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November 30, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Lee sends England tumbling
No shuffling in batting order: Ganguly Haryana concede
Ist innings lead Ranji Trophy: Dharmani, Kakkar help Punjab bounce back |
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Formidables in lead
Chautala hospitality overwhelms players Kerala, Punjab in last four, Haryana beaten
Mittal club oust NIS Punjab eves finish on top Snooker results Spain reign over USA
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Lee sends England tumbling
Perth, November 29 The England innings lasted just 64.2 overs after skipper Nasser Hussain decided to bat first on a surface that lived up to tradition — pacy and bouncy. Ricky Ponting led an attack on the inexperienced new-ball attack with an unbeaten 43, and put Australia in control with 126 for two in only 23 overs, after another day went wrong for the tourists. England dismissed the openers — Justin Langer (19) and Matthew Hayden (30) — but Ponting and Damien Martyn, 20 not out, will resume tomorrow as Australia look to bat themselves into a winning position. Australia reached 100 in only the 15th over as Chris Silverwood and Alex Tudor went for 80 runs in 12 overs between them with the new ball. Silverwood, who replaced the injured fast bowler Simon Jones in England’s 16-man tour party, twisted his left ankle while fielding, and will undergo a scan. Once Lee, three for 78, made early inroads and checked the smooth progress at 47 for no loss, fast bowlers Glenn McGrath, two for 30, and Jason Gillespie, two for 43, extended England’s problems. The tourists went through the formalities of another lacklustre batting display in front of a 22,523 first-day crowd — a record for a Test in Perth. Lee celebrated his Ashes recall with the wickets of Marcus Trescothick, Hussain and Craig White, as he rekindled his form here in two other Tests. “It always nice to get back on nice, fast and bouncy wicket,” Lee said. “The first couple of overs I found pretty hard to stand up ... the ball was coming out great after that. “They played a couple of loose shots. It can come down to Australia building pressure, it’s something we’ve been working on. We think if we can tie the batsman down hopefully everything falls into place.” Only Robert Key with a fighting 47 runs in two hours, took the attack to Australia. His dismissal to the last ball before the tea break robbed England from posting a competitive total on a pitch that remained batsmen-friendly throughout the day. England lost three wickets in eight overs before lunch, and failed to recover from the setback upon resuming on 91 for three after the break.
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SCOREBOARD England (1st innings): Trescothick c Gilchrist Vaughan c Gilchrist Butcher run out (Waugh) 9 Hussain c Gilchrist b Lee 8 Key b Martyn 47 Stewart c Gilchrist White c Martyn b Lee 2 Tudor c Martyn b Warne 0 Dawson not out 19 Silverwood c Hayden b Harmison b Gillespie 6 Extras: (lb-2, nb-7) 9 Total: (all out, 64.2 overs) 185 FOw: 1-47, 2-69, 3-83, 4-101, 5-111, 6-121 7-135, 8-156, 9-173. Bowling: Glenn McGrath 17-5-30-2, Jason Gillespie 17.2-8-43-2, Brett Lee 20-1-78-3, Shane Warne 9-0-32-1, Damien Martyn 1-1-0-1. Australia (Ist innings): Langer run out 19 Hayden c Tudor b Harmison 30 Ponting not out 43 Martyn not out 20 Extras: (b-4 lb-2 nb-8) 14 Total:
(for two wickets) 126 Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-85 Bowling:
Silverwood 4-0-29-0, Tudor 8-0-51-0, Harmison 8-2-26-1, White 3-1-14-0. |
