KEY POINTS:
BOWLS
AUSTRALIAN OPEN
(Melbourne)
Men's pairs final: Gary Lawson (NZ)/Ryan Bester Canada) bt Lee Schraner (Australia)/Mario Cipolla (Australia) 8-7 4-10 4-3.
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CRICKET
IPL PLAYER AUCTION
(x-denotes "icon" players exempt from auction, get 15 per cent premium on highest teammate):
Highest bids
Mahendra Singh
Dhoni, India - Chennai, US$1.5 million ($1.9 million), Andrew Symonds, Atralia - Hyderabad, $1.35 million, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka - Mumbai, $975,000, Ishant Sharma, India - Calcutta, $950,000, Irfan Pathan, India - Mohali, $925,000, Brett Lee, Atralia - Mohali, $900,000, Jacques Kallis, South Africa - Bangalore $900,000, R. P. Singh, India - Hyderabad, $875,000, Harbhajan Singh, India - Mumbai, $850,000, Chris Gayle, West Indies - Calcutta, $800,000, Robin Uthappa, India - Mumbai, $800,000.
Teams
Bangalore: x-Rahul Dravid, India, $1.035 million, Jacques Kallis, South Africa, $900,000, Anil Kumble, India, $500,000, Cameron White, Australia, $500,000, Zaheer Khan, Bangalore, $450,000, Mark Boucher, South Africa, $450,000, Nathan Bracken, Australia, $325,000, Dale Steyn, South Africa, $325,000, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indies, $200,000, Wasim Jaffer, India, $150,000.
Calcutta: x-Sourav Ganguly, India, $1.092 million. Ishant Sharma, India, $950,000, Chris Gayle, West Indies, $800,000, Brendon McCullum, New Zealand, $700,000, David Hussey, Australia, $625,000, Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan, $425,000, Murali Karthik, India, $425,000, Ricky Ponting, Australia, $400,000, Ajit Agarkar, India, $350,000, Umar Gul, Pakistan, $150,000, Tatenda Taibu, Zimbabwe, $125,000.
Chennai: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India, $1.5 million, Jacob Oram, New Zealand, $675,000, Albie Morkel, South Africa, $675,000, Suresh Raina, India, $650,000, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka, $600,000, Matthew Hayden, Australia, $375,000, Stephen Fleming, New Zealand, $350,000, Michael Hussey, Australia, $350,000, Parthiv Patel, India, $325,000, Joginder Sharma, India, $225,000, Makhaya Ntini, South Africa, $200,000.
Delhi: x-Virender Sehwag, India, $833,750, Gautam Gambhir, India, $725,000, Manoj Tiwari, India, $675,000, Mohammad Asif, Pakistan, $650,000, Daniel Vettori, New Zealand, $625,000, Dinesh Karthik, India, $525,000, Shoaib Malik, Pakistan, $500,000, Glenn McGrath, Australia, $350,000, A. B. de Villiers, South Africa, $300,000, Tillekeratne Dilshan, Sri Lanka, $250,000, Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lanka, $225,000.
Hyderabad: Andrew Symonds, Australia, $1.35 million, R. P. Singh, India, $875,000, Rohit Sharma, India, $750,000, Adam Gilchrist, Australia, $700,000, Shahid Afridi, Pakistan, $675,000, Herschelle Gibbs, South Africa, $575,000, V. V. S. Laxman, India, $375,000, Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lanka, $200,000, Scott Styris, New Zealand, $175,000, Nuwan Zoysa, Sri Lanka, $110,000, Chamara Silva, Sri Lanka, $100,000.
Jaipur: Mohammad Kaif, India, $675,000, Graeme Smith, South Africa, $475,000, Yuf Pathan, India, $475,000, Shane Warne, Australia, $450,000, Munaf Patel, India, $275,000, Younis Khan, Pakistan, $225,000, Justin Langer, Australia, $200,000, Kamran Akmal, Pakistan, $150,000.
Mohali: x-Yuvraj Singh, India, $1.064 million, Irfan Pathan, India, $925,000, Brett Lee, Australia, $900,000, Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka, $700,000, Shantakumaran Sreesanth, India, $625,000, Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka, $475,000, Piyh Chawla, India, $400,000, Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indies, $225,000, Simon Katich, Australia, $200,000, Romesh Pawar, India, $170,000.
