Sports Current Affair

Important Sports Current affair for SNAP, XAT, TISS and CMAT

Cricket

• Australia wins the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup after defeating New Zealand by 7 wickets in MCG.
• Karnataka team wins the Ranji Trophy final by registering an innings and 217 run­win against Tamil Nadu in the final at Wankhede Stadium.
• Pune, Rajkot become interim IPL franchises to replace CSK, RR.
• The Pune franchise was bought by Kolkata-based company New Rising owned by business tycoon Sanjiv Goenka while Intex Mobiles won the bid for the Rajkot franchise.
• Australia and New Zealand have created history by playing the first day-night Test match at the Adelaide Oval Cricket Stadium with a pink Kookaburra ball.
• South African batsman AB de Villiers scores a 31­ball hundred to break the world record for the fastest century in OneDay Internationals in a match against West Indies at the Wanderers, in Johannesburg. He also broke the fastest half century with 16 balls.
• India’s legendary batsman and Bharat Ratna recipient Sachin Tendulkar has been voted the ‘Best Test player’ of the 21st century in an online poll.
• Former West Indies paceman Sir Wesley Winfield Hall has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
• He is the 4th cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2015 after Betty Wilson, Anil Kumble and Martin Crowe.

Hockey

• Australia has won the 2014-15 Men’s Hockey World League Final by defeating Belgium.
• India was placed at third place in this league after defeating world number two and defending champions Netherlands.
• India’s junior men’s hockey team has won the Eight edition of Men’s Junior Asia hockey cup. In the finals played at Kuantan (Malaysia), India defeated arch-rivals Pakistan 6-2 goals.
• Great Britain won  2015 Sultan of Johor Cup under-21 field hockey tournament by defeating defending champions India.
• Indian women’s hockey team has qualified for 2016 Rio Olympics and now joining nine other teams.

Football

• Bangladesh has won maiden Under-16 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) championship title 2015.
• United States (US) won the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup by defeated Japan. It is the overall third world cup title of US.
• Chile won South America’s most prestigious football trophy, the Copa America title 2015 for the first time. the hosts defeated 14 times champion Argentina.
• Astronomers have named a newly discovered galaxy as CR7 (COSMOS Redshift 7) after Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
• Sunil Chhetri has become the first Indian footballer to score 50 international goals. He achieved this feat in his 87th match.
• Barcelona FC has won 2015 Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League trophy for the fifth time. In the summit clash played at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany they defeated Juventus FC by 3-1 goals.
• Chelsea wins the English Premier League title as they defeated Crystal Palace 1­0 in Stamford Bridge with three more matches to play.
• Cristiano Ronaldo wins the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2014 for the third time.

Badminton

• Ace Indian shuttler Pusarla Venkata Sindhu has won the $120,000 2015 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold Badminton tournament. With this victory, she has won this title for the third consecutive time after she had won it in 2013 and 2014.
• Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal has won a silver medal at 2015 China Open Superseries Premier Badminton tournament. She lost to sixth-placed Xuerui Li from China.
• China’s Xuerui Li has won the prestigious 2015 Denmark Open Badminton Title in the women’s single category. she defeated P V Sindhu of India.
• Ace Indian shuttler, Ajay Jayaram has won the 50000 dollars 2015 Dutch Open Grand Prix badminton tournament.
• Indian pair of Jwala Gutta and Ashwini Ponappa won the women’s doubles title of the Canada Open Badminton tournament.
• Saina Nehwal lost to world number one Carolina Marin in the final of the World Badminton Championship in Jakarta.

Tennis

• World number one Novak Djokovic from Serbia has become the first tennis player to win the ATP World Tour Finals for record fourth consecutive time.
• Leander Paes won the mixed doubles at 2015 US Open partnering, Martina Hingis, defeating Sam Querrey and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. The Paes-Hingis duo, which also won the Australian Open and the Wimbledon titles early this season.
• Sania Mirza (India) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland) has won the 2015 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Women’s double category.
• The duo earlier had won the Indian Wells Open, Miami Open, Charleston Open, Wimbledon, US Open, Guangzhou Open, Wuhan Open and China Open.

