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Brought on to bowl as a second change spinner — after an eight over spell by part-timer Suresh Raina — by Uttar Pradesh skipper Mohammad Kaif, Piyush Chawla destroyed Baroda's resistance to claim four wickets either side of lunch, including the top scorers Irfan Pathan (59) and Rakesh Solanki (58).

Days before the much-hyped Vadodara Marathon, which is going to take place on Sunday, the Athletic Federation of India (AFI) has placed a hurdle in the way of organisers.

The next Mumbai Marathon is likely to include a leg over the city's latest icon, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.

The Indian Challenge at the NECC- ITF tournament came to a tame end on Wednesday as all the Indian challengers bowed out tamely.

Sensing the axe, Deep Dasgupta tells Dalmiya he's pulling out; CAB squarely blames Bengal manager for captaincy fracas, seeks written explanation from Jeejeebhoy Going by its latest shenanigans, it wouldn't be inappropriate to put the prefix 'Messy' and rechristen the CAB as the Messy Cricket Association of Bengal.

Harbhajan Singh's bowling fortunes aren't changing no matter how hard he's trying in recent weeks.

In what has been a year of turnarounds, Manish Maithani scratches his head while retracing his steps from sleepy Dehradun via Delhi's Indian Nationals to Mohun Bagan AC, all in 2009. The India under-23 call-up on November 13 only made it more eventful but the midfielder has an answer this time as the best seems to have been saved for the last.

Talks of a rift between players and chief coach Jose Brasa have gained momentum, so much so that Hockey India president AK Mattoo is flying to Pune — where the national team are training for the upcoming Champions Challenge tournament — on Thursday to meet both parties and try and sort out the issues.

It has been over 10 years since Sarandeep Singh made his first-class debut. Apart from having played three Tests and five ODIs for India, he has also represented three states in domestic cricket during his decade-long career.

Shitanshu Kotak followed his usual pre-match routine before Saurashtra's game against Maharashtra.

India's top star Sharath Kamal puts up a spirited effort against world no.5 Wang Liqin Defending champions China scripted a 3-1 win over Hong Kong in the semi-finals to march into the final of the Champions Division in the 19th Asian Table Tennis Championships in progress at Lucknow.

Delhi's Shamim Khan narrowly missed out on defending his title at the Tata Open in Jamshedpur earlier this month, but he will get another chance to prove himself at the ONGC Masters which begins on Wednesday at the Noida Golf Course.

Wild card Nirupama Sanjeev made an impressive comeback into professional tennis after a gap of nearly eight years, scoring a 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 win over Serbian Qualifier Tamara Curovic to enter the second round of the $50000 NECC-ITF Women's Tennis championships being organised by the Deccan Gymkhana on their club tennis courts on Tuesday.

The much-feared rains stayed away and there was finally some cricketing action in the city after three high-profile contests were almost completely washed out last week.

When DAV Public School, Sector 8 'A' lost its first game to Coaching Centre, Sector 23, nobody had thought there would be a fortune reversal for the latter as DAV-8 recorded wins in next three games to claim the cadet boys' title in the 22nd Chandigarh State Table Tennis Championship being played at the Sector 23 Table Tennis Hall on Wednesday.

Soham Sandbhor of Pune won two gold medals in the CBSE National Roller Skating Championship held at Chandigarh from November 12-15. Soham was one of four skaters from the city to win a medal.

Playing age-group cricket till last week, the 17-year-old left-arm spinner finds himself in the state's Ranji squad Vikas Mishra's cricket journey was following the trail of any other player, climbing the ladder through the grinds of age-group categories.

In his first competitive game since April, Cheteshwar Pujara hit an unbeaten 52 as Saurashtra put on 236 for the loss two wickets against Maharashtra.

A commendable semi-final appearance is what Delhi player Prerna Bhambri managed the last time she played a tournament in Pune, a $10,000 ITF event in October.

A strong batting display by Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology (CCET) saw them trounce Gobindgarh Public College, Alour by seven wickets in the final match to win the Panjab University Inter-College Cricket (Men) B-Division championship held at the PU grounds on Tuesday.