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Somdev through to second round, sets up date with Federer
May 28, 2013India’s Somdev Devvarman sailed into the second round of the men’s singles event at the French Open with a straight-set win over Daniel Munoz-De La Nava of Spain at the Roland Garros in Paris. It took Somdev little more than two-and-a-half hours to get the better of his Spaniard opponent 6-3 6-3 7-5. A tough [...]
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Haryana win 3rd Sub-Junior Women National Ch’ship
May 27, 2013Haryana defeated Madhya Pradesh Hockey Academy 3-2 in the final of the 3rd Hockey India Sub-Junior Women National Championship at the Aish Bagh Hockey Stadium in Bhopal on Monday. The goal scorers for Haryana were Sonika (3 min), Ritu (35 min) and Navneet Kaur (49 min) while Karishma (4 min) and Neelu (24 min) were [...]
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Unseeded Gunneswaran wins in ITF event
May 27, 2013India’s unseeded Prajnesh Gunneswaran got the better of Jui-Chen Hung of Taipei in a close first round match singles in the MPTA ITF Men’s ITF Futures tennis championship in Chennai on Monday. Prajnesh won the first set 6-4 and was leading 5-3 in the second when Jui-Chen Hung fought back with some excellent stroke play [...]
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This is my last IPL, announces Sachin Tendulkar
May 27, 2013Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday announced his retirement from the cash-rich Indian Premier League soon after Mumbai Indians won their maiden title defeating Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs in the final. “For World Cup I had to wait for 21 years but for this I had to wait for only six years. Also this is [...]
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Mumbai Indians outplay Chennai Super Kings to win IPL VI
May 27, 2013Mumbai Indians finally annexed their maiden Pepsi Indian Premier Legue title upstaging a jittery Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs in the final of IPL6 in Kolkata on Sunday. Mired in spot-fixing controversy after the arrest of owner N Srinivasan’s son-in-law Gurunath Meiyappan, Chennai Super Kings found the 149-run target, usually an easy ask by [...]
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Huge challenge before CSK to overcome controversy and Mumbai
May 26, 2013Embroiled in the spot-fixing scam, becoming champions for a third time would be a daunting task for the Chennai Super Kings when they take on the formidable Mumbai Indians in the summit clash of the scandal-marred IPL in Kolkata on Sunday. The arrest of its management official M Gurunath, who is the son-in-law of the [...]
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IPL 6: Mumbai in final, beat Rajasthan by four wickets
May 25, 2013Mumbai Indians overcame middle over hiccups to carve out a thrilling four-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in a thrilling match at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday to set up a summit showdown with Chennai Super Kings in the Pepsi Indian Premier League. Chasing a stiff target of 166, Mumbai had a flying start [...]
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Lenny Rodrigues wins “Player of the Year Award” at FPAI Indian Football Awards 2013
May 25, 2013Lenny Rodrigues of Churchill Brothers Goa won the “Player of the Year” award at the prestigious FPAI Indian Football Awards function.He has played a pivotal role in ensuring his team’s title winning run this season. On receiving the award, Lenny said, “I would like to thank all the players who voted for me. I would [...]
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Indian Football Awards Announced amidst fanfare
May 24, 2013Mumbai: The Indian Football Awards 2013 were hosted by the Football Players Association of India along with The Bombay Gymkhana. The exhibition match was played by the senior and current national team payers like Baichung Bhutia, Sunil Chettri, Renedy Singh, Gouramangi Singh, Climax Lawrance, Subrata Paul, Lenny Rodriguez, Abhishek Yadav to name a few. There [...]
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Sahara accuses BCCI of “betrayal of trust”
May 23, 2013The Sahara Group accused the BCCI of “betrayal of trust” while rejecting claims of the Board that the IPL team was to be blamed for the controversy surrounding the franchise fee, leading to Pune Warriors pulling out of the Twenty20 tournament. A day after Sahara Group pulled out its team Pune Warriors from IPL, citing [...]
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