Sports Current Affairs-Feb 11, 2023
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1-Bengaluru FC defeated Kerala Blasters 1-0 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium on Saturday, extending their winning streak in the Indian Super League (ISL) 2022–23 to six games.
2-Calicut Heroes won their second match of the Prime Volleyball League’s second season on Saturday at Bengaluru’s Koramangala Indoor Stadium.
3-Des Buckingham, the head coach of Mumbai City FC, praised the club’s work over the past 18 months after their decisive 5-3 victory over FC Goa on Saturday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa gave them the League Winners’ Shield.
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4-On Saturday at Boland Park in Paarl (South Africa), England opened their Women’s T20 World Cup 2023 campaign with an easy seven-wicket victory over West Indies.
5-Ansu Fati, a 20-year-old striker for the team, received the endorsement of FC Barcelona coach Xavi Hernandez on Saturday.
- This season, Fati has played for Barca in 20 league games, however those games have only taken up a total of 800 minutes, during which he has scored three goals.
6- ABB FIA Formula E world championship race in India was won by Frenchman Jean-Eric Vergne of DS Penske on Saturday in front of a sold-out audience and a number of dignitaries, Bollywood stars, and sports icons.
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7-ABB The first entirely electric FIA world championship and the only sport to have achieved net zero carbon since conception is the FIA Formula E world championship.
8-Jaiveer Motwani of Maharashtra and Jasnoor Kaur of Punjab won the Boys and Girls 50m freestyle event at the Prakash Tarun Pushkar pool in Bhopal, respectively, to claim the titles of the fastest boy and female swimmers of the games.
9-Despite a brief push from FC Goa on Saturday at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Mumbai City FC triumphed 5-3 to capture their second ISL League Shield and cap off a spectacular year.
10-Charlotte Edwards, head coach of the Mumbai Indians women’s squad, stated that she views the competition as a fantastic opportunity to work with and develop domestic Indian players before to the Womens Premier League (WPL) players’ auction.
11-The legendary Allan Border blasted the visitors, saying the batters are giving the bowlers the thumbs up on being beaten outside the off-stump, after Australia was destroyed by India by a huge margin of an innings and 132 runs in the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar series at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur.
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12-Rohit Sharma’s squad is one step closer to earning a spot in the World Test Championship Final, which will take place at The Oval in London starting on June 7. India defeated Australia by an innings and 132 runs in the first Test of the four-match series on Saturday.
13-Ashwin, Jadeja, and Axar shone with the ball and the bat as India defeated Australia by an innings and 132 runs in the first Test on Saturday at the VCA Stadium in Nagpur.
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14- The inaugural ILT20 trophy final between Desert Vipers and Gulf Giants will be a fierce contest on Sunday at the Dubai International Stadium.
15-The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is being held in Hyderabad, the city of the Nizams. Enthusiastic spectators filled the grandstands to watch 22 drivers compete in races in the GEN3, the fastest, lightest, most powerful, and most efficient electric race car ever built on a street circuit built around the picturesque Hussain Sagar Lake.
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