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Bombay Republicans showed excellent understanding and perfect teamwork as they curbed the aspirations of Coorg Sports Club by romping to a fluent 6-3 victory in a fast-paced and exciting Men’s final of the Willingdon Catholic Gymkhana’s 38th Victor D’Mello Memorial Invitational Rink Hockey Tournament 2019, organised under the auspices of the MHAL, and played at the Gymkhana’s floodlit tennis courts.

Huesca held first-place FC Barcelona to a scoreless draw, earning a rare moral victory in an otherwise disappointing La Liga season.

Abhishek Agarwal and Sanya Vats won the Men’s and the Women’s titles of the Otters Club Vedanta Squash Open, organised by 5 Sports, in association with Otters Club at their glass back squash courts. In U-19 final, Veer Chotrani defeated Saksham Choudhary to lift the title.

Suraj Chandrashekhar put up a sterling display to complete a grand hat-trick in the UTT Corporate Table Tennis tournament here at the Khar Gymkhana on Sunday.

Lewis Hamilton won the 1,000th Formula One grand prix Sunday after grabbing the lead from Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas at the first corner and powering to victory in blustery Shanghai. Hamilton, who started from second on the grid, took the world championship lead after romping home to win the Chinese Grand Prix by more than 6.5 seconds from Bottas, with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel third.

Keemo Paul, Chris Morris and Kagiso Rabada bowled Delhi Capitals to a 39-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Sunday. Delhi Capitals moved up to No.2 after winning their 5th match of the 2019 Indian Premier League, reports India Today.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) captain Virat Kohli has been fined after his team maintained a slow over-rate during their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against the Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) here. As it was his team’s first offence of the season under the IPL’s Code of Conduct relating to minimum over-rate offences, Kohli was fined Rs 12 lakh on Saturday.

The asking rate was touching 13 with three over left in the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) innings, but the talismanic AB de Villiers was still at the crease and looking in fine form. And the South African took RCB to their first win of this edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with ab unbeaten knock of 59 off 38 balls.

For the first time in this edition of the Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore will go into a game as favourites. After a convincing win against Kings XI Punjab, RCB will now take on Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium on Monday.

The five wise men of Indian cricket, led by MSK Prasad, will meet in Mumbai on Monday to pick the squad for the 2019 World Cup in England.