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Cricket

Lankan Lions storm into final
COLOMBO, JULY 23. Even as Alok Kapali lost his wicket to a terrible mix-up with Md. Ashraful, and bowler Chaminda Vaas, while trying his best to conceal the smile on his lips, took the bails off at the non-striker's end, ...

A battle within a battle
COLOMBO, JULY 23. When India and Pakistan lock horns in the day/night super-league encounter at the Premadasa Stadium on Sunday, in what is virtually a semifinal clash in the Indian Oil-Asia Cup 2004, it will see two old mates from Kent trying to ...

Aussie juniors to tour India from July 28
SYDNEY, JULY 23. The budding cricketers of Commonwealth Bank Centre of Excellence (CBCE) and Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) will tour India from July 28 to August 13. They will play two two-day matches and three one-dayers against the ...

Other Stories

Tuticorin hits back

Vaughan joins the party, others don't

Easy win for Dayanand XI

RWFSA clinches The Hindu Trophy

Madhya Pradesh beats Tamil Nadu

Deepak hits double century

Shijith, Sriram score centuries

Tennis

Niharika in final

Roddick moves into quarterfinals

Janaki, Unnati in final

Gaudio in last four

Varun enters final

Hockey

Southern Railway in final

League from today

BEL Sports Club wins

Football

Late goals seal Kuwait's fate

Fourth win for Garhwal Heroes

SN College wins via tiebreaker

Ramaswamy XI wins

Archery
Prabhat proves a point before losing
KOLKATA, JULY 23. The Indian challenge came to a predictable end in the individual Olympic round competition of the eighth World junior archery championship at Lilleshall (England) on Thursday. Only three out of the eight reached the round of 16 ...

Athletics

Saraswati books Athens berth

Central region triumphs

Badminton

Deepthi guides SCR into semifinals

Basketball

GRD College lifts title

Boxing

A chance to miss it like Beckham

Muralidharan Raja to officiate at Olympics

Chess
Anand starts with a draw
DORTMUND, JULY 23. Draws were the order of the day as favourite Viswanathan Anand opened his campaign in the Dortmund Sparkassen chess meeting with a sedate 25-move deadlock in Closed Ruy Lopez against local interest Arkadij Naiditsch at the ...

Other Stories

Srinath wins under-10 section

Cycling
Armstrong's march continues
LE GRAND-BORNAND (FRANCE), JULY 23. With an amazing final dash of speed, Lance Armstrong won the 17th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, extending his overall lead as he marches toward a record sixth crown. The stage win was Armstrong's ...

Generalia

Hunter makes a startling revelation
NEW YORK, JULY 23. The former husband of Olympic sprint champion Marion Jones told federal investigators that Jones was using banned performance-enhancing drugs when she won five medals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, The San Francisco ...

Golf

Misra wins title

Olympic Games
Winning the race to be ready
ATHENS, JULY 23. Defying predictions the Games look like being on time. The award of them to Athens may have turned the hair of some senior members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) white, brought the possibility of international ...

Racing : Motor

Schumacher's success perfect for the sport: Ecclestone

Schumacher leads practice

MRF-MAI Formula meet on Sunday

Squash

Impressive Ghosal reaches final

Table Tennis
No stopping Chinese brigade
NEW DELHI, JULY 23. The unranked trio of Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Feng Yalan made a mockery of the seeding list, and gate-crashed into the girls' singles semifinals of the Asian junior table tennis championship here. On a day when all Indians ...

Volleyball

Easy for TN

Wrestling

Ravikanth steals the show

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