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Cricket
Akhtar to take action after panel submits report
ISLAMABAD, MAY 1.Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who finds himself at the centre of the injury controversy rocking Pakistan cricket, would decide his future course of action after the medical inquiry commission submits its report on May 4. ``I will ...

Kale gets Ganguly's vote of confidence
NEW DELHI, MAY 1. Beleaguered Abhijit Kale has received morale-boosting support from national captain Sourav Ganguly who said he did not believe that the first-class batsman could have offered bribe to selectors. ``I find it difficult to ...

Wisden honour for five Indians
NEW DELHI, MAY 1. Five Indian cricketers - Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, V.V.S. Laxman and Anil Kumble - have found place in the Wisden's list of 40 top cricketers in the world. Australia dominates the list with 14 ...

ICC top brass for ACC seminar
ISLAMABAD, MAY 1. Former Indian cricketers as well as the top brass of the International Cricket Council would attend a two-day seminar on international cricket development being organised by the Asian Cricket Council at Lahore on May 9 and 10. ...

Other Stories

Lara invites England to bat

Fresh batch at NCA

Dravid visits The Nest

Two titles for MSRIT

Railway Officers XI in final

The Hindu-Eenadu wins thriller

Big win for Indian Airlines

British government reiterates it will not stop Zimbabwe tour

Maa TV enters final

Match abandoned

England 237 for 5

Tennis
Sucha to meet Jankovic
BUDAPEST, MAY 1.Martina Sucha of Slovakia and Jelena Jankovic of Serbia-Montenegro will meet in the final of the Budapest Grand Prix after winning their respective semifinal matches on Saturday. Sucha upset sixth-seeded Iveta Benesova of the ...

Indians lift junior Davis Cup
NEW DELHI, MAY 1. Jeevan Nedunchezhian and Rupesh Roy powered India to a 2-0 victory over top-seeded Australia in the final of the Asia-Oceania ITF junior Davis Cup tennis tournament in Colombo on Saturday. It was a clinical performance by ...

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Double for Nirvick Mohinta, Ranjan Prasad

Hockey

`Consider eligible juniors for selection to Olympic squad'

India, fittest of all teams: Rao

Australia trounces India

Artillery Centre wins

Football
Air India-Fransa match drawn
KOCHI, MAY 1.Strangely, when Air India and Fransa FC met on Saturday, they appeared to forget all the good work they had done earlier. The Mumbai and Goan had impressed with their superior passing and free-flowing game in their opening encounters ...

Spanish daily reports Beckham will stay at Madrid
MADRID, MAY 1.David Beckham won't be sold for at least another year, Spain's leading sports newspaper said on Saturday, as speculation continued in the British press that the star midfielder will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season. ...

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United puts on a show of unity

Les Bleus have come a long way

Hindustan holds FC Kochin

I saw death up close: Maradona

Archery

Indian challenge ends

Athletics

Dragila ready to scale new heights

Badminton

Aparna qualifies for Olympics

Bangalore City Institute in final

Basketball

Hyderabad, Krishna girls in semifinals

Easy for YSBC

Billiards & Snooker
O'Sullivan routs Hendry
SHEFFIELD, MAY 1.Ronnie O'Sullivan completed a crushing 17-4 victory over Stephen Hendry on Saturday to reach the World championship final. The match was effectively over as a contest when O'Sullivan posted a 13-3 lead on Friday with a ...

Other Stories

Pankaj Advani to spearhead Indian challenge

Boxing
Come back Lennox, one last time
SEATTLE, MAY 1. The boos Lennox Lewis hears these days hurt more than most of the punches he took. The fighters he sees claiming pieces of the heavyweight title he held seem like impostors. For those and maybe 35 million other reasons, Lewis ...

Chess

Seeds have it easy

Arjun Sarja in lead

Gopal outwits Susmitha

Karthikeyan, Raghavi take the honours

Golf
Four more join Gangjee at the top
BEIJING, MAY 1.Welshman Phillip Price birdied three of his last four holes on Saturday to share a five-way joint lead heading into the final round of the inaugural China Masters. Price, a late replacement for an injured Thomas Bjorn of ...

Other Stories

Ajeetesh, Vaishavi are India's best bet

Sports : General

Kollam in semifinals

Qualifiers spotted

Table Tennis

Clean sweep by Madras

Volleyball

SAI STC wins title

World View
Bryant doubtful for Olympics
LOS ANGELES: Kobe Bryant acknowledged that his legal problems would probably prevent him from playing in the Athens Olympics. Bryant's agent, Rob Pelinka, released a statement saying that the Los Angeles Lakers' star informed USA Basketball it ...

Coming to blows
HARARE: A Zimbabwe cricket selector and National board member got into a shoving match over the month-long boycott by the players. Stephen Mangongo, convenor of selectors, and Ozias Bvute, a director of Zimbabwe Cricket Union, got into a ...

A frank chat
KARACHI: Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and vice-captain Yousuf Youhana met PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan and reportedly discussed the behaviour of a few players, including Shoaib Akhtar, during the recently-concluded Test series against India. ...

`Only winning counts'
VIENNA: Germany swept aside Austria 3-0 in the Tennis Classics series, a rematch of their 1994 Davis Cup duel. Germany had won that tie 3-2. Boris Becker beat Austria's current Davis Cup captain Thomas Muster 6-4, 6-3 and Michael Stich secured ...

Don't rush Bond
LONDON: New Zealand will take a cautious approach towards Shane Bond's return to Test cricket. The paceman has been on the sidelines for a year through injury and Black Caps coach, John Bracewell, said there was no intention to bring him back ...

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