India File

Azhar fitness

MUMBAI: Mohammed Azharuddin, who underwent a shoulder operation after the World Cup and was ruled out of the ongoing AIWA Cup at Sri Lanka and tri-nation tourney at Singapore, is yet to produce the fitness certificate. The Cricket Board president, Rajsingh Dungarpur, said Azhar was expected to produce the certificate by August end.

Hyderabad recover

CHENNAI: Hyderabad XI recovered to 211 for six at stumps on the first day of the Buchi Babu All-India Cricket Tournament final against Karnataka.

Brief Scores

Hyderabad XI 211-6 (Daniel Manohar 81, Vinay Kumar 82 not out; Anand Yalvigi3-70).

India to play in LA

BANGALORE: India A and Australia A will be play in five 50-overs a side one-day matches in Los Angeles in America from September 15. Australia A will be led by Adam Gilchrist. The Indian A team will be named on September 1.

Australian A: Adam Gilchrist (captain), Ryan Campbell, Michael Divenuto, Damien Martyn, Shane Lee, Andrew Symonds, Brad Young, Cory Richards, Brad Hodge, Brett Lee, Scott Muller, Lee Hanson and Brendan Creary. Coach/manager: Allan Border

Kunte holds GM

PUNE: Abhijit Kunte continued his unbeaten run in the Mind Sports Olympiad Masters Chess Championship in London holding Grandmaster Zilberman (Israel) in 18 moves with black pieces in the 7th round on Saturday.

Kunte did not take any risk in the important round, as the overall average in the championship will be decisive in confirming his third and final GM norm. Kunte has five points from seven. IM V Saravanan (4) lost with black pieces to GM Murey Yacov (Russia) in 42moves.

Indians behind

KUALA LUMPUR: Amritinder Singh shot a two under 70, his best card in three days to be three under overall in the Kota Permai Golf and Country Club in the US 200,000 Volvo Masters of Malaysia. He is placed joint 23rd with two others. Firoz Ali, after two good rounds of 70 each went three over in the third and is now one under at 215 after three days. He is joint 32nd, while Arjun Singh and Indrajit Bhalotia at two over 218 are lying joint 51st.

Jeev 35th

NEW DELHI: Jeev Milkha Singh parred the course to share the 35th spot after the 1st round of the Scottish PGA championship at Gleneagles, Scotland.