Sun, Sep 26 10 09:52 PM
Frenchman Gilles Simon won his seventh ATP title when he beat German qualifier Mischa Zverev 6-3 6-2 in the final of the Metz International on Sunday.
The eighth-seeded Simon, ranked 41st in the ATP standings, served perfectly throughout to prevail in 67 minutes.
Former world number six Simon had not won a title since he claimed the Thailand Open almost a year ago.
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Published>Sun, Sep 26 10 09:38 PM
Lewis Hamilton's Formula One title hopes suffered a major blow on Sunday after the McLaren driver retired from the Singapore Grand Prix following a collision with championship leader Mark Webber.
Hamilton, in fourth place and on fresh tyres after his pitstop, tried to overtake the Australian on lap 36 after the safety car had come in. But as the Briton moved across Webber's Red Bull into turn seven the cars came together.
Hamilton suffered race-ending damage while Webber was able to continue and finished in third place.
"I saw Mark made a mistake and got caught up with a backmarker so I was in a position to slipstream him ... going into turn seven," said Hamilton, who won in Singapore last year.
"I thought I was enough past him, I couldn't see him and turned in and tried to leave enough room on the inside and the next thing I know I got hit.
"I think it's a racing incident. I came out a bit unfortunate but that's racing."
Hamilton, the 2008 world champion, angrily tossed the steering wheel out of his stricken car after his McLaren came to a standstill. Race stewards investigated the incident but decided to take no further action.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso won the race ahead of Webber's team mate Sebastian Vettel. McLaren's Jenson Button finished fourth.
It was Hamilton's third retirement in four races and leaves him trailing championship leader Webber by 20 points with four races remaining.
"Twenty points is massive and with four races to go that is a big gap, I have to get my head down and hope for something," added Hamilton.
Webber leads the world championship on 202 points while Alonso's win vaults him into second place on 191. Hamilton slips to third place (182) ahead of Vettel (181) and Button (177).
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Published>Sun, Sep 26 10 09:08 PM
Dhaka, Sep 26 (IANS) The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) said Sunday that a team named 'BCB XI' formed to play exhibition matches against the visiting Kolkata Mohammedan Sporting Club is not an official side and threatened legal action against the organisers.
'No official or representative of Kolkata Mohammedan Sporting Club of West Bengal in India, had ever contacted the BCB in relation to this tour. The BCB has no knowledge of the the members playing this team and is not a representative side endorsed by the board,' the BCB said in a statement here Saturday.
The BCB announced a probe and threatened legal action against the organisers.
The BCB said at no point had any local organiser or representative associated with the tour officially sought any assistance from the BCB for hosting the series.
'Two unknown organisers named Moinudin bin Maksud and Magferul Islam posing as the official and the manager of Kolkata Mohammedan Sporting Club cricket team announced that their team would play a number of cricket matches against a BCB XI and also with Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club Friday.
'The hurriedly organised press conference raised a lot of questions as the so-called officials failed to answer many queries about the tour.'
The Kolkata team which left for Bangladesh Sep 22 is scheduled to play four limited over matches and a T20 match.
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Published>Sun, Sep 26 10 08:22 PM
New Delhi, Sep 26 (IANS) Union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Sunday met senior Delhi Police officers to review the security preparedness for the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games.
The meeting at the Police Headquarters was attended by Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal, Special Commissioners, Joint Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners of Police. The officials discussed the steps needed to finetune the security preparations in the capital that is gearing up to host some 7,000 athletes and officials from 71 countries and territories that will be attending the games.
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Published>Sun, Sep 26 10 08:08 PM
The Australian pace trio of Ben Hilfenhaus (three for 28), Mitchell Johnson (one for 20) and rookie Peter George (two for 15) bowled to a disciplined line and length to reduce Board President's XI to 143 for six at stumps, on the second day of their three-day warm-up tie, at the Sector-16 stadium, in Chandigarh.
The Australians piled up 505, courtesy a brilliant century from Marcus North. North punished all the Board President's XI bowlers as he scored 124 in only 128 deliveries before retiring. His innings was studded with 19 boundaries and two sixes.
When the home team batsmen came out to bat, the Australian pacers put up a better performance than their Indian counterparts. Suddenly the track that was termed "lifeless" by Board President's XI captain Gautam Gambhir looked like having a lot of pace and bounce.
