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August 22, 2008

Vijender kumar punched out

India gets another bronze after loosing Vijendra Kumar in semi-final boxing ring 75 kg category.

Indian boxer Vijender Kumar settled for a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics after being out-punched by Cuban Emilio Correa Bayeaux in the semi-finals of the 75 kg category in Beijing on Friday.

The 22-year-old was simply out-thought by his Cuban rival who negated the height and reach advantage of Vijender by fighting from a long range to score an 8-5 win.
The world is now scared to face Indian boxers: Vijender

But even in defeat, Vijender has made history, becoming the only Indian boxer to clinch an Olympic medal.

Vijender, who also won bronze at the Doha Asian Games, struggled to connect his punches and was trailing from the very start.

In fact he failed to score a single point in the opening round, which ended 2-0 in the Cuban’s favour.

Forced to play the catch-up game, Vijender managed a slight recovery in the second round as he reduced the deficit to just one point ending the second round 3-4 behind.
Sushil Kumar grapples to glory

Bayeaux stuck to his strategy of back-paddling after landing punches, most of which were straight and more importantly precise.

The Cuban’s lightening fast reflexes thwarted Vijender’s attacks and the Indian once again failed to score in the third round.

The decider saw a desperate Vijender on the offensive but the Cuban survived the brief assault, although earning a two-point penalty for committing a foul, leaving the scoreline 8-5.

August 21, 2008

Medal tally 21 August

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In the mid July Airtel suffers with some problem (Still we don’t know what the actual cause is) and hence the result is that all outgoing and incoming calls are bard by the Airtel in Mumbai region since 17 July to 28 July 2008. All Airtel consumers suffers for this f**king action (Airtel consumers didn’t get any compensation against these fault. Because these fault is Airtels internal fault not by the consumers so Airtel need to be compensate all consumers in Mumbai Region). But during this period I bought new MTNL card.

One example:
Suppose that If my validity expires today then after 12 O’clock midnight all incoming and outgoing calls are bard by Airtel they didn’t wait for next morning.

