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Saturday,
September 21, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Leander fights in vain as India
Williams waltzes
into semis Herschelle Gibbs helps South Africa crush Kenya Chetan Sharma writes |
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Pak face Holland today Cricketers’ association on the anvil Brijesh Patel for Srinath’s return Forest Hill Open from October 16 No major changes in hockey team for Asiad Gurminder stars for
Dhudike school Mixed
luck for Punjab in throwball Ropar Hawks lose Sampat elected HLTA chief
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Leander
fights in vain as India trail 0-2
Adelaide, September 20 Though the seasoned Leander Paes showed signs of a spirited resistance by stretching his reverse singles match to four sets, India could never really pose much of a threat to world No-1 Lleyton Hewitt and Wayne Arthurs who put the hosts in the driver’s seat on the opening day. Hewitt set the tempo by spanking the young Harsh Mankad 6-1, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 in the first singles match while Arthurs overcame some anxious moments before suppressing veteran Paes with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory in the second encounter. The two victories on the opening day helped Australia move one match closer towards their goal of regaining the world group slot. India now face a do-or-die doubles match tomorrow and the combination of Leander Paes and Vishal Uppal — playing in place of injured Mahesh Bhupathi - will be severely tested against the fancied duo of Todd Woodbridge and Hewitt. Mankad was no match for Hewitt as the reigning Wimbledon champion and US Open semifinalist took just an hour and a half to wrap up the match. That the tie extended that long was partly due to the cocky Australian’s drop in concentration in the second set. The second set consumed 50 minutes of the total match time but Hewitt, whose pace and range proved too much for the world’s 831 ranked Mankad, raised his game a few notches higher in the third set and closed it out in only 24 minutes. But it was not so easy for Arthurs, who is ranked 53 as Paes once again proved that he was a totally different player in the Davis Cup. Paes, the ever-green Davis cupper who is ranked 980, proved to be a huge stumbling block making his opponent fight for every point in the four set encounter. If the lanky Arthurs had hoped that his smooth and powerful serves alone would see him through, then he did not have an idea about his opponent. The tone was set in the very first set when Paes broke back in the fourth game to level the scores 2-2 after the Australian had earned a break in the previous game. Arthurs took the set after he managed to break Paes who was still getting into his groove. But the tide began to change in India’s favour in the second set as the Australian lost his first serve percentage. In the fourth game, Arthurs was forced to save two break points which he did by coming up with two back-stretched volleys and a delicate drop shot. But the cracks had appeared. The experienced Paes started to pull a few tricks out of his bags, mixing his unorthodox crosscourt shots with some wonderful bootlace returns. It paid dividends on Arthurs’ next service game, and the South Australian’s confidence was so low by now that he failed twice to execute a good pass on a weak volley to drop the game. The third set was absorbing with the green-and-yellow brigade getting behind Arthurs with their energetic music as both players held serve. In the eighth game, however, Paes committed two double faults which proved very costly. Arthurs pounced on the double-breakpoint and won the game with a whipping crosscourt backhand. His morale boosted, the Australian began the fourth set strongly, breaking Paes in the very first game with a perfect lob. He seemed to rediscover his rhythm and started to move around the court better and was bold enough to approach the net a couple of times. Yet, he was not in full control of the situation. His inability to finish easy points allowed the Indian to pull one back in the fourth game for the scores to level at 2-2. But egged on by the cheerful home crowd, Arthurs managed to earn another break in the ninth game to go 5-4 up and had little difficulty to hold his serve and clinch the set. PTI
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Williams
waltzes into semis Tokyo, September 20 Williams, the winner of the previous three straight Grand Slam titles, gave Pratt only one point on a double fault in the first 15 points on her way to a 6-1 6-0 39-minute demolition job. In the semifinals, she will take on fellow American Amy Frazier, the two-time runner-up here, who eliminated sixth seed Tatiana Panova 2-6 6-1 6-4. “I played alright, I’m starting to get focused. I’m almost where I want to be for the first tournament after the US Open. It’s really hard to get re-focused after such a big win, but I’m getting there,” said Williams. “It’s great to be in the semifinals, I haven’t lost a match here at this tournament and I love playing here. I’ve played Amy once, she is obviously playing great at the moment. “She is a tough player, she runs very fast. Amy is a very deceptive player. If you are not careful, you can lose to her. So I will have to make sure I’m really focused for the match,” she added.
