ICC Annual Awards: Ellyse Perry Wins Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award

The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the Australian all-rounder Ellyse Perry as the winner of Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year. The 29-year-old has also been named as ICC Women’s ODI Player of Year. About Ellyse Perry The Australian star Ellyse Perry won Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award for the 2nd time in ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2019

Category: Sports Current Affairs

Topics: Alyssa Healy • Ellyse Perry • ICC • ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year • Meg Lanning • Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Award • Smriti Mandhana

Jasprit Bumrah & Smriti Mandhana win prestigious Wisden India Almanack Cricketer of Year award this year

Premier speedster Jasprit Bumrah and batswoman Smriti Mandhana are the two Indian names among the five winners of the prestigious Wisden India Almanack Cricketer of the Year award. The other winners from Asia are Pakistan’s Fakhar Zaman, Sri Lanka’s Dimuth Karunaratne and Afghanistan Rashid Khan. Mandhana is the third woman to be named ‘Cricketer of ..

Topics: Amarnath • Cricket • Cricket in India • Fakhar Zaman • Jasprit Bumrah • Karunaratne • Smriti Mandhana

Milkha Singh bestowed with lifetime achievement award at 2019 Indian Sports Honours

Milkha Singh (92) has been bestowed with the lifetime achievement award at the 2nd edition of the Indian Sports Honours (ISH) in Mumbai. He is best known as the ‘Flying Sikh’ and most remembered for finishing fourth in the 400m final in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games. While star batsmwoman Smriti Mandhana got the sportswoman ..

Topics: Cricket • Indian Sports Honours • Kohli • Mandhana • Milkha • Punjabi people • RPG Group • Sanjiv • Sanjiv Goenka • Smriti Mandhana • Virat

Smriti Mandhana conferred with 2018 Arjuna Award

Star Indian cricketer Smriti Mandhana and ace tennis player Rohan Bopanna have been conferred with the 2018 Arjuna Awards by Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Kiren Rijeju at a ceremony held in New Delhi. She is currently ranked no. 1 in the ICC ODI Batting rankings. Playing for India, Mandhana has already registered 1951 ..

Topics: Arjuna Award • Bopanna • Mandhana • Rohan • Smriti Mandhana • Sport in India • Tennis • Tennis players

Smriti Mandhana featured in world’s first exclusive women’s cricket magazine “CRICZONE”

The first edition of world’s first exclusive women’s cricket magazine ‘Criczone’ has been released in Jaipur, Rajasthan. In it, Indian team cricket vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has featured as the cover story. The purpose of the magazine is to empower young aspiring women cricketers to take the sport as a profession and able to make a ..

Topics: Cricket • Cricketers • Harmanpreet Kaur • ICC Women's World Twenty20 • Mithali raj • Smriti Mandhana • Women's T20 Challenge