Jeev shines as India trounce China
LONDON, Oct 10 — India ended their Alfred Dunhill Cup campaign with a 3-0 clean sweep against China in their third and final Group-3 match of the prestigious golf tournament at the Old Course, St Andrews in Scotland.

France, Germany, Italy qualify for Euro 2000
PARIS, Oct 10 — Europe’s finest were not at their best last night but the continent’s last three world champions, Italy, Germany and France, all qualified automatically for Euro 2000 in Belgium and Holland next season.

Korean duo lifts Asian Nations Cup
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 — Kang Wook-Soon and Kim Wan-Tae won the inaugural Asian Nations Cup for Korea today, and qualified for next month’s World Cup of Golf along with Taiwan, the Philippines and Myanmar.

Boxing nationals from tomorrow
SHIMLA, Oct 10 — Holders Services and Railways will once again vie for supremacy in the ring during the 46th National Boxing Championship beginning here from October 12.

Gopi Chand storms into final
BANGALORE, Oct 10 — National champion P. Gopi Chand stormed into the final of the German Open Badminton Tournament at Duisburg, getting the better of Malaysia’s James Chua.

Puri bows to Chuni Lal in telecom b’minton
SHIMLA, Oct 10 — M.K. Puri of Punjab ultimately surrendered to Chuni Lal of Himachal Pradesh in a thrilling singles tie of the veterans in the All-India Telecom Badminton Tournament here yesterday.

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India skittled out for 83 runs
By Gopal Sharma
Tribune News Service

SAS Nagar, Oct 10 —Fast medium bowler Dion Nash,who claimed his career-best figures of six for 27, bowled an inspired spell and shattered the myth of India having a strong batting line-up as the hosts were sent crashing to 83 all out on the opening day of the first Test of the three-Test series at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium ground here today.

Indian batsmen displayed a distinct lack of character and application after they were put in by the New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming. But probably they were done in more by the thoughts of playing on a track which offered some assistance to seamers as non of the recognised batsmen with the exception of skipper Sachin Tendulkar could reach the double figures.

New Zealand seamers deserve credit for bowling to almost an immaculate line, not allowing any liberty to the batsmen width to go for the shots and let them do the rest.

Wicketkeeper batsman MSK Prasad, who remained unbeaten on 16 runs after his 89-minute vigil at the wicket contributed valuable 30 runs for the ninth-wicket partnership with fast medium bowler Javagal Srinath, who emerged the highest scorer of the innings with 20 runs as the team was skittled out for a paltry total after one hour of the lunch break. This partnership, in fact, saved the team from ignominy, allowing it to overtake its lowest score of 81 against the Kiwis they made in the Wellington Test in February 1976.

As if to rub further salt on the wounds New Zealand Craig Spearman, playing his first Test against India, notched up a well compiled half century and in the company of skipper Stephen Fleming helped his side overtake the first innings target after twin strikes by Srinath,who sent Mathew Bell and Matt Horne back in the pavilion with just eight runs on the board.

Fleming played a responsible innings full of application and remained unbeaten on 38 as the visitors finished the day 36 runs ahead at 119 for three. Keeping him company was Nathan Astle,who was undefeated on 12.

Earlier the Indian innings made virtually the worst possible start as opener Sadagopan Ramesh and Rahul Dravid were back in the pavilion inside the first three overs of the day. Debutant opener Debang Gandhi, who had been holding on to one end for 26 minutes without any score was then dismissed edging a Nash delivery behind the stumps.Saurav Ganguly was castled next by Nash as the Indians found themselves in the most miserably situation at 10 runs for the loss of four wickets

Vijay Bhardwaj was caught behind fishing outside the off stump. Tendulkar looked compact and was playing carefully until his leg stump was uprooted as he tried to work a Shayne O’Connor delivery to the on side. His knock of 18 runs included three fours, the one he thumped off O’Connor to the cover boundry being the best.This was the prized scalp the left-armer earned for his team and after which his team’s control on the day’s proceedings was total.

