The Indian Express -- Sports

Thursday, July 24 1997

Batting second is India's best bet

Thursday could be the most important day for the Indian cricket side on their current tour of Sri Lanka. The team is facing monumental mathematical odds, and if they have to surmount that against Bangladesh to earn a place in the title round of the Asia Cup, then it will just be the elixir to tone up the ailing health of Indian cricket. Failure could only drag them deep into the depths of despair.

Bhupathi to play Courier, Agassi exits in 1st round

India's Mahesh Bhupathi, the newly crowned French Open mixed doubles champion, will meet Jim Courier in the second round of the $ 303,000 Infiniti Open Hardcourt ATP Tour event on Thursday night.

Anand shares lead with two others

Viswanathan Anand, Boris Gelfand and Anatoly Karpov continued to share the lead as all three games in the second round of the Credit Suisse Grandmaster Chess Tournament here ended in draws.

Adityan back as VFI President

Short Corner -- State ranking TT at BARC

Mysore results

Abhijit Kunte holds GM Kacheishvili

Two more players for Sri Lanka to be selected today

Costa to clash with top-seed Muster

Aerogramme's flight fancied

BAI invites ABC chief to help in negotiating with the IBC

Caetano scores hat-trick

ESPN ties up with CSI

Stephens wins 17th stage of Tour de France

Dotting on Dattani as a future Grandmaster