Sports Club, IIM Nagpur

“The tribute for our freedom fighters will always be less, but the salute to all will never be less.”
So, let’s salute our freedom fighters, our soldiers, and our heroes who sacrificed their lives for our independence.

Sports Club of IIM Nagpur wishes you all a Happy Independence Day.

The sports club of IIMN and the community outreach club of IIMN organized International Yoga Day at campus on 21st June 2022.

Ms Simran Garewal, a yoga instructor with international certification, was invited to share her expertise and yoga practices.
Director Sir, faculty, staff, and IIM Nagpur students performed yoga and attended an insightful session on adopting yoga as a lifestyle from Ms Garewal.

India secures the 3rd place and win the bronze medal in Asia Cup Men's Hockey 2022. A big achievement for a very young Indian side. 🙌🏻🥉🏑🇮🇳

The major highlight of the series was of India beating Indonesia 16-0 and qualifying for the Super 4s along with Japan, S. Korea & Malaysia.
India lost against Japan previously and needed to win the match against Indonesia by 15 goals or more and India did just that. That win knocked Pakistan out from and the FIH World cup 2023.
Highlights from the historic match:
Pawan Rajbhar opened the scoreboard for the Indian team by scoring the first two goals in the first quarter.
Dipsan Tirkey was the top scorer for India with 4 goals followed by Sudev Belimagga’s hattrick!!!

Pic credit: Sportskeeda

Gujarat Titans beat Rajasthan Royals to win their maiden IPL title in debut season. Hardik Pandya led with impressive all round performances throughout the tournament.
The fact that the win came at their home stadium in Ahmedabad in front of a record highest ever attendance in the history of white ball cricket made it even more special. 1,04,859 was the official attendance at the Narendra Modi stadium for the final.

Jos Buttler and Yuzvendra Chahal of Rajasthan Royals won the orange cap and purple cap respectively.

Full list of award winners:

Orange Cap: Jos Buttler (863 runs)

Purple cap: Yuzvendra Chahal (27 wickets)

Player of the season: Jos Buttler

Emerging player of the season: Umran Malik

Most Sixes: Jos Buttler (45)

Most fours: Jos Buttler (83)

Super Striker of the season: Dinesh Karthik (strike rate of 183.33)

Gamechanger of the season: Jos Buttler

Fairplay award: Rajasthan Royals & Gujarat Titans

Powerplayer of the season: Jos Buttler

Fastest delivery of the season: Lockie Ferguson (157.3 kph)

Catch of the season: Evin Lewis

Pic credits: IPL - Indian Premier League

A PROUD MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF INDIAN SPORTS 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
The Indian men's badminton team created history on winning the Thomas Cup for the first time ever. India defeated defending and 14 time champions Indonesia 3-0 in the finals. Lakshya Sen and Kidambi Srikanth won their respective single matches while Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty won their doubles match. Interestingly, all the Indian players defeated higher ranked opponents in their respective matches 🏸🥇🏆🇮🇳🔥

Pic credit: Badminton Association of India

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy - Robert A. Heinlein

Vedaant Madhavan, son of actor R Madhavan bagged gold medal in men's 800M freestyle swimming at Danish Open. Vedant achieved this feat in 15.57.86 minutes. Vedaant also won silver at 1500M freestyle swimming at the same Open.

Sajan Prakash won the men's 200M butterfly swimming in the same tournament. The swimmer from Kerela stopped the clock at 1.59.27 minutes to bag the gold.
🇮🇳 🏊🥇🥇🥈

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"Make fitness a habit. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryin

We are glad to share that Walkathon 2022, as part of the Government of India's Fit India Movement, witnessed great involvement and enthusiastic participation from the students of IIM Nagpur. The event took place on the 20th of March inside the IIM Nagpur campus. The participants covered a distance of about 1.5 kilometers during the event. This was held to encourage individuals to adopt healthier lifestyles and incorporate physical activity into their daily life.

Rhapsody 5.0
Results:
Football
Cricket

Congratulations to the teams 🔥🔥🔥

SPORTSFIESTA'22

Results:
Men's Carrom Singles
Women's Carrom Singles
Men's Carrom Doubles
Chess
Women's TT Singles
Men's TT Singles
Mixed TT Doubles

Congratulations to all the winners🔥🔥🔥

Rhapsody 5.0
Results:

Men's Chess
Women's Chess

Congratulations to the winners and the teams 🔥🔥🔥

Rhapsody 5.0
Results:
Men's Carrom Singles
Women's Carrom Singles
Men's Carrom Doubles
Women's Carrom Doubles
Carrom Mixed Doubles

Congratulations to the winners and the teams 🔥🔥🔥

Rhapsody 5.0
Results:
Women's TT Singles
Mixed TT Doubles

Congratulations to the winners and the teams 🔥🔥🔥

Rhapsody 5.0
Results:
Women's TT Doubles
Men's TT Doubles
Men's TT Singles

Congratulations to the winners and the teams 🔥🔥🔥

Keep cheering and supporting your favourite team🤩

Rhapsody 5.0: Bidding War 🔥🔥🔥
Teams:
Cholas
Nandas
Pandyas
Mauryas

All the very best to the teams...
Join the battle and support your favorite team🔥

🏏⚽🏓🏐♟️
"Rhapsody 5.0," IIMN's biggest sporting event, has arrived. Brace yourself to witness a fierce competition powered by emotion, thrill, and excitement! 🔥🔥

Best of luck to the four teams. May the best come out on top 👍🏻💯

Rafael Nadal defeated Daniil Medvedev 2-6,6-7,6-4,6-4,7-5 to win his second Australian Open title and a record 21st Grand Slam trophy in the Australian Open 2022 Men's Singles.

