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The Afro-Asian Games were conceived to bring together the medal winners of Africa and Asia, and the single edition that was actually staged was held at Hyderabad in 2003, mainly at the Gachibowli Stadium.

The forty fourth Chess Olympiad was held in 2022 at Mahabalipuram in Tamil Nadu, the first time the event came to India and the first time it was held in Asia in several decades.

The 2018 Hockey World Cup was played at the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar, and the 2023 edition was shared between the Kalinga Stadium and the newly built Birsa Munda Stadium at Rourkela, both in Odisha.

England beat Spain in the final at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata to win the 2017 Under-17 World Cup, the first FIFA tournament of any kind staged in India.

India beat Sri Lanka in the final of the 2011 World Cup at the Wankhede, with Mahendra Singh Dhoni finishing the match with a six and Gautam Gambhir making the highest score of the innings.

The first three World Cups of 1975, 1979 and 1983 were all played in England, and the 1987 tournament, sponsored as the Reliance Cup, moved the event to the subcontinent for the first time; the overs were reduced from sixty to fifty, which has remained the standard since.

Delhi hosted the nineteenth Commonwealth Games in 2010, the first and so far the only time India has held them.

Appu was the cheerful baby elephant created as the mascot of the ninth Asian Games, and the figure became so popular that an amusement park in Delhi was named after it.

The first Asian Games were held at the National Stadium in New Delhi in 1951, after Guru Dutt Sondhi of India proposed a games for the newly independent countries of Asia in place of the older Far Eastern Games.

The opening batter came from Najafgarh on the outskirts of Delhi, and the title Nawab of Najafgarh was coined for him in play on the real royal title held by an earlier India captain; he is also called Multan ka Sultan for the triple century he scored at Multan.

The Spaniard's record on clay courts, above all at the French Open, earned him the name King of Clay, and he is also called Rafa.

The fast bowler comes from Chakdaha in the Nadia district of West Bengal, and her nickname joins that town to her pace, in the manner of the Payyoli Express and the Rawalpindi Express.

The Karnataka batter was called The Wall for the long innings with which he held up an end for India in Test cricket, and Jammy within his team.

Pele of Brazil, the only player to win three World Cups, was called Perola Negra, the Black Pearl, and also the King of Football.

The Pakistani fast bowler came from Rawalpindi and bowled some of the quickest deliveries ever recorded, which earned him the name Rawalpindi Express, built on the same pattern as the Payyoli Express and the Chakda Express.

The boxer from Manipur, a multiple world amateur champion and an Olympic medallist from the London Games of 2012, was called Magnificent Mary by the international boxing federation, and the name has stayed with her.

Dhyan Chand played centre forward in the Indian teams that won Olympic gold in 1928, 1932 and 1936, and his control of the ball was so complete that opponents suspected the stick itself.

The sprinter won gold in the four hundred metres at the Asian Games and at the Commonwealth Games and finished fourth in the Olympic final at Rome in 1960, and the name was given to him in Pakistan after he beat the local champion there.

Payyoli is her village in the Kozhikode district of Kerala, and the word Express was added for the speed that made her Asia's leading woman sprinter in the nineteen-eighties; she is also called the Golden Girl of India.

The all-rounder from Chandigarh who played for Haryana was called the Haryana Hurricane for the pace of his bowling and the speed of his hitting, and he captained India to the World Cup of 1983.