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India's Virat Kohli has become the first batsman in the world to score six double centuries in the form of a captain. They overtook West Indian great Brian Lara.

Apart from this, he also equaled the record of Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag to make the highest double century by an Indian.

Kohli achieved this feat on the Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi on the second day of the third and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka.

India declared the first innings on 536 runs on seven wickets. Kohli scored two hundred 43 and Murali Vijay scored one hundred and 55 runs. Sri Lanka made 18 runs in 2 innings in the first innings of tea.

Nagaland Under-19 Women's Cricket Team All Out, Made 2 Runs Only This event took place in the BCCI Under-19 ODI Super League match played at JKC College ground in Guntur, Kerala.

These two runs from Nagaland were made in 17 overs of batting. In which one run came from the bat, while one run was Xtra. During the entire innings, nine batsmen returned on Zero and when Kerala team came back to play, then on the first ball, which was wide, won the match by hitting a four.

With this, the team of Kerala team made a record of winning the lowest balls while chasing them.

Earlier, the Nepalese team won the match against Myanmar in two balls in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) trophy match in August 2006. Then Myanmar's team was reduced to 10 runs.

There are new records every day in cricket. The name of South Africa's young batsman Shane Dedwell has been recorded in the record book. Young batsman Dadewell played 490 runs in just 151 balls in South Africa's club match.

The 20-year-old South African batsman scored 490 runs in 151 balls. Interestingly, he did this on his birthday.

His innings included 27 fours and 57 sixes. Thanks to Dadewell's innings on Saturday, his team NW Pukay scored a big score of 677/3 in 50 overs against Poch Durp.

If you look at the old record of right-handed batsman Dadewell, then he is not quite impressed. Dudwell, who plays as wicketkeeper for Gouteng Under-15, has the highest score of 42.

Apart from them, Lauren Steinkamp also scored 104 runs in 52 balls with 12 fours and 6 sixes.

INDIA TODAY has stung operation between India and New Zealand before the second ODI in Pune. Reporters who became bookie on Wednesday caught the pitch curator of the Maharashtra Cricket Association, allowing people to tamper with the pitch before the match.

According to INDIA TODAY, their reporters captured the curator Pandurang Selgaonkar while talking to the camera, in which he was saying that the pitch would be made according to the demand.

Reporters asked Salgaokar that the two players want to bounce on the pitch, can it be that Salgaonkar said, 'will be.'

According to the report, Salgaocar also said that 337-340 runs can be scored on this wicket. He gave confidence to the camera that 337 big scores can also be chased on the pitch.

Salgaocar allowed the INDIA TODAY REPORTERS to inspect the pitch which is a violation of the rules of the International Cricket Council (ICC) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

After the on-air sting operation, MCA president Abhay Apte said in an interview with INDIA TODAY that he would investigate the matter. They gave assurance of strong action when found guilty.

This pitch of Pune was dubbed this year by the ICC after the India-Australia Test match. In that match, Australia defeated India by 333 runs. The Indian team was all-out in both innings at 105 and 107, respectively, and the match ended in three days.

After the loss in the first one-day match played against New Zealand in Mumbai, the Indian team is facing the danger of losing in the series. The second match will be played at Pune's Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium on Wednesday. If Kiwi wins this match, then India will take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three one-day series and India will face series defeat in India after years.

BCCI will have to pay more than Rs 800 crores compensation to former IPL team Kochi Tuskers Kerala, whose contract was canceled in 2011.

IPL Chairman Rajiv Shukla said after the meeting, "Kochi Tuskers has asked for compensation of Rs 850 crores. We discussed this at the IPL governing council meeting. Now the issue will be kept in the meeting of the General Assembly. They will decide, but the matter needs to be negotiated."

Kochi Tuskers owners had won the case in the Arbitration against BCCI in 2015, in which the decision of the BCCI to redeem the bank guarantee for the contravention of the contract was challenged.

The panel, headed by RC Lahoti, had instructed the BCCI to repay Rs 550 crore as compensation and 18 per cent penalty was to be imposed annually for not doing so.

