1. 1st female cricketer to play 200 ODIs
• Indian captain Mithali Raj became the first female cricketer to play 200 ODI.
• The 36-year-old is also the highest run-getter in ODIs with 6622 runs at an average of 51.33.
• Mithali made her ODI debut way back in 1999 and has featured in 200 games out of the 263 ODIs India have played.
2. Indonesia Masters 2019
• Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal won her first Indonesia Masters title after three-time world champion Carolina Marin limped out of the final due to a leg injury.
• Marin was leading 10-4 in the first game at Jakarta when she developed an injury in the knee.
• Saina had won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, a bronze at the Asian Games.
3. Australian Open
• Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal to win his 7th Australian Open Men`s Singles title at Melbourn.
• The resurgent world No.1 outplayed the second-ranked Nadal 6-3, 6-2, 6-3 in a largely one-sided match.
• In Women`s Singles, Japan`s Naomi Osaka clinched her maiden Australian Open Grand Slam Singles title in Melbourne .
• Osaka became the first Asian player to achieve the world number one ranking.
4. Kartik Sharma wins New South Wales men`s Amateur Golf Championship
• India`s Kartik Sharma won the New South Wales men`s Amateur Golf Championship in Australia.
• Kartik notched up a magnificent win over Australia`s Nathan Barberie in the scheduled 36-hole final to emerge as champion.
• He had been selected to represent Indian Golf Union for three events in Australia.
• Kartik had also won the Indian golf union western India amateur golf championship 2018.
5. Shami becomes fastest Indian to reach 100 ODI wickets
• Mohammed Shami became the fastest Indian to claim 100 wickets in One-day Internationals.
• This was his 56th game in the 50-over format.
• Shami` wicket number 100 was New Zealand opener Martin Guptill.
• Before Shami, Irfan Pathan reached the 100-wicket mark in 59 ODIs.
6. Raghbir Singh Bhola
• Former India hockey player Raghbir Singh Bhola, a two-time Olympic medallist, has passed away.
• He represented India in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and won a gold medal.
• In 1960 Rome Olympics he won a silver medal for the country.
• He successfully captained the Indian Air Force hockey and Services team from 1954-60 and won the Inter Services Hockey Championship three times and the National Hockey Championship on two occasions.
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