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A

Australia under the captaincy of

skipper Michael Clarke won the

Test series against Sri Lanka 1-0

when the second test concluded

on 20 September 2011 Tuesday.

It was Clarke’s first Test tour as

captain. In the first test Australia

a rain-affected draw. The victory

saw Australia an d Sr i Lanka

exchange positions in the official

Test rankings, with Clarke’s men

moving to fourth place and Sri

Lanka dropping to fifth.

CC D

16 E E BE 2011

Australia 30 3894 130

Sri Lanka 28 3327 119

South Africa 19 2197 116

England 30 3383 113

India 34 3804 112

Pakistan 29 2931 101

New Zealand22 1973 90

West Indies 19 1475 78

Bangladesh 26 1648 63

Zimbabwe 27 1200 44

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won 125-run victory in Galle. The

second Test in Pallekele ended in

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BA E A G

C

1 H.M. Amla SA 867

2 A.B. de Villiers SA 804

3 S.R. Watson AUS 760

4 I.J.L. Trott ENG 750

5 K.C. Sangakkara SL 7476 M.S. Dhoni IND 734

7 M.J. Clarke AUS 730

8 M.E.K. Hussey AUS 729

9 V. Kohli IND 725

10 T.M. Dilshan SL 690

B E A G

C

1 G.P. Swann ENG 728

2 D.L. Vettori NZ 701

3M

.G.Johnson

AUS

680

4 D.W. Steyn SA 663

5 M. Morkel SA 661

6 D.E. Bollinger AUS 659

7 Saeed A jmal PAK 658

8 R.W. Price ZIM 653

9 L.L. Tsotsobe SA 652

10 S.L. Malinga SL 639

Lord’s.He played his last matches

for England in both forms of the

game against India in 2002.He

took a hat-trick in only his third

Test as England scored a six -

wicket win over the West Indies

at Old Trafford.

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E

Novak D jokovic used his superior

return game, defense and speed

to defeat the 10-time Grand Slam

champion Nadal, 6-2, 6-4, 6-7

(3), 6-1 and win his first career

US Open crown and fourth GrandSlam title.With th e victory

D jokovic pushed his record on the

year to an amazing 64-2 and 6-0

over Nadal. With the win he also

became just the sixth man in the

Open Era to win three Grand

Slam titles in the same year . He

had won both the Australian

Open an d Wimbledon (over

Nadal) earlier in 2011.

Nadal in 2010 wa s being

celebrated as the next King of

Tennis, with nine Grand Slams

(Now 10, counting this year’s

French Open). He needed a few

more tournaments to match

Federer , who holds the record

with 16 gand Slams. However in

2011 he is on a six -match losing

streak to D jokovic and all of them

in finals.

E

Australia’s Samantha Stosur

defeated Serena Williams to win

the US Open crown and her first

grand slam singles title.Stosur

became th e first Australian

woman in 38 years to win the title

C

Kochi Tuskers’ contract was

terminated by Board of Control

for Cricket in India (BCCI) on 19

September after N Srinivasan, the

newly-appointed president of the

Board of Control for Cricket in

India (BCCI), took over . The

contract was terminated after the

Indian Premier League (IPL)

franchise defaulted on a Rs 156

crore annual payment it was tomake.The decision was

announced after the 82nd Annual

General Meeting (AGM) of the

BCCI.The BCCI decided to

encash the bank guarantee of the

Tuskers in their possession and

also terminate the franchise for an

alleged non-payment of annual

fee.The franchise was bought by

a consortium comprising some

Gujarat-based businessmen for a

whopping Rs 1,550 crore in 2010.

According to the rules, franchises

have to pay the amount in 10

equal installments.

D C A

Former England al l-rounder

cricketer Dominic Cork on 22

september 2011 announced his

retirement from cricket at the age

of 40. Cor k played 37 Test

matches an d 32 On e-Day

Internationals during a career .Cork

made his England debut in a One-

Day International against Pakistan

in 1992, and his Test debut in

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when she beat Williams 6-2 6-

3.Williams, a 13-times grand slam

singles champion, had won four of

her six previous matches against

Stosur .Stosur , seeded ninth,

became th e first Australian

woman to win the U.S. Open title

since Margaret Court in 1973. The

last Australian woman to win any

grand slam wa s Evonne

Goolagong-Cawley at

Wimbledon in 1980.