India (Ist innings):

Gandhi c Parore b Nash 0

Ramesh b Nash 0

Dravid c Astle b Cairns 1

Tendulkar b O’Connor 18

Ganguly b Nash 2

Bhardwaj c Parore b Cairns 0

Prasad not out 16

Joshi c Parore b O’Connor 0

Kumble c Spearman b Nash 20

Prasad c Fleming b Nash 0

Extras (b-8, lb-5, nb-6) 19

Total (all out in 27 overs, min 135) 83

Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-3, 3-7, 4-10, 5-22, 6-38, 7-38, 8-53, 9-83.

Bowling: Cairns 9-4-23-2, Nash 11-3-27-6, O’Connor 7-1-20-2.

New Zealand (Ist innings)

Horne c Ganguly b Srinath 6

Bell b Srinath 0

Spearman c and b Kumble 51

Fleming batting 38

Astle batting 12

Extras (b-1, lb-6, nb-5) 12

Total (for 3 wkts, 51 overs) 119

Bowling: Srinath 11-4-27-2, Prasad 10-4-25-0, Ganguly 1-0-1-0, Kumble 12-3-25-1, Bhardwaj 9-1-22-0, Joshi 8-4-12-0.

Hurricane 117 by Lara

DHAKA, Oct 10 (PTI) — Batting maestro Brian Lara smashed the second fastest one-day international century as West Indies thrashed Bangladesh by 109 runs in the second day-night cricket tie to lift the Biman Millenium Cup with a 2-0 sweep here last night.

Skipper Lara led from the front with a hurricane 117 off 64 balls to put himself ahead of Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya and just behind Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi in the master blaster’s list as West Indies expectedly dominated the series.

Lara’s scintillating knock, which was studded with 19 boundaries and three towering sixes, enabled the Caribbeans post a massive 314 runs for the loss of six wickets in their allotted 50 overs.

The skipper, obviously encouraged by his brilliant effort with the bat, repeated his success with the ball to claim two wickets for 12 runs as Bangladesh were bundled out for 205 runs in 49.1 overs at the Bangabandhu National Stadium here.

West Indies

S. Campbell c Mashud b Kamal 28

B. Lara b Bashar 117

R. Powell c Hoque b Mahmud 21

W. Hinds b Hoque 14

S.Chanderpaul not out 77

R. Jacobs c Mashud b A. Islam 11

J. Adams b Hoque 15

N. Perry not out 19

Extras: (LB-1 W-10 NB-1) 12

Total: (for six wickets in 50 overs) 314

Fall of wickets: 1-98 2-161 3-185 4-187 5-218 6-257

Bowling: Islam 4-0-38-0, Ahmed 3-0-32-0, Kamal 5-0-39-1, Hoque 10-0-45-2, Mahmud 8-0-78-1, Bashar 10-0-31-1, Islam 10-0-50-1

Bangladesh

S. Hossain st Jacobs b Campbell 47

J.O. Balem c Hinds b Mclean 18

H. Bashar c Jacobs b Dillon 0

A. Islam st Jacobs b Lara 66

Al-Shariar c Jacobs b Campbell 12

K. Mahmud b Campbell 2

K. Mashud st Jacobs b Campbell 5

E. Hoque c Adams b Perry 13

A. Kamal c Chanderpaul b perry 11

S. Ahmed c Ambrose b Lara 0

M. Islam not out 5

Extras: (LB-3 W-19 NB-4) 26

Total: (all out in 49.1 overs) 205

Fall of wickets: 1-65 2-66 3-79 4-106 5-108 6-135 7-162 8-185 9-190.

Bowling: Mclean 8-0-44-1, Ambrose 7-1-21-0, Dillon 7-0-29-1, Campbell 10-0-30-4, Powell 8-0-47-0, Perry 7-0-19-2, Lara 2.1-0-12-2.

