CRICKET

Warm-up match

WINDHOEK ? England 260/6 (Michael Vaughan 89, Andrew Strauss 73). Namibia 193/4 (D. Keulder 57, M. Karg 66). England won by 67 runs.

CHESS

World Girls Under-20

KOCHI: Round VII ? Elisabeth Paehtz (Ger, 5.5) drew with Ekaterina Korbut (Rus, 5) Dana Aketayeva (Kaz, 4.5) lost to Anna Ushenina (Ukr, 6) Saheli Nath (Ind, 5) bt Alina Motoc (Rom, 4) Eesha Karavade (Ind, 5) bt Tania Sachdev (Ind, 4) Ghader Pour Shaesteh (Iri, 4.5) drew with Zhang Jilin (Chn, 4.5) Joanna Majdan (Pol, 4) lost to Vinuthna (Ind, 4.5) J. E. Kavitha (Ind, 4.5) bt Koneru Chandra Hawsa (Ind, 3.5) G. Anastasiya (Ukr, 3) lost to G. C. Paloma (Esp, 4) Ramya Krishna (Ind, 3) lost to Marties Bensdorp (Ned, 4) Raghavi (Ind, 4) bt Perez R. Jennifer (Cub, 3) Siti Zulaikha (Mal, 4) bt Anuprita Patil (Ind, 3).

WORLD JUNIOR MEET

KOCHI: Round VII ? P. Harikrishna (Ind, 6) drew with Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, 5) Tigran Petrosian (Arm, 6) bt Evgeny Alekseev (Rus, 5) Erwin L?ami (Ned, 4.5) lost to Zhao Jun (Chn, 6) Koneru Humpy (Ind, 5.5) bt Ferenc Berkes (Hun, 4.5) Mark Paragua (Phi, 4) lost to David Smerdon (Aus, 5) M. R. Venkatesh (Ind, 4.5) drew with Timu Gareyev (Uzb, 4.5) Yuri Drozdovsky (Ukr, 4.5) drew with Vlad-Cristian Jianu (Rom, 4.5) Deep Sengupta (Ind, 4.5) bt Artem Lljin (Rus, 3.5) Das Arghyadip (Ind, 3.5) lost to Mateusz Bartel (Pol, 4.5) Zhe Quan (Can, 4) drew with Pablo Lafuente (Arg, 4) Giampaolo Bucchicchio (Ita, 3.5) lost to Elshan Moradiabadi (Iri, 4.5).

FOOTBALL

Premier League

LONDON: Aston Villa 1 (Nolberto Solano 57) Tottenham Hotspur 0

For the book

Abhisekh Rana of Punjab created a new national record in juniors 1-km time trial at the BSA national track cycling championship in Hyderabad Tuesday. Rana clocked 1:12.14 seconds to erase the previous mark of 1:12.65s set by Raminder Singh Deol