Sports update: Kolkata became the IPL champion, PV Sindhu missed out on the gold medal, for the third time, and more
IPL 2024 Final: Kolkata Knight Riders captured the title after a decade
After a decade, the Kolkata Knight Riders’ dream of winning the title has been fulfilled. Kolkata completely defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad in all three departments of the game—bowling, batting, and fielding –—and lifted the IPL title for the third time in its history. After the brilliant performance of the bowlers, on the basis of Venkatesh Iyer’s unbeaten 52 runs and Rahmanullah Gurbaz’s useful innings of 39 runs, Kolkata defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets in a one-sided fashion in Chennai on Sunday.
While batting, Hyderabad was reduced to just 113 runs. After that, Kolkata, who came to bat in the second innings, ended their 10-year-long IPL drought by chasing the target in just 10.3 overs. In the history of the IPL, Kolkata has reached the finals four times, out of which it has captured the trophy three times. Before this, KKR had also become champions in 2012 and 2014.
Captain Pat Cummins scored the most runs for Hyderabad. This is the same Hydrabad that scored the biggest scores while batting first three times in this year’s IPL season, but at the time when it had the highest expectations from its batsmen, its batsmen disappointed them and showed fearlessness on a big stage. Failed to bat.
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No one had thought that Sunrisers Hyderabad, which scored the biggest total (287 runs) in the history of the IPL, would succumb to Kolkata in the final. Kolkata Knight Riders won the book but also gave an unforgettable defeat to Hyderabad. Kolkata’s bowlers created such a storm on the Chepauk ground in Chennai that Hyderabad’s batting collapsed like a house of cards. The entire team could score only 113 runs after playing 18.3 overs and also lost all its wickets. This is the lowest score in the final in the history of the IPL.
Dipa Karmakar created history by winning gold
India’s star gymnast Dipa Karmakar has made the country proud by creating a huge history on Sunday. She has become the first gymnast from India to win a gold medal in the Asian Senior Championships by winning the gold medal in the women’s vault event. The Sports Authority of India congratulated him and posted on social media that history has been created in the Asian Gymnastic Championships. Congratulations to Prernadai, Deepa on winning the gold medal.
30-year-old Dipa Karmakar scored an average score of 13.566 in the vault final on the last day of the competition. North Korea’s Kim Son Hyang (13.466) and Jo Kyong Byeol (12.966) won silver and bronze respectively. Dipa Karmakar, who finished fourth in the vault final at the Rio Olympics 2016, had won a bronze medal in the same event in the 2015 edition.
Ashish Kumar won the bronze medal in individual floor exercise at the Asian Championships in 2015. Pranati Nayak had won bronze medal in vault event in 2019 and 2022 phase. Tripura-born Dipa Karmakar achieved a huge feat by winning the gold medal in vault at the 2018 World Cup in Mersin, Turkey. She also became the first Indian to win a gold medal in global gymnastics.
Indian star Neeraj Chopra will not participate in Ostrava
India’s star javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist Neeraj Chopra on Sunday made it clear that he is not injured but after feeling some pain in his muscles during early practice, he opted out of the Czech Republic from May 28 as a preventive measure. It has been decided not to participate in the upcoming Ostrava Golden Spike 2024 athletics meet. In place of Neeraj Chopra, now European champion Julian Weber of Germany will participate in this competition. A few hours before Neeraj Chopra’s clarification, the organizers had told that Neeraj ji was not playing in the tournament due to injury.
Neeraj Chopra said that he does not want to take any risk in the Olympic year, that is why he will not play in this tournament. Neeraj Chopra told fans through his Instagram post on Sunday that, after a recent throwing session, I decided not to play in Ostrava because I felt something in the ‘adductor’ muscle. I have had problems with this before too. I want to make it clear that I am not injured but I do not want to take any risks in the Olympic year. After complete recovery, I will participate in the competition again.
Sindhu remained one step away from becoming champion
India’s star badminton player PV Sindhu will have to wait longer for her first title in two years as she was defeated by China’s Wang Zi Yi in the final of Malaysia Masters on Sunday. PV Sindhu will now present the Indian challenge in the Singapore Open Super 750 tournament starting from Tuesday. Two-time Olympic medalist PV Sindhu lost 21-16, 5-21, 16-21 despite taking a huge lead of 11-3 in the deciding game of the three-game match that lasted for about 80 minutes.
