Daily Sports Catch-Up: India overcome Proteas' blockade, Nadal stars for Indian Aces, PBL auctions over

#Cricket

For a while, until tea on Day 5, it looked like South Africa would pull off a remarkable survival – losing only 5 wickets across 4 sessions of play with just 1 more to go! Amla & de Villiers led SA’s blockade with 25 (244) & 43 (297). However, a fiery spell of reverse swing from Umesh (6-6-0-3) - and then Ashwin cleaned up SA to clinch a 3-0 series victory. Yet another 5-for for Ashwin #MakingIndiaProud

Stat of the day: Five Man of the Series (MoS) awards for Ashwin in just 32 Test matches! To put it into perspective, Sachin & Sehwag took home five MoS awards in their entire career. Ashwin was the MoS in the last five of six Test series India have won – just wow!

#Tennis

Star of the day: ‘King of Clay’ Rafael Nadal debuted at the IPTL starring for Indian Aces with two wins (in men’s doubles & singles) to help the Aces beat UAE Royals 30:18. Aces now are top of the table!

#Badminton

Player auctions for the Premier Badminton League were concluded yesterday; Saina Nehwal & Lee Chong Wei emerged as the top buys at $100,000 while Sindhu went for just 5K less.

Quick Byte:

• #Cricket #IPL - Delhi Daredevils likely to replace coach Gary Kirsten with Zaheer!
• #Cricket #IPL - Chettinand Cement (bitter rivals of Srini’s India Cements) to bid for Chennai IPL team; 20+ other corporates also interested
• #MCL - (league for retired & associate cricketers) auctions were conducted yesterday: Sehwag to play with Murali while Ganguly with Kallis
• #Chess - Viswanathan Anand lost to Hiraku Nakamura in Round 5 of London Chess Classic; now lies at second from bottom in the 10-man event!

Key matches today

• #Chess #LondonClassic 5th Round Viswanathan Anand vs Veselin Topalov
• #Tennis #IPTL2015 Singapore Slammers vs UAE Royals, Philippine Mavericks vs India Aces

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