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ICC Cricket world cup 2015

1.

Factoids

2.

Ranking after World Cup

3.

Indian Cricket in news:

2.

35th National Games

3.

Football: AIFF Awards 2015

4.

Tennis

5.

Badminton

6.

Other Sports

7.

Government Schemes/Awards
1.

Arjun Award

2.

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar

3.

TOPS(Target Olympics Podium Scheme)

4.

Government Funding to Sports

This page contains sport -related developments from 2015, February and March. Sports
Current Affairs Questions are usually seen CAPF, CDS, Bank and State service exams. Focus
area should be: (1) where was the tournament held? (2) Who defeated whom? (3) Venue (4)
Mascots.

ICC Cricket world cup 2015

Host

Australia and New Zealand

Australia hosts 26 games: Adelaide, Brisbane, canberra, Hobart,

Venue

Melbourn, Perth, Sydney.

New Zealand hosted 23 games: Auckland, Christchurch, Edenpark,
Himilton, Napeir, Nelson

Total match

49

Total
participants

14

Pool A:- England, Australia), Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand

Afghanistan, Scotland

Teams

Pool B:- South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland,
UAE

Quarter final Match

NO.

Won

Lost

New Zealand

West Indies (Cpt.Jason Holder)

South Africa (Cpt.AB de Villiers)

Sri lanka (Cpt.Angelo Mathews)

Australia

Pakistan (Cpt.Misbah-ul-Haq)

India (Dhoni)

Bangladesh (Cpt.Mashrafe Mortaza)

bringing
Semi-Final Match

No.

Won

Lost

venue

New Zealand

South Africa

Eden park

Australia

India

Sydney

Final Match

Won

Lost

Australia

New Zealand

Cpt. Michael Clarke

Cpt. Brendon McCullum

venue

result

Melbourn

Aus. Won by seven wickets


Awards

Man of the match

James Faulkner (Australia)

Highest run

Martin Guptil (New Zealand)

Highest wicket

Mitchel Starc (Australia)

Factoids
ICC World Cup coins: The dome-shaped silver coin. Price 5 dollars and in India Rs.13,000.
It is minted by Royal Australian Mint and New Zealand Post
Aussie Captain (Clarke) and Indian Captain (Dhoni) opined that in ODI- Five fielder should
be outside 30 yard circle in non-power play overs (in world cup they were four)
Roger Federer: A twitter picture of him admiring Indian cricket blue t-shirt has enraged
pakistani fans so much that Roger had to apologize.
Daniel Vettori: This Left-arm spinner of New Zealand announced his retirement from 18year career in ODI cricket, after World cup 2015.
Mustafa Kamal: Bangladeshi president in International Cricket Council (ICC) raised doubt
in the integrity of umpires in World Cup quarter final 2015 match between India and
Bangladesh. He wasnt wasnt allowed to give trophy to world cup winner Australia. Later
he resigned in anguish.
Post World cup 2015: New Pak.Captain is Azhar Ali (Batsman) and Vice Captain Sarfaraz
Ahmed (Wicket keeper)
So far 6 captains have lead Team India at World cup cricket: S. Venkatraghavan, M.S.
Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, M. Azharuddin, Kapil Dev.
Mauka Mauka ad campaign was created by Star Sports India, to poke fun at Pakistani
fans.
Previous world cups mascot was Stumpy the elephant. But WC-2015 had no mascot, only
logo.
Ranking after World Cup

Rank

Team

Batsman

Bowler

Australia

A.B. de Villiers

Mitchell Starc

India

Kumar Sangakkara

Imran Tahir

South Africa

Hashim Amla

Saeed Ajmal

Sri lanka

Virat Kohli

Dale Steyn

New Zealand

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Sunil Narine

Indian Cricket in news:

Jagmohan Dalmiya (Bengal) replaced N.Srinivasan (Tamilnadu) as president of Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).
Anurag Thakur is the new Secretary replacing Sanjay Patel.
Earlier IndianExpress reporter had written a piece of Virat bringing his g/f Anushka
Sharma to cricket tour. Virat abused Hindustan Times reporter mistaking him for that
Indianexpress report. Complaints lodged to ICC and BCCI.
Enforcement Directorate notices BCCI-IPL for alleged violation of FEMA rules during
media rights in 2008.
Lalit Modi removed from Presidency of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA).
Karun Nair (Karnataka team) became the first batsman in 68 years to score a triple
century in a Ranji Trophy final against Tamilnadu.
Kirket: Name of the planned movie on Bihari ex-cricketer Kirti Azad. Director Sonu Jha.
IPL 2015: Delhi Daredevils bought Yuvraj for Rs.16 crores.

