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1 2 3 4. Arjuna Award-winning cue sports legend known for
4 his mastery in billiards and snooker.
9. Indian tennis player who finished runner-up in
5 both singles and doubles at the ITF W15 Tashkent
tournament.
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10. International multi-sport event where BPCL hockey
players represented India this year.
11. Left-arm spinner who bamboozled batsmen in the
2023 ODI World Cup and was honored at BPCL.
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Down
9 1. Surname of the first sportsperson recruited by BPCL.
2. Para-badminton champion whose triple- medal
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haul at the Asian Championships brought pride to
BPCL.
3. Veteran pace bowler recognized alongside Shivam
Dube and Kuldeep Yadav in Honoring Cricketing
Excellence.
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5. Former national badminton champion who won the
1992 All India Senior Ranking Tournament in a thrilling
three-set final.

6. Name of BPCL star player who has won PSPB
veterans’ tennis and squash championship.
7. BPCL’s in-house magazine, dedicated to celebrating
sports and wellness achievements.

Did you know?

1. At 19, Divya Deshmukh became Summer and Winter Olympics, 8. Daisy Goldsmith became the
the youngest Indian woman to competing in cycling and speed youngest football referee at
win the national chess title and skating for Canada. just 14 years old, earning her
helped India clinch bronze at the qualification on her birthday in
5. No Arms, No Limits: Tatyana
2023 Asian Games. 2010!
McFadden, born with spina
2. Barefoot to Gold: Abebe Bikila ran bifida and raised in a Russian 9. First Female Cricket Double
the 1960 Rome Olympic marathon orphanage, became a 17-time Ton: Belinda Clark scored the
barefoot, winning gold and Paralympic medalist for the USA first double century in women’s
becoming the first sub-Saharan in wheelchair racing. ODIs (229*), setting a benchmark
African Olympic champion. decades before men’s cricket
6. Lasith Malinga was the first to take
caught up.
3. The Red Card in 2 Seconds: Lee 4 wickets in 4 balls in international
Todd was sent off two seconds cricket, doing so against South 10. Mount Everest on a Prosthetic:
into a football match for swearing, Africa in the 2007 World Cup. Arunima Sinha, a national-level
after he muttered an expletive volleyball player who lost her leg in
7. George Lohmann took 112 wickets
in reaction to the referee’s loud a train accident, became the first
in just 18 Tests at an astonishing
whistle. female amputee to scale Mount
average of 10.75, with 9 five-wicket
Everest.
4. Dual Season Olympian: Clara hauls and best match figures of
Hughes is the only athlete to win 15/45!
multiple Olympic medals in both

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