| The Hindu SPORTS |
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 |
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THE HINDU SPORTS
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A batsman’s Test meanders to a draw
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Tendulkar, Gambhir and Laxman snuff out any hopes of a Sri Lankan win
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Tamil Nadu beats Punjab by an innings and 45-runs
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AMRITSAR: Tamil Nadu completed an innings and 45-run victory to collect six points, including a bonus, from its Ranji Trophy Super League match against Punjab at the Gandhi ground here on Friday. Punjab, which resumed at 114 for five, ...
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Sumanth thwarts MP’s quest for lead
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VIJAYAWADA: A fighting unbeaten 51 (208b, 272m, 2x4) by Andhra skipper B. Sumanth helped Andhra prevent Madhya Pradesh gaining points for first innings lead as the Ranji Trophy Plate Group B match ended in a draw at Indira Gandhi Municipal ...
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Good spell by Gopinath
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VIJAYAWADA: Gopinath’s six-wicket haul helped Central Zone restrict North Zone to 51 in 54 overs in the ACA inter-zonal u-14 cricket tournament at ACA Stadium at Mangalagiri on Friday. The scores: ...
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IPL to become a world event: Chappell
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London: Former Australian captain Greg Chappell feels given its increasing popularity, the Indian Premier League (IPL) would soon become a world event and take cricket to hitherto unexplored regions. “I can see the day when IPL ...
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All even after first Test, says Kumar Sangakkara
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The wicket was flat but I’ve seen flatter: Dhoni
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Maharashtra lets slip advantage
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Chennai: Maharashtra let slip its advantage after losing four wickets towards the end of play to finish at 268 for seven on day one of its match against Tamil Nadu in the Cooch Behar under-19 tournament held here. ...
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Tests not popular
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Rain hits play
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TIRUVALLA: The Pathanamthitta-Thiruvananthapuram match was interestingly poised when rain brought a premature end to the day’s play in the South Zone under-14 inter-district cricket tournament at the Mar Thoma College stadium on ...
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Akhil, Vinod sparkle
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THRISSUR: Mediumpacers H. Akhil (five for 39) and Vinod (four for 31) helped Thrissur’s St. Thomas College defeat Farook College (Feroke) by 50 runs and enter the final of the Calicut University cricket championship at the Sree Kerala ...
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Tendulkar first to reach 30,000 international runs
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Ahmedabad: Sachin Tendulkar conquered yet another peak when he became the first batsman to complete 30,000 runs in international cricket. The maestro reached the landmark when he clipped left-arm-paceman Chanaka Welegedara to square-leg ...
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Match meanders to a draw
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HYDERABAD: Twenty-three-year-old Rujul Bhatt scored 186 on the last day of the Ranji Trophy Super League match between Gujarat and Hyderabad which ended in a tame draw at the Rajiv Gandhi stadium here on Friday. ...
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Jovanovski in final
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PUNE: Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia stopped the fine run of 15-year-old wild card Sabina Sharipova in the semifinals of the NECC ITF women’s tennis tournament on Friday. The results: Singles ...
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Harsh-Treat duo in last four
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New Delhi: Harsh Mankad and his partner Treat Conrad Huey rallied from a set down to advance to the doubles semifinals of the ATP Challenger event in Champaign, United States. The second-seeded Indo-Filipino pair overcame Dominic Inglot ...
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Air India draws with Army XI
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CHANDIGARH: Joga Singh’s equaliser helped Air India hold Army XI to a 1-1 draw in the Jindal Steel Nehru hockey tournament at the Sector-42 Stadium here on Friday. Army XI had taken the lead through Rajesh Lakra’s penalty corner ...
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Shiksha Bharti wins title
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NEW DELHI: Shiksha Bharti defeated Shiv Vani School 25-19, 25-20, 25-14 in the final of the second Mahashay Dharampal inter-school volleyball tournament at the MDH International School, ...
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HI elections a must before WC: Negre
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NEW DELHI: International Hockey Federation (FIH) President Leandro Negre on Friday reiterated FIH’s stand that a democratically-elected body should take control of Hockey India (HI) before the World Cup was held here in February next ...