Jeev shines as India trounce China

LONDON, Oct 10 (PTI) — India ended their Alfred Dunhill Cup campaign with a 3-0 clean sweep against China in their third and final Group-3 match of the prestigious golf tournament at the Old Course, St Andrews in Scotland.

Jyoti Randhawa put the Indians, out of contention for the semifinal berth after losing to England and third-seeded defending champions South Africa in their first two rounds, ahead by beating Zhang Lian-Wei 73-74.

Top Indian pro Jeev Milkha Singh made it 2-0 with a 72-74 victory against Cheng Jun before Mahindra Golfer of the year Vijay Kumar scored his first victory in the event, a 73-77 win over Wu Xiang-Bing, as India finished third in the four-team group in the 16-team competition.

The 27-year-old son of legendary quarter-miler Milkha Singh, the only Indian on the European PGA Tour, put to use his experience of playing in Scotland as he won his second match in the tournament.

Jeev, who defeated Andrew Coltart of Scotland in 1996, stunned top European pro Lee Westwood in India’s 1-2 first round defeat to England. Jeev partnering Gaurav Ghei, who upset European no. 1 Colin Montgomerie, helped India beat favourites Scotland in 1996.

AP adds from St Andrews, Scotland: Spain and two-time defending champion South Africa — the finalists last year — claimed the first two semifinal berths in the Dunhill Cup with third-round wins to set up a meeting tomorrow.

MacGregor wins battle of sexes

SEATTLE, Oct 10 (AFP) — Margaret MacGregor, vilified by boxing purists for pursuing a fight with a man, emerged triumphant with a unanimous decision over Loi Chow and the chants of the crowd ringing in her ears.

All three judges scored the four-round bout 40-36 in favour of MacGregor, who threw her arms in the air and leapt into the arms of her trainer, Vern Miller. The crowd of 2,768 at Mercer Arena were vociferously pro-MacGregor. And the 36-year-old, 129-pound former kick-boxer, who took her record to 4-0, did not disappoint.

She attacked the defensive-minded Chow, landed more and harder punches and was never hurt. Halfway through the fourth round, the crowd stood and chanted, “Margaret! Margaret!”

“My dream, my vision was the crowd saying my name,” MacGregor said. “This is the biggest day of my life.”

Chow, (34), said he had been hampered by a “medical condition.” He declined to elaborate, but he was apparently referring to his blood pressure. It shot up shortly before the bout due to anxiety, promoter Bob Jarvis said.

France, Germany, Italy qualify for Euro 2000

PARIS, Oct 10 (AFP) — Europe’s finest were not at their best last night but the continent’s last three world champions, Italy, Germany and France, all qualified automatically for Euro 2000 in Belgium and Holland next season.

France beat Iceland 3-2 after letting slip a 2-0 lead, Germany only drew 0-0 with Turkey, enough to win group three, and Italy’s 0-0 draw in Belarus was also just sufficient to top group one.

The biggest losers were World Cup semifinalists Croatia and Russia, Poland and Switzerland who were all eliminated.

Meanwhile, England were allowed a back door entry into the play-offs in group five when Sweden beat Poland 2-0 in Stockholm.

Republic of Ireland sneaked into second spot in group eight too when Croatia could only draw 2-2 at home to arch rivals Yugoslavia.

In group one, Italy’s draw at Belarus enabled them to get into the finals where they will hope to do better than in 1996 in England when they failed to get through the group stages.

The 1992 champions Denmark, who were not in action, took the second play-off spot and are still on course for the showpiece finals.

Switzerland won 2-0 in Wales but it was too late to book their ticket.

In group two, everything was already decided with the group winners being Norway, who won 2-1 in Latvia, and surprise package Slovenia, who went through in second spot despite losing 3-0 to Greece.

Germany held off Turkey, who face qualification through the back door as group runners-up.

The Germans found themselves in the unusual position of being strangers in their own stadium with at least half the sold-out Munich crowd being vocal Turks.

