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Cricket
Agarkar trying hard to find his way back
BANGALORE, AUG. 23. Ajit Agarkar can excel as well as exasperate. The wiry Mumbai seamer was the fastest to get 50 wickets (23 matches) in one-day Internationals but his strike-rate slowed considerably later. He now has 174 wickets from 115 ODIs. ...

SPIC-TNCA to take on ONGC in semifinals
CHENNAI, AUG. 23. The semifinal line-up in the Sahara-Buchi Babu all-India invitation tournament is complete with SPIC-TNCA, ONGC, Railways and Indian Airlines progressing to the next stage. On the third and final day of the quarterfinal duels ...

Tennis

Rupesh and Sandhya emerge champions
CHENNAI, AUG. 23. It was not the way Saurabh Kohli or any of the few present at the stands would have wanted the match to end. Against the top seed Rupesh Roy of West Bengal, the second seed from Mumbai played an aggressive first set, before ...

Rushmi and Sai win
NEW DELHI, AUG. 23. Top-seeded Rushmi Chakravarthi and Sai Jayalakshmy defeated I-Hsuan Hwang of Chinese Taipei and Varanya Vijuksanaboon of Thailand 6-0, 6-0 to win the doubles title in the $10,000 ITF women's circuit tennis tournament in ...

Hockey
Goal rush at Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM, AUG. 23. In a fascinating puzzle that is the Silver Jubilee Champions Trophy here, India bounced back to the threshold of a podium finish engaging Pakistan in another contest for the bronze on Sunday. What brought about this ...

Air India thrashes Rajasthan
LUCKNOW, AUG. 23. Air India raised its stakes a few notches in one of the toughest of eight groups with a 20-0 whipping of Rajasthan, in the 52nd women's National hockey championship at the Dhyan Chand Stadium here on Saturday. Strikers H. ...

It's TN vs. Karnataka
CHITTOOR, AUG. 23.Defending champion Tamil Nadu outplayed Pondicherry 3-1 in the semifinals to set up a title clash with last year's runner-up Karnataka which scored a 3-0 win over host Andhra in the Nutrine Mahalacto 18th senior South Zone ...

Athletics

Suriya, Anitcham hog the limelight
CHENNAI, AUG. 23. Two Tamil Nadu girls, L. Suriya in the under-18 section and A. Anitcham in the under-16 section, were the cynosure of all eyes at the Nehru stadium on Saturday, the second day of the South Zone junior athletic championshi, ...

Chess

Xue bails out Humpy, Harika loses to Vijayalakshmi
KOZHIKODE, AUG. 23. Staring at defeat, Koneru Humpy escaped to victory against China's Zhoa Xue in the seventh round of the 10th Asian women's chess championship at Hotel Taj Residency on Saturday. The lucky win also gave the top seed from ...

Harikrishna loses
ABU DHABI, AUG. 23.Grandmaster P. Harikrishna suffered a shocking defeat against Russia's Leksandr Poluljahov and slipped to joint eighth position after the sixth round of the Masters Section of the 13th Abu Dhabi chess festival in progress here. ...

Golf

Arjun Singh triumphs
CHENNAI, AUG. 23. The suave Delhi pro Arjun Singh played championship golf like bingo with all the numbers in his pocket as he shot a superb eight-under 64 on the last day to win the TNGF-KONE Open tournament on Saturday. After leading for ...

Volleyball
Tactical mistakes do India in
TEHRAN, AUG. 23. A tense atmosphere and some tactical mistakes saw India, despite taking a lead in the first set, lose to Germany 23-25, 15-25, 13-25 in Pool B of the12th World junior men's volleyball championship at the Azadi sports complex here ...

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