SPORTS MARCH 2010

SPORTS MARCH 2010

March 2010 Sports

• Formula One World champion Jenson Button won the Australian Grand Prix.
  
• The seventh National youth (under-18) athletics championship, jointly organised by the Tamil Nadu Athletic Association (TNAA) and the Coimbatore District Athletic Association (CDAA), will be held in Coimbatore from April 23 to 25.
  
• Pune and Kochi joined the Indian Premier League (IPL) after the auction for the new teams. The Sahara Group won Pune with a $ 370 million bid for 10 years. Rendezvous sports world, a consortium of five companies won Kochi with a bid of $ 333.3 million. The IPL will feature 10 sides from 2011.
  
• India won the overall title in the commonwealth boxing championship with a tally of six gold medals.
  
• Australia won the hockey world cup dethroning Germany at the Dhyan Chand Stadium in New Delhi.
  
• Pankaj Advani won the inaugural O.B. Agarwal Memorial 6 red snooker National Championship title defeating West Bengal's Brijesh Damani.
  
• Fernando Alonso won the Bahrain formula one Grand Prix held in Bahrain.
  
• Kapil Dev was inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Dubai. The Hall of Fame recognises some of the legends of the game from its long and illustrious history.
  
• The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) while releasing a comprehensive selection policy has made it mandatory for all shooters to hence forth compete in the national championship to be eligible for representing the country in international competition.
  
• Ong Beng Hee clinched the PSA title at the Chennai open squash championships. In the Women's section, World No.1 Nicol David won the WISPA title.
  
• The Tamil Nadu team retained the Vijay Hazare Trophy - India's Premier one - day cricket competition, defeating Bengal in the final.