The visitors were aggressive and intent on repeating their surprise 1-0 victory from the first leg match but they paid heavily for not taking advantage of the early clutch of shots on goal.

Having dominated the opening 45 minutes, Turkey’s pressure wound down after the break and Germany crept back into the game.

Only an 85th-minute shot by lone-standing Erdem Arif, deflected inches wide by Bayern Munich defender Thomas Linke, had the hosts momentarily in trouble.

Third-placed Finland beat fourth-placed Northern Ireland 4-1 in Helsinki in the other group game.

Group four was the pool which featured the most drama.

French supersub David Trezeguet scored a 71st minute goal to give France victory over Iceland that, together with Russia’s bizarre 1-1 draw with Ukraine, ensured the world champions qualify automatically.

France had appeared to be controlling the match after taking a 2-0 interval lead with an own goal from Rikhardur Dadason and a solo strike by Youri Djorkaeff but Iceland, helped by a dreadful error from France’s World Cup winning skipper Didier Deschamps, had fought back to make the score 2-2 with goals from captain Eyjoflur Sverrisson and Brynjar Gunnarsson.

However, Trezeguet’s goal, after a mistake from Iceland keeper Birkir Kristinsson, ensured the world champions qualified with Ukraine now having to negotiate a two-legged play-off.

A monumental error by Russian keeper Aleksandr Filimonov gifted Ukraine an equalizer and knocked the hosts out of Euro 2000.

Valeri Karpin’s 75th minute goal looked set to earn Russia an automatic berth in the Euro 2000 finals in Holland and Belgium next year as group four winners.

Alexandre Panov committed a foul just outside the area slightly to the right side of the goal and Karpin slotted the ball through the wall and past keeper Olexandre Shovkovskyi.

With two minutes to go, Russia’s fortunes changed dramatically.

Filimonov fumbled the ball from an Andriy Shevchenko frukick to hand the Ukrainians a goal out of the blue and dismay the vast majority of the 83,500 spectators.

In group five, Sweden did England a huge favour by beating Poland. Fed by a clever reverse pass from Fredrik Ljungberg, who plays for Arsenal in the English premiership, Kennet Andersson slotted the ball under Polish goalkeeper Adam Matysek in the 64th minute to notch up his 31st international goal.

Henrik Larsson converted Hakan Mild’s pass to score the decider in the 90th minute.

Ironically, Andersson was once rejected by Newcastle United, then managed by current England manager Kevin Keegan.

Romania beat Liechtenstein 3-0 to win group seven and Portugal beat Hungary by the same scoreline to finish second and qualify as the best runners-up.

The eagerly-awaited Croatia v Yugoslavia match ended 2-2, enough for Yugoslavia to go through automatically and to knock out Croatia in group eight.

The recent tragic history of the two countries made the match a highly-charged fixture which Croatia needed to win to take first place.

Yugoslavia did well to hold on for top spot in the pool after Darko Mirkovic was sent off in the 42nd minute. Yugoslav fans in Belgrade were set to celebrate through the night following their success.

Macedonia drew 1-1 with Republic of Ireland in Skopje, enough for the Irish to take second spot.

Group nine was already decided before the weekend with the Czech Republic, who beat Faroe Islands 2-0, winners and Scotland, who beat Lithuania 3-0, runners-up.

Korean duo lifts Asian Nations Cup

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10 (UNI) — Kang Wook-Soon and Kim Wan-Tae won the inaugural Asian Nations Cup for Korea today, and qualified for next month’s World Cup of Golf along with Taiwan, the Philippines and Myanmar.

The Korean pair beat Taiwan, represented by Chen Liang-Hsi and Tsai Chi-Huang, by three strokes, while the Philippines and Myanmar tied for third a stroke further back at Kota Permai Golf and Country Club. The top four teams in the 21-nation event qualified for the World Cup, to be played at the Mines Resort City, meaning fifth placed Thailand missed out on making it through after finishing one shot behind the Philippines and Myanmar.

