Jan. 3: East Bengal win the 31st Federation Cup, beating Lajong FC 3-0 in a tie-breaker, in Guwahati.

Jan. 14: Defending champions Mumbai win the Ranji Trophy for the 39th time.

Jan. 20: Gautam Gambhir becomes the fourth batsman to register hundreds in five consecutive Tests.

Jan. 27: India thrash Bangladesh by 10 wickets to clinch the two-match series 2-0.

Jan. 31: Leander Paes wins Australian Open mixed doubles title with Cara Black. It was his 11th Grand Slam victory.

Lows

Jan. 5: Revolt brewing in India hockey camp with players threatening to pull out over non-payment of match fees.

Jan. 6: Somdev Dev Varman loses in the second round of Chennai Open.

Jan. 13: India lose in final of the Idea Cup tri-series, to Sri Lanka.

Jan. 19: Sania Mirza bows out of the first round of the Australian Open.

Jan. 25: Rahul Dravid fractures left jaw bone after being struck by a Shahadat Hossain bouncer

FEBRUARY


Highs

Feb. 6: Wriddhiman Saha gets his maiden Test cap against South Africa.

Feb. 6: Abhinav Bindra wins gold in the 33rd InterShoot tournament in the Hague.

Feb. 7: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi win maiden title — the ATP SA Open.

Feb. 18: India retain No. 1 ranking by defeating South Africa, in the Jaypee Infratech Cup at Eden. The series ends in a 1-1 draw.

Feb. 24: Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batsman in the history of ODIs to score a double century (200 .), vs SA in Gwalior.

Lows

Feb. 10: Harbhajan Singh drops out of the top-10 bowlers’ ranking list.

Feb. 15: Sania Mirza’s career-threatening injury returns.

Feb. 20: Indian hockey rocked by controversy with organisers of a charity event claiming that the players involved had demanded Rs 5 crore to feature in the matches, an allegation the national team members denied.

Feb. 20: Ian Poulter defeats Jeev Milkha Singh in the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in the US.

MARCH


Highs


March 2: Jhulan Goswami reclaimes the No. 1 spot in the ICC women’s ODI rankings for bowlers.

March 4: Karun Chandhok (in pic) becomes the second Indian to break into F1, signs with Hispania Racing.

March 5: Manavjit Singh Sandhu clinches the trap gold at the ISSF World Cup in Acapulco, Mexico.

March 26: Sunil Chetri joins Kansas City Wizards, a MLS club.

Lows

March 3: India drop 2 spots to No. 123 in the Fifa rankings.

March 7: India bow out of the Davis Cup world group with a 2-3 loss to Russia in Moscow.

March 8: Spinner Poonam Raut reported with suspect action.

March 12: India end eighth in hockey World Cup.

March 24: Indian archers vent ire, complain of poor practice facilities.

APRIL


Highs

April 3: Saina Nehwal becomes the first Indian to get top billing in Asian Badminton Championships.

April 14: Virender Sehwag (in pic) named Wisden Cricketer of the Year for the second time in a row.

April 15: Pankaj Advani retains Asian Billiards Championship title in Indore.

April 25: Chennai Super Kings win the third edition of the IPL, defeating Mumbai Indians by 22 runs.

Lows

April 20: Virender Sehwag misses ICC World Cup T20 with a shoulder injury.

April 22: Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi admits IPL governing council is a failure.

April 25: Lalit Modi is suspended by BCCI and Chirayu Amin is appointed interim IPL chairman.

April 31: Mahindra United decide to disband their football team at the end of the season.

MAY


Highs

May 2: Suresh Raina becomes the first Indian to score an international century in T20s.

May 2: National Sports Federation limits tenure of NSF heads.

May 9: Dempo SC clinch their fourth I-League crown.

May 11: Viswanathan Anand (in pic) retains World Chess Championship.

May 16: India and Korea declared joint winners of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.

Lows

May 2: Dilip Tirkey announces retirement.

May 11: India lose to Sri Lanka by 5 wickets, ousted from World T20.

May 18: BCCI issues showcause notices to 7 India players for a brawl in a pub, in West Indies.

May 23: Somdev Dev Varman loses in the first round of the French Open.

May 31: BCCI serves 3rd showcause notice to Lalit Modi.

JUNE


Highs

June 8: Arjun Atwal qualifies for US Open.

June 11: Sourav Ganguly named captain of the Marylebone Cricket Club XI for a T20 match against Pakistan, at Lord's, on June 27.

June 24: India win Asia Cup after 15 years, defeating Sri Lanka by 81 runs in Dambulla.

June 27: Saina Nehwal wins 3rd meet on the trot, defends Indonesian Open Super Series. Earlier in the month, she won the India Open and Singapore Open.

Lows

June 1: BCCI decides not to send men’s and women’s teams for the Asian

Games.

June 5: Leander Paes and Lukas Dlouhy lose the French Open final.

June 5: India drop to No. 3 in the ODI ranking list.

June 27: Sourav Ganguly-led Marylebone Cricket Club XI succumb to a six-run defeat against Pakistan in a Twenty20 match at Lord’s.

JULY


Highs

July 3: Mithali Raj and Jhulan Goswami (in pic) top the batting and bowling charts at the ICC ODI women’s rankings.

July 4: Leander Paes and Cara Black win Wimbledon mixed doubles crown.

