New Delhi: Indian eves today played out of their skin to eke out a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Italy in their last round-robin match to set up a summit clash with South Africa in their bid to qualify for the London Olympics.

Sydney, Feb 25 : Faced with a do-or-die situation, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is all set to field his three regular openers rather than experiment with a pinch hitter at the top of the order in tomorrow’s crucial tri-series One-dayer against Australia here.

DUBAI: India's Sania Mirza and her Russian partner Elena Vesnina edged out Shuai Peng of China and Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh to book a place in the doubles final of the Dubai Duty Free Women's Tennis Championships.

NEW DELHI: Angelo Mathews struck to dismiss Australian skipper Michael Clarke (72) and Peter Forrest (104) in quick succession as Australia lost two well settled batsmen, who rescued their side after poor start by the openers, in the 9th ODI of the tri-series at Bellerive Oval in Hobart.

NEW DELHI: Team India's manager GS Walia downplayed the rift between skipper MS Dhoni and Virender Sehwag over the rotation policy of senior players during the ongoing tri-series in Australia.

Mumbai: Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar on Thursday slammed suggestions in the media and views of another former captain Kapil Dev that Sachin Tendulkar should quit one-day cricket, saying that the master batsman needed no advice on this issue.

NEW DELHI: They will never admit it, but the Indian men's hockey team at the moment must be tempted to play out a draw with Poland in their last league encounter on Friday to eliminate their biggest threat, Canada, from the Olympic qualifiers.

NEW DELHI: India were made to work hard for a win, for the first time in the tournament, but in the end ensured that they put Canada, their biggest threat on the path to the London Games, in a spot of bother in the Olympic qualifiers on Wednesday.

After former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, is it time for the world's greatest run-maker to bid adieu to one-day cricket? As many as 57% of respondents in a TOI online poll have answered with a 'yes', indicating that the public anger over Team India's dismal performances Down Under also extends to Sachin Tendulkar's poor ODI form.

SYDNEY: Virender Sehwag might well have opened a can of worms as he engineered a proxy war against skipper MS Dhoni through the media. At a time when the team is struggling to get its act together, such a statement from a senior pro was both ill-advised and unhealthy for team-spirit.