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Cricket
Ponting pilots Australia to victory
HARARE, MAY 25. Captain Ricky Ponting hit 91 to lead Australia to an easy seven-wicket victory over a young Zimbabwe side in the first of three one-day internationals at the Harare Sports Club on Tuesday. In reply to Zimbabwe's 205 for nine in ...

Pankaj shines
NEW DELHI, MAY 25. Pankaj Thakur hit 77 off 94 balls with eight boundaries as Food Corporation of India (FCI) defeated R.P. Academy by five wickets to enter the quarterfinals of the all-India Goswami Ganesh Dutt memorial cricket tournament at the ...

Narrow win for LA Lakers
HYDERABAD, MAY 25. LA Lakers recorded a narrow 28-22 win over SA Spurs in the junior boys' league match of the inter-summer coaching centres basketball tournament being organised by St. Patrick's High School here. The ...

Srikar, Nazar claim hat-tricks
HYDERABAD, MAY 25. Hat-tricks by Srikar (three for two) and Nazar (three for six) helped Sports Coaching Foundation (Blues) record a convincing 10-wicket win against Humayun Nagar in the under-12 category of the Eddie Aibara memorial cricket ...

Other Stories

Subhania scrapes through

Unbeaten century by Sumit

Dravid to continue as wicketkeeper in one-dayers: Ganguly

Vintage Hussain guides England to victory

Sri Lankans on top

Camp concludes

Big win for SBT `A'

Narender hits century

Raja bowls Blooming XI to victory

KBCA wins Sunday Cup

Allround show by Siddharth Verma

Allround show by Aditya

Geet in great form

Big win for Customs

Tennis
Anklesria in main draw
MUMBAI, MAY 25. Urvaksh Anklesria dropped a set before getting the better of Indranil Rath to qualify for the main draw of the first Matunga Gymkhana all-India ranking junior (under-14) tennis tournament at the Matunga Gymkhana courts here on ...

Sonal rallies to beat Geeta
LUCKNOW, MAY 25. Third-seeded Sonal Phadke recovered from being two matchpoints down to beat Geeta Manohar 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the first round of the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament at the Oudh Gymkhana Club courts here on ...

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Navratilova bows out; Federer finds his feet on French clay

Navratilova's return: not all players thrilled

Ranjan Prasad gets top billing

Sania advances

Hockey

Thumping win for Sporting

Football
SBT earns promotion
BANGALORE, MAY 25. A streak of Hitchcockian suspense was built into the final moments of the second division National Football League with fortunes for the three teams battling for two promotion places swinging back and forth like a yoyo. At the ...

Other Stories

Fransa Goa finishes runner-up

Five new faces in Indian team

Bihar off to a winning start

Douglas Da Silva on a new mission

Nilgiris DFA storms back to beat Netaji

Customs and Central Excise posts win

Badminton

Semifinalists spotted

Basketball

Robinson's back, IOB has its tail up

Salem squeaks past Dindigul

Billiards & Snooker

Quarterfinalists spotted

Chess
Saheli triumphs with round to spare
KOZHIKODE, MAY 25. She doesn't like to win. She likes to win in style. Saheli Nath did it again on Tuesday afternoon. She won the National sub-junior girls' chess championship with a round to spare. It's her third National title, and she had won ...

Other Stories

All eyes on Sangeetha

Humpy moves into third round

Golf

Fine show by Indians

Racing : Horse
Mysore summer races from today
MYSORE, MAY 25. The ten-day Mysore summer races get off to a start from May 26 at the Mysore Race Club. A stake money of Rs. 85.89 lakh will be on offer and over 400 horses are expected to take part in the season as per a press release from ...

Racing : Motor

Head dropped as Williams' technical director

Sailing
Good day for Nitin Mongia
MUMBAI, MAY 25. The World OK Dinghy championship winner Nitin Mongia of the Indian Navy Watermanship Training Centre (INWTC) won the first two races in the OK Dinghy Nationals at the Bombay Harbour on Tuesday. Eight top sailors in the OK Dinghy ...

Shooting

Athens-bound shooters to train abroad

Sports : General

Dutt to strive for increased budgetary outlay

DTA's efforts to popularise taekwondo

Ch. Right Staff is Dog of the Year

SAAP aid for Narang, Shobha

Squash

Siddharth beats Pratik

Swimming

Sandeep steals the show

Table Tennis

State-ranking TT tournament from tomorrow

Volleyball

Musheerabad Playground moves up

World View

Sami unavailable for Kent

Bentla's rare distinction

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