India lose to Malaysia, to face Pak in final

Already through to the final, defending champions India suffered a shock 3-5 defeat at the hands of Malaysia in their last and inconsequential league match of the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Wednesday.

Already through to the final, defending champions India suffered a shock 3-5 defeat at the hands of Malaysia in their last and inconsequential league match of the Asian Champions Trophy hockey tournament here on Wednesday. India will take on arch-rivals Pakistan in the summit clash today after the latter defeated Japan 5-2 in another league match earlier in the day.

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Korobov stays in lead
new delhi: Grandmaster Anton Korobov of Ukraine maintained a half-point lead after drawing with nearest competitor Evgeny Alekseev of Russia in the sixth round of the AICF-AAI Chess Cup 2012 here at AAI officers institute on Wednesday.

On a day when Parimarjan Negi played out a draw with Radoslav Wojtaszek of Poland, Krishnan Sasikiran scored his first victory at the expense of out-of-sort Abhijeet Gupta.

Air India win
Bhopal: Last year's runners-up Air India (AI) lifted the International Obaidullah Khan Gold Cup hockey tournament title by defeating holders Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) 4-3 in the final here late Tuesday night.

For AI, Shivendra Singh and captain Arjun Halappa scored two goals each. Gurjinder Singh scored a hat-trick to reduce the margin of defeat for IOC.

In the third-fourth place play-off match, Punjab and Sindh Bank beat ONGC 3-2.