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Ganguly to miss today’s tie
Saurav Ganguly writes Johansson in first Grand Slam final
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India upset by Bangladesh Punjab take vital lead Railways pile up 497 Manohar shines
with ton Saurabh, Tushar in final NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Construction of SAI centre begins Holland defeat
Malaysia School
gymnastics meet concludes 3 wrestlers relieved
from camp
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Ganguly to miss today’s tie
Chennai, January 24 “During a normal fielding practice session, Ganguly aggravated a hamstring injury,” coach John Wright told reporters here this evening. However, Ganguly would be back in the side for the remaining three matches, cricket board secretary Niranjan Shah said. Mr Shah said the MRI scan on Ganguly had been found to be okay and there was no threat of his missing the remaining matches. Stung by the stunning comeback by England to level the six-match one- day series one-all in Cuttack, the big question facing India is whether they can put up a collective performance which would be so vital when they take on the visitors in the crunch game here tomorrow. The Indian team is thriving on individual brilliance but it has failed to click as a team and that is what has worked to England’s advantage both in the Test series earlier and now in the one-dayers. Also, the Indian team has proved English captain Nasser Hussain dead right that it chokes under pressure. The English seem to have done their homework well on the Indians, whether it be analysing the weak points of the home team or studying their trump cards Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. On the other hand, Indian team has been lacking in planning. Skipper Sourav Ganguly seemed to have made a tactical blunder in electing to field first in Cuttack knowing fully well that his team is very poor at chasing, whatever be other factors dictating the decision to put the opposition in. The Chepauk pitch, like most in the country, is tipped to be a batsman’s track and India’s best bet lies in putting up a good total while batting first. Another area where the Indians have been rendered second best is bowling. With England batsmen reading Kumble and Harbhajan well, India’s gameplan has been upset to an extent. Teams (from): India: Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Mongia, V.V.S. Laxman, Virender Sehwag, Hemang Badani, Ajay Ratra, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ajit Agarkar, Sarandeep Singh and Sanjay Bangar. England: Nasser Hussain (capt), Marcus Trescothick, Nick Knight, Graham Thorpe, Michael Vaughan, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Jeremy Snape, Ashley Giles, James Foster, Darren Gough, Andrew Caddick, Mathew Hoggard and Owais Shah. Umpires: Vijay K. Chopra and Devendra Sharma. Third umpire: B.A. Jamula. Match referee: Dennis Lindsay (South Africa). Hours of play: 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 6.45 p.m. to 10.15 p.m. PTI
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Anil Kumble may lead
Chennai, January 24 The sources said either V.V.S. Laxman or Virender Sehwag would be asked to open the innings with Tendulkar tomorrow with the latter being the front-runner for the job. Sehwag has hit his only one-day century when he came as an opener in Sri Lanka last year. Wright said Ganguly’s absence would also necessitate some changes in the batting order which would be sorted out
later. PTI
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Saurav Ganguly writes With the series evenly poised at one win each, it’s almost like a new beginning in Chennai. As the scoreline so far suggests, our performance has been a bit up-and-down so far. We did well to pull things back towards the end of the Kolkata one-dayer, but lost a game we should have won in Cuttack. At 99 for one, we were cruising along, till Sachin Tendulkar got out in that horribly unfortunate manner. It happens to everybody some time or the other, I should know since I was a victim to similar circumstance during the 1999 World Cup. At 100 for 2, we were still in a comfortable position, but the inexperience in our middle order showed in the form of two run-outs. This was what finally cost us the match. In modern one-day cricket 250 is a very attainable target if you have wickets in hand. However, we kept losing wickets at regular intervals, when a more common sense, patient approach would have seen us through. I had a word with the boys and told them that impatience can be lethal, and in India, there is no need to worry even if you don’t score off two or three over. The outfields here are so fast that you can always make up later. They are all youngsters and I’m sure they have learnt from their mistakes. On the positive side, Dinesh Mongia had two good outings. The team management decided to promote him to one-drop since he had scored huge amounts of runs of late and batted extremely well as an opener in the Hero Challenger. Form is crucial in the sense that if you are in good nick you can do well at the highest level since you are confident. Moreover, Mongia