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Cricket
Men like Miandad never go away
Pakistan cricket has had more coaches than a coal train. Javed Miandad has paid the anticipated price for the narrow defeats his team suffered at the hands of the Indians. Since Sourav Ganguly's side had held the Australians on their own patch ...

North keeps winning
VISAKHAPATNAM, JUNE 19. North Zone — winner of the last edition of the all-India inter-zone junior women (under-19) cricket tournament — recorded its second win in as many matches, beating Central by 56 runs here on Saturday. North, ...

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Thrilling win for Air-India

Intelligroup posts win

Rajesh scalps six

Opener's role shouldn't be thrust on anyone: Dravid

Narrow win for Pro-Tec

Delhi Blues defeats Rani Bagh

RR Gymkhana in quarterfinals

Probables for Asia Cup to be announced today

Semifinalists spotted

Chandan shines

Tennis
Final put off with Vinod leading
NEW DELHI, JUNE 19. The third-seeded Vinod Sridhar led 3-1 against the fifth-seeded Vishaal Uppal when rain stopped play in the final of the second leg in the ITF Satellite tennis circuit at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday. Referee Puneet ...

Chance for Williams siblings to reassert supremacy
LONDON, JUNE 19.Like `Ol' Blue Eyes' Frank Sinatra, the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus, have always believed in doing things their own way. In the event, it was hardly a surprise that the two women who have featured in successive Wimbledon ...

Kuznetsova, Srichaphan triumph
EASTBOURNE, JUNE 19.Russia's Svetlana Kuznetsova rallied to beat Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 2-6, 7-6(2), 6-4 in the final of the Eastbourne grass-court tournament on Saturday and capture her first title of the year. Kuznetsova's title win ...

Ranjeet Velmurugan closer to qualifying
NEW DELHI, JUNE 19. Ranjeet Velmurugan defeated Jaume Barberan-Miguel of Spain 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 to move into the third and final qualifying round of the third leg in the ITF Satellite tennis circuit at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday. With the ...

Navaneetha Kannan, Isha Toor triumph
GURGAON, JUNE 19. Navaneetha Kannan of Tamil Nadu and Isha Toor of Chandigarh won the boys and girls titles respectively in the AITA Super Series tennis tournament at the NTA Complex here on Saturday. The results ...

Coetzer retires
WASHINGTON, JUNE 19. Former top 10 player Amanda Coetzer of South Africa retired on Friday after a 16-year tennis career in which she won nine singles and nine doubles titles. The 32-year-old reached a career-best ranking of No. 3 in 1997, when ...

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Fariz and Grace corner glory

Varun pips Sumukha

Gopinath, Sushma triumph

Hockey

SAI posts win

Football
Sweden's gamble pays off
PORTO, JUNE 19. Italy is on the brink of early elimination again after allowing an 85th-minute equaliser by Sweden's Zlatan Ibrahimovic in a 1-1 Group `C' draw at the European Championship on Friday. Customarily a tightly defensive team that ...

New chapter in old tale of Iberian rivalry
LISBON, JUNE 19. Spain and Portugal once fought for control of the world's oceans. On Sunday it will be about Euro 2004 survival. The two nations' meet in Lisbon in an encounter which has all the hallmarks of a final. The winner will book a ...

Italy not to appeal Totti's ban
PORTO, JUNE 19. Italy's star striker Francesco Totti will not appeal the three-match suspension he received from UEFA for spitting in the face of a Danish opponent in the Euro 2004 Group `C' opener, the team said on Friday. Italy had until ...

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Croatia deserved better

Denmark too good for Bulgaria

Vellore enters final

Latha Mathavan, American College in title round

Big win for MSU

Archery
Indian women miss bronze
KOLKATA, JUNE 19.The Indian women's team, raising visions of creating history, dramatically lost the bronze medal to sixth ranked Poland by just two points in the third place play-off of the German Grand Prix archery championship at Wyhl on ...

Athletics

Megashyam is fastest man

Basketball

Mary Immaculate and SJIHS triumph

Billiards & Snooker

India takes unbeatable lead

Chess
Visweswaran puts it across Prasad
VIJAYAWADA, JUNE 19.K. Visweswaran of Tamil Nadu is always known in the chess circles as one capable of upsetting the higher-rated players and he lived up to that by outwitting seasoned campaigner and double-GM norm holder D.V. Prasad (PSCB) in a ...

Golf
Mickelson and Maruyama tied for the lead
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 20. Phil Mickelson looked like the man to beat in the U.S. Open with a flawless round of 4-under 66 at Shinnecock Hills that left the Masters champion tied with Shigeki Maruyama and in great position to capture the second leg of ...

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Keshav Hingorani triumphs

Racing : Motor
Barrichello fastest in uneventful practice
INDIANAPOLIS, JUNE 19. Rubens Barrichello posted the fastest times in both the morning and afternoon sessions on Friday on the first day of practice for the United States Grand Prix. Ferrari teammate and six-time world champ Michael Schumacher ...

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McRae makes merry

P3 for Narain at Valencia

Shooting

Final continues to elude Anjali

Sports : General

India to play Sri Lanka

World amateur body-building meet in November

Sakharkar to lead India

Table Tennis

Jitender, Revathy win titles

Kamal to lead Indian challenge

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