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No shuffling in batting order: Ganguly New Delhi, November 29 “We have a pretty good batting line-up. I don’t see any reason to disturb the present order”, Saurav said, during his whistle stop halt in the Capital to unveil the World Cup. Saurav conceded that “Sachin has a fantastic record as an opener, but we want him where the pressure is”. And the pressure, according to Saurav, is in the late order. “Sachin, Dravid, Yuvraj and Kaif are our batting mainstay. Yuvraj and Kaif have been batting at the No 6 and 7 slots where we need their services as the pressure is great”, Saurav observed. The captain said Virender Sehwag had done “well as an opener, and I see no point in shifting him down the order”. Saurav offered no apology for losing the one-day series to the West Indies and gave full credit to the Caribbeans for their success. “West Indies played outstanding cricket. Their victory was a creditable feat as barring Australia, no other visiting team have done so well in Indian conditions in the recent past”, Saurav pointed out. Saurav, who is on the threshhold of being the most successful Indian captain, having already notched up 13 Test victores in India and abroad after he made his Test debut at Brisbane in 1991, said a victory, achieved anywhere in the world is a “creditable feat”. But he admitted that India could have done better in the one-day series had the team not been bogged down by injuries to key players like Sachin Tendulkar and Zaheer Khan. Saurav said the credit for his success as captain should go to the young players in the team. “It feels good to be part of a winning team. We, as a team, are winning. It’s irrelevant who is leading the team-I, Sachin or Dravid, or anybody else for that matter”. Saurav was all praise for Rahul Dravid for his immaculate batting and wicket-keeping. He stymied the criticism that wicket-keeping was affecting the batting performance of Dravid. “Dravid’s batting has gone to a different level, after he started keeping wickets. He has done a good job”, Saurav praised his star keeper. He admitted that wicket-keeping was putting additional burden on Dravid. “But then, somebody has to bear the burden. What he’s doing is for the good of the team. There is pressure on Yuvraj and Kaif too, who bat down the order”, Saurav said. Saurav indicated that Dravid would be the main wicket-keeper for the eighth edition of the World Cup, to be held in South Africa in February-March next year. He, however, clarified that the young Parthiv Patel too was being groomed for the job, and that’s why he had been included in the Indian for the New Zealand tour. The Indian team were to leave for New Zelanad for a two-Test series from Delhi tomorrow, but Saurav said the team will now fly out to the Kiwi land from Kolkatta on December 1. Saurav said Srinath was excluded from the team for the New Zealand tour due to a “niggling injury”. “We thought it better to rest him and get him fit and ready for the World Cup”, Saurav said about Srinath’s exclusion. He said the Indian bowlers had done quite well, given the conditions, and he expected the bowlers to do well in the South African conditions too, where the wickets would be fast and bouncy. |
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Haryana
concede Ist innings lead Rohtak, November 29 Haryana resumed their innings today 132 runs short of Maharashtra’s first innings total of 298 with 4 wickets in hand. The overnight not out batsmen Shafiq Khan and Joginder Sharma carried the innings total to 243 adding 88 runs for the seventh wicket partnership. Shafiq Khan playing his 52nd innings of his 32nd Ranji Trophy match completed the second century of his career before being dismissed by Manhar Sane at 107. Scoreboard : Maharashtra (first innings) 298 Haryana (Ist innings)
: Jitender Singh c Aphale b Dalvi 15, M. Bisla lbw Khirid 0, Sumeet Sharma c Satbhai b Khirid 9, Naveen Negi c Satbhai b Khirid 7, Shafiq c. Kale b Sane 107, Vikram Dhariwal c Kale b Sane 25, Amit Mishra c Pawar b Sane 9, Joginder Sharma not out 75, Gaurav Vashishta c Aphale b Dalvi 17, Amit Suman b Dalvi 0, Aparajit Singh c Aphale b Dalvi 0 Extras 21. Total:
285 Fall of wickets: 1/0, 2/27, 3/34, 4/42, 5/135, 6/155, 7/243, 8/277, 9/277. Bowling
: Sachin Arandhje26-6-73-0, Ranjit Khirid 26-8-55-3, Mander Dalvi 20.4-8-39-4, Mander Sane 30-6-68-3, Kashinath Khadkikar 8-1-22-0, H.Kanitkar 4-0-14-0. Maharashtra (2nd innings) Yogesh Pawar b Mishra 29, Dhiraj Jadhav c Negi b Vashist 20, H.Kanitkar batting 47, Abhijit Kale batting 20, Extras 8. Total: for 2 wickets 124 Fall of wickets : 1/55, 2/55 Bowling :
Joginder Sharma 9-4-24-0, Suman 3-0-12-0, Gaurav Vashishta 16-5-37-1, Amit Mishra 7-1-19-1, Aparajit Singh 4-2-22-0, Manvinder Bisla 1-0-3-0. |
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Ranji Trophy: Dharmani, Kakkar help
Guwahati, November 29 Having conceded a lead of 53 in the first innings, Punjab rallied from a precarious 36 for three, to set up a strong second innings total of 338 which was made possible by Dharmani (121) and Kakkar (122) and their fourth-wicket record partnership of 214 runs which came in 283 minutes off 72.5 overs. Hosts Assam, who made 230 in their first innings, have their task cut out on the last day tomorrow, needing to score 286 for an outright victory. Any hopes for the home team to fold up the Punjab innings early was brought to nought as the middle order duo played some
exhilarating cricket on a pitch that tended to keep low. Dharmani and Kakkar, who topscored with 75 in first innings, showed no sign of hesitancy that marked the Punjab batting so far and played shots all round, to the dismay of the home crowd. Dharmani had given couple of half chances but none of these could be converted by the Assam players and both of them duly completed the centuries. Dharmani was slightly aggressive than Kakkar notching up 121 in 237 balls with 11 hits to the boundaries. It was Dharmani who was the first to go when substitute Mritunjoy latched a fine catch at silly point off Sukhvinder, Harminder Jugnu joined Ankur and added another 35 runs when Jugnu was bowled in a full toss. He completely misread the ball and was bowled. After the new ball was taken Mrigen and Mark generated fair amount of pace and Mrigen trapped Kakkar leg before for 122. Kakkar was not happy with the decision. His departure opened the floodgates and Mark and Mrigen then wiped out the tail as Punjab lost their last five wickets for 43 runs. Mark ended the innings with four for 61 while Mrigen and Sukhvinder got two wickets apiece. As the Punjab innings folded up on the penultimate over of the day, Assam will begin theirs tomorrow. First innings’s hero Uniyal, who got five wickets, would be ready to salvage some pride for Punjab who had underestimated Assam and gifted the first innings lead and then landed them in an awkard position.
Delhi on top New Delhi: A mammoth 262-run first innings lead pitchforked Delhi into the driver’s seat on the penultimate day of their encounter against Himachal here. Himachal Pradesh at the end of the day’s play were a 50 for no loss when play was called off four overs before schedule. Nischal Gaur (18) and Sandeep Sharma (25) were at the crease after 18 overs of the HP innings. The Delhi batsmen made merry with Gambhir and Prakash Chawla looking in great touch from ball one. Taking on from where he left yesterday, Gambhir went on to add another 48 runs thereby completing his 150. Chawla on the other end provided support, playing the sheet anchor to perfection. Just after lunch, Gambhir got out, mistiming a shot to be caught at mid-off. His chanceless knock of 157 contained 25 hits to the fence and a straight six of left-arm spinner Vishal Bhatia. Gambhir faced 270 deliveries staying a total of 375 minutes before getting out to Vishal. Ten minutes after tea, Dahiya declared the Delhi innings with the score on 506 for the loss of six wickets. For the visitors, Vishal was the most successful bowler claiming four wickets out of the six to have fallen. The visitors showed some guile to stick around after tea without losing an wicket.