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Rank	NOC Name	Men				Women				Open/Mixed				Total
Rank	NOC Name	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T
1	CHN – China	20	7	5	32	25	8	15	48			1	1	45	15	21	81
2	USA – United States	14	8	14	36	12	18	14	44	1	2		3	27	28	28	83
3	GBR – Great Britain	9	7	4	20	7	4	5	16	1		2	3	17	11	11	39
4	RUS – Russian Fed.	7	5	14	26	7	9	4	20					14	14	18	46
5	AUS – Australia	3	5	7	15	8	6	6	20		2		2	11	13	13	37
6	GER – Germany	5	5	4	14	3	2	4	9	3	1	2	6	11	8	10	29
7	KOR – Korea	5	6	3	14	2	4	3	9	1			1	8	10	6	24
8	JPN – Japan	4	4	4	12	4	2	5	11					8	6	9	23
9	ITA – Italy	2	5	4	11	4	2	4	10					6	7	8	21
10	UKR – Ukraine	3	3	4	10	2	2	4	8					5	5	8	18
11	NED – Netherlands	1		2	3	3	4	2	9	1	1		2	5	5	4	14
12	FRA – France	4	11	11	26		1	2	3			1	1	4	12	14	30
13	ESP – Spain	3	2	1	6		2	1	3	1	1		2	4	5	2	11
14	JAM – Jamaica	2			2	2	3		5					4	3		7
15	ROU – Romania			1	1	4	1	2	7					4	1	3	8
16	POL – Poland	3	4		7			1	1					3	4	1	8
17	NZL – New Zealand	1	1	5	7	2			2					3	1	5	9
18	SVK – Slovakia	2			2	1	1		2					3	1		4
19	CAN – Canada	1	4	2	7	1	1	3	5		1		1	2	6	5	13
20	KEN – Kenya	1	1	2	4	1	3		4					2	4	2	8
21	BLR – Belarus	1	2	4	7	1	1	4	6					2	3	8	13
22	CZE – Czech Republic	1	2		3	1	1		2					2	3		5
23	DEN – Denmark	1	1	1	3			1	1	1		1	2	2	1	3	6
23	PRK – DPR Korea			1	1	2	1	2	5					2	1	3	6
25	ETH – Ethiopia	1	1		2	1			1					2	1		3
26	SUI – Switzerland	2		2	4			1	1					2		3	5
27	GEO – Georgia	2		1	3			1	1					2		2	4
28	CUB – Cuba	1		3	4		6	3	9					1	6	6	13
29	KAZ – Kazakhstan	1	1	2	4		2	2	4					1	3	4	8
30	NOR – Norway	1	2		3		1	1	2			1	1	1	3	2	6
31	ZIM – Zimbabwe					1	3		4					1	3		4
32	AZE – Azerbaijan	1	2	1	4			1	1					1	2	2	5
32	SLO – Slovenia	1	1	1	3		1	1	2					1	2	2	5
34	TUR – Turkey	1		1	2		2		2					1	2	1	4
35	BRA – Brazil	1	1	3	5			2	2					1	1	5	7
36	BUL – Bulgaria			3	3	1	1		2					1	1	3	5
36	INA – Indonesia	1		2	3			1	1		1		1	1	1	3	5
38	FIN – Finland			1	1	1	1		2					1	1	1	3
39	EST – Estonia	1	1		2									1	1		2
39	MGL – Mongolia	1			1		1		1					1	1		2
39	THA – Thailand					1	1		2					1	1		2
42	ARG – Argentina	1			1			1	1			1	1	1		2	3
43	IND – India	1		1	2									1		1	2
43	MEX – Mexico	1			1			1	1					1		1	2
45	BRN – Bahrain	1			1									1			1
45	CMR – Cameroon					1			1					1			1
45	PAN – Panama	1			1									1			1
45	TUN – Tunisia	1			1									1			1
49	HUN – Hungary		4		4			1	1						4	1	5
50	SWE – Sweden		2	1	3		1		1						3	1	4
51	UZB – Uzbekistan		2	2	4			1	1						2	3	5
52	AUT – Austria		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
52	GRE – Greece		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
52	LTU – Lithuania			2	2		1		1						1	2	3
55	ALG – Algeria		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
55	COL – Colombia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
55	CRO – Croatia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
55	KGZ – Kyrgyzstan		1	1	2										1	1	2
55	SRB – Serbia		1	1	2										1	1	2
60	CHI – Chile		1		1										1		1
60	DOM – Dominican Rep.		1		1										1		1
60	ECU – Ecuador		1		1										1		1
60	MAS – Malaysia		1		1										1		1
60	POR – Portugal						1		1						1		1
60	RSA – South Africa		1		1										1		1
60	SIN – Singapore						1		1						1		1
60	TRI – Trinidad/Tobago		1		1										1		1
60	VIE – Vietnam		1		1										1		1
69	ARM – Armenia			5	5											5	5
70	TPE – Chinese Taipei			1	1			2	2							3	3
71	AFG – Afghanistan			1	1											1	1
71	EGY – Egypt			1	1											1	1
71	IRI – Iran			1	1											1	1
71	ISR – Israel			1	1											1	1
71	LAT – Latvia			1	1											1	1
71	MAR – Morocco							1	1							1	1
71	TJK – Tajikistan			1	1											1	1
71	TOG – Togo			1	1											1	1
71	VEN – Venezuela							1	1							1	1
Total:		114	114	134	362	98	99	110	307	9	9	9	27	221	222	253	696

August 20, 2008

Boxer Vijender ensures another medal for India

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Boxer Vijender ensures another medal for India

Vijender Kumar ensured another medal for India at the Beijing Olympics when he beat Carlos Gongora of Ecuador in the quarter-finals of the 75 kg category in the boxing competition on Wednesday.

