Lahore, Mar. 3: At least eight Sri Lankan cricket players were reportedly injured on Tuesday when some unidentified persons opened firing at the visitors near the Gaddafi stadium here.

According to The News, unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate firing on the bus in which the Sri Lankan players were traveling.

The firing began just when the team was about to enter the stadium where the second Test match is being played.

As an 11-year-old, Geethu Anna Jose tagged alongside her sister as the two made their way to the athletics centre at Mt Carmel High School in Kottayam, Kerala every evening. Geethu watched her sister sweat it out on the track and field. Predictably, it wasn't long before she gave in to the temptation of wearing some athletic gear herself, trying to emulate her older sibling.

However, what wasn't predictable then was that five years later, Geethu would represent her country in a sport that hardly resembles athletics — basketball. Geethu, 23, today is India's women's captain. She has even played for Ringwood Hawks, an Australian professional basketball league team.

Yuki Bhambri's decision to pull out of the Davis Cup has met with mixed reactions from the tennis fraternity. The junior Australian Open champion, who was almost sure to make his Davis Cup debut against Chinese Taipei from March 6, has opted out in favour of an $15,000 ITF Futures meet (March 2-8) in Texas where he got an exempt to play in the main draw.

A rich haul of seven wickets by Kamlesh Pailwan (7-8) of Dnyanganga School, scripted an overwhelming an innings and 110 runs win over Vikhe Patil Memorial School in the Kohinoor Trophy under-14 inter-school cricket tournament at AFK ground here on Monday.

Dnyanganga, who took a 139-run first-innings lead, bundled out their opponents for a paltry 29 in their second outing, with Pailwan being the wrecker-in-chief.

He was supported by Trushar Sutar who scalped two wickets giving away 15 runs.

Earlier, Ashutosh Salvi who took five wickets in the first innings scored a dazzling 75 for Dnyanganga as they declared their first innings on 204.

Teachers tell their pupils the difference between right and wrong, but here is person from the fraternity who was educating his students to get down to a physical fight.

The only difference was it was not in a classroom, but a basketball court.

Coach Lalit Nahata of the Dastur Girls' High School was heard shouting at his players to beat the opponents physically because they could not match the skills of the rivals during the 4th Vasantrao Limaye Memorial under-13 basketball tournament in their own backyard on Monday.

The winners of the Chintan group, St Joseph's Girls High school, Pashan ran over hosts Dastur Girls High School `B' 58-2 in the pre quarter-finals of the 4th Vasantrao Limaye Memorial under-13 Basketball tournament, at the Dastur court here on Monday.

The girls from Camp, Dastur were no match to the champions St Joseph, as they managed to pull one basket back in the third quarter of the match through Sakshi Bafna. Incidentally, that was the only basket they could score in the entire match.

"They are out to win and it is the way they play," said the St Joseph's coach Mathew Fernandes.