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Herschelle
Gibbs helps South Africa crush Kenya
Colombo, September 20 Electing to bat, South Africa scored 316 for five in their stipulated 50 overs before bowling out Kenya for 140 in 46.5 overs. Gibbs scored 116 off 126 balls with 13 fours and three sixes and put on 159 runs for the opening wicket with Graeme Smith to set the stage for the first 300-plus total of the tournament. Smith made 69 with five fours and a six. Jacques Kallis (60) and Boeta Dippenaar (31) also joined in the run-plunder as the Kenyans erred both in bowling and fielding. Smith and Gibbs made a controlled beginning, reserving their flamboyance for the latter part of their innings. The two brought up the 100-run partnership in the 21st over after which both broke free. Soon they bettered the previous best partnership for a South African opening wicket against Kenya, which stood in the name of Gibbs and Boeta Dippenaar who had put on 115 at Kimberly. Gibbs was the first to reach his half-century, scoring his 50 off 70 balls with seven boundaries. Smith quickly followed him to the milestone, taking 62 balls for his fifty which included four hits to the fence. Kenya got their first breakthrough in the 28th over when wicketkeeper David Obuya effected the first of his three stumpings of the day to send back Smith who struck six fours in his 77-ball knock. But Gibbs stepped up the attack after that and soon reached his hundred with a boundary to the fine leg fence. Gibbs then smashed Jimmy Kamande for two sixes and a four off successive balls before the bowler got his revenge. While trying to run the fifth ball of the over to third man, Gibbs only managed an outside edge and was caught by David Obuya. In contrast, the Kenyan innings was a familiar tale of meek capitulation. They lost their first two wickets with just five runs on the board with opener Ravindu Shah (3) and Brijal Patel (0) getting out cheaply. Tikolo and Kennedy Otieno put up a semblance of fight in a 56-run third wicket stand but by then, the required run rate had already gone past eight an over. Otieno struggled to get the runs and took as many as 53 balls to score 16.
PTI Scoreboard South Africa Smith st D. Obuya b Odumbe 69 Gibbs c D. Obuya b Kallis st D. Obuya b Tikolo 60 Dippenaar st D. Obuya Benkenstein c M. Suji b Klusener not out 18 Ontong not out 4 Extras
(b-4, lb-1, w-2, nb-4) 11 Total (for 5 wkts, 50 overs) 316 Fall of wickets: 1-159, 2-214, 3-287, 4-291, 5-299. Bowling:
M. Suji 8-0-42-0, T. Odoyo 7-0-42-0, T. Suji 3-0-19-0, M. Odumbe 10-0-52-1, C. Obuya 10-0-77-2, S. Tikolo 10-1-54-1, .J Kamande 2-0-25-1. Kenya K Otieno c Benkenstein b Ntini 16 R Shah c Kallis b Pollock 3 B Patel c Pollock b Dawson 0 S Tikolo c Smith b Ontong 69 M Odumbe c sub b Ntini 0 T Odoyo c Gibbs b Ontong1 0 C Obuya lbw b Benkenstein 14 D Obuya st Boucher b Ontong 2 T Suji b Benkenstein 4 J Kamande not out 2 Suji c Klusener b Benkenstein 2 Extras: (b-1, lb-2, w-12, nb-3) 18 Total: (all out, 46.5 overs) 140 Fow: 1-4, 2-5, 3-61, 4-64, 5-89, 6-119, 7-126, 8-131, 9-134. Bowling: Pollock 6-2-10-1, Dawson 5-2-12-1, Klusener 5-1-23-0, Ntini 10-2-37-2, Kallis 6-1-17-0, Ontong 10-1-30-3, Benkenstein 3.5-1-5-3, Smith 1-0-3-0. |
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Chetan Sharma writes South Africa completed the formality of securing a place in the semifinal and all eyes are fixed on the Sunday match between India and England which will decide the team to challenge South Africa for a place in the final. As you know, Australia will meet Sri Lanka in the other semifinal. South Africa won yet another match which went one way today. Kenya had raised expectations with their giving good fight to the West Indies, but losing by 176 runs was humiliating for the Kenyans. That they got this far was entirely due to their one-man army of Steve Tikolo. Other than him, I failed to notice any spark in their players. This match will be remembered by the South African opener Herschelle Gibbs, who scored a fine century while Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis also got some valuable batting practice by hitting half centuries. The best thing was they scored runs pretty quickly so the run rate remained good throughout. Any team which crosses the 300-run figure should be taken seriously by other teams and with today’s game the South Africans did send out a warning to all. I thought Kenya would at least give a good reply but their batsmen failed to convince me that they belong to international cricket. Steve Tikolo, no doubt, is a fantastic batsman while Maurice Odumbe is not far behind him, but the rest have not shown any progress in these years. I know Sandeep Patil well enough and he is a jolly good fellow but Kenya’s performance must be disappointing him, their coach for some years now. Thanks to Tikolo’s fine innings of 69 Kenya scored 140 otherwise even 100 would have been difficult for them to score on the board. South African bowlers were also impressive to me but they will be tested when they bowl to batsmen who are willing to take charge. I feel four of the best teams will be in the semifinals of this Champions Trophy, regardless of who wins the India-England match. From the semifinals onwards, we can expect teams fighting for each run and each wicket.
