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Klusener to SA’s rescue
Windies frustrate England bowlers MANCHESTER, Aug 6 — West Indies’ Brian Lara played a scintillating innings of 112 to change the course of the third cricket Test against England as the visitors raced to 305 for four at tea in their second innings at Old Trafford today. Will govt takeover end all troubles? |
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BANGALORE, Aug 6 — Defending champions Pullela Gopichand and Aparna Popat retained their respective singles titles at the sixth BPL All-India Open Badminton here today.
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COLOMBO, Aug 6 (AFP) — An entertaining 69-run stand between Lance Klusener and Shaun Pollock helped South Africa recover from a poor start to post a first day total of 194 for seven in the third and final cricket Test against Sri Lanka today. Klusener, joint man-of-the-match in the Kandy Test which South Africa won to square the series, followed his unbeaten century with 50 not out when rain forced an early end to the day’s play, 42 minutes after tea. The hard-hitting left-hander notched five fours in his 50 off 63 balls in 117 minutes. With captain Pollock, who scored 33 off 64 balls, Klusener raised the total from a shaky 117 for six to 186 for seven, before off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan broke through. Pollock batted confidently, but failed to get on top of a Muralitharan delivery and was bowled off the inside edge for 33. Sri Lanka who lost the second Test at Kandy by seven runs last week, got off to a fine start when they captured three wickets for 63 runs by lunch after Sanath Jayasuriya had won the toss for the third time in the series and elected to field. The start was delayed by 20 minutes because of rain, and Sri Lankan seam bowlers Chaminda Vaas and Ruchira Perera extracted a lot of movement and bounce from the pitch to put South African batting under pressure. Perera returning to the venue where he made his Test debut last year, captured the wickets of openers Neil Mckenzie and Gary Kirsten, but it was Vaas who ended with the best figures for the day taking three for 50. Two of his wickets fell to brilliant catches on the outfield. Darryl Cullinan was held by a diving Marvan Atapattu at deep square leg when he pulled a delivery with his score on 38. Mark Boucher was out to superb catch by Upul Chandana at cover point taken inches off the ground for four. The third wicket was that of Jacques Kallis, who received a superb delivery that rose off a good length to take the outside edge to the wicketkeeper. Muralitharan also entered the fray with two vital wickets. He had Jonty Rhodes and Pollock, both playing on to deliveries which spun sharply. Sri Lanka and South Africa are level at one-all in the three-match series.
SCOREBOARD South Africa (1st innings): Kirsten c Ranatunga b Perera 11 McKenzie c Arnold b Perera 0 Kallis c Sangakkara b Vaas 19 Cullinan c Atapattu b Vaas 38 Rhodes b Muralitharan 21 Klusener not out 50 Boucher c Chandana b Vaas 4 Pollock b Muralitharan 33 Boje not out 2 Extras: (b-2, lb-6, nb-8) 16 Total: (7 wkts at close, 62 overs) 194 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-23, 3-57, 4-89, 5-103, 6-117, 7-186. Bowling: Vaas 21-7-50-3, Perera 14-2-54-2, De Silva 5-2-16-0, Muralitharan 19-6-41-2, Chandana 3-0-25-0. |
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Windies frustrate England bowlers MANCHESTER, Aug 6 (AFP) — West Indies’ Brian Lara played a scintillating innings of 112 to change the course of the third cricket Test against England as the visitors raced to 305 for four at tea in their second innings at Old Trafford today. Jimmy Adams was 29 not out and Ramnaresh Sarwan batting on one with as the West Indies took a crucial lead of 159 runs. Lara had been in breathtaking form as his ton took the tourists to the brink of an imposing lead. But just when he seemed impregnable he was dismissed thanks to fine fielding from England captain Nasser Hussain. Adams dropped a delivery from Craig White onto the onside. Lara set off for a single but Adams rightly was not interested. Hussain came charging in, picked up, turned and threw down the stumps at the bowler’s end, Lara well short as he tried to recover. It needed something special to send Lara back to the pavilion. The former West Indies captain was in complete command facing 158 balls including 13 fours and one six. He struck off-spinner Robert Croft high and handsomely over the ropes for a textbook straight six. When England took the new ball he responded by repeatedly driving paceman Andy Caddick through the offside for magnificent boundaries. So determined was Lara not to lose concentration having reached 48 not out at lunch that he went straight into the nets during the interval. Adams was content to grind out the runs with Lara in such form but will be looking to accelerate now with Sarwan, the last of the recognised batsmen. SCOREBOARD West Indies: (1st innings) 157 England (1st innings): 303 West Indies (2nd innings): Campbell c Cork b White 55 Griffith lbw b Croft 54 Hinds c Stewart b Gough 25 Lara run out 112 Adams batting 29 Sarwan batting 1 Extras: (b-14, lb-2, w-2, nb-11) 29 Total: (for 4 wkts, 106 overs) 305 Fall of wickets: 1-96, 2-145, 3-164, 4-302. Bowling: Gough 21-3-87-1, Caddick 16-4-49-0, Cork 18-8-28-0, Croft 33-6-84-1, White 15-4-36-1, Trescothick 1-0-2-0, Vaughan 2-1-3-0. |
