10 big sports news
Sports Top 10 News: The playoff matches in IPL 2024 are going to start from May 21. The teams of Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore have been successful in making their place in the playoffs. At the same time, Rohit Sharma has talked about the personal life of the players in a tweet. In such a situation, let us know 10 big news from the sports world.
Qualifier-1 match on 21 May
The first Qualifier-1 match of IPL 2024 will be played between the teams of Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kolkata Knight Riders won 9 out of 14 matches during the league stage and lost only 3 matches. At the same time, 2 matches were canceled due to rain. In such a situation, Kolkata Knight Riders finished first in the points table with 20 points. Whereas, Sunrisers Hyderabad won 8 in 14 matches and lost in 5 matches. One match of Sunrisers Hyderabad could not be played due to rain. In this situation, she stood second with 17 points.
Eliminator match between RCB-RR after 9 years
The teams of Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore will face each other in the eliminator match. Let us tell you that this will be the second match in IPL when the eliminator match will be played between these two teams. Last time in 2015, these two teams faced each other in an eliminator match. In that match, Royal Challengers Bangalore team, batting first, scored 180 runs at the loss of 4 wickets. In response, Rajasthan team was all out after scoring 109 runs.
Last match of league stage canceled
The 70th league match of the 17th season of IPL was to be played between Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders on the Guwahati ground, but due to rain disruption, the match was canceled after the toss. This was seen for the second time in IPL history after 12 years when a match was abandoned after the toss without any ball being bowled.
KKR made the biggest record in IPL history
Kolkata Knight Riders have made it to the playoffs with 20 points and an impressive net run rate of +1.428. Let us tell you that this is the best net run rate in IPL history. Till now, the net run rate of any team after the end of the league stage has not been so great. Earlier, Mumbai Indians team had finished the league stage of the year 2020 with a net run rate of +1.107.
Abhishek Sharma broke Kohli’s great record
Abhishek Sharma has become the Indian batsman to hit the most sixes in a season of IPL. He has hit a total of 39 sixes in IPL 2024. He has reached number one. Abhishek has overtaken RCB’s Virat Kohli. Kohli had hit 38 sixes in IPL 2016. Rishabh Pant had hit 38 sixes in IPL 2018. At the same time, Virat Kohli has hit 37 sixes in IPL 2024. Shivam Dubey had hit a total of 35 sixes in IPL 2023.
Rohit vented out his anger on social media
After the journey of Mumbai Indians team in the 17th season of IPL ended, now Rohit Sharma has made a tweet in which he has expressed his anger. In this tweet, Rohit has talked about the personal life of the players. In his post, Rohit Sharma has slammed the company that has acquired TV broadcaster rights in IPL. Rohit has clearly written in his post that players also have personal lives and they also go out with their friends and family. It is not at all right to record and play everything they say.
Satwik-Chirag pair won Thailand Open
India’s star men’s doubles pair Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty performed brilliantly ahead of the Paris Olympics to win the Thailand Open Super 500 badminton men’s doubles title. The pair of Satwik and Chirag won the Thailand Open title by defeating Liu Yi and Chen Bo Yang of China. Strengthening their preparations for the Paris Olympics, the world number three pair registered a 21-15, 21-15 win over the 29th ranked opposition team.
Manchester City won the EPL title
Manchester City has won the Premier League 2023-24 title. Manchester City created history with a 3-2 victory in the final match played against West Ham. Manchester City has become the first team to win the Premier League title for the fourth consecutive time. Before this, Manchester United had won the title of this league thrice.
India gets two medals in Para Athletics World Championship
For India, high jump para athlete Nishad Kumar won a silver medal and Preeti Pal won a bronze medal in the women’s 200 meters event on the third day of the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships on Sunday. Tokyo Paralympics silver medalist Nishad finished second in the men’s high jump T47 final with a performance of 1.99 meters and opened India’s account. Nishad had won a silver medal in the same event at the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.
Manu Bhaker was the most successful shooter in the Olympic selection trials.
Olympian shooter Manu Bhaker was the most successful shooter in the rifle and pistol Olympic Selection Trials (OST), winning the women’s 10m air pistol OST T4 match on the final day on Sunday. This was Manu’s fourth victory in the trials of two events. She also won the women’s 25 meter sports pistol trials. Manu scored 240.8 in the OST T4 10m Air Pistol final.
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