Shinwari leads Pakistan's whitewash of Sri lanka
Sharjah: left-arm paceman Usman Shinwari destroyed Sri lanka with a five-wicket burst to help Pakistan achieve a convincing nine-wicket win in the fifth and final ODI for a 5-0 clean sweep of the series, here on Monday. Shinwari's 5-34 in seven overs reduced Sri lanka to 103 all out in 26.2 overs in Sharjah before openers Fakhar Zaman (48) and Imam-ul-Haq (45 not out) knocked off the paltry target in 20.2 overs. This is Pakistan's sixth whitewash in a five-match ODI series. They had blanked Zimbabwe (2002 and 2008), Bangladesh (2003 and 2008) and New Zealand in 2003 in the past. The result was never in doubt once Shinwari assisted by Hasan Ali (2-19) and Shadab Khan (2-24) had destroyed Sri lanka who had totals of 209, 187, 208 and 173 in the series.
Paltan eliminate UP Yoddha from PKl 5
Mumbai: Puneri Paltan held their nerve to dump UP Yoddha out of Pro Kabaddi league Season 5 here on Monday. Puneri Paltan are through to eliminator 3 with a 40-38 win. Girish Ernak was rock solid at the back and scored seven tackle points while Deepak Niwas Hooda scored 10 raid points to lead their team to victory. UP Yoddha squandered a solid start and despite Rishank Devadiga's 15 point effort their campaign came to an end. UP Yoddha were let down by their defence as they could score just eight tackle points against Pune’s 17.
Aster Public School register huge 9-0 victory
New Delhi: Vidit Sharma starred for Aster Public School as he scored a hat-trick to lead his side to a dominating 9-0 victory against ASSISI Convent School, here in the Senior boys' category of the Reliance Foundation Youth Sports football tournament. In another match, Mark Hamilton scored four to power St Thomas School to a resounding 5-1 victory against Sri Venkateshwar International School. St Thomas School took an early lead through Tejas Srivastava (6th) before Mark Hamilton, the star of the match, scored three quick goals (14th, 15th, 18th) to complete his hat-trick. He added his fourth and St Thomas' fifth in the last minute (59th) of regulation time as they scored a handful of goals.
ISSF World Cup Final to start today
New Delhi: Competitions to the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Final Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun are set to get underway on Tuesday at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range, with three mixed team Finals scheduled on day one. A total of 25 teams, eight in the mixed team 10M air rifle and 10M air pistol events and nine in the mixed team trap event will fight for the first ever ISSF titles given out in mixed team events. India has two teams who have qualified, one each in the Rifle and Pistol events. Jitu Rai and Heena Sidhu will represent India in the mixed team pistol while Deepak Kumar and Meghana Sajjanar will look to get India a medal in the air rifle event. The 10M mixed team pistol will be the first final of the day and qualification rounds begin early on a long and packed day one. The day concludes with the trap mixed team final.
women boxers win 5 more medals at ‘Balkan' meet
Sofia: India's women boxers rounded off the ‘Balkan' International Boxing Championship here by clinching five more medals including a coveted gold. lalfakmawii Ralte (+81 kgs) was the star of Sunday. She outclassed Iryna, her Ukrainian opponent, 5-0 in the final to clinch the gold. Pwilao Basumatary (57 kgs) too put up a grand show, going down to Hungary's E Helena to settle for the silver. MK Devi Maisnam (54 kgs), Jyoti (64 kgs) and Nirmala Rawat narrowly lost out to their respective opponents in the semifinals of the championship to pick up a bronze each.