Royal Challengers elect to bat against Otago

October 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Cape Cobras sailed into the quarterfinal league stage of the Champions League Twenty20 with a 54-run win over Otago Volts in their second Group C match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here Saturday. Chasing 194, Otago were bowled out for 139 in 17.1 overs after Nathan McCullum top scored with 38.

October 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Scoreboard of the Champions League Twenty20 Group C match between Cape Cobras and Otago here Saturday. Cape Cobras: Andrew Puttick not out 104 Herschelle Gibbs c de Boorder b Mascarenhas 1 Henry Davids c McSkimming b Mascarenhas 12 JP Duminy c Redmond b Butler 32 Rory Kleinveldt c Rutherford b Wagner 1 Justin Ontong not out 39 Extras: (w-4) 4 Total: (For four wickets in 20 overs) 193 Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Gibbs, 1.3 overs), 2-38 (Davids, 5.1), 3-133 (Duminy, 15.3), 4-139 (Kleinveldt, 16.1) Bowling: Neil Wagner 4-0-42-1 Dmitri Mascarenhas 4-1-20-2 Ian Butler 4-0-48-1 Nathan McCullum 4-0-39-0 Warren McSkimming 3-0-30-0 Craig Cumming 1-0-14-0 Otago: Brendon McCullum run out (Davids/Canning) 21 Aaron Redmond c Davids b Kleinveldt 14 Hamish Rutherford c Canning b Zondeki 14 Craig Cumming run out (Gibbs/Henderson) 18 Neil Broom run out (Davids/Canning) 5 Nathan McCullum c Zondeki b Kleinveldt 38 Dmitry Mascarenhas c Gibbs b Duminy 10 Ian Butler c Gibbs b Kleinveldt 1 Derek de Boorder c Kleinveldt b Philander 12 Warren McSkimming not out 2 Neil Wagner b Duminy 1 Extras: (w-3) 3 Total: (all out in 17.1 overs) 139 Fall of wickets: 1-33 (Redmond, 3.5 overs), 2-40 (Brendon McCullum, 5.1), 3-54 (Rutherford, 6.4), 4-63 (Broom, 8.1), 5-79 (Cumming, 10.1), 6-116 (Nathan McCullum, 13.2), 7-118 (Butler, 13.6 ov), 8-131 (Mascarenhas, 15.5), 9-136 (de Boorder, 16.3), 10-139 (Wagner, 17.1) Bowling: Monde Zondeki 4-0-26-1 Rory Kleinveldt 3-0-24-3 Vernon Philander 3-0-27-1 Claude Henderson 4-0-25-0 Justin Ontong 2-0-27-0 JP Duminy 1.1-0-10-2 Toss: Otago, who chose to field Man of the Match: Andrew Puttick (Cape Cobras) Umpires: Daryl Harper (Australia) and AM Saheba TV umpire: Rudi Koertzen (South Africa) Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (Sri Lanka)

October 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Cape Cobras beat Otago Volts by 54 runs in a Group C match of the Champions League Twenty20 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here Saturday. Chasing 194, Otago Volts were bowled out for 139 in 17.1 overs.

October 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Somerset captain Justin Langer won the toss and elected to field against Deccan Chargers in a Group A Champions League Twenty20 match here Saturday.

October 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Otago Volts captain Craig Cumming won the toss and elected to field against Cape Cobras in a Group C match of the Champions League Twenty20 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium at the Uppal here Saturday. Cape Cobras: Andrew Puttick (captain), Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Davids, Jean Paul Duminy, Justin Ontong, Ryan Canning (wicketkeeper), Stiaan van Zyl, Vernon Philander, Rory Kleinveldt, Claude Henderson, Monde Zondeki.

October 10th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Captain Andrew Puttick scored the maiden century of the Champions League Twenty20 as Cape Cobras made 193 for four in 20 overs against Otago Volts in a Group C match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here Saturday. Puttick scored an unbeaten 104 off 62 balls while Justin Ontong remained not out on 39.