Stosur , who for the early part of

her career was better known as

a doubles player , emerged as

Australia’s best prospect when

she made the final at the French

Open last year but lost to Italy’sFrancesca Schiavone.

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D A H E C

CH A H

-Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the

Men’s 4x 100 Relay final and seta world record at th e World

Athletics Championships in Daegu,

South Korea on 4 September 2011.Usain Bolt and his Jamaican

team smashed the 4x 100m relay

World record .It wa s Bolt’ssecond gold of th e World

championships after winning the200m crown. On the second day

of th e competition Bol t wa s

disqualified following a false start

thereby shattering his dream of 100m gold.

-Mo Farah of Britain ended thechampionships on a high when he

won the 5,000m gold.H e had

earlier in the competition lost the10,000m title. He crossed the

line in 13 min 23.36sec , jus t0.28sec ahead of his American

rival.

-In yet another show of distance

running power by Kenya, Kirui

crossed the line in 2hr 7min 38sec,

nearly two-and-a-half minutes

ahead of teammate VincentKipruto — the biggest winning

margin in World championships

history. Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa

took bronze.

B C

Kenyan Patrick Makau shattered

the world men’s marathon record

by 21 seconds when he clocked

tw o hours three minutes 38

seconds in Berlin course on 25

September 2011.

Makau ran alone for the final 12

kms to break the previous mark

of 2:03:59 set by Ethiopian Haile

Gebrselassie on the same course.

It was the fifth time the men’s

world record fell on the 42.195-

km race through the heart of the

German capital.Patrick Makau is

a former halfmarathoner , who

broke the 60-minutebarrier mark

a record eight times. His previous

best marathon mark was 2:04:48

in Rotterdam in 2010.Patrick

Makau (Ken) 2hr 3min 38sec

was followed by Stephen Kwelio

(Kenya) in the second and Edwin

Kimaiyo (Kenya ) in the third

position . Makau’s team mate

Florence Kiplagat, the world half -

marathon champion, won the

women’s race in 2:19:44 in her

first completed marathon.

Gebrselassie who had won theBerlin marathon four times,

headed the leading group until just

before the 27-km mark when he

pulled up in obvious pain. He bent

over double but then stepped

back on to the road within a

minute but was unable to finish

the race.

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On the opening day of the 51st

National Open Athletics

Championships, Preeja Sreedharanwo n th e gold medal in th e

10000m race on 10 September

2011 in Kolkata. Competing for

Railways, Sreedharan had earlier

won th e 10000m race in the

Guangzhou Asian Games with a

national record of 31.50.47. Her

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finished a fraction of seconds

behind to earn ONGC a silver

medal.In the men’s 10,000m final

ONGC’s Suresh Kumar clinched

the gold with a timing of 30:18.16.

BAD

A A E

Chen Long claimed his second title

in two weeks on 25 September

2011 when he shocked World

No. 1 Lee Chong Wei to win the

men’s singles badminton title at the

Japan Open.The Chinese fourth

seed ha d earlier emerged

victorious at th e China

Masters .H e dashed th eMalaysian’s defence of the title

with a 21-8, 10-21, 21-19

victory.

In the women’s singles final,

Chinese World champion and No.

1 Wang Yihan whipped th e

eighth-seeded Juliane Schenk of

Germany 21-16, 21-14 in 43

minutes to regain the title she

won in 2008 and 2009.

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B C

Sai Praneeth, the second seeddefeated top seed and Petroleum

teammate Saurabh Varma 21-13,

10-21, 21-16 to win the men’s

singles crown in the IFCI all-India

ranking senior badminton

championship on 5 September 2011.

Sai

Praneeth

also

won

themen’s doubles partnering Nanda

Gopal (AAI).The duo defeated

top seeds Pranav Chopra (PSPB)

and Akshay Dewalkar (AI) in

three well-fought games 22-20,

14-21, 21-15.

The women’s singles wa s a

disappointment. Tanvi Lad failed

to produce the form that carried

her into the final and was defeated

by Sayali Gokhale who kept it

simple and cruised through. Sayali

won over her Air India teammate

21-16, 21-17 in about 45

minutes.