has the ability to score centuries and therefore it’s important to give him adequate time in the middle. I’m quite happy with the balance of the eleven and feel there is no need for playing the fifth bowler. I think the 10 overs of the fifth bowler is being handled pretty decently by Sachin, Virender Sehwag and myself. Among the bowlers, Javagal Srinath has been superb in both games. He is improving with age and now relishes bowling at the death. Ajit Agarkar gave him good support after an ordinary first spell in Kolkata. The spinners, Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble had a really tough time gripping the ball in Kolkata because of the heavy dew. But they both were back to their best in Cuttack. In fact, we did pretty well to restrict England to 250 on a good batting track; it was our batting that disappointed. Match referee Lindsey had a word with us about the slow over rate in Kolkata. I mentioned the wet ball and the fact that the players were slipping constantly and needed to remove mud from their boots every now and then. I don’t think viewers noticed that we finished our overs five minutes before schedule in Cuttack. It’s good to see the English media and experts backing Hussain and his men to the hilt despite their ordinary one-day track record. Zimbabwe is the only team they have performed well against in the recent past, but the media is encouraging and never criticises them unnecessarily. Such support always lifts a team, and improves player-media relations. Coming to the Chennai match, the wicket promises a high-scoring match. It’s an important game for both sides and everyone in the middle will have to cope with the heat and humidity. It will also feature for the first time, a giant screen in the ground. This is a wonderful addition and will add a new dimension to cricket in India. Gameplan
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Johansson in first Grand Slam final
Melbourne, January 24 Johansson will play either seventh seed Tommy Haas of Germany or Russian ninth seed Marat Safin in Sunday’s championship decider. Haas and Safin meet in the second semifinal tomorrow. Johansson threw his racket in the air in delight after he claimed the semifinal on his fourth match point against a tiring Novak, who pushed a forehand wide and long after two hours and 51 minutes on Rod Laver Arena at Melbourne Park. The 16th seeded swede had appeared likely to fall short after Novak completely dominated the middle stages of the match, Johansson littering the court with 63 unforced errors. But Johansson gradually fought his way back against 26th seed Novak and broke the Czech’s serve for only the third time in the match in the final game of the fifth set.
Capriati, Hingis in title clash
Jennifer Capriati and Martina Hingis will replay their 2001 Australian Open final on Saturday and both have made it clear they badly want to win. While Capriati has the
psychological edge, having beaten hingis here last year, the Swiss Miss will be determined to prove she can still mix it with the power hitters after a three year Grand Slam drought. Both players were stretched in their semi-finals today but came good, proving how much they want to taste a major success again. Capriati, the defending champion and top seed, fought off dogged
resistance from Belgian fourth seed Kim Clijsters to win 7-5 3-6 6-1 in one hour 37 minutes. Hingis, seeded three, took three minutes less to shatter the title dreams of four-time champion Monica Seles 4-6 6-1 6-4. “I know she wants it bad but i want it bad too and, you know, I’ve got nothing to lose,” said Capriati. The top seed rates her win here last year as so significant that she keeps a stuffed koala inside the front door of her Florida home so she is reminded of it every time she gets home. She admitted to a wobble in the second set against Clijsters but is again straining at the leash, ready to renew battle with Hingis. “I feel like I’ve proved myself pretty well just by getting to the finals and I’m not going to stop there,” she said. “But all I can do is really just go for it and play my game. I think it will be a good match.” She said she was tired but would be ship shape for Saturday. “It was a tough match. We were doing a lot of running, a lot of hard hitting. The legs feel okay. It’s expected to be a little bit sore after today but I have a day to recover.” Hingis used her best weapon to beat Seles — her brain. Unable to physically compete with the brawn of Capriati and the tour’s other musclewomen, she instead has refined her tactical
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India upset by Bangladesh
Christchurch, January 24 The unpredictability of cricket at this level has come to the fore during this tournament with Bangladesh’s result coming after Nepal and Namibia defeated Pakistan and Sri Lanka, respectively, on Tuesday. India begun their defence of the World Cup with convincing wins over Canada and South Africa, but their form deserted them as Bangladesh won their first match of the tournament, clinging on to triumph by two wickets. It was a bad start for India with opener Paul Valthaty taken to hospital suffering from a cut on his head .
