Sports round-up

Cricket: Leading spinner Harbhajan Singh continued to be ignored as India yesterday retained their winning squad for the three remaining one-dayers at home against England. The fit-again off-spinner was one of seven World Cup stars to miss out for the first two games. The new-look side defied expectations by beating Alastair Cook’s tourists easily in both games, winning the first in Hyderabad by 126 runs and the second in New Delhi by eight wickets.

Rugby Union: John O’Neill said yesterday he would stand down as chief executive of the Australian Rugby Union in 2013 after the British and Irish Lions tour of Australia. The high-profile ARU administrator, in making his announcement in Auckland, has ruled himself out of choosing between incumbent Robbie Deans and successful Queensland Reds’ mentor Ewen McKenzie as Wallabies’ coach for the next World Cup campaign in 2015.

Motor Racing: England’s Pippa Mann and American J.R. Hildebrand were released from University Medical Center on Monday after being treated overnight for injuries suffered in a fatal 15-car racing crash. English driver Dan Wheldon was killed in the 11th-lap wreck during the IndyCar season-ending race. Mann, 28, underwent surgery on her right pinky finger after a severe burn. Hildebrand, 23, suffered a severe sternum bruise.

Marathon: British centenarian of Indian ancestry became the oldest person ever to complete a full 42-kilometre marathon over the weekend in Toronto. Fauja Singh, 100, took eight hours to cross the finish line – more than six hours after Kenya’s Kenneth Mungara won the event. Although finishing 3,849th, Singh was “overjoyed” about beating his predicted time, his coach Harmander Singh told the Toronto Star. The runner had set a goal of finishing the race in about nine hours.