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takeover end all troubles? CHANDIGARH, Aug 6 — Of late there is much talk of the government taking over the functioning of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) , rocked as it is by issues of match-fixing and betting. The demand has mainly been raised by cricketers-turned-politicians but also by followers of the game in the country. The demand gains momentum every time the CBI examines senior players or functionaries of the board or when the Income Tax Department carried out raids on the premises of cricketers. While it has so far proved extremely difficult for the CBI to fix the nexus between cricketers and bookies, there is no denying the fact that many cricketers have indulged in underhand means to make a fast buck. The promise of the Union Sports Minister that the CBI will submit its report on match-fixing and betting by the end of September must have come as a welcome step by the millions of followers of the game in the country, who at the moment feel extremely let down by the “super heroes”. Once the report is submitted then only can the next step be thought of. But will “nationalisation”, or use whatever words suits you, end all that troubles Indian cricket faces at the moment? Will such a move be accepted by the International Cricket Council (ICC) or for that matter by the boards managing cricket in other parts of the globe. While there is no denying the fact that Indian cricket is going through it worst phase in recent times, a takeover by the government will not end the problems. In any case senior functionaries of many political parties of various shades and hues are associated with the Board of Control for Cricket in India as also senior bureaucrats of many states. Collectively if they cannot take the board out of the dumps it has fallen into, can the government do better? What is probably troubling a cricketer-turned-politician like Kirti Azad, who time and again has called for a government takeover of the BCCI, is the fact that a person like him can never aspire to have some say in the functioning in the board, given the fact that the BCCI functions rather differently. The only way he can think of having a finger in the cricketing pie is takeover by the government (read BJP) of the functioning of the board. Only then a BJP leader like him or for that matter Chetan Chauhan can think of running the board. This of course is not the best remedy for cleaning all the rot that is in the BCCI. But the Government of India has shown tremendous maturity so far by not even hinting that it has plans to take over the BCCI. What the Union Sports Minister, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, who has been involved in sports politics for a long time, has been doing is only threatening to involving the government in the day to day running of the board without actually doing so. Maybe, Mr Dhindsa has aspirations to be involved in the affairs of the board but he is too mature a politician to say so openly. But the board does need government permission every time it has to send a team abroad. So far, for whatever reason, the government has not cleared the participation of the Indian team for the Sahara Cup, a series between
India and Pakistan, at the offshore venue of Toronto. Time and again many people have questioned the wisdom of playing Pakistan at a place like Toronto. Last year the matches could not be held because of the Kargil conflict. This time around many have suggested that India stay away from Toronto as relations between the two neighbours are not exactly rosy. Let us wait for the government’s response. However, if things go from bad to worse the government might consider having a nominee on the board as it has happened time and again in Pakistan. And the ICC or for that matter any cricketing nation will have very little to complain about if the government does take such a drastic step. |
