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Paes-Bhupathi lift title
POA to elect new team on Jan 11: Dhindsa Kochin, Churchill
play 1-1 draw Tollygunge hold Salgaocar Harikrishna, Sasikiran
continue good form Jitender, Sandeep annex gold Sirsa eves go down by 7-0 Sabeeha helps PU bag
two gold
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Vaas helps Lanka pile up 505 Kandy, December 6 The talented Sri Lankan achieved this feat in the second Test against Zimbabwe here, taking one wicket in the second innings after having grabbed nine in the first to surpass New Zealander Richard Hadlee. Zimbabwe were struggling to avoid defeat as they reached 68 for 3 at stumps on the third day after conceding a 269-run lead, with Gavin Rennie (26) and Andy Flower (six) at the crease. Paceman Hadlee had taken 10 or more scalps in a match on nine occasions in 86 Tests, while the Sri Lankan off-spinner took only 71 to set the record. Muralitharan, who had missed a perfect 10 yesterday trapped Trevor Gripper (21) leg-before for his lone success to press home the advantage given by left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas. Vaas turned in a superb all-round performance to enhance his team’s chances of wrapping up the three-Test series following the hosts’ victory by an innings and 166 runs in the first match at Colombo. He scored an unbeaten 72 for his sixth half-century to help Sri Lanka post 505 in reply to the tourists’ 236 and then rattled Zimbabwe with two quick wickets in the last session. Vaas bowled Hamilton Masakadza with his first delivery and then dismissed skipper Stuart Carlisle (nine) in his fourth over. He had also given a good account of himself as a batsman, adding 111 for the eighth wicket with Charitha Buddika (45) after the tourists had grabbed three wickets in the morning session. Vaas hit seven fours in his second successive half-century against Zimbabwe, having made a career-best 74 not out at Colombo. Buddika, batting for the first time in his three Tests, struck six boundaries before being caught pulling by Travis Friend at deep mid-wicket to give part-time leg-spinner Masakadza his maiden Test wicket. Zimbabwe, however, did not have to struggle for their first success as seamer Heath Streak trapped Hashan Tillakaratne leg-before in the second over. He could add two to his overnight score of 35 after the hosts had resumed at 334-4. Scoreboard Zimbabwe (1st innings): 236 Sri Lanka (1st innings): (overnight 334-4): Atapattu lbw b Friend 9 Jayasuriya c Gripper b Flower 139 Sangakkara hit wkt b Friend 42 Jayawardene lbw b Flower 56 Arnold c Wishart b Flower 71 Tillakaratne lbw b Streak 37 Samaraweera c A. Flower b
Vaas not out 72 Buddika c Friend b Masakadza45 Zoysa run out 4 Muralitharan b Streak 1 Extras (b-3, lb-1, w-1, nb-7) 12 Total ( for 9 wkts, 148.5 over 505 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-82, 3-202, 4-273, 5-336, 6-36, 7-388, 8-499, 9-503. Bowling: Streak 32.5-7-85-2, Friend 26-4-97-3, Olonga 4-2-131-0, Marillier 21-4-75-0, G. Flower 28-4-66-3, Gripper 14-3-38-0, Masakadza 3-0-9-1. Zimbabwe (2nd innings): Masakadza b Vaas 0 Gripper lbw b Muralitharan 21 Carlisle c Atapattu b Vaas 9 Rennie not out 26 Flower not out 6 Extras (lb-1, nb-5) 6 Total (for 3 wkts; 28 overs) 68 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-16, 3-51 Bowling: Vaas 8-1-18-2, Zoysa 6-0-16-0, Muralitharan 8-3-20-1, Samaraweera 4-2-2-0, Tillakaratne 1-0-8-0, Jayasuriya 1-0-3-0.
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Murali breaks Hadlee's record Kandy, Sri Lanka, January 6 A day after missing out on taking all 10 wickets in an innings, Muralitharan broke New Zealand fast bowler Richard Hadlee's effort of nine 10-wicket match hauls. Muralitharan, who finished with nine wickets in the first innings yesterday, trapped Gripper lbw for 21 in Zimbabwe's second innings to claim the feat in his 71st Test. Hadlee took 10 wicket in a match on nine occasions in 86 tests. Sri Lanka leading the three-match series 1-0, were heading for victory in the second Test having built up 269-run first innings lead. Zimbabwe slumped to 68-3 at the close of the third day's play.