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Mattoo downplays players’ revolt
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NEW DELHI: Hockey India (HI) President A.K. Mattoo on Friday tried to downplay the reported ‘revolt’ by some players against chief coach Jose Brasa. Mr. Mattoo who air-dashed to Pune on Thursday after reports of discontent ...
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FIFA rules out replay of France-Ireland match
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ZURICH: FIFA ruled out the possibility of replaying the France-Ireland World Cup qualifier on Friday, rejecting an Irish appeal to stage the play-off again after Thierry Henry handled the ball to set up the deciding goal in extra time. ...
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Hindustan Club posts win
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NEW DELHI: Hindustan Club defeated Punjab State Electricity Board 2-0 in a qualifying round match of the North Zone Federation Cup football tournament at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Gurgaon on Friday. Monu Choudhury and Nigerian Misbu scored ...
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Karnataka drubs Kerala
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MUMBAI: Karnataka’s exhibition of controlled attacking football proved too much for Kerala to handle, the former winning 6-1 in Group B action at the 32nd National sub-junior (South & West Zone) football championships for the Mir ...
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For Thierry Henry it’s volleyball
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Paris: Football players just can’t be trusted to be honest and Thierry Henry proved that by choosing to play volleyball against Ireland, blatantly handling the ball for the goal that sent France to the World Cup. Cheating, plain ...
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Titanium in final
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Titanium has entered the final of the Chief Minister’s Cup all-India invitation football championship held at Namchi in Sikkim, according to information received here on Friday. Titanium defeated Gorkha Brigade ...
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Match-fixing scam rocks Europe
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FRANKFURT: German prosecutors investigating match-fixing in football say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and that about 200 games in Europe are affected in what an UEFA representative called the biggest ...
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Men’s compound team lands gold
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KOLKATA: The Indian men’s compound team, comprising National champion C. Srither, Kh. Ratan Singh and Isiah R. Sanam, grabbed the gold medal — first ever in any international meet — by defeating Iran 231-230 in the 16th Asian ...
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Indrajeet Patel sets 5000m mark
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WARANGAL: “Athletics is the cheapest sport,” said Indrajeet Patel of Uttar Pradesh. “There’s hardly any equipment to buy,” he explained after a display that was certainly not commonplace. “Yet, ...
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AMU in semifinals
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ALIGARH: Both the men’s and women’s teams of host Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) reached the semifinals of the North Zone inter-university badminton tournament here on Friday. The results ...
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SJCC enters final
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BANGALORE: St. Joseph’s College of Commerce entered the final of the Rahul Sebastian memorial inter-collegiate basketball tournament beating M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology 58-48 in the semifinals at the Malleswaram courts here on ...
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KBA’s classes for referees
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THIRUVALLA: The Kerala Basketball Association, in association with the Thiruvalla YMCA, will conduct classes for referees, players and coaches during the 54th State senior basketball championship which will be held here from November 30 to ...
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Chitra prevails over Nicha
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Pankaj Advani scores a fluent win
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Solomon beats Damodharan
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Chennai: V. Solomon beat V. Damodharan 11-7, 0-11, 15-0, in the YMCA-Annual Open carrom tournament, here. Other results: M. Kari Balan bt Thirumalai 11-7, 14-0; R. Sathishkumar bt B. Anbarasan 21-6, 3-19, ...
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Sethuraman, Vidit continue to lead
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NEW DELHI: International Masters Vidit Gujarathi and S.P. Sethuraman maintained their half-point lead in the under-16 section after the eighth round of the World youth chess championship at Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday. Vidit and ...
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Westwood takes lead
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DUBAI: Lee Westwood shot a 3-under 69 on Friday to take a two-stroke lead after the second round of the Dubai World golf championship, increasing his chance of winning the European money title. The English golfer put himself in a solid ...
