India enterfinal

Chennai: Indian squash player Ramit Tandon thrashed higher-ranked Geoffrey Demont of France in a crucial tie to help India reach the final of the Chennai Open World Junior Cup here on Saturday. Tandon beat Demont 11-5, 6-11, 11-2, 14-12 after Dipika Pallikal levelled the score by winning the second tie following Ravi Dixit’s loss in the first.

Mehta best

Pune: Aditya Mehta won his second national snooker title in a period of six months by outplaying Kamal Chawla 6-2 in the best-of-eleven frame final in the 78th Manisha National Championships at the PYC Hindy Gymkhana on Saturday.

Atwal misses

Scottsdale: Arjun Atwal missed his fourth cut in a row after he shot one-over 72 in second round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament on Saturday. He carded a total of three-over 147.

Two titles

Dhaka: Manav Das completed a wire-to-wire victory despite returning an over-par card and then Anisha Padukone won the women’s title as India completed a double in the Bangladesh Amateur Open golf championships on Saturday. Das carded 74, his first over-par round of the week to win by three shots. Anisha shot 75 to win by one shot.

Poor show

Yangon: Ajeetesh Sandhu (70) and Gaganjeet Bhullar (71) were both tied 38th after the third and penultimate round of the Zaykabar Myanmar Open on Saturday.

Wrestling gold

New Delhi: India’s Amit Kumar and Sushil Kumar won a gold medal each in the Dave Schultz Memorial International Wrestling Tournament in the United States. Amit won in the 55kg category while Sushil bagged the yellow metal in 66kg free style.

Ashraf view

Karachi: Frustrated with the continuing deadlock over Indo-Pak cricket ties, PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf has claimed that India are not keen on a revival as the BCCI fears its out-of-form team would struggle against Pakistan.

Kohli third

Calcutta: Virat Kohli was the highest-placed batsman at third followed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni at fifth but there was no Indian in the bowling top-10 of the latest ICC one-day rankings issued on Saturday.

Anjum to lead

Calcutta: Anjum Chopra replaced Jhulan Goswami as the captain of a 15-member Indian women’s cricket team for the Twenty20 and ODI tour of West Indies starting February 18.

The squad

Anjum Chopra (captain), Mithali Raj (vice-captain), Jhulan Goswami, Harmanpreet Kaur, Veda Krishnamurthy, Subhalaxmi Sharma, Diana David, Sunitha Anand, Gouhar Sultana, Mamtha Kanojia, Archana Das, Ekta Bist, Amita Sharma, Madhuri Mehta, Sulakshna Naik