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May 8, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Ranji final interestingly poised
Test drawn after Murali’s landmark
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Time to resume contests: Miandad
Bangar focusing on NZ A long way to go in Federer advances Badminton nationals
in Bangalore Sports nurseries to be revamped Transfer season hots up in Kolkata Amritsar
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Ludhiana 40 for basketball coaching camps All-India boxing meet from May 11
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Ranji final interestingly poised Mumbai, May 7 The hosts declared their second innings at 387 for seven, after resuming at the overnight 228 for four, which left Tamil Nadu with a target of 377 runs. At stumps, Tamil Nadu, who enjoyed a slender 11-run first innings lead, were placed at 102 for three with S. Badrinath batting on 12 and Hemang Badani not out on 23. Besides captain S Suresh, who was dismissed for 44, Tamil Nadu’s other two key batsmen, Sadgopan Ramesh and Sridharan Sriram, were out cheaply, leaving the visitors with a highly daunting task on the fifth and final day tomorrow at the Wankhede Stadium. Earlier, the hosts added 159 runs to their overnight score before declaring their innings midway through the second session. Middle order batsman Bhavin Thakkar made a responsible 66 off 138 balls before severe cramps on his legs forced him to retire hurt. Thakkar raised 88 runs for the eighth wicket with Romesh Powar who made an unbeaten 53. Thakkar struck five fours during his 202-minute stay at the crease. Sairaj Bahutule, who started his innings with a six against off-spinner Dhandapani, made useful 27 runs before being run out while going for a non-existent second run. Powar helped himself to a few lofted boundaries off the hapless spinners S. Sriram and Dhandapani. He hit six fours, facing 64 balls, and raised his half-century with a lofted on-drive against S. Suresh. When Tamil Nadu began their run-chase, it was Ajit Agarkar again who provided Mumbai with the early breakthrough. Agarkar, who claimed four wickets in the first innings, had Ramesh caught by Wasim Jaffer at covers after the batsman had scored just six runs. Agarkar could have bagged Sriram’s wicket in the same over but Vinayak Mane failed to hold on to a straight forward chance at first slip. However, that miss did not prove very costly for the 34-time champions as leg-spinner Bahutule trapped Sriram leg before wicket soon after. Sriram scored only five runs. Suresh, who was batting quite confidently cutting and driving the Mumbai new ball bowlers at will, was deceived by Paras Mhambrey’s inswinging yorker and was bowled for 44 which came off 82 balls and included six boundaries. At 62 for three, with 10 overs still to go for stumps, one expected the Tamil Nadu batsmen to crumble but Badarinath and Badani played sensibally to stem the rot. The have so far added 40 runs for the unbroken fourth wicket. SCOREBOARD Mumbai (1st innings):
260 Tamil Nadu (1st innings): 271 Mumbai (2nd innings): Mane lbw b Balaji 2 Jaffer lbw b Srinivas 98 Shetty c Suresh b Srinivas 100 Samant c Badrinath
Mazumdar c Raaju
Thakkar retired hurt 66 Bahutule run out 27 Agarkar c Balaji b Sriram 4 Powar not out 53 Mhambrey not out 0 Extras (b-5, lb-11, nb-6, w-2): 24 Total (for 7 wkts decl, 105 overs):
387 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-210, 3-217, 4-228, 5-239, 6-287, 7-298. Bowling: L. Balaji 27-3-69-1, M.R. Srinivas 21-5-73-3, J. Gokulakrishnan 17-3-55-0, S. Suresh 14-5-48-1, S. Sriram 13-0-60-1, D. Dandapani 10-1-55-0, H. Badani 2-0-11-0. Tamil Nadu (2nd innings): Suresh b Mhambrey 44 Ramesh c Jaffer b Agarkar 6 Sriram lbw b Bahutule 5 Badrinath batting 12 Badani batting 23 Extras (b-4, lb-2, nb-6):
12 Total (for 3 wkts, 42 overs): 102 Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-62, 3-62. Bowling: Agarkar 7-1-27-1, Salvi 9-2-17-0, Bahutule 14-3-26-1, Mhambrey 6-3-8-1, Powar 5-0-18-0.
