Asia's highest-level event, the Royal Salute Gold Cup China Open polo tournament, started in Beijing on Friday at the Tang Polo Club. On the 10-day schedule are four 10 and 16-goal tournaments, a children's day, a ladies exhibition and a 24-goal match. Stars on hand include Pepe Heagy, a former 10-goal handicap player from Argentina, Malcolm Borwick, a six-goal England international player, and Liu Shilai, China's top player and founder of Tang Polo. Provided to China Daily

Baseball

National League Championship Series result from St. Louis on Friday (home team in CAPS)

ST. LOUIS 7 Milwaukee 1 (St. Louis lead best-of-seven series 3-2)

Cricket

India v England one-day

Full scoreboard of the first one-day international between India and England at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday:

India:

P. Patel run out 9

A. Rahane st Kieswetter b Swann 15

G. Gambhir lbw b Dernbach 32

V. Kohli c Pietersen b Patel 37

S. Raina c Bairstow b Finn 61

M. Dhoni not out 87

R. Jadeja run out 27

R. Ashwin run out 8

P. Kumar not out 1

Extras: (lb4, w18, nb1) 23

Total (for seven wickets, 50 overs) 300

Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Patel), 2-52 (Rahane), 3-79 (Gambhir), 4-123 (Kohli), 5-195 (Raina), 6-260 (Jadeja), 7-282 (Ashwin).

Bowling: Bresnan 10-0-66-0 (w4), Finn 9-0-67-1 (w4, nb1), Dernbach 10-0-58-1 (w10), Swann 10-1-35-1, Patel 8-0-49-1, Bopara 3-0-21-0

England:

A. Cook c Vinay b Jadeja 60

C. Kieswetter c Dhoni b Praveen 7

K. Pietersen run out 19

J. Trott b Jadeja 26

R. Bopara c and b Ashwin 8

J. Bairstow c and b Jadeja 3

S. Patel b Yadav 16

T. Bresnan st Dhoni b Ashwin 4

G. Swann b Yadav 8

S. Finn not out 18

J. Dernbach b Ashwin 2

Extras: (w3) 3

Total (all out, 36.1 overs) 174

Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Kieswetter), 2-40 (Pietersen), 3-111 (Cook), 4-120 (Trott), 5-124 (Bopara), 6-126 (Bairstow), 7-134 (Bresnan), 8-148 (Swann), 9-163 (Patel), 10-174 (Dernbach).

Bowling: Praveen 8-1-38-1 (w1), Vinay 5-0-24-0, Kohli 3-0-11-0, Yadav 5-0-32-2 (w1), Ashwin 8.1-0-35-3 (w1), Jadeja 7-0-34-3.

India won by 126 runs

Toss: India

Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and Shavir Tarapore (IND)

TV umpire Sudhir Asnani (IND)

Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (SRI)

Golf

McGladrey Classic

Leading second-round scores here on Friday in the US PGA Tour's $4 million McGladrey Classic (USA unless noted, par-70):

128 - Billy Horschel 64-64

130 - Webb Simpson 63-67, Michael Thompson 65-65

132 - Nick O'Hern (AUS) 65-67, Louis Oosthuizen (RSA) 65-67

134 - Scott McCarron 64-70, Johnson Wagner 67-67

135 - Kris Blanks 67-68, Angel Cabrera (ARG) 65-70, Ben Crane 65-70, Jim Furyk 67-68, Richard S. Johnson (SWE) 65-70, Jerry Kelly 68-67, Bryce Molder 67-68, Jeff Overton 66-69, Boo Weekley 67-68

...

136 - Stephen Ames (CAN) 66-70, David Hearn (CAN) 65-71, Henrik Stenson (SWE) 66-70

137 - Brian Davis (GBR) 68-69, Trevor Immelman (RSA) 66-71, Matt McQuillan (CAN)

138 - Robert Allenby (AUS) 70-68, Fabian Gomez (ARG) 68-70, Bi-o Kim (KOR) 67-71

139 - Paul Casey (GBR) 69-70, Adam Hadwin (CAN) 68-71, Carl Pettersson (SWE) 69-70, Alexandre Rocha (BRA) 67-72, Brendon de Jonge (ZIM) 69-70

Portugal Masters

Leading and selected second round scores in the Portugal Masters at the Oceanico Victoria Golf Course, Vilamoura, on Friday (GBR and IRL unless stated, par 72):

131 - Simon Khan 65-66

132 - Felipe Aguilar (CHI) 66-66, James Kingston (RSA) 64-68, Rhys Davies 65-67

133 - Christian Nilsson (SWE) 69-64, David Dixon 69-64, Johan Edfors (SWE) 66-67

134 - Thomas Bjorn (DEN) 65-69, Keith Horne (RSA) 69-65, Tom Lewis 70-64, Rafael Cabrera Bello (ESP) 69-65

135 - Richard McEvoy 67-68, Martin Kaymer (GER) 67-68, Peter Lawrie 67-68, Oliver Fisher 69-66, Pablo Larrazabal (ESP) 67-68, Shane Lowry 69-66, Paul Lawrie 69-66, Fabrizio Zanotti (PAR) 68-67, Lorenzo Gagli (ITA) 69-66, Gregory Havret (FRA) 66-69

136 - Alvaro Velasco (ESP) 70-66, Thomas Aiken (RSA) 67-69, Steve Webster 66-70, Daniel Gaunt (AUS) 69-67, Ross Fisher 66-70, Gareth Maybin 65-71, Alvaro Quiros (ESP) 70-66, Peter Hanson (SWE) 66-70, David Drysdale 69-67, Pedro Figueiredo (POR) 71-65, Tano Goya (ARG) 67-69, Mark Foster 67-69

Selected

137 - Francesco Molinari (ITA) 67-70

138 - Thongchai Jaidee (THA) 66-72, Marcus Fraser (AUS) 69-69, Padraig Harrington 67-71

139 - Hennie Otto (RSA) 72-67, Colin Montgomerie 67-72, George Coetzee (RSA) 70-69, Richard Green (AUS) 71-68

Soccer

German league

Friday's result:

Werder Bremen 0 Dortmund 2 (Perisic 42, Owomoyela 71)

Tennis

Linz WTA

Friday's results (x denotes seeded player):

Quarterfinals

Petra Kvitova (CZE x1) bt Daniela Hantuchova (SVK x8) 6-2, 6-2; Lucie Safarova (CZE) bt Sorana Cirstea (ROM) 7-5, 6-2; Dominika Cibulkova (SVK x7) bt Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-1; Jelena Jankovic (SER x3) bt Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) 6-2, 6-4

Japan Open

Results on Saturday (x denotes seeds):

Singles quarterfinals

Marion Bartoli (FRA x2) bt Ayumi Morita (JPN x6) 6-2, 6-1; Angelique Kerber (GER x3) bt Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA) 6-3, 6-4.

(China Daily 10/16/2011 page7)