Sport Events in 1998
1st Jan
Tennis great Helen Wills Moody, who won eight Wimbledon titles, passes away in California. She was 92.
5th Jan
Australia's leg-spinner Shane Warne claims his 300th Test wicket in the second Test against South Africa at Sydney.
9th Jan
Russia's Anatoly Karpov beats India's Viswanathan Anand in the final to retain the FIDE world chess title in Lausanne.
10th Jan
Geet Sethi retains National billiards title in Calcutta.
17th Jan
Devendra Joshi bags National snooker title in Calcutta. PSCB men and Bengal women retain National table tennis team title at Jammu.
18th Jan
Indian cricket team wins three-nation Independence Cup in Dhaka beating Pakistan in the final.
20th Jan
Chetan Baboor, for the third consecutive time, and Kasturi Chakraborthy emerge winners of the men's and women's titles in the National table tennis championship in Jammu. India wins the Rashid international volleyball tournament for the third consecutive year at Dubai beating UAE Senior in a five-setter.
24th Jan
Dingko Singh emerges `best boxer'; Railways regains honours in the National boxing championship in Ambala.
30th Jan
The first Test between West Indies and England at the Sabina Park (Jamaica) was abandoned 66 minutes into the opening day with the umpires ruling the pitch unfit for play. England was 17 for three in 10.1 overs.
31st Jan
Martina Hingis retains Australian Open women's singles title, beating Conchita Martinez in the final. North Zone wins Deodhar Trophy, beating East by 44 runs at Panaji.
1st Feb
Petr Korda wins Australian Open men's singles title, beating Marcelo Rios in the final. England wins under-19 cricket World Cup, beating New Zealand in the final at Johannesburg. V. Anand shares Hoogovens chess title with Vladimir Kramnik in Wijk Aan Zee.
4th Feb
Bihar men, Railway women emerge National basketball champions in Ludhiana. Railways makes it a double in the National badminton team championship in Hyderabad. South African wicketkeeper Dave Richardson announces his retirement at Adelaide.
9th Feb
Aparna Popat and Gopi Chand win the women's and men's titles in the National badminton championship in Hyderabad.
15th Feb
Paes-Bhupathi duo wins doubles title at Dubai Open, beating American pair of Don Johnson and Francisco Montana 6-2, 7-5.
16th Feb
Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league encounter in Chennai comes to an abrupt halt with Delhi skipper and batsman Ajay Sharma sighting boot marks short of the good length area.
17th Feb
Delhi-Tamil Nadu Ranji Trophy super-league match in Chennai was abandoned owing to pitch-tampering.
21st Feb
BCCI bans Tamil Nadu and Delhi from the remaining Ranji Trophy season for bringing the game into disrepute.
23rd Feb
Former Indian Test cricketer Raman Lamba dies in Dhaka, three days after being hit on the head while fielding.
1st Mar
India's Vikas Pandey and Tumpa Debnath emerge men's and women's all-around champions in the SAARC gymnastics championship at Allahabad.
7th Mar
India wins 2-0 at Karachi to square the hockey series, but Pakistan took the Habib Bank Trophy on goal-difference.
9th Mar
Viswanathan Anand wins the super category tournament at Linares.
10th Mar
India `A' beats Pakistan `A' by 58 runs in the fourth `Test' to clinch the rain-hit series 1-0 at Karachi.
14th Mar
China's Sun Jun and Ye Zhaoying bag the all-England Open badminton men's and women's titles at Birmingham.
15th Mar
Pakistan `A' clinches the three-match one-day series 2-0 against India `A', winning the second match at Lahore by six wickets. Abhijit Kunte wins the Indian Independence Golden Jubilee Grandmaster chess tournament at Kozhikode. Feroz Ali wins Indian Open golf championship at Calcutta.
17th Mar
Pakistan `A' makes it a clean sweep over India `A', winning the third one-day match at Karachi by 170 runs. World No. 1 Mike Russell wins the World Matchplay billiards championship at Liverpool, beating Peter Gilchrist 8-5.
22nd Mar
Aparna Popat wins French Open badminton title at Halle Carpentier, Paris, beating Katja Michalowsky of Germany 11-8, 11- 4. Mohun Bagan emerges National Football League champion at Calcutta.
24th Mar
Former New Zealand cricket captain Lee Germon announces his retirement from first class cricket in Rangiora (NZ). Mumbai retains Wills Trophy at Lucknow.
26th Mar
Pakistan wins the eight-match Pepsi Friendship hockey series against India 4-3 after winning the Chennai Test 2-0.