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Test drawn after Murali’s landmark Kandy, May 7 The Sri Lankans, facing a one-day style chase of 191 in 38 overs, were 72-1 off 30 overs in a tame finish to an otherwise dramatic fifth and final day’s play at the Asgiriya stadium. Sri Lanka abandoned the victory bid after aggressive opener Sanath Jayasuriya fell early to Shane Bond for nine. Kumar Sangakkara remained unbeaten on 27 while Mahela Jayawardena made 32 not out in an unbroken second wicket stand of 58. The result left the short two-match series inconclusive after the first Test at Colombo’s Tamil Union ground ended in a high-scoring draw last week. The rain-hit Kandy Test, which saw the first five sessions of play washed out, suddenly came to life on the fifth day when New Zealand were shot out for 183 in their second innings at the stroke of tea. Muralitharan finished with 5 for 49, the 37th time he has taken five or more wickets in an innings to overtake New Zealander Richard Hadlee’s long-standing record of 36. Only West Indian Courtney Walsh with 519 wickets and Australia’s Shane Warne (491) have dismissed more batsmen in Test history than the prolific 80-Test off-spinner. Muralitharan’s feat overshadowed a remarkable fightback by New Zealand tailenders Robbie Hart and Paul Wiseman who put on 40 valuable runs for the eighth wicket. The pair came together 15 minutes before lunch with their team tottering at 139 for 7 — just 146 runs ahead — and held their ground for 98 minutes to frustrate the hosts. Wiseman was last man out for a career-best 29 while Hart made a dogged 12, both batsmen falling to left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas, who ended with 3 for 31. The match turned Sri Lanka’s way when six New Zealand wickets crashed in the morning session after they had resumed at yesterday’s score of 92 for 1. Mark Richardson added four runs to his overnight 51 when he slashed at medium pacer Prabath Nissanka and edged an easy catch to wicket-keeper Romesh Kaluwitharana. Richardson, who made 85 in the first Test, scored 55 runs in each innings here. New Zealand (Ist innings):
305 Sri Lanka (Ist innings): 298 New Zealand (2nd innings) Richardson c Horne c Tillakaratne Fleming c Kaluwitharan Sinclair st Kaluwitharana Styris c Muralitharan b Vaas 1 Oram lbw Muralitharan 16 Hart c Kaluwitharana Vettori b Muralitharan 0 Wiseman c Tillakaratne Tuffey c Jayasuriya b Bond not out 1 Extras (b-1, lb-6, nb-1):
8 Total (all out, 97.3 overs): 183 Fall of wickets: 1-65, 2-109, 3-110, 4-115, 5-136, 6-139, 7-139, 8-179, 9-182, 10-183. Bowling: Vaas 15.3-6-31-3, Nissanka 10-4-18-1, Dharmasena 12-2-32-1, Lokuarachchi 14-3-26-0, Muralitharan 39-18-49-5 (nb-1), Jayasuriya 7-0-20-0. Sri Lanka (2nd innings): Sangakkara not out 27 Jayasuriya c Richardson Jayawardene not out 32 Extras (lb-4):
4 Total (for one wicket, 30 overs): 72 Bowling: Tuffey 9-3-18-0, Bond 6-1-19-1, Wiseman 9-4-20-0, 6-1-11-0.
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Time to resume contests: Miandad Colombo, May 7 “Everything is getting better ... the governments (of) India and Pakistan are coming to the table and trying to negotiate. I’m sure India and Pakistan will start playing,” Miandad told The Associated Press today in Colombo, where Pakistan is preparing for a limited-overs tri-series against Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Governments “should understand one thing: they shouldn’t bring politics into cricket or any other sport,” Miandad said. Miandad said he didn’t understand why India played Pakistan in the World Cup in South Africa, while refusing to play in the Asia Cup scheduled in Pakistan this month. Pakistan announced last month it will not send a team for the rescheduled tournament in August. “We don’t want to see any country picking and choosing the tournaments,” said Miandad, adding that all Test-playing nations should honour their schedules set out by the International Cricket Council. Miandad, who played 124 Test matches and 233 limited-overs matches for Pakistan, said regular matches between India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh was important for cricket’s development in Asia. Looking ahead to the tri-series starting on Saturday, Miandad said his squad was prepared to give its best against Sri Lanka and New Zealand.