Chess

• Former world junior champion and Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta won the 19th Commonwealth Chess Championship.
• Sergey Karjakin of Russia has won 2015 World Cup Chess Championship held at Baku, Azerbaijan.

Appointment

• Union Government has appointed veteran sports administrator Vijay Kumar Malhotra as President of newly established All India Council of Sports (AICS).
• Shashank Manohar has been elected unopposed as President of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for the second term.
• Former Pakistan cricket team captain Zaheer Abbas has been selected the new President of International Cricket Council (ICC) for one year term.
• Kerala government has appointed Tennis Icon Steffanie Graf as Ayurveda brand ambassador.
• President of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Sepp Blatter has resigned amid a corruption scandal which under investigation in the United States.

Athletics

• Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt has won world 100 metres & 200-metre title in the World Athletics Championships held in Beijing, China.
• Ethiopia’s Mare Dibaba has won the gold medal in the women’s marathon event at the World Athletics Championships 2015 held in Beijing, China.

Award:

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna 2015:

• Sania Mirza

Dronacharya Award 2015

• Naval Singh- Athletics Para-sports coach.
• Anoop Singh– Wrestling coach.
• Harbans Singh- Athletics coach.
• Swatantar Raj Singh- Boxing coach.
• Nihar Ameen- Swimming coach.

Dhyan Chand Award 2015

• Romeo James– Hockey.
• Shiv Prakash Mishra- Tennis.
• P Nair– Volleyball

Miscellaneous

• International Olympic Committee (IOC) has officially recognised ‘Frisbee’ as an Olympic sport.
• Cyclist Chris Froome from Britain of Team Sky has won the 102nd edition Tour de France.
• World Boxing Organization (WBO) has stripped of the Welterweight World title 2015 won by Floyd Mayweather in May 2015.
• Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani won the 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship. Earlier in September 2015, he had won the 2015 IBSF World Billiards Championship.
• Ace Indian shooter, Heena Sidhu has won Gold medal in 10 metre Air Pistol event in women’s category and Jitu Rai has won a silver medal in 50-metre pistol event category at 13th Asian Shooting Championships held in Kuwait.
• New Zealand has won the 2015 Rugby World Cup for record third time by defeating Australia.
• India’s ace women archer Deepika Kumari has won the Silver medal in recurves event at the 2015 Archery World Cup Final held in Mexico City.
• Ace Indian archer Abhishek Verma has won the Silver medal in the 2015 Archery World Cup Final in the men’s individual compound section.
• India’s first Paragliding World Cup has begun at Bir-Billing near Baijnath town in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. The snow leopard is the official mascot of this World Cup.
• First World Indigenous Games has kicked off in the northern Brazilian city of Palmas.
• The Hangzhou City of China chosen to host 2022 Asian Games.
• Ace Indian Golfer Anirban Lahiri has become the first Indian to qualify for the prestigious President’s Cup of Golf. In season 2015, he has won 2 European Tour, 7 Asian Tour including the Hero Indian Open in 2015 and Malaysian Open.
• Every year August 29 is being observed as National Sports Day across the country.
• India’s ace female squash player Joshna Chinappa won the prestigious US 15,000 dollars Victorian Open squash competition.
• Satnam Singh Bhamara became the first Indian-born basketball player to be drafted in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
• U Mumba Beat Bengaluru Bulls to Win Second Season of Pro Kabaddi League 2015.

International Premier Tennis League

	Team	Key Player
01.	MICROMAX INDIAN ACES	Sania Mirza, Rohan Bopanna, Rafael Nadal, Gael Monfils
02.	Japan Warriors	Kei Nishikori, Maria Sharapova, Leander Paes, Marat Safin
03.	Philippine Mavericks	Serena Williams, Milos Raonic, Richard Gasquet, Mark Philippoussis
04.	OUE Singapore Slammers	Novak Djokovic, Carlos Moya, Nick Kyrgios
05.	UAE Royals	Roger Federer, Ana Ivanovic, Daniel Nestor