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Cricket BCCI looking to promote the game further KOLKATA, JUNE 1. Sports ministers and secretaries of 12 States and Union Territories where cricket is yet to get an organised look will meet here on Monday to chalk out plans to spread the game. Union Sports Minister Vikram Verma will also attend ... West Indies gets early breakthroughs ST. GEORGE'S (GRENADA), JUNE 1. Australia skipper Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat in the seventh and final one-day international against the West Indies on Sunday. The West Indies tasted early success when Matthew Hayden (8) was ... `India A team has enough opportunities' BANGALORE, JUNE 1. India A coach Sandeep Patil believes in starting afresh and grabbing opportunities. The former India cricketer, who coached Kenya to the World Cup semifinals believes that the A team will have enough opportunities to prove its ... Tennis 
Serena survives a Sugiyama scarePARIS, JUNE 1. Defending champion Serena Williams emerged unscathed from a first-set scare and a nasty spill to beat Japan's Ai Sugiyama 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday in the fourth round at the French Open. The match was much more arduous than Serena's ... A geographical dilemma PARIS, JUNE 1. Vera Zvonareva, the Russian 22nd seed who will face Venus Williams for a place in the women's quarterfinals, is caught on the horns of a geographical dilemma. The 18-year-old hails from Moscow but her coach Julia Kashevarova is ... Other Stories
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India fumbles in the final minutesPERTH, JUNE 1. On a sombre afternoon with a steady drizzle drenching the players, India tumbled from the threshold of victory to a tragic reverse conceding the equaliser and the match winner in the last five minutes of the tri-nation hockey ... Football AJ Auxerre takes French Cup PARIS, JUNE 1.AJ Auxerre fought back to beat 10-man Paris St. Germain 2-1 in the French Cup final thanks to late goals by striker Djibril Cisse and defender Jean-Alain Boumsong at the Stade de France on Saturday. The victory means Auxerre, ... Athletics 
Sri Lanka dominates showCOLOMBO, JUNE 1.Olympic medallist Susanthika Jayasinghe and Asian Games triple gold medallist Damayanthi Darsha won the women's 100-metre and 400-metre events respectively, as host Sri Lanka dominated the second leg of the Asian Grand Prix on ... Chess 
Nabeela makes the most of a Swati blunderKOZHIKODE, JUNE 1. A few weeks after the deadly Sars virus attacked Pune, another virus seems to have developed a liking for the city's residents. This one though apparently targets only female chess players. Eesha Karvade was its first victim. ... Aarthie loses CHENNAI, JUNE 1. National women's chess champion Aarthie Ramaswamy missed her chances in playing online games to lose the SARS Free Fifth Saturday Internet Chess Match to Wang Yu of China on Saturday. After losing with the white pieces in a ... Golf Sorenstam holds onto the lead AURORA, JUNE 1.Annika Sorenstam, angry with herself after three-putt bogeys on consecutive holes, birdied the last five holes to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic on Saturday. "I told my caddie, `I've ... Racing : Motor 
Montoya staves of a late surge by RaikkonenMONTE CARLO, JUNE 1. Juan Pablo Montoya held off a fast-closing Kimi Raikkonen to win the Monaco Grand Prix on Sunday. By just 0.6 seconds, Montoya won his second career Formula One race, following his first at the 2001 Italian Grand Prix. The ... No fear after crash, says Button MONACO, JUNE 1.Jenson Button can remember little about the crash that forced him to miss today's Monaco Grand Prix but the Briton has no fear about stepping back into a Formula One car. ``I've never really had a big accident in F-1 but it ... Swimming 
NLC takes overall honoursCHENNAI, JUNE 1. Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) with 824 points bagged the overall championship in the three-day Delphi-TVS 30th State junior and sub-junior swimming championship which concluded at the Velachery Aquatic Complex here on ... Read Today's supplements: | Life | Metro Plus | Business | Send: Comments to: thehindu@vsnl.com Letters to the Editor to: letters@thehindu.co.in with full postal address |
  
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