By the 15th over, Board President's XI were reduced to 53 for five. Then it was Piyush Chawla (64 batting) and wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha (14) stemmed the rot with a 37-run sixth wicket partnership. Then Chawla along with S Sreesanth (6 batting) added 53 runs for the unbroken seventh wicket stand. Chawla hit nine fours and two sixes in his 73-ball knock.
Skipper Gautam Gambhir would have liked to get some serious batting practice before the first Test but was out scoring only eight when he edged a short ball from Hilfenhaus to wicketkeeper Tim Paine after scoring only eight.
Mumbai batsman Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed for nought when he was caught by Shane Watson off Hilfenhaus' bowling. Gambhir's Delhi teammate Shikhar Dhawan hit three boundaries in his knock of 17 before he edged a George delivery to Paine behind stumps.
Saurashtra youngster Cheteshwar Pujara (9) who has made it to the national squad for the Test series was cleaned up Johnson as he couldn't handle the pace. Pujara's 42-minute stay at the wicket was sheer struggle as he faced 28-deliveries during this period.
Saurabh Tiwary, who has enjoyed lot of success in the Twenty20 format scored 15 before he became George's second victim handing Paine his third catch of the innings.
Then Wriddhiman and Chawla steadied the ship for some time before Wriddhiman edged one to Paine off Hilfenhaus with the scoreboard reading 90 for six. Then Chawla hit a few lusty blows off spinners Nathan Hauritz and Steven Smith to take the score to 143 for six.
Earlier, resuming at an overnight score of 319/1, Indian bowlers including Sreesanth and Pragyan Ojha bowled well, with skipper Ricky Ponting (42) falling to the left-arm spinner early without any addition to his overnight score.
Ponting was beaten by a quicker deliver from Ojha and he tasted success in the same over when he dismissed Ponting's deputy, Michael Clarke (44).
However, North, who like Simon Katich retired out, along with wicketkeeper Paine batted freely and cut loose weaving a partnership of 150 for the fourth wicket.
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Published>Sun, Sep 26 10 08:02 PM
Chennai, Sep 26 (IANS) Ajay Kini of Wallace Sports and Sailesh Bolisetti of RAD Racing consolidated their positions at the top of the Formula LGB and Super Saloons class at the end of the fourth round of the JK Tyre National Racing Championship Sunday.
Kini, who finished second in the first race Saturday, came third today behind the experienced Amerya Walavalkar (TVS Girling) and Ravikumar Deepak (Mars Racing) in the second Formula Swift race that was stopped due to rain after six laps.
Bolisetti from Vizag extended his dominance with a double in the Super Saloon class despite handling issues, especially in the second outing this morning in wet conditions.
His car, prepared by veteran and former champion Radha Selvarajan had a set up for wet going, but the race was eventually run on a drying track. Yet, Bolisetti had enough pace to keep his challengers at an arm's length to win comfortably.
The Formula Rolon races witnessed close battles with Saran Vikram (Mars Racing) winning the first time out, but falling away in the next due to mechanical problems.
His nearest competitor, Sarosh Hataria (Meco Racing) had a miserable outing in the first race when he spun after the gear fell into neutral at Turn-4 and he finished down the order. But in the second run, he passed the stricken Vikram's car to win.
With two more rounds to be run, Vikram heads the championship with 33 points followed by Hataria and Vishnu Prasad (Amaron Pro Racing) at 29 points each.
The wet track resulted in pile-up of cars in several races leading to delays in the schedule, but fortunately, none of the drivers involved suffered any injury.
The results:
Formula LGB Swift (Race 2, 6 laps): Ameya Walavalkar (TVS Girling) 1 (13mins, 07.748secs); Ravikumar Deepak (Mars Racing) 2 (13:17.720); Ajay Kini (Wallace Sports) 3 (13:27.203).
Formula Rolon (Race 1, 10 laps): Saran Vikram (Mars Racing) 1 (19:00.479); Nikhil Kashyap (Amaron Pro Racing) 2 (19:18.575); Vishnu Prasad (Amaron Pro Racing) 3 (19:23.072). Race 2 (10 laps): Sarosh Hataria (Meco Racing) 1 (19:09.658); Chittesh Mandody (Mohite's Racing) 2 (19:14.287); Vishnu Prasad (Amaron Racing) 3 (19:51.671).