J&K lose Bangalore: Karnataka inflicted a humiliating innings and 321-run defeat on Jammu and Kashmir on the penultimate day of the four-day plate group “B” match here. After their batsmen did a splendid job in piling up 598 for three declared in the first innings, Karnataka bowlers were on a roll skittling out the visitors for 163 and 114 in their two innings. Karnataka, who dominated right from day one, earned three points from this encounter. Resuming at their overnight score of 77 for three, Jammu and Kashmir were all out for 163 with Dhruv Mahajan top-scoring with 37. Barring Ashwani Gupta, who made 24, none of the other Jammu and Kashmir batsmen reached double figures. Venkatesh Prasad, Sunil Joshi and Santosh K Vadeyaraj bagged three wickets apiece. In their second knock, Jammu and Kashmir fared even worse as their innings folded up for just 114. Only Shammi Salaria offered some resistance with an enterprising knock of 53 (1x6, 10x4). Other batsmen failed to get going, as Prasad again took three wickets, while B Akhil and Vadeyaraj claimed two each.
Rajasthan on top Jaipur: Hosts Rajasthan were placed in a commanding position as they captured four Hyderabad wickets after gaining a 159 run first innings lead at the close on the penaltimate day here. Hyderabad now have a lead of only 67 runs having lost their top four batsmen. Daniel Manohar was the main hope for them who was batting on 70 alongwith Arjun Yadav on night.
PTI, UNI
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Sehwag raring to go Amritsar, November 29 Exuding confidence, he felt that India had a good chance of winning the World Cup as the team was fit to take up the challenge. He said with the Indians playing too many international matches the players were prone to injuries, but the present physio had worked on the Indian players to a great extent to reduce any serious injury problem. All the players were fighting fit and would prove themselves in the current series against the Kiwis, he said. Fighting shy of answering questions about his achieving records, Sehwag said he never played for records, as he played all the matches as they came and avoided having a set approach towards the game. |
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Formidables
in lead Ludhiana, November 29 Their cakewalk win over Monotona in the quarterfinals seemed to have given them more than enough confidence. Having a choice of opponents in the semifinals between C.V. Rao’s Vizag and India Blues, they chose the latter to face the 64-board match. In the first 16 boards, Formidables gained a lead of 19 International Match Points (56-37). A fightback by India Blues saw them reduce the lead marginally by 2 IMPs over the next set of 16 boards (35-33) . But spirited display by Formidables put them ahead by an additional 19 IMPs (42-23) to end up with a lead of 36 IMPs with the last session to go. The fight between Indian Railways ‘B’ and C V Rao’s seems to be leading to a close finish. The first session was tied at 15-15 IMPs. In the next round, Railways team was ahead by 9 IMPs ( 19-10) and in the third quarter they added 5 IMPs more (33-28) to take an overall lead of 14 IMPs. In the quarterfinals, which ended late yesterday, Indian Railways ‘B’ did not face any challenge from Mamaji’s and went through to the last four by a convincing 74 IMPs victory. |
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Chautala
hospitality overwhelms players Sirsa, November 29 Tejaswani, captain of the Karnataka women’s volleyball team, said when they had set out for Chautala there was apprehension in their heart about the arrangements for the tournament, which was being conducted for the first time in a village, but these turned out to be false. Anil Kumar, coach of the Karnataka team, had words of appreciation for the refreshing cultural nights. Gopal Ram, coach of Railways, praised the authorities for providing good playgrounds. He has already seen 20 national championships but the hospitality at Chautala overwhelmed him. GK Shiridharan, chief coach of the national Indian youth team, said Chautala village offered top class grounds and food. The dinner hosted by the senior vice-president of the Indian Olympic Association also drew appreciation. The magical notes of Rajasthani flute players, fascinating fireworks, flavour of food cooked in desi ghee, with the hosts lending a personal touch to hospitality will be long remembered. |
