World fastest man leads all- stars to victory

The world’s fastest man Usain Bolt led his Bolt All-Stars to victory on the opening night of the inaugural Nitro Athletics teams event in Melbourne. The world record holder for the 100m and 200m sprints led the Bolt All Stars — including athletes from Jamaica, the USA and Kenya — against teams representing Australia, England, New Zealand, Japan and China.

The 30-year-old Jamaican sprint star ran in the final event on the programme, the 4x100m mixed relay, featuring two male and two female athletes from each team, as did fellow Jamaican Olympic gold medallist Asafa Powell.

With their captain running the unfamiliar second leg, handing over to American Jenna Prandini, the Bolt All Stars won that race to notch up their fourth outright win of the night and finish with a total of 1080 points. “It was just a wonderful night. I was just enjoying myself from the start to the end,” Bolt said. “Everybody was just having fun. Everybody was trying to support their teammates — going over to the long jump, to the javelin — that’s something were not really used to.”

The Australian team won three of the 12 events to sit second with 1050 points. The two teams finished equal first in two other events while Australia’s Kurtis Marschall also tied for first place with China’s Xue Changrui in the men’s pole vault. New Zealand won the other two events, while China finished third on the points table with 845. “At the start (of the night) I was a little bit worried. We started kinda slow and I was talking so much smack that everyone was looking at me like ‘you’re losing’,” Bolt said. “But we won at the end, so that’s the key thing and I’m very happy with how everything turned out.” 

Nitro Athletics involves a mixture of traditional and modified events designed to provide non-stop action over a two-hour period, with each team consisting of 12 male and 12 female athletes.

SHUBMAN GILL STAYING UNBEATEN

An unbeaten century by opener Shubman Gill in India v/s England under-19 at CCI on Friday by seven wickets in third one-dayer here and took a 2-1 lead in five matches series. Having restricted England colts to 215, and team India under-19 achieve the target in just 45^th over by losing just seven wickets and the opener Shubman Gill gave a good result by staying unbeaten on 138 not out , struck 17 boundaries and two sixes in 157 balls. Be it hitting three very boundaries in the first over of the chase, capitalising on loose deliveries or getting into a tussle with an opponent Gill did it all in the match. He doesn’t loose his cool, didn’t try anything fancy. With the partnership with Harvik Desai(37) he make 115 runs and spinner Rahul Chahar(4/33) and Anukul  Roy(3/39) were impressive one.

BCCI ANNOUNCED IPL AUCTION WILL BE ON FRIDAY

BCCI announced that IPL auction for 10th edtion will be on february 20 , friday in Bangalore. originally it was on february 4 in the Garden City the players auction was left in the wait afterthe Supreme Court order that led to an administrative crisis in the BCCI with its president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke being removed for not implementing the Lodha panel recommendations.The Committee of BCCI Administrators is now in place and one of their immediate tasks is to fast track the preparations for the IPL beginning April 5. In a release, the BCCI said 750 players have registered for the auction."The IPL franchises will go into the player auction with a maximum of INR 143.33 crore purse for 2017 season," the statement read. "The teams can have a maximum of 27 players including 9 overseas players. A maximum of 76 players, including 28 overseas, can be bought at the auction," it read further. The team that goes into the auction with the biggest purse is Kings XI Punjab, having Rs 23.35 crore at its disposal. Delhi Daredevils are second in the list with a balance purse of Rs 23.1 crore. Mumbai Indians will have the least amount of money to be spent as they are only left with 11.555 crore, a little more than Royal Challengers Bangalore (12.825 crore). The latest IPL entrants, Pune Super Giants and Gujarat Lions, are left with Rs 17.5 crore and 14.35 crore respectively. With squad limit being 27, Kolkata Knight Riders are expected to do a lot of buying at the auction, having got only 14 players in their roster so far. The auction will be followed by a day long IPL Franchise Workshop on February 21. In December, the big names that were released from their respective squads were India pacer Ishant Sharma, South African speedster Dale Steyn and former England batting star Kevin Pietersen, who has now ruled himself out of the upcoming edition. As many as 140 cricketers, including 44 overseas players, were retained, while 63 were let go by the eight franchises.

