Muralidharan gets top honour
Amar Muralidharan (Maharashtra) won the individual championship in the boys' Group I category of the 27th Junior National Aquatic Championships held at Bareilly from June 23-27.



Pak sans Akram look to extend winning run
Resurgent Pakistan are favoured to win a fourth successive One-Day title when they clash with South Africa and hosts Sri Lanka in the Singer Cup tri-series starting here on Wednesday.



Ponting arrives to catch them young
Australian batsman Ricky Ponting gave another indication of the bookie-cricketer nexus prevalent in the game while disclosing that he too had been approached by ``a bookie in Australia a couple of years ago''.



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