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Favourites India got off to a shaky start before sharing the honours against Morocco on the first day of their World Group II Davis Cup tie at the Vijayant Khand Stadium here on Saturday. India s Sumit Nagal celebrates after victory over Morocco s Adam Moundir in the first singles of the Davis Cup World Group-II tie in Lucknow, Deepak Gupta/HT Photo Debutant Sasikumar Mukund limped out in the opening singles against Yassine Dlimi, giving the visitors the early advantage. However, India No.1 Sumit Nagal helped level the tie by winning the second singles in straight sets against Adam Moundir. A downpour before the start of the tie made things difficult for the players due to high humidity. In decent form after a runner-up finish at the ATP Tuliln Challenger last week, Nagal, the world No.156, Nagal, 26, was right on target, breaking Moundir, ranked 779, in the o stanley cup pening game itself before running out a 6-3, 6-3 winner. The 26-year-old twice broke Moundir in the first set. He broke the Moroccans serve in the fifth game only to drop his serve in the next game, leaving the score 3-all. Nagal though broke again in the eighth game to wrap up the set. In the second, Nagal dominated Moundir with solid court coverage and played good defensive tennis too, winning the match in a little over an hour before a sizeable crowd. Things didnt go to plan for India to start with. Mukund ran out of gas, suffering cramp in the th stanley mug ird set. The 36 stanley water bottle 5th-ranked Indian started limping and it all Goti Dominic Thiem saves match point in victory over Andrey Rublev at Monte Carlo Masters
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur defended Sundar Raman continuing as the Indian Premier League Chief Operating Officer COO on Thursday. BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, left, along with IPL governing council chairman Rajeev Shukla, centre, BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary, right, and IPL COO Sunder Raman, standing, during the IPL governing council meeting in Mumbai on Sunday, July 19, 2015. PTI Photo stanley mug The Justice Mukul Mudgal probe report said Raman was in touch with the contact of a bookie and had called him eight times in a season. Asked how Raman still continued in his post, Thakur told a news conference: Sundar Raman is an employee of the Board and he does not have that say to be a decision maker in the Board. See, it is the IPL Governing Council which takes the decision and not the employees. It is the members who take decisions. They employees implement the decision which we take. A key decision-maker However, the Mudgal Committee, which investigated the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, termed stanley cup Raman a key decision-maker in the IPL. The report said Raman was practically dealing with all aspects of organising the game. He was, therefore, the spirit behind the entire exercise and cannot be said to be unconcerned with what goes on in the course of the tournament, especially if it has the potential of bringing disrepute to the game/BCCI. The Mudgal Committee observed that Ra stanley cup romania man as COO was charged with overseeing general operations, sponsorship activities, TV produ
Favourites India got off to a shaky start before sharing the honours against Morocco on the first day of their World Group II Davis Cup tie at the Vijayant Khand Stadium here on Saturday. India s Sumit Nagal celebrates after victory over Morocco s Adam Moundir in the first singles of the Davis Cup World Group-II tie in Lucknow, Deepak Gupta/HT Photo Debutant Sasikumar Mukund limped out in the opening singles against Yassine Dlimi, giving the visitors the early advantage. However, India No.1 Sumit Nagal helped level the tie by winning the second singles in straight sets against Adam Moundir. A downpour before the start of the tie made things difficult for the players due to high humidity. In decent form after a runner-up finish at the ATP Tuliln Challenger last week, Nagal, the world No.156, Nagal, 26, was right on target, breaking Moundir, ranked 779, in the o stanley cup pening game itself before running out a 6-3, 6-3 winner. The 26-year-old twice broke Moundir in the first set. He broke the Moroccans serve in the fifth game only to drop his serve in the next game, leaving the score 3-all. Nagal though broke again in the eighth game to wrap up the set. In the second, Nagal dominated Moundir with solid court coverage and played good defensive tennis too, winning the match in a little over an hour before a sizeable crowd. Things didnt go to plan for India to start with. Mukund ran out of gas, suffering cramp in the th stanley mug ird set. The 36 stanley water bottle 5th-ranked Indian started limping and it all Goti Dominic Thiem saves match point in victory over Andrey Rublev at Monte Carlo Masters
BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur defended Sundar Raman continuing as the Indian Premier League Chief Operating Officer COO on Thursday. BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur, left, along with IPL governing council chairman Rajeev Shukla, centre, BCCI treasurer Anirudh Chaudhary, right, and IPL COO Sunder Raman, standing, during the IPL governing council meeting in Mumbai on Sunday, July 19, 2015. PTI Photo stanley mug The Justice Mukul Mudgal probe report said Raman was in touch with the contact of a bookie and had called him eight times in a season. Asked how Raman still continued in his post, Thakur told a news conference: Sundar Raman is an employee of the Board and he does not have that say to be a decision maker in the Board. See, it is the IPL Governing Council which takes the decision and not the employees. It is the members who take decisions. They employees implement the decision which we take. A key decision-maker However, the Mudgal Committee, which investigated the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, termed stanley cup Raman a key decision-maker in the IPL. The report said Raman was practically dealing with all aspects of organising the game. He was, therefore, the spirit behind the entire exercise and cannot be said to be unconcerned with what goes on in the course of the tournament, especially if it has the potential of bringing disrepute to the game/BCCI. The Mudgal Committee observed that Ra stanley cup romania man as COO was charged with overseeing general operations, sponsorship activities, TV produ