Saina Nehwal

Saina Nehwal

Nehwal in 2011

Personal information

Country India

Born 17 March 1990 (age 30)

Hisar, Haryana, India[1][2]

Residence Hyderabad, Telangana, India[3]

Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[4]

Weight 65 kg (143 lb)[4]

Handedness Right

Political party Bharatiya Janata Party[5][6]

Coach Pullela Gopichand

Women's singles

Career record 433 wins, 196 losses

Career title(s) 24
Highest 1 (2 April 2015[7][8])
ranking

Current ranking 20 (17 March 2020[9])

Medal record[hide]

Women's badminton
Representing   India
Olympic Games
Women's
2012 London
singles
World Championships
Women's
2015 Jakarta
singles
Women's
2017 Glasgow
singles
Uber Cup
Women's
2014 New Delhi
team
Women's
2016 Kunshan
team
Commonwealth Games
Women's
2010 New Delhi
singles
Women's
2018 Gold Coast
singles
2018 Gold Coast Mixed team
2010 New Delhi Mixed team
2006 Melbourne Mixed team
Asian Games
Women's
2014 Incheon
team
2018 Jakarta– Women's
Palembang singles
Asian Championships
Women's
2010 New Delhi
singles
 Women's
2016 Wuhan
singles
Women's
2018 Wuhan
singles
World Junior Championships
2008 Pune Girls' singles
2006 Incheon Girls' singles
Commonwealth Youth Games
2008 Pune Girls' singles
2004 Bendigo Mixed team

BWF profile

Saina Nehwal ( pronunciation  (help·info), born 17 March 1990) is an Indian

professional badminton singles player. A former world no. 1, she has won over 24
international titles, which includes eleven Superseries titles. Although she reached the
world's 2nd in the 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1
ranking, thereby becoming the only female player from India and overall the second
Indian player – after Prakash Padukone – to achieve this feat.[10] She has represented
India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in her second appearance. [11]
[12][13][14]

Nehwal has achieved several milestones in badminton for India. She is the only Indian
to have won at least one medal in every BWF major individual event, namely
the Olympics, the BWF World Championships, and the BWF World Junior
Championships. She is the first Indian badminton player to have won an Olympic medal,
the first Indian to have reached the final of the BWF World Championships, along with
being the only Indian to have won the BWF World Junior Championships or. [15] In 2006,
Nehwal became the first Indian female and the youngest Asian to win a 4-star
tournament. She also has the distinction of being the first Indian to win a Super Series
title. In the 2014 Uber Cup, she captained the Indian team and remained undefeated,
helping India to win bronze medal. It was India's first medal in any BWF major team
event.[16] Nehwal became the first Indian to win two singles gold medals (2010 and
2018) in Commonwealth Games.
Considered one of the most successful Indian sportspersons, [17] she is credited for
increasing the popularity of badminton in India. [18] In 2016, the Government of
India (GoI) conferred the Padma Bhushan – India's third highest civilian award – on her.
[19]
 Previously, the nation's top two sporting honours, namely the Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna and the Arjuna Award, were also conferred on her by the Government of India.
Nehwal is a philanthropist and was ranked 18th on the list of most charitable athletes. [20]

Gurbaj Singh
 Gurbaj Singh

Personal information

Born 9 August 1988 (age 32)

Playing position Right-half

Senior career

Years Team Apps (Gls)

2013–2015 Delhi Waveriders 21 (2)

Punjab

Air India

2017–present Ranchi Rays 10 (0)

National team

Years Team Apps (Gls)

 2006–present India 171 (19)

Medal record[hide]

Men's field hockey
Representing   India
Commonwealth Games
2010 Delhi Team
2014 Glasgow Team
Asia Cup
2007 Chennai Team
Asian Games
2010 Guangzhou Team
Gurbaj Singh (born 9 August 1988) represented India in men's hockey during the 2012
London Olympics.
He is a gifted midfielder and plays in the right-half position. [1] Gurbaj made his India
debut in 2006 at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. He represented India at the 2010
World Cup in New Delhi, 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, the 2010 Asian
Games in Guangzhou, China, and the 2012 London Olympics.
He was a member of the 2007 Asia Cup winning squad in Chennai and the silver medal
winning teams at the 2010 and 2014 Commonwealth Games.[2]
In domestic hockey, he represents Punjab Police (employers) and Punjab state in the
nationals. His earlier club was Air India. [3]

