India's Team and Individual Sports Rankings

Indian Team Sports Ranking             World Rank                                     Date: 7/13/13

1. Test Cricket                                     2nd (improved)
2. One Day International Cricket            1st  
3. Twenty20                                         3rd
4. Tennis Davis Cup                             26th
5. Men's Football (Soccer)                    146th (improved)
6. Women's Football (Soccer)               50th (improved)
7. Men's Basketball                              58th
8. Women's Basketball                         40th
9. Boys Basketball                               43rd
10. Girls Basketball                                39th
11. Men's Volleyball                                30th 
12. Women's Volleyball                           103rd
13. Junior Boys Volleyball                       16th 
14. Junior Girls Volleyball                        29th
15. Men's Rugby                                    74th
16. Men's Field Hockey                          11th
17. Women's Field Hockey                     12th

Individual Sports ranking:

Men's Single's Tennis: India's Top 3            World Rank

1. Somdev Devvarman                                     131st (improved)
2. Saketh Myeni                                             266th (improved)
3. Prakash Amritraj                                         308th (improved)

   

   

Men's Double's Tennis: India's Top 3          World Rank

1. Rohan Bopanna                                           5th (improved) 
2. Mahesh Bhupathi                                         6th (improved)
3. Leander Paes                                              9th (improved)

   

Women's Single's Tennis: India's Top 3        World Rank

1. Ankita Raina                                               363rd 
2. Rishika Sunkara                                          528th (improved)                                                  
3. Prerna Bhambri                                           582nd

   

Women's Double's Tennis: India's Top 3      World Rank

1. Sania Mirza                                                 19th
2. Rishika Sunkara                                           394th (improved) 
3. Kyra Shroff                                                   516th (improved) 

Men's Single's Badminton: India's Top 3       World Rank

1. P. Kashyap                                                   12th
2. R.M.V Gurusaidutt                                         22nd (improved)
3. Ajay Jairam                                                   24th (improved)

Men's Double's Badminton: India's Top 2      World Bank

1. Pranav Jerry Chopra                                       38th
2. Akshay Divalkar                                             38th

Women's Single's Badminton: India's Top 3     World Rank 

1. Saina Nehwal                                                  3rd
2. P.V Sindhu                                                     12th
3. Arundhati Pantawane                                       52nd (improved)

Women's Double's Badminton: India's Top 2      World Rank

1. Pradnya Gadre                                                27th (improved)
2. Ashwini Ponnappa                                           27th (improved)

If you think there is any other sport that should be added to this, please let me know and if you could provide me the source of where I can find the rankings it will be of great help. Thank you.

Cricket: Dhoni guides India in the final against Sri Lanka

India won the final against Sri Lanka in a very closely contested final game of the Tri-Series tournament in West Indies. Sri Lanka batted first, they had a great inning until around 40 overs when they were 171/2 but the Indian bowlers stepped it up a notch to finish the Sri Lankan innings for 203 runs all out. India ended up starting off their innings sluggishly (except for Rohit Sharma) but the captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni guided India to victory while he was struggling with a nagging ham string injury.

Just to give you an idea of how exciting the game was, India had no wickets left to give in the final over and had to score 15 runs from 6 balls. Dhoni ended up scoring 16 runs in 4 balls and was as cool as a cucumber while he was at it. The first ball was a dot ball, the second was a 6, the third was a 4, and the fourth was a 6. This guy should truly be an inspiration for all Indian athletes.

Here is the video of the final over of the match (commentary in Hindi):

Shiva Thapa redeems himself

In the 2012 Olympics, Shiva Thapa (56 kg) was the youngest Indian to ever qualify for the event. In 2010, he won a silver medal in the Youth Olympics and had nice performances in world boxing tournaments. He is technically very sound and if you couple his talent with his potential this kid has a bright future if he just keeps working hard.