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Pak face Holland today
Colombo, September 20 Pakistan’s coach Mudassar Nazar was sacked after its defeat to Sri Lanka in the tournament opener on September 12, but Waqar Younis was retained captain. Star batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq has been ruled out of further cricket for some time due to a heel injury, while the team’s fortunes have dipped sharply in recent days. The Pakistanis, who play the first of three Test matches against Australia here from October 3, have been staying here with very little cricketing activity. The team was also dragged into a strange controversy after the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit called for videotapes of the Sri Lanka-Pakistan match to review a number of incidents. Although there was nothing to suggest that Pakistan was under investigation, there was speculation that the ACU was probing some match-fixing allegation. However, the ICC said it had nothing to say in the matter, as the viewing of the tapes was part of the security protocol put in place for the tournament. For inexperienced Holland, the match will be another step in its learning curve. Captain Roland Lefebvre said after the first match, in which they were thrashed by Sri Lanka, that his nervous team should be given credit for restricting the belligerent Sri Lankan batsman to a total under 300. The teams (from): Pakistan: Waqar Younis (captain), Saeed Anwar, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, Misbul Haq, Rashid Latif, Abdul Razzak, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Shoaib Akhtar, Azhar Mahmood and Mohammed Sami. Holland: Roland Lefebvre (captain), Daan van Bunge, Bas Zuiderent, Tim de Leede, Reinout Scholte, Luuk van Troost, Jacob-Jan Esmeijer, Adeel Raja, Edgar Schiferli, Victor Grandia, Nick Statham, Henk-Jan Mol and Feiko Kloppenburg. Umpires: Dave Orchard and Rudi Koertzen. TV umpire: Daryl Harper. Match referee: Clive Lloyd. PTI
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Cricketers’ association on the anvil
Colombo, September 20 Talking to UNI here, May said a meeting of the FICA which held here last night had unanimously approved the Indian players’ view to form the association. The significant factor was that the whole lot of the Indian cricket team , including master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, skipper Saurav Ganguly, Anil Kumble and Rahul Dravid were present at the nearly two-hour long meeting held at the Taj Samudra, here. “The whole lot was there...and we discussed with the Indian players about this.” “This (forming of players’ association) should come through in the next couple of weeks,” said Tim May, who also heads the Australian Cricket Players’ Association. The meeting by the FICA assumes significance in the backdrop of the controversy that surrounded the Indian cricketers’ refusal to sign the agreement between the ICC and the Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) over the controversial 30-day clause as the personal endorsements by the Indian cricketers conflicts with the tournament’s major sponsors of the ICC Champions Trophy. The imbroglio that arose midway through the English tour was resolved after much debate and the ICC directly holding negotiations with the players on a directive from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and holding an 11th hour teleconference with presidents of all cricket boards and agreed to reduce it to 16 days. Former Test cricketer Ravi Shastri initially held discussions with the BCCI on behalf of the players, but the BCCI rejected it and said it would deal with the players directly. About 120 cricket players from nine-Test playing nations barring Bangladesh and associate members — Kenya and the Holland — participated in the meeting the first of its kind to be staged by the FICA by bringing in all the Test playing nations under one umbrella. May also came down heavily on the ICC for laying down conditions on choosing the player’s representative and said it should be left to the players alone. “The ICC should not lay out classes and interfere in it (choosing the players representatives)...choosing the players 'representative should be the player’s domain,” he added. He also expressed regret over Sahara pulling out of Indian team sponsorship and felt that it did not conflict with the tournament’s sponsors South African Airways. It may be noted