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Bangar focusing on NZ Test series Kolkata, May 7 “It hurt when I heard people say that it was so easy for me to earn a fortune without having to play a single match. It’s not as if I did not want to play. It’s just that the management did not want to break the winning combination that I had to sit out. These petty talks can really lower the morale,” Bangar told UNI, after slogging it out in the P C Sen Trophy for Tollygunge here today. “There is always a difference of being in the team and actually playing. I dont know if I will survive international cricket till the next Cup, but if I do I would certainly like to play,” Bangar added with a wry smile. Being severly short of match practice, which was reflected in his poor form with bat in the two matches against Bangladesh and South Africa during the tri-nation series, he accepted the offer. Today Bangar bowled his complete quota of 10 overs for 24 runs scalping three wickets and while batting remained unbeaten on four during the match against Eastern Railway. Asked how was he preparing to get into the groove before the home series against New Zealand, Bangar said, “I am working on a fitness chart given by Adrian Le Roux and will play as many matches as possible, although I know there are not many.” He also planned to improve on two aspects of his batting. “Putting away the bad balls consistently and rotating the strike are two aspects I would like to work on,” he said. Bangar, who has played 12 Tests and averaged nearly 30 runs, would like to play as an opener in the New Zealand series. “Of the 12 Tests, I have played in eight as opener. Only in the last two Tests I did not get good runs. Besides, when I played for Railways in 1995-96, I opened for them,” he said. Bangar’s bad patch seemed to percolate into the county cricket as well. “Actually I was supposed to play league cricket for an English Club called Haydock in Liverpool. However, since I was playing the tri-nation tournament I could not make it in time. Besides I also had some family commitments,” Bangar rued having missed the opportunity saying it is always special to play a season in England. Talking about his ODI career, Bangar, who has completed 30 years, said: “When I broke through in international cricket, people said I was good enough for Test matches only. I am happy I have been able to prove otherwise and now I have played 12 ODIs and want to carry on in the same vein.” “But for now my focus is to play the Test series against New Zealand at home,” he added.
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A long way to go in Tests: Sidhu Barnala, May 7 The Board of Control for Cricket in India came in for sharp criticism from Sidhu. Asserting that the Indian cricket board was the richest in the world, he advocated transparency from the board to improve the level of cricket in India. Talent should be spotted and tapped even from the villages of India. The board must have a strong will to do it, he said. “Hard work was the key to success as there were no shortcuts to success,” he said. Asked why Australian cricket team was invincible in the world cricket, he at once replied that Australia had a very strong cricketing system which offered avenues for healthy contest. Another reason was their tremendous Bench strength. |
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Federer advances Rome, May 7 Fourth seed Federer, winner of his third ATP title of the season last week in Munich, triumphed 6-3, 7-5 for his 32nd victory of the season. The centre court’s following match saw Brazilian Gustavo
Kuerten, struggling to rediscover the kind of form that took him to three French Open titles, bow out to Argentinian Gaston Gaudio 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.
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Badminton nationals
in Bangalore Sangrur, May 7 He released the
calendar for 2003-04. Thane would host the junior nationals while the sub-junior nationals would be held in Calicut. Andhra Pradesh would host the veterans’ nationals. Lucknow would be the venue for an 8-lakh prize money tournament while Mumbai, Hyderabad and Surat would be the venues for 4-lakh prize money tournaments. A 2-lakh prize money tournament would be conducted at Bangalore, while Pune and Kakinada (Andhra Pradesh) would host two junior ranking 1. 5-lakh prize money tournaments. Jaipur would host the Asian Satellite Championships in October. |
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Sports nurseries to be revamped Chandigarh, May 7 It was informed at the meeting that since there was a limited budget of the Sports Department, it was proposed that some nurseries be adopted by various profit-making boards and corporations of the state. Seven boards and corporation had adopted 13 nurseries for hockey, judo, boxing, kabaddi, table tennis, wrestling and volleyball. These included volleyball (girls) at Kheri Ram Nagar, Kurukshetra, by the HSIDC, hockey (girls) at SGNP School, Shahbad, by HARCO Bank, judo (girls) at Maharaja Aggarsen School, Sirsa, by Haryana Financial Corporation, hockey (girls) at Maharaja Aggarsen School, Sirsa, by HARCO Bank, table tennis (girls) at GRG School, Sirsa, by Haryana Warehousing Corporation, boxing (boys) at Chautala by Haryana Tourism Corporation, kabaddi (boys) at RKSD College, Kaithal, by HUDA, wrestling (boys and girls) at SM High School, Nidani, by Haryana Warehousing Corporation, hockey (girls) at Nehru Stadium, Gurgaon, by HARCO Bank, wrestling (boys) at Bahadurgarh Stadium, Jhajjar, by HAFED and boxing (boys) at Mahavir Stadium, Hisar, by Haryana Tourism Corporation. It was informed that 205 players were being trained under this scheme and the expenditure for their training, diet, kit, tuition fee and medical facilities was being borne by the boards and corporations. Boys and girls aged between 10 and 14 years were selected for these sports nurseries. It was decided at the meeting that sports nurseries would be revitalised and set up at places where full infrastructural facilities like accommodation, board and lodging, education and talent were available. |
