MUMBAI: ESPN will telecast Leander Paes' victory over World No 1 Pete Sampras in the third round of the Pilot Pen tennis tournament recently.

The match will be beamed at 2000 hrs on Wednesday.

Paes had scored a sensational victory over the reigning Wimbledon champion 6-3, 6-4 at New Haven in the United States to pull off his biggest career win.

Rohtas rules

BANGALORE: Veteran Rohtas Singh of Delhi led his team to victory in the Wills Southern Open Pro Am, a prelude to the main tournament, at the Karnataka Golf Association Classic Golf course on Tuesday.

On a water logged course, the event was curtailed to just nine select holes. Rohtas team comprising M Aiyappa, Indur Hirani and Ramesh Rao totalled 72 points, but the team handicap being six, the net score read 66.

Top six in fray

HYDERABAD: The top six team of the country will be seen in action in the 15-day long Blender's Pride Hyderabad Polo National which gets underway atthe lush green Bison Polo Ground from Wednesday.

Cricket telecasts

MUMBAI: Both Indian cricket teams, which are to be picked tomorrow at Chennai, will be seen in action on foreign sports television channels during the Sahara Cup Indo-Pak five-match series at Toronto and the Commonwealth one-day matches at Kuala Lumpur.

All the Toronto internationals will be telecast live on ESPN from 1850 hrs on Sept 12,13,16,19 and 20. But t Games will be shown later (taped version) on Star. India will have only one match on the channel against Australia on Sept 16 at 1800 hrs.

The recorded semi-finals on Sept 17 and 18 will be beamed at 1800 hrs while the final will be shown on Sept 21 at the same time.

Jadeja XI win

CHENNAI: Mohammed Azharuddin's heroics notwithstanding, the team, Azhar XI, crashed to a five-wicket defeat against Ajay Jadeja XI in the second of the practice matches the Indian probables played at MAC Stadium on Tuesday. Azhar's XI made 226 for 9 in 48.2 overs and inreply Jadeja XI scored 227 for 5 in 43.2 overs.

Technical matters

BANGALORE: The technical committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today approved three recommendations of the ICC. The committee amended rule 25 deeming an additional run would be awarded even if runs were allowed of that ball besides an extra ball.

Another suggestion accepted was that the umpires would mandatorily change the ball after completion of 100 overs in a match of three days or more. The third change was to reduce the condoning time for a fielder from 15 minutes to eight minutes.