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Indian eves trounce England
Chennai, January 6 Put into bat, the English women collapsed like a pack of cards and were bowled out for a paltry 106 in 44.4 overs. SCOREBOARD: England: C. Atkins c M. Raj b J. Goswami 10, A. Thompson b M. Maben 9, M. Godliman c A. Kirkire b N. David 10, L. Newton b N. David 20, K. Lowe b N. David 5, C. Connor c (sub) N. al-Khader b N. David 22, S. Clarke b S. Singh 0, J. Cassar b S. Singh 5, C. Taylor run out 8, L. Pearson lbw J. Goswami 0, D. Holden (not out) 0. Extras: (lb-6, w-10, nb-1) 17 Total: (all out in 44.4 overs) 106. Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2-31, 3-54, 4-61, 5-71, 6-77, 7-93, 8-102, 9-106, 10-106. Bowling: J. Goswami 7-0-15-2, S. Singh 10-1-25-2, M. Maben 8-0-18-1, A. Chopra 2-0-9-0, N. David 9-2-14-4, D. Kulkarni 8.4-0-19-0. India: A. Jain lbw A. Thompson 21, J. Sharma c L. Pearson b D. Holden 2, A. Chopra (not out) 26, M. Raj not out 36. Extras: (b-2, lb-4, w-19) 25 Total: (for two in 27.4 overs) 110. Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-51. Bowling: L. Pearson 5-1-16-0, D. Holden 8-1-19-1, L. Newton 2-0-10-0, C. Connor 5-1-14-0, S. Clarke 3.4-0-28-0, A. Thompson 2-0-10-0, C. Taylor 2-0-7-0.
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Bangladesh
rout Nepal by 9 wkts Ludhiana, January 6 Nepal won the toss and elected to bat first. Despite having good opening partnership (47 runs) between Sarfraj Ansani and Mahesh Chetlri, their essay ended at 92 runs in 34.4 overs, which included as many as 28 extras. Sarfraj and Mahesh contributed 22 and 16 runs, respectively. Sagar Pant (14) was the only other batsman who could reach double figures. Scoreboard Nepal: Sarfaraj Ansani lbw b Nadif Chowdhary 22, Mahesh Chetlri lbw b Nadif Chowdhary 16, Sanjay Wanjon b Nadif Chowdhary 8, Sagar Pant not out 14, Kirtharth Anand b Goutam Goswami 0, Manoj Bhandari c Kafi Khan b Nadif Chowdhary 1, Neeraj Waris run out Nafzhul 1, Imran Khan b Nadif Chowdhary 1, Amit Rana b Nazmul Hussein 0, N Patel b Abul Bashar 2. Extras:
27 ( lb-2, nb- 1, w-24) Total: 92 all out in 34.4 overs FOW: 1-47, 2-55, 3-66, 4-68/, 5-75, 6-78, 7-83, 8-84, 9-84. Bowling: Nazmul Hussein 8-0-24-2, Rubaiyat Haq 7-3-15-0, Md. Kafi 2-1-11-0, Goutam Goswami 8-1-24-1, Nadif Chowdhary 8-2-10-5, Abul Bashar 1.4-0-6-1. Bangladesh: Naeem Islam not out 35, Khalifa Md. Tanveer c Amit Rana b N Patel 34, Dhiman Ghosh not out 11. Extras: 13 ( lb-2, w-11) Total :
93 for 1 in 14.3 overs. FOW : 1-77 Bowling: Amit Rana 3-0-39-0, Neeraj Ansari 5-0-18-0, Imran Khan 3-0-17-0, N Patel 2-0-9-1, Neeraj Waris 1.3-0-8-0. |
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Paes-Bhupathi lift title
Chennai, January 6 Playing before a packed stadium, the Indian duo rallied after losing the first game to win the title for the fourth time, beginning the season on a positive note. However, the Indians, who began their journey to world fame with their first win here in April 1997, were made to sweat for the victory by the Czech combine. It was tough going for Bhupathi-Paes in the first set as the Cezchs, showing great team work offered stiff resistance and the games went on serve before Paes was broken in the sixth. However, the Indians broke back in the next game itself and when the set appeared heading for a tie-break, the Czech duo who showed better control broke the Indians with ease for a 7-5 win. Top seeded Argentin Guillermo Canas, invincible in the first set and brilliant in a tenacious second set battle emerged victor outplaying unseeded Thai Paradorn Srichaphan 6-4, 7-6 (7-2) in the singles final on the packed Centre Court here today. The Thai having made it to his first ATP final and in for his maiden title as well began on an ominous note. The wily Canas broke him in the first game. Down 0-30, Srichaphan levelled 30-30, but hit a lunging backhand volley out and netted another return to lose the game. Canas held for a 2-0 lead returning 90 per cent of the balls as is his wont. The Thai, aiming to be in the top 100 soon, held serve (1-2) but Canas forced a 3-2 lead as Srichaphan was committing unforced errors on returns. But on his serve down 15-30, Srichaphan forced deuce twice, fired an ace to be on game point, only to drop it. Canas broke him again to be up 4-1. Canas for his brilliant effort also carried home the winner purse of $ 64,00 and 35 ATP race points. The Thai’s brilliant effort in the season’s opener earned him $ 31,500 and 24 race points. Canas became the first top seeded player in the Chennai ATP tournament after Patric Rafter, to win the title. Canas had, by now, turned the heat on the fighting Thai, who seemed to be on the brink of losing it. The Argentine who had jumped to no 14 last year from 130 in 2000, with wins over world class players like Marat Safini, Michael Chang, Nicolas Kiefer and Thomas Johansson, was up 5-1 holding serve and not dropping any point in the sixth game. But albeit late, Srichaphan held serve saving a break point 2-5 and his volleys and passing shot working again broke Canas (3-5). PTI
