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Cricket
Muralitharan draws level with Walsh
HARARE, MAY 6. Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan equalled the all-time test wickets record of 519 when he took six for 45 against Zimbabwe on the opening day of the first cricket Test on Thursday. Douglas Hondo drove and missed at ...

Wright may get an extension
NEW DELHI, MAY 6.Coach John Wright, whose contribution to the success of the Indian cricket team has been widely acknowledged, is likely to be offered a fresh contract when his current tenure ends in September this year. Acknowledging that the ...

L.R. Singh tournament from May 21
NEW DELHI, MAY 6. The 28th Lala Raghubir Singh Hot Weather cricket tournament will be held at the Modern School, Barakhamba Road, here from May 21 to June 3. According to the organising secretary V. K. Baweja, leading teams like Indian Airlines, ...

Other Stories

RDCA annual day celebrated

Tom Graveney is next MCC president

Trescothick helps England share honours

Bharat shines

New pitch to be inaugurated at Don Bosco

Tennis

Moya moves up, Hewitt out

India fails to qualify for knock-out phase

Double for Bharat, Carol

Hockey
Dhanraj being victimised: Baskaran
CHENNAI, MAY 6. Olympian and former Indian hockey coach, Vasudevan Baskaran, alleged that Dhanraj Pillay was being victimised by the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) for seeking more money for the players and demanded a probe by the Union ...

Rajinder Singh also for Japan tournament
NEW DELHI, MAY 6.After naming Harender Singh as the chief coach of the `experimental team' to Japan, the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) has now decided to send the National chief coach, Rajinder Singh, with the squad. An 18-member team will ...

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SCR edges past Artillery Centre

Football
Monaco marches into final
LONDON, MAY 6.It's Monaco vs. Porto in the Champions League final, one of the least expected match-ups in the history of Europe's top club tournament. Monaco reached its first Champions Cup final, rallying on Wednesday to draw with Chelsea 2-2 ...

Jackson puts FC Kochin in final phase
BANGALORE, MAY 6. Samuel Jackson's brace propelled FC Kochin into the final phase of the Second Division National Football League in progress here at the Football Stadium. In a Group A match here on Thursday, FC Kochin defeated Assam State ...

Other Stories

Euro-2004: Bhutia to be `special analyst'

I'm in worst form for five years: Zidane

Fransa FC enters final phase

27 for camp ahead of away qualifier

Salgaocar, JCT split points

DSA announces transfer dates

Badminton

Indonesia optimistic

PESIT bags women's team title

Basketball

YOSC pips YFBC

Indian Bank wins title

Chess
And the Oscar goes to... Anand!
NEW DELHI, MAY 6.Indian chess wizard and the World's No. 2 player, Viswanathan Anand, has won his third `Chess Oscar', the game's most prestigious annual award. Anand will be handed over the award in June in Moscow. The results of the ...

Ratnakaran back to winning ways
KOCHI, MAY 6.After experiencing a year-long low, Kerala champion K. Ratnakaran was back to winning ways at the second B.C. Cochin all-India FIDE-rated chess tournament which concluded at the Indira Nagar YMCA here on Thursday evening. "It's ...

Golf
It's Johl's day
MACAU, MAY 6.India's Amandeep Johl stole the limelight from World No. 8 Padraig Harrington of Ireland by shattering the course record with a 9-under-par 62 on Thursday and taking a one-shot lead in the first round of the $275,000 Macau Open. ...

Racing : Horse

Friday's Ooty races cancelled

Savoy impresses

Sailing
Sabir simply unstoppable
CHENNAI, MAY 6. Salil Sabir emerged the coastal laser radial champion with a race to spare. The 16-year-old from Goa notched up three more wins at the outer harbour on Thursday, the penultimate day of the Indian Oil-TNSA Coastal Nationals, for ...

Sports : General

Indian bookie offered Pakistan player Rs. 1 crore

SC asks Ten Sports & DD to furnish documents

Table Tennis

Elton, Nikhit win titles

Volleyball

Vizag to host Central Asia volleyball meet

World View
Ronaldo back for `game of the year'
RIO DE JANEIRO: Ronaldo has been recalled by Brazil for this month's match against France which coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has described as the ``game of the year''. Ronaldo missed the 4-1 win over Hungary last week with a thigh injury and ...

Top lawyer to defend Odumbe
Nairobi: Former Kenyan cricket captain Maurice Odumbe has named top criminal lawyer Ishan Kapila to represent him against accusations of match-fixing levelled by the International Cricket Council (ICC). The inquiry, due to start in Nairobi on ...

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Akhtar likely to escape with reprimand

Jugraj to join fitness camp

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