35th National Games

Time

From 31st jan 2015 to 14th feb 2015

34th: Ranchi
35th: seven districts of Kerala namely Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam,

Venue

Alapuzha, Ernakulam, Kozhikode, Trissur and Kannur.

36th: Goa

Motto

Get Set Play

Mascot

Ammu (The Great Indian Hornbill, State Bird of Kerala)

Inaugurated
by

Union minister of urban development, Venkaiah Naydu

Goodwill
Ambassador

Sachin Tendulkar

Number of
Sports

33

Top winners in 35th National games:

Rank

Name of the State

Gold won

Silver won

Bronze won

Total

Services SCB

91

33

35

159

Kerala

54

48

60

162

Haryana

40

40

27

107

Top Athletes in 35th National Games

Rank

Player(State)

Medals

Sports

Sajan Prakash (Kerala)

8 (6 Gold + 2 Silver)

Swimming

Rajina Kiro (Andman)

6 (5 Gold + 1 Silver)

Canoeing & Kayaking

Inaocha Devi Mayanglambam

6 (5 Gold + 1 Silver)

Canoeing & Kayaking

Football: AIFF Awards 2015

Sunil Chhetri (Male)

Player of the year

Bala Dev (Female)

Emerging player

Sandesh Jhingan

Best referee

Santosh Kumar

Best grassroots programme

Western India Football Association

Long-time contribution to Indian footbal

ONGC

AIFF President Praful Patel also announced Indian Super League (ISL) tournament for SAARC
region

Tennis

Match

Won

Lost

Dubai

Federer (Swiz)

Novak Djokovic
(Serbia)

ATP Argentina

Rafael Nadal (Spain)

Not important

WTA-Miami (US)
Doubles: Sania Mirza (India) & Martina
Hingis (Swiz)

Not important

BNP Paribas, Indiawells

Novak Djokovic

Federer

Rotterdam World Tennis

Stan Wawrinka

Not important

ATP Challenger Delhi

Open title

Somdev Devvarman

Yuki Bhambri

BNP Paribas,
Indiawells

Leander Paes and Martina Hingis met Modi and gave him autographed racquets used in
winning grand slams at Australian Open.
Sania Mirza will lead the Indian Fed Cup team in the Asia Oceania group-II at Hyderabad
from April 2015.
Controversy surrounding the selection of Anil Khanna as the President of The All India
Tennis Association (AITA)

Badminton

Match

Won

Lost

Swiz.Grand
Prix, Basel

K.Srikanth (India).

Not important.

All England
Open (M)

Carolina Marin(Spain)

Saina Nehwal (India). No Indian woman

has won this match so far.

All England
Open (M)

Chen Long (China).

P.Gopichand had won it in
2001

Not important.

Indian Open
(F)

Saina

Ratchanok Intanon

Indian Open
(M)

K.Srikant

Viktor Axelsen

Saina Nehwal got First spot in world ranking overtaking Chinese Li Xuerui. (although later
she reverted back to spot 2 then again rose to #1.every week something new).
Saina thanks her current coach Vimal Kumar but not ex-coach P.Gopichand. Perhaps this

hubris responsible for volatility in her ranking.

Other Sports
Dutee Chand permitted to participate in international events. She was
suspended for participating in womens events as found excessive
Athletics

testosterone in her during eligibility test.

Baljinder shingh won a bronze medal in 20km Race Walking Championships
at Nomi City in Japan
Zurich Chess 2015: #1: Hikaru Nakamura (USA). V.Anand stood at #2.

