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Poor administration hampering Asian football
Kuala Lumpur: Lack of proper administration was hampering the growth of Asian
football, a top official of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) said on Wednesday.
Anand maintains slender lead at Corus Chess meet
Wijk Aan Zee (The Netherlands): Indian Grand Master Viswanathan Anand maintained a slender half point lead after a draw with GM Michal Krasenkow of Poland in the ninth round of the 65th Corus Chess tournament.
Indian challenge at Australian Open Juniors ends
New Delhi: Indian challenge at the Australian Open Junior tennis championship came to an end after Somdev Dev Varman lost 6-0, 6-2, to Britain's Guy Thomas in the second round of the boys singles in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Paes, Bhupathi to reunite for Davis Cup tie against Japan
New Delhi: Three-time Grand Slam champions Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi will reunite for India's Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I first round tie against Japan from February 7 to 9.
National
Hari, Sasi, Barua share lead; Nisha tops in women's section
Mumbai: Grand Master K Sasikiran joined overnight leaders GM Harikrishna and GM Dibyendu Barua to lead the table with 4.5 points each at the end of six rounds in the National 'A' chess championship on Tuesday.
Cricket
LG Electronics to seek redressal, says will move SC
New Delhi: LG Electronics India, one of the major sponsors of the cricket World Cup, on Wednesday said it is planning to approach the Supreme Court to appeal against the Delhi High Court order barring outflow of foreign exchange if India was debarred from playing in the World Cup.
India's WC participation will to be decided on Friday
New Delhi: India's participation in next month's cricket World Cup hinges on the outcome of Friday's executive board meeting of ICC Development International, the marketing arm of the world body, which will decide whether or not to accept the conditionally signed contracts of the Indian cricketers.
The winning edge could be in inspirational captaincy
Bangalore: With the World Cup a few days away the searching thoughts on most people's minds
would be, "Who do you suppose will win, you can't write this team off, in One-day cricket
anything can happen, you can never tell with Pakistan, West Indies too are looking good this time,
New Zealand was an exception; India is going to be a different proposition in SA, New Zealand
and England seem to be the dark horses and so on."
Queensland whips South Australia despite Blewett ton
Brisbane: Despite another century at the Gabba Ground by former Test batsman Greg Blewett,
Queensland recorded its fifth consecutive victory of the Sheffield Shield season on Wednesday.
HC says no foreign exchange if ICC disqualifies India
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered that if India is disqualified from the
World Cup or any punitive action is taken against the players or damages imposed upon them by
the International Cricket Council (ICC) no foreign exchange would be released by the government.
Australia not a certainty in series showdown: Hussain
Sydney: England faces a huge challenge when it takes on World Cup champion Australia on
Thursday in the first final of the tri-nations One-day cricket series.
Agarkar at best a directionless weather cock: Sidhu
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar's experience and skill could be "wasted" if the batting maestro did not open the innings and capitalise on the field restrictions during India's World Cup campaign next month, according to former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu.
Yorkshire sacks Lehmann as captain, says not for slur
Leeds (England): Australian batsman Darren Lehmann looks set to be sacked as Yorkshire captain this week it was reported on Tuesday despite receiving a vote of confidence from the board last weekend.
Warne to retire from One-dayers after World Cup
Sydney: Australian leg spin bowler Sharne Warne on Wednesday announced his retirement from One-day cricket after the end of next month's World Cup in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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