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International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on 5 December 2012 that four 2004 Athens Olympic medalists had their medals taken away because the re-tested samples, which were stored for 8 years, proved positive. The four medalists included shot put champion of Ukraine Yuriy Bilonog, women's shot putter of Russia Svetlana Krivelyova, discus thrower Irina Yatchenko of Belarus and Belarussian hammer thrower Ivan Tsikhan.3-times world champion Tsikhan also had to give away his bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Games. However, this decision was reversed at Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the grounds that there were errors in laboratory procedures.IOC declared that the case which involved fifth athlete from Athens Games was pending. The four athletes who had to give their medals had tested positive for the anabolic steroids. Around 100 samples from Athens Games were target tested eight years ago by IOC with the help of modern methods.IOC has a procedure of storing the samples for eight years in order to enable re-testing of newly found substances or those substances for which no tests were available at that time. IOC also declared additionally that respective federations had the responsibility to check whether medals were returned or not.Athens Olympics doping cases tally now stands at 31 after 26 positive tests as of now. This is the maximum in any game. IOC declared that it would like the extension of law of limitation from current 8 years. It was added by IOC that WorldAnti-Doping Agency (WADA) was considering this law of limitation to extend to 10years.

==============England Cricket team captain Alastair Cook on 6 December 2012 claimed his placeamong the cricketing greats when he set an England record for the most Test centuries and became the youngest player in the long history of the game to pass 7000 runs.

The 27 years old Alastair Cook scored his 23rd Test hundred to leave England closing in on a rare series win in India.

He has ahead of past legends Wally Hammond, Colin Cowdrey and Geoffrey Boycott.Team-mate Kevin Pietersen has also scored 22 tons.

Alastair Cook made an unbeaten 136 to put England on 1 for 216 at stumps at Eden

Gardens on 6 December 2012 only 100 runs behind India's first innings total of316.=======================After the recent suspension of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) from International Olympic Committee (IOC), IOC assured the Indian athletes that this action wasagainst IOA and not against them. IOC gave assurance to the athletes that theydo not need to worry about their future prospects. IOC also declared that the decision was to ensure improvisation in governance of sports in India.

IOC additionally said that it was open for discussion with the Indian governmentor the IOA. It was confirmed by IOC that after suspension on 4 December 2012, neither the Indian government nor the IOA had opened up for dialogue with IOC. The main body of Olympic declared that it was ready for cleaning this hassle with

anyone who was interested in doing so.

In context with the IOA elections which took place on 5 December 2012, IOC cleared that it did not recognise these elections. IOA had gone ahead with these elections on 5 December 2012 despite the warnings of IOC. In the elections, Abhey Singh Chautala was elected as president of IOA and Lalit Bhanot was elected as secretary.

Assuring the Indian athletes, IOC declared that it was the body meant for athletes and any action would not harm their future.


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================================Kobe Bryant, 34, achieved the title of youngest ever player to reach the milestone of 30000 career points in NBA (basketball) on 5 December 2012. He achieved the milestone when he took Los Angeles Lakers towards the 103-87 victory over NewOrleans Homets.

In the second quarter, only 1:16 time was left and within that time period, Bryant took his jump shot, taking his career points to 30001. With that accomplishment, Kobe Bryant joined the elite list of just 5 more players to reach that milestone in the history of NBA. Other four of this elite segment are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38387 points), Karl Malone (36928 points), Michael Jordan (32292) and WiltChamberlain (31419).

He is the youngest player in NBA history to reach this landmark at the age of 34years. Chamberlain was aged 35 when he achieved this milestone; Malone and Abdul-Jabbar were 36 years of age while Jordan on the other hand was 38 years old toachieve this landmark.

Bryant however was the fifth-fastest NBA player in context to the games played for reaching this milestone. He achieved this milestone in 1179th match. Chamberlain on the other hand achieved it in 941 games only.===========================

Air India emerged champion against Bharat Petroleum in the 23rd Lal Bahadur Shas

tri hockey tournament at the Shivaji Stadium on 4 December 2012.

This was second title of this season for Air India. Air India had already sharedthe MCC-Murugappa Cup with Indian Oil. Air India had an edge over Bharat Petroleum because the team was full of expereinced players. Besides, there was also anadvantage because Bharat Petroleum did not give its 100 percent which was evident when it wasted a lot of opportunities. For Bharat Petroleum this was anotherrunner-up in the second event consecutively.

Air India, in the meanwhile, won the cheque worth 2 lakh Rupees along with the title of the tournament. Amir Khan, the Bharat petroleum striker was decided as the Best Player of the Tournament. V.S. Vinaya of Air India team, on the other hand won the title of Top Scorer of the Event with six goals.

========================The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the India Olympic Association (IOA) on 4 December 2012 and eventually this might also lead to IOA ban from Olympic movement.IOA ban from Olympic would result in consequences such as:No funding from IOCNo officials from India would be invited by IOC to any events such as Paralympics and OlympicsNo India athlete would be allowed competing under Indias flag; but could be permitted competing under IOC flagCommonwealth Games Federation as well as The Olympic Council of Asia might also

go with the trend which would lead to similar sanctions in case of CommonwealthGames as well as the Asian games

IOC suspended IOA because India was following the Sports Code of government in the IOA elections, which is against the Olympic Charter. IOC declared that following of Sports Code of government is actually the interference of the governmentin the Olympic Movement.

Suspension of IOA from Olympics came just before the Election Day. IOA officialsdeclared that the elections would go as planned and scheduled. IOA has been hol


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ding the elections on direction by the Delhi high court which had asked this body to conduct its polls as per the Sports Code and its own constitution.IOA decided this after it put down the bid of IOA to send the 2-member delegation for explaining its scenario.

It was already evident that the suspension was in the line because of the development in run-up to these elections. After sending various letters to IOA, askingit to follow the Olympic Charter, IOC warned for the first time regarding suspension on 23 November 2012. Then it gave the second warning of suspension to IOAon 28 November 2012.

It is worth noticing that the decision of IOC was welcomed by several former aswell as current sportspersons. They believed that suspension was an opportunityof cleaning the hassles in IOA.======================

Viswanathan Anand, the World Chess Champion in a match against Luke McShane of England finished with a draw in second round of the London Chess Classic on 3 December 2012.

In the game which was finely crafted, the number one of the world Norwegian Magnus Carlsen achieved himself the position of highest-rated player in the historyby defeating second seed Levon Aronian of Armenia.

The former World Champion Russian Vladimir Kramnik ensured in the meanwhile thatvictory wouldnt come easy to Carlsen in merely two rounds. He also grinded US-based Hikaru Nakamura in the endgame that had queen and the pawns.

Another game that concluded in a draw was a match between Gawain Jones of England and Judit Polgar of Hungary.

With eight rounds still remaining in the 9-player tournament, Carlsen and Kramnik rushed forward with six points respectively. In first round, Carlsen thrashedMcShane; while on the other hand, Kramnik achieved an advantage at Polgars expense.

Michael Adams of England as well as Nakamura shared third position with the thre

e points each and Michael Adams had his extra match in hand when he bid adieu insecond round only.

Just like Adams, Anand too had a game in hand and now he shares fifth spot jointly in the rankings with Jones, McShane and Polgar. Aronian on the other hand, isat the lowest position in table because he has still not opened his account.=============================Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland ended his two-year wait of winning the tournament on 2 December 2012 with his three-shot victory in World Challenge which was hosted by Tiger Woods. McDowell had last won in 2010 season in which he captured the victory in US Open but since then, he hasnt won anywhere.

For the 72-hole total out of 17-under 271, McDowell carded four-under par 68 in

his final round. He aceived a three-stroke triumph over Keegan Bradley. Bradley,in the meanwhile posted 69 for 274. Bradley had won PGA Chamiopnship in 2011.

After he took the 54-hole lead on 1 December 2012, McDowell accepted that thoughthis tournament was not a part of the tour but it would definitely help him check the mixed season in which he tied the match for second at US Open and also tie for the fifth in British Open.

Another player, Bo Van Pelt carded 70 acquiring the individual ownership of third place on 278. The host, Tiger Woods, on the other hand carded one-under 71 on


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the courses of Sherwood Country Club for the fourth place on 279. Rickie Fowler(69) and Jim Furyk (70) joined him as well.===========================Ravindra Jadeja became first Indian and only eighth batsman in the first-class cricket history of world to score three triple-centuries in the unbeaten 320 runsagainst Railways in the Ranji Trophy Group A match on 2 December 2012 in Rajkot.

With the help of Jadejas innings, Saurashtra reached the giant score of 534 for six in their first innings on second day of 4-day combat.

Jadeja had scored 303 against Gujarat in his first match of this season and eventually the second triple century and third as well to become the only Indian batsman to reach this podium.

There are five other Indian batsmen who have scored two triple centuries in their first-class cricket and these are VVS Laxman, Wasim Jaffer, Virender Sehwag, Vijay Hazare and Raman Lamba. With his triple century, Jadeja has joined the league of seven other non-Indians who have reached this landmark and these are MikeHussey, WG Grace, Graeme Hick, Sir Don Bradman, Wally Hammond, Bill Ponsford andBrian Lara.

