Prannoy stuns Kashyap
Mulheim an der Ruhr (Germany): Young H S Prannoy on Wednesday pulled off one of the biggest upsets of his career as he overwhelmed his much higher-ranked Indian compatriot Parupalli Kashyap at the USD 120,000 German Open Grand Prix Gold here. Before that, other Indian shuttlers in the fray, Anand Pawar and Arvind Bhat, entered the third round of the men’s singles after registering contrasting victories. Prannoy won the men’s singles second round 21-19, 21-18 in 47 minutes at the RWE-Sporthalle.
Rashid leads by five strokes
New Delhi: Indian golfer Rashid Khan fired a career-best 11-under 61 in the opening round of the $300,000 SAIl-SBI Open to lead the field by a huge five-stroke margin after the first day at the prestigious Delhi Golf Club here on Wednesday. The 23-year-old, playing on his home course, went on a birdie spree as he picked up nine of them and one eagle in a flawless card, to launch his full Asian Tour season in style. Rashid produced incredible golf to set the second best score at the DGC, where liang Wen-Chong of China had set the 18-hole Tour record with a stunning 12-under 60 in the opening round of the 2008 Indian Open.
‘have been misquoted on bhajji’
New Delhi: Former Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday clarified that he never said that Harbhajan Singh was not picked in the national team since he is not the list of players, favoured by the selectors and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. “I take strong offence at a media report about my comment with regard to Harbhajan’s comeback to Team India, which reads…” I believe the selectors don’t think much on this (Harbhajan’s selection) and especially when you have captain’s men around,” Ganguly said. “It has been picked and misquoted from one of my television show in Kolkata where I stated that Harbhajan is not picked because the selectors and Dhoni feel that the current crop of spinners are better than Harbhajan,” Ganguly said in statement.
when sachin wrote to anjali
Chennai: Walking down memory lane Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday recalled writing letters to wife Anjali and found her handwriting “beautiful,” which anyone would “watch and admire”. But writing letters to his wife needed some effort from the former batsman. “Hitting a cricket ball came naturally to me. But, while writing letters to Anjali, I have to doubly check what I was writing,” he said with a sheepish grin. “.. In those days when there were no mobiles and the only mode of communication was through landlines or writing letters, I started writing letters. I started with my parents and later wrote some letters to (wife) Anjali,” Tendulkar said during a handwriting promotional event for here.
FIFA expects good show from india
New Delhi: Satisfied with the current infrastructure in place, a FIFA team, which is here to inspect stadia, on Wednesday said India has the potential to host a “tremendous Under-17 World Cup” in 2017, but asked the AIFF to be proactive in its planning and execution. “All the potential is there to make it a tremendous World Cup and leave a tremendous legacy for youth football in India,” said Inaki Alvarez, Deputy Director and Head of Event Management Competitions Division, FIFA.