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Gaurav retains lead
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NOIDA: Gaurav Pratap Singh scored a two-under 70 for the third time in a row to retain his lead after the penultimate round of the ONGC Masters at the Noida Golf Course here on Friday. Going into the final round with a five-stroke lead, ...
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It’s Red Renegade vs Firezone
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BANGALORE: Red Renegade and Firezone may fight out the finish of the Dariya Daulat Trophy (1,400m), the main event of the races to be held here on Saturday (Nov. 21) False rails (width about 3m from 1,500m to 1,000m and 5m from 1,000m to ...
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Ramaswamy re-elected
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Chennai: M.A.M. Ramaswamy, Chairman, Madras Race Club, was unanimously re-elected as the President of the Tamil Nadu Race Horse Owners Association for the year 2009-10 at the association’s annual general body meeting here on ...
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D’Artagnan claims Kabini Cup
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BANGALORE: Capt. Jamshed J. Appoo & Mr. Zavaray S. Poonawalla and Mrs. Behroze Z. Poonawalla representing Poonawalla Racing & Breed. Ltd’s D’Artagnan (D. Allan up), won the Kabini Cup, the main event of the races held here ...
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Mumbai season set to begin on Nov. 22
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Mumbai: After a delay of a week due to rains, the Mumbai racing season is ready to kick off from Sunday (Nov. 22). The bright sunshine has helped the track condition to improve. The RWITC has decided to conduct 40 Club race days (after ...
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Vijay stuns Adithyan
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Coimbatore: B. Vijay Krishna of Perks MHSS pulled off a stunning 21-10, 16-21, 21-16 win over fourth seed B. Adithyan of Venkatalakshmi MHSS in the under-13 boys’ singles second round in the district schools badminton tournament at the ...
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DPS wins by two wickets
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BANGALORE: Delhi Public School (South) snatched an exciting two-wicket victory over Town Mahila Samaja English School (Tumkur) in the Boost Cup under-16 inter-school cricket tournament here on Friday. The Tumkur team, which made 100 for ...
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Madras wins
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SHIMOGA: Madras University won the South Zone inter-university kabaddi championship here on Thursday evening. It won the championship on the basis of points despite losing its final match to Annamalai University. — Special ...
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Sandhu stuns Wagih Shoukry to enter final
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Chennai: Third seed Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu stunned top seed Andrew Wagih Shoukry to reach the final of the PSA Challenger event at the Indian Squash Academy here on Friday. The much-improved Sandhu needed just three games and 29 ...
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Saurav, Dipika bow out
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CHENNAI: Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal, who survived the qualifying phase, crashed out in the first round of the main draw competition in the Qatar Classic squash, late on Thursday. Saurav lost to seventh-seeded James Willstrop of ...
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Sharath Kamal surrenders tamely to Mizutani
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LUCKNOW: An erratic Sharath Kamal’s rather tame surrender to fourth seeded Japanese Jun Mizutani was disappointing after all the Indian ladies failed to survive the day in singles in the 19th Asian table tennis championship at the UP ...
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Indians out of singles
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LUCKNOW: An erratic Sharath Kamal’s rather tame surrender to fourth-seeded Japanese Jun Mizutani was disappointing even though all the Indians predictably exited from the singles events of the 19th Asian table tennis championship at the ...
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TN, UP storm into semifinals
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SHIMOGA: Tamil Nadu boys proved too good for Punjab and won 25-15, 25-16, 25-13 in the quarterfinals of the 32nd sub-junior National volleyball championship at the Nehru Stadium here on Friday. Tamil Nadu came out aggressively and just ...
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CRS ‘A’ to meet HDPY
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KOCHI: The host Cochin Refineries School ‘A’ will clash with HDPY (Moothakunnam) in the final of the 20th Chacha Nehru Cup inter-school volleyball tournament at Ambalamugal on Saturday. In the semifinals on Friday, CRS ...
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IWF’s decision on India delayed
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NEW DELHI: The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) stated on Friday that until all doping cases were “closed” there would not be a final decision on disciplinary sanctions against India. The IWF Legal Counsel, Monika ...
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