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Punjab take vital lead SAS Nagar, January 24 Resuming at the over-night score of 130 for three, the innings finally folded at 357, thanks to good batting by their tailenders. Overnight not out batsman Kailash Sanwal was out without any addition to his score. Opener Ravneet Rickey and Ankur Kakkar added 50 runs for the fifth wicket before Kakkar was out. Vivek Mahajan (8), who joined Rickey, was out after the addition of 19 runs to the board and five runs later, when the board read 207, Rickey (88, 9x4) returned to the pavilion. SCOREBOARD Assam (Ist innings): 170 all out Punjab (Ist innings): Ricky c Sukhvinder b Ingty 88, Munish c Babu Ram (sub) b Ingty 50, Yuvraj c Zuffari b Gokul Krishnan 16, Dharmani lbw b Gokul Krishnan 10, Kailash lbw b Gautam Dutta 3, Kakkar lbw Parag Das 21, Mahajan c Zuffari b Ingty 8, Kali b Sukhvinder 48, Navdeep c Palashjyoti b Ingty 51, Ishan lbw Ingty b 37, Harish not out 07. Extras: (b-8, lb-10) 18. Total: 357 all out in 113.5 overs. Fall of wickets: 1-64, 2-208, 3-126, 4-133, 5-183, 6-202, 7-207, 8-283, 9-346. Bowling: Gautam Dutta 17-3-46-1, Mark Ingty 33.5-9-119-5, Gokul Krishnan 25-9-54-2, Arlan Kanwar 7-0-41-0, Sukhvinder Singh 20-7-41-1, Parag Das 11-4-28-1. Assam (2nd innings): Parag Das not out 40, Subhrajit c Dharmani b Puri 0, Mohanta c Dharmani b Puri 10, Zuffri not out 1. Extras: (w-2) 2. Total: (for two wickets) 53. Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-47. Bowling: Ishan Malhotra 5-0-33-0, Harish Puri 6-3-14-2, Navdeev Singh 3-3-0-0-, Kailash 1-0-6-0. |
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Railways pile up 497
New Delhi, January 24 Resuming at their overnight score of 291 for five, the Railway batsmen showed tremendous grit and application against a formidable Delhi attack to put 497 runs on the board. Their bowlers then made scoring extremely difficult for Delhi who crawled to 63 without loss at stumps on the second day today. Scoreboard: Railways (1st innings): J.P. Yadav c Chopra b Bhandari 4, Pagnis c Choudhry b Manhas 132, T.P. Singh b Choudhry 84, Goud c Rauf b Sanghvi 34, Ali c Gambhir b Bhandari 10, A. Sharma c Dahiya b Nehra 20, Kartik c Chopra b Choudhry 42, Wankhde c Dahiya b Negi 55, Parida b Bhandari 16, Hussain not out 45, H. Singh b Manhas 26. Extras (lb-10, b-8, nb-11) 29. Total (all out in 156.2 overs) 497 FOW: 1-13, 2-158, 3-256, 4-258, 5-279, 6-297, 7-357, 8-392, 9-432. Bowling: Nehra 33-11-88-1, Bhandari 22-4-92-3, Negi 14-4-47-1, Sanghvi 41-6-131-1, Choudhry 28-3-87-2, Manhas 11.2-5-27-2, Gambhir 2-1-4-0. Delhi (1st innings): Chopra batting 31, Ganbhir batting 28. Extras (nb-2) 2. Total (for no loss) 61. Bowling: Harvinder 5-1-12-0, J.P.Yadav 8-2-14-0, Hussain 5-1-12-0, Kartik 4-0-14-0, Parida 2-0-9-0. PTI
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Manohar shines
with ton Hyderabad, January 24 Himachal (first innings): 192 Hyderabad (first innings): D. Manohar c Ashok Thakur b Vishal Bhatia 111, N. Kishore c Rahul Panta b Amit Sharma 74, D. Vinay Kumar lbw Shakti Singh 24, A.T. Rayudu lbw Ashok Thakur 33, A. Singh (batting) 5, N. Aruju Yadav (batting) 7. Extras: (b-14, w-2, nb-18) 34 Total: (for four wickets in 110 overs) 288 FOW: 1-131, 2-235, 3-261, 4-273 Bowling: Shakti Singh 29-11-56-1, Ashok Thakur 13.3-2-43-1, Sandeep Sharma 7.3-1-29-0, Amit Sharma 15-7-37-1, Vishal Bhatia 23-3-74-1, Rahul Panta 8-2-11-0, Virendra Sharma 13-3-23-0, Sangram Singh 1-0-1-0.