During the match, Jadeja, the left-handed batsman hit 28 fours and 7 sixes during his 11-and-a-half-hour game in which he played 491 deliveries. With this, he a

dded 274 for the unbreakable 7th wicket partnership with Kamlesh Makvana, playing at 78.=======================Anna Ushenina of Ukraine on 1 December 2012 won the Womens World Championship Crown of Chess at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia after defeating Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria in first set of tie-break game. Anna won the title along with 60000 US dollar for the efforts made by her to win the Chess championship.

In 2013 Anna would be playing the next world championship against Chinese YifanHou, which is a part of new cycle in Womens World Championship.

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n (IOA) clarified on 1 December 2012 that there was no violation of the government guidelines or Olympic Charter during the election process. It also mentionedthat there should be no action from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) against it.

The acting chief of IOA made it clear that the Election Commission comprising ofthe retired judges of High Court did not find any violation of the rules in theelections which are scheduled to take place on 5 December 2012. The acting chief made clear that none of the three codes- Sports Code, the Delhi High Court order or the Olympic Charter, were violated. Also, the chief mentioned that no nominations were rejected by Election Commission.

In the letter, IOC cleared that it will be proposing disassociation of IOA in th

e Executive Board Meeting to be held on 4-5 December 2012, in case IOA was proceeding with the elections under the Sports Code of the Government.

However, IOA cleared that the Government was not interfering and that the election process was being conducted as per the IOA Constitution as well as Olympic Charter.============================The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) on 29 November 2012 appointed Luiz Felipe Scolari as the Coach of Brazilian Football team. Luiz replaced Mano Menezeswho was sacked from his position in the third week of November 2012.


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Luiz Felipe Scolari would be leading the team as its coach also during the 2014FIFA World Cup scheduled to take place in Brazil. Before this in the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea and Japan, Luiz Felipe Scolari led the Brazilian side as its coach, the team which was declared the winner of the tournament. His recent recruitment at the position of coach would give him a time of 18 months toguide the Brazilian Football Team to win the next World Cup at its home. He would be guiding the team during the FIFA Confederations Cup that is scheduled to be organized in June 2013 in Brazil.===============Sebastian Vettel of Germany, the Red Bull driver became youngest triple championin the history of Formula One on 25 November 2012 by finishing 6th behind Jenson Button in the Brazilian Grand Prix. Vettel, 25 got himself involved in openinglap collision and made very little damage to his Red Bull car in the run in rain-swept conditions at Interlagos circuit. The only title rival of Vettel was two-time champion Spaniard Fernnando Alonso who finished in the second position inhis Ferrari. However he had pre-race 13 points deficit while Vettel won the title by merely three points.Vettel was the third driver in the history of Formula One to win three consecutive titles. Others who have done this before are Michael Schumacher and ArgentineJuan Manuel Fangio. The Red Bull team of Vettel took the third constructors' championship in the sequence on 18 November 2012 in Texas and finished with 281 points while Alonso with 278 points.================================

West Indies on 25 November 2012 won the second match of the test series againstBangladesh at Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium and sealed the series with 2-0. Tino Bestthe West Indies paceman claimed his career best six-wicket haul to help the team win the match against the competitors, which was followed by the five wicket haul in the first test against Dhaka.

With this defeat Bangladesh faced its 65th defeat in the 75 tests played till date, since the time it got recognition as aq test playing nations 12 years back.The list of defeat also includes 34 defeats by an innings. After marking this major win in the test series, West Indies would be playing five one-day internationals followed by a twenty20 international match.========================Usain Bolt won the IAAF World Athlete of the Year Award 2012 for the fourth time

and United States sprinter Allyson Felix won women's World Athlete of the YearAward 2012 on 24 November 2012 during the IAAF's 100th Anniversary Celebration.The Jamaican sprinter Bolt had won for defending his gold medals in the 100 and200 meter races of the summers Olympic Games, he also won the same award previously in 2008, 2009 and 2011. Bolt managed to be ahead of United States hurdler Aries Merritt and Kenyan runner David Rudisha to win the award.

Allyson Felix managed to secure her Gold medal in the London Olympics in the 200meter race. Before this she managed to settle down with the Silver in the Beijing Olympics in the year 2008. New Zealand shot putter Valerie Adams and Britishheptathlete Jessica Ennis were the other finalists of the Women award segment, who also were the gold medalists in London Olympics.

In 2003, Bolt and Felix won the Rising Star awards for the most promising youngathletes of the year.

United States hurdler Aries Merritt was successful in winning the Inspiration Award for his season and the award included a gold medal and a world record in the110-meter hurdles. David Rudisha won the Performance of the Year award for hisrecord-setting gold medal run in the 800 meters; he was the winner of the Athlete of the Year in 2010. Keshorn Walcott, Javelin thrower of Trinidad and Anthonique Strachan sprinter of Bahamas won the Rising Star awards.===================


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The Czech Republic on 18 November 2012 won the 100th Davis Cup 2012 finals, after defeating Spain by 3-2 in the finals. Radek Stepanek of Czech Republic outclassed Nicolas Almagro of Spain with 6-4, 7-6 (0), 3-6, 6-3 in the 3 hours and 52 minutes game, on the hard court of Pragues O2 Arena, during the final fifth rubberof the Davis Cup.

Radek Stepanek has created a history by his name after winning the Davis Cup final as he became the first man ever aged 30 or above to win the decisive rubber in 100 years.

With this win, the Czech Republic lifted the Davis Cup for the first time afterwinning independence in 1993. Before this in the year 1980 it lifted the trophyunder Czechoslovakia flag by the team led by Ivan Lendl. With this win the CzechRepublic turned-up to be the first nation that won the Hopman Cup, Fed Cup andDavis Cup in one year.==================World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) proposed that athletes found guilty of the serious doping felonies will be suspended for 4 years from 2015. However no specificrules were made for banning the wrong-doers from Olympics.

At present, the athletes who are found guilty of their first main doping felonyare put on 2-year ban followed by a life ban in case of successive positive tests.

WADA proposed in its second draft of2012 WADA code that there will be an introduction of longer ban for the offenses which include Human Growth Hormone (HGH), anabolic steroids as well as trafficking and masking agents. This draft was reviewed from 17 November 2012 to 18 November 2012.

The draft has doubled the suspension length for the offenders and has also widened anti-doing oragnisations scope to impose the lifetime bans.

Nevertheless, in the draft there is no consideration to the former InternationalOlympic Committee (IOC) rule in context with the Olympic participation. This rule was ruled in refusal with WADA Code back in 2011 by the Court of Arbitrationfor Sport (CAS), the highest sports court. As per the IOC rule which was introduced in 2008, in case the athletes were suspended for six months or more than that

, participation in next Olympic Games was banned.

According to the new WADA Code draft, there has also been an inclusion of the proposal about the prohibited substances or techniques which are contradictory tothe sports spirit or health of an athlete.

This proposed draft will also go for review between November 2012 and March 2013, after which it will be presented to WADA Foundation Board before preparation of the final draft.=========================Sports Current Affairs November 2012. Daimler, the German Luxury Carmaker purchased 40 percent stakes of the Mercedes Formula One Motor Racing Team owned by theAbu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Aabar Investments in the third week of November

2012. With this purchase the teams full control went into the hands of Daimler.The amount of purchase of the 40 percent stake remained undisclosed.

The deal of selling out the stakes of the formula 1 team now awaits regulatory approval.

The Two companies Daimler and Aabar came together into motor racing in 2009 after they purchased Brawn GP, the then World Champion and re-launched it the next season with the name, Mercedes. At present Mercedes stands at fifth position in the 12-team Formula One Standings. Team Mercedes has signed a three-year deal wit


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h the former world champion Lewis Hamilton, who would be driving for the team inthe next season.==========================M. Mahalakshmi and R. Vaishali from Chennai on 19 November 2012 won Gold at theWorld Youth Chess Championship in Slovenia. Arvindh Chithambaram (Under-14 Open)from Madurai and Girish A. Koushik (Under-16 Open) from Mysore won Silver Medals in the championship. G.K. Monnisha (under-14) and Savant Riya (Under-12) secured Bronze at the Championship for India.R. Vaishali was successful in securing her position in under-12 girls honours. Arvindh Chithambaram lost gold after losing the tie-up with the American Troff Kayden by a tie-break score at the end of the 11-round event.===========International news agencies on 15 November 2012 boycotted the high-profile Testseries between India and England which began with its first test in Ahmedabad toprotest against the restrictions imposed by the BCCI on some photo agencies covering the tour.

The major International agencies Thomson Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Associated Press decided to suspend reports from the tour as well as pictures. Also,as per the release issued by the News Media Coalition (NMC), the press Association, National Agency in the United Kingdom is not going to supply Photographs.

The international news agencies are basically protesting against providing pictorial or text coverage of the tour.

