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This document summarizes sports news from January-February 2009. In archery, Jharkhand won the most medals at the National Championship. In athletics, Kenyan Kenneth Mun Gara and Ethiopian Haille Kebebush won the men's and women's events at the Mumbai Marathon. In cricket, New Zealand beat West Indies in one-day series, while South Africa defeated Australia and Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan in their respective one-day series. India beat Sri Lanka 4-1 in their one-day series. Mumbai won the Ranji Trophy in cricket. In cycling, Kerala won the overall team championship at the National Track Cycling Championship. In football, Cristiano Ronaldo was named

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Jan-Feb 2009

This document summarizes sports news from January-February 2009. In archery, Jharkhand won the most medals at the National Championship. In athletics, Kenyan Kenneth Mun Gara and Ethiopian Haille Kebebush won the men's and women's events at the Mumbai Marathon. In cricket, New Zealand beat West Indies in one-day series, while South Africa defeated Australia and Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan in their respective one-day series. India beat Sri Lanka 4-1 in their one-day series. Mumbai won the Ranji Trophy in cricket. In cycling, Kerala won the overall team championship at the National Track Cycling Championship. In football, Cristiano Ronaldo was named

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SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF: JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2009

ARCHERY
National Championship, 16th: Jharkhand topped the medal tally followed by
Services and Assam. Jharkhand bagged five medals—two gold, two silver, one
bronze.

ATHLETICS
Mumbai Marathon, 2009: Eager to put behind November 2008’s terror attacks in
Mumbai, more than 43,000 people thronged the streets to participate in the
Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon. In men’s section Kenya’s Kenneth Mun
Gara won. In the women’s event, Ethiopia’s Haille Kebebush was winner.

CRICKET
West Indies-New Zealand One-Day Series:New Zealand beat the West Indies by
five wickets via Duckworth-Lewis in a rain-shortened fifth and final ODI to win the
five-match series 2-1.

Australia-South Africa One-Day Series: Australia were dethroned as the number


one team in one-dayers by South Africa who demolished the hosts by 39 runs in
the fifth and final match to clinch the ODI series with an emphatic 4-1 margin.
Jacques Kallis became the second all-rounder to aggregate 10,000 runs and bag
200 wickets or more in ODIs. Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya was the first to achieve
this feat.
Pakistan-Sri Lanka One-Day Series: Sri Lanka bull-dozed Pakistan by 235 runs in
the third and final match to win the three-match series 2-1. Pakistan’s defeat was
the second biggest in terms of runs suffered by a Test-playing nation in ODIs.

Sri Lanka-India One-Day Series: An all-round display by the Indian team helped
them to win the five-match series 4-1. M.S. Dhoni became the most successful
Indian captain with this series victory. Dhoni also established an Indian record for
most wins (9) in succession. For Sri Lanka, Jayasuriya became the oldest centurion
in one-day internationals and went past the 13,000-run mark during the series.

Ranji Trophy: There was no stopping the Mumbai juggernaut from rolling to
victory in the 75th edition of Ranji Trophy. Mumbai crushed Uttar Pradesh by 243
runs to record their 38th title win in the competition.

Duleep Trophy: West Zone defeated South Zone to win the Duleep Trophy for the
15th time.

CYCLING
National Track Cycling Championship: Kerala won the overall team championship
Trophy. Punjab was placed second. The men’s Trophy was bagged by Railways,
while Punjab stood second. In women’s section the Kerala eves gained the top
slot while Manipur was second.

FOOTBALL
Ronaldo crowned player of the year: Cristiano Ronaldo has been crowned world
player of the year, making him the first Europe- based footballer to win the FIFA
award since its inception in 1991. It gives the 23-year-old a clean sweep of all
recognized major individual and club honours available to a footballer.

TABLE TENNIS

National Championship, 70th: Olympian Achanta Sharath Kamal retained the


men’s singles title for the Maharaja Pithapuram Cup, while top seed K. Shamini
lifted the Travancore Cup by winning the women’s singles competition.

TENNIS
Australian Open, 2009:
 Men’s Singles title: Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer.
 Women’s Singles title: Serena Williams beat Dinara Safina (Russia).
 Men’s Doubles title: Bob and Mike Bryan beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark
Knowles.
 Women’s Doubles title: Serena and Venus Williams.
 Mixed Doubles title: Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza.
 The win gave Sania her first Grand Slam title and Bhupathi his seventh
mixed-doubles crown and 11th Grand slam title.
 Yuki Bhambri created history by becoming the fourth Indian to win a junior
Grand Slam title, when he won the boys’ final.

Chennai Open 2009: Marin Cilic of Croatia beat Somdev Devvarman to win the
title. Americans Eric Butorac and Rajeev Ram won the doubles title.

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