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Cricket

India snatches a thrilling victory
ADELAIDE, JAN. 24. The man with a deadpan expression on his face bowled India to a thrilling three-run win at the Adelaide Oval. Pilloried a fortnight ago for a shocking turnaround in which his in-form captain was the victim, Sanjay Bangar got ...

Courage and commitment were his forte
CHENNAI, JAN. 24. "I would like to be remembered as the guy who went in there and gave it his best shot all the time, tried to win games for the country," said Robin Singh, officially announcing his retirement from international and domestic ...

Venkatesh shocks Marat
CHENNAI, JAN. 24.National junior chess champion M.R. Venkatesh of Bharat Petroleum shocked grandmaster Marat Dzhumaev of Uzbekistan in the fourth round to share the lead with two others in the 1st Orient Flight School international open chess ...

Erode makes the grade
CHENNAI, JAN. 24. Erode defeated Madurai and qualified for the semifinals of the S.S. Rajan Trophy inter-district cricket tournament at the Hindu College-A ground on Saturday. Vellore and Salem also qualified for the last-four stage. The ...

Tennis

Double delight for Montinee
NEW DELHI, JAN. 24. For the second successive week, an Indian girl lost in the final. If it was an Indonesian last week in Hyderabad, it was the Thai Montinee Tangphong who dashed the Indian hopes in the final of the $10,000 ITF women's tennis ...

Debendra, Janani emerge champions
CHENNAI, JAN. 24. Top seed Debendra Das of Maharashtra capitalised on Delhi boy Yuki Bhambri's sloppy show to post a 6-3, 6-2 win in the boys' final of the The Hindu-The Sportstar AITA (Super Series) junior under-14 tennis championship at ...

Billiards & Snooker
Sea change in Nationals on the horizon
GWALIOR, JAN. 24. The National billiards and snooker championships may well see its last in the present form here in Gwalior. The Nationals cues off at the Jiwaji University complex here on Sunday, and after 70 years since it was launched the ...

Chess
Anand wins
CHENNAI, JAN. 24. Former World chess champion Viswanathan Anand humbled former World championship challenger Jan Timman of the Netherlands in a one-sided round 11 game of the 66th Corus chess tournament at Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands) on ...

Swimming
Karnataka dominates opening day
MYSORE, JAN. 24.Living up to the expectations, Karnataka swimmers swept the board on the opening day of the 17th South Zone sub-junior and junior aquatic championship, which began at the Mysore University pool here on Friday. Karnataka bagged 31 ...

Volleyball
Chandigarh stuns Karnataka
KOLKATA, JAN. 24. Chandigarh caused the biggest upset of the day as it defeated last year's runner-up Karnataka and topped Group B in the boys' section of the 30th National junior volleyball championship at Baidyabati on Saturday. Chandigarh ...

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