Top 10 Sports News: India return to Oval Test, Bhagat reaches Tokyo Paralympic semifinals

India returned to power after scoring just 111 in their first innings in the fourth Test of the series against England. The Indian bowlers performed well, picking up the wickets of the hosts on the first day. Team India captain Virat Kohli and Shardul Tagore hit half-centuries and pacer Chris Oakes took wickets. After that, Jaspreet Bumrah gave England the first push and took 2 wickets in his one over. Captain Joe Root could not do much and was bowled by Umesh Yadav for 21 runs. At the end of the day’s play, England lost 3 wickets in the first innings and scored 53 runs. At the moment he is 138 runs behind India on the basis of first innings. David Malan 2 and Knight Watchman Craig Overton 1 were at the crease.

Bhagat, the world’s number one para-shuttler, has reached the semifinals of the men’s singles event at the Tokyo Paralympics. He lost to Oleksandr Chirkov of Ukraine in the second match of Group A and reached the semifinals. Other badminton players in the country also performed well as expected. Suhas started their campaign in men’s singles with Yatiraj, Tarun Dhillon and Krishna Nagar Joy.

Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli may not have scored a century in international cricket for a long time, but he set a special record against England in the fourth Test at the Oval. He became the batsman to score 23,000 international runs in the shortest innings. Kohli achieved this by hitting a four off James Anderson. Virat has completed so many runs in 490 innings. Sachin achieved this position in 522 innings. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting (544), South Africa’s Jacques Kallis (551) and Kumar Sangakkara (568) completed 23,000 international runs in the innings.

The Indian women’s cricket team has arrived in Australia for the ODI, T20 and Test series. Here he has to stay at the Government Quarantine Center in Brisbane for 14 days. Now, just 4 days after the split, the effects are starting to show among Indian players. The rooms in which they are accommodated are very small. For this reason, players are only able to do light exercises. A BCCI official said the rooms at Brisbane’s quarantine center were too small. With great difficulty you can walk around the room. You can’t train much in it. However, the good thing is that, like in Britain, there are no security guards outside the rooms of the quarantine center. Nevertheless, the rules of quarantine here are quite strict.

Legendary footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has set a new world record to his name. He has become the highest scorer in international football. He achieved this feat by scoring two goals against Ireland in the World Cup qualifier. The team won this match 2-1. Ronaldo has scored 111 goals. He left behind Ali Dek of Iran. He had a record of 109 goals. No other football player has reached 100 goals.

Team India star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has not got a chance in the four matches he has played in the Test series against England so far. A few days ago, Ashwin shared a picture on social media where he was seen practicing batting. In one picture he was giving a cover drive and in another he was seen dropping the ball. India captain Virat Kohli on Thursday reiterated that Ashwin, the fourth highest wicket-taker in Test cricket, is not among the top five bowlers for the Oval Test against England. Rabindra Jadeja, who has taken two wickets in the last three Tests, was included in the squad due to his excellent batting.

In the fourth Test of the series against England, the players of Team India came after the black band. When players from both teams came for the national anthem, they had black bands tied around their arms. He did this to pay tribute to former Mumbai cricketer and well-known coach Basudev Paranjape, who died last week at the age of 82. In addition to the great batsman Sunil Gavaskar, Basu worked to improve the skills of Dilu Vengsakar, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma.

Former U.S. champion Sloane Stephens advanced to the third round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament in the women’s singles after defeating compatriot Coco Goff in a straight set in the second round. Stephens, the 2017 champion and No. 66, won 6-4, 6-2 against 21st seed Coco. At the same time, defending champion Naomi Osaka of Japan reached the third round without going down the court.

Brazilian Paralympian swimmer Daniel Dias is compared to the great American swimmer Michael Phelps. Dias has won 2 med medals in the history of the Paralympics, including 1 gold. He has won three bronze medals at the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Daniel Dias is congenitally hand and foot disabled. Daniel Dias started swimming at the age of 16. He won gold, silver and a bronze medal at the 200 Beijing Beijing Olympics. He then won gold at the 2012 London Olympics. But at the 2012 Rio Olympics, he performed wonderfully and won 9 medals. Among them were gold, gold, silver and 2 bronze medals. In Rio he won three bronze. Although he could not win gold this time.

After the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, sports activities remained in doubt, but big news came about men’s cricket. The Taliban have approved playing cricket with India. However, no decision has been taken yet on women’s cricket. Last year, the Afghanistan Cricket Board awarded central contracts to 25 female players. Many female players have left the country for fear of the Taliban. According to the Indian Express, Afghanistan will also participate in the T20 World Cup to be held in October-November.