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Henman overcomes Philippoussis
Adelaide, January 6 The British world No 9 played precise serve-and-volley tennis to lift his ninth career title and end a poor run of results against the big-serving Philippoussis. But Philippoussis’s normally reliable serve deserted him when he was trailing 4-5 in the first set. Down 15-40 on serve, the Australian saved two set points before double-faulting twice to hand Henman the set 6-4 in 39 minutes. Although Henman raced to a 4-1 lead in the second set that included four service breaks, Philippoussis came roaring back to level at 5-5 before taking it to a tie-break. Philippoussis, a finalist in the 1998 US Open, clinched the tiebreak 8-6 and the second set after an hour as Henman looked disappointed at missing the opportunity to beat the home-town favourite in straight sets. The 25-year-old Australian’s seventh double-fault of the match, however, handed Henman a break in the third set and the Briton, a Wimbledon semifinalist last year, promptly held serve for a 3-1 lead. Games went on serve until Philippoussis, serving to stay in the match at 3-5, was taken to deuce five times and finally was broken again as he hit two consecutive forehands wide. Henman (27), a semifinalist in Adelaide last year, was using the event as part of his preparations for the Australian Open starting in Melbourne on January 14. CANBERRA: The Canberra Classic lost two of its top seeds when Spaniard Cristina Torrens Valero and Anne Kremer of Luxembourg both succumbed to wildcards in Sunday’s first round. Third-seed Torrens Valero was knocked out 7-5, 6-4, 1-6 by Australian Bryanne Stewart, who holds a modest world ranking of 181, 149 places behind the spaniard. Kremer fell 6-7, 3-6 to American Samantha Reeves, who got a wildcard after winning a reciprocal tournament in Colombia last year. The only other seeded player in action on Sunday, seventh-seeded Frenchwoman Nathalie Dechy, fared better with a 6-1, 7-6 victory over Adriana Serra-Zanetti of Italy. Other first round winners included Australian Hopman Cup representative Evie Dominikovic, Greek Eleni Danilidou, Lilia Osterloh of the USA and Czech Denisa Chladkova. SYDNEY: Former champion Amelie Mauresmo struggled into the second round of the women’s singles at the Sydney International tennis tournament on Sunday with a 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) win over Daja Bedanova of the Czech Republic. The muscular Mauresmo, winner of the tournament in 2000 and the sixth seed, took one hour 43 minutes to wear down her stick-thin opponent. The French player now meets either South African Amanda Coetzer or Jaslyn Hewitt, the younger sister of Australian world No 1 Lleyton Hewitt, who has been given a wild card into this event. Bedanova, who made the semifinals last week on the Gold Coast and had won two of her three previous meetings with her French opponent, made Mauresmo fight every inch of the way for her victory. The Czech player led 5-2 in the second set and held two set points in the second-set tie-breaker before going down. Mauresmo, who had been frustrated by Bedanova’s pace and placement from the baseline, eventually sealed the win with the aid of a netcord after a long rally. Reuters,
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POA to elect new team on Jan 11: Dhindsa Chandigarh, January 6 “There is no question of any parallel meeting being held,” said Mr Dhindsa clarifying that he had asked the “Secretary-General of the POA, Mr Arvind Khanna, to convene a general house meeting some weeks ago. “But since he failed to issue the notice for the general house as desired by the President, a meeting of the general house was convened for January 11. Copies of the notice were given to all affiliated units of the POA, including the district