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Kerala, Punjab in last four, Haryana beaten Sirsa, November 29 For the winner’s Tom Joseph mesmerized the rivals with some high precision shooting and with libero Raj Vinod giving him good support, the Kerala men walked away with a semi-final spot. The match was made all the more memorable for the marathon third set that ended 33-31 in favour of the winners and which turned out to be the longest set in the championship so far. On the distaff side, Railways proved in ample measure as to why they are strongly tipped to retain the title when they comprehensively downed Chandigarh in what turned out to be a mismatch 25-7, 25-23, 25-9. The Punjab eves’ went down to Karnataka 11-25, 16-25, 25-27. Punjab men gained a spot in the last four stage with a 25-22, 25-18, 23-25, 27-25 win against Karnataka. Tamil Nadu downed Haryana 23-25, 25-22, 25-15, 25-18. After the hosts had won the first set, the TN spikers, led by Joby Joseph and setter Thalai Reddy, came out of their self imposed shell to knock the hosts out from the quarterfinals. Railways too stayed focussed for a second successive shot at the title by giving a polished performance to down Uttaranchal 25-21, 25-17, 13-25, 29-27. In the women’s section, Kerala and West Bengal entered the semifinals by beating Andhra Pradesh 26-24, 25-22, 25-22 and Tamil Nadu 23-25, 25-20, 26-28, 25-11, 11-6, respectively. |
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Mittal club oust NIS Chandigarh, November 27 Though the NIS boys were in complete command of the game in the first half they failed to penetrate the Fatehgarh club’s defence. The second half saw Fatehgarh boys a completely changed side as they made repeated forays into the NIS territory. Their onslaughts earned them the winning goal when capitalising on a pass from left out. centre forward Rajesh headed the ball into the rivals’ goal. NIS coaching aspirants from Patiala tried their level best for an equaliser but it eluded them. They almost came near to scoring in the dying minute but Fatehgarh boys held firm. In an another quarterfinal match, Shimla Youngs, New Delhi, toyed with Friends Club, Solan, and trounced them 4-0. Striker Sunil Rawat of Delhi scored a hat-trick in the first half when they attacked Solan’s citadel time and again. Anil Rawat made it 4-0 in the second half and earned them a berth in the semifinals. Shimla Youngs, Delhi, play B&G Roorkee and JCT Academy, Phagwara, play Mittal Memorial Trust Club, Fatehgarh Sahib, in the semifinals tomorrow. |
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Punjab
eves finish on top Gurdaspur, November 29 In the girls section, following Punjab were West Bengal who got 329.55 points, while Maharashtra finished third with 311.85 points. However, in the team championship of girls, Rupali Halder of West Bengal was leading at 70.20 points. Closely following her was Sukhbir Kaur of the home state with 68.15 points and the third Meenakshi also from the Punjab got 67.80 points. In the boys section Andhra Pradesh got the second position in the team championship with 476.02 and West Bengal remained third with 459.84 points. However, Punjab stood fourth in the tally. In this section the top three players were from UP. Rohit Jaiswal got 108.01 points, Deepesh Shau 105.09 points and Udai Bhaskar gained 106.85 points.
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Snooker
results Ludhiana, November 29 In the match for the third spot, Rajeev Kumar of Ludhiana defeated local lad Rajat Kaura 3-0 (70-29), 69-22 and 79-34). In the semifinal league (senior section), Dharminder Lilly of Jalandhar proved his supremacy over Dhruv Verma 5-2 (32-75 67-44, 61-33, 21-90, 89-28, 97-16 and 94-18) and later in the day, got the better of Ashish Dhanda of Ludhiana 5-2 (47-74, 91-30, 37-66, 65-30, 73-51, 61-46 and 125-2) to remain undefeated in the championship. Earlier, Ashish Dhanda overpowered Joy Mehra of Amritsar 5-2 and Dhruv beat Joy Mehra 5-3. Dhruv and Vicky Vig in the junior section while Dharminder Lilly in the senior category, will represent Punjab in the National Snooker Championship. |
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Spain reign over USA Perth, November 29 After a scoreless first half, Spain took the lead in the 40th minute through a penalty corner by Erdoitza Goikoetxea. The Spaniards then put the Americans to the sword with a devastating rush of scoring, Nuria Camon, Silvia Munoz and Luci Lopez netting in the 47th, 50th and 53rd minutes. Kate Barber had scored a consolation goal in the 52nd minute, but there was no way back for the Americans in the pool B. USA coach Tracey Belbin bemoaned her side’s second-half collapse against the speedy Spaniards.
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