The victory assures him and India at least a bronze medal.

Earlier in the evening, just as the country celebrated wrestler Sushil Kumar’s bronze medal victory in men’s 66kg freestyle event, another Indian pugilist, Jitender Kumar, went down fighting to Russia’s Georgy Balakshin in the quarter-finals of the 51 kg category.

‘The world is now scared to face Indian boxers’

The Bhiwani pugilist, one of India’s best medal hopes at the Games, was ahead in all the four rounds and deservedly clinched a 9-4 verdict.

The Ecuadorean had no answer to the Indian’s flurry of punches and trailed 1-4 in the second round.

Vijender repeatedly scored with left-hand jabs and uppercuts to which Carlos had no answer.

With the score reading 7-2 in Vijender’s favour after the penultimate round, the Ecuadorean needed to go all out in the fourth and final round. Though he did narrow the gap, Vijender’s evading tactics and good defence clinched him victory.

Vijender won the opening round 2-0, the second round 2-1, the third 3-2 and 2-1.

He made it to the last eight stage after overwhelming Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand 13-3 in a lop-sided pre-quarter-final on Saturday night.

Earlier in the competition, he thoroughly dominated his opening bout against Gambia’s Jack Badou, scoring a facile 13-2 win.

If his recent performances are anything go by then expecting a medal from Vijender Singh at the Beijing Olympics should not come as a big surprise.

After all, it was only a couple of months that the 22-year-old boxer thrashed reigning Olympic champion Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan (12:7) in the quarter-finals of the President’s Cup.

The 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne saw Vijender come to the fore, as he won the silver medal. He followed it up with a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.

A back injury threatened to put his preparations off track, but the youngster recovered in time to strike gold at the Olympics qualifier in Kazakhstan.

With as many as four boxers having qualified for the Olympics, Vijender believes that the pugilists could be India’s best bet for a medal at next month’s Games. He lost in the first round at the 2004 Olympics at Athens, but is confident of erasing that nightmare with a top-notch performance.

‘I believe this time we boxers have the best chance to win a medal at the Olympics,’ Vijender claims.

Tell us about your preparations for the Olympics?

The preparations are going on quite well. The climate is very hot here in Patiala, where the boxers going to the Olympics are having a camp, but it does not bothering us. We are preparing well. All the boys are fit and training well.

Can you tell us in detail what exactly is going on at the camp, since there are only a couple of weeks left for the mega event?

We are following a rigorous training schedule leading up the Olympics. All our coaches and officials from the Indian Boxing Federation are giving us good support and looking after us well. We have been having sparring fights amongst ourselves everyday, since the last three weeks. We have three sessions of training daily to ensure that our intensity level is always high.

We all have our individual coaches, who give us personal attention. At the same time, we also look to guard against injury or any type of sickness. We take care on the food we intake and water we drink. Care has to be taken in everything we do. Any injury at this time will be very harmful.

What are your targets for the Games?

My target is to do well at the Olympics. I am hoping to do well, because I have the necessary experience. I believe this time we have the best chance for us to win a medal at the Olympics. That is why all the boxers are extra-motivated in training and looking forward to it.

You did not do well at the last Olympics in 2004. What went wrong?

I did not do well the last time because then I was young and did not have the experience. I have just made it to the senior level and qualified for the Olympics. Now I have the experience. I have won medals at major tournaments like the Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. Recently, I also beat the 2004 Olympic Games gold medallist [Bakhtiyar] Artayev [in the AIBA President’s Cup], so I have done quite well at the international level. So, definitely, everyone can expect a good showing from me in Beijing.

How has your journey been since that disappointing showing in Athens?

Now I have quite a lot of experience after competing at the international level regularly. I just want to say that Indian boxers are no longer a weak lot; all are doing well at the international level. Our boxing graph is going up all the time and the rest of the world is now scared to face Indian boxers.

Did you ever think that you would register such an easy victory (12-7) against the current Olympic champion Atrayev at the President’s Cup recently?

