subject ...............english
subject.................GK

On 11/13/09, Harish Sati <harish.sati@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sports News in Brief: January-February 2009
> ARCHERY
> National Championship, 16th: Jharkhand topped the medal tally followed by
> Services and Assam. Jharkhand bagged five medals—two gold, two silver, one
> bronze.
>
> ATHLETICS
> Mumbai Marathon, 2009: Eager to put behind November 2008's terror attacks in
> Mumbai, more than 43,000 people thronged the streets to participate in the
> Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. In men's section Kenya's Kenneth Mun
> Gara won. In the women's event, Ethiopia's Haille Kebebush was winner.
>
> CRICKET
> West Indies-New Zealand One-Day Series:New Zealand beat the West Indies by
> five wickets via Duckworth-Lewis in a rain-shortened fifth and final ODI to
> win the five-match series 2-1.
>
> Australia-South Africa One-Day Series: Australia were dethroned as the
> number one team in one-dayers by South Africa who demolished the hosts by 39
> runs in the fifth and final match to clinch the ODI series with an emphatic
> 4-1 margin.
> Jacques Kallis became the second all-rounder to aggregate 10,000 runs and
> bag 200 wickets or more in ODIs. Sri Lanka's Sanath Jayasuriya was the first
> to achieve this feat.
>
> Pakistan-Sri Lanka One-Day Series: Sri Lanka bull-dozed Pakistan by 235 runs
> in the third and final match to win the three-match series 2-1. Pakistan's
> defeat was the second biggest in terms of runs suffered by a Test-playing
> nation in ODIs.
>
> Sri Lanka-India One-Day Series: An all-round display by the Indian team
> helped them to win the five-match series 4-1. M.S. Dhoni became the most
> successful Indian captain with this series victory. Dhoni also established
> an Indian record for most wins (9) in succession. For Sri Lanka, Jayasuriya
> became the oldest centurion in one-day internationals and went past the
> 13,000-run mark during the series.
>
> Ranji Trophy: There was no stopping the Mumbai juggernaut from rolling to
> victory in the 75th edition of Ranji Trophy. Mumbai crushed Uttar Pradesh by
> 243 runs to record their 38th title win in the competition.
>
> Duleep Trophy: West Zone defeated South Zone to win the Duleep Trophy for
> the 15th time.
>
> CYCLING
> National Track Cycling Championship: Kerala won the overall team
> championship Trophy. Punjab was placed second. The men's Trophy was bagged
> by Railways, while Punjab stood second. In women's section the Kerala eves
> gained the top slot while Manipur was second.
>
> FOOTBALL
> Ronaldo crowned player of the year: Cristiano Ronaldo has been crowned world
> player of the year, making him the first Europe- based footballer to win the
> FIFA award since its inception in 1991. It gives the 23-year-old a clean
> sweep of all recognized major individual and club honours available to a
> footballer.
>
> TABLE TENNIS
> National Championship, 70th: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal retained the
> men's singles title for the Maharaja Pithapuram Cup, while top seed K.
> Shamini lifted the Travancore Cup by winning the women's singles
> competition.
> TENNIS
> Australian Open, 2009:
> Men's Singles title: Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer.
> Women's Singles title: Serena Williams beat Dinara Safina (Russia).
> Men's Doubles title: Bob and Mike Bryan beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark
> Knowles.
> Women's Doubles title: Serena and Venus Williams.
> Mixed Doubles title: Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza.
> The win gave Sania her first Grand Slam title and Bhupathi his seventh
> mixed-doubles crown and 11th Grand slam title.
> Yuki Bhambri created history by becoming the fourth Indian to win a junior
> Grand Slam title, when he won the boys' final.
>
> Chennai Open 2009: Marin Cilic of Croatia beat Somdev Devvarman to win the
> title. Americans Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram won the doubles title.
>
>
> --
> with warm regards
>
> Harish Sati
> Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
> Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110068
>
> (M) + 91 - 9990646343 | (E-mail) Harish.sati@gmail.com
>
> >
>

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