10-year-old wins successive title
New Delhi: Young Indian golfer Shubham Jaglan etched his name into history book by clinching his second successive title at the IJGA World Stars of Junior Golf event in las Vegas. The 10-year-old prodigy, son of a milkman from rural Haryana, brought home a score of 106 in three rounds to win by five strokes, ahead of two Americans Justin Dang and Sihan Sandhu and Thailand’s Pongsapak laopakdee for the Boys 9-10 years category title at the Angel Park. Jaglan had triumphed by one stroke at the Junior World Golf Championships after scoring a three-day total of seven-under 179 last Sunday at the Welk Resort Fountain Course in California.
Rain washes out B’desh, SA
Chittagong: Rain washed out the fourth day’s play in the first Test between Bangladesh and South Africa on Friday. Match officials at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong called off play at 1:25pm local. South Africa, who made 248 in the first innings, bowled out Bangladesh for 326 and reached 61-0 in their second knock when bad light forced an early stumps with 24.5 overs left to be bowled on the third day. Openers Stiaan van Zyl and Dean Elgar were on 33 and 28 runs respectively, whittling down Bangladesh’s first innings lead to 17.
Oman, Afghans take WT20 spots
Dublin: Oman’s fairytale rise as a cricket nation continued on Thursday when they qualified for next year’s World Twenty20 in India. A five-wicket win over Namibia at the ICC qualifying event in Malahide near Dublin saw the Gulf minnows reach their first major international tournament. Victory also saw the ICC grant Oman full Twenty20 status.
Fresh notice to Vijender
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday issued a fresh notice to boxer Vijender Singh on his joining professional boxing league. The notice, returnable on August 20, was issued by the bench comprising Justice S K Mittal and Justice H S Sidhu. Taking cognizance of the news published in the media with regard to his decision to turn Pro and join the Queensbury Promotions boxing league, the High Court had earlier issued notices to the state of Haryana and Vijender for July 24 terming the action of the pugilist as being against the sports policy. During the resumed hearing, the Additional Advocate General, Haryana, appeared before the bench and sought three weeks time for filing a reply.
Farhart to be new India physio
New Delhi: Australia’s Patrick Farhart is set to join the Indian cricket team as the new physiotherapist -- part of the three new additions in the support staff which will join the Sri lanka-bound squad for at least a year. Farhart, who has almost three decades of professional experience, has been roped in to replace Nitin Patel, who had recently resigned due to personal reasons, reports ESPNcricinfo. Farhart will be joined by Shankar Basu and Arun Kanade, who will be on board as strength and conditioning expert and masseur, respectively. All three have been handed a one-year contract, with Kanade assuming responsibility in Zimbabwe earlier. Farhart and Basu will take charge in Sri lanka with the three-match Test series.