🚣🚴🏇🏊 SPORTS
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1. India beat New Zealand by four wickets in the first T20I at Hagley Oval, Christchurch, chasing 226 with two balls to spare — India’s highest successful T20I chase. Sanju Samson made 67 off 33 balls and Naman Dhir 42* off 15, after Glenn Phillips’ 82* off 40 took NZ to 225/8. The second T20I is on Saturday.
2. India won 26 medals (7 gold, 4 silver, 15 bronze) on Day 4 of the Asian Para Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan, taking its tally to 88 — 21 gold, 26 silver and 41 bronze — and rising to fourth place. Shailesh Kumar, Varun Bhati and Rahul swept the men’s high jump T63.
3. Archer Sheetal Devi won two golds — the compound mixed team title with Toman Kumar, beating Indonesia 151-148, and the individual gold. Dharmaraj Solairaj won the long jump gold with an Asian record of 7.15 m, while Anjanaben Bumbadiya (400m T47) and Suvarna Raj (discus F54) also won gold.
4. Asmita Chaliha, ranked 36th in the world, stunned world No. 2 Akane Yamaguchi of Japan 21-19, 21-18 in 37 minutes in the second round of the French Open badminton in Paris.
5. England’s Harry Brook hit 202 off 116 balls, the fastest double century in ODIs and the first by an England batter, but Sri Lanka chased down 430 in Rawalpindi for the second-highest successful chase in ODI history.
6. The first Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship begins in Ahmedabad today and runs till 31 October, with 13 men’s and 10 women’s teams. Surjeet Singh leads India’s men’s team. Boxer Prachi Tokas reached the semi-finals of the U-19 World Boxing Championships (+80 kg) in Budva, assuring a medal.
