold
Shubham Bisla, Amit Sharma and Abhinav Choudhary 10m air pistol men team Silver
Uttam Sonam Maskar, Gautami Bhanot and Swati Chowdhury 10m air rifle women team Silver
Raiza Dhillon Women's skeet Silver
Harmehar Singh Lally and Sanjana Sood Mixed team skeet Silver
Abhinav Chaudhary and Sainyam 10m air pistol mixed team Bronze
Sainyam, Urva Chaudhary and Anjali Chaudhary 10m air pistol women team Bronze
Umamahesh Maddineni 10m air rifle men Bronze

A)
Gold
B)
Silver
C)
Bronze
D)
None of the above

Correct Answer : Option (C) - bronze

Indian Surf Team won the bronze medal at the Asian Surfing Championship 2023, held at Thulisdhoo Island in Maldives. 18 countries from Asia took part in this championship.
 
* The Surfing Federation of India sent a team comprising  4 senior Surfers in the men’s category and 2 Surfers in the Under 18 category.

* 5 out of the 6 Surfers were from Tamilnadu.
 

* Srikanth from Kovalam, Tamil Nadu made it to the semi-finals in the Men's Category.
 
* The President of the Surfing Federation of India Arun Vasu said that Surfing team finished overall 3rd with a bronze medal.
 
* Indian Surfers will now get ready for the first-ever World Surfing League (WSL) event in India to be held in Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu from August 14 to 20, 2023..

Source: AIR

A)
Arjun Erigaisi
B)
R Praggnanandhaa
C)
Magnus Carlsen
D)
Richard Rapport

Correct Answer : Option (B) - R Praggnanandhaa

Young Indian Grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa emerged champion in the V Geza Hetenyi Memorial Super GM chess tournament 2023, here on Wednesday (19th July 2023) in Hungary.

The 17-year-old GM scored 6.5 points to finish clear first in the 10-player event. After nine rounds of play, he ended up a point ahead of M Amin Tabatabaei (Iran) and Russia’s Sanan Sjugirov.

Praggnanandhaa posted five wins, drew three games and suffered only one defeat in the tournament, at the hands of Amin Tabatabaei in the fifth round.

In the final round, he secured a draw against Polish GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek with white pieces.

The teenaged Indian GM now has a live rating of 2707.3.

Praggnanandhaa scored wins over Sjugirov, Parham Maghsoodloo (Iran), Adam Kozak (Hungary) and Peter Prohaszka (Hungary).

He drew his last three games, against Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Maxim Matlakov (Russia) and Wojtaszek..

Source : Indian Express

A)
Bajrang Punia
B)
Vijay Kumar
C)
Ravi Dahiya
D)
Yogeshwar Dutt

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Bajrang Punia

Bajrang Punia and Vinesh Phogat  had last represented India at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade in September 2022. In the corresponding 10 months, they didn't go to the competition arena even once. They were busy with their protest against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

Surprisingly, both wrestlers were granted 'exemption' from trials for the upcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou by the ad-hoc panel appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA). The chief national coaches - who were part of the committee - were not even taken into confidence.

Bajrang and Vinesh's direct entry for the Asiad, without going through the rigours of trials, has infuriated their competitors in their respective weight categories - men's freestyle 65kg and women's freestyle 53kg. It's been learnt that the country's first U-20 world champion Antim Panghal (women's 53kg), current U-23 and U-20 Asian champion Sujeet Kalkal and up and coming Jaskaran Singh (both men's 65kg) have decided to move court to challenge the ad-hoc committee's decision.

The trials will be held in New Delhi on July 22 and 23. Greco-roman and women's category bouts will be on the first day and men's freestyle event the next day.

In its directive for the trials issued on Tuesday evening, ad-hoc committee member Bhupinder Singh Bajwa stated: "As per the WFI regulations of selection trials, the selection committee has already selected wrestlers in the 65kg (freestyle) and 53kg (women wrestling) for the Asian Games 2022. But the trial will be held for these weight categories and the selected wrestlers will be kept on stand-by."

While the committee didn't mention the names of wrestlers exempted, multiple sources confirmed that they were Bajrang and Vinesh.

According to WFI's selection policy, which was in effect before the federation was dissolved by the sports ministry in the wake of the sexual harassment charges against Singh, 'iconic players' were eligible for exemption from trials. The ad-hoc committee applied the same rule in the case of Bajrang and Vinesh.

"The selection trials in all weight categories are mandatory. However, the selection committee will have the discretion to select the iconic players like medallists of Olympic/World Championship without trials provided recommendation by chief coach/foreign expert."

While Bajrang secured a bronze at the Tokyo Olympics as well as Belgrade's Worlds,  finished on the podium at the same Worlds.

However, going by the criteria which was in place earlier or as has been laid down by the ad-hoc committee, Tokyo Games silver medallist Ravi Dahiya (men's freestyle 57kg), too, deserved an exemption..

Source : Times of India

A)
Srikanth Kidambi
B)
Chirag Shetty
C)
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
D)
Prannoy HS

Correct Answer : Option (C) - Satwiksairaj Rankireddy

Indian shuttler Satwiksairaj Rankireddy managed to feature in the Guinness World Record by striking the fastest smash in the ongoing Korea Open 2023 on Tuesday (18th July 2023).

Satwiksairaj broke a decade-long record which was set in May 2013 by Malaysian Tan Boon Heong, who had produced a speed of 493 km/h with his smash.

