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Hyderabad lead
Hyderabad: Hyderabad gained a vital 43-run first innings lead over Karnataka in their four-day South Zone Ranji league match on Friday. At the end of the second day’s play, the home team were 21 for no loss.For Hyderabad, off-spinners Kanwaljit Singh and Shivaji Yadav shared sixwickets.
Brief scores: Hyderabad 255 & 21-0 vs Karnataka 212 (J Arun Kumar 37, Barrington Rowland 37, Thilak Naidu 45; Kanwaljit 3-53, Shivaji Yadav 3-63).

TN scent victory
CHENNAI: Hosts Tamil Nadu need just six wickets to complete an innings victory on the second day of the South Zone match on Friday. Tamil Nadu, resuming at 350 for seven, declared their first innings at 446 for eight, Tanveer Jabbar completing his first Ranji hundred. In reply Goa were all out for 112.
Brief scores: Tamil Nadu 446-8 (S Sriram 147, S Sharath 63, Tanveer Jabbar 100 not out, S Mahesh 77, Avinash Aware 5-125) vs Goa 112 in 38 overs (Yeshwant Barde 69, S Mahesh 4-37, Aashish Kapoor 3-30) & 90-4 in 30.5 overs (Ananth Bhagwat 37, Atul Ranade batting 24).

Atanu Lahiri upset
HYDERABAD: Last year’s Commonwealth champion and third seed Atanu Lahiri suffered a blow at the hands of Rupesh Kant in the third round of the All-India FIDE rated chess championship on Friday. There was one moremajor upset, eighth seed Suvrajit Saha succumbing to RM Dongre.
Results: P Konguvel 3 bt RS Gupta 2; Atanu Lahiri 2 lost Rupesh Kant 3; Chakravarthy 2 lost Sunil Kumar Rathore 3; Tejas Bakre 2.5 drew Santosh Kumar Sinha 2.5; RM Dongre 3 bt Suvrajit Saha 2; Vishal Sareen 3 bt Kantilal Dave 2; Yashraj Aidasani 2 lost TS Ravi 3; Jayanth Gokhale 2.5 drew Pallavi Shah 2.5.

Karthik qualifies
CHENNAI: The qualifying rounds were gone through in the Senior National Squash Championship on Friday. Eight men qualified, among them Karthik Das of Tamil Nadu.
Results (Men’s qualifying round): Karthik Das (TN) bt Naman Saraswat (MP) 9-2, 9-4, 9-5; Saurabh Ahuja (AP) bt Amit Gupta (MP) 9-0, 9-1, 9-0; Jasbir Singh Julka (AP) bt Jeevan Singh Bundela (MP) 9-1, 9-0, 9-1; Supreet Singh (Mah) w.o Anshul Verma (UP); Ankit Dutta (MP) w.o Alok Kumar; Avinash Kumar w.o Sunil Verma (UP); Manish Mehta (AP) w.o Sanjay Singh (UP); Shakti Singh (Delhi) w.o Lt V Mahindra (Services).

Maharashtralose
MIDNAPORE: Holders Bengal earned full points on Friday, defeating strong contenders Maharashtra 2-0 in their second quarter-final league encounter of the 22nd Sub-junior National football championship. The second half goals were scored by Abdul Rauf Khan and Syed Rahim Nabi.

Sub-junior hockey
HYDERABAD: The ninth sub-junior National hockey championship will be held in Nalgonda in Andhra Pradesh from January 28 to February 7. The probables for under-16 Asia Cup, in Singapore from June 15-20, will be picked after this Nationals.
Groupings: A: Orissa, Services, Madhya Bharath, Kerala; B: Karnataka, Delhi, J & K, Tripura; C: Bihar, Bhopal, Gujarat; D: Patiala, UP, Pondicherry, Vidarbha; E: Punjab, Bengal, Maharashtra; F: Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram; G: Chandigarh, Hyderabad, HP, Assam; H: Andhra, Mumbai, Manipur, Rajasthan.

Sridhar, Tara win
HYDERABAD: Top seed Vinod Sridhar (TN) beat Vijay Kannan 6-3 3-2 (retd), while SK Tara (Ktk) outlasted ShettalGautham 3-6 7-5 6-3 to win the men’s and women’s singles titles respectively in the AITA All-India tennis tournament on Friday.

–ENS & Agencies