World Chess Cup

World Chess Cup Khanty Mansiysk, near Moscow, 27th Nov - 17th Dec.

Ganguly crushes Nakamura in World Cup opener. P Harikrishna and Krishnan Sasikiran were held to draws by Yu Shaoteng of China and Aleksei Iljushin of Russia respectively.

Info thanks to The Bard :)

Hockey Men Sahara Champions Trophy

Champions Trophy will be held in Chennai from December 10th.

Dilip Tirkey is the Indian Captain.

Olympic Gold medallist Australia, defending champions Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Pakistan would be the other teams competing in the tournament.

Team:
Goalkeepers: Adrian D'souza (Indian Airlines) and Bharat Chetri (Karnataka);Defenders: Dilip Tirkey (Captain - Indian Airlines), Kanwalpreet Singh (Punjab), Harpal Singh (Namdhari); Half-backs: V S Vinay, Vikram Pillai, Sandeep Singh, Arjun Halappa (all Indian Airlines), Viren Rasquinha (IOC) and Ignatius Tirkey (Services); Forwards: V Raja and Adam Sinclair (both Tamil Nadu), Rajpal Singh and Prabhoth Singh (both IOC), Gagan Ajit Singh (Punjab), Tushar Khandekar (BPCL) and Ravipal (Punjab and Sind Bank).

Schedule

Dec 10th
Netherlands : Pakistan 16:00
Germany : Spain 18:00
India : Australia 20:00

Dec 11th
Spain : Netherlands 16:00
Pakistan : Australia 18:00
India : Germany 20:00

Dec 12th Rest Day

Dec 13th
Australia : Germany 16:00
Spain : Pakistan 18:00
Netherlands : India 20:00

Dec 14th
Spain: Australia 16:00
Germany : Netherlands 18:00
India : Pakistan 20:00

Dec 15th Rest Day

Dec 16th
Germany : Pakistan 16:00
Australia : Netherlands 18:00
India : Spain 20:00

Dec 17th Rest Day

Dec 18th
5 : 6 15:00
3 : 4 17:30
1 : 2 20:00

for more Check the Sahara Champions Trophy website

Women's Cricket - India vs England 1st OneDay

27.11.2005
India vs England Faridabad

Team
India : M Sumra, M Raj, A Chopra, R Dhar, A Sharma, J Goswami, A Kirkire, V Raphael, J Sharma, N Al Khader, N David
England : C M Edwards, L K Newton, S C Taylor, J L Gunn, A Brindle, C M G Atkins, L J Harper, R A Birch, J Smit, B L Morgan, I T Guha

India won the toss and decided to field.

England 188-7 (50 overs) beat India 168-9 (49.5 overs) by 20 runs
Jenny Gunn hit a maiden half-century and off-spinner Laura Harper took 4-33

Scorecard

The other matches in this Series
Dec 1 Second ODI, Lucknow
Dec 4 Third ODI, Guwahati
Dec 7 Fourth ODI, Silchar
Dec 9 Fifth ODI, Calcutta