DAILY GK 9 – 10 FEB 2020

DAILY GK 9 – 10 FEB

1.    IOC selects Gopichand for the Lifetime Award

ü Pullela Gopichand, the Chief National coach for the Indian Badminton team has received the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Coaches Lifetime Achievement Award in Male Category of the year 2019.He is the 1st Indian coach to be Honoured with this Lifetime award by the Olympics Committee.

2.    ICC Under 19 CWC 2020

ü 13^th edition of 2020 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was held in South Africa. It was administered by International Cricket Council (ICC) & 16 teams participated.

ü In Finals Bangladesh’s youth team defeated India by three wickets in the final. With this, the Bangladesh team won the under-19 World Cup title for the first time.

ü Bangladesh captain Akbar Ali was adjudged Man of the Match  while India’s Yashasvi Jaiswal, who scored the highest 400 runs in the tournament, was adjudged Player of the Tournament.

3.    ICC women’s championship trophy

ü Australia were awarded the ICC Women’s Championship trophy 2020, which they maintained by winning victories in the eight-team one-day championship between 2017 and 2020.

4.    ITF women’s tennis event 2020

ü Ankita Raina an Indian professional tennis player along with her partner Bibiane Schoofs of the Netherlands, won the finals of the ITF Women’s doubles event against the pair of Miyabi Inoue of Japan and Jia-Qi Kang of China held in Nonthaburi, Thailand.

5.    Book-  ‘A Child of Destiny’

ü Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu released a Book titled ‘A Child of Destiny’ Autobiography penned by Professor Koneru Ramakrishna Rao at GITAM (Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management) University .

6.    World Pulses Day 2020-February 10, 2020