CRICKET
MCA honours feminine captains with particular gesture as ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 trophy arrives in Mumbai
The Mumbai Cricket Affiliation (MCA) in the present day unveiled a particular wall on the MCA Sharad Pawar Indoor Cricket Academy and Recreation Centre in Bandra-Kurla Advanced, Mumbai, that includes photographs of Mumbai’s ladies captains to honour their important contributions to town’s and India’s cricketing legacy.
Inaugurated within the presence of MCA President Ajinkya Naik, members of the Apex Council, together with worldwide and home ladies cricketers from Mumbai, this gesture not solely recognises these trailblazers but in addition goals to encourage the following era of ladies cricketers.
The revealing coincided with the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2025 Trophy Tour with DP World in Mumbai because the MCA welcomed the trophy, celebrating Mumbai’s wealthy cricketing legacy and enduring ardour for the game.
Mumbai has at all times been on the forefront of Indian ladies’s cricket. When India competed in its first-ever Girls’s World Cup in 1978, the staff was led by Mumbaikar Diana Edulji. Persevering with that proud custom, Jemimah Rodrigues will symbolize India within the upcoming thirteenth version of the match, with Sayali Satghare additionally named among the many reserves.
Gamers and officers posed with the World Cup trophy, creating memorable moments that mirrored the pleasure and pleasure for the worldwide occasion, which has returned to India after 12 years.
Talking on the event, MCA President Ajinkya Naik stated, “Mumbai has at all times been a cradle of expertise for Indian ladies’s cricket, producing leaders and match-winners who’ve made an enduring impression on the sport. From Diana Edulji ji main India within the first World Cup to in the present day’s stars like Jemimah Rodrigues, our gamers have carried town’s legacy with pleasure. This particular wall is a tribute to our ladies captains, whose contributions will proceed to encourage generations. The arrival of the World Cup trophy in Mumbai makes this event much more particular and strengthens our dedication to supporting ladies’s cricket at each degree.”
-Workforce Sportstar
ATHLETICS
Hans Raj, Stanzin Chondol declare full marathon titles at twelfth Ladakh Marathon
The Ladakh Marathon capped its record-breaking twelfth on Sunday
Within the Full Marathon, spanning 42 kilometres, Jammu & Kashmir’s Hans Raj crossed the road first in 2:47:41, whereas Ladakh’s Stanzin Chondol stormed to victory within the ladies’s area with a time of three:13:00—a run that additionally positioned her sixth general amongst women and men.
Rita Satish Patkar delivered one of many standout performances of the weekend, changing into the uncommon runner to say victories in each the Khardung La Problem and the Full Marathon inside simply two days; the Bengalurean completed prime within the veteran feminine class of each races. Within the Half Marathon on Sunday, Tsetan Namgail took prime honours within the males’s race with a time of 1:13:10, whereas Stanzin Dolkar led the ladies’s area, ending in 1:30:14.
Within the 11.2 km class, Skarma Idong Lanzes clinched the ladies’s open title with a time of 47 minutes and 30 seconds, whereas Sonam Stanzin took prime honours within the males’s part, crossing the road in 42 minutes and 39 seconds. He completed simply 10 seconds away from runner-up Furboo Tundup, making it one of many closest contests of the version.
Within the veterans’ classes, Tsewang Dorjay topped the lads’s area whereas Sarah Hanan-Bajwa claimed the ladies’s crown within the 11.2K Run. The Half Marathon titles went to Arvind Basaiawmoit within the males’s part and Shilpa Phadke within the ladies’s part. Within the Full Marathon veterans, Shyamapada Das emerged victorious within the males’s class, complementing Patkar’s win within the ladies’s race.
Earlier on Friday, five-time Guinness World File holder Sufiya Sufi and Ladakh Scouts’ Tsewang Kundan emerged as champions of the Silk Route Extremely, the centrepiece of the twelfth Ladakh Marathon. Shabir Hussain and Namgyal Lhamo topped the lads’s and ladies’s standings, respectively, within the gruelling Khardung La Problem (72 km).
The outcomes:
Marathon: Males: 1. Hans Raj 2:47:41; 2. Khadim Hossain 3:00:06; 3. Vipul Kumar 3:03:42.
Girls: 1. Stanzin Chondol 3:13:00; 2. Disket Dolma 3:27:47; 3. Anuschka Schmitt 4:25:46.
Half marathon: Males: 1. Tsetan Namgail 1:13:10; 2. Tsewang Nangdan 1:15:20; 3. Anurag Konkar 1:20:57.
Girls: 1. Stanzin Dolkar 1:30:14; 2. Tashi Ladol 1:32:05; 3. Anvita Verma 1:57:04.
11.2 km run: Males: 1. Sonam Stanzin 42:39; 2. Forbo Tundup 42:49; 3. Punchok Tashi 43:41.
Girls: 1. Skarma Idong Lanzes 47:30; 2. Padma Lamo 57:21; 3. Stanzin Zompa 58:05.
122 km Silk Route Extremely: Males: 1. Tsewang Kundan 13:50:01; 2. Phunchok Namgail 14:38:14; 3. Skarma Phurbu Tsering 15:01:01.