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Saurabh, Tushar in final New Delhi, January 24 In the boys singles semi-final today, Saurabh Singh played an authoritative game to demolish the giant-killing spree of Dor Wethmier of Israel, with a 6-1, 6-1 victory that came easier than Saurabh had expected. Saurabh did not allow the giant-hitting Wethmier to settle down, and ran through him like a knife through butter. In the second semi-final, in a clash of friends, Tushar Liberhan had to summon all his cards to quell the challenge of Chatwinder Singh at 6-4, 3-6, 6-0. In the girls semi-finals, top-seeded Isha Lakhani seemed to cruise to a quick victory, but after an easy time in the first set, she found the unseeded Young Jan Chan of Taipei a tough nut to crack. Lakhani eventually cracked the nut, but needed a lot of sweating around before posting a 6-0, 7-5 victory. In the other semifinal, Kartiki Bhat shocked second-seeded Sanaa Bhambri 7-6 (7-3), 6-2 to maintain her dream run upto the final. The boys doubles final will be an all-India affair. Top-seeded Jaco T. Mathew and Somdev K. Devverman will take on Tushar Liberhan and Diviji Sharan. In the semifinals, Mathew and Devverman beat Amit Inbar and Cohen Asaf of Israel 6-3, 6-2 while Liberhan and Sharan accounted for Ivan Kokurin (Uzb) and Ivan Kovalev (Kaz) 7-6 (7-2), 6-0. In the girls semifinal, Chan Yung Jan and Dwang I-Hsuan of Chinese Taipei beat Krushmi Chedda (India) and Hsu Wen Shin (Taipei) 6-3, 6-1 to book a berth in the final.
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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Margao, January 24 Salgaocar, who dominated the match throughout, drew first blood in the 9th minute through Eugene Gray to have the team leading 1-0 at half time. The early goal shattered defending champions East Bengal who were weakened by absence of defenders Jackson, Anit ghosh (yellow cards) and medio Dipankar Roy (injury) as they found themselves clueless. Salgaocar made waves into the rival half and scored three more goals in the second half through Sunday Seah (53rd, 78th) and Eugene Gray (74th) to complete the rout. East Bengal, who lost their third successive match, suffered their worst defeat today. They had one scoring chance in each half but Omolaja Olalekan and substitute Jiten Rai failed to beat keeper Kalyan Chaubey. With the win, Salgaocar secured 15 points from nine matches, while East Bengal, who suffered their fourth defeat, remained on 10 points from as many matches. ITI rout Punjab Police BANGALORE: Nigerian import Johan Ugwa scored a hat-trick as ITI whipped a hapless Punjab Police 3-0 in the ninth round match of the National Football League here today. The irrepressible striker struck thrice in the second half, with the telephonemen
completely dominating the match to become deserved winners. After a barren first half, Ugwa found the target in the second minute itself, off a free kick. In the eighth minute, he made it 2-0, firing home a penalty kick to put the visitors, who were overwhelmed by their opponents, into despair. To make matters worse for the policemen, Ugwa scored a superb goal in the 38th minute off a Dhanesh pass, to complete the hattrick. With this win, ITI now have 16 points from four wins, four draws and one loss, while Punjab Police have just three points from one win and eight losses.
Bagan win KOLKATA: Brazilian striker Jose Ramirez Barreto’s two first half goals took Mohun Bagan atop the pole of the Natinal Football League defeating formidable Churchill Brothers 2-1 here today. All the goals were scored in the first session. Last year’s runners-up Bagan surged ahead in the 22nd minute through prolific striker Barreto. But the Goan outfit levelled the score though Ghanian Abdul Ganew Saley’s header just 12 minutes later. But the Brazilian had the last laugh giving the Kolkata giants the vital lead hitting the net three minutes before the half time. The win took Mohun Bagan to the top with 18 points. The goal also took the lean and thin Brazilian atop the scoring list with six goals. Zee Churchill slid to the third spot with the defeat, having earned 15 points from nine matches, just one point behind Mahindra United with 16 points from as many matches.
