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Tendulkar guides India to 6-wkt win

AP, Chennai

Sachin Tendulkar hit the winning runs and reached his 41st test hundred with a swept boundary Monday, guiding India on a record-setting run chase on home soil to beat England by six wickets in the first cricket test.

Tendulkar shared an unbroken 163-run, fifth-wicket partnership with Yuvraj Singh (85 not out) to guide India to 387 for four with 20 overs to spare on the last day.

Tendulkar's composed innings contained nine boundaries from 196 deliveries. He moved from 99 to 103 with the boundary against off-spinner Graeme Swann, then leaped into the air and celebrated the victory with Yuvraj.

England had a 75-run first innings lead after scoring 316 and then dismissing India for 241, then held a commanding position when skipper Kevin Pietersen declared the second innings at 311 for nine on Sunday

India vs. England scoreboard

AP, Chennai

Scoreboard Monday after India's win on the fifth day of the first cricket test against England at Chidambaram Stadium:

England, 1st Innings: 316

India, 1st Innings: 241

England, 2nd Innings: 311-9 declared

India, 2nd Innings

(Overnight: 131-1)

Gautam Gambhir c Collingwood b Anderson 66

Virender Sehwag lbw b Swann 83

Rahul Dravid c Prior b Flintoff 4

Sachin Tendulkar not out 103

V.V.S. Laxman c Bell b Swann 26

Yuvraj Singh not out 85

Extras: (2b,14lb,4nb) 20

TOTAL: (for four wickets) 387.

Overs: 98.3. Batting time: 455 minutes.

Fall of wickets: 1-117, 2-141, 3-183, 4-224.

Did not bat: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan,Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma.

Bowling: Steve Harmison 10-0-48-0, James Anderson 11-1-51-1,Monty Panesar 27-4-105-0, Andrew Flintoff 22-1-64-1 (4nb), Graeme Swann 28.3-2-103-2.

Umpires: Daryl Harper, Australia, and Billy Bowden, New Zealand.

TV Umpire: Suresh Shastri, India. Match referee: Jeff Crowe, New Zealand.

Toss: Won by England.

Result: India won by 6 wickets.

Series: India 1-0 after first of two matches.

Highest test cricket runscorers

AP, Chennai

Leading runscorers in test cricket

(x-active): 12,413-x-Sachin Tendulkar, India (155 tests)

11,953-Brian Lara, West Indies (131)

11,174-Allan Border, Australia (156)

10,927-Steve Waugh, Australia (168)

10,465-x-Ricky Ponting, Australia (125)

10,373-x-Rahul Dravid, India (130)

10,122-Sunil Gavaskar, India (125)

9,801-x-Jacques Kallis, South Africa (125)

8,900-Graham Gooch, England (118)

8,832-Javed Miandad, Pakistan (124)

8,830-Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistan (120)

8,540-Sir Vivian Richards, West Indies (121)

8,463-Alec Stewart, England (133)

8,508-x-Matthew Hayden, Australia (100)

8,231-David Gower, England (117)

8,114-Geoff Boycott, England (108)

8,077-x-Shivnarine Chanderpaul, West Indies (113)

8,032-Sir Garfield Sobers, West Indies (93)

8,029-Mark Waugh, Australia (128)

Victory Day exhibition cricket match today

BSS, Dhaka

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) will be holding a Victory Day exhibition cricket match between Shaheed Jewel XI and Shaheed Mushtaque XI to celebrate the 38th anniversary of the Victory Day.

The match will start at the Dhanmondi Cricket Stadium here today at 8-30 am.

In this connection, BCB has already announced the names of the players of the two teams.

Mehrab Hossain Opee will lead the Shaheed Jewel XI and Rasedul Haque will lead the Shaheed Mushtaque XI.

BTTF reschedules Table Tennis League programmes

BSS, Dhaka

Bangladesh Table Tennis Federation (BTTF) have decided to shift the Metropolis Table Tennis League Championship from December 17 to January 6 due to Victory Day, National Poll and other vacations.

The decision was taken as per the requests of different participating clubs, a BTTF press release said.

According to the new schedule, the First Division League starts on January 6, Senior Division League on January 18 and Women's League on January 20.

Victory Day karate training camp

BSS, Dhaka

Bangladesh Karate Federation will organise a daylong karate training camp today at Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium in Mirpur to celebrate the Victory Day.

Those karatekas who have send their entry fee are requested to be present at the venue in due time.

10 nominated for National Sports Award-2008

BSS, Dhaka

The government has approved the nomination of 10 sports personalities today for National Sports Award-2008 for their outstanding contributions to different

fields of sports, an official handout said.

The awardees are: General Moeen U Ahmed, NDC, PSC,-sports organizer, Sunil Krishna Dey- football, Lt (retd) Mohammad Amzad Hossain- athlete, Senior Warrant Officer (retd) Mohammad Lutfur Rahman- swimming, Alhaj Mohammad Ruhul Amin-weightlifting, Khondokar Abul Hasan-volleyball, Brig General Mohammad Shawkat

Hossain, PSC,--bodybuilding, Mohammad Saidul Haque Sadi - table tennis, Syed Abdul Majid-cricket, and Mohammad Jahangir Alam Chowdhury-kabaddi.