CRICKET
Tamil Nadu Cricket Affiliation (TNCA) felicitated India cricketers R.S. Ambrish and Deepesh Devendran, who had been a part of the Below-19 World Cup profitable squad.
The 2 gamers got a money award of Rs 5 lakh every within the presence of the TNCA workplace bearers.
India received its sixth title beating England by 100 runs within the closing final Sunday in Harare.
Ambrish scored 73 runs within the match and claimed 11 wickets, whereas Deepesh accounted for six wickets.
GOLF
Diksha and Avani off to sturdy begins in PIF Saudi worldwide
Indian golfers Diksha Dagar and Avani Prashanth had been off to a very good begin, carding 3-under 69s within the opening spherical of the PIF Saudi Women Worldwide in Riyadh.
They had been tied twenty first and 5 pictures behind Korea’s Hye-Jin Choi (64) as some gamers had been but to complete the spherical. Mendacity second was Japan’s Chizzy Iwai (65).
Three different Indians are taking part in within the 120-player discipline on the match which carried an enormous prize purse of USD 5 million.
Aditi Ashok picked a birdie on her closing gap — the ninth to be 1-under 71 for the day and was T-70, whereas Pranavi Urs carded 1-over 73 and was T-86 and Hitaashee Bakshi was even par with 5 extra holes to play.
Diksha, the highest Indian on the LET Order of Advantage in 2025, birdied the third, twelfth and the 18th for a clear card.
Avani birdied the opening gap and regardless that she gave again that shot on the fourth she picked up momentum once more with birdies on the fifth and eighth. She turned in 2-under.
On the again, birdies on the twelfth and the fifteenth introduced her close to the High-10, however a closing bogey on the 18th pulled her again and he or she completed at 3-under 69.
– PTI
Golfer Zara Anand to steer Indian staff at Ladies’s Beginner Asia-Pacific
Zara Anand will lead a four-member Indian staff on the prestigious World Beginner Asia-Pacific (WAAP) in Wellington starting on Thursday.
Zara will likely be accompanied by Guntas Kaur Sandhu (world No. 545), Ananyaa Sood (581) and Jia Kataria (584).
The match is hosted by The R&A (Royal & Historic, Scotland), the world governing physique for the foundations of golf, in affiliation with the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC).
The winner of World Beginner Asia-Pacific earns invites to play in three main championships – the AIG Ladies’s Open, the Amundi Evian Championship and The Chevron Championship.
The winner additionally options in elite championships such because the Hana Monetary Group Championship, ISPS HANDA Ladies’s Australian Open, The Ladies’s Beginner Championship and the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner, making it essentially the most sought-after occasion for girls amateurs throughout the globe.
Zara has registered some spectacular performances within the final two seasons, together with a top-10 end within the Queen Sirikit Cup final 12 months. She was adjudged one of the best novice participant of the match, finally ending tied fifteenth general.
Guntas additionally had a exceptional home season profitable 4 occasions on the IGU circuit. She completed third within the 2025 IGU All India Women & Junior Women Beginner Championship.
Jia is a US Collegiate golf scholar and has been a constant performer as she received 4 titles final season, together with the LTU Spring Break Invitational, SSAC Ladies’s Golf Championship, Seahawk Shootout and Woman Roadrunner Fall Invite.
Ananyaa received the US Youngsters United Arab Emirates Championship final 12 months together with 4 top-10 finishes within the UAE. She additionally received the Robert Rock Junior Golf Tour UAE Championship, and the Tommy Fleetwood Worldwide Pathway Sequence within the UAE.
– PTI
Anvitha takes over lead from Tvesa in WPGT
A day after a bogey-free card, Tvesa Malik endured a rocky outing within the second spherical of the Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour to slide to the second spot in Pune on Wednesday.
She shot 2-over 74 and slipped from the highest spot to second behind Anvitha Narender (72).
Anvitha, who shot 71 within the first spherical added even par 72 within the second, moved to the highest with another spherical to go.
Riya Jadon rose to 3rd place with a gradual 72 that included three birdies towards three bogeys, whereas Nayanika Sanga (71), who carded three birdies within the first seven holes, cooled off with only one extra bogey.
Anvitha opened the spherical with a bogey however birdies on ninth and the eleventh helped her recuperate earlier than she dropped a shot on the twelfth.
A birdie on the 16tth and a bogey on the seventeenth noticed her end at even par.
Tvesa had three birdies additionally had three bogeys and a double bogey in her card of 74.
Three gamers Ketaki Sood (71), Shagun Narain 74) and novice Priya Kumari (75) had been tied for the fifth place at 3-over 147.
Mannat Brar, one of many three gamers to shoot below par on the second day, and Ridhima Dilawari (73) had been tied for eighth place.
Vani Kapoor (73), Khushi Khanijau (75), novice Aradhana Manikandan (75), Karishma Govind (75), Durga Nittur (75) and Ananya Garg (76) had been tied for the tenth place.
The minimize fell at 154, and 24 execs and 4 amateurs made it to the ultimate spherical.
– PTI
Printed on Feb 11, 2026