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Former champion India has started their campaign by defeating co-host Singapore by 10-0 in the Junior Hockey World Cup at Singapore on Monday.

Indian under-21 hockey team captain Diwakar Ram was the hero of the match as he scored 5 goals in the match against Singapore.

Diwakar scored all the five goals from penalty corners in the 15th, 18th, 29th, 55th and 66th minutes of the match.

Danish Mujtaba scored two goals in fifth and 51st minute, Dharamvir Singh scored one goal in 26th minute, Mandip Antil and Vivek also scored one goal each in 30th and

Viswanathan Anand has defeated Peter Leko in 8-game rapid match in Miskolc Rapid tournament which held in the National Theatre of Miskolc from 2-7 June 2009.

Anand defeated Leko by 5-3 in Miskolc Rapid tournament which includes two wins by Anand against Leko.

On the final day, Leko needed to win both games to force blitz tie-breaker games but both games ended in a draw.

Leko plays with the strong players of chess every year in a rapid format match in Miskolc which started from playing with Adams in 2005 and in 2008, he played with Carlsen.

Ireland has defeated Bangladesh in a pool match of the ICC T20 World Cup at Trent Bridge and advanced in to super eight round of the ICC T20 World Cup.

Ireland skipper WTS Porterfield won the toss and elected to field first against Bangladesh.

Bangladesh batsmen struggled against brilliant bowling performance of Irish bowlers and could only manage 137/8 in 20 overs.

DT Johnson took three wickets for Ireland and Mashrafe Mortaza was top scorer for Bangladesh who scored 33 runs in just 16 balls.