Veteran Alok Kumar and national snooker champion Manan Chandra were included among the probables for the 8-ball and 9-ball pool events at the Doha Asian Games in December.
They endured a disastrous run the last time around to finish at the bottom of the heap and Kings XI Punjab would be aiming to make amends this season when they begin their campaign against newbies Gujarat Lions in their IPL opener in Mohali on Monday. Kings XI Punjab did not make any big buys this year and have a new captain in South African David Miller in place of Australian George Bailey who was released after leading the side to the last place in the previous season. Virender Sehwag has also retired and he will serve as team mentor this season. The Preity Zinta-owned side continues to lack the team balance as it has not added any significant player, only snapping the likes of all-rounders Farhaan Behardien and Marcus Stoinis, seamer Mohit Sharma and left-arm spinner Swapnil Singh. Last season, their batsmen lacked consistency and whenever they did well, the bowlers let the side down. On the other hand, debutants Gujarat Lions have a balanced side with top-class performers in both batting and bowling. They have explosive batsmen in Brendon McCullum, captain Suresh Raina, Aaron Finch and a plenty of top-notch all-rounders in Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja and James Faulkner.
Defending champion Saina Nehwal sailed into the semi-finals of the US $700,000 China Open Super Series Premier after a straight games' victory over Japan's Nozomi Okuhara, at the Haixia Olympic Sports Centre, in Fuzhou, on Friday.
Pankaj Advani will lead the Indian challenge in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Jordan.
Pankaj Advani did the star turn as India 'A' beat Thailand in the semi-finals.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on table-toppers Sunrisers Hyderabad in another must-win Indian Premier League encounter
In the one-sided final, the Delhi cueist got the better of the reigning world amateur snooker champion.
Pacer Shardul Thakur had match figures of eight for 113 as Mumbai beat Delhi by 204 runs to enter the semi-finals of the Ranji Trophy.
Kings XI Punjab beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 22 runs in a rain-truncated Indian Premier League game in Mohali.
Pankaj Advani's India 'A' team went down crashing 2-7 to England at the World Snooker Team Championship.
India 'A' thrashed Isle of Man 3-0 in their inaugural match in the IBSF World Snooker Team Championship.
Zaheer Khan made an impressive comeback from a year-long hiatus complementing Nathan Coulter-Nile brilliantly as Delhi Daredevils spanked Kings XI Punjab by nine wickets in an Indian Premier League match on Friday.
The lawyers were allegedly shown influencing a witness of the BMW case in a sting operation.
Stuart Binny, who has lost his place in the Indian Test and ODI teams, struck his ninth first class hundred -- a blistering 156 -- as Karnataka grabbed a huge first innings lead over Assam on day three of their Group B Ranji Trophy match on Saturday.
Manan Chandra overcame maestro Geet Sethi 5-3 to win the snooker title of the Shivaji Park Gymkhana All India Open Invitation tournament
The victory got him a place in the snooker semi-final of the All India Open Invitation tournament on Saturday.
Fast running out of time, a struggling Rajasthan Royals will hope to complete the double against Mumbai Indians in a return-leg IPL fixture and revive their campaign in Jaipur Saturday.
The former world billiards champion registered a 5-3 win over Delhi's Harpreet Singh at the BPCL-ONGC 9-ball Pool Nationals.
Mumbai Indians lock horns with an out-of-sorts Rajasthan Royals in an IPL match in which home skipper Rohit Sharma's return from injury will also be awaited, in Mumbai, on Saturday.
They scored thumping victories over Yasin Marchant and Sarang Shroff respectively in the semi-finals of the National Snooker Championship.
Indian cueists upset favourites China 2-1 in the semi-finals of the Asian Open Invitational Snooker Championship.
India resisted Pakistan's challenge to win the 2005 Lawrencepur Snooker Challenge 39-38 at the Karachi Club
Defending champion Alok Kumar would be defending his title in the Asian Snooker championship.
The Railways cueist will take on World and Asian billiards champion Pankaj Advani in the semis of the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
A summary of the opening day's play from the Ranji Trophy matches at various venues across the country.
BCI Chairman Manan Kumar Mishra said in a letter that sparing such "rowdy elements" is tarnishing the image of the institution and it is the inaction and tolerance of bar bodies that encourage these advocates, which would ultimately result in "contempt proceedings by the high courts or Supreme Court".
Perennial under-achievers Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab will look to recover from opening losses and put their campaign back on track.
The 36-year-old Gambhir, who had captained Delhi in the Ranji Trophy for the past four seasons, expressed his desire to continue as a player.
Alok Kumar was blanked 0-4 by Australia's Steve Mifsud at the IBSF World Snooker championships.
They shocked Pankaj Advani and Ashok Shandilya respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.
Manan Chandra bowed out of the World Snooker championships after losing to Daniel Ward of England in the semi-final.
Both won their semi-final matches in the selection tournament.
Yasin Merchant will take on Alok Kumar in the other semi-final tomorrow to decide the second participant for the championship.
Wriddhiman Saha smashed a 55-ball 93 before the Kings XI Punjab pacers bowled an excellent spell in the death overs to help the visitors edge past Mumbai Indians by seven runs in a thrilling finish, in the Indian Premier League, in Mumbai, on Thursday.
The former was beaten in the pre-quarter-finals while Chandra lost in the last eight stage, in the Asian Snooker Championships.
The second seeded former world champion was beaten by Pramual Janthad in a league match in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
David Warner blasted a quickfire half-century before Sunrisers Hyderabad survived a sensational onslaught from David Miller to register a thrilling five-run victory against Kings XI Punjab and keep themselves in the hunt for a place in the play-offs of the Indian Premier League, in Hyderabad, on Monday.
The R Ashwin-led Kings XI slipped to the fifth spot after suffering back-to-back losses against Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore respectively. Overall, the hosts have registered four wins from eight matches this season.
Delhi's Manan Chandra and world No 1 woman cueist Kelly Fisher of England won the men's and women's titles respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.\n\n
'The most serious issue is that of shooting a lawyer in the chest. That news has been buried.'
