Sports Current Affairs- March 11, 2021
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1- Opener Shai Hope scoring 110 runs helped Windies to 8-wicket win over SL in the first ODI at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.
2-Former batsman VVS Laxman said Virat Kohli must play with freedom during the five-match T20I series against England.
3-Swiss tennis great Roger Federer returned with win defeating Britain’s Dan Evans at the Qatar Open after 13-month gap.
4-Sri Lanka opener Danushka Gunathilaka was given out for obstructing the field. He became the first Sri Lankan player and only the eighth in the ODI cricket history.
5-1st T20I: India(No. 2), England (No. 1) play in the first match of the five-match T20I series in Ahemadabad at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Motera open series at Motera.
6-Goa will host 2021 the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League Group E matches.
7-NEROCA- North Eastern Re-Organising Cultural Association Football Club
8-India football captain Sunil Chhetri has tested positive for Covid-19. The 36-year-old footballer plays for Bengaluru FC in the Indian Super League.
9-Rohit Sharma and K.L. Rahul will open in 1st T20I vs England in the first T20 International at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahemadabad.
10-Pakistan’s lone skeet shooter Usman Chand got a visa to travel to India and play for New Delhi Shooting World Cup.
Sports Current Affairs
11-Razi Ahmed Khan is the secretary general of the National Rifle Association of Pakistan (NRAP).
12- AIFF- All India Football Federation
13-Hashmatullah Shahidi (200 not out) and captain Asghar Afghan’s (164) runs puts Afghanistan in front on day 2 of the second Test against Zimbabwe at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.
14-Hashmatullah Shahidi has become the first from Afghanistan to score 200 runs not out.
15-India team is No. 2 in T20 International world rankings.
16- On March 11, 2001, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh became the first Indian to take a hat-trick in Test cricket in the series against Australia.
17-International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Manu Sawhney faced 3-layered probe.
18-11th Sub Junior Women National Hockey Championship is held at Simdega (Jharkhand).
19-Olympic-bound javelin thrower Shivpal Singh has been pulled out of the National Senior Federation Cup athletics meet at Patiala due to injury.
20-India women to take South Africa women in the third ODI, Lucknow at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium on Friday.
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