It is being seen that agencies distribute thousands of images as part of their editorial coverage to the enjoyment of fans, the curious and sponsors of teams, such as Nike and Sahara. The lock-out of photographic agencies by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) would result in cricket fans worldwide havingsight of far fewer images taken by press photographers.=============================The Spanish pair of Marcel Granollers and Marc Lopez on 12 November 2012 defeated the Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in the Men's Doubles titleclash of the ATP World Tour Finals in London. In the final match, the fifth seeded Indian duo went down fighting in a tight three-set game, 5-7, 6-3, 3-10.Meanwhile, Serbia's World Number One Novak Djokovic has bagged the Men's Singlestrophy. Djokovic defeated World Number Two Roger Federer of Switzerland in stra

ight sets, 7-6, 7-5, in the final match played early this morning.=======================Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, the female Weightlifter from India won three bronze medals for Indian Team on the opening day of the 19th Junior Women Asian Weightlifting Championships in Yangon in Mynamar.

To win and secure medals she lifted 168kg in the 48kg weight category -- one each in snatch (74kg), clean and jerk (94kg) and total (168kg).

Mirabai, got selected for the event after lifting 163kg in the trials and had managed an additional five kg more during the main event.Mirabai was fifth in 48kg weight category in the last edition of the tournament

in Pattaya (Thailand).She had earlier clinched gold in the dame category during the seventh National Youth (Girls) Weightlifting Championships held at Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh inyear 2011.===================The Andhra Pradesh High Court on 8 November 2012 lifted the life ban from playing Cricket on Mohammad Azharuddin which was imposed by Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in Year 2000.


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The life ban on Mohammad Azharuddin came after he was found involved in the betting scandal and the match-fixing episode as per the BCCI three-member committee,comprising its erstwhile president A C Muthaiah and two vice-presidents Kamal Morarka and K M Ram Prasad.

Overturning the BCCI decision, the bench of Justice which was comprised of justices Ashutosh Mohanta and Krishna Mohan Reddy gave relief to Azharuddin allowinghis appeal challenging the order of a local court.

The bench of Justice agreed with the argument of Azharuddins counsel K Ramakant Reddy that there is no evidence against him.

Azharuddin made his debut for India in 1984-85 and played his final international match in June 2000.Mohammad Azharuddin was stranded on 99 Test appearances dueto the ban. He had made 6215 runs in test matches at an average of 45.03 afterbursting on the scene in 1984-85 with centuries in each of his first three Tests.

In One-Day Internationals, he scored 9378 runs and hit seven hundreds across 334matches.

Mohammad Azharuddin in his 49 years of age is currently a member of parliament from Moradabad constituency in Uttar Pradesh.===============

V. Dinesh Reddy, the Director-General of Police for Andhra Pradesh has been appointed as the New President of the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) on 7 November 2012. Dinesh Reddy replaced R.K. Shetty after he resigned from the post.

Reddys elevation to the post happened because he was the senior most Vice-President of the organization after R.K. Shetty and would be at the post till next elections of the federation takes places.

Indian Olympic Associations Electoral College has also released a list for elections that is scheduled for 25 November and Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) was allowed to vote attend the meetings scheduled in the future for the elections, butwould not be allowed to vote in the elections. Hockey India (HI) would be placing three representatives who are eligible for Voting during the elections.

=================================Indian Golf Player Gaganjeet Bhullar became the First Indian who made it to theelite group of the worlds top-100 players in the latest ranking.

The title was previously held by Jeev Milkha Singh, who broke the record in 2006at the age of 34 with Jyoti Randhawa following him in the same year when he wasalso aged 34.

As per the latest Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR), Bhullar had jumped 10 ranks on the back of a tied-18 finish in the $7 million WGC-HSBC Champions in China

to take the 98th position in the world. Only Jeev Milkha Singh is ahead of Bhullar currently, and is placed at 95 in the OWGR. The next best placed Indian is Anirban Lahiri ranking 234 on the list.

Gaganjeet Bhullar is currently in Singapore, where he is going to play the $6 million Barclays Open.

In Year 2012, Gaganjeet Bhullar had won the Yeangder Tournament Players Championship on 17 September 2012 which was followed by his win over the Venetian MacauOpen in the month of October.


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============================Indian cricket team Captain M.S. Dhonis Superbike championship team on 7 November2012 changed its name from MSD R-N Racing Team India to Mahi Racing Team Indiaand had signed two new members.

The two new members that had been signed up are world champion Kenan Sofouglu and former world champion Fabien ForetSofouglu is a driver from turkey and had won the championship three times in 2007, 2010 and the recently-concluded season with the Kawaski team after the Portuguese Grand Prix.While, Fabien Foret is a driver from France and is a 2002 World champion. At theend of 2008, he had 24 podium finishes under his name which includes 11 wins and 12 pole positions.

The riders are going to test the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R machines during the official winter testing season. Earlier named MSD R-N Racing Team India, the Indian skippers team competed in the 600cc class in 2012, becoming Indias first FIM world superbike championship team.

The Budh International Circuit is hosting the superbike world championship eventin March 2013, leading to a rush in interest for Indias first bike racing team,involving Dhoni, who had passion for speed and bike.

About Superbike RaceThe Superbike race first started in year 1970 when super bike race is held in many countries mainly in USA and Australia. At that time the races were of large capacity bike of up to 1100cc and were strictly limited to four stroke machines.But soon the grand prix bikes arrived in the states which were accompanied and later replaced by 700 and 750 two stroke, three=or four cylinder machines.

============================Pakistan on 6 November 2012 was declared champion of the Asian Kabaddi Championship after Indian team walked out from the field in a protest against the refereesdecision of penalizing the Indian Coach.

The Pakistani team was leading the game by 40 points against 31 points scored by

the Indian side. The protest by the Indian players came after the Coach of Indian side; Goormel Singh was shown a green card after continuously disturbing thefinals in protest of decision of the referee.=================================Sachin Tendulkar the Indian Cricketer on 6 November 2012 received the honorary membership of the Order of Australia by Simon Crean, Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government and Minister for the Arts at a function organised at Taj Lands End at Mumbai, India.On this occassion Sachin recieved a medal and a stump painted by an Australian.

With this honour Sachin has now joined the list of non-Australian cricketers tobe honoured with the membership of Order of Australia along with Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd and Gary Sobers.

=============The National Anti-Doping Disciplinary Panel (NADDP) on 5 November 2012 suspendedall the 11 athletes for two years, who were tested positive with methylhexaneamine (MHA) in the run-up of the last Commonwealth Games. The decision came-up after a twenty five months long hearing process and the suspension would be in effect from the date of decision making.

The panel hearing into the case also ordered disqualification of all the recordsand results by their name recorded from the date of sample collection, it wouldalso include omission of all the consequences that included forfeiture of all t


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he points, medals and prizes. Following the provisions of Article 10.8 of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) and the code of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)which is yet not applied in the hearing procedures of Indian disciplinary, would mean the loss of Bronze Medal in the 96 kilogram freestyle category of Wrestling from wrestler Mausam Khatri, which he won in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

The additional disqualification of results from sample collection date, under Article 10.8 of the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) rules and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code, hitherto not applied in Indian disciplinary hearing procedures, will mean that wrestler Mausam Khatri will lose his bronze medal in the96kg freestyle category in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

Under the same provisions, swimmer Richa Mishra would lose all the 16 medals that include 11 Gold in the National Games February 2011 held at Ranchi along withthe other five Gold won during National Swimming Championships held in October 2012 at Pune.

Others, against whom the hearing were carried on and whose name were included inthe suspension orders include six wrestlers out of which Rajeev Tomar is an Arjuna Awardee and rest five are Sumit Sehrawat, Joginder Singh, Gursharanpreet Kaur including Mausam Khatri. The list also have name of two athletes namely Saurabh Vij and Akash Antil along with three swimmers and they are Amar Muralidharan,Jyotsana Pansare and Richa.

The disciplinary panel that was hearing into the case included retired judge Dinesh Dayal and former Asian badminton champion Dinesh Khanna and Dr. N.K. Khadiyadisqualified the evidence presented to establish deviations in proceedings of the laboratory and other agencies involved in the processes=====================Sports Current Affairs 2012.Indian Tennis Player Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna on 4 November 2012 won their first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title together defeating Pakistan's Aisam- Ul- Haq Qureshi and Netherlands' Jean- Julien Rojer by 7-6(6), 6-3 in the final of the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris.

The pair Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna won 142500 in prize money and had also claimed 1000 ATP Doubles Team Rankings points, while their opponent and Barclays ATP World Tour Finals qualifiers Aisam-Ul- Qureshi and Jean- Julien Rojer cla

imed 69780 prize money and 600 points.

Mahesh Bhupati, till date, had won 16 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 trophies, while for Bopanna it his second shield.

Also, together for Bhupati and Bopanna it is their second title of the year 2012. Earlier they had won the Dubai ATP event in March 2012 and ended runners-up atCincinnati and Shanghai.

In 2011, Rohan Bopanna and Aisam- Ul- Haq Qureshi won the Paris title.===================================================Hironmoy Chatterjee, Secretary of the Bengal Tennis Association on 1 November 2012 was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The All India Tennis As

sociation (AITA).

