Tendulkar may miss tri-seriesSachin Tendulkar may be forced to go in for an extended rest than anticipated. Tendulkar, who was scheduled to miss the first two matches - March 22 (vs Sri Lanka at Nagpur) and March 24 (vs Pakistan at Jaipur) - of the Triangular One-Day Series to be played in India between March 19-April 4, is now likely to miss the entire championship.National hockeyUnfancied Central Excise took an early lead, then crowded their defence to protect it and eventually recorded a solitary goal win against Karnataka in a pool G encounter in the PSB-SBI 59th Senior National hockey championship on Wednesday.Windies happyBrian Lara, with a supreme double century, and debutant Nehemiah Perry, restored West Indies pride with a magnificent 10-wicket victory over Australia in the second Test yesterday. It ended a five-match whitewash in South Africa, where a labour dispute threw the series into doubt until the last minute, and a humiliating first Test defeat in Trinidad where Australia bowled them out for 51 for their lowest Test score ever in a 312-run defeat.Services winThree second-half goals by Services warmed a chilly Wednesday afternoon at the Breeks Stadium, and earned them an emphatic victory over Mizoram in a group A fixture of the Bharat Petrolium 55th Santosh Trophy Football Championship. The local boy Arockiya Nathan (48th), Saroj Gurung (55th) and Raghu Kumar (86th) struck for the Services.Anand winsViswanathan Anand of India counter-punched effectively in the middle-game to down hyper-aggressive Alexei Shirov in the rapids and drew the blindfold game to win 1.5-0.5 in the second round of the Eighth Melody Amber Rapid and Blindfold Chess Tournament on Wednesday.
