Two gold medals for India Vikas Krishnan (60kg) and Naveen Kumar (81kg) fetched gold medals,while three others settled for silver as the Indian boxing team finished runners-up at the Asian Youth Boxing Championships in Tehran,Iran. Devendro (48kg),Venkat Giddi Nagarjun (57kg) and Sumit Sangwan (75kg) were the ones who lost their final bouts. The Indian team posted a healthy tally of 28 points to finish second behind Kazakhstan (34 points). Aussies win series Australia retained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy by defeating New Zealand in a rain-affected fourth one-dayer in Auckland and wrap the series 3-1 with a game to spare. Put in to bat first,the hosts raked up a modest total with only Brendon McCullum scoring 61. Brief scores: New Zealand 238 (B McCullum 61,D Tuffey 34,Hauritz 3/46) lost to Australia 202 for 4 (C White 50 not out,R Ponting 50,A Voges 34; Vettori 2/29) by D/L method. England start favourites Englands squad has been severely depleted with injuries to key bowlers but the tourists will still start favourites against Bangladesh in the first Test starting in Chittagong. England are likely to walk with in two specialist spinners while awarding Test caps to opener Michael Carberry and off-spinner James Tredwell. Bangladesh,meanwhile,are still recovering from Raqibul Hasan's sudden retirement two days ahead of the game and are likely to ask Aftab Ahmed to take his place at No.4. India-Pakistan hockey series India and Pakistan are set to revive their bilateral hockey Test series after four years with the two national federations agreeing to start an annual series for men and women from this year. The series will be for both men and women teams and junior teams will also be a part of it. Hockey India and Pakistan Hockey Federation also decided to start an eight-team - four from each country - double leg sub-continental league to be played in both countries. May 31 deadline for HI elections The International Hockey Federation made it clear that India will have to complete their elections by May 31,failing which the FIH will have to consider commencing disaffiliation process under its constitution. This World Cup is a success and HI should grab the opportunity to complete their election by May 31. They are now being run by an ad- hoc body but they have to have a full-fledged body elected in a clean and fair way," said president Leandro Negre. Archers win gold Indian archers clinched gold medals in the recurve category to match the efforts of their England counterparts in the compound section on day three of the International archery test event for the Commonwealth Games. In the men's team recurve,Tarundeep Rai,Kapil and Champia Mangal Singh defeated Malaysian opponents 218-211. In the women's team recurve,Dola Banerjee,Rimil Buruily and Bombayala Laishram put up a scintillating performance to outclass the Malaysian team 204-190 for the gold medal. Saurav-Dipika clinch title Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Palikal did India proud by winning the Mixed Doubles title in the Chennai Open Squash tournament. In a match that witnessed a replete of 'let calls',the Indian duo maintained their focus to the optimum and scored a deserving 11-8 11-4 win over highly rated top seeds Egyptian Mohd Ali Anwar Reda and Australian Rachael Grinham in half-an-hour.
