Azhar vows to fight back
MUMBAI: Former skipper Mohd Azharuddin on Friday charged the cricket board with “victimising” him but vowed to fight hard to regain in place in the National team, after being ignored for the triangular one-day series to be held in Australia. Azharuddin has decided to soldier on and fight hard to regain his place after being ignored by the selectors..

North champs
CHENNAI: North Zone annexed the CK Nayudu Cricket Trophy u-19 on Friday beating West Zone by six wickets.
West 203-6 in 50 overs Prashant Joshi 67, Niraj Patel 56; Yuvraj Singh 2-39 lost to North 205-4 in 47.4 overs Gautam Gambhir 43, Yuvraj Singh 68.

Double for Urska
CHANDIGARH: Slovenian wondergirl Urska Vesenjak won back-to-back titles when she beat Anotonia Matic of Croatia in the final of the 10,000 ITF Women’s Tennis Circuit. Urska won 6-2 6-0 to follow on her Lucknow triumph. Urska then won the doubles title with twin sister Masa when they beat Indo-Yugoslavian pair ofManisha Malhotra and Katarina Daskovic 6-3 6-7 2/7 6-0.

W’lifting camp
MUMBAI: Thirty weightlifters are among the probables for the Asian Championships, at Osaka, Japan from May 1. The three-month camp will commence at NIS, Patiala, on January 17.
Probables: Men 56 kg: AK Pandian, T Muthu, B Adisekhar. 62 kg: V Murugesan, Jasbir. 69 kg: M Arun, G Vadivelu, Gurcharan Singh. 77 kg: Satheesh Rai, Virender Yadav. 85 kg: Tejinder Singh. 94 kg: Sukhbinder Singh, Vijay Sharma. 105: Dalbir Singh. Coaches: AK Sirohi, AS Virk, DK Sharma and SC Goyal.
Women 48 kg: Kunjurani Devi, Tikna Gopal. 53 kg: Nandini Devi, Sanamacha Chanu. 58 Kg: Prithama Kumari, Krishna Kumari. 63 kg: K Malleswari, NP Ranjita. 69 kg: N Lakshmi, P Khoni Devi. 75 kg: Ujwala Mane. 75: Geeta Rani. Coaches: PS Sandhu chief, E Karunakaran, GD Fortgalland, Bharati Singh.