It is never easy against any boxer when you step in the ring, because they can also punch. There is nothing like an easy opponent, but definitely there is the question of confidence that makes you believe that you can beat your opponent.

Against Atrayev, I was quite confident going into the match and it helped. In fact, I was gunning for revenge against him because I lost to him at the [2006] Asian Games. So, it was quite special to beat him. I think that victory is the biggest achievement of my career so far.

You won bronze in the 2006 Asian Games and then lost in the semi-finals of the President’s Cup despite beating the current Olympic champion in the previous round. Do you feel nerves get the better of you ahead of important matches?

There is definitely some nervousness, but it is mainly the quarter-final matches, when you are fighting to get into the medal round; those are real tough matches. Once you enter the semi-final stages, and are assured of a medal, you get a bit relaxed. The bouts which I have lost in important tournaments have all been quite close ones.

So you cannot say that nervousness was the only reason, because I have performed well but lost by just a couple of points.

If you see that semi-final bout in the President’s Cup, which I lost, it was definitely interesting. At one stage I was leading by around four points, but somehow I was made to drop those four points and I still don’t know why. If you do not believe me, you can ask our chief coach Gurbax Singh Sandhu. People can stand outside the ring and make analysis, but only if one enters the rings can they know how tough it is.

So have you been working on your mental toughness?

Yes, I have been preparing to get mentally tough. I have been doing meditation and visualisation of my fights. I am doing everything I can to get my mental focus on track.

How was the stint you underwent in Germany recently, when you practiced with German boxers and also took part in a few tournaments?

All the top boxers from around Europe participated in the tournament in Germany. It was a good experience. There also I did well and won a gold in one of the events. In the process I also beat a German boxer. Overall, the experience in Germany was quite helpful.

How would rate the Indian boxing team? We will have four boxers fighting for medals.

I am very confident that they will do well. Where there is hope, there is definitely a way to achieve it. We are under pressure as we are also trying to live up to the expectations of the Indian public. Indian boxers are doing well, making a name on the world stage, so it becomes necessary that we win a medal in Beijing.

The cream of the boxing world will be at the Olympics, but we are prepared to do well against them. Our main opponents will be from Kazakhstan, Cuba and Russia ; we will need to guard against them.

Vijender stuns Olympic champion Artayev

India’s Vijender Singh stunned the boxing fraternity by comprehensively defeating Olympic gold medallist Bakhtiyar Artayev of Kazakhstan in the quarter-finals of the AIBA President’s Cup boxing tournament in Taipei on Tuesday.

Vijender won the bout on points 12:7 in the 75-kg category, thus proving that his recent performances have not been a flash in the pan.

The first AIBA President’s Cup opened on Sunday in the Hsinchuang Stadium Taipei County in Sinjhuang City, Taipei. Only those who have qualified for the Beijing Olympics are eligible to participate. Many of the world’s top boxers are participating in the event, which finishes on May 31, some using the tournament as a final hit-out prior to the Olympic Games in Beijing, China. A total of 126 boxers from 26 countries are competing across the 11 weight categories with the semifinals and finals to be held after Thursday’s rest day on Friday and Saturday respectively.

The Indian Contingent of four Olympic Qualified boxers had mixed fortunes at this prestigious run up to the Olympics. On the opening day Anthresh Lalit Lakra lost to Dmytro Bulenkov of Ukraine in the 57-kg category. On Tuesday, Jitender lost to Yunusov Anvar of Tajkistan on points 5:9 in a hard hitting exciting encounter.

Dinesh Kumar is slated to meet Abbos Atoeve of Uzbekistan on Wednesday, who is the current world champion in 81-kg category.

Vijender’s victory against the Olympic Gold Medalist is all the more sweet revenge as he had lost a very close bout against Artayev at the Doha Asian Games in December 2006 in the semi finals.

