India VS England 1st Test
- England set the target of 209 runs for India, At the end of the day, India needs 157 more runs to win the first test.
- Earlier, England scored 303 runs in their second innings, their skipper Joe Root scored a century to give his bowlers enough total to fight. Jasprit Bumrah picked five wickets in the second innings.
ENG-183&303. IND-278&52/1.
Bangladesh VS Australia, T20I series
- Australia won the first game of their tour on Saturday, It is tough series so far for the Aussies, the win can boost their confidence for the last T20I.
- Bangladesh-104/9 (Naim 28, M Swepson-3/12) lost to Australia-105/7(19)( D Christian-39 M Rahman 1/9).
Ben Mike produced a magical final over against Surrey to hand over the win to his team Leicestershire’s. Surrey was in the need of just four runs when Ben Mike took the ball to bowl in the final over, Ben Mike first sent Rikki Clarke to the pavilion who was well settled with a score of 82 thereafter he picked one more wicket to close the innings of Surrey before they are reaching the total.
Leicestershire-253/9(50) beat Surrey 225 all out by 1 run(DLS Method)
BCCI announced Prize Money for Tokyo Olympics medal winners:
BCCI announced prize money for Tokyo Olympics medal winners, After Neeraj Chopra won the gold medal in the Javelin throw, BCCI secretary Jay Shah announced via Twitter on Saturday.
The details of the prize,
1 Crore for Gold Medalist Neeraj Chopra, 50 Lakh each for silver medalist Mirabai Chanu and Ravi Kumar Dahiya.
25 lakhs each for bronze medalist Lovlina Borgohain and P V Sindhu, Bajrang Punia.
1.25 Crore for Indian Men’s hockey team.
INR 1 Cr. – 🥇 medallist @Neeraj_chopra1
50 lakh each – 🥈 medallists @mirabai_chanu & Ravi Kumar Dahiya
25 lakh each – 🥉 medallists @Pvsindhu1, @LovlinaBorgohai, @BajrangPunia
INR 1.25 Cr. – @TheHockeyIndia men's team @SGanguly99| @ThakurArunS| @ShuklaRajiv
— Jay Shah (@JayShah) August 7, 2021
The Hundred Game:
Men’s
Southern Brave won by 5 wickets against Northern SuperChargers.
NORS 128/6 (100) D Vilas 35(24) D Briggs 2/28(20)
SOU 131/5 (95) Q Decock 72(45) A Rashid 2/19(20)
Women’s
Southern Brave Women won by 7 wickets (DLS method due to rain) against Northern Superchargers.
NORW 76/3 (73) Wolvaardt-21(22) L Bell 2/19(15)
SOUW 89/3 (62) Sophia Dunkley-50(28) Kalea Moore-2/9(15)
TNPL
IDream Tiruppur Tamizhans lost the match against Dindigul Dragons by 6 wickets.
Salem Spartans won the game against Madurai Panthers by 11 runs. Vijay Shankar scored 47 runs for Salem Spartans.
