Achanta Sharath Kamal may have failed to replicate the 2009 performance at the Commonwealth TT championships here, but the top-ranked Indian felt it was a good experience going into the world championships beginning May 13 in Paris.

Overnight leader Syed Saqib Ahmed had an ordinary round of 3-over par on the second day of the Tata Steel IGU Gujarat Open Amateur Championship at Kalhaar Blues & Greens Golf Club in Ahmedabad on Wednesday but still emerged as the clubhouse leader after 36 holes. Syed’s total after two rounds of the event is 140.

It’s not always that the defenders get their share in a triumph and looking at Churchill Brothers’ second I-League win on Wednesday, the same can be said about Denzil Franco.

We’d told you a while ago about the friendly cricket match that was to be held between Salman Khan’s Celebrity Cricket League team, Mumbai Heroes, and a team comprising members of Parliament, including Mohammed Azharuddin, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sachin Pilot and Milind Deora.

Shootout At Wadala may have turned out to be a bittersweet experience for Kangna Ranaut, what with being excluded from the film’s promotions and her role merely a minor part in the all-male gangster saga. However, her next film, I Love New Year, seems to be more promising.

Delhi boy Nitin Tanwar has been named captain of the Coca-Cola XI which will play the Sri Lankan U-16 team in a three-match series to be held in the island nation from May 27 to June 3.

Delhi boy Nitin Tanwar has been named captain of the Coca-Cola XI which will play the Sri Lankan U-16 team in a three-match series to be held in the island nation from May 27 to June 3.

Bangaluru golfer Syed Saqib Ahmed shattered the course record with a scintillating round of 7-under par at the Jack Nicklaus Kalhaar Blues and Greens Golf Club in Ahmedabad on an eventful Tuesday, which also the duo of Chennai’s Tarak Swamy and Shakti Singh of Delhi registering a hole-in-one each on the 16th hole.

She has authored 16 novels and her books have been translated in 29 languages. Two of her books have made their way to movie theatres across the world. Indian-American authoress, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has penned yet another book, Oleander Girl.

Around 300 entrants were ready to get not just their hands dirty, for the annual Maldon Mud Race in eastern England on Sunday. The competitors scampered through 400 yards of thick muck and many of them were even dressed in their best costumes.