that the Indian cricket board had asked the players not to sport the logo of the team sponsors Sahara, which was later given as ‘Subrata’ the name of Sahara’s managing director along with a graphic depicting the wings, as the ICC felt that it conflicts with the tournament’s sponsors. After long debate, the ICC refused to accept Sahara’s explanation that the graphics depicted only the national colours leading to their pull out of the sponsorship, which they entered into at the end of 2000. Tim May said he would soon meet the ICC with the demands of the players representatives to protect players’ rights considering that the World Cup was just five months away. Tim May said the main goal of the meeting was to educate the players about their rights, and make ICC recognise FICA as the official representative of the players. Referring to the controversy between the players and the ICC, he told the players that as the powers of the ICC grew, it would create a situation where in the sports governing body would take decisions detriment to the interests of the players. The ICC wanted to have five ex-players representing the geographical regions (like Australia and New Zealand), as players’ representatives, thus undermining the role of the FICA and that it (ICC) should decide on choosing the player’s representatives. The 30-day ambush marketing clause of the ICC, which prohibits using the players’ image 30 days before and after an ICC tournament, was violation of the existing contracts signed by the players. A form containing the players’ relationships with governing bodies and the playing conditions was circulated to all the 120-cricketers who participated in the meeting, which was also attended by FICA chief executive David Richards. UNI
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Brijesh Patel for Srinath’s return
Kolkata, September 20 “There is no need of any large scale changes in the team as they are playing like a well-knit side and in any case I don’t believe in the policy of chop and change”, Patel told PTI here today. To a query whether Srinath could be brought back into the team to add sting to the attack for the coming World Cup, Patel said, “players like Srinath can walk into any team”. “I am going to speak to him once he returns from England and will definitely try to persuade him to play for the Indian team”, the selection committee Chairman said. Srinath had earlier announced his retirement from Test cricket but expressed his willingness to continue playing in the one-dayers. Patel, who heads a completely new-look five-member selection committee announced after the cricket board’s annual general meeting here yesterday, also said that he would review the performance of other “fringe players” who could be useful to the team for the World Cup campaign. Patel, who himself had recieved a raw deal by the then cricket establishment during his prime days, stressed that he would like to see that no player should feel deprived at any stage. “Nobody should be treated unfairly and would get equal opportunity to prove his capabilities”, Patel said. Patel, who is currently Director of the Banglore-based National Cricket Academy (NCA), also emphasied the importance of the fitness of the team and said that this crucial aspect would be constantly monitored by him. Incidentally, Patel’s appointment as the Chairman of the selection committee came as a surprise as initially he was tipped to be the board’s new joint secretary. PTI
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Forest Hill Open from October 16 Chandigarh, September 20 Come October 16 and the Forest Hill Resort will host its first professional event on the Hero Honda Indian Golf Tour — the Forest Hill Resort Golf Open. The tournament, which will conclude with a gala pro-am on October 20, offers a total prize money of Rs 10 lakh. The winner will be richer by Rs 1.62 lakh while the runner-up will get Rs 1.12 lakh. Some of the leading stars of the Indian PGA Tour, led by three-time Mahindra Champion player of the year, Mukesh Kumar, Firoz Ali, reigning India Open champion Vijay Kumar and several stars on the Asian PGA Tour like Gaurav Ghei, Harmeet Kahlon, Vivek Bhandari and Arjun Singh are expected to take part in the championship. Forest Hill Resort, a vision of WWICS and Col B.S. Sandhu, is set in the heart of nature, nestling in the foothills of the Shivalik Range of mountains. An 18-hole facility, nine of which are