The decision of Chatterjees selection was made by the Executive Board of AITA that is headed by President Anil Khanna with consultation to the honourable Life President, Yashwant Sinha. Chatterjee in his 36 years experience as a tennis administrator has been a beneficiary of conducting different types of tournaments that includes the local tournaments to the Davis Cup, a tournament of world level.===================================Sahara India Pariwar on 31 October 2012 at the Sahara Shaher in Lucknow felicitated six Indian athletes who won medals at the London Olympics in July-August 201


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2.The function was attended by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and by renowned businessmen, politicians and officials and was marked with a cultural programme whichincluded some memorable performances by Sonu Nigam and Shiamak Davars troupe.

The silver medalist Sushil Kumar and Vijay Kumar were presented with gold weighing three kg while bronze medalist Gagang Narang, Saina Nehwal, Mary Kom and Yogeshwar Dutt were presented with 2 kg of gold by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

Sahara India Pariwar is a major business conglomerate and the prime promoter& patron of sports in India.

It had been already declared by Sahara India Pariwar prior to the commencement of the London Olympics that it is going to award medals of pure gold of 5 Kg, 3 Kg and 2 Kg to every Indian winning gold, silver and bronze medal respectively inthe London Olympics 2012.===========================Indian Cricketer Virat Kohli was chosen for the Board of Control for Cricket inIndia's (BCCI) Polly Umrigar award for being India's top international cricketerin 2011-12.

With this Virat Kohli is going to be honoured with a trophy and cheque of 5 lakhRupees at the Annual BCCI Awards Ceremony in Mumbai on 21 November 2012.

The other previous winners of this prestigious award are Sachin Tendulkar in year 2006-07 and 2009-10, Virender Sehwag in year 2007-08, with Gautam Gambhir andRahul Dravid in year 2008-09 and 2010-11 respectively.

Virat Kohli in year 2011-12 had scored:

627 run @ 52.25 from 7 Tests, which include two centuries. 1539 runs @ 73 from 26 ODIs, which includes seven centuries. 389 run @ 48 from ten T20 Internationals, which include four fifties.

VVS Laxman, who announced his retirement from international cricket in August 2012, is also going to be felicitated at the ceremony with Sachin Tendulkar who is

being honoured for completing a century of international centuries.

The award Polly Umrigar is under the name of late Indian cricketer Polly Umrigar (28 March 1926 7 November 2006) who had played first-class cricket for Bombay, and Test cricket in the Indian cricket team, as a middle-order batsman and hadcaptained the Indian team in eight Test matches from 1955 to 1958.

===================================The Indian women's cricket team on 31 October 2012 won inaugural Asian Cricket Council's (ACC) Twenty20 Asia Cup, beating Pakistan by 18 runs in a low-scoring final in Guangzhou city of Peoples Republic of China.

The team elected to bat first but did not have a good beginning as they lost both their openers within the first couple of overs. They somehow managed to make a

low score of 81runs but the bowlers did a splendid job to dismiss Pakistan to 63 in 19.1 overs.

The women bowlers showed an impressive disciplined performance with giving awayjust a couple of wides from 19.1 overs.Harmanpreet Kaur, was stand-in captain in place of Mithali Raj. The captain of Indian women cricket team Mithali Raj and senior player Jhulan Goswami were not playing the final match due to ankle injury.


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Earlier Indian women cricket team defeated Thailand in their opening match of the tournament by 77 runs, while Hong Kong was defeated in the second match with 142 runs.=============================West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan on 23 October 2012 resigned from the boardof the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA).

The resigning of Ramnaresh Sarwan came with resignation of Dave Kissoon, the director of West Indies Players' Association (WIPA). Dave Kissoon, recently had presided over the court cases concerning player contracts and a disputed memorandumof understanding involving WIPA and the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB).

Ramesh Sarwan, the out-of-favour West Indies batsman, was a member of WIPA's executive from 2008, while Dave Kissoon was appointed a director in November 2010.

Ramnaresh sarwan had resigned from WIPA executive to patch up with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and he is in way to make is presence back into the national team.

Ramnaresh Sarwan, last played for West Indies in June 2011, but has since then declared that he would never represent the regional side again. He had won his case against the WICB (West Indies Cricket Board) in September 2012 over commentsmade about his fitness and was awarded $161000 in damages

The positions made vacant by both the people are going to be filled at the nextannual general meeting in January 2013.============Danish legend Baminton Player, Peter Gade on 30 October 2012 retired from international badminton after his three-game defeat against compatriot Jan . Jrgensen ofDenmark.Peter Grade is five-time European Champion in Year (1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2010).

Peter Dane had 22 Super series and Grand Prix titles under his name and took 5 medals at World Championships: Silver in 2001, Bronze in 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2011. He had also won the 1999 All-England Championships.

He is counted among most successful European singles player in Asia of all timesby taking 13 tournaments titles in the "Far East".

Peter Gade remained professional ambassador for European badminton, through major part of his career. He had inspired thousands of young players all around theworld with his unique style of playing Badminton that was fast attacks, smooth footwork and constant pressure.===============================Danish legend Baminton Player, Peter Gade on 30 October 2012 retired from international badminton after his three-game defeat against compatriot Jan . Jrgensen ofDenmark.

Peter Grade is five-time European Champion in Year (1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2010).

Peter Dane had 22 Super series and Grand Prix titles under his name and took 5 medals at World Championships: Silver in 2001, Bronze in 1999, 2005, 2010 and 2011. He had also won the 1999 All-England Championships.He is counted among most successful European singles player in Asia of all timesby taking 13 tournaments titles in the "Far East".


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Peter Gade remained professional ambassador for European badminton, through major part of his career. He had inspired thousands of young players all around theworld with his unique style of playing Badminton that was fast attacks, smooth footwork and constant pressure.=====================================Lionel Messi, the Barcelonean forward footballer on 29 October 2012 won Golden Boot Award. Messi won the award in recognition to his record 50 goals scored in the Europes domestic football league in the last session. To win the award he scored 4 more goals than Cristiano Ronaldo, the Spanish league star.

This is the second Golden Boot award for Messi, as he won his first Golden BootAward in the year 2010 after scoring 34 goals during Argentina International tohelp Barcelona win the league title. He is also in the list of the favorites towin the 2012 Ballon dOr for the Worlds best player.====================Joshna Chinappa, one of the top squash players of India claimed the IJM Land Penang Open after defeating top most squash player Siti Munirah Jusoh of Malaysia in straight games on 30 October 2012.

Joshna Chinappa defeated her Malaysian opponent Siti Munirah Jusoh with 11-9 11-7 11-1 in a 34-minute match between them at the Nicol David International SquashCentre. Both had dropped just one game to finish for the route to the final.

Joshna Chinappa is the first Indian girl who had won the British Squash Champion

ship title in 2003 in the under 19 category, at Sheffield in U.K and she is alsocounted among the youngest Indian women's national champion.

================Indian Billiards Player Pankaj Advani on 29 October 2012 won seventh World Billiards Championship title after comprehensively beating defending champion and seasoned Englishman Mike Russell in the finals of World Billiards Championship 2012.

The event was scheduled at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, England where Pankaj scored 1895 points and Russell managed to score only 1216 points losing toPankaj Advani.

Pankaj was on steady rhythm since the beginning of the match and got on track with first break of 147 points followed by 298 points to obtain a lead of 450 points. Russel, on the other hand fearlessly replied with a break of 397 narrowing the deficit to just 60 points.================================Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the Indian Grand Prix 2012 on 28 October 2012 at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) for the second time in a row extending his Formula One championship lead.

The rival Fernando Alonso of Ferrari kept the pressure on with finishing up fora second-place. The win put Vettel (240 points) 13 points clear of his rollingFerrari rival Fernando Alonso.

It was Sebastian Vettel's fourth straight win for the first time in his career completing a clean sweep of the Asian swing -- and now leads the drivers' championship by 13 points with three races to go, chasing a third successive F1 title.

Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull teammate Mark Webber finished third, the Australianfending off a strong late challenge from Lewis Hamilton of McLaren who finishedfourth ahead of his teammate and fellow Briton Jenson Button.

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seconds to grab pole, his teammate Webber finished second with a timing of 1:25.327.=============Chennai based SUN TV Network acquired the Indian Premier League (IPL) Hyderabadfranchise on 25 October 2012 for an enormous amount of 85.05 crore Rupees per year.

The Hyderabad franchise of the Indian Premier League was fell vacant after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) dropped Deccan Chargers in October 2012 for its failure to give a bank guarantee and other issues.

The deal was made by owner of Sun TV Network, Kalanithi Maran who bought the (IPL) Hyderabad franchise for 425 crore Rupees (approx $80m) which is payable in the next five years at 85.5 crore Rupees per year.

The bid made by SUN TV Network was substantially higher than the second bid of 69.03 crore Rupees made by PVP Ventures of Hyderabad.

For attracting more bidders, the BCCI had kept the base price at reasonable 60 crores Rupees per year. The franchise was earlier owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd. (DCHL) who had bought the Hyderabad franchise for 428 crores rupees fora period of 10 years.

