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Top Sports News of the day - 01 Jan 2021
Cricket | India tour of Australia | Test matches
- The third test between India and Australia will be played from 07 January 2021 at Sydney Cricket Ground
- After a break of 3 days, Team India will be back on the ground on Saturday and Sunday, for their practice sessions
- It is being discussed that Sydney may not see spectators on the ground, given the local Covid 19 situation
- Rohit Sharma will be the vice-caption of the Indian Test team for the remaining two tests with Australia
- Ajinkya Rahane will continue as the stand-in captain
- T Natarajan has replaced Umesh Yadav
- Shardul Thakur has replaced Mohammed Shami
Cricket | Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy | T20 matches
- Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy will start from 10 January 2021
- Uttar Pradesh team has picked 20-year old batsman Priyam Garg as their captain. Priyam plays for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL)
- Suresh Raina and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are also a part of the Uttar Pradesh team
- Bengal has picked Anustup Majumdar as their captain
- 36-year old Anustup is a right-hand batsman and leg-break bowler and plays for the Mohun Bagan cricket team
Cricket | Pakistan tour of New Zealand
- New Zealand's leads the two-tests series with Pakistan by 1-0
- The Second Test will begin from 03 January 2021 at Hagley Oval
- Hagley Oval is expected to be a bouncy and fastpitch
- New Zealand's bowler Neil Wagner got injured and will be replaced by Matt Henry
- Do you know Wagner was injured badly in his right-foot, still he kept playing the entire test by taking pain-killing injections?
- Matt Henry is a right-arm fast-medium bowler and plays for Canterbury, a first-class cricket team of New Zealand
Football | English Premier League (EPL)
- Covid cases are on rising in the United Kingdom post the new mutant strain
- Since then 50 EPL matches have already been canceled
- There have been discussions to halt the EPL for the safety of players
- Manchester City previously announced that their striker Gabriel Jesus and defender Kyle Walker were tested positive
Chess | Nihal Sarin
- Let's talk about Nihal Sarin today (India's pride in chess sport)
- Born in Thrissur, a city in Kerala, Nihal is a chess prodigy who achieved the title of Grandmaster at age 14
- He is the only Indian to cross the Elo rating mark of 2600
- Recently cleared in Class 10 board exams and shared how he used to wake up at 2 am to practice for chess along with his studies
- He is an expert on short-format games on chess.com (bullet and blitz formats)
- Also, won a gold medal at the Chess Olympiad in July-August 2020
Cricket | South Africa | Domestic Cricket
- South Africa is introducing a new league system for their domestic cricket
- Instead of the existing six-team structure, there will be a total of 15-first class teams competing for the title
- These 15-teams will be divided into two divisions
- Division 1 will have 8 teams and division 2 will have the remaining 7 teams
- We hope the new structure will give more opportunities to the players and help to shape them up for the national team
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