Olympics associations (DOAs) and all state sports associations (SSAs),” he said. Under the constitution of the POA, the Secretary-General cannot convene a general house meeting without the consent of the President. The dates and venue for the general house meeting are approved by the President. Convening of two separate general house meetings clearly indicate that the “politicking” which had been simmering under cover for the past some years, has now “surfaced”. In the November 19 and December 1 National Games all units and executive committee members except the Secretary-General actively participated. Arvind Khanna did not attend even a single meeting, either of the organising committee or the games technical conduct Committee. He also physically stayed away from the Games. Though the POA elections were due in April 2000, these were delayed on one pretext or the other. The reason given was the holding of the National Games. Now the POA elections are being viewed in different political scenario of the state, where Assembly elections have been announced. Both the President, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, and the Secretary-General, Mr Arvind Khanna, belong to rival parties — the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Congress. While Mr Dhindsa is a member of Rajya sabha, his son is a candidate from Sunam assembly seat. On the other hand, Mr Arvind Khanna will be the Congress candidate from the home district of Mr Dhindsa, Sangrur. Looking back, the POA has mostly been rising above political affiliations or backgrounds of its office-bearers and executive committee members as they are mostly a mix of Congress, Akali Dal and even Bharatiya Janta Party. Mr Dhindsa and Mr Umrao Singh are known to have best of sporting relations inspite of their opposing political backgrounds. The role of the IOA would be crucial in recognising the POA’s general house meeting. Mr Dhindsa has been known to be a supporter of Mr Suresh Kalmadi-Mr Randhir Singh group. Mr Khanna is also close to Mr Randhir Singh. It was probably at the instance of Mr Randhir Singh that Mr Arvind Khanna was inducted as the Secretary-General of POA at a time when he joined Shiromani Akal Dal as its youth wing President. Later he joined the Congress. A major chunk of the membership of the general house comes not only from DOAs, which are headed by the Deputy Commissioners, but also many of the SSAs, in which are headed by civil servants, including police officers, working under the state government. The POA is an autonomous body which so far has stayed clear of the overall political developments in the State. Mr Dhindsa continued to head the POA even when there was a Congress government (headed by Beant Singh Harcharan Singh Brar and Rajinder Kaur Bhattal) in the State prior to the present SAD-BJP government. Another development to be watched would be of Col Raminder Singh (retd), who superannuated as Director of Sports on December 31. He had been a strong candidate for Secretary-General post of the POA. Though names for various positions of the POA have not come up so far, it is certain that Mr Dhindsa would seek a re-election. A lot will also depend upon the participation and attendance besides the presence of the IOA observer at the January 11 meeting. |
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Kochin, Churchill
play 1-1 draw
Kochi, January 6 With this match, Churchill Brothers have nine points from six matches, while F.C. Kochin have six from as many matches. Left wing back Rajesh Meetei put Churchill ahead when the game was into 34 minutes. Liberian striker Joshiah Seton restored parity for the home team five minutes before the final
whistle. Joshiah Seton was adjudged the Man of the Match. Though bitterly waged and furiously fought out, the quality of the day’s game was just mediocre. The match was mostly defence dominated. However, both the goals materialised out of defence lapses. Churchill Brothers who enjoyed almost 80 per cent ball possession, missed at least half a dozen scoring chances in the first half. Beginning the proceedings in a storming fashion, they forced five
flag kicks before the game was 10 minutes old. They strung together several promising moves, only to squander them by hasty and haphazard finishing. They, however, took the lead thanks to an opportunistic goal by overlapping defender Rajesh Meetei, who pounced on a ball from the rear and surprised the entire F.C. Kochin defence with a lofted long-range shot. The second session saw FC Kochin raising their game slowly but surely. Both the goal mouths began to be visited in turns.