July 15: Saina Nehwal attains career-best ranking of world No. 2

July 30: India retain top spot in ICC Test rankings, after drawing second Test with Sri Lanka in Colombo.

Lows

July 20: Indian women's hockey team sends a written complaint alleging sexual harassment against a coaching staff.

July 21: Maharaj Kishan Kaushik quits as national women's hockey coach after being accused of sexual harassment.

July 24: IWF suspends SAI coach Ramesh Malhotra after Karnam Malleswari alleges sexual harassment by him on junior lifters.

AUGUST


Highs

Aug. 2: Somdev Dev Varman becomes the second Indian after Leander Paes, to break into the top-100 of the ATP rankings.

Aug. 2: Sachin Tendulkar becomes the most capped Test cricketer.

Aug. 5: Saina Nehwal named the 20th recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna.

Aug. 22: Arjun Atwal (in pic) becomes the 1st Indian to win a US PGA Tour event by triumphing in the Wyndham Championship.

Lows

Aug. 5: Sports ministry derecognises Hockey India after 83-year-old Vidya Stokes is elected president of the national federation.

Aug. 19: Ashesh Das, a promising Tollygunge Agragami footballer, dies of dengue.

Aug. 21: Yuki Bhambri concedes the singles final to Colombian Juan Sebastian Gomez due to cramps, to settle for silver at the Youth Olympics, in Singapore.

September


Highs

Sept. 12: Sushil Kumar creates history, becomes 1st Indian to win gold at the World Championships.

Sept. 18: M.C. Mary Kom (in pic) claims a historic fifth successive World Championship title.

Sept. 19: India clinch a thrilling 3-2 win over Brazil to enter the World Group of Davis Cup.

Sept. 20: Ronjan Sodhi gets a gold at the double trap event in the ISSF World Cup.

Sept. 26: Half-centuries by Murali Vijay and Mike Hussey help the Chennai Super Kings lift the Champions League T20 with an 8-wicket victory over Warriors, in Johannesburg.

Lows

Sept. 2: Four Indian wrestlers - Rajiv Tomar (120 kg), Sumit (74 kg), Mausam Khatri (96 kg) and Gursharanpreet Kaur - dropped from the Commonwealth Games squad for failing National Anti Doping Agency (Nada) tests.

Sept. 5: Three Indian swimmers - Richa Mishra, Jyotsna Pansare and Amar Muralitharan - fails dope tests conducted by the Nada.

Sept. 10: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul Haq Qureshi lose 6-7 (5), 6-7 (4) to Bob and Mike Bryan in the US Open final.

October


Highs

Oct. 2: East Bengal beat Mohun Bagan 1-0 to retain Federation Cup in Cuttack.

Oct. 6: Sachin Tendulkar wins ICC Test Cricketer of the Year award.

Oct. 11: CWG: Krishna Poonia (in pic), Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil win gold, silver, bronze respectively in discus.

Oct. 13: India beat Australia by 7 wickets in Bangalore in second Test, win series 2-0.

Oct. 14: CWG: India end 2nd on the medal tally with 38 gold.

Oct. 24: India clinch ODI series against Australia, 1-0.

Lows

Oct. 13: CWG: Gagan Narang misses out on grabbing five gold medals. Road race walker Rani Yadav tests positive and placed under suspension.

Oct. 14: CWG: India lose hockey final to Australia 0-8.

Oct. 22: Bob Houghton accused of racial abuse.

Oct. 24: Compound archery coach Lenin Cherukuri dies in a road accident.

Oct. 26: Sunil Gavaskar denies Kochi stake claim.

Oct. 27: Kochi IPL franchise gets 30-day notice.

November


Highs

Nov. 7: Chirag United beat JCT 1-0 to win Durand Cup.

Nov. 21: Anil Kumble wins KSCA polls.

Nov. 22: Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi decide to reunite after nine years.

Nov. 23: India win final Test against New Zealand, in Nagpur, to win series 1-0.

Nov. 27: Asian Games: Vijender Singh (in pic) wins gold in 75kg. India finish 6th with 14 gold.

Lows

Nov. 8: Somdev Dev Varman drops out of top-100.

Nov. 18: Asian Games: Saina Nehwal loses in quarters.

Nov. 23: Asian Games: India lose 3-4 to Malaysia in semis. Coach Harendra Singh resigns.

Nov. 25: Kochi franchise pull out of T20.

Nov. 29: Sachin Tendulkar slips to No. 2 spot in ICC Test batsmen list.

December


Highs

Dec. 11: Gagan Narang to end year as Asia’s No. 1.

Dec. 19: Sachin Tendulkar scores his 50th Test century, against SA, in Centurion.

Dec. 22: 7 Indians - Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Kapil Dev, Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh - shortlisted for ICC dream team.

Dec. 29: India beat SA, in Durban, to level Test series 1-1.

Lows

Dec. 8: Kolkata Knight Riders say they won’t retain Sourav Ganguly for IPL-IV.

Dec. 16: Pankaj Advani loses in final of IBSF World Snooker in Damascus.

Dec. 23: BWF pulls up Saina Nehwal for pulling out of Indian Open.

Dec. 24: India football team manager Pradeep Chowdhury deserts team after a ‘tiff’ with coach Bob Houghton.