F BA

33 D FED E A C

Salgaocar defeated East Bengal 3-

1 in th e final of th e 33 rd

Federation Cup at the Salt Lake

Stadium in Kolkata on 29September 2011.Salgaocar

became the first non-Kolkata club

to win the premier domestic cup

competition in Indian football

since Mahindra United in

2005.Early goals from Edeh Chidi

an d Francis Fernandes gave

Salgaocar a 2- 0 lead in th e

game.East Bengal tried to come

back in the second half but Ryuji

Sueoka scored the third to ensureSalgaocar’s fourth Fed Cup title.

B B A

Veteran Indian footballer

Baichung Bhutia on 24 August

2011 announced his retirement

from international soccer .He

however will continue to play for

his club that he is currently

associated with,Sikkim

United.Baichung Bhutia made his

debut as a substitute in the 1995

Nehru Cup in Calcutta. In his

career spread over 16 years he

scored 42 goals in 107

international appearances .

Nicknamed the Sikkimese Sniper ,

he is currently contracted by the

club he owns, United Sikkim. He

has thrice in the past been namedIndian Player of the Year .

H is international footballing

honours include winning the Nehru

Cup, LG Cup , South Asian

Football Federation (SAFF)

Championship (three times) and

the Asian Football Confederation

(AFC) Challenge Cup. He is also

India’s most capped player , and

in th e 2009 Nehru Cup he

received his 100th international

cap.He has a stadium named after

him- Baichung Stadium in Namchi,

the district headquarters of South

Sikkim district in the state of

Sikkim, India. He was honoured

with the Arjuna award in 1995

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A A G A D

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won

the Italian Grand Prix .The victory

marked his 18th career win. He is

currently one race away frombeing crowned world champion

for the second year in a row and

at th e ag e of 24 . Victory at

Singapore Grand Prix is to

guarantee him the title.The victory

was his eighth win of 2011.It was

Vettel’s 18 th career win, his

second at this circuit and Red

Bull’s first at Monza.Vettel

currently leads the championship

by 112 points, with 150

remaining. If he scores a win in

Singapore he will be the 2011

world champion and the youngest

ever two times champion at the

ag e of 24.McLaren’s Jenson

Button finished second, while

Alonso was placed third.

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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel of

Germany on 25 September 2011

won the Singapore Formula One

Grand Prix on the Marina Bay

City Circuit in Singapore. Red

Bull’s Sebastian Vettel who held

off a charging Jenson Button to

win the Singapore Grand Prix is

currently one point away from

becoming Formula One’s youngest

double World champion.The 24-year -old German led from pole to

flag an d despite a spirited

challenge over the final five laps

from Button, held on to move 124

points clear of the Briton with just

125 available from the five races

remaining.Vettel won in one hour ,

59 minutes and 6.757 seconds, a

time that signalled the longest and

most arduous race of th e

year .The victory marked Vettel’s

ninth win in this season and the

19th of his career .Force India’s di

Resta finishes career -best sixth

and Adrian Sutil was palced eighth

List of winners:1.Sebastian Vettel

(Re d Bul l-Renault);2.Jenson

Button (McLaren-Mercedes); 3.

Mark Webber (Red Bull-Renault).

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E EA A E

Denmanrk’s golfer Thomas B jorn

on 4 September 2011 secured

back-to-back titles for the firsttime in his career after winning the

European Masters.

B jorn’s 9-under 62 helped him

finish with a 20-under total of 264, four shots clear of

Germany’s Martin Kaymer .H e

thus earned the 333,333 euro

($473,000 U.S.) winner’s

prize.The victory at the European

Masters won him the third title in

a year .The victory came to him a

week after he had won a five-

man playoff at Gleneagles,

Scotland.

G G B

Sri Lankan golfer Anura Rohana

completed pole to finish victory inthe Global Green Bangalore Openon 17 September 2011 thereby

ending a decade-long wait for a

title on Indian soil.He wobbled a

bit but steadied his nerves in

authoritative style.Leading by a

comfortable five shots fromMukesh Kumar overnight, Rohana

overcame a minor blip to finish

with three-under 69 for the round,

and a card of 12-under -276 for the competition. Mukesh finished

second (282) after shooting two-

under 70.