already commissioned, the course is spread over an area of 7123 yards. Forest Hill Resort has been conceived and planned by Wimberley, Allison Tong and Goo (WAT & G) of the USA, who have done such prestigious projects like The Palace of the lost City at Sun City, South Africa. The entire 18 holes are expected to be operational by the spring of 2003. The full field would constitute 72 professionals and eight leading amateurs of the region. ‘‘The coming of Forest Hill Resort is an exciting development for Indian golf. Knowing the passion that Chandigarh has for the sport, and the kind of traffic that the Chandigarh Golf Club faces, this city required a course like this. We are happy that the Forest Hill Resort has decided to host a professional event because we believe that any course can get the best nation-wide publicity only through hosting events of such magnitude’’, said Mr Brandon De Souza, President of Tiger Sports Marketing. Col K.D. Bagga of Bagga’s Golf Management Group, has designed the course. ‘‘It is one of the most difficult courses in the country and will offer a stiff challenge even to established professional golfers’’, he said about his creation. The course is a well planned layout, with undulating fairways dotted by strategically located gorges, lakes, sand traps and water bodies. The wind can be a big adversary too as it keeps varying in speed and direction throughout the day. The Golf Course, set in woodland territory, also has its fair share of wildlife including prominent species of wild roosters, peacocks, different varieties of wild deer, rabbits, foxes and an interesting variety of wild birds, that meander throughout the territory making for interesting viewing. |
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No major changes in hockey team for Asiad New Delhi, September 20 Those who were not part of India’s Junior World Cup winning team at Hobart (Australia), but figure in the Asiad squad, are captain Dilip Tirkey, defender Dinesh Nayak and forwards Daljit Singh Dhillon and Dhanraj Pillay. Forward Arjun Halappa, who was a member of the Junior World Cup team, and was among the probables for the Asian Games, has been dropped, along with right-half Sukhbir Singh Gill. Former captain Dhanraj Pillay and Dilip Tirkey are the only two members from the gold-medal winning Bangkok Asian Games team to figure in the Busan-bound squad. The average age of the players is 22 years. There are eight teams for the Asian Games hockey championship. Defending champions India, runners-up South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong have been placed in group A while Pakistan, China, Malaysia and Bangalesh make up group B. The Indian hockey team will leave for Busan on September 24, though they play their first match only on September 30, against Hong Kong. India play against South Korea on October 2, and take on Japan on October 4. The team: Goalkeepers: Devesh Chauhan and Bharat Chettri. Defenders: Dilip Tirkey, Dinesh Nayak Vatheir, Jugraj Singh and Kawalpreet Singh. Midfielders: Ignace Tirkey, Vikram Vishnu Pillay, Bimal Lakra and Viren Rasquinha. Forwards: Gagan Ajit Singh, Daljit Singh Dhillon, Dhanraj Pillay, Prabhjot Singh, Tajbir Singh and Deepak Thakur. Officials: Rajinder Singh (chief coach), Narinder Singh Sodhi (coach), Ranjit Singh (coach, goalkeeping), Hardeep Singh Dhillon (manager), Sampath Kumar (physical trainer) and Dr Raj Kumar Jaipal (doctor). The team is a fine blend of youth and experience with youngsters like Deepak Thakur, Prabhjot Singh and Gagan Ajit Singh infusing the speed and stamina while veterans like Dhanraj Pillay and Dilip Tirkey provide experience and stability. Dhanraj Pillay, who has been mired in a needless controvery recently when he supposedly remarked that he was starved of passes in the crucial match against Pakistan in the Champions Trophy championship at Colonge (Germany), is indeed the fulcrum of the Indian attack as they embark on their bid to retain the Asian Games hockey title. “We intend to do well not only in the Asian Games, but also in other tournaments in the coming months as we have selected a bunch of seasoned and committed players, who are raring to go”, observed IHF president KPS Gill. He also remarked that the “team discipline and cohesion were excellent and I am only praying to the Almighty that a couple of former Olympians should not land up in Busan (during the Asian Games”. Mr Gill was clearly hinting that a couple of former Olympians were trying to create imaginary dissensions in the team, which includes a former Indian captain from Punjab. Coach Rajinder Singh said India would play an attacking game “as attack and counter-attack would be our strategy in the Asiad”. He said the thrust in the Asian Games camp was to iron out the deficiencies noticed during the Champions Trophy, like improving the penalty corner strikes, and defending penalty corners as both Pakistana and Korea are quite good in the penalty corner department. India had lost to Korea 2-4 and Pakistan 3-4 in the last two matches of the Champions Trophy. |