However on Tuesday it was a different story. Vijender was leading throughout the four rounds and coach G S Sandhu was exuberant while describing Vijender’s victory. He stated that Vijender was as cool as a cucumber and flustered his famed opponent with deft movements and lightning fast straight punches and jabs to the front of the face and side of the body.

The Kazakh could not read Vijender’s style and despite a last minute flurry and hectic trade of punches could not match Vijender in the ring.

Vijender now meets Angkhan Chomphuphuang of Thailand in the semi-finals on Friday.

August 20, 2008

Medal tally 20 August

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India’s second medal in Beijing olympic. When Sushil kumar wins bronze medal in Men’s Freestyle 66kg against Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan. Gold medlist is Ramazan Shahin of Turkey, defeating Ukraine’s Andry Stadnik (Silver) in the final. Beijing Olympics are most successful olympic for india because in individual games indian athelets wins two medals one gold and one bronze. and we hope that Indian player will perform well in near future. India Wons 8 gold medals in Hockey. last gold medal was in Moscow 1980’s olympic held in russia and many country boycott the Moscow olympic due to Cold war with US. but after that India does not collect any medal in olympic till 1992.
India beat SriLanks by 3 wicket in 2nd ODI..
Rank	NOC Name	Men				Women				Open/Mixed				Total
Rank	NOC Name	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T	G	S	B	T
1	CHN – China	20	7	5	32	25	7	13	44			1	1	45	14	19	77
2	USA – United States	14	7	13	34	11	17	14	42	1	2		3	26	26	27	79
3	GBR – Great Britain	8	6	4	18	7	4	4	15	1		2	3	16	10	10	36
4	RUS – Russian Fed.	7	5	14	26	6	9	4	19					13	14	18	45
5	AUS – Australia	3	5	7	15	8	6	5	19		1		1	11	12	12	35
6	GER – Germany	5	5	3	13	3	2	4	9	3	1	2	6	11	8	9	28
7	KOR – Korea	5	6	3	14	2	4	3	9	1			1	8	10	6	24
8	JPN – Japan	4	4	4	12	4	2	5	11					8	6	9	23
9	ITA – Italy	2	5	4	11	4	2	3	9					6	7	7	20
10	UKR – Ukraine	3	3	4	10	2	2	4	8					5	5	8	18
11	FRA – France	4	11	11	26		1	2	3			1	1	4	12	14	30
12	NED – Netherlands			2	2	3	4	2	9	1	1		2	4	5	4	13
13	ROU – Romania			1	1	4	1	2	7					4	1	3	8
14	ESP – Spain	3	2	1	6		2	1	3		1		1	3	5	2	10
15	POL – Poland	3	4		7			1	1					3	4	1	8
16	NZL – New Zealand	1	1	5	7	2			2					3	1	5	9
17	SVK – Slovakia	2			2	1	1		2					3	1		4
18	CAN – Canada	1	4	2	7	1	1	3	5		1		1	2	6	5	13
19	KEN – Kenya	1	1	2	4	1	3		4					2	4	2	8
20	CZE – Czech Republic	1	2		3	1	1		2					2	3		5
20	JAM – Jamaica	1			1	1	3		4					2	3		5
22	DEN – Denmark	1	1	1	3			1	1	1		1	2	2	1	3	6
22	PRK – DPR Korea			1	1	2	1	2	5					2	1	3	6
24	ETH – Ethiopia	1	1		2	1			1					2	1		3
25	SUI – Switzerland	2		2	4			1	1					2		3	5
26	GEO – Georgia	2		1	3			1	1					2		2	4
27	CUB – Cuba	1		3	4		5	2	7					1	5	5	11
28	BLR – Belarus	1	2	4	7		1	4	5					1	3	8	12
29	KAZ – Kazakhstan	1	1	2	4		2	2	4					1	3	4	8
30	ZIM – Zimbabwe					1	3		4					1	3		4
31	AZE – Azerbaijan	1	2	1	4			1	1					1	2	2	5
31	NOR – Norway	1	2		3			1	1			1	1	1	2	2	5
31	SLO – Slovenia	1	1	1	3		1	1	2					1	2	2	5
34	TUR – Turkey	1		1	2		2		2					1	2	1	4
35	BUL – Bulgaria			3	3	1	1		2					1	1	3	5
35	INA – Indonesia	1		2	3			1	1		1		1	1	1	3	5
37	FIN – Finland			1	1	1	1		2					1	1	1	3
38	EST – Estonia	1	1		2									1	1		2
38	MGL – Mongolia	1			1		1		1					1	1		2
40	BRA – Brazil	1		3	4			2	2					1		5	6
41	ARG – Argentina	1			1			1	1					1		1	2
41	IND – India	1		1	2									1		1	2
43	BRN – Bahrain	1			1									1			1
43	CMR – Cameroon					1			1					1			1
43	PAN – Panama	1			1									1			1
43	THA – Thailand					1			1					1			1
43	TUN – Tunisia	1			1									1			1
48	HUN – Hungary		4		4			1	1						4	1	5
49	SWE – Sweden		2		2		1		1						3		3
50	UZB – Uzbekistan		2	2	4			1	1						2	3	5
51	AUT – Austria		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
51	GRE – Greece		1		1			2	2						1	2	3
51	LTU – Lithuania			2	2		1		1						1	2	3
54	ALG – Algeria		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
54	COL – Colombia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
54	CRO – Croatia		1		1			1	1						1	1	2
54	KGZ – Kyrgyzstan		1	1	2										1	1	2
54	SRB – Serbia		1	1	2										1	1	2
59	CHI – Chile		1		1										1		1
59	ECU – Ecuador		1		1										1		1
59	MAS – Malaysia		1		1										1		1
59	POR – Portugal						1		1						1		1
59	RSA – South Africa		1		1										1		1
59	SIN – Singapore						1		1						1		1
59	TRI – Trinidad/Tobago		1		1										1		1
59	VIE – Vietnam		1		1										1		1
67	ARM – Armenia			5	5											5	5
68	TPE – Chinese Taipei							2	2							2	2
69	EGY – Egypt			1	1											1	1
69	IRI – Iran			1	1											1	1
69	ISR – Israel			1	1											1	1
69	LAT – Latvia			1	1											1	1
69	MAR – Morocco							1	1							1	1
69	MEX – Mexico							1	1							1	1
69	TJK – Tajikistan			1	1											1	1
69	TOG – Togo			1	1											1	1
Total:		110	110	129	349	93	94	103	290	8	8	8	24	211	212	240	663

