January 2007 in Sports - 31 January 2007 (Wednesday)

31 January 2007 (Wednesday)

• Cricket:
  • West Indies in India, fourth ODI in Vadodara:
    • India 341 (50 overs; Sachin Tendulkar 100*, Rahul Dravid 78, Sourav Ganguly 68) beat West Indies 181 (41.4 overs; Marlon Samuels 55) by 160 runs. India win the series 3:1.
  • 2007 ICC World Cricket League Division One in Nairobi, Kenya:
    • Kenya 133/3 (32.1 overs) beat Netherlands 131 (46.2 overs) by 7 wickets (with 107 balls remaining).
    • Scotland 276/4 (50 overs; Fraser Watts 70, Gavin Hamilton 64*, Dougie Brown 50*) beat Canada 269/9 (50 overs; Ashish Bagai 137*, Ashif Mulla 48) by 7 runs.
    • Ireland 276/6 (48.4 overs; William Porterfield 112*, Kevin O'Brien 54) beat Bermuda 275/8 (50 overs; Clay Smith 52, Dean Minors 51) by 4 wickets (with 8 balls remaining).

• Football (soccer):
  • 2007 ASEAN Football Championship, final, first leg:
    • Singapore 2 Thailand 1.
  • FC Bayern Munich sack their coach Felix Magath, replacing him with Magath's predecessor Ottmar Hitzfeld after a string of poor performances in their defence of their Bundesliga title.

• Basketball:
  • Euroleague, Group C
    • CSKA Moscow, already assured of topping the group, win their 11th straight group match, manhandling Fenerbahçe Ülker 85–66 and ending Fener's very faint hopes of advancing to the Top 16. (Euroleague)
    • Benetton Treviso, already qualified for the Top 16, come from behind to defeat Eldo Napoli 64–62 away. The result leaves Eldo's hopes of the Top 16 hanging by a thread. (Euroleague)
    • Pau-Orthez punch their ticket to the Top 16 with a 68–56 win over Žalgiris . (Euroleague)
    • Although Aris TT Bank lose 82–75 at home in overtime to Winterthur FCB, they back into the Top 16 courtesy of Benetton's win over Eldo. (Euroleague)
  • US men's college basketball:
    • (1) Florida 74, (24) Vanderbilt 64
    • Indiana 71, (2) Wisconsin 66
    • (3) North Carolina 105, Miami (FL) 64
    • (4) Ohio State 78, Purdue 60
    • (10) Texas A&M 73, Iowa State 49
    • NC State 70, (16) Virginia Tech 59
    • Gonzaga 90, (23) Stanford 86 (2 OT)