Chennai-based Sun TV Networks Limited is the part of Sun Group and is one of Ind

ia's biggest television networks with 32 TV channels and 45 FM radio stations primarily catering to an audience in the four southern languages of India. Their network includes channels covering news, entertainment, film, documentary and music.====================================Lance Armstrong on 22 October 2012 was stripped of from all the seven Tour de France Titles and banned for life from cycling. This event occurred as a follow upof the 202 page report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA ) that accused Armstrong of leading a doping programme on his team.

President of International Cycling Union (UCI) Pat McQuaid cleared on 22 October2012 that the report from the anti-doping agency, USADA was accepted and no appeals would be made in the Court of Arbitration for Sports.

Organisers of Tour de France would now officially remove the name of Armstrong from all its record books that will include omission of his consecutive victoriesfrom 1999 to 2005. Christian Prudhomme the Tour Director announced that no official winners of these years would be declared and the race would follow the decisions made by the UCI.

==================he World No. 4 badminton player Saina Nehwal on 21 October 2012 won the DenmarkOpen Super Series Premier tournament by defeating the German badminton player Juliane Schenk by 21-17 21-8.

She was competing in the women's single final category badminton match in Odense, Denmark and was Playing without the chief national coach and her mentor Pullela Gopi Chand,

This title is counted to be her sixth Super Series title and the first title outside Asia. Her previous titles came in Indonesia (2009, 2010, 2012), Singapore (2010) and Hong Kong (2010).

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The victory is another milestone in career history of the Indian shuttle Saina Nehwal who had successfully defended her Swiss Open title by defeating world number two Wang Shixian of China in March 2012.

In June 2012, Saina had won the Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold title thereafter she had also won the Indonesia Open Super Series Premier by defeating world number three Li Xuerui of China.============London Olympic Shooter and silver medalist Vijay Kumar on 19 October 2012 was honoured with the Services Best Sportsman award for 2012 at the Army Headquartersin New Delhi

The award which include trophy and cash award of one lakh rupees is generally given to the best sportsman from the three defence forces of Army, Air Force and Navy.

Vijay Kumar is the current world number and had earlier won three gold medals and one silver medal at the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games. Vijay Kumar won a silver medal at the July-August 2012 London Games in the individual 25 metre rapid fire pistol.

Vijay Kumar is from Barsar village of Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh andis presently a serving Subedar Major in the Dogra Regiment (16th Battalion) of the Indian Army.

He was also awarded with Arjuna Award in 2007 and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardin 2011-12 by the Government of India.=================Opening batsman of New Zealand Cricket team Martin Guptill on 18 October 2012 claimed the top honour at the New Zealand Cricket Awards in Auckland, winning theSir Richard Hadlee Medal for 2011-12.

Martin Guptill was also named ODI and Twenty20 player of the year, based on performances between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012.Also, Young fast bowler of New Zealand cricket team Doug Bracewell picked up theother big award of Test Player of the Year. Bracewell finished the 2011-12 seas

on with taking up of 37 wickets at an average of 24.05

Martin Guptill played terrifically in all forms of the game during the 2011-12 season. With 490 Test runs he is only second behind skipper Ross Taylor, while hetop-scored for the New Zealand team in one-day with 579 and in T20 with 378.===================Opening batsman of New Zealand Cricket team Martin Guptill on 18 October 2012 claimed the top honour at the New Zealand Cricket Awards in Auckland, winning theSir Richard Hadlee Medal for 2011-12.

Martin Guptill was also named ODI and Twenty20 player of the year, based on performances between 1 September 2011 and 31 August 2012.

Also, Young fast bowler of New Zealand cricket team Doug Bracewell picked up theother big award of Test Player of the Year. Bracewell finished the 2011-12 season with taking up of 37 wickets at an average of 24.05

Martin Guptill played terrifically in all forms of the game during the 2011-12 season. With 490 Test runs he is only second behind skipper Ross Taylor, while hetop-scored for the New Zealand team in one-day with 579 and in T20 with 378.====================The Supreme Court of India on 19 October 2012 rejected the plea of Deccan Chargers to put a stay order on the decision of Mumbai High Court that supported the d


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ecision of BCCI to terminate the franchise from being in Indian Premier League (IPL).

The Bench of Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India Altamas Kabir including Justices S.S. Nijjar and J. Chelameswar after dismissal of the plea madeby the Deccan Chronicle Holding Ltd. cleared that the arbitrator cant overrule an order passed by the Court. With this development by the side of Supreme Courtit is clear that the Deccan Chargers are completely out of the League.

There remains only two ways for the franchise to bounce back into the IPL and they are in case, Bombay High Court reverses its decision after hearing the arguments from both sides once again in detail or CK Thakkar, the court appointed arbitrator finds any ground of incorrect termination of the team from the IPL by 29October 2012.=============National Rifles Association of India (NRAI) on 15 October 2012 appointed JaspalRana as the chief coach for the Junior Pistol Shooters. The triple Gold Medallist at Doha Asian Games, Rana would be entitled for a salary of 50,000 rupees permonth.===========Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on her visit to India on 16 October 2012announced that Sachin Tendulkar would be conferred with the membership of the Order of Australia. This is the honor that is rarely bestowed on any non-Australian. The Prime Minister, while announcing this special honour for Sachin said tha

t he deserves the award because he was a special cricketer.

Sachin will be conferred with this award during the visit of Australian MinisterSimon Crean to India. Tendulkar will be honoured with AM award, one of the sixdifferent grades of the Order of Australia honour.

Sachin is the Second Indian after Soli Sorabjee, the former Attorney General ofIndia to be conferred with this award. Before Sachin Tendulkar, Brain Lara the cricketer from West Indies was conferred with this honour in the year 2009.======================Novak Djokovic beated British Tennis Player Andy Murray, on 14 October 2012 saving five match points to seal a stunning 5- 7, 7- 6 ( 13/ 11), 6- 3 victory in the Shanghai Rolex Masters final.

With the winning of match Novak Djokovic became the first player to win seven ofthe nine ATP World Tour 1000 Masters eventsAlso in the Doubles Category, Leander Paes and Radek Stepanek won the Shanghai Rolex Double title by defeating Mahesh Bhupati and Rohan Bopanna.

Novak Djokovic has won five Grand Slam singles titles: the 2008, 2011, and 2012Australian Open; the 2011 Wimbledon Championships; and the 2011 US Open. By winning three Majors in 2011, Djokovic became the sixth male player in the open erato win three Majors in a calendar year.

He is the first male player representing Serbia to win a Major singles title andthe youngest player in the open era to have reached the semifinals of all four

Grand Slam events, separately and consecutively.

About Shanghai Rolex Masters

The 4th Edition of Shanghai Rolex Masters, is one of the worlds biggest tennis tournaments and the only such tournament to be staged outside North America and Europe. The Shanghai Rolex Masters is one of only nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments in the world and is the culmination and feature event of the Asian Swing. TheShanghai Rolex Masters was named ATP Masters 1000 Tournament of the Year for 2009, 2010 and 2011.


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Total prize money for the Shanghai Rolex Masters is US$3240000===================Indian Golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar on 14 October 2012 fired a three-under 68 to complete a start to-finish win in the Venetian Macau Open Golf.

Gaganjeet Bhullar finished with 16-under 268 for a two-shot win and bag his second title on Asian Tour within a month. With this he took over his fourth title of his career, keeping aside the inaugural Gujarat Challenge Tour win in 2011.American Jonathan Moore finished two shots back in second place after a 65 and Thai youngster Thitiphun Chuayprakong closed with a 70 to share third place withBangladeshi Siddikur (66).

About Macau Open

The Macau Open is a men's professional golf tournament on the Asian Tour which take place in Macau ever year. It was founded in 1998. The venue is the Macau Golf & Country Club at Coloane. The best known golfer who won the tournament is eight-time European Tour Order of Merit champion Colin Montgomerie.====================India-born, Monisha Kaltenborn Became the First Woman Team Principal in Formulaone on 11 October 2012 after taking the control of team Sauber, a Swiss Formulaone team with the stepping down of team founder Peter Sauber from day to day management.

The news of Monisha Kaltenborn appointment came after Peter Sauber made it clearthat he did not wish to run the team, which he built more than fourty years ago.

Monisha Kaltenborn joined Sauber in 2000 as head of its legal department and hasbeen its CEO since January 2010.

Monisha secured her bachelors degree in law from the University of Vienna in 1995and also holds a Masters degree in International Business Law from the London School of Economics which she did in 1996.

About Sauber Team

Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by PeterSauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993.

The team was sold to BMW in 2005; the reason was not winning a Grand Prix as anindependent. The team thereafter competed as BMW Sauber from 2006 to 2009, achieving one victory. At the end of the 2009 season, BMW pulled out of Formula One and the team's future remained uncertain for several months, until it was sold back to Peter Sauber and granted a 2010 entry.

However, due to issues with the Concorde Agreement, the team remained as "BMW Sauber" for the 2010 season. In March 2010, Peter Sauber announced plans to change

the team name during the season, but the FIA announced that they would have towait until the end of the season to change their name. From the beginning of the2011 Formula One season the team dropped BMW from their name.