Mumbai: x-Sachin Tendulkar, India, $1.121 million, Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka, $975,000, Harbhajan Singh, India, $850,000, Robin Uthappa, India, $800,000, Shaun Pollock, South Africa, $550,000, Lasith Malinga, Sri Lanka, $350,000, Loots Bosman, South Africa, $150,000, Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lanka, $150,000.
Withdrawn: Mohammad Youf, Pakistan, Ashwell Prince, South Africa.
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GOLF
WGC-MATCHPLAY
(Arizona)
1-Tiger Woods (US) bt 64-JB Holmes (US) 1 up, 33-Arron Oberholser (US) bt 32-Mike Weir (Canada) 3 and 1, 49-David Toms (US) bt 16-Zach Johnson (US) 2 and 1, 17-Aaron Baddeley (Australia) bt 48-Mark Calcavecchia (US) 4 and 2, 57-Bradley Dredge (Wales) bt 8-Rory Sabbatini (South Africa) 4 and 3, 25-Paul Casey (England) bt 40-Robert Karlsson (Sweden) 2 up, 9-KJ Choi (South Korea) bt 56-Camilo Villegas (Colombia) 3 and 2, 24-Ian Poulter (England) bt 41-Soren Hansen (Denmark) 2 and 1, 61-Jonathan Byrd (US) bt 4-Ernie Els (South Africa) 6 and 5, 36-Andres Romero (Argentina) bt 29-Retief Goosen (South Africa) 2 and 1, 13-Henrik Stenson (Sweden) bt 52-Robert Allenby (Australia) 1 up.
20-Trevor Immelman (South Africa) bt 45-Shingo Katayama (Japan) 1 up, 5-Adam Scott (Australia) bt 60-Brendan Jones (Australia) 2 and 1, 37-Woody Austin (US) bt 28-Toru Taniguchi (Japan) 6 and 5, 12-Sergio Garcia (Spain) bt 53-John Senden (Australia) 3 and 2, 44-Boo Weekley (US) bt 21-Martin Kaymer (Germany) 2 and 1, 3-Steve Stricker (US) bt 62-Daniel Chopra (Sweden) at 20th hole, 35-Hunter Mahan (US) bt 30-Richard Sterne (South Africa) 4 and 3, 14-Angel Cabrera (Argentina) bt 51-Anders Hansen (Denmark) 3 and 2, 19-Luke Donald (England) bt 46-Nick Dougherty (England) 2 and 1, 59-Colin Montgomerie (Scotland) bt 6-Jim Furyk (US) 3 and 2, 38-Charles Howell (US) bt 27-Stephen Ames (Trinidad and Tobago) at the 19th, 11-Padraig Harrington (Ireland) bt 54-Jerry Kelly (US) 4 and 3, 22-Stewart Cink (US) bt 43-Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spain) 4 and 3.
2-Phil Mickelson (US) bt 63-Pat Perez (US) 1 up, 31-Stuart Appleby (Australia) bt 34-Tim Clark (South Africa) 3 and 2, 50-Justin Leonard (US) bt 15-Geoff Ogilvy (Australia) 2 and 1, 18-Lee Westwood (England) bt 47-Brandt Snedeker (US) 3 and 2, 58-Rod Pampling (Australia) bt 7-Justin Rose (England) 2 and 1, 39-Nick O'Hern (Australia) bt 26-Scott Verplank (US) 3 and 2, 10-Vijay Singh (Fiji) bt 55-Peter Hanson (Sweden) at 19th hole, 23-Niclas Fasth (Sweden) bt 42-Richard Green (Australia) 6 and 5.
SAIL OPEN
(India)
66: Ross Bain (Scotland), Tony Carolan (Australia).
67: Lam Chih Bing (Singapore), Peter Cooke (Australia), Dinesh Chand (Fiji), Adam Groom (Australia), Jyoti Randhawa (India), Scott Hend (Australia).
68: Will Yanagisawa (US), Dinesh Kumar (India), Noh Seung-yul Korea), Wu Ashun (China), Angelo Que (Philippines), Danny Chia (Malaysia).
69: Vinod Kumar (India), Yasin Ali (England), Zhang Lian-wei (China), Ben Leong (Malayasia), Mark Brown (NZ), Wang Ter-Chang (Taiwan), Kim Young-jin (Korea), Ali Sher (India), Harinder Gupta (India), Bae Sang-moon (Korea), Gaurav Pratap Singh (India).
