Sport Events in November 1998
1st Nov
South Africa wins the Wills International Cup at Dhaka, beating West Indies by four wickets in the final.
4th Nov
Viswanathan Anand wins the 3rd Fontys chess tournament at Tilburg. Paramjeet Singh upstages Milkha Singh's 38-year-old 400m record at the National open athletic championship at Calcutta.
6th Nov
Koneru Humpy wins the World under-12 girls' chess title in Oropesa del Mar, Spain. Azharuddin becomes the highest run-getter (displacing Desmond Haynes, 8648 runs) in LOI history in the Coca Cola cup, Sharjah.
8th Nov
Leander-Mahesh duo wins the doubles title at the Paris Indoor Open, beating top-seeds Jacco Eltingh & Paul Haarhuis of The Netherlands in the final.
13th Nov
Tendulkar blazes as India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Zimbabwe in the final.
15th Nov
Naresh & Girdhari Lal Yadav win the National Enterprise sailing championship in Mumbai.
16th Nov
Former Indian stumper Kiran More calls it a day from first class cricket at Baroda.
20th Nov
South African all-rounder Brian McMillan calls it a day at Cape Town.
21st Nov
India `B' beats Sri Lanka 3-2 in the final of the Bristol Freedom Cup four-nation football tournament in Colombo.
22nd Nov
Ritwik Bhattacharya of India and Nicol David of Malaysia win the men's and women's titles in the Asian Squash Federation junior circuit grand final in Delhi.
27th Nov
India retains the Asia Cup tennis championship in Delhi, beating Uzbekistan 2-1 in the final.
29th Nov
Kazakhstan IM Darmen Sadvaksov and WGM Hoang Thanh Trang of Vietnam win the boys' and girls' titles respectively in the World junior chess championship at Kozhikode. Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women emerge Federation Cup basketball champions at Berhampur, Orissa.