Category: Sports Current Affairs

Sri Lanka to host Asia Cup in 2021

December 8, 2020

• Sri Lanka will host the Asia Cup in June 2021 while Pakistan has gained the rights to host the tournament in 2022.
• As per the original schedule, the tournament was supposed to be hosted by Pakistan in 2020, however, it got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jehan Daruvala becomes first Indian to win F2 race

December 8, 2020

• Jehan Daruvala created history, as he became the first Indian to win a Formula 2 race at the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix, Bahrain.
• This was the final race of the F2 season. The Formula 2 Championship is a second-tier single-seater racing championship.

New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson took retirement from all forms of Cricket

December 6, 2020

• New Zealand all-rounder, Corey Anderson has declared his retirement from all forms of cricket.
• Anderson has played 13 Tests, 49 ODIs and 31 T20Is for New Zealand, scoring 2277 runs with two hundred and 10 half-centuries and 90 wickets.

England’s Dawid Malan attains highest-ever rating points in T20I

December 4, 2020

• Dawid Malan of England has achieved the highest-ever rating points for batsman in the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20I Player Rankings.
• The 33-year-old Malan has attained 915 points, and thus became the first player to cross the 900-point mark in the format.

Virat Kohli fastest to complete 12000 runs in ODI cricket

December 3, 2020

• Virat Kohli became the fastest to complete 12,000 runs in One-day International cricket. Kohli breached the mark in the third ODI against Australia in Canberra.
• He got to the record in his 242nd inning thus bettering the previous record set by Sachin Tendulkar, who got his 12000th run in his 300th inning.

Lewis Hamilton wins Bahrain Grand Prix 2020

December 1, 2020

• Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes-Great Britain) has won the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix at Bahrain International Circuit, Bahrain.
• The race was the 15th round of the 2020 Formula One World Championship. This is the 11th victory for Hamilton of the term, and the 95th F1 win of his career.

Virat Kohli to be the fastest to reach 22,000 international runs

November 29, 2020

• Indian cricket team skipper Virat Kohli scripted one more record in the game. He broke Sachin Tendulkar’s record and became the quickest batsman to achieve 22,000 runs. He reached the milestone in his 462nd innings.

India uplift four spots to 104th in the latest FIFA rankings

November 28, 2020

• The Indian national team has climbed up a spot to 104 in the latest FIFA Rankings. The Indian team was ranked 108th in the October 2020 rankings.
• In two months, India has escalated 5 spots after being 109th in September.

Sports Minister starts 2nd edition of Fit India School Week

November 27, 2020

• Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju has started the 2nd edition of the “Fit India School Week” program in the presence of Fit India Mission.
• Sports Minister supports school children to participate in the Fit India movement.

Daniil Medvedev beat Dominic Thiem to clinch ATP Tour 2020

November 24, 2020

• In Tennis, Daniil Medvedev (Russia) beat Dominic Thiem (Austria) to clinch the 2020 ATP Tour Finals, organized in London.
• This is the biggest title of his career. The 24-year-old will finish the year at fourth position in the world rankings.