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Sports News in Brief: March-April 2009: Archery

India had success in archery and cricket in March-April 2009. In archery, India won gold in the men's recurve team event and two bronze medals at the World Cup Stage I. In cricket, Virender Sehwag scored the fastest ODI century by an Indian as India won the one-day series against New Zealand 3-1 and their first Test series win in New Zealand in 41 years. Serena Williams was voted WTA player of the year for the second time.

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Sports News in Brief: March-April 2009: Archery

India had success in archery and cricket in March-April 2009. In archery, India won gold in the men's recurve team event and two bronze medals at the World Cup Stage I. In cricket, Virender Sehwag scored the fastest ODI century by an Indian as India won the one-day series against New Zealand 3-1 and their first Test series win in New Zealand in 41 years. Serena Williams was voted WTA player of the year for the second time.

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SPORTS NEWS IN BRIEF: MARCH-APRIL 2009

ARCHERY
India trio clinch recurve gold: Mangal Singh Champia, Jayanta Talukdar and Rahul
Banerjee combined to clinch their second successive gold in the men’s recurve
team event as India signed off with three medals in the Archery World Cup Stage I
at Santo Domnigo in Dominican Republic.

Dola Banerjee settled for a third place finish in the women’s recurve, while
women’s compound team of Jhano Hansdah, Bheigyabati Chanu and Manjudha
Soy also finished third.

BADMINTON
Yonex-Sunrise Indian Open: Men’s Singles: Taufik Hidayat, Indonesia. Women’s
Singles: Hongyan Pi, China. Men’s doubles: Tan Fook Choong and Wan Wah Lee,
Malaysia. Mixed doubles: Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa, Indonesia.

CRICKET
Women’s World Cup: Caroline Atkins top-scored with 40 runs and Nicky Shaw
took four wickets for 34 as England beat New Zealand by four wickets to claim the
women’s World Cup. India finished third.
West Indies-England One-Day Series: England ended their ragged tour of the
West Indies on a high when an Andrew Flintoff hat-trick helped them beat the
hosts by 26 runs in a rain-shortened match to win the one-day series 3-2.

New Zealand-India One Day Series: Virender Sehwag (125 not out) smashed the
fastest ODI century by an Indian to fashion the team’s commanding 10-wicket win
in the fourth match, also giving India their first one-day cricket series win in New
Zealand. Sehwag’s 60-ball hundred bettered Mohammad Azharuddin’s 62-ball
century against the Kiwis at Baroda. India won the series 3-1.

New Zealand-India Test Series: India still needed to take two wickets before the
third Test was called off and declared to have ended as a draw. However, India
came out stronger by winning the three-Test series 1-0. This was India’s first Test
series win in New Zealand after 41 years. Earlier, Harbhajan Singh scalped six
wickets to guide India to their first Test triumph on New Zealand soil in 33 years
as the visitors spanked the Kiwis by 10 wickets in the first Test. The second Test
ended in a draw.

South Africa-Australia Test Series: Australia clinched a series win over South
Africa and remained top of the world rankings after completing a crushing 175-
run victory in the second Test. South Africa left-arm spinner Paul Harris took six
wickets as the Proteas beat Australia by an innings and 20 runs to win the third
Test but lose the three-Test series 2-1. The first Test had been won by Australia.
Gautam Gambhir breaks Gavaskar’s record for most runs after 25 tests: Gautam
Gambhir’s 167 in the third Test against New Zealand helped him reach 2,271 runs
(average 54.07), the most by an Indian in his first 25 tests, eclipsing Sunil
Gavaskar’s 2,256 (avg 52.47).

Dravid becomes world record holder of most catches: India’s Rahul Dravid
became the world record holder of most catches in Tests, surpassing Australian
Mark Waugh, when he caught New Zealand opener Tim McIntosh at third slip for
his 182nd catch on the fourth day of the third and last Test against New Zealand.

Deodhar Trophy: West Zone beat East Zone to win the title.

Vijay Hazare Trophy: Tamil Nadu defeated Bengal by 66 runs to win the Premier
Cup.

Australia receives Test Championship Mace: Australian captain Ricky Ponting


received the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Test Championship Mace for his
team’s top finish in table in the 2008-09 calendar year.
TENNIS
Serena Williams voted player of the year: Serena Williams has been voted the
WTA tour player of the year for the second time. Dinara Safina was selected most
improved player for 2008, and Zheng Jie of China was chosen comeback player of
the year. Top-ranked Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the United
States were chosen doubles team of the year. Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark was
selected newcomer of the year.

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