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India's chief coach Jose Brasa and Hockey India president A K Mattoo on Friday continued to spar with each other over the fitness, availability and leadership role of defender Sandeep Singh in the team bound for the Champions Challenge in Argentina from December 6.

The Indian challenge ended on Friday in the singles events of the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships with the defeat of Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal and and Sourav Chakraborty in the third round.

Had India not lost four wickets in the opening hour on the first day here in Ahmedabad, chances are this Test match would have fallen asleep long before lunch on the fifth day, and both captains admitted that there was little they could have done to get a result on the surface.

Half an hour into the second session, the man with the most runs in international cricket — 30,065 as you're reading this — was at the crease; all straight lines, head still, bat steady.

Fifth-seeded and 214th ranked Russian Nina Bratchikova created the biggest upset of the event knocking out 111th ranked Thai top seed Tamarine Tanasugarn, while Uzbek wildcard entrant Sabina Sharipova kept up her winning run to enter the semifinals of the $50000 NECC-ITF Women's Tennis championships organised by the Deccan Gymkhana on their club tennis courts here.

Gauri Monga fought her way back to win the gold division in the 60th Western India Ladies Open Golf Championship, at the Poona Club Golf Club here.

The Pimpri Panthers have roped in Yogesh Takawale, the right-hand wicket-keeper batsman who played for the Mumbai Indians team in IPL II, to play in their team.

When Prasanna Jayawardene went in to bat, Sri Lanka were 375 for five, a situation that could've gone bad had another wicket fallen quickly.

Eden Gardens won't be hosting Bengal's home match against Saurashtra in the Ranji Trophy Super League.

With more fluctuations than a faulty voltmeter, the advantage oscillated between Uttar Pradesh and Baroda during Day Three of their Ranji match, where three points for the first-innings lead were up for grabs.

KP XI, Chetak FC, Shivajians SC beat their respective opponents to enter the second round in the Super and First Division Group of the Rupee Co-operative Bank Football Tournament organised by the Keshav - Madhav Pratisthan and KP XI at the SP College Grounds here on Thursday.

Last year's runners-up Japan gave a really tough time to defending champions China in the men's team event final of the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships being held in the state capital.

State body seeks to renew sponsorship deal with a city-based TV channel as the future of Haldia academy appears bleak The Indian Football Association (IFA) is in the process to revive its link with a city-based television channel that has reportedly stopped sponsoring the state association after the last season.

Saina Nehwal's poor run at the tail-end of the Super Series leg in the Far East continued, with a 17-21 21-8 21-13 second-round exit at the China Open against local qualifier Jingyun Xia.

World No 9 Ding Ning led the way as the Chinese women won the team title by beating Singapore 3-1 in the final of the Asian Table Tennis championships in Lucknow.

Over four days, a total of 1,376 runs have been scored at just under four an over, with one batsman getting a big double-hundred and four others getting to three figures.

In the last two years, Arjun Singh Chaudhri had been fighting the survival battle at this time of the season, with opposite results.

Jeev Milkha Singh has always liked playing on the European Tour, where he has three career wins. In the inaugural Dubai World Championship, which marks the end of European season and sees the participation of the top 60 golfers on the tour starting on Thursday, Jeev will hope to repeat his WGC fourth-place performance.

Khalsa College, for the fifth year running, emerged winners of the Delhi University's inter-college athletic championships, bagging nine gold, five silver and five bronze medals at the three-day meet held at the East Vinod Nagar Sports Complex.

India must've gone into lunch thinking they had a chance. They hadn't set the session on fire, but had still landed a couple of important blows. Thilan Samaraweera had fallen after making 70, while Angelo Mathews was unlucky to be given out caught at short-leg at the stroke of lunch. Sri Lanka were still 51 behind on the first innings, and they had a foot in the door.