Former BCCI president and the current ICC Vice-President Sharad Pawar along with ICC president David Morgan and CEO Haroon Lorgat met rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) chief Subhash Chandra in New Delhi on Monday evening.

ICL wants ICC to recognize it as an official league. From the very beginning, the BCCI had adopted a hard-line approach against the ICL, barring Indian cricketers associated with the league from accessing even their local college grounds. It also used its significant influence within the ICC to ensure other national boards imposed similar bans on ICL cricketers and officials.

Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Bangalore Indian Premier League team dismissed information that the team was up for sale as the trading window for the second season opened on Monday.

Mallya said, “There has been some misinterpretation of a statement issued by my Bangalore office. The Bangalore IPL team is not for sale and neither do we seek to transfer a majority of our current players.”

On Sunday, a bronze medal was won by the Indian junior women's hockey team in the fifth under-21 Women Junior Asia Cup, held in Malaysia. It has now qualified for the next year's Junior World Cup.

The junior eves won over Japan, 3-1 in the bronze medal play-off match and thus booked their ticket for the U-21 World Cup to be held at Boston, USA from August 3 to 16 next year.

In the first half, from an indirect penalty corner, Soundarya Yendala drew first blood for India and then Vandana Katariya doubled the lead from a field goal after the breather.

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Successful Indian golfer Jeev Milkha Singh was officially crowned as the Asian number one for winning various titles in different tours this year. He won the Bank Austria Golf Open on European Tour, the Nagashima Shigeo Invitational Sega Sammy Cup on Japan Tour and the Barclay's Singapore Open on Asian Tour.