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Cricket
India keeps date with destiny
MULTAN, APRIL 1. India kept its date with history, achieving its first Test win on the Pakistani soil as it outplayed Pakistan by an innings and 52 runs in the first Test of the Sumsung series at the Multan Cricket Ground on Thursday to take a ...

BEYOND BOUNDARIES - MIKE MARQUSEE
Inzamam and the interplay of opposites
Sitting in front of the telly in London, I could imagine the collective sigh of despair being heaved across Pakistan. The captain and home-town hero had just run himself out for a duck. This crucial wicket brought India a giant step closer to its ...

Showers of praise for Team India
KOLKATA, APRIL 1. "Many congratulations to you and all the members of Team India for a spectacular victory in the first Test against Pakistan in Multan,'' was how Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya, the BCCI president, greeted stand-in captain, Rahul Dravid, ...

Other Stories

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    Tennis
    Dementieva eliminates Venus
    KEY BISCAYNE, APRIL 1. Fifth-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia upset the injured Venus Williams 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(3) on Wednesday in the quarterfinals of the Nasdaq-100 Open tennis tournament. Williams, hampered by a sprained foot and a shaky ...

    Bad day for seeds
    MUMBAI, APRIL 1. Favourites had an off-day and ended up on the casualty list, throwing the women's singles wide open in the $ 10,000 International Tennis Federation women's tennis Futures on Thursday. Chia-Jing Chuang of Chinese Taipei, the top ...

    Hockey
    NHL: Foreign players may take part
    HYDERABAD, APRIL 1. Foreign players, including stars from Pakistan, Holland and Germany, may be seen in action in the National Hockey League (NHL) scheduled to get underway at Hyderabad after the Athens Olympic Games. In addition to permitting ...

    Football
    Netherlands holds French; Ireland stuns Czech republic
    LONDON, APRIL 1. The Netherlands dashed French hopes of a world record 15 wins in a row with a 0-0 tie on Wednesday while Ireland ended the Czech Republic's 20-match unbeaten streak with a 2-1 victory. On a night of games building up to the ...

    Chess
    Title race hots up
    NEW DELHI, APRIL 1. With just one set of rapid matches to go, the title-race of the Amber chess tournament was headed for a thrilling climax with Viswanathan Anand coming within half point of the leaders Vladimir Kramnik and Alexander Morozevich ...

    Sports : General
    Indian swimmers rule the pool
    ISLAMABAD, APRIL 1. The Indian swimmers continued to assert their class as Mandar Divase won his second gold, the 1500-metre freestyle with a new mark, even as Rehan Poncha grabbed his third gold medal from the pool breezing past the Pakistanis ...

    Indian shooters on target
    ISLAMABAD, APRIL 1. They are the big guns in the region. The Indian marksmen scooped six more gold medals from the shooting range in the ninth SAF Games at the Islamabad Sports Complex here on Thursday. While pistol prodigy Jaspal Rana shot the ...

    SAF Games - Results
    Badminton: Men (final): India bt Pakistan 3-0 (Abhinn Shyam Gupta bt Wajid Ali 9-15, 15-5, 15-10; Chetan Anand bt Ashan Qamar 15-12, 15-5; Markose Bristow/Rupesh Kumar bt Rizwan Rana/Ummar Zeshan 15-1, 15-7). Kabaddi: India bt ...

    Cash awards hike falls short of expectations
    NEW DELHI, APRIL 1. The Union Government has decided to double the cash awards under the incentive scheme for those winning medals in major international competitions. But the approved hike not only falls short of expectations but also does not ...

    Admission to Sports Hostel of Excellence
    MADURAI, APRIL 1. The Sports Development Authority of Tamil Nadu invites applications for the admission in the Sports Hostel of Excellence (SHE) at the Nehru Stadium in Chennai for 2004-2005 in the following disciplines: athletics, basketball, ...



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