India finished sixth, with Gaurav Ghei winning the individual title after firing the lowest round on the final day, a three-under-par 69 for a three-round total of seven-under-par 209.

“It was difficult at the start of the week because we were not used to playing with each other,” said Kim. “We came together though and I feel we have got to know each other quite well over the past three days. We helped each other a lot,’’ added Kim Kang and Kim both fired solid level-par 72s in the final round for a team total of three-under-par 429.

Boxing nationals from tomorrow
From Rakesh Lohumi
Tribune News Service

SHIMLA, Oct 10 — Holders Services and Railways will once again vie for supremacy in the ring during the 46th National Boxing Championship beginning here from October 12.

While the two strongest teams of the country will make the tournament a lively affair, its main attraction will the exhibition bouts involving women pugilists which will be held for the first time.

The exhibition bouts will be a serious affair and mark the introduction of women’s boxing in the country, says Mr Rajesh Bhandari, secretary of the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation. As many as 20 women pugilists, mostly from Assam, Meghalaya and Delhi, will participate.

The federation plans to hold the first National Women’s Boxing Championship in the 2000. The rules and regulations have already been framed and these will be applied in the exhibition bouts which will be a precursor to the first women’s national championship.

The Services and the Railways have been dominating the ring for the past several years. The Railways upstaged the Services to clinch the 44th national championship. However, Services avenged the defeat in the last championship.

The presence of ace pugilists like Asian gold medallist Dinku Singh, South Asian silver medallist Ramanand, Haridas, Narinder Rana and Gurcharan Singh (all of Services) and South Asian gold medallists Mohammed Ali Quamar and Jitender Kumar, Lalit Prasad, Bhushan Saini and Srinivas Rao, (Railways) who have excelled at the national and international levels in the two teams promise electrifying bouts. Most of these boxers won medals in the recent South Asian Federation Games held at Kathmandu.

Besides these two traditional rivals, some other teams like Steel Plants and the All-India Police also have some good pugilists. While national champion and winner of the Commonwealth bronze, Birju Shah, and South Asian silver medallist Z.V. Jolly figure in the Steel Plants team, the All-India Police team has former national champions like Harpal Singh and Bhim Singh.

Gopi Chand storms into final

BANGALORE, Oct 10 (PTI) — National champion P. Gopi Chand stormed into the final of the German Open Badminton Tournament at Duisburg, getting the better of Malaysia’s James Chua.

Gopi Chand, who beat Chua 16-17, 15-0, 15-6 in the semifinals, would meet Dutch Open champion and China’s Xia Xuanze in the title round, according to reports received by the Badminton Association of India (BAI) here.

Nikhil Kanetkar, who had a brilliant run in the tournament, pulled out during his pre-quarterfinal match against China’s Hui Xiao after suffering a groin muscle pull during the encounter, which he played with a thigh-strap, but could not move properly, a BAI press note said.

After losing the first game 5-15, he conceded the match.

Aparna Popat lost meekly to world number ten, Japan’s Yasuko Mizui 6-11, 4-11. Yasuko’s ‘ultra’ defensive game proved too much for Aparna, who had won a titanic match in the morning against Hong Kong’s Wan Tin Ling.

The Indian men’s doubles team of Jaseel Ismail and Vincent Lobo lost to Denmark’s Ove Svejstrup and Joachim Nilesen 11-15, 15-11, 8-15 in the first round.

The women’s singles final will be between Marina Andrievskaya of Sweden and Chenyu Tang of China, the note said.

Gopi Chand had a commanding lead of 9-0 in the first game, but lapsed into errors to allow the Malaysian to claw back and win the first game on extra points.

James Chua seemed to give up the second game to concentrate on the deciding game.

In the decider also, Gopi Chand raced away to a 12-2 lead and finished off the match 15-6.

Chua had earlier upset the tournament’s top seed Johan Hadi Kusuma of Indonesia and German number one Oliver Pongratz in the pre-quarters and quarters, respectively.

