The fourth match of the ICL 20s World Series featured the resurgent ICL India team, fresh from a fantastic victory over ICL Pakistani, take on the formidable ICL World at the Lal Bahadur Stadium in Hyderabad on Saturday. In the end the young ICL Indian boys outclassed their illustrious opponents in all departments of the game to register their second consecutive win by 44 runs.
A dazzling unbeaten half century by Damien Martyn (67) and Lou Vincent's 43 helped ICL World XI beat ICL India XI by eight wickets in the ICL 20s World Series, at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium in Hyderabad, on Wednesday night. ICL World XI, replying to India XI's 141 for 5 in 20 overs, hit up 145 runs for the loss of two wickets in 18.3 overs.
The Indian Cricket League announced a prize-money corpus of Rs 3.24 crore for its upcoming 'ICL 20s World Series 2008', from April 9 to 15, at a press conference in Hyderabad on Tuesday. The winners of the tournament, to be played at the Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium, Hyderabad, stand to gain Rs 1.25 crore, the runners-up Rs 75 lakh and the third-placed team Rs 50 lakh.
Local favourite Hyderabad Heroes pipped Lahore Badshahs in a pulsating bowl-out in the second final to claim the ICL Twenty20 tournament at Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday night. The local favourites edged out the Lahore side 3-0 in the bowl out after the match eneded in a thrilling tie. Heroes had beaten Badshahs in the first final on Friday to go ahead 1-0 in the best of three-finals.
Three-time champions Mohun Bagan were handed a 3-1 defeat at home.
Hyderabad Heroes registered yet another victory in the Edelweiss 20s Challenge at the Lal Bahadur Stadium on Wednesday, as the hosts beat Kolkata Tigers by four wickets. Brief scores: Kolkata Tigers: 165/5 in 20 overs; Hyderabad Heroes 168/6 in 19.2 overs.
Saba Anjum's goal gave the hosts a 1-0 victory over Azerbaijan in the final of the four-nation tournament in Delhi.
Chandigarh Lions snatched exciting nine-run victory over Delhi Jets in the inaugural match of the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 Tournament at the Devi Lal Cricket Stadium in Panchkula, Chandigarh, on Friday night.
Lal Kamal Bhowmick netted the only goal of the match as Mohun Bagan beat Hindustan Aeronautics Sports Club.
The telecast of the day-night matches will commence at 1230 IST.
The Kolkata giants beat Sporting Clube de Goa 1-0 in the semi-finals.
The teams will lock horns again in the Lal Bahadur Shastri four-nation women's hockey tournament final on Wednesday.
The victory gave Indian Airlines a place in the semi-finals of the Shastri hockey tournament.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
India Light Blues got the better of India Dark Blues, while India Juniors beat India under-18 in the Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament.
The Indian men continued their winning streak by clinching the fifth Kabaddi World Cup title, while women bagged the crown for the fourth consecutive time.
His name for the post was proposed by outgoing BJP chief Venkaiah Naidu and seconded by the Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Jaswant Singh.
It was batters who mostly lead their teams to victories and some into the knock-outs. While Mumbai trailblazer Sarfaraz Khan continues to find the big runs, Baba Indrajith's consistency wasn't enough for Tamil Nadu to make even the top two in Group H.
President Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modicongratulated Vijender Singh on clinching the WBO Asia Pacific Super Middleweight title, saying that the star boxer has made the country proud with his feat.
India Dark Blues edged past India Light Blues via the tie-breaker to win the Lal Bahadur Shastri hockey tournament.
This was the third consecutive day that COVID-19 cases in the country have increased by more than 26,000.
Himachal Pradesh defeated hosts Jharkhand by 22 runs to maintain the winning spree.
Measures under the GRAP's 'very poor' and 'severe' categories came into effect on Tuesday.
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Goals by I M Vijayan, M Suresh and Asim Biswas gave the hosts a 3-1 victory.
The four-day Duleep Trophy match between West and Central Zone ended in a tame draw.\n\n
The opener was unbeaten on 145 as Central ended day one of the Duleep Trophy match against West on 227 for 2.
Electing to field, Indians restricted the visitors to 213 and then notched up 216 for the loss of six wickets to lead the five match series 4-0.
The other semi-final in the Shastri hockey tournament will be between Indian Oil and BPCL.
They won their opening matches in the Afro Asian Games football tournament, beating Iran and Burkina Faso respectively.
Shanti Devi's goal gave the defending champions a 1-0 victory over Bengal in the final at the National Games.
A round-up of Ranji matches played on Monday.
Seamers put New Delhi in a commanding position as Ishant Sharma and Simarjeet Singh struck big blows against Hyderabad on Day 2 of their Ranji Trophy match. Here is a round-up of all the Ranji Trophy action on Day 2 on Thursday.
Punjab blanked Services 4-0 while Bengal edged past Tamil Nadu in the semi-finals of the National Games football tournament.
We have all had heroes. We have all wanted to be someone else. But there was nobody I wanted to be more than I wanted to be Sunil Gavaskar, notes Harsha Bhogle.
The Indian cricket legend said though he grew up playing cricket, not many know that he enjoys other sports as well.
People's Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was on Sunday sworn-in as the 12th chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir.
