Short Corner 8212; Punjab

Herculean task for Bangladesh
The heat is on and the show must8217; go on. However, the chasm between the two teams 8212; even though India has rested some of it8217;s top stars 8212; means that Bangladesh would have perform a herculean task, besides needing India to play abysmally poor, if they entertain any hopes of marking their presence in the day-night three-nation Coca Cola Cup lung opener against the host nation at the picturesque Punjab Cricket Association Stadium here on Thursday.

18-member team
The Indian hockey federation has decided to send an 18-member team for the World Cup to be held in Utrecht Holland. While retaining the 16 members announced earlier, president of the Indian Hockey Federation IHF KPS Gill said Sukhbir Gill and Devinder Kumar would also accompany the team.

Anand leads
Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand scored a facile win over Michael Krasenkov of Poland in the second round to become the sole leader with two points at the seventh Torneo Magistral Madird Open chess in Madrid on Tuesday night. Anand recorded his second straight win in the tournament with a 49-move crushing of Krasenkov.

Viji wins
India8217;s Vijayalakshmi Subburaman played a gallant game today in the fifth round against I. Bekhmukhamedova of Kazakhstan to extract a full point that gave her a nice cushion in her quest for the Under-20 girls title in the Asian Junior Chess Championship here.

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