Top Sports news of the day

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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