SPORTS 07

JANUARY 2007
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4 : Services win the men’s National
basketball title, beating Kerala in
the final played in Jaipur
(Rajasthan).
6 : South Africa defeat India by five
wickets in the third and final Test
match in Cape Town, to win the
series 2-1.
18 : Viswanathan Anand (India) wins
over Russian Grandmaster Peter
Svidler in the fifth round of the
Group A at Corus International
Chess tournament.
31 : India score a 160-run victory over
West Indies in the fourth ODI at
Vadodara (Gujarat), thus winning
the One-Day International series
3-1; Sachin Tendulkar is declared
‘Man of the Series’.
􀂈 Sachin Tendulkar scores his 41st
century in ODIs and in all, 76th
century in international cricket at
Vadodara.

FEBRUARY 2007

5 : Mumbai win the 2007 Ranji Trophy
final defeating Bengal by 132 runs
in Mumbai.
8 : Noted chess player Koneru Humpy
wins the Rs. 1.5 lakh MAYTAS
Vizag Challenger Trophy with a
game to spare beating J. Deepan
Chakkravarthy.
17 : India win the Hero Honda Cup ODI
series 2-1 as it defeat Sri Lanka by
seven wickets in the final of the
four-match series in
Visakhapatnam.
18 : The 33rd National Games come to
an end in Guwahati with Manipur
winning the IOA’s special trophy
for emerging the best among
states bagging 51 Gold, 31 Silver
and 40 Bronze medals.

MARCH 2007

3 : India’s Jeev Milkha Singh is named
‘Asian Player of the Year’, after a
successful season which saw him
lift four titles and top the Asian
Tour Order of Merit.
16 : Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa)
creates ODI record by hitting six
6s off Daan Van Bunge’s (The
Netherlands) one over in a Group
‘A’ match of the 2007 World Cup,
which South Africa won by 221
runs at Warner Park, Basseterre
(St. Kitts).
20 : India defeat Bermuda by a record
margin of 257 runs in their Group
B match of the World Cup 2007 at
Port of Spain (Trinidad).

APRIL

17 : South Korean city of Incheon wins
the bid to host the 2014 Asian
Games, outmanoeuvring New
Delhi.
27 : India wins six Bronze medals at
the Asian Weightlifting
Championship held in Taian in
Shandong Province of China.
28 : Australia win the ICC Cricket
World Cup 2007 by beating Sri
Lanka by 53 runs in the final at
Keningston Oval in Bridgetown
(Barbados). Australian speedster
Glenn McGrath who took 26
wickets in the tournament is
adjudged the ‘Player of the
Tournament’.

MAY 2007

15 : India clinch the one-day series
against Bangladesh. India claim the
honours 2-0 with M.S. Dhoni
being declared the ‘Man of the
Series’.
18 : Dempo Sports Club of Goa wins
its second National Football League
title defeating Mohun Bagan of
West Bengal 1-0 at the Nehru
Stadium, Margao (Goa).
26 : China’s Guo Yue defeats Li Xiaoxia
in the women’s singles final at the
World Table Tennis Championship
in Zagreb.
27 : India beat Bangladesh by an innings
and 239 runs in the second Test at
Dhaka to clinch the two-match
Test series 1-0; Sachin Tendulkar,
who scores his 37th century in
Tests, is declared the ‘Man of the
Series’.

JUNE 2007

10 : Propped up by superb centuries of
M.S. Dhoni and Mahela
Jayawardene, Asia XI win the third
and final ODI of the Afro-Asia Cup
cricket tournament held at the
M.A. Chidambaram Stadium,
Chennai, by 13 runs thereby
clinching the series 3-0.
18 : Golfer Angel Cabrera of Argentina
wins the US Open Championship
defeating United States’ Tiger
Woods with a 1-under-par 69 at
Oakmont (USA). This is the first
Argentine win in a major
championship event in 40 years.
29 : Sachin Tendulkar reaches the total
of 15,000 ODI runs while playing
the second one-dayer of the
Future Cup in Belfast, Ireland.

JULY 2007

5 : Sochi, the Russian Black Sea resort,
wins the right to host the 2014
Winter Olympic Games at the
International Olympic Committee
meeting in Guatemala City.
7 : Venus Williams of USA defeats
Marion Bartoli of France 6-4, 6-1
in the Wimbledon women’s singles
in London.
8 : Roger Federer of Switzerland
defeats Spaniard Rafael Nadal 7-6
(7), 4-6, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-2 in the
men’s singles final at Wimbledon
in London.
23 : Golfer Padraig Harrington of
Ireland wins the British Open
defeating Sergio Garcia of Spain in
Carnoustie, Scotland.
29 : Iraq win the 2007 AFC Asian Cup
Football title with a 1-0 victory over
Saudi Arabia in Jakarta, Indonesia.

