Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Indian team returns with 14 medals

NEW DELHI, July 14: The Indian team returned home on Tuesday after winning 14 medals at the three-day junior Asian Wrestling Championship in Manila.he team arrived at the international airport here this morning. Raj Singh, vice president, Wrestling Federation of India, who accompanied the team, said that this was the teams' best performance at the Asian Wrestling Championship."Its our best performance so far. Before this, we have not won so many medals in the Asian Wrestling Championship, in freestyle, Greco Roman style and Female Junior Wrestling Championship," said Singh.The participants were also jubilant on their performances."I am very happy, I have won gold at the Championship. It was a good performance and everyone has done well," said Navjot Kaur, one of the participants. India collected five gold, four silver and five bronze medals during the three-day competition. (Agencies)

West Indies go down to Bangladesh

KINGSTOWN, July 14: Bangladesh claimed just their second ever Test victory with a 95-run win over a makeshift West Indies side in the first Test on Monday.

Debutant off-spinner Mohammed Mahmudullah did the damage with figures of five for 50 as West Indies collapsed to 181 all out with just over 40 minutes of play remaining.