Satwiksairaj broke the record by surpassing his speed by 72 kmph and registered a record-breaking speed of 565 kmph.

The third-seeded Indian men's doubles team of Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty defeated 21-16, 21-14 Supak Jomkoh/Kittinupong Kedren of Thailand in order to advance into the pre-quarterfinals. Although they were behind in the second game, they came through to win the match in straight games.

Only Satwik and Chirag from India managed to win on the opening day of the competition.

Dhruv Kapila and MR Arjun, the other men's doubles team, had to leave their match earlier due to an injury.

Shashwat Dalal and Harshit Aggarwal did not advance from the qualifications.

The top singles players from India, including PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, and Kidambi Srikanth, will make their tournament debuts in South Korea on Wednesday (19th July 2023)..

Source : Business Standard

A)
Ons Jabeur
B)
Hsieh Su-wei
C)
Barbora Strycova
D)
Marketa Vondrousova

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Marketa Vondrousova

Marketa Vondrousova, the Czech tennis sensation, has captured the hearts of fans and etched her name in history with an extraordinary achievement.

In 2023, she became the first unseeded woman player to claim the coveted Wimbledon women's singles title. With her crafty playing style, strategic brilliance, and unwavering determination, Vondrousova has risen to prominence in the tennis world.

Let's delve into her remarkable journey, from her early beginnings to her triumph on the grass courts of Wimbledon, and explore the impact she has made as a trailblazer in the sport.

Early Life and Background : Marketa Vondrousova was born on June 28, 1999, in Sokolov, Czech Republic. Her father introduced her to tennis at the age of four, and her mother played volleyball professionally. Vondrousova tried various sports before focusing on tennis at a young age.

Junior Career :

Vondrousova was a former world No. 1 junior player. She achieved early success on the ITF Junior Circuit, winning titles and reaching the semifinals of the French Open and Wimbledon in 2013. Vondrousova won two Grand Slam doubles titles and represented the Czech Republic in the Junior Fed Cup.

Vondrousova made headlines by reaching the final of the 2019 French Open as an unseeded player. She defeated several seeded players on her way to the final but ultimately finished as the runner-up. Her performance marked her as the first teenage major finalist in nearly a decade..

Source : Zeenews

A)
Vijay Kumar
B)
Manu Bhaker
C)
Saurabh Chowdhary
D)
Prithviraj Tondaiman

Correct Answer : Option (D) - Prithviraj Tondaiman

India shooter Prithviraj Tondaiman bagged the bronze medal in the men’s trap event at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Lonato 2023 in Italy on Sunday (16th July 2023).

Prithviraj Tondaiman’s bronze was India’s only medal at the Lonato shooting meet. This was his second individual ISSF World Cup medal, having won a bronze in Doha in March.

Prithviraj Tondaiman finished third in the final with 34 points. Britain’s Nathan Hales won the gold medal with 49 points while Qi Ying of the Republic of China bagged the silver medal with 48 points. A total of six shooters qualified for the men’s trap final.

Earlier, Prithviraj Tondaiman finished third in the qualifying round with 122 points. The 36-year-old scored 23, 25, 24, 25, 25 in the five-round qualification series. Paris 2024 Olympics quota winner Bhowneesh Mendiratta and Zoravar Singh Sandhu failed to progress beyond the qualification stage in the men’s trap event..

Source : Olympics

A)
Rafael Nadal
B)
Carlos Alcaraz
C)
Novak Djokovic
D)
Daniil Medvedev

Correct Answer : Option (B) - Carlos Alcaraz

Carlos Alcaraz stunned Novak Djokovic to win the Wimbledon men's singles tennis title on Sunday (16 July 2023).

* The 20-year-old Spaniard won 1-6, 7-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 in four hours and 42 minutes to end Djokovic's hopes of a calendar Grand Slam for this year at least.

* It was Alcaraz's second Slam title with his first coming at last year's US Open.

* After dropping the first set, the youngster won a second-set tiebreak - ending Djokovic's Open era Grand Slam record of 15 consecutive breaker wins - before taking the initiative in the third.

* The seven-time champion fought back in the fourth set to level the match, but Alcaraz would not be denied in just his fifth grass-court tournament as he joined Manolo Santana and Rafael Nadal as Spanish men's singles winners at Wimbledon.

* Alcaraz said in his on-court interview, "It's a dream come true. It's great to win but even if I'd lost I'd have been very proud playing against a legend of our sport. For me, it's incredible.

* "For a boy of 20 years old, I really didn't expect to reach this situation. It's really really fast. I'm really proud of myself and the team I have around me.

* "After the first set, I thought, 'Carlos, increase the level.' I have to congratulate Novak. What can I say about him? You inspire me a lot. I started playing tennis, watching you. Since I was born, you already were winning tournaments. It's amazing. You said 36 is the new 26 and you make that happen."

* It was Djokovic's first defeat at Wimbledon since 2017 and means he remains on 23 Grand Slam titles, one behind the all-time record held by Margaret Court.

* He was fulsome in his praise of the victor afterwards, saying "I thought I'd only have trouble with you on clay and hard courts but now...

* "You never like to lose matches like this but, when all the emotions have settled, I have to be very happy. I won close games before - maybe I should have lost a couple of finals I won here - so this is even stevens."


Source : Olympics