Kapur signs off in Tied 29TH
Perth: Shiv Kapur ended the week with yet another roller-coaster round to finish tied 29th at the ISPS Handa Perth International, but promised to be back for the Hero Indian Open and Thailand Classic, as he felt his game was coming into the right kind of shape. Kapur fought back from three bogeys in first six holes for an even par 72, while compatriot Himmat Rai (69) finished Tied-36th. Kapur once again started with three bogeys only to make up later but was unable to force the pace needed to get into Top-10, Himmat also had a nice little birdie run from 10th to 13th, but gave away a couple of bogeys. Gaganjeet Bhullar (72) was Tied 52nd and Chiragh Kumar (75) was Tied-71st.
Indian eves suffer first loss in SA tour
Stellenbosch: Indian women’s hockey team lost 0-3 to Germany to slump to their first defeat in their tour to South Africa. The Indian eves came out with more attacking intent in the second period and in the process earned a penalty corner in but they failed to capitalize. Both India and Germany concentrated on maintaining ball possession and a lot of the game was played in the mid-field. The Germans finally broke the deadlock in the final minutes of the second quarter through a field goal from lydia Haase. Germany doubled their lead in the third quarter through another field goal by Pia-Sophie Oldhafer before making the scoreline 3-0 through a penalty corner conversion by Julia Muller.
Bangladesh score upset win over Sl
mirpur: Bangladesh registered a 23-run upset victory over defending champions Sri lanka in a round robin league encounter to keep their hopes alive of qualifying for the final of Asia Cup T20 cricket tournament here on Sunday. Batting first, Sabbir Rahaman's 54-ball-80 helped the home team reach a competitive 147 for seven in 20 overs. In reply, Sri lanka looked like chasing the target easily till the first 10 overs but suffered a dramatic batting collapse as they could only score 124 for eight in the end. Mustafizur Rahaman (1/19 in 4 overs) again bowled brilliantly at the death using all the variations in his armoury to help his team notch up their second win in the tournament. Skipper Mashrafe Mortaza kept three overs of his best bowler at the back end which proved to be really useful.
Rana wins gold in National Championships
Jaipur: london Olympian Basant Bahadur Singh Rana clinched the gold medal in men’s 50km race walk event on the second and final day of the National Championships on Sunday. Delhi walker Rana clocked 4 hours seven minutes 24 seconds to finish first but he must have been disappointed as he could not touch the revised Olympics qualification time of 4:06:00 on a fast Jaipur course. Uttarakhand’s Chandan Singh, who has already achieved Rio qualification mark in men’s 20km event, finished second with a time of 4:09:50 while Jitender Singh Rathore of Rajasthan took the bronze medal in 4:12:10. Neena K T won the gold in junior women’s 10km race walk, while Vikash Singh won junior men’s 10km category.