Peter Sauber currently owns a controlling 66.6% stake in the team, with the remainder belonging to Monisha Kaltenborn.======================Former India cricketer and captain Anil Kumble on 11 October 2012 was named thenew head of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricket committee, replacing former West Indies skipper Clive Lloyd.


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The International Cricket Council's (ICC) cricket committee is a 16-member committee which meets twice a year to consult on playing matters and offer recommendations to the ICC on technical aspects and rules of the sport.

Also in another separate reshuffling of members former West Indies paceman Ian Bishop was replaced by England's Andrew Strauss, who retired from all forms of cricket at the end of August.

Anil Kumble also heads the Board of Control for Cricket in India's board's technical Committee.

Anil Kumble, is 41 years old and has 619 Test and 337 One-Day International wickets to his name.==============Floris Evers, Roderick Weusthof and Teun Floris de Nooijer, the three Dutch Hockey stars on 10 October 2012 announced their retirement from International Hockey.

The three players were the part of the Netherlands Hockey Squad in Olympics 2012, where the Dutch team finished with silver medal after facing defeat from the hands of Germany.========The International Cricket Council (ICC) on 10 October 2012 suspended all the six

umpires for their alleged involvement in their willingness to fix the T20 matches by the TV Sting Operation.

The statement released by the governing body of ICC after the meet of its full member board cleared that the umpires named in the sting would not be appointed in any format of international or domestic cricket matches, until the ongoing investigations doesnt reach to a conclusion. Due to the matters of urgency, the board that recruits and nominates the umpires would directly look into the matter.

Umpires alleged for their willingness to fix the match in the TV sting were Nadir Shah from Bangladesh, Nadeem Ghauri and Anees Siddiqui from Pakistan and Maurice Winston, Gamini Dissanayake and Sagara Gallage from Sri Lanka.

======Dermot Reeve, the former all-rounder of England took the charge of Maharashtra Ranji Team as its Coach for domestic season of 2012-13 on 9 October 2012. Reeve will take the charge from the outgoing coach of the team Shaun Williams, who is going to take charge of the indoor Cricket Academy of Maharashtra Cricket Association.

Reeve has also served Raigad Royals, a franchise of Maharashtra Premier League as its Coach in past. Before Reeve, the Ranji Team of Maharashtra had seen two more Foreign Coach in its history and they were Shaun Williams and Darren Holder.=======================Australian all-Rounder Shane Watson on 7 October 2012 at the conclusion of T-20World Cup in Premadasa Stadium named player of the tournament.

It was his outstanding form in T-20 World cup that helped Australian Team getting into semi-final before they were knocked out by West Indies.

Shane Watson batted six innings in the tournament, scoring a total of 249 runs at an average of 49.80 and took 11 wickets at an average of 16 and an economy rate of 7.33.

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======================Australian all-Rounder Shane Watson on 7 October 2012 at the conclusion of T-20World Cup in Premadasa Stadium named player of the tournament.

It was his outstanding form in T-20 World cup that helped Australian Team getting into semi-final before they were knocked out by West Indies.

Shane Watson batted six innings in the tournament, scoring a total of 249 runs at an average of 49.80 and took 11 wickets at an average of 16 and an economy rate of 7.33.

Shane Watson is also the only Player in the tournament who got four consecutiveman-of-the-match awards.==============The Australian Women Cricket team on 7 October 2012 defeated England by four runs to retain the Women T-20 world cup title.It is Australias second win in women T-20 World cup. Before this Australia had won T-20 World Cup in 2010.

Australia Batted first and made 142 runs in 20 overs with 6 wickets in hand, Inresponse to that England women cricket team managed to make only 138 runs in 20overs losing the tournament to Australia.====================Sebastin Vettel on 7 October 2012 won the Formulae One title race of the Japanes

e Grand Prix for the season. He left Ferraris Felipe Massa 20 seconds behind in the race to conquer the title.

Kamui Kobayashi, the home favorite of the tournament took the third position onthe podium. Sebastin Vettel is this year only man to bag back-to-back victoriesin the Grand Prix.==============West Indies on 7 October 2012 won the finals of ICC World Twenty20 Championshipafter defeating the Sri Lankan team by 36 runs at R. Premadasa Stadium. West Indies batting first in the match scored 137 runs for six wickets down. In responseto the target, the Lankan team finished off at a score of 101 runs allowing West Indies to win the tournament.

The West Indies team won a world cup title after 33 years. Before this the teamwon the 1979 ODI World Cup after defeating the English team in the final. In fact, West Indies also won the 1st edition of World Cup in 1975 after defeating Australia in the final match.

The Indian team was out of the Twenty20 World Cup tournament in the super-eightmatches after it failed to stop the South African team at the score of the 121 in its last match.=================In order to give encouragement to the talented sportsmen of the University system and promote sports in Universities, the Union Minister of Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal on 5 October 2012 launched hockey and cricket league under the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) .

Association of Indian Universities has been organising the Rohinton Baria Cricket Trophy, the Inter University Hockey Tournament and other events for promotionof sports in the Universities throughout the country.

It was after an offer made by the NDTV Group for assisting in sponsoring sportsevents, it was decided to organise every year, a National Level University Cricket League (UCL) and University Hockey League (UHL).

So For this purpose an Organising Committee chaired by the Minister of Human Res


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ource Development, Communication and IT has been constituted, composed of seniorrepresentatives of University Grants Commission (UGC), AIU, NDTV, Vice Chancellors of several Universities, NDMC, DDCA Hockey India and eminent persons in thefield of sports.

The University Cricket League would be played among 8 top University teams in the T 20 format, from amongst those who qualify through a zonal competition. Similarly the University Hockey League would be played among the top 8 teams selectedthrough the zonal competitions.=================================revious Story Next Story Michael Schumacher, the German Formula one driver and the seven times world Champion on 4 October 2012 announced his retirement from Formula one Race.

Michael Schumacher will retire from Formula 1 for the second time at the end ofthe 2012 Season. He first retired in 2006 but made a comeback with the Mercedesteam in 2010.

The retirement came after Mercedes announced that Lewis Hamilton would replace him in the side although it was clear that the Michael Schumacher will join Sauber for the next Formula one season.

Michael Schumacher dominated the F1 world at the start of 20th century when he won five world titles in a row from 2000-2004. He is popularly regarded as the gr

eatest F1 driver of all time.

Michael Schumacher made his debut at the Belgium Grand Prix in 1991 and won 91 Grand Prixes in his career.

Michael Schumacher's career records-

Debut: 1991 Belgian Grand PrixRaces: 302.Championships: 7Race wins: 91Podiums: 155Points: 1560

Poles: 68===========The Former Germany captain Ballack, who had played for Bayern Munich and Chelsea, had called a halt to his professional football career on 3 October 2012.It was the downtime in his career which showed him that the time was right to stop.Ballack became a free agent at the end of June after Leverkusen opted not to offer their former captain a contract extension.

Ballack began his professional career in 1995 and won the first of four Bundesliga titles with Kaiserslautern in 1998.He missed out on a major trophy with Leverkusen in his first spell at the club and in 2002 he finished as a runner-up in the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, Champions Le

ague and World Cup.

He spent the last two seasons of his career with Leverkusen and appeared for thelast time in a 4-1 win over Nurnberg, leaving the field to a standing ovation in the 51st minute of what turned out to be his last-ever game as a professionalFootballer.

Internationally, Ballack has played in the European Championships in 2000, 2004and 2008 and the FIFA World Cup in 2002 and 2006. Jurgen Klinsmann appointed himcaptain of the national team in 2004. Ballack scored consecutive game-winning g


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oals in the quarter-final and semi-final to help his country to the 2002 World Cup Final, and led his team to the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup and the Euro2008 Final.

He is among the top goal scorers in the history of his international team. He was also selected by Pele as one of FIFA's 100 Greatest Living Players and as theUEFA Club Midfielder of the Year in 2002. He has won the German Footballer of the Year award three times in 2002, 2003 and 2005. Ballack is known for his passing range, scoring ability, ball skills, and commanding presence in the midfield.===================Former Cricketer and all-rounder, Sandeep Patil was appointed as the Chairman ofthe five member senior selection committee of BCCI on 27 September 2012. The other four members of the committee include Saba Karim, Roger Binny, Vikram Rathour and Rajinder Singh Hans.The four members of the previous panel that was headed by K. Srikkanth departedfrom the office after completion of their four years tenure. Mohinder Amarnath,the selector from North Zone departed from his office after serving the selection panel for one year of his tenure.About Sandeep Patil1. Has served the Kenyan national team as a coach that managed to reach the semi-finals of the world cup in 20032. The former Indian Cricketer was a middle order hard-hitting batsman and a medium-pace bowler3. He served Mumbai Champs in Indian Cricket League as its coach

4. Currently serving the National Cricket Academy as its director======================Ronjan Sodhi, the double trap shooter on 24 September 2012 won Silver medal at the ISSF World Cup in Maribor, Slovania. In 2011 and 2010 World Cup finals, he managed to secure Gold by his name.The former world number one secured the Silver by scoring 191 points. Joshua Richmond of America won the Gold medal and Bronze was bagged by Fehaid Aldeehani ofKuwait during the event.==============\Indian boxer and London Olympic bronze medalist M C Mary Kom on 24 September 2012 named as the brand ambassador of super fight league.