It was a big deal that he qualified for the 2012 London Olympics, everyone in the country (including himself) had good expectations about the possibility of this young lad winning an Olympic medal at such a young age of 18 years. He had a tough draw in the first round against Oscar Valdez from Mexico, an opponent who was three years older and more experienced. Shiva ended up losing in the first round. Most of the boxing fraternity in India knew that he was too young to win a medal, but they were expecting him to win a couple of rounds to gain confidence for the future. On the contrary, it was a disappointment for him.

It was obvious though from his post match interviews (after the Olympic bout) that this kid wasn't going to give up on his goals. All he said was that he needs to get back in the ring and work harder. Seems like that is exactly what he is did.

Shiva Thapa won the gold medal in the recently held Asian Championships in Amman, Jordan. He beat Obada Alkabeh (Jordan) with a score of 2-1. Shiva must have worked very hard to win this medal, and even though it isn't something which offsets the Olympic loss it must definitely be a confidence booster.

In the same tournament India also won two silver medals by L Devendro Singh (another awesome young Indian boxing talent, 49 kg) and Mandeep Jangra (69 kg). India also won a bronze medal by Manoj Kumar (64 kg).

Here is a video Interview (Hindi) of Shiva Thapa and Devendro Singh prior to the Asian Championship:

2013 Asian Athletics Championship: Final Results

Out of the 43 Asian teams who competed, here is the ranking for the event:

Rank	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1)	China	16	6	5
2)	Bahrain	5	7	3
3)	Japan	4	6	10
4)	Saudi Arabia	4	2	1
5)	Uzbekistan	3	4	1
6)	India	2	6	9
7)	Kazakhstan	2	1	2
8)	UAE	2	1	0
9)	Qatar	1	2	1
10)	Thailand	1	0	2
11)	Hong Kong	1	0	0
12)	Tajikistan	1	0	0
13)	Iran	0	3	0
14)	Sri Lanka	0	2	1
15)	Kuwait	0	2	0
16)	Chinese Tapei	0	1	1
17)	Korea	0	0	2
18)	Oman	0	0	1
19)	Lebanon	0	0	1
20)	DPR Korea	0	0	1

Medals won by India:

1) Gold Medal by Vikas Gowda: Men's Discus Throwing (Result 64.90 m) 

                                             

2) Gold Medal by MR Poovamma, Tintu Luka, Anu Mariam Jose and Nirmala: Women's 4*400 relay (Result: 3:32.26)

3) Silver Medal by Ranjith Maheshwary: Men's Tripple Jump (Result: 16.76 m)

4) Silver Medal by Asha Roy: Women's 200 m Sprint (Result: 23.71)

5) Silver Medal by Jithin Thomas: Men's High Jump (Result: 2.21 m)

6) Silver Medal by MR Poovamma: Women's 400 m running (Result: 53.37)

7) Silver Medal by Prem Kumar: Men's Long Jump (Result: 7.92 m)

8) Silver Medal by Sudha Singh: Women's 3000 m Steeplechase (Result: 9:56.27)

9) Bronze Medal by Arpinder Singh: Men's Tripple Jump (Result: 16.58 m)

10) Bronze Medal by Satinder Singh: Men's 400 m Hurdles (Result: 50.35)

11) Bronze Medal by Tintu Luka: Women's 800 m Running (Result: 2:04.58)

12) Bronze Medal by Om Prakash: Men's Shot Put (Result: 19.45 m)

13) Bronze Medal by Mayookha Johnny: Women's Long Jump (Result: 6.30 m)

14) Bronze Medal by Ratiram Saini: Men's 10000 m Running (Result: 29:35.42)

15) Bronze Medal by Samarjit Singh: Men's Javelin Throw (Result: 75.03 m)

16) Bronze Medal by Hemashree J: Women's 100 m Hurdles (Result: 14.01 m)  

17) Bronze Medal by Dutee Chand: Women's 200 m Running (Result: 23.82 m)