H C E

A A CHA H

India defeated Pakistan 4-2 in the

penalty shoot-out in a nerve-

wrecking final to clinch th e

inaugural Asian Champions

Trophy hockey tournament on 11

September 2011. Goalkeeper S.

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securing victory as he managed

two crucial saves for India. Indian

hockey team is coached byMichael Nobbs.

Rajpal Singh, Danish Mujtaba,

Yuvraj Walmiki and SarvanjitSingh scored for India in the

penalty shootout while

Muhammad Rizwan and Waseem

Ahmed sounded the board for

Pakistan after both the sides were

locked goalless in the regular andextra time.Malaysia bagged

bronze by defeating Japan.

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D C A CH E F A

India’s Deepika Kumari of India

settled for a silver on 25

September 2011 after beingdefeated by China’s Cheng Ming

5- 6 in the tie-breaker of thewomen’s individual recurve

summit clash at the World Cup

archery finals in Istanbul.Deepika

had earlier overcome BerengeneSchuh 6-0 to enter the final. She

had defeated Alejandra Valencia

of Mexico 6- 4 in th e

quarterfinals.It was a very good

start for th e Indian an d th e

Chinese archers in the World Cup

title race. Each got ten points in

the first two arrows. Cheng madethe decisive shot with a 9 while

her opponent only got an 8.

Russian champion and one of the

highest-ranked players in the

world. H e defeated strong

competitors like American Gata

Kamsky and Urkainian Ruslan

Ponomariov earlier in th e

competition.With the victory

Svidler wo n a $96000 prize

money and a ticket to the 2012

world championship

matches.Russia holds the No.1

spot on th e World Chess

Federation’s top-10 list.

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D CE A D F E

GA E E

Star Indian boxer Vijender Singh

won gold and also bagged the

Best Boxer award at the World

Police and Fire Games in New

York. Indian pugilists finished off

a reasonably successful campaign

with two golds, two silvers and a

bronze at the World Police and

Fire Games in New York.Both

Vijender (75kg), an Olympic and

World championship bronzemedallist and Dinesh Kumar

(81kg) won gold.

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A A ABADD E

The Indian kabaddi team lifted its

first-ever Circle Style Asian

kabaddi title on 27 September

2011 by defeating arch-rivals

Pakistan 53-38 at Tabriz inIran.India and Pakistan were

almost on even terms at the half -

time score of 24-22, but in the

second half India dominated

proceedings leeading to a huge

15-point difference.It is for the

first time that the championship

was played outside India. Eight

Kumari’s performance was hailed

by the Tata Archery Academy

an d Jharkhand Archery

Association .The Archery

Association of India (AAI) in the

meanwhile announced a prize

purse of Rs 4 lakh for a four -day

trial for the 17th Asian Archery

Championship.The men’s title on

the other hand was won by the

reigning World No 1, Brady

Ellison of the US, defeating Dia

Xiaoxiang of China 6-2.

CH E

CH E D C

Russian grandmaster Peter Svidler

won the Chess World Cup title on

20 September after winning a

four -game final against hi s

compatriot Alexander Grischuk.

Khanty-Mansiysk (Russia) an

industrial town hosted over 120

world’s greatest chess players

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nations participated in th e

championship.

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B F D E E

CH A H BA GA E

International Billiards & Snooker

Federation (IBSF) aanounced on

28 September 2011 its decision

to shift the venue for IBSF World

Men’s Snooker Championship

from Bahrain to Bangalore. IBSF

World Men’s Snooker

Championship is scheduled to be

held from 28 November to 3

December 2011.

Due to prolonged crisis in some

parts of Middle East Asia, the

IBSF decided to move th e

tournament out of Bahrain and

grant the hosting rights to India.

The IBSF held a lot of discussions

with the Chinese federation, tryingto work out the schedule of the

tournament but due to clash of

dates with SEA Games, Arab

Games and the proposed IBSF

World 6-Red Snooker in India,

the association finally had to

amend th e proposed 6- Red

Snooker and decided to hold the

event only in the men’s category.

IBSF however assured that since

the competition will not be held in

Women and Masters categories

this2011,

it will

give

an

extra

slotto these sections in the 2012

World Championships.