The note noted that earlier in the quarterfinals, Gopi Chand had beaten England’s Mark Constable 15-6, 15-4.

Madhav betters butterfly record
From Our Sports Reporter

LUDHIANA, Oct 10 — Madhav Sund stole the thunder by sinking the 200 m butterfly record with a timing of 2.27.31 secs in the 33rd Punjab State Swimming Championship for men and women at the Municipal Corporation pool here today.Madhav bettered the record set by Tarlochan Singh of Punjab Police in the year 1995. This was Madhav’s third record breaking performance during this championship. Earlier, he rewrote meet records in 50 m back stroke and 200 m back stroke events. Tarlochan Singh was pushed to the second spot (2.39.28 secs) while Sukhwant Singh of Amritsar finished third with 2.+2.45.53 secs. Jaspreet Singh of Sangrur won two events today. He took 20.01.68 secs to annex the 1500 m free style and with timings of 1.18.80 secs and emerged triumphant in 100 m breast stroke. In the women’s section, Neha Bector of Patiala proved too fast in 200 m butterfly claiming the event in 3.17.59 secs. Vibha Babbar of Ludhiana with 3.25.97 secs finished second. In 100 m back stroke. Kirandeep Kaur of Ropar emerged winner with 1.28.34 secs and was closely followed by Deepti Kanwar of Hoshiarpur 1.28.97 secs and Gitinder Kaur of Jalandhar 1.30.64 secs.

Results: 1500 m (free style men): 1-Jaspreet Singh (Sgr) 20.01.68 secs, 2-Kuldip Singh (Jal) 20.16.19, 3-Deepak Kumar (PP) 20.43.69.

800 m free style (women): 1-Sukhmandeep Kaur (Ldh) 12.10.40 sec, 2-Rupinderjit Kaur (Srr) 12.14.85, 3-Gitinder Kaur (Jal) 12.34.25.

200 m butterfly (men): 1-Madhav Sund (Ldh) 2.27.31 sec, 2-Tarlaochan Singh (PP) 2.39.28, 3-Sukhwant Singh (Asr) 2.45.53.

200 m butterfly (women): 1-Neha Bector (Pta) 3.17.59 secs. 2-Vibha Babbar (Ldh) 3.25.97, 3-Deepti Kanwar (Hsr) 3.41.00.

100 m breast stroke (men): 1-Jaspreet Singh (Srr) 1.18.80 secs. 2-Harmail Singh (PP) 1.20.34. 3-Jagjit Singh (Hsr) 1.24.44.

100 m breast stroke (women): 1-Himanshi Chopra (Srr) 1.34.06 secs. 2-Suneeta (Grd) 1.37.50, 3-Vibha Babbar (Ldh) 1.37.87.

4x100 m medley relay (women): 1-Gurdaspur 6.07.57 secs. 2-Ludhiana 6.16.04 secs. 100 m back stroke(women): 1-Kirandeep Kaur (Rpr) 1.28.34 secs. 2-Dipti Kanwar (Hsr) 1.28.97, 3-Gitinder Kaur (Jal) 1.30.64.

WSC Mumbai triumph
From Our Sports Reporter

NEW DELHI, Oct 10 — The Willingdon Sports Club, Mumbai, triumphed at the west zone regional finals of the 6th annual Johnnie Walker International Club Championship, which was held at the United Service Golf Club this morning. They garnered a total of 432 points over the two day tournament. The largest and most sought after amateur tournaments of the South Asian circuit, Johnnie Walker International Club Championship, 1999, is brought to India by Johnnie Walker, the world’s largest selling premium Scotch brand.

The Defence Service Officers Institute (DSCOI) Golf Club, were the runners-up with a total team score of 436.2 points.

Out of the 10 teams participating at the west zone regional finals, the Willingdon Sports Club and DSOI Golf Club will now participate at the International finals, which will be held in Delhi at the Classic Golf Resort on October 15 and 16. This year the international finals are being held in India for the very first time. Finalists from Sri Lanka and Nepal will join the regional finalists from India, to compete for the title of the Johnnie Walker International Club Champion.

