Daily Sports Catch-Up: Mumbai out in ISL, Ghosal wins in squash, Dravid inspires

12/02/2015

26th issue of our exciting, informative & concise (300 word) newsletter on Indian sports is here.

Football

Chennai’s Mendoza and rain drowned Mumbai’s hopes of qualifying for the ISL SFs. FT Score: Chennaiyin FC 3 – 0 Mumbai City FC with Jeje, Mendoza & Mendy scoring one each. Chennai are now strong favorites for the last SF spot with 19 points from 13 games.

Stat of the day: 0 - number of away wins for Mumbai City FC across ISL 2014 & 2015!

Squash

Indian ace Saurav Ghosal is into the 2nd round of Hong Kong Open after beating Stephen Coppinger of South Africa#MakingIndiaProud

Tennis

#CTL2015 Raipur Rangers thrash Mumbai Tennis Masters 25-15. With this win, Raipur have won all the five ties in the match-up, while Mumbai finished their season with no wins to their name.

The richer cousin to the CTL - the IPTL starts today, featuring the likes of Federer, Nadal, Murray and Sharapova along with Indian stars Sania, Paes, Hingis, Bopanna etc. Djokovic has withdrawn at the last minute from the event, it is learnt. Find out more in our preview.

Quick-Bytes

Star of the day: Rahul Dravid, “Let’s recreate the magic for kids” at the MAK Pataudi memorial lecture yesterday, short summary & full text!
ICC joins Nagpur pitch row; rates it ‘poor’, to investigate further
Cricket to make a return at Commonwealth Games?

Key matches today!

#Badminton Indonesian Open GPG – Sindhu, Prannoy, Gurusaidutt & Srikanth in action
#CTL – Raipur Rangers vs Punjab Marshalls
#IPTL2015 – Singapore Slammers vs UAE Royals, Indian Aces vs Japan Warriors
#Squash Hong Kong Open 2015 – D.Pallikal v H.Mohamed, J.Chinappa v M.Craig
#HeroISL - NorthEast United FC vs FC Pune City

Feature of the day!

This day 10 years ago, Dhoni made his Test debut against Sri Lanka. A look-back at the phenomenal career that Dhoni has had!

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