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Following are the results of 11th day results held here today. 1st race: Ooty Plate 1100M: Dixie Chic (PB Nanaiah) 53.5 Arshad Alam first Spike 55 Irvan Singh second Black Horse 55 Chisty third Royal Commander 55 Prabhakaran fourth All Ran Won by: 1-3/4 ls, 3/4l and 3-3/4 ls Time: One min:06.42 seconds Tote: Rs 64 for win. Rs 12, Rs 20 and Rs 10 for places Favourite: Black Horse Winner trained by: Monnappa Forecast: Rs 981 Quinella: Rs 408 SHP: Rs 51 THP: Rs 94 Trinalla: 70 pct Rs 1,143 30 pct Rs 264 Exacta: 70 pct Rs 5,234 30 pct Rs 2,742.
Sangeeta meets B. Keshwa in opening tie of CCI snooker tourney
Thelone woman cueist in the fray, Sangeeta Hemchand of CCI, will take on B. Keshwa of the Goregaon Club in the opening round match of the CCI Open Snooker Championship 2018 here tomorrow. Two other cueists from CCI, Devesh Sharma and Rishabh Amin will also be seen in action on the first day of the Rs 12.25 lakh prize money tournament. Sharma will meet Sachin Bhoir of Thane in the morning while later in the day Amin will clash with Krishnam Vohra of Otters Club, a media release issued here said today. Meanwhile, leading players Aditya Mehta, Pankaj Advani, national champion Sumit Talwar of Chandigarh and runner-up Malkeet Singh of Railways, Yasin Merchant, Sonic Multani and the other top six ranked Indians have been directly seeded in the round of 32. In the initial rounds, matches will be played on four tables and in four sessions with the first starting at 10 A.M and the last at 4.30 P.M. The tournament, which is the richest prize-money event in the country, has ...
Hockey trials at MHAL tomorrow onwards
The Mumbai Hockey Association Ltd (MHAL) will be conducting trials to select the Mumbai team to participate in the forthcoming 8th Hockey India Senior National Hockey Championship, to be held at Lucknow from March 15 to 25. The selection trials will be held at the MHAL Mahindra Stadium from February 1 to 3 at 4 PM. Interested players are requested to attend the selection trials along with their playing kits, a media release issued here said today.
India favourites to lift U-19 World Cup trophy: Ganguly
Former captain Sourav Ganguly today tipped India as the favourites to win the Under-19 World Cup final against Australia on Saturday. India crushed arch-rivals Pakistan by 203 runs yesterday to set up a summit clash against Australia on February 3 at Mount Maunganui in New Zealand. "India (will win U-19 World Cup). U-19 team is playing very well. There are immensely talented boys like Prithwi Shaw, Shubman Gill, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Ishan Porel are players who have come up from the BCCI system. Our Board members have invested time to prepare them from the junior, under-19 and senior level," Ganguly said. "You can't make players without structure. They are product of our system. In the next five years, barring Australia and England, Indian cricket will be the best in the world," he told reporters on the sidelines of the release of the 20th edition of Shelly's Cricket Year Book. Ganguly was full of praise for Bengal youngsters Ishan Porel and Kanishk Seth who ...
Putin says exclusion of Russian athletes from Olympic Games
President Vladimir Putin today denounced as "strange" the exclusion of Russian athletes from the upcoming Pyeongchang Winter Olympics over alleged state- sponsored doping. "For us certain things are truly strange," Putin said in televised remarks as he spoke to the country's team ahead of the Games starting February 9 in South Korea.
ISL: Mumbai, Jamshedpur to lock horns with eye on play-offs
Mumbai City FC and Jamshedpur FC will lock horns in a crucial Indian Super League (ISL) clash for a "prize worth winning" at the Mumbai Football Arena, on Thursday.Jamshedpur and Mumbai City are placed fifth and sixth, respectively on the points table and are well aware that a victory for either team will boost their chances of qualification and significantly reduce the chances of the other from moving ahead. It is a straight battle for the semi-final slot and nobody wants to leave anything to chance."You saw how in Jamshedpur, we had a 2-2 result. Both teams wanted to win and the same will be true tomorrow. The prize is worth winning tomorrow and both sides will be very much trying to win," said Jamshedpur FC coach Steve Coppell.Jamshedpur are placed fifth with 19 points from 13 matches and can displace FC Goa from their fourth spot, even though the Goan club would have played two matches less.Coppell disagreed with suggestions that it is a do-or-die clash but agreed that a win can ..
DSport to air Major League Soccer 2018 season
Football lovers in India can tune in to DSport for live action from Major League Soccer season 2018 that kicks off on February 21, the channel said on Wednesday.
Mumbai City, Jamshedpur face-off in crucial ISL contest (Preview)
Mid-table teams Mumbai City FC and Jamshedpur FC lock horns in a crucial Hero Indian Super League (ISL) battle at the Mumbai Football Arena here on Thursday.
Cannot judge players based on IPL value, says Ganguly
A cricketer should not be judged on the basis of how much he fetches in the Indian Premier League (IPL) as the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament is based on "demand and supply", feels former India captain Sourav Ganguly.
Ton-up Mominul powers Bangladesh to 374-4 on day one
Mominul Haque hit a towering century to help Bangladesh take opening day honours in the first Test against Sri Lanka in Chittagong on Wednesday. Mominul hit an unbeaten 175 as the hosts reached 374-4 at stumps after electing to bat first at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium. The left-hander shared a 236-run third-wicket stand with former captain Mushfiqur Rahim, who fell just short of his fifth Test hundred after scoring 92 off 192 balls. Skipper Mahmudullah Riyad, on nine, was batting alongside Mominul when stumps were drawn at the start of the two-match series. Suranga Lakmal struck with the second new ball to claim two wickets off successive deliveries and give Sri Lanka some respite late into the final session. Lakmal, who returned figures of 2-43, forced Mushfiqur to edge behind the stumps after the batsman had struck 10 fours in his relatively sedate innings. The medium-pacer bowled Liton Das for a duck with the next ball, which swung late to uproot the off-stump ...