70: Neven Basic (Australia), Lloyd Saltman (Scotland), Richard Gallichan (Australia), Gaganjeet Bhullar (India), Ashok Kumar (India), Raj Randhawa (US), Karanjit Singh (India), Taichiro Kiyota (Japan), David Bransdon (Australia), Kane Webber (Australia), Kodai Ichihara (Japan), Rhys Davies (Weales).
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ICE HOCKEY
US NHL
Buffalo 4 Tampa Bay 3, New Jersey 3 San Jose 2, NY Islanders 3 Washington 2, Chicago 3 Minnesota 0.
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MOUNTAINBIKING
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
(Wellington)
Uphill
Senior men: Tim Wilding (Taupo) 1, Gavin McCarthy (Upper Hutt) 2, Tony Hogg (Dunedin)3.
Masters men: Wayne Hiscock (Wellington) 1, Ian Paintin (Wellington) 2, John Randal (Wellington) 3.
Junior men: Tom Bradshaw (Wellington) 1, Bradley Setters (Taupo) 2, Nick Bygate (Nelson) 3.
Senior women: Brenda Clapp (Nelson) 1, Erin Greene (Dunedin) 2, Nina Pedersen (Rotorua) 3.
Junior women: Adrienne Hooper (Waitakere) 1, Rachel Richards (Timaru) 2, Hannah Lane (Auckland) 3.
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SOCCER
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Second round, first leg
At Glasgow: Celtic 2 Barcelona 3.
At Istanbul: Fenerbahce 3 Sevilla 2.
At London: Arsenal 0 AC Milan 0.
At Lyon: Lyon 1 Manchester United 1.
SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE
Motherwell 3 Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1.
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TENNIS
WORLD INDOOR TOURNAMENT
(Rotterdam)
Second round: Gilles Simon (France) bt Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 7-6 7-6, Teimuraz Gabashvili (Russia) bt Nicolas Mahut (France) 6-2 7-6.
First round: 1-Rafael Nadal (Spain) bt Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) 6-4 6-4, 5-Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic) bt Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) 6-3 6-3, Andreas Seppi (Italy) bt Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) 3-6 7-6 7-6, Robin Haase (Netherlands) bt 6-Andy Murray (Britain) 7-5 6-3, Fernando Verdasco (Spain) bt Jarkko Nieminen (Finland) 6-2 6-2.
QATAR OPEN
Second round: 3-Jelena Jankovic (Serbia) bt Yaroslava Shvedova (Russia) 6-1 3-6 6-3, 6-Venus Williams (US) bt Karin Knapp (Italy) 6-2 6-3, Tamarine Tanasugarn (Thailand) bt 14-Amelie Mauresmo (France) 7-6 7-5, 4-Maria Sharapova (Russia) bt Galina Voskoboeva (Russia) 6-4 4-6 6-1, Anabel Medina Garrigues (Spain) bt Maria Kirilenko (Russia) 2-6 7-5 6-1, 12-Shahar Peer (Israel) bt Virginie Razzano (France) 6-1 7-6, 16-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) bt Tathiana Garbin (Italy) 6-3 6-3, Dominika Cibulkova (Slovakia) bt 9-Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) 6-3 6-4, 15-Sybille Bammer (Austria) bt Monica Niculescu (Romania) 3-6 7-5 6-4, 1-Ana Ivanovic (Serbia) bt Olga Govortsova (Belarus) 6-3 6-1, 2-Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) bt Nathalie Dechy (France) 7-5 7-5, 11-Dinara Safina (Russia) bt Yan Zi (China) 6-2 6-1, Li Na (China) bt 5-Anna Chakvetadze (Russia) 7-6 6-4, Ai Sugiyama (Japan) bt Ayumi Morita (Japan) 4-6 6-4 6-0.
WORLD JUNIOR CHALLENGE
(Auckland)
Finals
New Zealand vs South Africa 4 2.
B. Lachland (NZ) bt Moolman (SA) 6-4 1-6 6-4, R. MClachlan (NZ) bt Botha (SA) 7-6 6-1, Beattie (NZ) bt A. Simons(SA) 6-4 4-6 7-5, Gorny (SA) bt Preston (NZ) 6-1 4-6 6-1, Preston/Beattie (NZ) bt Gorny/Simons (SA) 7-6 6-3, Botha/Moolman (SA) bt McLachlan/McLachlan (NZ) 6-4 7-6.