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Savon pledges loyalty to Cuba HAVANA, Aug 6 (Reuters) — Two-time Olympic champion heavyweight boxer Felix Savon, who heads Cuba’s delegation to Sydney, on Saturday pledged his commitment to his Caribbean homeland despite numerous multimillion-dollar offers to defect. Savon’s patriotic words, published in the ruling Communist Party’s daily Granma, came as Cuban authorities warned the 241 athletes going to Sydney against ‘’stabbing the fatherland’’ by deserting the Communist-run island as dozens of others have before them. “The nation where I was born gives me my happiness,” said the 32-year-old Savon, who seldom gives interviews and particularly shuns foreign media. “When you abandon all that, then you are never really happy in life,” added the boxer, a popular hero in Cuba where President Fidel Castro’s government has portrayed him as a supreme product of its socialist sports system. Savon said he had lost count of the offers made to him over the years to fight professionally and abandon Cuba, where Castro’s government allows only amateur sports. During international tournaments, he had been pursued by scouts and fight organisers, offering him gifts, placing contracts in his hand, whispering him suggestions and promising him a car and house if he defected, he said. “They always start with a nice, friendly chat about your children, wife, mother, father ... but waiting for the moment to make another proposition,” he said. “Money is not everything. He who abandons his fatherland has no love for anything in life, and there is no more beautiful family than the country where you are born. That’s why I believe I will never stop loving my flag.” During a patriotic ceremony last week in which the boxer was praised for putting honour before money, Mr Castro personally delivered a national flag to Savon for the Olympic squad to take to Sydney for this year’s games. “There has been so much greed that once in Mexico some journalists wanted to organise a fight against the controversial Mike Tyson for 10 million,” said Savon, who competes in the 200-pound (91 kg) category. In Puerto Rico, in 1993, he was offered five million dollars to defect, and during the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, a blank contract was thrust into his hands, Savon said. Savon is one of Cuba’s biggest hopes for a gold medal at Sydney. He heads a highly rated, 12-man boxing team from the Caribbean island. “I feel tremendous pride because I was given the flag for the delegation to Sydney,” he said. “I would never have thought it. Now I am doubly indebted to my 11 million brothers in Cuba.” |
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Jones cruises to victory LONDON, Aug 6 (AFP) — Marion Jones of the USA, who will bid for an incredible five golds in Sydney, coasted to victory in the women’s 100m in 10.78 seconds at the British Grand Prix here at Crystal Palace yesterday. Jones, who took 0.02 seconds off the All-Comers’ record she set at the stadium last year, left her rivals trailing in her wake with compatriot Inger Miller, the world 200m champion, second in a season’s best 10.97 seconds. Britain’s Katharine Merry saw her proud unbeaten 400 m record ending in disappointing style though not by Olympic favourite Cathy Freeman. The heavily-hyped pre-games showdown between Merry and Australia’s double world champion fell flat after Freeman withdrew with a hamstring twinge sustained during the warm-up. But the race also turned into an anti-climax for Linford Christie-coached Merry as she had to settle for third place in a timely reminder that winning a medal in Sydney next month will be a difficult task. Merry, who had won her previous four races over the distance this year having stepped up from the 200m, clocked 50.45 seconds — 0.40 down on the best she set in Nice last month. Mexico’s Ana Guevara won in 50.12 from American Michele Collins (50.15) after Freeman pulled out rather than risk making the injury worse with the games just six weeks away. But Paula Radcliffe saw her Olympic chances given a massive boost as she finished just one second outside her British 5,000m record. Radcliffe, in only her second race of the summer after a knee injury and illness, finished second in 14 minutes 44.36 seconds to move third on the world lists this year. Ethiopia’s Ayelech Worku’s winning time of 14:41.23 moved her top of the time-sheets and also broke the All-Comers’ record. Radcliffe, a distant 11th in her comeback race over 1500m in Barcelona last week, slipped 20 metres off the pace early on before bouncing back into the lead. The 26-year-old, who won silver over 10,000m at last year’s worlds, was unable to match her Ethiopian rival on the final lap. |
