Match News

Scoring 546 runs against St. Francis in the Harris Shield schools competition, Rizvi Springfield School's skipper, Prithvi Shaw (15), broke Armaan Jaffer's previous Harris Shield record of 498. Prithvi's 546 is the third highest score if one goes by all the registered scorecards available worldwide since the inception of competitive cricket. Prithvi is also captain of the Mumbai under-16 team.

Extending the lead of 6-3 over current world champion Viswanathan Anand in the ninth game of the World Chess Championship on Thursday, Norway's Magnus Carlsen is just half a point away from victory. Carlsen now needs to draw one of the remaining three games to clinch the title, whereas Anand needs to beat Carlsen in all of them.

With game No. 10 of the World Championship ending in a draw, Norway's Magnus Carlsen (22) on Friday became the new world chess champion, dethroning Viswanathan Anand (43), who held the crown since 2007. Carlsen has also become the second youngest to win the title after Garry Kasparov. With two more games to be played, Carlsen is leading with 6.5-3.5.

India on Tuesday bagged 36 medals-- 19 gold, 11 silvers and 6 bronze --on the second day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Penang, Malaysia. Sukhen Dey, Mirabai Chanu, Lalchhanhima, Lalu Taku, Chandrika Tarafdar, and Monalisha Somowal won all the three gold medals on offer in their respective categories. On Monday, India had won one gold and two silver medals.

Riding on Shikhar Dhawan's century (119 0ff 95-balls), India on Wednesday clinched the ODI series against West Indies 2-1 with a comfortable five-wicket victory in the third and final match in Kanpur. Batting second, India chased down the target of 264 with 23-balls remaining. While Dhawan became man of the match, Virat Kohli was chosen as man of the series.

World No. 11 and Indian top seed PV Sindhu (18) cruised into the women's singles final of the $120,000 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold on Saturday, defeating a much lower ranked Qin Jinjing of China 21-13, 18-21, 21-19. Sindhu will take on World No. 30 and seventh seed Li Michelle of Canada in the title clash on Sunday.

Beating World No. 30 Li Michelle of Canada 21-15, 21-12, the World No. 11 and Indian top seed PV Sindhu clinched her second international title of the year by winning the final of Macau Open Grand Prix Gold on Sunday. Sindhu won the Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold this May before clinching the bronze at the World Championships in August.

Indian men registered their second win of the 2013 Kabaddi World Cup as they beat Spain 55-27 in their Pool A match, while women`s team defeated Kenya 56-21 to bag their second win in Hoshiarpur (Punjab) on Tuesday. The men`s team will now take on Kenya on December 5 while their female counterparts will face United States on December 7.

Hosts South Africa produced a clinical all-round performance as they crushed India by 141 runs in the first ODI taking a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Chasing a target of 358/4, India were bowled out for 217 in 41 overs. SA's Q de Kock became the man of the match for his superb innings of 135 off 121-runs.

India on Saturday defeated Canada 3-2 in a Pool C match of the Hero FIH Junior Men's hockey World Cup in New Delhi. The hard-fought win has kept India alive in the tournament's knock out stage. Now, India will face Korea in their last pool match on December-10 to secure their quarterfinal berth.

Batting prodigy Quinton de Kock's second successive century (106-runs) and Hashim Amla's 100-runs lead South Africa to a convincing, series-clinching 134-run win in the second ODI against India in Durban Sunday. Chasing a target of 281, India were bowled out for 146 in 35.1 overs. South Africa's bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe took four for 25 and Dale Steyn 3 for 17.

The third and last ODI of the series between India and South Africa had to be called off due to rain in Centurion. South Africa had posted a total of 301 runs at the loss of eight wickets against India. Quinton de Kock and skipper AB de Villiers scored hundred runs each, thus sharing a 171-run fourth wicket partnership.

Virat Kohli, who occupied the No. 4 spot after Sachin Tendulkar's retirement, scored his fifth Test century (119-runs) to lead India to 255-5 in 90 overs, after early wickets, against South Africa on the opening day of the first Test in Johannesburg Wednesday. At the end of the day, Ajinkya Rahane was batting at 43* and MS Dhoni at 17*.

Indian batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara (135*) and Virat Kohli (77*) tormented South African bowlers whole day, as India took a huge 320-run lead on the third day of the first Test in Johannesburg on Friday. Pujara and Kohli added unbeaten 191 runs for the third wicket to power India to 284/2 in 78 overs at stumps.

Speedster Dale Steyn produced a fiery spell to rock the Indian batting line-up with a six-wicket haul, as India were bowled out for 334 on a rain-hit second day of the second Test against South Africa Friday. For India, Vijay scored 97 and Pujara made 70-runs. At day's end, SA were at 82 for no loss (Petersen 46*, Smith 35*).

Jacques Kallis, playing in his final Test match, scored an unbeaten 78 after South Africa lost three quick wickets on day-3 of the second Test against India at Kingsmead Saturday. SA were 299 for five, 35-runs behind India's first innings total of 334, when rain brought an early close. Spinner Ravindra Jadeja picked up four for 87 in 37 overs.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic won his third consecutive title at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi, defeating Spain's David Ferrer 7-5, 6-2 in Saturday's final. Djokovic, who is the winner of six Grand Slam singles titles and is riding a wave of momentum that began at the end of last season, took the contest in just over two hours.

Resuming from their overnight 299/5, South Africa took a 166-run lead by scoring 500/10 with the help of Jacques Kallis' 115 on Day 4 of the second Test on Sunday. For India, Ravindra Jadeja took six wickets for 138 runs. With Cheteshwar Pujara (32*) and Virat Kohli (11*) at the crease, Team India are currently at 68/2 after 36 overs.

South Africa on Monday defeated India to win the second and final Test in Durban convincingly by ten wickets, sealing the series 1-0. Indians were all out for just 223 on Day 5, giving the hosts just 58 to win. DW Steyn was chosen as the Man of the match, while AB de Villiers became the Man of the series.

India beat arch-rivals Pakistan by 40-runs to win the U-19 Asian Cup tournament at Abu Dhabi. Pakistan couldn’t keep up with asking rate despite efforts by Kamran Ghulam (102*) and skipper Sami Aslam(87) and scored 274/9 in 50-overs while chasing India’s total of 314/8. For India, skipper Vijay Zol and Sanju Samson hit centuries and Kuldeep Yadav took three wickets.