Following is the scoreboard at lunch on the second day of the fourth and the final Test match of the current series between India and Australia at the Vidarbha Cricket Association (VCA) Stadium here Friday.
SCOREBOARD:
India 1st innings (Overnight 311/5)
Virender Sehwag b Krejza 66
Murali Vijay c Haddin b Watson 33
Rahul Dravid c Katich b Krejza 0
Sachin [...]
Barcelona reeled off their seventh successive win to reach the summit of the Spanish first division but Saturday’s 4-1 win at Malaga was marred by racism directed at their Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o.
African forward Eto’o was subjected to monkey charts by the home fans at the La Rosaleda before being booed when he was substituted [...]
India’s Jwala Gutta and V. Diju reached the mixed doubles final of the Bulgarian Open badminton Grand Prix in Sofia Saturday, beating Wijaya Rendra and Meiliana Jauhari of Indonesia.
Gutta and Diju scored a 21-14, 17-21, 21-17 win over the sixth seeds and will now meet Fran Kurniawan and Shendy Puspa Irawati of Indonesia.
Gutta also made [...]
Symbiosis girls clinched the title in the under-14 inter school volleyball tournament conducted by the Zilla Parishad at the Azam Campus Volleyball Courts on Tuesday. Symbiosis had no trouble in beating Kataria High School in straight sets 25-23 and 25-15. Urvi Khasnis and Priyadarshani Kokre played a key role in securing a victory for Symbiosis.
In [...]
The Australian cricket team led by Ricky Ponting arrived in Mumbai on Monday for a four Test tour of India commencing at Bangalore on October 9.The 15 man squad will spend the next week training in Jaipur before flying to Hyderabad for a four day match against the Indian board president’s XI from October 2. [...]
It’s touch and go whether Jason Taylor will play in the Washington Redskins’ season opener against the New York Giants.
Taylor sprained his right knee in the second quarter of Saturday night’s 47-3 loss. An MRI performed Sunday morning allayed Redskins’ fears of a more serious injury.
“It looks like there’s no ligament damage,” coach Jim Zorn [...]
Xavier Marshall hammered a record 12 sixes in an unbeaten 157 to lead West Indies to a 49-run victory over the host nation in the Canada Cup Tri-Series in King City, Ontario on Friday.
Batting first at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club, tournament favourites West Indies piled up 303 for four in 50 overs before bowling [...]
Will there be any eager, inspired, onlookers at Satpal’s akhada in the Chhatrasal Stadium next month? Will OB vans be parked outside Bhiwani Boxing Club after a week? How soon will India stop thinking about Abhinav Bindra, who bravely declined to accept the sudden attention being showered on him as a return for the months [...]
Bangladesh opening batsman Nazim Uddin has been ruled out of the one-day series in Australia starting this month due to a finger injury, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said on Monday.
“Nazim has torn one of the tendons on his left ring finger during the pre-match warm up of the practice game against the Australian Institute [...]
Yang Wei clapped as he walked past the vault judges, pumped his fists at the crowd and flashed a thumbs-up for the cameras. He even exchanged high-fives with the competition.
Denied in Sydney and disappointed in Athens, he is finally an Olympic champion after winning the men’s all-around Thursday. It wasn’t close, either. Yang finished with [...]