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Cricket

Kallis spells England's doom
LEEDS, AUG. 25. South Africa needed only 50 minutes and 70 balls to wrap up victory against England by 191 runs at Headingley on Monday. It leads 2-1 in the series and no-one expects a result at the Oval when the fifth Test begins in ten days. ...

Sehwag, Harbhajan, Nehra to miss Challenger Series
BANGALORE, AUG. 25. The injured trio of Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh and Ashish Nehra will miss the Challenger Series one-dayers here from September 10 to 14. The BCCI secretary Mr. S.K. Nair while announcing the teams declared that the three ...

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Kartik biding his time for a comeback

BCCI officials to meet players on contract issue

Tennis
Russian girls add flavour at U.S. Open
NEW YORK, AUG. 25. No Serena Williams. No Venus Williams. No Anna Kournikova. No problem. A sexy set of Russian teen tennis talent is riding to the rescue of the U.S. Open. With supermodel looks and some skills on the court as well, the blonde ...

Hockey

Orissa prevails over Chandigarh
LUCKNOW, AUG. 25. Orissa booked a challenging quarterfinal against holders Railways when it defeated Chandigarh 4-2 in a stimulating final pool `C' league match, in the women's National hockey championship at the Dhyanchand Stadium here on ...

Athletics
Tikhon takes hammer title
PARIS, AUG. 25. Ivan Tikhon won the men's hammer title, Maurice Greene was out of the men's 100m final line-up and triple jump world record holder Jonathan Edwards failed to go out in triumph. That was the story midway through the third evening ...

Chess
Harikrishna scores over Maherramzade
ABU DHABI, AUG. 25. Grandmaster P. Harikrishna defeated International Master Javad Maherramzade of Azerbaijan to move to the joint fifth position after the 8th round of the Masters section of Abu Dhabi Chess Festival here. Grandmaster Gabriel ...

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Junior National from tomorrow

Good day for Harika

Squash
Indian team in last eight
CHENNAI, AUG 25. The Indian team equalled its best performance till date by reaching the quarterfinal stage on Sunday in the team event of the World junior women's squash championship now in progress in Cairo. India beat Wales 3-0 and Germany 3-0 ...

Volleyball
Bulgaria shocks Italy
TEHERAN, AUG. 25. The 12th World junior men volleyball championship is hotting up. Bulgaria, a lowly placed team in the last European championship, heaped further humiliation on Italy by thrashing the Continental champion 25-21, 25-20, 25-17 in a ...