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Cricket
Sri Lanka triumphs over India
COLOMBO, AUG. 1.Sri Lanka defeated India by 25 runs to win the Asia Cup at the Premadasa Stadium on Sunday. Chasing 229 for victory, India finished at 203 for nine. Sachin Tendulkar top-scored for India with 74, while Sri Lankan leg-spinner Upul ...

West Indies faces daunting task
BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 1. England set West Indies to make 479 to win the second Test in five sessions after being bowled out for 248. As there was turn in the pitch — Chris Gayle returned five for 34 with off breaks which are not close to ...

Ten-wkt. win for India `A'
NEW DELHI, AUG. 1.India `A' beat Zimbabwe's Select XI by 10 wickets in its second tour match at the Harare Sports Club on Saturday. Captain Sairaj Bahutule returned impressive figures of four for 11 to help the visitor bundle out the Select XI ...

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CS XI posts win

Four score centuries

Anand shines for AP Civil Services

Masseur gets marching orders

Four-wicket win for KSCA XI

Big win for Sam Babu XI

Asia Cup nets $19m profit

Tennis
It's Federer vs. Roddick
TORONTO, AUG. 1. Andy Roddick advanced to the final of the Tennis Masters Canada with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Nicolas Kiefer of Germany on Saturday, setting up a rematch of his Wimbledon final against Roger Federer of Switzerland. Earlier, Federer ...

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Binu retains title

Hockey

SCR reasserts its supremacy

Brace by Mohsin

Football

HAL enters final

Mohun Bagan defeats Sporting

Garhwal Heroes wins

Athletics

Venkateshwara and Saraswathi triumph

Badminton

Daljeet bags a double

Kannan quells Ali's charge

Nimma advances

Basketball

Indian Juniors outsmarts AOC

Sports Hostel, SAI in final

Carrom

India holds sway

Chess
Anand, Kramnik draw opening game
DORTMUND, AUG. 1.Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik drew their opening match of the final in 60 moves of Closed Ruy Lopez in the Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting here on Saturday. Peter Leko and Peter Svidler were involved in a 33-move ...

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Sakthivel wins title

Manikandan takes title

Golf
Vijay Singh in the van
GRAND BLANC (MICHIGAN), AUG. 1. Vijay Singh shot a third-round best 65 for an 18-under 198 on Saturday and a two-stroke lead over John Daly, who shot a 66, at the Buick Open. Singh has won the last six tournaments he's led after 54 holes. ...

Olympic Games
The Indian story of missing by the proverbial whisker
KOCHI, AUG. 1. Set in a quiet corner near the old Christ the King Church and a small cemetery, the Loyola College athletic ground in Chennai has an old-world charm about it. And in the late 1940s, Henry Rebello, one of India's best ...

Racing : Motor
Rayomand Banajee reigns supreme
COIMBATORE, AUG. 1.It was a race that Rayomand Banajee of India would cherish for long and Narain Karthikeyan, the fastest Indian in the world, would prefer to forget quickly. The 24-year-old Rayomand, from Pune, the current reigning JK Tyre ...

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Vijay Kumar steals the show

Sports : General
Four doctors qualify
NEW DELHI, AUG. 1. Four doctors, Col. S. Guha Roy of the Services, Dr. Manaranjan Sharma of Manipur, Dr. Gaurav Sharma of Delhi and Dr. Retaish Kumar of Jammu and Kashmir have qualified for the Post Graduate diploma in sports medicine, a course ...

Squash

Nikita in last eight

Titles for Jitender, Revathi

Double for Naveen

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