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Karnataka judokas win 2 gold

February 12, 2015

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 12: Samata Rane and Puja Shapurkar claimed gold medals for Karnataka at the National Games judo competitions on Wednesday.

Karnataka judokasSamata defeated Delhi’s Kalpana Devi in the women’s 52kg category final. She had entered the gold medal round after scoring over Haryana’s Mukesh in the semifinal and Deepa Choudhary of Uttarakhand in the first round.

In the 57kg category final, Puja defeated Sonam of Punjab, after beating Stephanie Fernandez of Delhi in the semifinals. At Alapuzha, Karnataka’s Twisha K Prasad claimed the silver in the women’s 500M Kayak singles event.

Twisha, who had won the gold in the K-1 1000M on Monday, finished behind Andaman & Nicobar Island’s Rajina Kiro, timing 2:11.00. Rajina clocked 2:09.00. Madhya Pradesh’s Soniya Devi claimed the bronze in 2:18.00.

Karnataka also won a silver on the final day of canoeing and kayaking competitions. In the 500M double kayak, Rajamani Kanagaraj and Venkatesh Gundala timed 1:46.00, finishing behind Services’ Ramesh Golli and Ajit Singh and Telangana’s Prasad Padamkar and Premananda Singh.

Another loss in handball

In men’s handball at Thiruvnanthapuram, Karnataka men crashed to another defeat, this time to Punjab 31-32, and are on the verge of exit.

Service win hockey gold

Services drubbed Odisha 7-2 in the final to win the men’s hockey gold medal at Kollam.

Deepanshu Bhargav gave Odisha the lead but thereafter, it was a one-way traffic, with Siraz, Mukesh Lakra, Ved Prakash, Davinder Singh, Jaspreet Singh, Binay Bhengra and Chandan Aind scoring for Services.

Punjab defeated Haryana 3-1 to win the women’s gold. Manmeet Kaur (2) and Hardeep Kaur scored for Punjab while Devika Sen pulled one back for Haryana. Jharkhand defeated Haryana 7-6 via penalty strokes to take the bronze. Jharkhand also won the bronze in the women’s event, with a 2-0 win over Odisha.

Eves through in volleyball

Karnataka women entered the semifinals of the women’s volleyball event in Kozhikode. They defeated Chandigarh 25-21, 25-15, 25-8 for their second win in Group A. Kerala qualified as group toppers after beating West Bengal 25-17, 25-19, 25-21.

Medals tally TEAM G S B T

Services 68 19 22 109

Haryana 30 26 17 73

Maharashtra 27 40 36 103

Kerala 27 31 36 94

Punjab 19 27 25 71

Madhya Pradesh 19 17 27 63

Manipur 15 14 17 46

Karnataka 8 15 18 41

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March 12,2020

New Delhi, Mar 12: No foreign player will be available for this year's IPL till April 15 due to visa restrictions imposed by the government to contain the novel coronavirus threat, a top BCCI source told PTI on Thursday, casting fresh doubts on the fate of the event.

"The foreign players who play in the IPL come under the Business Visa category. As per the government's directive, they can't come till April 15," a BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.

The government issued fresh advisory with a ban on all existing foreign visas, except a few categories like diplomatic and employment, till April 15 in the wake of new positive cases of novel coronavirus in the country.

India has reported 60 positive cases in the outbreak which has led to over 4,000 deaths globally.

The fate of the IPL itself will be decided on March 14 at the event's Governing Council meeting in Mumbai. "All decisions will be taken by the GC in Mumbai," the source said.

Having the IPL, starting March 29, played in empty stadiums is an option being explored.

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August 2,2020

New Delhi, Aug 2: Batting great Rahul Dravid has attributed Chennai Super Kings' consistent run in the IPL to skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni's instincts, game-smarts and the incredible amount of work that goes behind the scenes.

N Srinivasan, the former BCCI president and head of India Cements, which owns the CSK franchise, agreed that Dhoni is a man of instinct who doesn't believe in attending team meetings and going over data.

Both were speaking at a webinar organised by the Great Lakes Institute of Management.

"If you look at the success CSK has had, they've got really good access to data and they've got really good access to people behind the scenes and they've run cricket teams at the junior level," Dravid said at the webinar according to ESPNcricinfo.

The former India captain added, "They understand talent and they've obviously got a good scouting process in place. But, what they also have is a captain who really understands instincts.

"So, I mean, look, I know Dhoni quite well and I hope he hasn't changed, but I know Dhoni is probably not one to look at reams of data and statistics."

The Super Kings have won the lucrative tournament three times -- one less than Mumbai Indians -- and reached the knockouts in each of the 10 seasons they have been a part of.

Srinivasan also spoke about how Dhoni's instinct and judgement contributed to his team's success at a time when a lot of emphases is placed on data.

"We're awash with data just now. To give you an example, there are bowling coaches and in a T20 game, they play videos of every batsman whom they're going to come against and they see how he got out, what's his strength, what's his weakness etc.

"So, MS Dhoni doesn't attend this, he's a pure instinct man. The bowling coach, (head coach Stephen) Fleming will be there and everybody will be there, everyone is giving opinions, (but) he'll get up and go.

"In the context of instinct, he feels that okay he can assess a batsman or player on the field, that's his judgement. On the other hand, there is so much of data that is available to help a person also analyse. It's a very difficult line to draw (between data and instinct)."

Srinivasan also recalled how Dhoni once refused to take "one outstanding player" suggested by the franchise boss as that could have broken the team's cohesion.

"There was one outstanding player that we suggested to MS, he said: 'no sir, he will spoil the team'. The cohesion within the team is important and see in America, franchise-based sport has been there for such a long time," he said.

"In India, we're just starting and we're new to it. But we at India Cements have had a lot of experience running teams at junior levels."

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March 23,2020

Colombo, Mar 23: Sri Lankan batting great Kumar Sangakkara has said he is currently in self-quarantine, following his government's guidelines for those recently returning from Europe, which has now become the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The authorities are concerned over people returning from the most-affected COVID-19 countries in Europe not registering with the police and practising isolation.

"I have no symptoms or anything like that, but I'm following government guidelines," Sangakkara told News First.

"I arrived from London over a week ago and the first thing was there was a news bulletin saying that anyone who had travelled from within March 1 to 15 should register themselves with the police and undergo self-quarantine. I registered myself with the police."

The former captain said this even as the government confirmed there have been at least three cases of recent returnees attempting to hide the novel coronavirus symptoms from authorities.

Both Sangakkara and his former teammate Mahela Jayawardene have been active on social media, urging Sri Lankans to avoid panic and to exercise proper social distancing, as the country went into curfew on Friday evening.

Sri Lanka has so far reported more than 80 active COVID-19 positive cases in the country.

Across the world, the number of infected has crossed three lakh besides a death toll of more than 14,000 people.

Meanwhile, former Australia pacer Jason Gillespie has also gone into a two-week isolation after returning from the United Kingdom.

Gillespie, who is the head coach at Sussex, had been in Cape Town with the team for a pre-season tour, which was cut short as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

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