So far- In Sports

England is the place to be as far as the sports are concerned in the month of June and July.  With so many tournaments happening, here is the gist of what had happened this week in sports.

I cover three sports in major, and the Indian achievements. Hopefully, I cover more in the future.

Normally this is something I update on Sunday but I had to wait for the Asian Championships to get over. so, Here it goes. 

These are the matches that happened in the past week: (3 July- 10 July)

Cricket:

Women:

ICC WORLD CUP: 

Match 1

India vs Srilanka. 

India beats Srilanka by 16 runs.
India women-232/8. Deepti Sharma 78. Mithali Raj 53.
SS Weerakkody-3 wickets.

Chasing 233 to win, Srilanka ended with 216/7 in 50 overs.
Manodara-61.
Jhulan, Poonam Yadav - 2 wickets
Deepti, Bisht - 1 wicket


Match 2

England vs South Africa. 

England won by 68 runs
England- 373/5
Beaumont-148 and Taylor 147
Kapp - 3 wickets.

Chasing the total,
RSA-305/9 in 50overs.
Wolwaardt scoring 67, Lee 72, Tryon scored 26 balls 54
Hazell - 3 wickets and Knight- 2 wickets.

Match 3

Pakistan vs Australia. 

Australia won by 159 runs.
Australia - 290/8.
Perry - 66, Villani - 59, Healy- 63*
Mir took 3 wickets.

Chasing the total,
Pakistan 131/9 in 50 overs.
Mir scored 45.
Gardner and Beams took 3 wickets each.


Match 4

New Zealand vs West Indies

New Zealand win by 8 wickets
Windies- 150/10 in 43 overs
Knight-41.
Kasperek and Tahuhu- 3 wickets each.
Chasing the total,
NZ made 151/2 in 18.2 overs.
Captain Suzie Bates scored 40* off 43
Rachel Priest 90 from 55 balls.


Match 5:

India vs South Africa.

South Africa win by 115 runs.
South Africa- 273/9 in 50 overs.
Top scorers- LEE-92, Van Niekerk 57.
Wicket takers for India- Shikha Pandey-3, Harmanpreet Kaur, and Ekta Bisht-2

Chasing the total,
India-158/10 in 46 overs
Deepti Sharma-60, Jhulan Goswami-43*
Wicket takers- Van Niekerk-4, Khakha-2

Match 6:

New Zealand vs Pakistan

New Zealand win by 8 wickets.
Pakistan- 144/10 in 46.5 overs.
Sana Mir-50
Wicket takers - Rowe 3, Kasperek, Tahuhu, Kerr- 2, Devine - 1

Chasing the total,
New Zealand-147/2(15 overs)
Devine- 93 from 41 balls which included 9 sixes and 7 fours. <3
Wicket takers- Diana and Sandhu- 1

Match 7:

England vs Australia:

England win by 3 runs.
Eng: 259/8 in 50 overs.
Beaumont 49, Brunt 45*, Villani 3 wickets.

Chasing the total,
Aus: 256/8 in 50 overs.
Perry 70, Lanning 40.
Gunn, Hartley, Brunt: 2 wickets each.

Match 8:

West Indies vs Srilanka

Windies win by 47 runs.
WI: 229/9 in 50 overs.
Aguilleira-46*, S Weerakody 3 wickets.

Chasing the total,
SL-182 ALL OUT IN 48 Overs.
Shashikala Siriwardene-33.
Anisa Mohammed-3 wickets.

Top 4 teams:

England-1st
Australia-2nd
India-3rd
New Zealand-4th


Men's 

India vs West Indies 5th ODI:

India won by 8 Wickets.

WI-205/9 IN 50 Overs.
Shai Hope-51, Kyle Hope-46
Wicket-takers: Shami-4, Umesh Yadav - 3

Chasing the total,
India-206/2 in 36.5 overs
Kohli-111, Dinesh Kartik-50

India win the series: 3-1

Only T20I:

West Indies win by 9 wickets.

India-190/6 in 20 Overs.
DK-48 Pant-38
Taylor and Williams-2 wickets.

Chasing the total,
West Indies- 194/1 in 18.3 overs.
Lewis 125*, Samuels-36*
Kuldeep yadav-1 wicket.

England vs South Africa 

1st test:

England win by 211 runs. 

First innings: England: 458 all out.
Root: 190, Moeen Ali:87.
Morkel-4 wickets,
Philander, Rabada- 3 each

SA: 361 all out.
Bavuma 59, Elgar-54.
Moeen Ali: 4 wickets.
Anderson, Broad, Dawson 2 wickets each.

England 2nd innings: 
233 all out,
Cook 69, Bairstrow-51
Maharaj-4, Rabada, Morkel-3 wickets each.

SA 2nd Innings:
119 all out,
Bavuma-21.
Moeen Ali- 6 wickets.

England leads the 4 match series 1-0

SRILANKA VS ZIMBABWE

4th ODI:

Zimbabwe win by 4 wickets (D/L Method)

Srilanka-300/6 in 50 overs
Dickwella-116, Gunathilaka-87
Wicket takers-Mpofu and Waller-2
Zimbabwe needed 219 from 31 overs.
Mire-43, Ervine- 69*
Zimbabwe ended 219/6 in 29.2 overs.

5th ODI: Zimbabwe win by 3 wickets. 

Srilanka: 203/8 in 50 overs. 

Gunathilaka:52, Gunaratne: 59*

Wicket takers: Raza-3, Cremer-2

Chasing the total, 

Zimbabwe :204/7 in 38.1 overs. 

Masakadza-73,Mire-43

Wicket takers:Dhananjaya-4, Malinga-2

Zimbabwe win the series 3-2. Their first overseas series win since 2009.

TENNIS:
THE WIMBLEDON:

With record retirements and two humongous fine implied, the second week of the Wimbledon looks amazing!

• Tomic was fined for his unsportsmanlike behavior on court.
• Daniil was fined for throwing coins at the chair of the umpire.
• Mattek Sands suffered a huge leg injury where she fell down while playing and she was taken to hospital by ambulance. She had players like Sania Mirza, Sorana Cristea visiting her. 
• Federer crosses 10,000 aces in his career. 
• Nadal recorded 29 consecutive set wins. 

ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS:

• India ends the 4-day Asian championships at the top, with 29 medals (12 Gold, 5 Silver, 12 Bronze) 
  China ends 2nd and Kazakhstan in the 3rd spot. 
  This is India's best performance.

BERLIN PARA SWIMMING: 

• Suyash Jadhav came 1st in the heats to clinch silver medal in the 100M butterfly style at IDM Berlin 2017

ASIAN SNOOKER TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP:

• Pankaj Advani and Laksman Rawat wins the Asian team snooker championship 2017. They defeated the Pakistani duo - Bilal and Babar

This is all I could cover this time. 

TIA! :)