Polo Cup (Race 1, 12 laps): Sailesh Bolisetti 1 (25:25.172); Vikash Anand (RAD Racing) 2 (25:35.536); Parth Ghorpade (Meco Motorsports) 3 (25:36.609). Race 2 (12 laps): Parth Ghorpade (Meco Motorsports) 1 (25:13.862); Mohd Fahad Kutty (Game Over) 2 (25:18.214); Imran Majid (Game Over) 3 (25:26.826).
Touring Cars - Super Saloons (Race 2, 7 laps): Sailesh Bolisetti (RAD Racing) 1 (15:03.557); Raj Virudhan (Prime Racing) 2 (15:10.440); Mohammad Fahad Kutty (Game Over) 3 (15:20.296).
Touring Cars - Junior Cup: (Race 1, 9 laps): B Balavijay (Moto Rev India) 1 (20:26.907); Dilijit Singh (Meco Motorsports) 2 (20:27.411); Mhir Dharkar (Game Over) 3 (18:41.300, +1 lap). Race 2 (7 laps): B Balavijay 1 (16:47.597); Diljith Singh 2 (16:49.929); Vignesh Devarajan (Pvt) 3 (16:53.427).
--Indo--Asian News Service
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Published>Sun, Sep 26 10 07:58 PM
The Australian pace trio of Ben Hilfenhaus (three for 28), Mitchell Johnson (one for 20) and rookie Peter George (two for 15) bowled to a disciplined line and length to reduce Board President's XI to 143 for six at stumps, on the second day of their three-day warm-up tie, at the Sector-16 stadium, in Chandigarh.
The Australians piled up 505, courtesy a brilliant century from Marcus North. North punished all the Board President's XI bowlers as he scored 124 in only 128 deliveries before retiring. His innings was studded with 19 boundaries and two sixes.
When the home team batsmen came out to bat, the Australian pacers put up a better performance than their Indian counterparts. Suddenly the track that was termed "lifeless" by Board President's XI captain Gautam Gambhir looked like having a lot of pace and bounce.
By the 15th over, Board President's XI were reduced to 53 for five. Then it was Piyush Chawla (64 batting) and wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha (14) stemmed the rot with a 37-run sixth wicket partnership. Then Chawla along with S Sreesanth (6 batting) added 53 runs for the unbroken seventh wicket stand. Chawla hit nine fours and two sixes in his 73-ball knock.
Skipper Gautam Gambhir would have liked to get some serious batting practice before the first Test but was out scoring only eight when he edged a short ball from Hilfenhaus to wicketkeeper Tim Paine after scoring only eight.
Mumbai batsman Ajinkya Rahane was dismissed for nought when he was caught by Shane Watson off Hilfenhaus' bowling. Gambhir's Delhi teammate Shikhar Dhawan hit three boundaries in his knock of 17 before he edged a George delivery to Paine behind stumps.
Saurashtra youngster Cheteshwar Pujara (9) who has made it to the national squad for the Test series was cleaned up Johnson as he couldn't handle the pace. Pujara's 42-minute stay at the wicket was sheer struggle as he faced 28-deliveries during this period.
Saurabh Tiwary, who has enjoyed lot of success in the Twenty20 format scored 15 before he became George's second victim handing Paine his third catch of the innings.
Then Wriddhiman and Chawla steadied the ship for some time before Wriddhiman edged one to Paine off Hilfenhaus with the scoreboard reading 90 for six. Then Chawla hit a few lusty blows off spinners Nathan Hauritz and Steven Smith to take the score to 143 for six.
Earlier, resuming at an overnight score of 319/1, Indian bowlers including Sreesanth and Pragyan Ojha bowled well, with skipper Ricky Ponting (42) falling to the left-arm spinner early without any addition to his overnight score.
Ponting was beaten by a quicker deliver from Ojha and he tasted success in the same over when he dismissed Ponting's deputy, Michael Clarke (44).
However, North, who like Simon Katich retired out, along with wicketkeeper Paine batted freely and cut loose weaving a partnership of 150 for the fourth wicket.
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