In Brief

Coach CS Sai Kumar will lead the Indian squad, being invited to any martial art world championships for the first time. The team leaves for Germany on Monday.

TEAM: Ratnakant Wanjare, Chandrajit Pawar, Yashwant Bhilare, Shashikant Pawar, Avinash Waghmare, Sangeeta Suresh, Kaustubh Pendse (all Maharashtra), Khanni Kohli, Kiran Sethi (both Delhi), Krishna Mahato, Manish Kumar Nath (both Assam) and Vinaya Krishna Gaude (Goa)

Hyderabad XI win

CHENNAI: Hyderabad XI beat MRF XI by a seven-run first innings lead to enter the semi-finals with Indian Airlines (New Delhi), Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), New Delhi and Karnataka in the MRF Buchibabu Memorial cricket tournament.

Hyderabad plays ONGC while Karnataka take on Indian Airlines in the three-day semi-finals to be held at different venues from August 24.

Brief Scores

Andhra175 and 91-1 in 28 overs (P Srihari Rao 68 not out) drew Karnataka 230 in 80.3 overs (A Vijay 40, Vijay Bharadwaj 104; N Madhukar 3-35, YS Ranganath 5-64). ONGC 321 and 317-7 in 72.3 overs (Gautam Wadhera 57, Virendra Sehwag 124, Rizwan Shamshad 40, Mithun Manhas 50 not out) drew IOB (Chennai) 183 in 63.4 overs (Amit Pathak 51, Rajesh Khanna 42; Rahul Sanghvi 5-53). Vijay CC 159 and 151-8 (Abdul Qayoom 3-31, Dodda Ganesh 3-51) drew Indian Airlines 257 (Yuvraj Singh 102). MRF 304 drew Hyderabad XI 311 in 116.4 overs (Vinay Kumar 43, Parth Sarwarkar 129; Aashish Kapoor 4-128, S Sriram 3-49).

Randhawa 24th

NEW DELHI: Jyoti Randhawa and Amritinder Singh shot identical par 70 last round to finish at joint 24th place as Thailand’s Thammanoon Sriroj won the $ 200,000 Tianjin Teda Open golf in Tianjin (China).

Randhawa totalled one under par 279 (68,70,71,70) and Amritinder fired his third successive par 70 round to total 279 (69,70,70,70). Both of them received a cheque of $ 2100 each.

Ali Sher cardedsix over par 76 and ended with a five over par total of 285 (74,68,67,76) and finished joint 40th. He received $ 1300.

Geena exits

BLOOMFIELD: Actress Geena Davis lost her bid to be an Olympic archer, but she said she loves the challenge and will try again in four years.

“I think I did well. I was very happy,” Davis said on Saturday after finishing 24th out of 28 women competing in the U.S. Olympic trial semi-finals.

Thorpe withdraws

LONDON: Batsman Graham Thorpe has decided to pull out of England’s upcoming tour to South Africa and Zimbabwe to spend some time with his family.

The 30-year-old Surrey left-hander said: “I have not taken this decision lightly and know exactly what it means.”