Mahendra Singh Dhoni ( pronunciation (help·info) born 7 July 1981), is a former

Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs
formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. Under his captaincy,
India won the inaugural 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the 2010 and 2016 Asia Cups,
the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. A right-handed
middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper, Dhoni is one of the highest run scorers
in One Day Internationals (ODIs) with more than 10,000 runs scored and is considered
an effective "finisher" in limited-overs formats. [2][3][4] He is widely regarded as one of the
greatest wicket-keeper batsmen and captains in the history of the game. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11] He
was also the first wicket-keeper to effect 100 stumpings in ODI cricket.[12]
Dhoni made his ODI debut on 23 December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his
first Test a year later against Sri Lanka. He has been the recipient of many awards,
including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first player to win
the award twice), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 2007, the Padma Shri, India's
fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest
civilian honour, in 2018.[13] Dhoni was named as the captain of the ICC World Test XI in
2009, 2010 and 2013. He has also been selected a record 8 times in ICC World ODI
XI teams, 5 times as captain. The Indian Territorial Army conferred the honorary rank
of Lieutenant Colonel[14] to Dhoni on 1 November 2011. He is the second Indian
cricketer after Kapil Dev to receive this honour.
Dhoni also holds numerous captaincy records such as the most wins by an Indian
captain in ODIs and T20Is, and most back-to-back wins by an Indian captain in ODIs.
He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first-
ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand. In June 2013, when India
defeated England in the final of the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the
first captain to win all three ICC limited-overs trophies (World Cup, Champions
Trophy and the World Twenty20). After taking up the Test captaincy in 2008, he led the
team to series wins in New Zealand and the West Indies, and the Border-Gavaskar
Trophy in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2009, Dhoni also led the Indian team to number one
position for the first time in the ICC Test rankings.
In 2013, under Dhoni's captaincy, India became the first team in more than 40 years
to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In the Indian Premier League, he captained
the Chennai Super Kings to victory at the 2010, 2011 and 2018 seasons, along with
wins in the 2010 and 2014 editions of Champions League Twenty20. In
2011, Time magazine included Dhoni in its annual Time 100 list as one of the "Most
Influential People in the World."[15] Dhoni holds the post of Vice-President of India
Cements Ltd., after resigning from Air India. India Cements is the owner of the Indian
Premier League team Chennai Super Kings, and Dhoni has been its captain since the
first IPL season.[16][17] He announced his retirement from Tests on 30 December 2014. [18]
In 2012, SportsPro rated Dhoni as the sixteenth most marketable athlete in the world.
[19]
 He is the co-owner of Indian Super League team Chennaiyin FC.[20] In June
2015, Forbes ranked Dhoni at 23rd in the list of highest paid athletes in the world,
estimating his earnings at US$31 million.[21] In 2016, a biopic M.S. Dhoni: The Untold
Story was made on his life and his cricket career up to the Indian team's win at the 2011
Cricket World Cup.
MS Dhoni announced his retirement from international cricket on 15 August 2020. [22][23][24]
Mithali Dorai Raj (born 3 December 1982) is an Indian cricketer and Test, ODI Captain
of women's national cricket team.[2][3] She is a right-handed opening Batswoman and
occasional right-arm leg break bowler.
She is the highest run-scorer in women's international cricket and the only female
cricketer to surpass the 6,000 run mark in Women's One Day International matches.[4]
[5]
 she is the first player to score seven consecutive 50s in ODIs. [6] Raj also holds the
record for most half-centuries in WODIs.[7] In June 2018 during the 2018 Women's
Twenty20 Asia Cup, she became the first player from India (either male or female) to
score 2000 runs in T20Is, and also became the first woman cricketer to reach
2002 WT20I runs.[8][9][10]
In 2005, she became the captain of the side. Raj is the only player (female) to have
captained India in more than one ICC ODI World Cup final, doing so twice
in 2005 and 2017.[11][12] On 1 February 2019, during India's series against New Zealand
Women, Raj became the first woman to play in 200 ODI matches. [13] In September
2019, she announced her retirement from T20Is to focus on ODI cricket. [14] In 2019, she
became the first woman to complete 20 years in international cricket. [15]
She is the recipient of several national and international awards, including
the Wisden Leading Woman Cricketer in the World in 2017, Arjuna Award in 2003, and
the Padma Shri in 2015, both by the Government of India.