The Super Fight League is promoted by IPL team Rajasthan Royals' co-owner Raj Ku

ndra and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt.The role of Mary kom is to mentor the female fighters and to act as an inspiration for male fighters. She is also the part of the selection process.The Super Fight League is India's first professionally organized mixed martial arts which will feature on Television.Mary kom was awarded with Arjun award in 2003 and Padma Shree in 2006 respectively. She is also the ambassador International boxing association for women.=========================John Terry, the captain of Chelsea in the premier league announced his retirement from International Football on 24 September 2012. The central defender came upwith this decision one day before the Football Association was supposed to hearthe claim of using racial abusive language in the notorious Anton Ferdinand inc

ident.The 31-year footballer made 78 international appearances in international match.His last appearance was in the world cup qualifier against Moldova. Terry was the captain for the national football team of England from August 2006 to February 2010 and from March 2011 to February 2012. The former captain of England was named as the UEFA Club Defender of the Year in 2005, 2008 and 2009. He was also named as the PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005.========================Abhishek Matoria, a BJP MLA from Rajasthan was elected as the President of Indian Boxing Federation on 23 September 2012. Abhay Singh Chautala, the outgoing Pre


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sident was elected to be the Chairman of the Federation. Chautala has served thepresident as its President for three terms.In the Annual General Meeting of the federation, Khoibi Salam from Manipur and Rajesh Bhandari, were elected as the treasurer and secretary-general respectively. Brigadier P. K. Muralidharan Raja was elected as the senior Vice-President ofthe Federation.=============Deepika Kumari won Silver at Recurve World Cup on 23 September 2012 in Tokyo. Inthe finals of the tournament, she lost against the Korean double Olympic gold medalist, Ki Bo-Bae.To be in the finals, Deepika defeated American, Nichoils with 28-24, 25-26, 26-25, 28-27 during the semi-finals and Miki Kanie of Japan in the last eight stages25-23, 26-26, 29-24, 27-24.=================Matthew Hayden, the Australian Cricketer on 20 September 2012 announced his retirement from all formats of Cricket. He also declared that he is not going to bea part of his team Brisbane Heat in the Australian domestic Twenty 20 series tobe held this year.Matthew Hayden retired from test cricket in the year 1999 and was a part of Chennai Super Kings squad in the Indian Premier League.

==============India`s badminton player Saina Nehwal on 19 September 2012 signed up a 40-croredeal with Rhiti Sports Management company, which made her the country`s highest

paid sportsperson outside cricket. Saina had a three-year contract with Deccan Chargers, which expired in September 2012.Rhiti Sports will now manage Saina`s endorsements and brand associations, corporate profile, patents and digital rights, images and all other commercial rightsexclusively.==============Chandrika Tarafdar on 19 September 2012 became the first Indian to win a medal in Youth World Weightlifting Championships at Kosice, Slovakia. She won two bronze medals in the girls` 44kg category on the opening day. Tarafdar won a bronze each in clean and jerk and total lift. She lifted 55kg in snatch, 74kg in clean and jerk for a total effort of 129kg. This happened for the first time in the history of Youth World Weightlifting Championships that an Indian won a medal.

Mao Xiangmei of China won a bronze in snatch and gold in the total lift. Csengeri Monica Suneta of Romania lifted exactly the same, 139kg in total but could manage silver only as she had more bodyweight than the Chinese lifter.

==============Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar wrapped up a four-shot victory at the Yeangder tournament players Championship in Chinese Taipei on 17 September 2012.

The event was scheduled at the Linkou International Golf Club which was a $500,000 event. With winning the title Bhullar fetched prize money of $79,250. His previous Asian Tour titles were the Indonesia President Invitational in 2009 and the Asian Tour International in 2010.

To get down to this position Bhullar had to fend off the challenges of AmericanJason Knutzon and 14-time Asian Tour winner Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand

Bhullar earlier used to play as an amateur player.He was India's number one amateur in 2004 and 2006 and was part of the Indian team that won the silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games. He finished in a tie for seventh in the individual competition. Bhullar turned professional in 2006.===============Hockey India on 17 September 2012 appointed Mariamma Koshy of Hockey Kerala as its new full-time President. The decision was made during the 15th meet of Board


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Executives and was taken following the guidelines prescribed under rule 4(f) ofHockey India Rules and Regulations.Koshy (63 years in age) has been a vice-president of Hockey India as well as anInterim-President of the National Body. Gayatri Shetty, the treasurer of HockeyKarnataka was named as the new Vice-President of Hockey India after the post wasvacated, due to Koshys elevation. Appointment of Gayatri also was done followingthe guidelines and regulations under rule 4 (f).

===================The Vice-Captain of Indian Cricket team, Virat Kohli was named as the ODI Cricketer of the year at ICC Awards Function held at Colombo, Sri Lanka on 15 September 2012. He was picked ahead in the competition from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, KumarSangakkara and Lasith Malinga. He was awarded with this title for scoring 1733 runs in 31 matches at an average of 66.65, which included eight centuries and sixhalf-centuries. During this period of consideration for the title, he scored his career best of 183 runs in 148 balls against Pakistan in Asia Cup.=============================Anuraag Thakur a BJP MP from Hamirpur and Joint Secretary of Board of Control for Cricket (BCCI) on 16 September 2012 was appointed as a member of Asian CricketCouncils (ACCs) executive board.Thakur has served the National Cricket Academy as its vice-chairman and a memberwith National Junior Selection Committee. ACC is a 25 member committee with itshead quarters in Kuala Lumpur. The committee is engaged in development and promotion of the cricketers in Asian region.

======================Indian Women registered a thumping win over Nepal in the final of SAF Football Championship in Colombo. India defeated Nepal by 3-1. India had defeated Bhutan and Sri Lanka in the league stage and thrashed Afghanistan 11-0 in the semis to romp into the final=================The All India Tennis Association (AITA) extended the ban on Mahesh Bhupathi andRohan Bopanna from the national team till 30 June 2014. Bhupathi and Bopanna hadobjected to partnering with Leander Paes at the London Olympics, following which AITA had sent two doubles team - one of Bhupathi and Bopanna, and the other ofPaes and Vishnu Vardhan to the Olympics.The AITA stated that it would stick to the young Indian side for the Asia-Oceania Group-I Davis Cup and will not include Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna in th

e squad until the country moves up from the Asia-Oceania Group.===================Injury-plagued New Zealand pacer Daryl Tuffey announced his retirement from both international and domestic cricket . Tuffey represented New Zealand Auckland,Northern Districts over the course of his career, picking up 77 Test wickets and110 ODI wickets in 123 matches.

He made his debut for Northern back in 1996/97 as an 18-year-old, coincidentallyagainst Auckland, before forcing his way into the New Zealand in 1999/2000.=================A Smiling Armadillo is declared to be the official mascot for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil on 12 September 2012. The reports state that FIFA has registeredthe patent for this rare animal with the European Patent Office as a symbol to

this extreme sporting event. Officials declared that internet poll will help indeciding the name of this mascot. Brazuca the name of the ball for the world cup2014 to was finalized by the opinion poll on internet.The armadillo in Brazil is known by the name of 'tatu-bola' and is known for itsabilities of rolling itself in form of a ball to with a leathery shell as a symbol of self defence.In the previous FIFA World Cup the mascots were: FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa- Zakumi the green-haired leopard FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany- Goleo named lionTaking the Armadillo as an official mascot for the mega event was backed by a NG


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O named Caatinga Association engaged in protection of the biodiversity of NorthEastern Brazil.======================India's Virender Singh won the bronze medal in the Men's 84 kgs free style category in the third World Deaf Championship at Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.The Indian team ended up at the seventh place in the championship overall.==============================Ukrainian, Vitali Klitschko managed to defend his WBC heavyweight title on 8 September 2012 at 30,000 seater Olimpiyski indoor sports arena. The medical team and the referee stopped the bout 56 seconds before the end of the fourth round after witnessing a cut mark on the opponents eye, the German Manuel Charr, 27.

Vitali Klitschko is a leader of UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko, a political party and amember of the delegation to from Ukrain for Congress of the Council of Europe.He is the first boxing champion of the world to hold Ph. D. degree. For his accomplishments he won Germanys highest civilian award Federal Cross of Merit.

Manuel Charr is a professional boxer from Germany. At the age of 17.2 years, hebecame the youngest German to be a Champion in Muay Thai. Later at the age of 19, he became German Champion and the European Champion in Thai-Boxing. As per histrack record, out of the 22 fights of his career as a boxer he won 21 matches and the only one he faced defeat id the one played against Klitschko.====================Sports Current Affairs 2012. The 76 year old tennis history for Britain was re-w

ritten after Andy Murray won the US Open Grand Slam Singles Championship by defeating Novak Djokovic 7-6 (12-10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2 on 11 September 2012. Before this, Fred Perry was the British player to win a grand slam in US Championshipin the year 1936. Murray also broke an eight match loss streak, by his fellow citizen at Grand Slam Finals. With this win Andy Murray marched ahead on the ranking sheet to be at number three just after Roger Federer and Djokovic.