The best gross individual scores of the two-day tournament in the three different handicap categories were Akshay Kilachand, Willingdon Sports Club (150) in the 0-9 class. Deepak Kanwar, Willingdon Sports Club (165) in the 10-16 class and H. Patel, again from the Willingdon Sports Club (171) in the 17-24 class.

The regional finals in Delhi-North Zone, Calcutta-East Zone, Bangalore-South Zone and now Mumbai-West Zone, the winning teams from these regional finals will go on to play in the international finals.

Winners of the international final will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the Johnnie Walker Classic. This is a 1 million-pound European PGA tournament will be held in November at Taipei, Taiwan will feature such golfing greats as Tiger Woods, Emie Els and Vijay Singh.

Puri bows to Chuni Lal in telecom b’minton
Tribune News Service

SHIMLA, Oct 10 — M.K. Puri of Punjab ultimately surrendered to Chuni Lal of Himachal Pradesh in a thrilling singles tie of the veterans in the All-India Telecom Badminton Tournament here yesterday.

Puri won the first game defeating Chuni Lal 17-15 after a tough fight, but lost the second game 5-15.

In the veterans singles, Sajal Banarjee of UP (East) defeated Satish Chopra of J and K by 15-6, 15-0, I.H. Minai of UP (W) defeated S.K. Dutta of Rajasthan 15-2, 15-1, Angsuman of West Bengal defeated K.G. Sharma of NTR (Delhi) 15-2, 15-1, R.B. Das-II of North East won the match from Sajal Banerji of UP (East) 15-4, 15-8 and entered the qurater-finals of veterans’ singles.

Rajinder Kalia of MTNL (Delhi) and V.S. Sharma of Maharashtra, got walkovers from S. Ramagaud (AP) and Gangadhar of Bihar, respectively, in veterans’ singles. Anupam Patra of Orissa won the match defeating M.M. Rajpara of Gujarat 15-1, 15-1 in the pre-quarter-finals of the veterans’ singles.

In the women’s doubles, Nirotama Sharma and Pushpa of HP won the match defeating Uma Jamwal and S. Sharma of J and K 15-6, 15-0 and Beena Joseph and Savita Sharma of Punjab beat N.A. Solanki and Bhama of Gujarat 15-4, 15-2 in the Ist round.

In veterans’ doubles, P.K. Purohit and G.R. Pande of MP beat M.K. Puri and Chuni Lal of HP 15-11, 15-3, R.B. Dass-I and Rajinder Kalia of MTNL (Delhi) beat V.S. Sharma and Ram Bole of Maharashtra 15-1, 10-15, 15-8, Anupam Patra (Orissa) and Raghunath (Kerala) beat K.G. Sharma and D.P. Khatna of NTR (Delhi) 15-2, 15-7 and I.H. Minai and S.K. Banerji of UP (East) beat S.K. Dutta and Rajeshwar of Rajasthan. In the women’s singles, Vandana Deegirikar of MP defeated E. Kharsynty of NE, Alka Joglekar of MTNL (Mumbai) defeated Surjeet Kaur of UP (East), Mamta Rishnud of Maharashtra beat Phoolwati of MTNL (Delhi) 11-5, 11-3 and Priti Mitra of West Bengal defeated Uma Jamwal of J and K 11-1, 11-1.

MDU down KU in football

ALLAHABAD, Oct 10 (UNI) — Delhi University yesterday beat Rohilkhand University 4-1 in the North Zone Inter-University Football (men) Tournament at Allahabad University.

At half time the score was 2-0. V Dhillon scored two goals and Neeraj and Bipin Gogoi one each. The only goal for Rohilkhand University was scored by Girish Kumar.

In the second match, MDU Rohtak beat Kurukshetra University 3-1. At half-time Rohtak led 1-0. The goals were scored by Surendra, Parvez and Manoj. For Kurukshetra Rajesh was the scorer.