In Women's Singles, the world number one Ash Barty ended Australia's 44-year wait for a home victor at the Australian Open claiming her 3rd Grand Slam title. She joins Serena Williams as the only active player to have a Grand Slam on all the three surfaces.

In Men's doubles, Thanasi Kokkinakis and Nick Kyrgios became the first wildcard pairing to ever win the Australian Open title. Incidentally they are also the first all Australian men's doubles champions.

In Women's Doubles, Czech pairing of Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Sinakova won their fourth major doubles title as a team and their very first at Australian Open.

Kristina Mladenovic and Ivan Dodig defeated wildcards Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler 6-3, 6-4 in Australian Open's mixed doubles championship.

Congratulations to all the winners 🏆🏆🏆

Pic credit: Australian Open

"Freedom in mind, Faith in our heart, Memories in our souls. Let's salute the nation on Republic Day"

Sports Club of IIM Nagpur wishes everyone a very Happy Republic Day 🇮🇳

The two new franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL) -- Ahmedabad and Lucknow has revealed their draft picks ahead of the upcoming mega auction on 12 and 13 February.

Incidentally, Lucknow have picked KL Rahul for a whopping amount of INR 17 Crores, making him the joint-highest paid player in the history of the IPL. Virat Kohli was signed for the same amount in 2018 💰💵

Have you ever wondered why a sporting event on December 26th is known as Boxing Day matches???
And how is it that Boxing Day generates more excitement and expectation in sports than any other day???
Check out this post to know why 🥊🥊🏏⚽

Congratulations to Ajaz Patel - New zealand 🇳🇿, only third bowler after Jim Laker - England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(1956), and Anil Kumble - India🇮🇳(1999) to take 10 Wickets in an innings in Test Cricket.
Patel finished with 10-119 from 47.5 overs restricting India at score of 325/10

"I think I am very fortunate. The stars have aligned for me to have an occasion like that here in Mumbai, the place I was born. It was quite a special occasion for me and my family" - Ajaz Patel ⚾

Congratulations to the 19-year-old Korean An Seyoung for winning the BWF World Tour Finals. She defeated India’s PV Sindhu with 21-16 21-12 🏸🏆🏆

Sindhu also became WS shuttler to play 2nd most finals at the end of year championships(3) after Tai Tzu Ying(5)

This loss indeed is a heartbreak for Sindhu at the last hurdle, but on a positive note, she is back to something close to her best based on her form in the earlier matches of BWF World Tour Finals, which is encouraging for her ahead of the World Championships 2021🔥🔥

Comeback stronger champ💪🇮🇳

Pic credit: Badminton Association of India

🏆🏆🏆Congratulations to Lionel Messi on winning a record 7th Ballon D'or and further establishing his legacy status. Messi helped Argentina to win Copa America 2021, which is incidentally Messi's first international trophy

Congratulations to Alexia Putellas on winning her first Ballon D'or. The Barcelona midfielder had an amazing season where she helped her team to win the UEFA Women's Champions League as well as a continental treble for the first time in club's history 🏆🏆🏆

Pic credit: France Football

◻️◼️Congratulations to all the winners of IIM Nagpur's Intra-College Chess Tournament 2021 🏆🏆🏆
Winner- Vaibhav Dogra🏅
Runner Up - Ajinkya Prashant 🥈
Semi Finalists -
Ankit Gupta 🥉
Haremeshwar R. 🥉

We thank all the participants for making this competition a great success. ◼️◻️

IPL 2022 New Teams Auction Highlights:
RPSG Ventures Limited and Irelia Company Pte Ltd (CVC Capital Partners) have won the bidding round for two new IPL Teams. RSPG were the highest bidders for both Ahmedabad and Lucknow, and they chose to go with Lucknow. RPSG bagged the Lucknow franchise with Rs. 7090 crore bid. Irelia made the second-highest bid for Ahmedabad with Rs. 5625 crore bid.
Good signs for Indian cricket that such huge amounts are being invested in them. This will only improve and enhance Indian cricket further.

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IPL 2021 highlights!!!
Orange Cap:
Twenty-four years old Ruturaj Gaikwad becomes the youngest Orange Cap holder in the Indian Premier League's history.
He outstandingly scored 635 runs, including four half-centuries and one century, with an average of 45.35 runs in IPL 2021.
He also bagged the Emerging player of the season award.

Purple Cap:
Harshal Patel finished IPL 2021 with 32 wickets from 15 matches in this season, including one five-wicket haul and one four-wicket haul, and bagged the Purple Cap.
He equaled Dwayne Bravo's 2013 record for the most wickets in a single IPL season.
He also broke the record by surpassing his teammate Yuzvendra Chahal for most wickets by an uncapped bowler in a season.
Along with Purple Cap, he bagged the Gamechanger and the Most valuable player of the season award.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" - Lao Tzu

We are proud to present the new executive members of the Sports Club from the batch of 2021-23.
We congratulate the new members and welcome them into the Sports Club family while wishing them the best in all their future endeavours.