Short Corner — Chandigarh

Indian women bag gold in 4 X 100 relayIndia's hopes for a gold medal seemed to have dried up as PT Usha was demolished by an inspired Yan...

Indian women bag gold in 4 X 100 relay
India’s hopes for a gold medal seemed to have dried up as PT Usha was demolished by an inspired Yan Jiankui, who was on a sprint double, but the superstar herself seemed quite happy with a double bronze, saying, her real target was the Asian Games. She simply picked up her bag and back she went to the warm-up track for the 4 x 100m relay.

England desperate
England have brought in five new players for the fourth Test against South Africa at Trent Bridge starting tomorrow in a desperate bid to level the five-Test series. South Africa, on the other hand, are likely to make only one change with all-rounder Shaun Pollock available after missing the last Test due to a thigh injury.

Anand tamed
Rebel, the pentium-powered Dutch chess programme outclassed world number two human Viswanathan Anand 4.5-1.5 in rapid chess games of the eight-match exhibition tie in Ischia Islands last night. Grandmaster Anand, who otherwise is at ease with the machines, could not come to terms with astonishing speed with which Rebel made its moves.

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Neelima in
Neelima Choudary of Andhra Pradesh who runner-up to Aparna Popat in the BPL all-India badminton championships which concluded on Wednesday, was picked as the seventh woman shuttler for the Commonwealth Games to be held in Kuala Lumpur in September.

Gopi champ
Showing no effects of the knee injury which had kept him out of the Asian Satellite Badminton Tournament Chennai, top seed P Gopichand of Indian Oil Corporation successfully defended his title getting the better of third seed Nikhil Kanetkar in straight sets 15-7, 15-9 to win the BPL all-India Open badminton title today. Aparna Popat reigned supreme in the women’s section.

PSB win
It was so near yet so far for Punjab and Sind Bank, Jalandhar, who needed to beat the Services by a six-goal margin, but eventually managed only a 6-2 win in the All India MCC Gold Cup hockey.