Mary Kom in final, Shiva, Manoj upstaged in semis
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom advanced to the final but Shiva Thapa and Manoj Kumar settled for bronze medals after upset semifinal losses in the India Open boxing tournament for men and women here today. Seeded 12th, Mary Kom (48kg) was up against a rather gritty Mongolian Altansetseg Lutsaikhan. But the five-time world and Asian champion gained the upper hand with her aggressive approach in the first two rounds. The Manipuri did seem drained in the final three minutes but managed to connect just enough blows to come up trumps. Mary Kom will face Philippine's Josie Gabuco who sent second seed and local favourite Monika packing with a dominating performance. However, there was a major upset in the men's draw when world and Asian medallist Shiva (60kg), seeded top in his category, settled for a bronze after going down in a unanimous verdict to fellow Indian Manish Kaushik. Both the boxers fought hard in a bout fought on counter- attack but Manish got the judges' ..
Expect India to improve on poor ODI record in SA: Du Plessis
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis today acknowledged that it will be tough to beat India in the six-match ODI series starting tomorrow and said the visitors' poor record here in the 50-over format will not be much of a factor. India have only won 5 out of 27 ODIs they have played against South Africa in South Africa, have never won a bilateral series here or indeed beaten South Africa at Durban in ODI cricket. "I think it (the poor record) tells a story. It means that there is something difficult for touring teams to come here and get accustomed to. But as I mentioned before the Test series, I feel like this Indian cricket team has got the names on paper to challenge that and get some victories in South Africa. "They have proved that in the Test series and they are a quality team. So I expect the same (challenge and intensity) in the ODIs coming up," said du Plessis on Wednesday. South Africa won the Test series 2-1, but the Indian bowlers gave a good account of ...
England retain Jake Ball as T20I cover
Pacer Jake Ball has been retained in the England T20I squad as a cover for fellow fast bowlers Liam Plunkett and Chris Jordan for the upcoming tri-series against Australia and New Zealand.Both Jordan and Plunkett have been battling with hamstring injuries ahead of England's opening match against Australia in Hobart on February 7 and are most likely to miss the side's warm-up match against Prime Minister's XI at Manuka Oval in Canberra on Friday.Plunkett sustained a hamstring strain during the third ODI of the five-match series against Australia and was subsequently forced to miss the last two games as England sealed the series by 4-1.Jordan, on the other hand, had been featuring in T20s in New Zealand's Burger King Super Smash competition, but he is also carrying a hamstring injury,ESPNcricinfo reported.Ball, who is yet to play an international T20 match, will continue to stay on as cover and could play at Manuka Oval if England want to rest one of their remaining seamers--Mark Wood, .
Ganguly confident of India winning U-19 World Cup
Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly on said Wednesday said the Under-19 squad would win the ICC World Cup beating Australia in the final.
Chelsea sign Roma left-back Emerson
English football champions Chelsea have announced the signing of left-back Emerson Palmieri from AS Roma for 20 million euros ($24.90 million).
Arsenal sign Dortmund striker Aubameyang
Arsenal have boosted their attacking line-up with the signing of Gabonese striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang from Borussia Dortmund for a reported transfer fee of 60 million pounds ($84.9 million), the London football giants announced on Wednesday.
JVPG Anirudh Desai All India Open Tennis tourney from Feb 5
Leading Indian players would take part in the ATP Ranking Men's and Women's Rs 22 lakh JVPG Anirudh Desai All India Open Tennis Championship to held here from February 5 to 11. Matches will be held in different categories- men's singles, men's doubles, women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, the organisers said at a press conference here today. The tournament will be held at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana Club, which has organised it. In the men's singles, defending champion Sidharth Rawat from Uttar Pradesh (rank 7) is the top seeded player, while Pune's 24-year-old Arjun Kadhe, who is ranked 10, is seeded second. Kadhe has won one ITF Futures singles title and two ITF Futures doubles titles in 2017. Current national champion Dalwinder Singh and runner up Suraj Prabodh will also take part in the tournament. In the women's singles, Mahak Jain from Madhya Pradesh, who is ranked seventh is the top seeded as defending champion Riya Bhatia, who is ranked fifth has .
Hockey India names 21 players for Junior women's national camp
Hockey India (HI) on Wednesday named 21 players for the Junior womens national camp starting Thursday at the Eklavya Sports Stadium in Agra.
Mary Kom in final, Shiva upstaged in semis
Five-time world champion M C Mary Kom advanced to the final but Shiva Thapa settled for a bronze medal after an upset semifinal loss in the India Open boxing tournament for men and women here today. Seeded 12th, Mary Kom (48kg) was up against a rather gritty Mongolian Altansetseg Lutsaikhan. But the five-time world and Asian champion gained the upper hand with her aggressive approach in the first two rounds. The Manipuri did seem drained in the final three minutes but managed to connect just enough blows to come up trumps. Mary Kom will face Philippine's Josie Gabuco. Gabuco sent second seed and local favourite Monika packing with a dominating performance. However, there was a major upset in the men's draw when world and Asian medallist Shiva (60kg), seeded top in his category, settled for a bronze after going down in a unanimous verdict to fellow Indian Manish Kaushik. Both the boxers fought hard in a bout fought on counter- attack but Manish got the judges' nod for ...
India eye early momentum in ODI series vs Proteas (Preview)
After losing the three-Test rubber 1-2, India will be eager to bounce back when they face South Africa in the opener of the six-match One-day International (ODI) series here on Thursday.