Saina Nehwal won Super series in badminton champtionship Saina clinched her Super Series title beating Wang 12-21, 21-18, 21-9 in a closely fought match which went for 50 minutes.
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Pankaj Advani has beaten Geet Sethi to won the world camptionship of Billiards three consecutive times. Advani in a full house hall beat sethi, former world champion by 6-1
At the age of 23 and with 5 world titles,advani does seems to have got alot. Geet sethi, the former World champion from India and a guru of pankaj advani didn't went down easily. But in the end, advani was too good for him as he was for others in the tournament.
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BCCI has warned Indian Cricket team coach for going public with statements like "Dhoni is ready to take captaincy of Test team too" which clearly means Kumble hanging his boots. BCCI asked Kirsten to keep away from media and avoid making such statements.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah in a press briefing also said that the decision of choosing who as a captain should be decided only by the selection committee. He went on to said that there is no need to hurry up on making Dhoni the captain of Test team. Kumble is doing fine and lets not overburden dhoni with the weight of captaincy. Dhoni in the past has complaint about fatigue and noticably had taken a break from India's test series against Sri Lanka.
Australian all rounder Andrew Symonds was fined and was decided by team coach and acting captain that he will not play in any of the remaining 2 one day internationals against bangladesh.
Symonds, 33 was supposed to take part in a team meeting on friday evening but instead went for fishing. This is not the first time he has faced problem as in 2005, he went through all night drinking session and than reportedly reached in ground in drunk condition. He was than suspended for 2 matches. In the last series against west indies, he had also failed to be on ground in time after missing the player bus.