Deborah Herold lead Indian team

Deborah herold will  lead Indian cycling team having 35 members in 37^th Asian Track Cycling championships which will be held in February 6 to 10 at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium velodrome here. He Deborah who is competing in 200m sprint, 500m time trial and Keirin individual events is the biggest is biggest name among Indian cyclist. The event is the biggest event for every cyclist. In this event , which is an UCI(INTERNATIONAL CYCLING UNION), in this we can see various country participation like 

China,HongKong,Indonesia,Iran,Japan,Kazakhstan,Korea,Macau,Malaysia,Mongolia,Singapore,SaudiArabia,Thailand,Taiwan,Turkmenistan,UAE,Uzbekistan and India.

Six for Chahal, 2-1 to India after 75-run win

Victory over England in Bengaluru  has completed a hat-trick of series victories for Virat kohil’s Indian cricket over the visitories in all formats, with this 2-1. England win the toss and choose to ball first. Virat kohil run out 2, KL Rahul out at 22 , Suresh Raina out at 63, M.S Dhoni out at 56, Yuvraj Singh out at 27, Hardik Pandya out at 11 and Rishabh pant not out at6. Suresh Raina  and M.SDhoni launched the classic rescue against England and Yuvraj Singh who hit three sixer at a time and ended the game to 202 at 20 overs .With a big target ahead of them, Jason Roy and Joe Root decided to not allow Billings’s exit to bog them down, and continued to attack. They took England to 55 for 1 in six overs to set a solid platform for their side, but immediately after that, Roy fell top-edging Amit Mishra high up in the air. MS Dhoni called for it early, and made no mistake in completing the catch to peg England back once again. Morgan and Root then combined aggression with caution to keep England in the hunt, taking them to the halfway point of the chase inside the 12th over. Root’s stay in the middle wasn’t all smooth – he was dropped at point when Rishabh Pant and Yuvraj Singh both went for a catch. But luck turned India’s way in the following over, as Chahal removed Morgan (40 in 21 balls) and Root (42 in 37) off consecutive deliveries to bring new batsmen to the crease. He then bagged three more by removing Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes and Chris Jordan to make India close to the victory. Towards the end pacer Jasprit Bumrah cleaned up the tail.

TEAM PHYSICALLY ABUSED BY COACH

The India Under-17 football team will start training in Goa later this week under an interim coach and can expect to have a new full time coach by February 15. Ever since the team members have given the written complained to All India Football Federation against their coach Nicolai Adam, alleging physical abuse and the federation has been left in no doubt that Nicolai doesn’t have future with the team. Although they made very clear to Nicolai and he understand it very clearlybut he can’t continue as a coach.  

RAJEEV SHUKLA MAY GO TO ATTEND ICC MEETING

IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla may go to attend ICC meeting in Dubai on February  4 and 5 as his name may be submitted along with those of teasurer Anirudh Chaudhary and joint secretary Amitabh Chowdhury to the supreme court as possible representatives of Board of Control for Cricket Council in India. Early there  were two names only i.e  Anirudh Chaudhary and  Amitabh Chowdhury but later it was concern that giving two names could lead to complications if Supreme court turned down one of candidates. The supreme court have asked three names to represent BCCI at the meet. BCCI official would meet on Saturday to discuss the name and finalise it on Sunday. Both Anirudh Chaudhary and  Amitabh Chowdhury is finale as they know BCCI’S stand on revenue sharing from the ICC’s income . under this circumstances these two are the choice.  The board had failed to meet the SC deadliune of submitting names because of republic day holiday on Thursday. Monday is the last date for submitting undertaking of officials who will take charge of BCCI posts. As per the order of the Supreme court, the interim president , secretary and treasuer will have to give in writing their intentions to implement the Lodha Committee’s reforms,