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Gurminder
stars for Dhudike school Jalandhar, September 20 In an one-sided affair, Dudhike boys easily secured a place in the semifinals. Dhudike boys gained the lead in the third minute of the game through field goal by Iqwinder Singh (1-0). The score was 1-0 at the lemon break. In the second half, Gurminder Singh scored three quick goals in the 44th, 48th and 51st minutes. Gurmeet Singh, in between further scored in the 45th minute. Gurminder Singh scored his second goal of the match in the 59th minute. In another match, Doaba Khalsa Model Senior Secondary School lost to Government Senior Secondary School, Lopoke, 1-3, who registered their first victory in the league. Lopoke boys opened their account in the sixth minute through Amritpal Singh. In the 22nd minute Chetan Singh made no mistake in converting the penalty corner to make 2-0. At half time Lopoke team was leading 2-0. In the second half, Lopoke’s Charat Singh converted another penalty corner in the 52nd minute. Jalandhar school pulled one back through Navjosh Singh to reduce the margin of defeat to 1-3. |
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Mixed luck
for Punjab in throwball Ludhiana, September 20 In the Federation Cup league matches, Punjab had mixed luck as in the men’s section they lost without putting up any resistance against Madhya Pradesh 6-15, 1-15 while in the women’s section, hosts proved their supremacy over Uttar Pradesh 15-8, 15-3. Today’s results: Federation Cup: (men) Delhi b Uttaranchal; MP b Punjab 15-6, 15-1 and Bihar b Chhattisgarh 15-6, 15-2. Women: Punjab b UP 15-8, 15-3; Bihar b Haryana 15-1, 15-1; MP b Chandigarh 15-5, 15-0 and Bihar b Chandigarh 15-5, 15-0. Sub-junior (boys): MP b Haryana 15-5, 15-4; Haryana b AP 15-8, 15-2; UP b Chhattisgarh 15-6, 15-10; HP b Maharashtra 15-3, 15-12; Delhi b Rajasthan 16-14, 15-7; MP b Maharashrta 17-15, 15-1; Bihar b UP 15-2, 15-1; MP b Uttaranchal 15-5, 15-4; Punjab b Chandigarh 15-5, 5-15, 15-12 and Uttaranchal b HP 15-3, 15-3; Girls: MP b Punjab 15-6, 15-1; Bihar b Punjab 15-7, 15-6; Haryana b HP 15-11, 15-2; Chandigarh b Rajasthan 15-4, 15-5; Bihar beat Chhattisgarh 15-1, 15-0 and UP beat Uttaranchal 9-15, 15-7, 15-2. |
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Ropar Hawks lose Faridkot, September 20 The goals were scored by Ram Nagina and Kirpal Singh in the 65th and 69th minutes of the game, respectively. The winners earned two penalty corners and converted one of them on the rebound. The losers earned five penalty corners but failed to convert any. Inaugural day winners Ropar Hawks, Ropar, lost to Northern Railway Ambala 1-5 in an one-sided contest. The losers had yesterday defeated PSEB, Patiala, 2-0. Converting three strokes in extra-time, Indian Postal, New Delhi, got the better of Eastern Railway 3-0 The match was stretched to extra-time to end the deadlock after both the sides were locked goal-less in the scheduled 70 minutes of play. The scorers were outside-left Nirmal Singh, right-full back Mumtaz and left-half Satinder Singh. In the second match, EME, Jalandhar, defeated the local Baba Farid Hockey Club by a similar 3-0 margin. |
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Sampat
elected HLTA chief Chandigarh, September 20 Anil Malik and O.P. Kathuria were elected Senior Vice-President and general secretary, respectively. Prof Sampat Singh later announced that the HLTA would organise the Haryana State Lawn Tennis Tournament at Gymkhana Club, Panchkula from September 26 to 29. The tournament will have men singles, women singles, boys and girls under-14, under-16 and under-18 categories. The entries close with O.P. Kathuria at Gymkhana Club, Panchkula, on September 25. |
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Colombo, September 20