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Construction of SAI centre begins Sonepat, January 24 This was stated today by Mr S.S. Sharma, Secretary, Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of India, who inaugurated the construction work of the building of this centre which would be named after Jan Nayak Chaudhary Devi Lal. While speaking on the occasion, Mr Sharma said that this centre would come up as a unique complex and the work on it would be completed in a record period. The centre would cater to the requirements of sports enthusiasts from Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Chandigarh. As compared to the other states, Haryana would benefit the most and the sports talent of the state would be provided significant training of national and international level. The Chief Secretary, Mr L.M. Goyal, revealed that the project would cost Rs 100 crore and would be completed in three phases. Expressing his gratitude towards Union Sports Minister, Ms Uma Bharti, Mr Goyal said that she had fulfilled her promise made during the ‘Shradhanjali Sabha’ organised in Delhi for paying tributes to Devi Lal. |
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Holland defeat
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, January 24 The win takes the Dutch team to seven points and assures them a place in the third and fourth classification match on Saturday. Holland, however, were lucky to score the victory as they were down 2-1 at one point against the hosts. Malaysia had only themselves to blame for defeat, as they were unable to take control of the match, especially in the last 15 minutes where Holland scored two goals.
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School gymnastics
meet concludes Ambala, January 24 The state Education Minister, Mr Bahadur Singh, was the chief guest. Among others, local MLAs Mr Anil Vij, and Mrs Veena Chhibber, Naggal MLA, Mr Jasbir Mallours, Deputy Commissioner, Mr D.D. Gautam, Additional DC, Mr Mahinder Kumar and SDM, Mr M.K. Ahuja, were present. While Andhra Pradesh gymnasts stood first in the under-19 boys category, West Bengal boys came third. In all round individual, Davender of haryana came first while T. Rajshekhar Reddy was second and Jitendra Gaur third. In floor exercise, T. Rajashekhar Raddy came first, Davender was second and Bansi Saini and Digamber Singh were third. In Poommel Horse, Mayank Kant finished, first, Sandeep was second and Davener third. In Roman Rings, Vikas finished first, Amanjiwanjyot was second and Robin Kanojiya was third. In Vaulting Horse, Vikram came first, Sukhdev was second and Sunil Kumar and Akshay Lokhande were third. In Parallel Baras, Bansi Saini was first, Sumanta Nandi was second and Pawan Bhumbure was third. In Horizontal Bar, T. Rajashekhar Raddy and D. Ramakant Reddy were first and Sukanta Chowdhary finished third. Maharashtra team comprising Sagar Palunde, Rahul Tayde, Sachin Saupal and Pravin Shetey were second and Haryana team comprising Adesh, Sanjeev, Manish and Deepak were third. In acrobatics, mens group, West Bengal team consisting of Saugata Das, Surajit Das, Sahabuddin Khan and Bilash Singha Roy finished first, Maharashtra team comprising Sagar Palunde, Rahul Tayde, Sachin Saupal and Pravin Shetey were second and Haryana team comprising Adesh, Sanjeev, Manish and Deepak were third. In women group, West Bengal team comprising Soma Snatra, Madhumita Mukherjee and Bipasha Hazra were first, Maharashtra team comprising Shilpa Moraskar, Harshal Mahenre and Nikita Nadankar were second and Haryana team comprising Sarita, Soloni and Surbhi were third. In mixed pair, West Bengal pair comprising Sahabuddin Khan and Bipasha Hazra come first, Maharashtra team comprising Chinmay Paranjpe and Janhvi Keskar finished second and Sohanlal and Permila of Punjab were third. In
womens pair, Soma Santra and Bipasha Hazra of West Bengal were first,
Saryu Desai and Shruti Mane of Maharashtra were second and Ritu and
Sonali of Haryana were third. In mens pair, Saugata Das and Surajit
Das of West Bengal were first, Naveen and Rajesh of Haryana were
second and Sagar and Pravin of Maharashtra were third.
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3 wrestlers relieved
from camp Patiala, January 24 The ongoing camp is being held in preparation for the Takhti cup scheduled to be held at Tehran from February 20. Arjuna awardee Kirpa Shanker and Anil Mann, both of whom were considered to be sure medal winners in the 54 kg and 97 kg weight categories respectively, have been advised complete rest and have been sent home after they were found to be suffering from jaundice. Since the disease is highly infectious, all other grapplers attending the camp are being kept under close observation by the NIS medical authorities. Rajiv Tomar, another highly rated grappler in the 97 kg plus category, has also been sent home after he sustained a knee injury during a practice session. The absence of all these wrestler’s, particularly Kirpa Shanker, may mar the teams chances in the forthcoming Takhti cup. |
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