28th Mar
Australia wins final Test at Bangalore, but India bags the Gavaskar-Border Trophy in the three-Test series 2-1.
5th Apr
Italy beats India 4-1 in the Davis Cup World Group first round at Genoa.
12th Apr
Patrick Rafter wins Gold Flake Open singles beating Mikael Tillstrom; Paes-Bhupathi duo retains doubles crown outlasting Oliver Delaitre and Max Mirnyi in Chennai.
14th Apr
Australia beats India in the final of the tri-nation one-day series at Delhi. Zimbabwe was the third team.
15th Apr
Punjab men and Railways women emerge champions in the National Volleyball League in Patna.
19th Apr
Jaspal Rana bags maiden rapid fire pistol title on the concluding day of the National shooting championship in Delhi. Railways wins Guru Dutt Trophy in the inter-State bridge championship at Kochi.
21st Apr
West Bengal pair of Mukherjee and Saha takes the pairs event for the Agarwala Trophy in the inter-State bridge championship which concluded at Kochi. China's Xu Yuhua wins the Asian women's chess championship in Kuala Lumpur. Kenya's Moses Tanui wins Boston marathon.
23rd Apr
Karnataka regains the Ranji Trophy beating Uttar Pradesh on first innings at Bangalore. South Africa wins Standard Bank tri- series, beating Pakistan by nine wickets in the final at Cape Town. Sri Lanka was the third team.
24th Apr
India wins the Coca Cola Cup at Sharjah, beating Australia by six wickets in the final.
27th Apr
Bengal beats Goa 1-0 to win the Santosh Trophy in the National football championship for the fifth time in a row at Guwahati. Former Test cricketer and chairman of the National selection committee Ramakant Desai passes away in Mumbai.
3rd May
Former Asian Games shot put champion Joginder Singh passes away in Delhi.
4th May
Punjab Police men and Indian Railways women emerge triumphant in the Federation Cup volleyball championship at Chalakudi.
5th May
John Higgins triumphs at Embassy World snooker championship, beating Ken Doherty in the final at Sheffield.
12th May
GM Dibyendu Barua regains National `A' chess title in Muzaffarpur.
17th May
Leander-Mahesh duo lifts the Italian Open doubles title at Rome, beating Rick Leach and Ellis Ferreira in the final.
20th May
Tejas Bakre wins boys' title and IWM S. Vijayalakshmi takes silver in the Asian junior chess championship in Rasht, Iran.
22nd May
Viswanathan Anand triumphs in the 7th Torneo Magistral chess tournament in Madrid.
23rd May
China wins Uber Cup beating defending champion Indonesia in the final in Hong Kong.
24th May
Indonesia retains Thomas Cup, beating Malaysia in the final of the world men's team badminton championship in Hong Kong. New Zealand men and women win the Asian beach volleyball championships in Mumbai.
31st May
Australian women retain hockey World Cup title at Utrecht. India win the Coca-Cola tri-series, beating Kenya by nine wickets in the final at Calcutta. Bangladesh was the third team in the fray.
1st Jun
The Netherlands bags men's title in the hockey World Cup at Utrecht.
6th Jun
Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario wins French Open title beating Monica Seles in the final.
7th Jun
Carlos Moya wins men's title at the French Open, defeating Alex Corretja in the final.
8th Jun
Indian athlete Shiny Wilson calls it a day at Chennai.
14th Jun
S. Vijayalakshmi wins National women's `A' chess title in Mumbai.
19th Jun
Viswanathan Anand retains Frankfurt chess classic title.
1st Jul
Hockey Olympian V. J. Peter passes away in Chennai.
4th Jul
Jana Novotna wins the Wimbledon women's title, beating Nathalie Tauziat in the final.
5th Jul
Pete Sampras wins his fifth Wimbledon men's crown, beating Goran Ivanisevic in the final.
7th Jul
India wins Singer-Akai Nidahas Trophy, defeating Sri Lanka by six runs in the final at Colombo. New Zealand was the third team in the fray.
12th Jul
Leander Paes wins his first ATP singles title, beating Neville Godwin (South Africa) in the final of the Hall of Fame tennis championship in Newport.
13th Jul
Host France wins the soccer World Cup, beating Brazil in the final.
19th Jul
Tejas Bakre wins under-16 chess title at the World Youth Games in Moscow.
22nd Jul
India's 4x100m quartet of Saraswati Dey, E.B. Shyla, P.T. Usha and Rachita Mistry win gold in the Asian athletic championships at Fukuoka.