For Murray, this was the second New York Final in four years; in the first finalof 2008 he lost the game against Federer. The 25 year old, recently won OlympicGold medal in Mens singles category and a silver medal in mixed doubles categoryin the 2012 London Olympics. He is the first British player, who won an OlympicGold medal in hundred years and also the first British to reach in the mens singles final of Wimbledon in an open era.

=================================Serena Williams of USA won her fourth Women's Singles US Open title in New Yorkon 9 September 2012. In the final match played a short while ago, fourth seededSerena showed incredible resolve as she beat the top seeded Victoria Azarenka ofBelarus, 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 in two hours and 18 minutes. Besides the fourth US Opentitle, this was Serena's 15th Grand Slam singles crown.Meanwhile, the Italian duo of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci won the Women's Doubles trophy. In the title clash, the second seeded Italian duo defeated the Czechpair of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka, 6-4, 6-2 to win the title.==========================Lewis Hamilton, the driver of McLaren's became the winner of the Italian Grand Prix 2012 on 9 September 2012. Ferraris Fernando Alonso extended his overall lead

after finishing at third position in the event.

With this win, Hamilton managed to wash away the rumors of his future and possible switch to Mercedes after winning the grand prix and the twentieth victory ofhis career. Hamilton, who is 27 years old Formulae one driver from England, hasbeen a 2008 Formulae one World Champion. He is the worlds youngest driver to secure a contract for McLaren driver development program, which paved his way to theF1 drive. Lewis Hamilton is also known as the first black driver in formulae one.=============


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In a long going fight for, who will manage the game of hockey in India, the special committee came up with a decision in favor of Hockey India (HI) on 5 September 2012. The report was submitted to the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) by thethree-member committee that comprised of, the Indian Weightlifting Federation President Birendra Prasad Baishya, former Wrestling Federation of India PresidentGS Mander and the Handball Federation of India Secretary-general SM Bali with details of the findings in a thousand page draft.

As per the report, Hockey India conforms to the IHF (International Hockey Federation) statute of having 40 percent of woman representative in its Executive Committee. Hockey India also conforms to the IHF norm of having a unified body to run both mens and womens competition.==================Indu Choudhary, the 20 year old Indian grappler won Bronze in the World Junior Championship at Pattava on 6 September 2012. She won bronze in the womens 44 kg category after defeating Turkish Evin Demirhan. With this medal India opened its account in the tournament.

To qualify for this round, Indu succeeded in lop-sided pre-quarterfinals over Russian Aziyata Khomushku. She lost the chance of getting home a silver or gold after facing a defeat from Rie Matsumoto, a competitor from Japan in the semi-finals.=======================Andy Roddick the legendary tennis player from US announced his retirement during

the US open on 6 September 2012 after facing a defeat from John Martin del Potro.

The 30 year old is a former number one ranked player who won 2003 US Open to bea Grand Slam singles champion. He is a son to a businessman father and school teacher mother. Till date Roddick was successful in reaching the finals of Wimbledon in the year 2004, 2005 and 2009 as well as US Open 2006 and faced a defeat from Roger Federer.

=============High jumper Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda, India won a silver medal (F42 single leg, amputations minimal disability category) at London Paralympic Games. Tomake this happen, he cleared his career best 1.74 m high jump. He managed to sec

ure the first medal for the country in this category of game. Girisha won eighthParalympic medal for India and is the first to do so in the high jump categoryand third Indian to claim silver in the event. He is a man with polio impaired left leg. To win the medal he used the scissor kick technique.

Girisha, who belongs to a farming family from a small village in Hassan Districtin South Karnataka was forced to compete against the able-bodied athletes at different levels of competition because of the lack of information about any suchevent like paralympics for the disabled.

Sports minister, Ajay Maken declared that the medal winners in the Paralymipic will be awarded with the same cash reward as that of the Olympians i.e. 50 lakhsfor gold, 30 lakhs for silver and 20 lakhs for Bronze.

================India won the second cricket test against New Zealand by 5 wickets on 3 September 2012. Chasing a target of 261 set by New Zealand on the fourth day of the second and final Test in Bangalore, India overhauled the target in the post-tea session with one full day remaining. Virat Kohli on 51 and Skipper MS Dhoni on 48 remained not out.Kohli, who had made 103 in the first innings, was adjudged man of the match, while Spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was named man of the series.With this, India won the 2 match series 2-0. India had won the first test at Hyderabad by an innings and 115 runs.


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=========================India won Nehru Cup football tournament on 2 September 2012 after beating Cameroon 5-4 via penalty shoot-out. In the final played at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, India vanquished Cameroon 5-4 via penalty shootout and retainedthe Nehru Cup football.The match went into tie-breaker after the two teams were locked 2-2 at the end of 120 minutes of play. Gouramangi Singh (19th minute) and Sunil Chhetri (77th) scored for India in the regulation time, while Makkon Thierry (29th) and Kingue Mpondo (54th) found the net for Cameroon.In the tiebreaker, Robin Singh, skipperChhetri, Denzil Franco and Mehtab Hosain struck to ensure that India managed a clean slate.Taking the final shot, Makkon hit the post to leave Cameroon shattered. Ashu C Tambe, Ousmalia, Bebey Kingue Paul and Mpondo scored for the visitors in the shootout.==========================Queen Elizabeth officially on 29 August 2012 opened the London Paralympic games, which will be the biggest in the event's 64 year history. The flame was lit atmidnight, local time. The ceremony was watched by some 80000 spectators. Britain's first Paralympic Games gold medallist, Margaret Maughan hit the cauldron.The opening ceremony signalled the start of 11 days of competition by 4200 athletes from 164 countries, including more than 300 athletes from Britain.=================Delhi teams, both in male and female categories, lifted 23rd Federation Cup Throw Ball Championship-2012. The Championship which was held on 23-25 August 2012,

was organised by the J&K Throw Ball Association in collaboration with Throw BallFederation of India at sports ground Government College for Women M A Road Srinagar. As many as 20 teams, both in male and female categories, from various States and Union Territories of the country participated in the Championship.Delhi beat Tamil Nadu 15-10, 15-12 in the womens final of the Federation Cup National throwball championship which was held in Srinagar. In the mens final, Delhibeat Andhra Pradesh 2-1. Nine State teams took part in the championship.==================Englands test team captain Andrew Strauss announced his retirement from international cricket on 29 August 2012. Under Strauss captaincy the England team witnessed back-to-back Ashes wins over Australia and reached to the top of the test rankings. He was appointed the skipper of English team in 2009 replacing Kevin Pietersen.

A left-hand batsman, Strauss made his first class debut in year 1998 and one-dayinternational debut in 2003 against Sri Lanka. Strauss made his test debut against New Zealand at Lords in 2004, where he scored 112 and 83 runs in two inningsand received Man of the Match award.In a nine-year long international career, Strauss played 100 tests and 127 one-day internationals. Strauss has to his credit 7037 and 4205 runs in test and ODIsrespectively.-=============Hashim Amla, the star South African Batsman, became the fastest player to score3000 runs in one-day international on 29 August 2012. Amla achieved the tremendous feat during the course of his 150 run individual knock that led South Africansquad to a 80-run victory over England at the Ageas Bowl in Southampton.Hashim Amla took a total of 57 innings to become the fastest player to score 300

0 runs while his closest competitor Vivian Richards took 69 innings.Below is the list of 10 players who reached the landmark 3000 ODI runs, in quickest time, in terms of innings.=============================Indias largest real estate company DLF decided to end its five-year long association with Indian Premiere League as its title sponsor. The last date of renewal of contract was 28 July 2012, and the company did not file application for the renewal of its contract. The company spent 250 crore rupees in its five-year association with IPL.DLF has been actively promoting different sports in the country. The company org


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anizes DLF Masters Golf Tournament in Gurgaon every year. It is also one of thesponsors of the Davis Cup tennis tournament 2012, which will be held in Chandigarh.==============================India defeated host and defending champion Australia to win ICC Under-19 CricketWorld Cup. In the final match played at Townsville in Australia on 26 August 2012, the Indian under -19 squad led by Unmukt Chand beat Australian side by 6 wickets. Skipper Unmukt Chand scored unbeaten 111 runs leading his team to a glorious victory.Batting first the Australian team scored 225 runs with the loss of 8 wickets. Australian captain William Bosisto scored unbeaten 87 runs. India started stronglybut lost 4 wickets on just 97 runs. Subsequently skipper Chand guided the Indian team to a 6 wickets victory in the 48th over.William Bosisto, the Australian skipper received the Man of the Tournament award. Anamul Haque of Bangladesh scored 365 runs, highest in the tournament. ReeceTopley of England claimed 19 wickets and remained the leading wicket taker o

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