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Transfer season hots up in Kolkata Kolkata, May 7 After having a disastrous season, former National Football League winners Mohun Bagan led the surge in the recruiting market followed by rejuvenated Mohammedan Sporting to rope in the best players for coming soccer season. The competition level this year rose higher following the elevation of Mohammedan Sporting as fourth force of the city in the premier league of the
eight NFL. Mohammedan Sporting and Haywards Sports Club of Goa earned berths in the premier soccer league after their victories in the second division NFL. Tollygunge Agragami is the third team from the city in the NFL. The century-old Mohun Bagan club soon after winning the sixth
edition of the NFL in May last year, broke like a house of cards and failed miserably to organise which ultimately cost them dear in the domestic and national football competitions. The loss of Bagan has paid dividends to Mohammedan Sporting as one good striker Abdulatif Seriki switched over to the black-white side after differences with Mohun Bagan over payment. Bagan spent most of their funds on keeping Brazilian striker Jose Ramirez Barreto and recruiting Baichung Bhutia from Bury FC. Whilst East Bengal have decided to keep intact their first eleven and some of the reserve players while roping in a few star players of the country for next season, Mohun Bagan and Sporting are looking for new faces to challenge the dominance of red-and-yellow brigade. East Bengal had contested five tournaments and won all including NFL, Durand, Super soccer Kolkata league, IFA Shield and Independence Cup in Assam, which is indeed a sort of record among the Indian clubs of the country. But the funds crunch is posing the greatest hurdle, especially to Mohun Bagan, who have to overhaul the side from coach to keeper. The UB groups, who sponsored both East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, made it clear that no extra budget for the clubs for this year would be sanctioned. This meant both the sides would have a little over Rs 1.5 crore each. The hooking of players also raised a hue and cry in the All-India Football Federation (AIFF) after Bagan reportedly approached Vasco striker Marcos Peirrera before crucial the 21st round of the NFL against East Bengal in the city. While Vasco coach Derrick Peirrera in a Press conference refused to comment on the agreement between Marcos and Bagan, the latest news from Goa said the club would lodge a complaint with the Asian Football Federation. Mohammedan Sporting, for the first time in 20 years, held a general body meeting recently and decided to raise special funds for recruitment of players. Each member of the club will be asked to contribute Rs 200 in addition to annual member fees. Sporting have about 1550 members currently enrolled. But no Indian players lead the money market in the recruitment net, although there is good demand for them. The controversially “obscure” players from African nations like Nigeria, Ghana, Uzbekistan and Brazil lead the market and most of the club funds go for keeping them. For example Barreto holds the record of highest money earner from an Indian club in the last four years and this year too Bagan have already booked him for next season. Baichung Bhutia is now looking for a greener pasture after Bagan club officials told him that he would find a place only in the NFL for this a cut in payment would be given to him. East Bengal after a successful year with Mike Okoro and Douglas da Silva from Brazil and Suley Musha are all out to retain them. Douglas and Malswama had already signed for the club yesterday. Both the sides, moreover, are still looking for some new foreign players from other states or from overseas.
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Amritsar
beat Ludhiana Amritsar, May 7 Resuming their second innings at 90 for eight, Ludhiana lost their last two wickets to the bowling of Manish Bhatia. They could add just five more runs to the total. Scores: Amritsar (Ist innings): 328 all out; Ludhiana (Ist innings): 156 all out; Ludhiana (IInd innings): 95 all out. |
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40 for basketball coaching camps Ludhiana, May 7 The names of the campers are: Boys: Vijay Kumar, Sneh Pal Singh, Talwinder Singh, Ramesh Kumar, Rajan Mehra and Jagdeep Singh (Ludhiana), Rajinder Pal Singh, Mandeep and Sahiljeet (Gurdaspur), Manav (Patiala), Gurpreet Singh, Deepak and Bharat Vashisht (Kapurthala), Supreet and Yadwinder (Amritsar), Sukhbir Dhillon (Jalandhar), Sukhpal (Faridkot), Harpreet and Lakhwinder Singh (Bathinda). Girls: Satwinder, Rishma, Arshna, Sukhbir Kaur and Payal (Jalandhar), Paramjit Kaur, Mehak Dhillon, Nampreet and Jyothi (Faridkot), Princy Dhaliwal (Bathinda), Ravneet, Karambir, Paramjit (Gurdaspur), Mala, Anu and Rajan Pal (Kapurthala), Madhu Bala (Hoshiarpur) and Gurdeep (Muktsar). |
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All-India boxing meet from May 11 Chandigarh, May 7 He said eight teams — Railways, Army, Haryana, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Sports Power Federation, Manipur and Madhya Pradesh — would participates. He said each team would comprise eight boxers and two coaches and during the championship, players would be selected for the training camp to be held on June 14. |
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