Television replays showed the ball deflected off the batsman's shoulder, and the bat or gloves were nowhere near it.
India made a couple of changes, with Dinesh Mongia and Mohammad Kaif replacing S Sreesanth and Yuvraj Singh respectively.
Captain Rahul Dravid said constantly changing conditions affected India's rhythm in the tri-series match against Australia.
The master batsman returns to big time cricket after almost six months for Thursday's DLF Cup tri-series match against the West Indies.
Grieving families of the 239 people on board flight MH370 on Sunday marked the first anniversary of the world's biggest aviation mystery with Malaysian Prime Minister vowing not to give up on the search for the wreckage of the aircraft that vanished midair over the Indian Ocean.
Australia will use this month's Malaysian one-day tournament to try out different players and combinations, their captain Ricky Ponting said on Saturday.
The telecast of the day-night matches will commence at 1230 IST.
Joshna Chinappa's agonising wait for her maiden WISPA title continued as the Indian number one went down in straight games to top seed Jaclyn Hawkes of New Zealand in the final of the NSC Star Series squash tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
One thing is certain: The part-Goan, part-Malayali group CEO of Air Asia is not your usual boardroom CEO, and he cultivates the maverick businessman image, buying race car teams and football clubs and taking off-beat bets with his mentor and now buddy Richard Branson of Virgin.
'The more emphatic denial of any proposal for an OIC foreign ministers meet in Islamabad appears aimed at keeping Pakistan on a leash,' notes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
The Mumbai outfit will take on the Lebanon club at home on September 18 before playing the away leg a week later.
Arjun Atwal got a huge monkey off his back after edging out defending champion Peter Hedblom of Sweden in a gripping play-off to win his second Malaysian Open title in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
Air India and Tourism Malaysia on Tuesday launched several joint initiatives for the Indian market, including a special three-nights tour package for Rs 14,999 per person.
Self-belief and teamwork were the main factors in India's second Under-19 cricket World Cup triumph, said captain Virat Kohli in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night, after India beat South Africa by 12 runs in a tense final at the Kinrara Oval.
India won the Under-19 cricket World Cup for the second time when the team, led by Virat Kohli, beat South Africa by 12 runs in a rain-interrupted final in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday night. Shot out for a paltry 159 after being put in by South African skipper Wayne Parnell, the champions of the 2000 edition of the tournament fought back with some tidy bowling to restrict the South Africans.
South Africa beat Pakistan by 98 runs to enter the final of the under-19 cricket World Cup.
Australia entered the final of the Under-19 World Cup Super League play-off despite its semi-final against Bangladesh being abandoned due to rain in Kuala Lumpur. The Aussies will play England in the play-off final thanks to the fact that it had a superior net run-rate throughout the tournament to that of Bangladesh.
India survived a late scare to beat New Zealand by three wickets to book a berth for the title clash of the Under-19 cricket World Cup in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.
Voicing concern, the high commission said such incidents would send a wrong signal to Indian tourists who visit Malaysia in large numbers every year.
Captain Virat Kohli scored a ton as India beat West Indies by 50 runs in the under-19 World Cup.
India opted to bowl after winning the toss and restricted Nepal to 185 for 8 in 50 overs with Aditya Thakare and Abhishek Sharma grabbing two wickets apiece.
Left-arm pacer Pradeep Sangwan claimed five wickets as India coasted to a six-wicket victory over South Africa in the Under-19 cricket World Cup. Electing to bat, South Africa were dismissed for 149 runs in 30.1 overs. India achieved the target with eight overs to spare.
India will kick off their Under-19 cricket World Cup campaign against East Asia-Pacific qualifier Papua New Guinea.
India's campaign in the women's singles came to an early end at the US $500,000 Malaysia Super Series Premier badminton tournament after Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu lost their second round matches, in Kuala Lumpur, on Thursday. While Olympic bronze medallist Saina went down narrowly to lower-ranked Yao Xue of China 21-16, 10-21, 19-21 in 56 minutes, Sindhu was beaten by sixth seed Yeon Ju Bae of Korea 16-21, 19-21 in 45 minutes at the Putra Stadium.
The West Indies established itself as one of the teams to beat in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup with an impressive five-wicket victory over Australia at Club Aman, Kuala Lumpur, in the last round of warm-up matches before the tournament proper gets underway on February 17.
England surprised two-time defending champion Pakistan by six wickets while India was stretched to the limits by New Zealand before claiming a six-run victory in warm-up matches ahead of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Indian hockey team ran out of water and food as their match against Korea was stopped due to rain.
A small group of ethnic Indians, mostly Hindus, held a peaceful protest in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday appealing for an end to demolition of Hindu temples by local authorities.
Coach Vasudevan Bhaskaran attributed India 5-2 victory over Malaysia in the Azlan Shah hockey tournament to the improved performance of his forwards.
Anup Sridhar went down 24-22, 14-21, 13-21 to Korean Lee Hyun in the second round of the Malaysia Super Series.
The team for the Azlan Shah hockey tournament includes unfit skipper Muhammed Saqlain and midfielder Ghazanfar Ali.
Nine months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, an Airbus A320 airliner carrying 162 people, disappeared from radar screens early Sunday, about 40 minutes after leaving the Indonesian city of Surabaya en route to Singapore. Till Monday, there were no signs of the missing plane. The story of AirAsia flight QZ8501 sounds remarkably similar to that of Malaysia Airlines MH370, which remains missing nearly 10 months after it disappeared from radar screens on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing.
He was beaten by world No 9, Karim Darwish at the CIMB Squash Open Championship in Kuala Lumpur.
India dropped a place to ninth in the latest world hockey rankings, which Champions Trophy winners Germany lead. Australia are second and the Netherlands third.
Australia thrashed the already qualified Germany 5-0 to secure their place in the final.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday
The booming real estate markets in the National Capital Region, Mumbai and Bangalore registered the highest global yields in 2003, according to the latest updates by Chesterton Meghraj, a global real estate consulting group.
Top seeds Wesley Moodie and Rik de Voest of South Africa beat second seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam Qureshi 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the final of the US $50,000 ATP Challenger in New Delhi on Friday.
Rob Reckers' double strike gave defending champions the Netherlands a flying start as they blanked Great Britain 4-0 in the Samsung Champions Trophy opener in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
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