Sports Current Affairs- January 24, 2022
1- Who indicated he won’t participate in the IPL 2022 auctions to focus on his recovery from a lower back injury?
2- Who is considering starting the 2022 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) on March 27, nearly a week earlier than the tournament’s scheduled start date?
3- Who was eliminated in the first round of the 2022 Australian Open mixed doubles tennis event in Melbourne after losing to Kazakhstan’s Andrey Golubev and Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok?
4- Who won convincingly over Kenya and Malaysia on the fourth day of the ICC Commonwealth Games Qualifier 2022 at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur?
5- Where will the three One-Day Internationals (ODIs) between India and the West Indies currently be played?
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6- Where will the three Twenty20 Internationals between India and the West Indies be played?
7-The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has changed the sites for the forthcoming West Indies Tour of India. What is the timetable?
8- Who thought the 15th season of the IPL would begin in the final week of March and go until the end of May, with moves underway to host the cash-rich tournament in India?
9- Which Indian golfer came back from being three-over after three holes to finish in the top ten at the US$ 1.25 million SMBC Singapore Open?
10- After defeating No. 25 seed Daria Kasatkina in Melbourne, who progressed to the fourth round of the 2022 Australian Open?
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11- Who was the standout performer for U Mumba in their 42-35 victory against Telugu Titans in a Pro Kabaddi League season 8 encounter at The Sheraton Grand, Whitefield in Bengaluru?
12- Who defeated NorthEast United FC 2-1 at the PJN Stadium in Margao (Goa) in the 2021-22 Indian Super League (ISL) match?
13- Who was detained when Lucas Digne and Matty Cash of Aston Villa were hit by a plastic bottle thrown from the crowd during their Premier League match versus Everton at Goodison Park in Liverpool?
14- Who hit superb hundreds as India achieved their second-highest total in an Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup encounter, crushing Uganda by 326 runs?
15-Who defeated Papua New Guinea by nine wickets in a low-scoring Group C game at the Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain (Trinidad) in the current edition of the Under-19 ICC Cricket World?
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16-Who has been named ICC Umpire of the Year for 2021?
17- Who won the David Shepherd Trophy after previously winning it in 2016 and 2017?
18- Who had became only the third South African umpire to stand in 100 ODIs, following Rudi Koertzen and David Orchard, and the 18th in the world to do so?
19- In Cape Town, who defeated India by four runs in the third and final One-Day International (ODI) to complete a 3-0 whitewash in the three-match series?
20- Which series versus West Indies got off to a shaky start, with the Eoin Morgan-led team losing by nine wickets in a D/N match at the Kensington Oval?
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ANSWERS
1-England all-rounder Sam Curran
2- The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)
3-The Indo-Croatian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Darija Jurak Schreiber
4-Scotland and Sri Lanka
5- At the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
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6- At the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
7-Revised schedule:
1st ODI: February 6, Ahmedabad
2nd ODI: February 9, Ahmedabad
3rd ODI: February 11, Ahmedabad
1st T20I: February 16, Kolkata
2nd T20I: February 18, Kolkata
3rd T20I: February 20, Kolkata
8-BCCI secretary Jay Shah
9-Veer Ahlawat
10-Seventh seed Iga Swiatek
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11-Abhishek Singh
12-Chennaiyin FC
13- A fan.
14-Raj Bawa and Angkrish Raghuvanshi
15-Pakistan
16-South Africa’s Marais Erasmus
17-South Africa’s Marais Erasmus
18-Marais Erasmus
20-England’s T20 International series
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