26th Jul
Renowned athlete Joyner-Kersee bids adieu at Edwardsville.
14th Aug
New Zealand Test batsman Mark Greatbatch announces his retirement from first class cricket at Wellington.
20th Aug
Leander Paes beats World No. 2 Pete Sampras 6-3, 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Pilot Pen ATP championship in New Haven.
27th Aug
India's cricket sensation Sachin Tendulkar, has an audience with the legend, Sir Don Bradman, at the latter's 90th birthday celebrations in Adelaide.
29th Aug
Sachin Tendulkar receives the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award; Joginder Singh Saini, the Dronacharya award, while several other leading sporstmen receive Arjuna awards from President, K.R. Narayanan in Delhi.
31st Aug
Muthiah Muralitharan bags nine wickets for match-figures of 16 for 220 in the one-off Test at the Oval to help Sri Lanka to its first Test win against England. He is the third to have captured 16 wickets in a Test match (Bob Massie and Hirwani were the others). Only Jim Laker (19 wickets) and Syd Barnes (17) have captured more.
6th Sep
Cuba claims top spot in the World women's Grand Prix volleyball championship in Chennai.
8th Sep
Sebastian Xavier equals Asian championship record in the 50m freestyle (22.89 s) in the National aquatic championship in Bangalore.
9th Sep
Karnataka claims overall championship while Richa Misra (Delhi) and Kailash Nath (Services) the women's and men's individual titles in the senior National aquatic championships in Bangalore.
12th Sep
Lindsay Davenport wins her maiden Grand Slam title, beating defending champion Martina Hingis in the U.S. Open.
13th Sep
Patrick Rafter retains the U.S. Open men's singles title, beating Mark Philippoussis in the final.
20th Sep
India loses the fifth and final match of the Sahara Cup by five wickets and Pakistan wins the series 4-1 at Toronto.
21st Sep
American sprinter, Olympic star and 100m & 200m women's world record holder Florence Griffith Joyner dies of a seizure in Los Angeles. She was 38. India, with seven gold, 10 silver and eight bronze medals, came seventh in the final medal standings of the 16th Commonwealth Games which concluded at Kuala Lumpur.
26th Sep
Sachin Tendulkar's 127 not out against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo makes him the world record holder for the highest number of centuries (18) in limited overs internationals.
27th Sep
Britain beats India 3-2 in the Davis Cup World Group qualifying tie at Nottingham.
30th Sep
Geet Sethi wins his fourth World Professional billiards title, beating Mike Russell in Ahmedabad. Zimbabwe wins the final one-day match at Harare, but India triumphs 2-1 in the three- match Hero Honda Cup series.
5th Oct
Ranji champion Karnataka claims Irani Trophy, beating Rest of India on first innings at Bangalore.
6th Oct
Railways wins the BOB-senior National hockey championship for women, defeating Haryana in the final at Chennai.
10th Oct
Uzma Khan and Nitin Kirtane bag the women's and men's crowns in the National tennis championships in Delhi.
12th Oct
World No. 3 pair of Leander-Mahesh win the Shangai Open title, beating top-ranked duo of Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in the final.
28th Oct
Former Indian cricket captain Ghulam Ahmed passes away in Hyderabad.
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.
6th Dec
13th Asian Games inaugurated at Bangkok.
7th Dec
West Indies `A' wins second `Test' at Chennai and the two- `Test' series against India `A' 2-0.
13th Dec
Saheli Barua is crowned National women's `B' chess champion in Chennai.
14th Dec
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar bags India's first gold in the 13th Asian Games at Bangkok, winning the women's 1,500m.
15th Dec
Indian kabaddi team makes it a hat-trick of gold medals since the sport's introduction at the Asian Games. West Indies `A' wins the third one-day in Mumbai and the three-match series against India `A' 2- 1.
17th Dec
Jyotirmoyee bags her second gold at the Asian Games, winning the women's 800m. Rosakutty finishes second. Bantamweight pugilist Dingko Singh clinches a gold while Indian pair of Sethi- Shandilya strikes top prize in billiards doubles category.
19th Dec
Goalie Ashish Ballal stars as Indian hockey team triumphs at the Asian Games after a gap of 32 years. Ashok Shandilya wins gold in singles billiards, beating Geet Sethi in the final.
20th Dec
Curtains come down on Bangkok Asiad, India finishes ninth with seven gold, 11 silver and 17 bronze.
21st Dec
Central Zone retains Duleep Trophy, defeating West at Aurangabad.
24th Dec
Prime Minister A. B. Vajpayee announces increased cash awards for Asian Games medallists.