Chess

Grenke Classic Chess (at Baden-Baden, Germany): final winner Magnus

Carlsen.

CWG

2022 Commonwealth games to be held in Durban, South Africa.

Camille Muffat (Swimmer)and Alexis Vastine (Boxer): Both are former

Deaths

Olympic champions died in helicopter mishap during Casting of French

reality TV show Dropped at Vla Rioja province, in Argentina.

Formula
One

Australian Grand prix: Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosber of Mercedes team won
the race

Golf

Harendra Gupta wins Golconda Masters at Hyderabad (6 lakh prize)

Coach for Indian male hockey team: Dutchman Paul van Ass replaced
Australias Terry Walsh.
Coach for Indian women hockey team: Anthony Mark Thornton replaced

Hockey

Neil Hawgood
Sardar Singh will lead the 18-member Indian mens hockey team at the
Sultan Azlan Shah tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia in April
India defeated Poland in Hero womens Hockey World League at New Delhi.
Kaustubh Khade (IIT Delhi alumnus) rowed kayake for 500 km from

Kayake

Mumbai to Goa in 18 days to enter in Limca Book of Records.

Charity money from this event, will be given to Magic Bus- an NGO for poor
kids.
Manavjit Singh Sandhu won the bronze medal in mens trap at World Cup in

Shooting

Acapulco, Mexico.

But he did not make sufficient points to get Olympic quota.

Table
tennis

Sharath Kamal won $1 lakh Asian cup tournament at Jaipur.

Government Schemes/Awards
Arjun Award
Its selection method revamped.
Now a Committee headed by retired SC/HC judge with noted persons associated with
sports will decide the names.
Only 1 sportsperson from any given field- to avoid bias towards that fields nominees.
More weightage to individual sports over team sports.
Meeting proceedings to be video graphed to ensure transparency.
Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puruskar
Started in 2009. Four new categories inserted
Identification and nurturing of budding talent,
Encouragement of sports through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Employment of sportspersons and sports welfare measures
Sports for development.
TOPS(Target Olympics Podium Scheme)
Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports will help potential players with money and training to
ensure maximum medals in Olympic 2016 and 2020
Total Estimated players-75
Total estimated budget is around Rs. 40 to 45 crores till Olympics 2016
As of now selected plays are 45 from sports namely athletics, badminton, boxing,
shooting, wrestling and sailing
Problem: the selected beneficiary player cant receive money from any other private
body. And If he wants to quit TOPS scheme, he needs 30-day notice and refund entire
grant he got!
Later Sports minister clarified that TOPS will not deny external help from NGO or
foundations.

Biggest beneficiaries of TOPS scheme

1.12 crores
each

90 lakh each

Discus thrower Vikas Gowda

shooters Abhinav Bindra, Gagan Narang, Sanjeev Rajput and Manavjit
Sandhu
Saina Nehwal, P.V. Sindhu, P. Kashyap and K. Srikanth
all four are badminton players

Government Funding to Sports

The Government has made Three category in sports- (1) high (2) priority (3)others.
Theyll get financial assistance in decreasing order.
Classification based on (1) Popularity among mass (2) Performance in last events

High
priority
sport

Full funding by govt. in national and international event.

Athletics, badminton, hockey, shooting, archery, tennis, weightlifting,
wrestling, boxing.
Either popular or won medals in last Olympic or Asian games.

Priority
sports

Basketball, billiards & snooker, bridge, chess, cycling, equestrian, football,

golf, judo, kabaddi, kayaking & canoeing, Paralympic rowing, school games,
Special Olympic Bharat, squash, swimming, table tennis, volleyball, wushu,
yachting, gymnastics, taekwondo, sepak takraw, deaf sports.
Government willnot give them financial help
Handball, atya patya, ball badminton, baseball, body-building, carrom, cycle

Others

polo, fencing, jump rope, karate-do, kho-kho, netball, powerlifting, roll ball,
roller skating, shooting ball, soft tennis, softball, tennikoit, tennis-ball cricket,
tenpin bowling, tug-of war, winter games, rugby, motorsports.

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