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Tollygunge hold Salgaocar Margao, January 6 Tollygunge who relied on swift counter moves drew the first blood in first half through striker Akeem Abolanle in the 11th minute. Medio N Khentang, after finding space, split the rival defence with a forward pass to Abolanle, who raced down the right, beat the onrushing keeper and took a goal bound shot. Defender Franky Barreto, who made a desperate attempt to put the ball out to safety, however, pushed the ball into the net. Salgaocar retaliated and after missing three scoring chances in the first half restored parity in the 60th minute through keeper Amit Singha Roy error. Defender Bolaji Molubiyi lobbed the ball into the box but a mix up between defender Satish Bharti and Roy failed to punch the ball to safety and Sunday Seah leaped high to nod home the ball into the empty net. Sunday Seah, who played his first match today, kept the pressure on the rival defence and was guilty twice when he failed to score with open goal in front of him. Salgaocar, who pushed Tollygunge on the back foot throughout, have only themselves to blame for not collecting full points as they wasted many scoring opportunities. Defender Bello Razaq was unlucky twice when his header from close was saved on the goal line by defender Satish Bharti. Salgaocar moves kept the Tollygunge defence napping on two occasions but keeper Kalyan Chaubey charged out to deny Adeola Adeyeri and Khentang from scoring. PTI |
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Harikrishna, Sasikiran
continue good form
Hastings (UK), January 6 The only player within striking distance of Sasikiran and Harikrishna is GM Alexei Barsov of Uzbekistan who scored another fine victory over GM Joe Gallagher of Switzerland. Barsov has 5.5 points and is a clear one point ahead of GM Mark Hebden of England who is playing in his best form after a dismal start. The last round pairings have some very interesting games lined up. Harikrishna plays Hebden with black pieces, Sasikiran has black against Zhong while Barsov will take on Irina with black. For the second round in succession, there were four decisive games and the only draw was played between GMs Petr Kiriakov of Russia and Peter Wells of England. Zhong’s hopes of justifying his top billing were extinguished by Harikrishna in masterly fashion. Playing white, Harikrishna opened with the queen pawn and sprang a little surprise on his second move itself as he pushed the king pawn, showing his desire for a French defence, an opening he has played many times with black pieces.
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Jitender, Sandeep annex gold Rohtak, January 6 In the women’s section Kumari Sandeep of Jhajjar annexed gold in below-47 category. Manoj Yadav of Rewari bagged silver and Rakhi of Rohtak won bronze medal. In the junior boys category Ranit Lot (Hisar), Manjit (Jind) and Ajay Saini (Kurukshetra) won gold, silver and bronze medal, respectively in the below 45-kg section. Trivender of Rewari was declared bracketed bronze medallist. In the junior girls category participants from Rohtak district dominated the scene. It’s contestants Deepika (44-46 kg), Poonam (49-52) and Sujata (52-55 kg) won gold medals. In the sub-juniors girls category Kavita of Ambala bagged gold in below 18 section. Arti of Kurukshetra won silver. Sonia and Anisha Dhankhar of Hisar and Sonipat, respectively, won bronze medals. Secretary General Haryana Olympic Association and Director General Haryana Police M.S. Malik gave away medals to winners. |
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Sirsa eves go down by 7-0 New Delhi, January 6 Earlier G.V. Raja Sports School, Trivandrum (Kerala) edged out Prof Deodhar School, Pune 2-1. Pune school earned as many as 17 penalty corners but could not convert any of them, while their rivals from Trivandrum converted two of the six penalty corners awarded to them to collect full points. Both the teams were levelled 1-1 at half time. Roshni R. Put Trivandrum ahead when she converted the first penalty corner the 4th minute (1-0), Malti Vishnu drew parity for Pune in the 25th minute. Sirsa school has lost both the matches they have played so far and are out of reckoning in the four team group-III.
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Sabeeha helps PU bag two gold Chandigarh, January 6 As per reports reaching here, Sabeeha, a student of local MCM DAV College for Women, Sector 36, shot an impressive 392/400 to bag gold medal in the individual section. Later her above score helped in winning gold medal in the team championships. The other two women shooters in team event were Avneet Sidhu and Deepika Kaushal, both from Dashmesh Girls College, Badal (Muktsar).
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Bathinda
girl excels Bathinda, January 6 About 300 boys and girls from all over India participated in India. While talking this correspondent Babita stated that there were bright chances of her to be selected for the next Olympic on the basis of her good performance.
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