The best timings for 100 m of Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson are respectively 9.27s and 10.82s. But they were convicted for taking the banned drug Oxilofrine, which is a stimulant used to boost the body’s ability to burn fat. It helps the athletes boost their power-to-weight ratio with more lean muscle and less fat, …
Ivan Lendl’s reaction on losing Single Wimbledon Men’s Championship
Ivan Lendl had held the rank of world’s no. 1 in men’s tennis for long but could never win at Wimbledon. He lost in finals (1986 to Boris Becker, 1987 to Pat Cash). Referring to Wimbledon’s Grass Court, he said out of frustration ‘Grass is only meant for cows.’ After Andy Murray (whom he coached) …
Knocked out in two bizarre fashions
‘Handling the ball’ and ‘obstructing the field’ are two bizarre and extremely uncommon ways of getting out. Mohinder Amarnath is the only batsman in the world to have been dismissed in both the fashions in one-day internationals. Handling the Ball – 1986 Tri-series (India-Australia-New Zealand) second match of best of three finals against Australia. Obstructing …
From cricket crease to film sets
Two members of the Cricket World Cup 1983 winning team had acted in the film, Kabhi Ajnabi The, Sandip Patil as the hero and Syed Kirmani as the villain.
Famous left-handed winners of the US open
The winners of US open during 1974–1984 (eleven years) were all left-handed. The winners were the following: Jimmy Connors (USA) – 1974, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1983 Manuel Orantes (Spain) – 1975 Guillermo Vilas (Argentina) – 1977 John McEnroe (USA) – 1979, 1980, 1981, 1984 Right-handed John Newcombe was the champion in 1973 and Ivan Lendl …
Even Polio couldn’t come in this Indian match-winning leg spinner’s way
B.S. Chandrasekhar, the match-winning leg spinner of India who among other accolades, was named as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1972 and won Wisden’s Best Bowling Performance of the Century award in 2002 (for his figures of six wickets for 38 runs against England in the Oval Test, 1971). He had a polio in …