Sport Events in March 2001
March 2:
India wins the Akhbar El Yom International hockey championship at Cairo.
March 3:
Yasin Merchant wins the Khel.com snooker men's championship in Chennai.
Railways wins the 25th senior National women's cricket championship at Asansol.
March 4:
Germany clinches hockey series (2-1) defeating India in the deciding third match of the Indo-German festival.
Johnny Ruiz dethrones Evander Holyfield to win the World Boxing Association title at Las Vegas.
March 5:
Former England fast bowler Dean Headley announces his retirement from first class cricket.
March 6:
India lifts the inaugural OIL SAARC men's basketball tournament at Guwahati.
Tom Moody, former Australian Test cricketer, announces his retirement.
March 7:
Garry Kasparov wins the Linares chess tournament in Spain.
March 9:
Sheetal Goutham clinches the ITF women's circuit Masters tennis tournament in New Delhi.
March 11:
Pullela Gopi Chand becomes the second Indian after Prakash Padukone to win the All England badminton championship at Birmingham.
Off spinner Harbhajan Singh becomes the first Indian bowler to get a hat-trick in Test cricket against Australia in Kolkata.
March 14:
V.V.S. Laxman becomes India's highest individual scorer with his 281 in the second Test match against Australia at Kolkata, bettering the record held by Sunil Gavaskar (236).
March 15:
India ends Australia's 16th match winning streak by defeating the latter by 171 runs in the second Test at Kolkata.
March 17:
England clinches the test series against Sri Lanka at Sri Lanka.
Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand wins the Wills Indian Open golf tournament at Gurgaon.
March 18:
Abhinn Shyam Gupta wins the French Open badminton tournament.
March 19:
Veteran fast bowler Courtney Walsh becomes the first bowler to claim 500 Test wickets.
March 20:
India emerges triumphant in the Prime Minister's Gold Cup hockey tournament at Dhaka.
March 22:
India lifts the Border Gavaskar Trophy by posting a narrow victory over Australia in the third and final Test at Chennai.
March 25:
Garry Kasparov wins the second World Cup rapid chess tournament at Cannes (France).
March 27:
Sri Lanka clinches one-day series against England in Sri Lanka.
March 29:
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) are declared joint champions in the 10th Amber rapid and Blindfold chess tournament at Monte Carlo.