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Cricket
Sehwag scintillates
NEW DELHI, JUNE 5.They came in large numbers, some of them leaving their home at the crack of dawn. Just as Virender Sehwag, who drove 40 kilometres from distant Najafgarh to report for the Lala Raghhubir Singh memorial cricket tournament ...

Umpires told to root out chucking
MUMBAI, JUNE 5. India's umpires have been told to root out the menace of `chucking' at the junior level and bring about a qualitative improvement in the supervision of the game in the tournaments run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India ...

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England hits back aggressively

Unbeaten century by Tanmay

King happy with Indian players' fitness

Harbhajan not to play for English club

Sai Teja scalps six

Bangladesh frustrates Windies

K.G. Colts posts win

Sasikiran to clash with Kritz

Easy win for Dravid XI

Tumkur posts win

Siddharth Sahni shines

Tennis
Memorable day for Myskina
PARIS, JUNE 5.Anastasia Myskina became the first Russian woman to claim a Grand Slam title, taking advantage of shaky play by compatriot Elena Dementieva to win 6-1, 6-2 on Saturday at the French Open. With unspectacular but steady tennis, the ...

Rushmi wins second successive title
NEW DELHI, JUNE 5. The top-seeded Rushmi Chakravarthi asserted her authority yet again, as she won her second successive singles crown in the $10,000 ITF women's tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday. With a clinical 6-4, 6-4 ...

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Anushree claims double crown

A tough trainer

Atsufumi overcomes Anjan Viplav

Nutrine AITA tournament from Monday

Muralikrishnan finishes runner-up

Hockey

Jharkhand, Haryana in last eight

Football

Trapattoni hoping to make history

3-0 win for Delhi Audit

Athletics
Harishankar Rai sets National mark
KOLKATA, JUNE 5. Harishankar Rai set a new national mark of 2.20 metres in high jump in the 54th West Bengal State amateur athletics championship here on Saturday. The 18-year-old, an employee of the Eastern Railway, erased the old record of ...

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Karthikeyan, Arockiadas bag honours

Basketball

T.N. basketball teams

Siddarth, Amulya named captains

Billiards & Snooker
Smooth start for Yasin
AQABA, JUNE 5.Yasin Merchant, a two-time champion and the only Indian on view on the opening day of the 20th Asian snooker championship, streaked to a 4-0 win in just over an hour against a hapless Le Dung of Vietnam in a Group G encounter on ...

Chess
Tamil Nadu `A' in lead
PUNE, JUNE 5. With the bigger teams struggling to strike big, Tamil Nadu `A' sneaked into the lead after an eventful fourth round of the IOC-KPIT Cummins National team chess championship at the Manohar Mangal Karyalaya hall here on Saturday. ...

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Stefanova claims World title

Sports : General

Divya sets two records

Swimming

Gayatri, Apoorva make a splash

Table Tennis

Ghai, Neha bag titles

Title for Ch.S.V. Ramana

World View
Cuthbert carries Olympic torch into MCG
MELBOURNE: Betty Cuthbert carried the Olympic flame into the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Saturday as the torch visited a second former Games venue on its international relay. Cuthbert collected three gold medals at the 1956 ...

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