The hosts Allahabad University, beat Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University by a solitary goal.

In a one-sided match, AMU Aligarh beat Lucknow University 10-0.

Yorkshire team to play at Patiala
From Our Sports Reporter

PATIALA, Oct 10 — A Yorkshire school cricket team will be playing a 50-over-a-side match against National Institute of Cricket and other Sports (NICS) Academy at the NICS here on October 16.

The 14-member team has already reached New Delhi and will play a series of matches all over the country. The team, accompanied by four officials is in India on the invitation from Delhi Blues Cricket Club.

In the next fortnight the team is slated to play matches at Agra, Gwalior, Delhi and Patiala. The team: Ken Ahmed, Chris Brice, Mathew Duce, Richard Ewen, Adam Halroyd, John Inglis, Greg Lambert, Mark Lone, Arshad Mahmood, David Paynter, Shuhain Rehman, Ryan Sweirs, Chris Got and Zubair Raje.

B’ball title for DAV boys

Chandigarh, Oct. 10 (BOSR) — DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Chandigarh, bagged the basketball title in the SNOSA North India Basketball Tournament (boys) which concluded here today at Shishu Niketan Senior Secondary School, Sector 22. In the final, DAV-8 had a tough time against Delhi Public School, New Delhi before winning 53-40.At half time the score was 32-22 in favour of DAV-8.

Mr Brahmjit Kalia, District Education Officer, Chandigarh gave away the prizes.

The winning team were awarded a cash prize of Rs 3100 and runner-up Rs 2100.

The tournament was organised by the Shishu Niketan Old Students Association (SNOSA) and in all 16 teams drawn from schools of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi took part. A souvenir of the SNOSA also released.

Earlier in the DAV-DPS final, DPS put pressure on the local team from the beginning and played valiantly to give a close score of 22-32 till the first half. However, in the second half, Amrish and Harjot were seen everywhere on the field and dominated the show. Sanjit and Harishant played a superb game for the losers and tried to basket on crucial occasions by dodging the DAV cagers. Ultimately DAV-8 bagged the title at 53-40.

The main scorers for DAV; Amrish (21), Harjot (16), Amit Kakran (8 points) and Mandeep Gill (six) for DPS-New Delhi; Sanjit (16), Harishant (16), Adhiraj (seven) were the main scorers.

Patiala pile up 402 for 7

PATIALA, Oct 10 (FOSR) — Skipper Gaganinder Garry, who has scored a glut of runs in this seasons Katoch Shield and under-19 cricket tournaments, once again dazzled with a superb 166 and his 273 run opening partnership with diminutive Binwant Singh (100) ensured that Patiala pile up a mammoth 402 for 7 in the stiuplated 90 overs against a hapless Bathinda attack on day one of the Dhruv Pandove (u-19) Cricket Tournament played here today.

While Binwant played the role of a sheet anchor to perfection, Gaganinder Garry accumulated runs almost at will. His footwark forced the spinners to check the flight of the ball everytime it was tossed up.

Scores: Patiala (first innings) 402 for 7 (G.Garry 166 Binwant 100 H. Kali 51, Ranjit Singh 2 for 98, Sameer 1 for 63, Amanbeer 2 for 84).

CR rout BSF

MUMBAI, Oct 10 (PTI) — Speedy frontliners Shammim Baig and international Hasrat Quereshi slammed in a brace of goals each to enable local team Central Railway trounce former champions Border Security Force Jalandhar, 4-1 and breeze into the quarterfinals of the Bombay Gold Cup Hockey Tournament today.

Earlier, Bharat Petroleum sailed into the last eight when their pre-quarter-final opponents - Central Reserve Police Force - failed to turn up.

Punjab and Sind Bank whipped Delhi XI 4-1 (half-time 1-1) while Army Eleven (Jalandhar), runners-up when the tournament was played last in 1993, got past Mumbai Port Trust 2-0 by scoring once in each half.