October 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - Scoreboard of the Champions League match between Royal Challengers and Cape Cobras here Thursday. Royal Challengers: Jacques Kallis c Canning b Langeveldt 8 Robin Uthappa c Gibbs b Zondeki 51 Rahul Dravid run out (Philander/Canning) 28 Virat Kohli st Canning b Henderson 17 Ross Taylor not out 53 Manish Pandey not out 10 Extras (lb 4, w 9) 13 Total (for four wickets in 20 overs) 180 Fall of wickets 1-14 (Kallis, 2.6 ov), 2-82 (Uthappa, 10.5), 3-97 (Dravid, 12.6), 4-115 (Kohli, 15.2) Bowling Charl Langeveldt 3 0 12 1 (1w) Rory Kleinveldt 4 0 45 0 (1w) Vernon Philander 2 0 21 0 (1w) Monde Zondeki 4 0 39 1 (1w) Claude Henderson 4 0 34 1 Justin Ontong 3 0 25 0 (1w) Cape Cobras: Andrew Puttick c Kohli b Kumar 11 Herschelle Gibbs c Boucher b Kumar 0 Henry Davids c Kohli b Vinay Kumar 27 JP Duminy not out 99 Justin Ontong b van der Merwe 19 R Canning c Kumble b Kumar 20 R Kleinveldt not out 5 Extras (b 1, lb 1, nb 1) 3 Total (for five wickets in 19.4 overs) 184 Fall of wickets 1-5 (Gibbs, 0.6 ov), 2-14 (Puttick, 2.4), 3-62 (Davids, 7.6), 4-103 (Ontong, 12.2), 5-164 (Canning, 18.2) Bowling Praveen Kumar 4 0 32 3 Jacques Kallis 2 0 18 0 R Vinay Kumar 3.4 0 40 1 Anil Kumble 4 0 35 0 8.75 RE van der Merwe 4 0 34 1 Virat Kohli 2 0 23 0 Toss: Royal Challengers Bangalore, who chose to bat Points: Cape Cobras 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0 Man of the match: JP Duminy (Cape Cobras) Umpires: BG Jerling (South Africa) and R Tiffin (Zimbabwe) TV umpire: SK Tarapore Match referee: S Venkataraghavan

September 26th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A three-member Bharti Airtel team won the Royal Challenge F1 Race2win Challenge karting finals and now will be cheering for Force India in the Abu Dhabi Formula One race next month. Bharti Airtel defeated CSC and Convergys in the finals by clocking the best time at the 32 Milestone Circuit in Gurgaon.

September 9th, 2009 LONDON - England batsman Kevin Pietersen will not be available for the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the upcoming Twenty20 Champions League. The big-hitting batsman, 29, is currently recovering from surgery on his Achilles after missing out on the last three Ashes Tests.

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June 28th, 2009 Abraham retains IBF middleweight title over OralBERLIN — Undefeated Arthur Abraham successfully defended his IBF middleweight title with a technical knockout of fellow German Mahir Oral in the 10th round on Saturday. Abraham improved his record to 30-0 with his 10th consecutive defense, though none have been against top-level challengers since he won the title in December 2005.

June 20th, 2009 Art Connoisseur takes Golden Jubilee StakesASCOT, England — Art Connoisseur has won the Golden Jubilee Stakes in an upset on the final day of racing at Royal Ascot. The 3-year-old colt burst ahead in the stretch and beat American-based entry Cannonball by a half length Saturday Cannonball is owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey and trained by Wesley Ward, who earlier in the meet saddled two winners in becoming the first American trainer to win at Royal Ascot.

June 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Sixty bikers, a 2,500-km ride through the Himalayas and 15 days to complete it in. The bikers were Saturday flagged off from here as part of the Royal Enfield Himalayan Odyssey 2009.

June 1st, 2009 Irish racehorse trainer Vincent O'Brien dies at 92LONDON — Irish racehorse trainer Vincent O'Brien has died after a 51-year career in which he won 16 English and 27 Irish classics. He was 92. His family said he died Monday at his home in Straffan in County Kildare.

May 27th, 2009 OTAGO - New Zealand wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum is unlikely to turn his back on Otago to play for New South Wales in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament in India in October. The odds of him doing so are about 100-1, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.