Girls: 1. Sufiya Sufi 19:12:36; 2. Asha Singh 20:57:35; 3. Corina Van Dam 21:19:06.
72 km Khardung La Problem: Males: 1. Shabir Hussain 6:58:40; 2. Tsering Norbo 7:01:29; 3. Stanzin Namgyal 7:05:28.
Girls: 1. Namgyal Lhamo 8:31:47; 2. Evgeniia Baryshnikoa 9:59:07; 3. Skarma Dawa Zeswal 10:43:43.
-Workforce Sportstar
GOLF
Diksha stays in High-20 of LET Order of Benefit at Swiss Women Open
Golfer Diksha Dagar continues to be the highest Indian on the Women European Tour’s Order of Benefit within the nineteenth place after the Swiss Women Open.
The 2-time LET winner, who took a month-long break, skipping three occasions, continues to be well-placed within the Benefit listing with half a dozen occasions left on the schedule.
Diksha, who has 5 High-10s this season, together with a runner-up place, will play in France subsequent two weeks earlier than coming again dwelling for the Indian Open, the place she has completed in High-3 up to now.
Subsequent behind Diksha within the Order of Benefit is rookie Avani Prashanth (forty third) and she or he additionally skipped Swiss Women Open and can play the La Sella Open in France and the Lacoste Women Open de France and the Indian Open.
Different Indians on the Benefit listing are Pranavi Urs (86th), Hitaashee Bakshi (107th), Vani Kapoor (109th), Aditi Ashok (128th), Tvesa Malik (145th), Ridhima Dilawari (149th), Sneha Singh (168th) and Amandeep Drall (178th).
The remaining occasions on the LET are La Sella Open, Lacoste Women Open de France, Hero Girls’s Indian Open, Wistron Women Open, Aramco China Championship and Andalucia Costa Del Sol Open de Espana.
-PTI
Bhatia produces 6-under 66, rises to Tied-Eleventh on the end in Procore
Indian-American golfer Akshay Bhatia produced a superb entrance 9 with six birdies for a card of 6-under 66 to finish inside touching distance of a High-10 end on the Procore Championship.
Bhatia, who was T-30 after three rounds, completed T-11 within the first occasion of the Fall season after the Fedex Cup play-offs.
Fellow Indian-American Sahith Theegala, nonetheless looking for his rhythm again, shot 3-under 69 after 68-70-75 on the primary three days. At 11-under complete he completed T-Thirty eighth, his greatest since T-29 on the Masters, following which he withdrew as soon as and missed the minimize 4 occasions.
Scottie Scheffler, who determined to play Procore to tune up for the Ryder Cup, produced one other tremendous end of a 5-under 67 for a one-shot victory over Ben Griffin.
Bhatia went on a birdie spree on the entrance 9 with six within the first 9 holes.
On the again 9, he birdied the tenth. Birdies on the primary, second and the fifth had been adopted by 4 in a row from the seventh to the tenth at which level he was 7-under. He dropped his solely shot of the day on the 14th.
-PTI
Rayhan Thomas secures High-20 End at Simmons Financial institution Open
Indian golfer Rayhan Thomas made good progress on the Korn Ferry Tour with a tied twentieth end on the Simmons Financial institution Open, a part of the Korn Ferry Finals, on the Vanderbilt Legends Membership.
The Dubai-raised 24-year-old golfer delivered per week of constant golf to shut at 11-under par, making certain a superb pay cheque of simply over USD 17,000 and helpful factors in his pursuit of a PGA Tour card. He shot 65, 66, 71 and 68 for the week.
He had a roller-coaster of a last spherical with a birdie begin and an eagle on the seventeenth and three different birdies. He additionally gave away 4 bogeys as he carded two-under 68.
With three extra occasions, together with the Korn Ferry Tour Championship, he can retain his Korn Ferry card and even go on to make the elite ranks of the PGA Tour.
Zach Bauchou produced a composed show to win the Simmons Financial institution Open for the Snedeker Basis. The American closed with a 23-under complete of 257, ending two strokes away from Austin Hitt.
-PTI
MORE SPORTS
TN Bhavani wins historic FIS medal
TN Bhavani received a bronze medal within the 5km distance self-discipline on the FIS cross-country snowboarding competitors in Chile, with a time of 21:04. The Reliance Basis athlete’s win is the first-ever worldwide FIS medal for India within the ladies’s class in cross-country snowboarding, making the achievement significantly important.
– Workforce Sportstar
Chinkara Cup polo match: Jaipur Polo beats Kognivera Stallions 8-7
Lance Watson asserted his fluent play, scoring six targets unfold over all 4 chukkers, to assist Jaipur Polo to an exhilarating 8-7 victory over Kognivera Stallions within the last of the Chinkara Cup polo match on Sunday.
Bautista Aliberdi was one of the best performer for Kognivera with 5 targets.
The Jaipur staff had received three matches on the best way to the ultimate, with a cushty margin.
The outcomes (last)
Jaipur Polo 8 (Lance Watson 6, Dino Dhankar, Angad Kalaan) bt Kognivera Stallions 7 Bautista Aliberdi 5, Savir Godara 2).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Revealed on Sep 15, 2025