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CBI hold IOBBangalore: Last year's runners-up Indian Overseas Bank did everything but score in their encounter against Central Bank of In...

CBI hold IOB

Bangalore: Last year8217;s runners-up Indian Overseas Bank did everything but score in their encounter against Central Bank of India in the tenth all-India inter-bank hockey tournament today.

Later, Canara Bank pulverized Reserve Bank of India 8-0 to take the top slot in the league.

Scores: Canara Bank 8 Ricky Ganapathy 3, Pradeep Kumar, Sunil Benjamin, Kalappa, Ramu, Belliappa bt RBI 0; Union Bank of India 3 Vinod Kellappan, Rajesh Matkari, Balbinder Singh

Easy for Goa

Margao: Host Goa began their campaign with comfortable victories over Himachal Pradesh 4-1 and Chandigarh 10-0 in the men8217;s section, and in the women8217;s section defeated Orissa 11-3 in the 13th senior National Baseball Championship here today.

Lucknow: For the third consecutive year Uttar Pradesh won the all-India KD Singh Babu Memorial sub-junior hockey tournament at the Sports College Ground here today. In the final Uttar Pradesh defeated Roop Nagar, Punjab by a solitary first half goal. Rajasthan beat Haryana 4-0 for the third place.

Yadav sail

Mumbai: Naresh Yadav and crew won the Mumbai-Goa National Offshore Seabird class sailing rally last week clocking a shade under 50 hours after braving heavy winds and strong waves.

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Naresh Yadav, JS Jehangir, GL Yadav and JD Rami finished the gruelling four-day race in 49 hours, 36 minutes and 22 seconds, ahead of the second-placed team of Nilay Patil and crew 53:39:15.

Sikkim in final

Imphal: Sikkim entered the final of the 34th National junior football championship defeating Bengal 3-2 here today. In the final, Sikkim will meet hosts Manipur, who defeated Assam 2-0 yesterday.

Lanka beat India

Mohali: A quickfire 53 by Ashley De Silva and a fine spell of bowling by Madurasinghe 3-29 helped Sri Lanka beat India by three wickets in the opening match of the tri-nation World Masters veterans cricket series here today. Sri Lanka put India into bat after winning the toss and restricted them to 196 for eight in the stipulated 35 overs. They then rattled up 197 for seven with 2.2 overs to spare to begin their campaign on a winning note.

Scores: India 196-8 S Ankola 41, C Sharma 29, A Malhotra 27, R Binny 27. Madurasinghe 3-29, Anurasiri 2-37 lost to Sri Lanka 197-7 A D8217;Silva 53, B Kuruppu 25, Duleep Mendis 20, Nayak 2-21, Ankola 2-22.

Kanitkar to lead

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KOCHI: Hrishikesh Kanitkar Maharashtra will lead the Board President8217;s XI against Pakistan in a three-day cricket match to be played at the Jawaharlal Nehru International Stadium here from February 11.

The team: Hrishikesh Kanitkar Maharashtra, Gagan Khoda Rajasthan, Shiv Sundar Das Orissa, Mohammed Kaif UP, Virendra Sehwag Delhi, Jai Prakash Yadav MP, MSK Prasad, WK Andhra, Rohan Gavaskar Bengal, Reetinder Singh Sodhi Punjab, H Ramkishen Andhra, Murali Karthik Railways, Robin Singh Jr Delhi, Debashish Mohanty Orissa and KN Ananthapadmanabhan Kerala.