1. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant and opening batter Prithvi Shaw all took to social media to cheer for the Indian women’s cricket team ahead of their World Cup campaign opener against arch-rivals Pakistan on Sunday.
2. ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 is set to commence on March 4 (Friday). The tournament will witness 8 teams battling against each other for the title. The 8 teams who are part of ICC Women’s World Cup 2022 are India Women, Pakistan Women, Australia Women, Bangladesh Women, New Zealand Women, South Africa Women, England Women, and West Indies Women.
The venue of the ICC Women’s World Cup is in New Zealand. Bay Oval (Mount Maunganui), University Oval (Dunedin), Seddon Park (Hamilton), Basin Reserve (Wellington), Eden Park (Auckland), and Hagley Oval (Christchurch) are the venues that will host the matches.
3. Indian shooting ace Saurabh Chaudhary won the gold medal in the men’s 10m air pistol event, opening the country’s account in the year’s first ISSF World Cup on 01 Mar.
4. Esha Singh bagged the second medal for the country after she won a silver in the women’s 10m air pistol event.
5. Daniil Medvedev on Monday became the 27th player to reach No. 1 in the ATP Rankings. The 26-year-old (8,615 points) passes Serbian Novak Djokovic (8,465), who has held the top spot in men’s tennis for a record 361 total weeks.
6. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has congratulated Sadia Tariq on winning a gold medal in the Moscow Wushu Stars Championship. In a tweet, Mr Naidu said, Sadia Tariq has made the entire nation proud and her achievement will motivate many young girls to take up Wushu and excel in it. The Vice President wished her very best for her endeavours ahead.
7. Two Ukrainian footballers aged 21 and 25 killed amid war with Russia
FIFPRO, the global footballers’ union, announced that two Ukrainian footballers, 21-year-old Vitalii Sapylo and 25-year-old Dmytro Martynenko, have been killed in Kyiv amid Ukraine-Russia.
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