Further improvement
Skipper Mohd Azharuddin refused to bask in India's one-day series win over Zimbabwe yesterday and blamed his teammates for playing too much `loose cricket'. Azharuddin was not exactly thrilled after India's convincing eight-wicket win which helped them clinch the three-match Hero Honda series within the distance.

BSF dominate
Central Reserve Police Force and Punjab Police entered the water-polo final in the 47th all-India Police Aquatic and Cross Country Games. CRPF beat the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) 9-8 while the Punjab Police beat Border Security Force 7-6 two absorbing semifinals today.

Mixed luck
Indian men blanked Brunei 3-0 but their women counterparts went down to Thailand by a similar margin in their opening group `G' preliminary league ties at the 14th Asian Table Tennis Championships at Osaka, Japan.

World Billiards
Geet Sethi and Devendra Joshi are the only two Indians left in the fray, and they are up against each other in the quarter-finals, of the 1998 Florsheim World Billiards Championship after clearing their third round matches on Monday.