For the past two years, the BCCI did not pay the compensation nor withdrew the team in the IPL.

A member of the IPL Governing Council said, "We have to pay compensation to Kochi. All legal options have been discussed. Generally, it is stupid to challenge the verdict in the Supreme Court when it comes against BCCI.''

He said that we have no choice, but the question is how much will be the amount? The decision to cancel the contract of Kochi was taken by the then BCCI president Shashank Manohar.

The official said, "We have to suffer the frustration of a man's stubbornness. If Shashank had not taken that decision, then we would have taken some way out."

India's leading male badminton player Kidambi Srikanth won the title of the Denmark Open badminton tournament on Sunday (October 22).

In the men's singles finals Srikanth won the title by defeating Lee Hyun of South Korea.

Eighth world seeded Indian player Shrikant beat Hyun 21-10, 21-5 in straight games in 25 minutes.

Srikanth won the Denmark Open title for the first time in his career. However, he is the second Indian player to win this tournament. Prior to this, Prakash Padukone won the tournament in 1979 and 1980.

Let us know that in the semi-finals before this, Srikanth had defeated Wong Wing of Hong Kong on Saturday. Eighth World seeded Srikanth had won the match in a 40-minute match by Wong 21-18, 21-17.

At the same time, South Korea's player Lee Hyun made a major turnaround in the semifinal match by defeating his compatriot and top world seeded Son van Ho. Hyun entered the final by defeating Son 25-23, 18-21, 21-17 in an hour and 32 minutes.

Indian men's hockey team defeated Malaysia in the final match on Sunday to win the Hero Asia Cup-2017 title.

In this exciting title match played at the Maulana Bhashani National Stadium, the Indian team beat Malaysia 2-1. Pakistan defeated South Korea by 6-3 to win the bronze medal in the match played on Sunday.

The Indian team has captured the title for the third time. Earlier, he won the tournament in Kuala Lumpur in 2003 and Chennai in 2007.

India started the final match well. In the third minute, Ramandeep Singh won the team's pass from SV Sunil, and turned the team's account into the goal.

India finished the first quarter 1-0. After this, after struggling for a long time in the second quarter, Lalit Upadhyaya scored the goal in the 29th minute to give the team 2-0 ahead.

There was considerable confrontation between Malaysia and India in the third quarter. None of the two teams could score in this quarter. In the fourth quarter, the goalkeeper Akash Chikte played an important role.

Malaysia won the penalty corner twice in this quarter, but Akash stopped on both the expectations of Malaysia's goal and thus India defeated Malaysia 2-1 to win the Hero Hockey Asia Cup title.

New Zealand defeated India by six wickets in the first one-day match at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday, power to a double century partnership of Tom Latham (103 not out) and Ross Taylor (95).

With this victory, New Zealand has achieved a 1-0 lead in the three ODIs against India. Batting first, winning the toss, the Indian cricket team put on 281 runs against New Zealand on the power of their captain Virat Kohli (121).

The goal was not huge, but it was enough to fight it. However, New Zealand won it by scoring 284 runs at the loss of three wickets.

Martin Guptill (32) and Colin Munro (28) shared a 48-run partnership for the first wicket with the New Zealand team to chase the target. Monro on Jaspreet Bumrah's delivery was caught by Dinesh Karthik at the same score.

After this, KK Williamson (6), Kuldeep Yadav did not allow him to stay on the field for long and catches out Kedar Jadhav. After completing the 100 figure, Hardik Pandya also dropped the third wicket as Guptill. Guptill was caught out by Kartik.

Latham and Taylor then handled the scattered team to the best of their innings and set a 200-run partnership for the fourth wicket to bring the team to victory. On the total of 280, Bhuvneshwar Kumar sent the pavilion to Taylor at the hands of Yujwendra Chahal. After this, Nichols (4) brought New Zealand to the goal with Latham.

The partnership with Latham and Taylor contributed to the biggest partnership in ODIs against India. Earlier, in 2010, Scott Storis had a partnership of 188 with Taylor in Dambulla.