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Help for umpires in lbw decisions JOHANNESBURG, Aug 6 (IANS) — United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) chief Ali Bacher plans to use television to assist umpires make leg-before wicket decisions during the forthcoming New Zealand tour of the country. Dr Bacher told the Sunday Times weekly here that he would recommend the use of the “mat” between wickets for leg-before decisions. He said he was confident that the UCB and the New Zealand board would agree to this. “New Zealand proposed at the last meeting of the International Cricket Council (ICC) that the use of television be extended”, he said. “Unfortunately, there wasn’t time for it to be discussed properly but it shows they are keen to use technology where it is practical”. The “mat” is a shaded electronic screen that can show whether a ball pitches outside leg stump, thus ensuring that a batsman cannot be given out. It will also show whether the pad was struck between wickets, helping an umpire make the positive decision when a batsman has played a stroke. There is a general view that the use of such technology will avoid wrong decisions and encourage umpires to seek a second opinion before making a decision. But Dr Bacher emphasised that the use of such technology should only be seen as an aid. “It’s like a line decision, such as run out and stumping, where the side-on cameras introduced by South Africa have taken the doubt out of umpiring decisions”. Dr Bacher’s latest move comes amid serious concern here about frequent challenges to umpires’ decisions during the Test series between South Africa and Sri Lanka. |
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Last-minute advertising blitz for Sydney Olympics JESSE Owens is about to have a second Olympic coming. Sixty-four years after the son of an Alabama sharecropper astounded the world — and embarrassed Adolf Hitler — by winning four gold medals in Berlin, another Jesse Owens is about to experience the thrill of the Olympics. Like the athlete he was named after, Jesse, an 11-year-old Sydney boy, has faced hardship throughout his life. His mother is still battling to pay off his father’s funeral, held two years ago. But Jesse, whose father, Percy, was believed to be a cousin of the Olympic legend, is about to realise his dream to see the world’s finest athletes march in the Olympic opening. Because of Jesse’s love of athletics — 18 school championship medals are proudly displayed on his bedroom wall — Olympic sponsor Westpac Bank and the Learning for Life programme for disadvantaged children chose to award him two A-class opening ceremony tickets, worth $1382 each. His mother, Michelle Owens, said: “He can’t wait. He doesn’t say much, but you should have heard him on the telephone telling his friends when he found out.” Making ends meet has always been a challenge for the Owens family, even before Percy, a jazz musician who grew up in Ohio, died of leukemia two years ago. Three days after his father’s death, Jesse busked on his electric organ outside a rugby league match, raising $175 to pay for a memorial plaque that is displayed in the front garden of the family’s housing commission home in Sydney’s north. Jesse, a keen 800m and 200m runner, and a soccer player, nods when asked if he wants to one day compete at an Olympics. He names Cathy Freeman as his favourite Olympian. “It would be good to see her march,” he says. His heart is torn, though, when asked whether he would compete for the USA or Australia. “Maybe both.” Jesse has hung above his bed a US flag presented to his family by the US Government in recognition of his father’s 12 years’ service in the US Army. Two million seats vacant Olympic organisers will begin a last-minute advertising blitz tomorrow to fill more than 2 million empty seats, including more than 212,700 at gold medal sessions, SOCOG will begin its final ticketing campaign in an attempt to raise up to $150 million for its budget and avoid the prospect of swathes of empty seats at venues. The campaign comes in the same week that a SOCOG inventory revealed that less than six weeks before the opening ceremony tickets are available to more than 100 of the 142 gold medal sessions. More than two months after SOCOG finished its last ticketing campaign there are unsold seats across all price categories, including popular sports such as athletics, gymnastics, diving, triathlon and basketball. Sydney has over 9 million tickets for sale, more than any previous Games. No Olympics has ever sold out. The bad news for Games organisers is good news for buyers. Some of the more popular sports have not sold out any finals sessions, including diving, soccer, volleyball and water polo, along with less popular sports such as handball and judo. More than 40,000 tickets are available for each of four athletics sessions in the 110,000-seat Olympic stadium — one session has 48,400 tickets available. Hockey, has sold out six sessions, including the finals, yet 16 of 39 sessions still have more than 5,000 seats available in the 15,000-seat venue. Explosive Olympic launch The success of an explosive event almost dead-centre in the Pacific Ocean last week will ensure hundreds of millions of television viewers across the Americas and western Europe can watch the Sydney Olympics with surety and clarity. The event involved the launching