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Cricket

Warm welcome for Pakistan team
WAGAH, FEB. 18. A 12-member Pakistani team crossed the Wagah border this afternoon on way to Patiala to participate in a cricket match on Thursday against the Punjab Chief Minister's XI as part of the Patiala Heritage festival. Composed of ...

Pakistan gears up to counter `lefties'
LAHORE, FEB. 18. While the administration here is burning midnight oil devising a foolproof security cover for India during the historic tour starting next month, it's preparation time for the Pakistan cricket team too which sought the service of ...

Other Stories

Windies women's team to tour India

`BCCI chief should have taken Ganguly into confidence'

Central bounces back in style

Century by Boopesh

Cheruvatur, Kumar share the spoils

Sourashtra College in semifinals

Tennis

Widjaja and Salkic cause a flutter
HYDERABAD, FEB. 18. Two upsets marked the singles second round of the WTA-ING Vysya Hyderabad Open at the Sports Authority of Andhra complex here on Wednesday with the seventh and eighth seeds, Maria Elena Camerin and Lubomira Kurhajcova, making ...

Hockey
DAV storms into semifinals
NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. Defending champion DAV College, Jalandhar, announced its readiness for yet another title, as it overwhelmed Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Yamuna Nagar, 8-1 after leading 3-1 at the interval, in the quarterfinals of the ONGC Nehru ...

Football
Rennedy's penalty gives India full points
MARGAO, FEB. 18. For all the freedom of space and possession India enjoyed for the best part of the game, the clincher came only in the form of a Rennedy Singh penalty. On the weight of that 49th-minute opportunistic strike India sealed a 1-0 ...

Athletics

Kunjumol sets new mark
CHENNAI, FEB. 18. It was a virtual confluence of country's best athletes. But the opening day of the 69th all-India inter-railway athletics meet saw just one new meet record in at the Nehru stadium here on Wednesday. The day also witnessed the ...

Badminton
Indian women go down fighting
NEW DELHI, FEB. 18.The Indian women fought gallantly against Japan but went down 2-3 in a Group `A' league encounter at the Uber Cup Asian Zone (preliminaries) badminton tournament at Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday. In the men's Thomas Cup league ...

Billiards & Snooker
Alok Kumar pulls off a rare double
GWALIOR, FEB. 18.Alok Kumar accomplished an exceptional double with a 7-1 win against World champion Pankaj Advani, in the 70th National snooker championship at the Jiwaji University here on Wednesday. Tying down Advani with an over-cautious ...

Chess
Sasikiran scores an unexpected win
CHENNAI, FEB. 18. World No.39 ranked K. Sasikiran scored an expected first round victory over grandmaster Vladimir Kosyrev of Russia while the other Indians had a mixed opening day in the third Aeroflot Open chess tournament being played at Hotel ...

Linares tournament from today
NEW DELHI, FEB. 18. No other major title in the game gives Garry Kasparov more satisfaction than the one up for grabs at the Ciudad de Linares in Spain. In the words of a man, who has won it seven times, the event at Linares is the `Wimbledon of ...

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