Earlier, the start of the innings for India was not good. Even before crossing 100, India lost their three wickets as Shikhar Dhawan (9), Rohit Sharma (20) and Kedar Jadhav (12).

Captain Kohli and Dinesh Karthik (37), who came in handy after India's innings, shared a 73-run partnership for the fourth wicket and helped the team score 144, but on the same score Karthik Caught out in the hands of Colin Munro on the ball of Tim Southee.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (25), who came with the help of Kohli after the Kartik, reached the score of 200 by scoring a half century partnership of 57 runs, Rohit and Dhawan's wicket-taker Trent Boult also showed Dhoni's way to the pavilion by getting caught out by Martin Guptill.

Hardik Pandya was able to score only 16 runs that Bolt was caught by Captain Williamson at the total of 238. Bhuvneshwar Kumar (26) was caught in the hands of Henry Nicholls on the ball of Tim Southee.

After this, Southee also sent Kohli to pavilion caught out by Bolt at the total score of 270. In his innings, Kohli played 125 balls and hit nine fours and two sixes. He completed his career of 31st ODI century.

With the dismissal of Kohli, the Indian team's innings ended on a total of 280. Kuldeep Yadav returned unbeaten pavilion without opening an account. For New Zealand, Bolt took four wickets, while Southee got three successes. Centeners was successful in taking one wicket.

In this match, Kohli scored century in his carrier's 200th match. In this one-day match with the century, he has secured second place in the top-order of centuries, retaining former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. In this category, India's Sachin Tendulkar is in first place.

Indian men's hockey team defeated opponent Pakistan once again in the Hero Hockey Asia Cup tournament on Saturday. India beat Pakistan 4-0 in a match played at the Maulana Bhashani National Stadium.

Earlier, in the match played on October 15, the Indian team beat Pakistan 3-1. In the first and second quarters, the teams of India and Pakistan fought hard against each other but none of the teams could score goals.

Pakistan's players had an excellent opportunity to score in the beginning of the match, but Indian goalkeeper Akash Chikte thwarted the attempt of the rival team.

In the third quarter, Satbir Singh scored the Indian team's goal in the 39th minute. After this, the third quarter ended with a 1-0 lead for India.

India made a great comeback in the fourth quarter and scored three goals.

In the 51st minute, Harmanpreet achieved success in the round of a penalty corner goal.

After this, Lalit Upadhyay scored the goal in the next minute and gave India a 3-0 lead.

In this tournament, player Gurjant Singh, who played a key role in the Indian team's victory, scored in the 57th minute to give India a 4-0 win against Pakistan.

The Kerala High Court has upheld the lifelong ban on Sreesanth on the petition of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Because of this, despite being acquitted on spot-fixing charges, Sreesanth can not return on the ground. Now the fast bowler has left India to leave cricket and has decided to play cricket on behalf of another country.

Speaking to Asia Net News, Sreesanth said, "I have been banned by the BCCI, not from the ICC. I am 34 years old and can play cricket for 6 years now. I am trying to play cricket in any aspect."

The bench, comprising Chief Justice Navneet Prasad Singh, said that the court can not make a judicial review on the lifelong ban imposed by the BCCI in India, and therefore accepting the appeal and keeping the restriction on Sreesanth.

It is notable that the Kerala High Court had lifted the lifelong ban on Sreesanth in August.

The Kerala High Court had been hearing the case for the last two days and on Tuesday it ruled its verdict on this matter. Due to this decision, Sreesanth can not play Ranji anymore. Also, he can no longer training at any stadium in India.

Angry over this, Sreesanth wrote on Twitter: "It is the worst decision. Is there any special rule for me? What is the real culprit? What about Chennai Super Kings? And what about Rajasthan?''

Jayesh George, secretary of the Kerala Cricket Association, told the media, Since the lifelong ban on Sreesanth was lifted, the Kerala Union was supporting him ever since.

George said, "We had made many arrangements for his entire fitness, so that he fit for the match. Now we have to honor this decision too."

Significantly, Sreesanth now has the only option that he will appeal against this decision in the Supreme Court.

According to close sources, Sreesanth will appeal against this decision in the Supreme Court.