of a satellite from a massive, converted North Sea oil rig, which took 11 days to propel itself 4828 kilometres across the Pacific Ocean from Long Beach, California, to a precise location on the equator at 154 degrees west longitude. The launch of the PAS9 satellite is the fourth by the Sea Launch company, which brings together the powerful rocket and space technologies of the USA, Russia and Ukraine, plus Norwegian sea skills, in a commercial enterprise. The satellite will carry the Sydney Olympics to viewers in north and south America, the Caribbean and western Europe. By launching commercial satellites from the equator the rockets provided customers with the most direct and cost-effective route to orbit, allowing a heavier payload, or a higher orbit to increase satellite lifespan. Shifting sands The world-famous sands of Bondi Beach have become an international incident. Faxes are flying around the planet in defence of Bondi, amid claims its grains of sand are too big and contain shells dangerous to
Olympic volleyball players’ feet. It has even led to the sacrilegious rumour that finer sand would be brought in from the Whitsundays. Now SOCOG and volleyball’s world body have gagged the Canadian expert who started the furore. The international volleyball federation (FIVB) sent a blistering letter this week to Ontario sand guru Bob Hutcheson, ordering him to stop dumping on Bondi’s grains. Mr Hutcheson has been reported, in both the Canadian and Australian Press, as being critical of Bondi sand’s suitability for beach volleyball. The shell fragments on Bondi Beach, it is said, are a potential hazard. Bondi has the lowest amount of shell material of all the Sydney beaches. Australian and international authorities have rushed to the defence of the sacred strip following claims that its sand was too coarse and contained too much shell grit. They say Bondi’s sand is fine-well, fine enough not to damage the delicate feet of the Olympic volleyballers. Even so, organisers have decided to take no risks and are sifting sand on the volleyball courts. There will also be equipment to clean the courts, once in use.
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Gopi, Aparna retain titles BANGALORE, Aug 6 (PTI) — Defending champions Pullela Gopichand and Aparna Popat retained their respective singles titles at the sixth BPL All-India Open Badminton here today.
Gopichand clinched the title for the sixth consecutive time, defeating Nikhil Kanetkar 15-11, 15-6 in little less than an hour. Aparna, who won the crown for the fifth time in a row, did not have to try too hard as she beat Karnataka’s B.R. Meenakshi 11-3, 11-4 with the match lasting barely half an hour. Gopichand took the winner’s cheque of Rs 50,000 while Aparna walked home with Rs 30,000. In the men’s doubles, top-seeded duo of Markose Bristow and Vijaydeep Singh defeated Jaseel P. Ismail and Vincent Lobo 17-14, 15-8, becoming richer by Rs 40,000. The women’s doubles title was bagged by P.V.V. Lakshmi and veteran Madhumita Bisht as they beat Shruti Kurien and G. Jwala 15-1, 15-5. They received Rs 18,000. Four-time national champion Gopichand, who has qualified for the Sydney Olympics along with Aparna, was in fine form and came out with excellent drop shots and cross court shots. |
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Safin to clash with Levy TORONTO, Aug 6 (AFP) — eighth-seed Marat Safin of Russia will face tournament
qualifier Harel Levy of Israel in today’s final at the $ 2.95-million Tennis Masters in Toronto. Safin, the only seed to reach the semifinals, won a dramatic but unfortunate ending to his thrilling semifinal match again South Africa’s Wayne Ferreira. Ferreira went into the match with high hopes of winning his first major tournament since he won what was then known as the Canadian Open in 1996. After a sluggish start, with the Russian cruising to an easy 6-2 first set lead, Ferreira fought back to break serve in the 10th game of the second set, which he eventually won 7-5. But it was the end of the match that will be remembered for a long time. Ferreira, who had received an earlier warning from umpire Rudy Berger for hitting a ball out of the stadium, lost serve in the ninth game to go down 5-4. The South African was down 15-0 on Safin’s serve in the 10th game when Berger over-ruled an outcall on the line, to give the Russian a 30-love lead. After a heated exchange with Berger, Ferreira ignored the umpire’s order to play; Berger gave a penalty point against Ferreira to give the Russian three match points. ATP Tour supervisor Gayle Bradshaw came on to the court to uphold Berger’s rulings. The Toronto crowd — normally renowned for its politeness - booed loudly as Safin served... into the net. The second serve was soft and easy to hit but Ferreira had given up and didn’t even try to hit it. After the match, Safin admitted: “It was not a nice match at the end... I don’t think he should have been called for ball abuse.” If that hadn’t happened, said the Russian, Ferreira would not have lost a penalty point on the time-wasting call. “I’m sorry,” said Safin, “but that’s life.” Safin meets Israel’s Harel Levy, who had to qualify to enter the Toronto event. In an
