List of Sports Events on December-1999

2- December-1999 Navjot Singh Sidhu, former Indian opening batsman, announced his decision to retire from international and domestic cricket at a press meet in Chandigarh.
11- December-1999 Leander Paes capped a brilliant year with his successive Challenger title, this time in Jaipur, beating Barry Cowan in the final.
14- December-1999 India lost to Australia by 285 runs in Adelaide in the first cricket Test.
18- December-1999 Indian tennis duo Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhuapathi were named The Sportstar's sportpersons of the Year-1999. Sunil Kumar, the teenaged national hardcourt tennis champion and Aarthie Ramaswamy, the world under-18 girls chess champion, received the 'Young Achiever award' while hockey wizard Leslie Claudius will be honoured with the 'Legend of Indian Sport' award.
24- December-1999 Koneru Humpy won the under-12 boys' title and P. Harikrishna won the Under-14 boys' title at the Asian Youth Chess Championship in Ahmedabad.
27- December-1999 PSCB's Prathima Kumari shattered the National clean and jerk mark twice in the women's 58-kg class on the second day of the senior national weightlifting championship in Kalyan.
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