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NEW DELHI:  National team skipper Virt Kohli, senior batsman Rohit Sharma and fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah have been incuded in the top most category of the Board of Control for in India's (BCCI) list of central contracts.

MUMBAI: Mumbai City FC coach Jorge Costa has got an extension after guiding the team to the Indian Super League (ISL) semifinals. As of now, the Portuguese coach will nurture the side for one more season, with an eye on the ISL finals and eventually the title, a statement said.

BIRATNAGAR (NEPAL): The Indian team is all set to face Bangladesh in the semi-final of the SAFF Women's Championship at the Sahid Rangashala Stadium here on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: The schedule of the group stages of the 12th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is out with all eight teams playing seven home matches at their respective home venues.

 Four Chandigarh players, Anil Sondhi, Varun Sharma, Aashish Sharma and Deepak Sharma, have been selected by the Badminton Association of India to represent the country at the World Masters Badminton Championships to be held in Poland in August this year. These players were selected based on their outstanding performance at the recently concluded National Masters/Veterans Championships at Goa.

Top seed Ayushmaan Arjeria from Madhya Pradesh lifted boys under-14 singles title in the Road to Wimbledon Junior Masters at the grass courts of Chandigarh Club in Sector 1 here today. Ayushmaan Arjeria defeated Bushan Haobam from Manipur in a 3 setter marathon match by 6-7(4), 7-6(3), 7-5.

NEW DELHI: International Football Federation (FIFA) has announced India as new hosts for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020. The decision was taken at the FIFA Council held in Miami on Friday (March 15, 2019).

CHANDIGARH: Hosts Panjab University, Chandigarh made a clean sweep by their men and women claimed the teams titles in Sanda as well as Taolu on the final day of the All India Inter University Washu (M&W) Championship at the PU Gymnasium here on Saturday.
In the Sanda team championship, the Panjab University men logged 44 points and their women team collected 19 points to emerge champions.

CHANDIGARH: Bushan Haobam from Manipur and top seed Ayushmaan Athreya from Madhya Pradesh moved into final of boys under-14 Road-to-Wimbledon Junior Masters being conducted by Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association on the grass courts of Chandigarh Club in Sector 1 here.

It turned out to be an unbelievable week for Bangladesh’s Md Zamal Hossain Mollah who stole the show on the final day of the inaugural Bengal Open Golf Championship 2019 Presented By West Bengal Tourism & Powered By Tollygunge Club.

Third seeded Indian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan lost a closely fought marathon doubles quarter-final match against American pair of Jamie Cerretani and Nicholas Monroe 6-7 (3), 7-6 (7) 12-10 in the $ 162,480 ATP Challenger at The Phoenix Country Club, Phoenix (Arizona) on Friday.

CHANDIGARH: Bushan Haobam from Manipur and top seed Ayushmaan Athreya from Madhya Pradesh moved into final of boys under-14 Road-to-Wimbledon Junior Masters being conducted by Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association on the grass courts of Chandigarh Club in Sector 1 here.

Third seeded Indian pair of Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan defeaetd Peter Polansky of Canada and Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium in the & 162,480 ATP Challenger at The Phoenix Country Club, Phoenix (Arizona).

 Panjab University won the dual (women as well as men) titles on the third day of the All India Inter University Wushu (M&W) Championship being hosted by Panjab University, Chandigarh here today.

The last ODI series before the World Cup might not have gone as planned for the Indians. They lost to Australia 3-2. However, skipper Virat Kohli is happy with the experimentation the team did ahead of the World Cup in England.

CHANDIGARH:  Ayushmaan Athreya (MP) defeated Wyatt Rowan Obrien (WB) 6-3, 6-1 in Group A league match in the Road to Wimbledon (RTW) Junior Masters for boys under 14 years  being conducted by Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association on the grass courts of Chandigarh Club, from   March 11 to 16.

Poornima Rajak of Rani Durgawati University-Jabalpur finished first in Changquan 3rd Set for Women on the opening day of the All India Inter University Wushu (Men & Women) Championship at Panjab University Gymnasium Hall, here today.

 Target manufacturer Rinehart has extended its gold-level sponsorship of World Archery for an additional two years, taking the partnership through to the end of 2020. Rinehart has designed and manufactured top-tier 3D targets since 1999.

Indian qualifier Prajnesh Gunneswaran put up a stiff resistance, specially in the second set, before losing to Ivo Karlovic of Croatia in two sets 6-3, 7-6 (3) in the singles third round encounter in the $8,359,455 Indian Wells ATP Masters 1000 at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, United States here on Monday.

CHANDIGARH: MA Khan of DRDO won the veteran men singles 40 + title and Harish Kumar Kakkar of PAG (Audit) Haryana claimed the twin titles of veteran men singles and doubles both in the 50 + category. Subhash Chander Sharma also won the twin titles in the veteran men singles and foubles in the 60 + category.