exciting, albeit less eventful match, Levy celebrated his 22nd birthday by beating Jiri Novak 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. |
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Kumble’s 10-wkt haul not enough LONDON, Aug 6 (AFP) — Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble claimed match figures of 10 for 105 — but it was not enough to provide Leicestershire with a victory over Kent at Canterbury in Divsion One of the County Championship yesterday. Kumble turned in an excellent all-round display, having recorded his first-ever championship half century with the bat before getting to work with the ball. He followed up his first innings return of four for 61 with an impressive haul of six for 44 before Leicestershire captain Vince Wells gave up the chase for victory and settled for a draw with three overs left. Spin was also in evidence at The Oval where Ian Salisbury and Saqlain Mushtaq had title rivals Lancashire in disarray as the title-holders and current leaders stormed to a 272-run win. Salisbury took five for 46 and Saqlain three for 45 as Lancashi-re were bowled out for just 145 on the last day of the championship clash. Surrey’s third straight win gives them a 19-point cushion over third-placed Lancashire, who tasted championship defeat for the first time this season. At Derby Luke Sutton spearheaded a defiant Derbyshire batting display that denied Hampshire victory in a Division One relegation battle. A career-best 79 from Sutton, an unbeaten 78 by Australian Michael di Venuto and a stubborn innings from nightwatchman Kevin Dean frustrated the bowlers on a flat pitch. Dean batted for two hours and 20 minutes to draw the sting from a Hampshire attack, which missed veteran seamer Peter Hartley who was resting a hamstring strain. Shane Warne finally got in on the act when Simon Lacey was caught behind and Paul Aldred was bowled trying to hit over the top and, at that stage, Hampshire had a chance. Derbyshire were only 119 runs on but Kasir Shah again showed ability with the bat and joined Di Venuto in a stand which made certain the match would finish in a draw. They added 79 before Shah played across the line at Udal and was lbw for 33 but Hampshire bowed to the inevitable shortly afterwards with Derbyshire 293 for nine, 209 runs on. At Taunton Peter Bowler and Keith Parsons both took full advantage of a flawless batting pitch to hit centuries as Somerset’s match against Yorkshire ended in an inevitable draw. Bowler and Parsons were unbeaten on 139 and 108, respectively when Somerset finally brought the game to a halt by declaring on 368 for three with an overall lead of exactly 400. |
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Barcelona win AMSTERDAM, Aug 6 (Reuters) — Barcelona clinched overall victory in the four-team Amsterdam tournament yesterday after scoring twice in the second half to draw 3-3 against Lazio. Hosts Ajax Amsterdam finished second by beating Arsenal 2-0 in the closing match. Lazio were third and Arsenal, who lost both games, last. Barcelona looked by far the stronger early in the first half with Patrick Kluivert and Dani both just off target in the first 20 minutes. But Lazio’s Sinisa Mihajlovic used his trademark free-kick to put the serie A champions ahead in the 22nd minute and Salas converted a Fabrizio Ravanelli header in the 34th to give Lazio a two-goal lead. |
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Pak enter final LONDON, Aug 6 (PTI) — Pakistan moved into the final of the under-15 World Cup Cricket Tournament with a comprehensive 68-run victory over England here last evening. Electing to bat after winning the toss, Pakistan were bowled out for 190 in 49.4 overs with S Yousaf (42) and Z Haider Syed (41) being the main scorers. They then dismissed the hosts for 132 in 44.4 overs as England batsmen, with the exception of Samit Patel who top-scored with a magnificent 48, succumbed to the spin of M Naeem, Raza Shah and Yousaf. The star of Pakistan team was the 14-year-old Muhammad Naeem, who bowls orthodox left arm spin to right-handers and right arm spin to left-handers thus making him one of the most gifted players that the game has seen. Pakistan, runners-up to India in the last World Cup, will take on the winners of the match between South Africa and West Indies in the final scheduled at Lords on Thursday. Brief scores: Pakistan — 190 all out in 49.4 overs (S Yousaf 42, Z Haider Syed 41). England — 132 all out in 44.4 overs (Samit Patel 48). |
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