August 20, 2008

Breaking Post: Wrestler Sushil Kumar wins bronze

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India’s second medal in Beijing olympic.

when Sushil kumar wins bronze medal in Men’s Freestyle 66kg against Leonid Spiridonov of Kazakhstan.
Gold medlist is Ramazan Shahin of Turkey, defeating Ukraine’s Andry Stadnik (Silver) in the final.

Beijing Olympics are most successful olympic now for india because in individual games they wins two medals. and we hope that Indias player perform well in near future.

India Wons 8 gold medals in Hockey and last was in Moscow 1980 when many country boycott the Moscow olympic. but after that India does not collect any medal till 1992.

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Wrestler Sushil Kumar claimed India’s second medal at the Beijing Olympics when he won the bronze in the 66kg Freestyle event on Wednesday.

Kumar beat Kazakhstan’s Leonid Spiridonov 3:1, with scores of 2-1, 0-1, 1-0 in the three rounds.

Spiridonov had finished fourth in the 66kg weight class in Athens, while Kumar took 14th place.

This is the first time since 1952 Helsinki Olympics that India has won two medals in a single Olympics.

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was the last Indian wrestler to win a medal, when he won bronze in 1952.

Earlier, Abhinav Bindra gave India its first individual Olympics gold medal when he won the 10 metre Air Rifle event.