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C E CE & ED C E

Union Minister of State (I /C), for

Youth Affairs & Sports Shri A jay

Maken announced the decision to

Sports Sciences (CIS S), th e

NISSM, apart from other inputs,

emanates from a series of bi-

lateral endeavors between India

and China over the past year and

a half . On 23rd September , 2011,

Shri Maken met with Mr . Liu

Peng, Director of State General

Administration of Sports at the

headquarters of State General

Administration of Sports in Beijing

and discussed the areas for further

enhancing the bilateral relations &

increased cooperation in the field

of sports as envisaged in the

MoU signed between tw o

countries.A clear road map with

date lines has been prepared toestablish this Institute, at the

estimated cost of Rs. 200 crore.

Apart from this Rs. 100 crore will

be provided for strengthening the

existing Sports Science an d

Medicine infrastructure at various

SAI Centres an d augmenting

linkages with them. Shri Maken

said that NISSM is expected to

cater to integration of Sports

Sciences into coaching curriculumand teaching of sports coaches

through it s inter -disciplinary

studies departments and Quality

Assurance wing.He also stressed

the need to include Certificate

courses and bridge programmes

for sportspersons. This Institute

would be headed by a Director ,

equivalent to a Vice-Chancellor of

a Central University. A Search

Committee will be appointed to

identify an d recommend the

name / s of person to Head this

Institute. The NISSM will work in

close partnership with national

and international partners from

UK , USA, China, Australia ,

Germany , Korea an d South

Africa.It will be function under

set up the National Institute of

Sports Science and Medicine

(NISSM).Premised at the Jawahar

Lal Nehru (JLN) Stadium in the

Capital, the Institute will aim atfostering th e much needed

disciplines of Physiology,

Psychology , Nutrition, Bio -

chemistry, Biomedical, Anthro-

pometry and Sports Medicine,

with the purpose of providing

cutting edge excellence to Indian

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the Ministry of Youth Affairs &

Sports.

H

Shri Maken also informed that the

SAI had prepared the conceptpaper for establishing the NationalInstitute of Hockey at the Dhyan

Chand Stadium and works to this

effect will start at the earliest.The

Institute will interact with the best

Hockey / Sports Institutes in the

world and will also follow thetraining regime of the Olympic

Medal winner athletes in the

world. After collecting intelligence

about their training schedules andplay strategies, th e Institute

would design customized training,

coaching an d recovery

programmes for our top athletes.

The Institute will also try to imbibe

such innovative an d modern

advancement in recovery

techniques which are still not

known to us. It will also work onthe development of cost effective

sports equipment an d goods

specially suited to the physical

parameters of our athletes.

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D . . .

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Similarly, the JLN Stadium, New

Delhi will be developed as a

Football Hub and Stadium withspecialized pitch / turf in its central

periphery. To this effect th e

Sports Authority of India (SAI)

will sign a Memorandum of

Understanding (MoU) with the All

India Football Federation (AIFF)

on October 5, 2011 in th e

presence of Shri A jay Maken and

the President, AIFF and Minister

for Heavy Industries, Shri Praful

Patel.Apart from other things, theMoU will provide for AIFF laying

the turf and using the stadium for

40 days in an year for hosting of

international tournaments, national

tournaments and coaching camps

and clinics relating to Football. In

this regard the Ministry has given

in principle approval to th e

proposal of AIFF to host th e

forthcoming SAF football

tournament during 2nd to 13th

December , 2011 at JLN stadium.

C &

After the successful launch and

implementation of the Come and

Play Scheme at the SAI Stadiums

in the Capital, which witness morethan 12000 children and sports

lovers benefitting, it has been

decided to launch the Come and

Play scheme nationally on

October 9, 2011. Having tested

the success of the scheme here in

Delhi, the same is being replicated

across the nation through all the

regional / sub-centres / institutions /

STCs and SAG Centres of Sports

Authority of India (SAI).Thescheme which will be launched by

Minister of Social Justice and

Empowerment at the Jawahar Lal

Nehru Stadium in the Capital.

There will be close monitoring of

performance and children with

promise will further be inducted

to the various schemes as per the

defined selection criteria thereby

creating a pool / nursery of talent to

be further caste into International

Athlete.

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