AUGUST 2007

7 : Indian Archery team led by World
Cup Gold medallist Dola Banerjee
wins the npower International
Archery Challenge at Lord’s
(England).
8 : Manavjit Singh Sandhu is chosen
for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna
award 2006 for his outstanding
performance in shooting. He won
the trap shooting Gold in the World
Championships 2006 in Zagreb.
9 : Jaspal Rana, a triple Gold Medallist
in the 2006 Doha Asian Games, is
announced as the “Sportsperson
of the year 2006-07” at the seventh
Petroleum Sports Promotion
Board’s annual awards function
held in New Delhi.
13 : The third and final Test match
between India and England at The
Oval ends in a draw. India win the
series 1-0.
19 : Viswanathan Anand of India wins
World Rapid Chess Championship
at Mainz (Germany) defeating
Levon Aronian 2.5-1.5 in the bestof-
four games final.
29 : The Indian football team win the
ONGC Nehru Cup defeating Syria
1-0 in New Delhi
.
SEPTEMBER 2007

5 : Dimitri Mascarenhas of England
hits five sixes in an over against
India which is the first time five
sixes have been hit in an ODI over
against a Test-playing nation.
9 : India retain the men’s Asia Cup
Hockey title with a resounding 7-
2 win over South Korea in the
summit clash at Chennai.
11 : ICC Twenty20 World Cup begins
in South Africa, with the host
defeating West Indies in the
inaugural match.
12 : New Zealand create a new world
record by defeating Papua New
Guinea 39-0 in the Oceania
Olympic men’s hockey qualifying
tournament.
16 : Brett Lee of Australia claims the first
hat-trick in Twenty20 international
against Bangladesh in Cape Town,
South Africa.
19 : Yuvraj Singh hits six 6s off an over,
a first in Twenty20 cricket, against
England in the ICC World
Twenty20 in Durban, South Africa.
20 : Host China win both the men’s
and women’s team titles in the
Asian Table Tennis Championship
in Yangzhou.
24 : India win the inaugural ICC World
Twenty20 defeating Pakistan by 5
runs in the final in Johannesburg,
South Africa.
26 : Viswanathan Anand of India scores
over Alexander Morozevich of
Russia to emerge as the 11thround
winner at the World Chess
Championship in Mexico City,
Mexico.

OCTOBER 2007

3 : Mark Boucher of South Africa
breaks the world record for
maximum number of wicketkeeping
dismissals in the first cricket Test
against Pakistan in Karachi
(Pakistan), surpassing Australian
Ian Healy’s record (395).
12 : South Africa clinch Test series
defeating Pakistan 1-0 as the
second Test match ends in a draw
in Lahore (Pakistan).
14 : Australia clinch the Future Cup
ODI seven-match series defeating
India by 18 runs in the crucial sixth
match of the seven-match series in
Nagpur, Maharashtra.
17 : Australia clinch the Future Cup
trophy 4-2; India defeat Australia
by two wickets in the last match
held at Wankhede Stadium in
Mumbai. Murali Kartik, who picked
up 6 wickets and made valuable 21
runs is adjudged the 'Man of the
Match.' Andrew Symonds of Australia
is chosen the 'Man of the
Series.'
20 : Narjit Singh of India claims the
lone Gold for India in boxing on
the last day of the Military Games
held in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
􀂈 South Africa register a 15-6 win
over England in the Rugby World
Cup final at the Stade de France in
Paris (France).
21 : Kimi Raikkonen clinches his first
Formula One World title by winning
the Brazilian Grand Prix held in
Sao Paulo.
􀂈 Argentine David Nalbandian beats
Roger Federer of Switzerland 1-6,
6-3, 6-3 to clinch the Madrid Masters
tennis tournament held in
Madrid, Spain.
􀂈 Justine Henin of Belgium defeats
French Tatiana Golovin 6-4, 6-4 to
secure the Zurich Open title at
Zurich, Switzerland.
29 : South Africa win ODI series 3-2
against Pakistan with a stunning
14-run victory in the fifth and final
match in Lahore, Pakistan.
24 : South Africa eke out a one-wicket
win over Sri Lanka despite Lasith
Malinga’s unprecedented four
wickets in four successive balls in
a World Cup Super Eight match at
Georgetown (Guyana).
APRIL 2007
8 : Martin Strel of Slovenia completes
his swim of the entire 5,265 km
Amazaon River in 65 days, thus
making a new world swimming
distance record.