Sushil Kumar, who had a bye in the first round, lost to Ukraine’s Andry Stadnik 1-8 in the pre-quarter-finals on technical points.

But, despite the defeat and because of the bye, he got to fight the United States’ Dough Schwab in a repechage bout, which he won 3-1 and earned the right to meet Albert Batyrov of Belarus next.

The Indian won this round too 3-1 to make it to the bronze medal round, where he beat Spiridonov.

Ramazan Shahin of Turkey took the gold, defeating Stadnik, Sushil Kumar’s conqueror in the pre-quarter-finals.

In the gold medal bout, Stadnik took the first period 2-2 by scoring the last point. Shahin then clawed back to take the next 2-1. The deciding period was 2-2 after the first two minutes, but Shahin scored the last point and thus won the bout.

This is the first gold medal won by Turkey at the Beijing Games’ wrestling tournament.

Men’s 66kg freestyle first and second repechage round results:

Second repechage round: Sushil Kumar (India) beat Albert Batyrov (Belarus) 3-1
Geandry Garzon (Cuba) beat Mehdi Taghavi (Iran) 3-1

First repechage round Sushil Kumar (India) beat Doug Schwab (US) 3-1
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India needs only 4 runs (4:38 PM (IST)).

MS Dhoni bold by Fernando scores 39 runs in 54 bolls

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In cricket India stop srilanka at 142 but unfortunatly Mahi’s men does not played again well and around 3:29 PM (IST) India looses 5 wickets on only 75 runs. And now strugling for win…

3:29 PM (IST) India looses 5 wickets on only 75 runs (21 overs)…

3:55PM(IST): India scores 105 with the loss of 5 wickets (26.4 overs) ….

3:58PM(IST): India scores 107 with the loss of 5 wickets (in 28 overs) ….

4:07PM(IST): India scores 116 with the loss of 5 wickets (in 30 overs) ….

4:17PM(IST): India scores 125 with the loss of 5 wickets (in 33 overs) ….

score card:

India: 116-5 (30) | *MS Dhoni 33 (39) & S Badrinath 13 (29)

Need another 27 run(s) to win

Partnership: 41 run(s) in 60 ball(s) | This over: 2,1,0,2,1,0

Other innings: SL inn: 142 all out

India 116-5 (30) Runs Balls 4s 6s SR
Irfan Pathan c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 5 8 1 0 62.50
V Kohli c Sangakkara b Thushara 37 67 6 0 55.22
S Raina lbw b Kulasekara 1 4 0 0 25.00
Yuvraj Singh lbw b Mendis 20 32 4 0 62.50
*MS Dhoni not out 35 39 2 0 84.62
Rohit Sharma lbw b Thushara 0 2 0 0 0.00
S Badrinath not out 17 29 0 0 44.83
Zaheer Khan
Harbhajan Singh
Pravin Kumar
M Patel
Extras: 7 ( b:0 lb:4 nb:1 w:2)
Total: 116-5 (30) | Curr. RR: 3.87 | Req. RR: 1.35

FOW: Irfan Pathan (8-1, 2.4), S Raina (16-2, 4.2), Yuvraj Singh (52-3, 14.5), V Kohli (75-4, 19.4), Rohit Sharma (75-5, 20)

Sri Lanka O M R W Nb Wd RPO
N Kulasekara 6 1 18 2 0 0 3.00
T Thushara 7 1 32 2 0 2 4.57
A Mendis 9 1 21 1 0 0 2.33
D Fernando 4 0 20 0 1 0 5.00
M Muralitharan 7 0 27 0 0 0 3.86

Sri Lanka team: N Kulasekara , T Thushara, A Mendis, D Fernando , M Muralitharan , T Dilshan, S Jayasuriya , C Kapugedera, *M Jayawardene , C Silva , K Sangakkara,

Powerplay 1: 1-10 ovs, 2: 11-15 ovs, 3: 16-20 ovs

Sangkara