Sport Events in March 1997

1st Mar

India under-19 team wins third `Test', claims three-`Test' series 2-0 in Matara.

Gopi Chand and P.V.V. Lakshmi retain individual titles and India takes team titles in SAARC badminton in Colombo.

India `A' blanks Sri Lanks 5-0 in the inaugural tennis `Tests' in Delhi.

5th Mar

Pravin Thipsay wins the United Insurance GM chess tournament in Dhaka.

6th Mar

Australian Craig Muleman claims maiden World Cup skeet shooting championship in Delhi.

8th Mar

Tamil Nadu men and Railways women emerge National basketball champions in Calcutta.

9th Mar

Mumbai takes Wills Trophy in Mohali.

10th Mar

West Indian batsman Desmond Haynes announces retirement in Cape Town.

12th Mar

Jaspal Rana equals World mark in standard pistol 25m (ISU) event in South Asian shooting in Delhi.

15th Mar

Dong Jiong and Ye Zhaoying win men's and women's singles titles in all-England open badminton.

16th Mar

JCT win Philips National football league in Margao.

17th Mar

New Zealand wins the second Test against Sri Lanka and takes the series 2-0.

Australia snatches victory in the second Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth and takes the series 2-0.

21st Mar

Geet Sethi regains Gold Flake Open billiards in Chennai.

Jockey Vasant Shinde retires.

Britons Richard Estaugh and Peter Dowley emerge overall winners in World enterprise sailing in Panaji.

22nd Mar

Etienne Bacrot of France, at 14 years, becomes the youngest chess Grand Master.

27th Mar

Punjab men and Railway women win National volleyball league in Tiruppur.

30th Mar

Briton Edward Fryatt wins Classic-Indian Open golf.