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Tuesday,
June 3, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Windies humble Australia SC rejects BCCI plea against Jadeja BCCI to start new age meets
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Ferrero, Gonzalez enter quarterfinals
India bag 7 medals IWF bans four coaches Coaches on contract for Punjab Punjab boys set to dominate Gymkhana Club win Walia cricket meet Jasneet,
Shreya bag double gold in shooting Bhutia to join East Bengal
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Windies
humble Australia
St Georges, June 2 Wavell Hinds was again the tormentor with his second consecutive century to lead the West Indies to a comprehensive victory with six and a half overs to spare. Hinds, who was not part of the original one-day squad, scored an unbeaten 103 off 130 balls to finish the series with 352 runs from five innings to be named ‘man of the series.’ Lara finished the match with a flourish, plastering off-spinner Darren Lehmann for three successive sixes to remain unbeaten on 75 as the West Indies reached 249 for one in reply to Australia’s struggling 247 for eight. Chris Gayle was judged man of the match with his 60 off 68 — the only West Indian wicket to fall — combined with his career-best ODI bowling figures of 5-46 off 10 overs in Australia’s innings. The euphoric victory buoyed West Indies cricket after their 3-1 loss in the preceding Test series to Australia and their run of four defeats in the first half of the ODI series.
While the West Indies regrouped after losing the series in Port of Spain, the form of Ricky Ponting’s World Cup champions progressively fell away after the end of their record 21-game unbeaten run with signs of a lack of motivation seeping into the team. The Australians leave for home today for a well-earned five-week break after playing cricket continuously since last November. “It was a great performance by the team, we were 4-0 down, had lost the series and had to regroup,” Lara said. The last time Australia lost three consecutive ODIs was in mid-January last year — twice to New Zealand and the other to South Africa in the home triangular series. Ponting, whose last tour match was dogged by a hip injury which forced him to retire while batting and prevented him from fielding, looked downcast after the heavy defeat. Ponting admitted losing the last three games had taken some of the gloss off winning the series. “But in saying that I think we played very well for just about the whole tournament, we let ourselves down in over this last week... we have been outplayed in these last three games and full credit to the West Indies,” he said. Hinds followed up his unbeaten 125 off 140 balls in Friday’s three-wicket victory here with another commanding performance. He belted nine sixes in the double-header. He gave only one chance yesterday when on 76 he hit legspinner Brad Hogg straight to long off where Jason Gillespie fumbled an easy two-handed catch. Gayle scored 275 runs in the series and captured 11 wickets and did much to unhinge the much-vaunted Australian batting line-up Earlier, Lehmann hit his fourth one-day international century to rescue Australia to a reasonable total. The 33-year-old Lehmann scored 107 off 109 balls with 10 fours and a six to pick the Australians up after a disastrous start to their innings. Australia lost both openers Matthew Hayden (eight) and Adam Gilchrist (five) to careless shots for 18 runs and Ponting retired hurt after being struck on the hip by fast bowler Mervyn Dillon. AFP Scoreboard Australia: Gilchrist b Samuels 5 Hayden c Bernard b Dillon 8 Ponting not out 2 Symonds c Hinds b Gayle 48 Lehmann c Samuels b Gayle 107 Clarke st Jacobs b Gayle 1 Harvey run out 4 Hogg b Gayle 53 Lee c Samuels b Gayle 4 Gillespie not out 0 Extras:
(lb-3, w-10, nb-2) 15 Total: ( 8 wkts, 50 overs) 247 Fall of wickets:
1-17, 2-18, 3-125, 4-127, 5-133, 6-228, 7-246, 8-246. Bowling:
Samuels 7-0-39-1, Dillon 10-0-46-1, Collymore 9-0-39-0, Sarwan 4-1-22-0, Drakes 10-0-52-0, Gayle 10-0-46-5. West Indies: Gayle b Symonds 60 Hinds not out 103 Lara not out 75 Extras: (lb-2, w-7, nb-2) 11 Total:
(1 wkt, 43.3 overs) 249 Fall of wicket: 1-116 Bowling:
Lee 6-0-36-0, Gillespie 10-1-41-0, McGrath 6-0-29-0, Symonds 5-0-36-1, Hogg 10-0-47-0, Harvey 5-0-31-0, Lehmann 1.3-0-27-0. |
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SC rejects BCCI plea against Jadeja New Delhi, June 2 Rejecting the BCCI plea, a Bench comprising Mr Justice N Santhosh Hegde and Mr Justice Shivaraj V Patil said if the board had any objection to the High Court order, it could raise them before the same Bench which had passed an interim direction on Jadeja’s plea and has fixed the matter for further hearing on July 21. “If the petitioner (BCCI) feels that the matter is so urgent, it could move an appropriate application before the vacation Bench of the High Court,” the apex court said. The High Court’s division Bench comprising Mr Justice BA Khan and Mr Justice
O.P. Dwivedi in an interim order passed on May 28 had stayed the BCCI’s December 5, 2000, ban against Jadeja and allowed him to play domestic cricket subject to his selection by the board. “We deem it just and appropriate to stay the operation of the board’s ban order limited to the extent that appellant
(Jadeja) shall now be free to play cricket on domestic circuit and participate in all cricket matches within the country, if selected,” the High Court Bench had said. The order had come on an appeal by Jadeja against May 26 order of the single judge, rejecting his plea for allowing him to play at least domestic matches. In fact, Jadeja had played a local match here on Saturday after he was given green signal by the High
Court. BCCI’s counsel Gopal Subramaniam challenged the High Court order in the apex court on the ground that this would amount to “partially” enforcing the award given by Arbitrator in favour of Jadeja even when board’s petition raising certain “objections” against it was still pending before the single judge. When Subramaniam said the High Court order would “prejudice” the BCCI case before the single judge, which has yet to decide it on merits, the apex court judges said “we don’t want to comment on merits of the case. You must appear before the Division Bench of the High Court.” The High Court had granted interim relief to Jadeja by taking into consideration the fact that pendency of the case before the court “is likely to cause irreparable loss and damage” to his cricketing career and even might cut it short both at the national and international level. The High Court Bench had further said it did not find any logic in the board’s contention that there was “likelihood of any prejudice being caused to BCCI” if Jadeja was granted limited relief to keep himself in fit condition and to earn his bare minimum livelihood from the game of cricket. Arbitrator Mr Justice J K Mehra (retd), appointed by the High Court last year to adjudicate the dispute between the BCCI and
Jadeja, had on January 27 given an award in favour of the cricketer holding that the ban against him was “illegal”. |
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BCCI to start new age meets
Kolkata, June 2 Disclosing this to reporters here, BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya said the decision for starting cricket tournaments from March 2004 was taken after deliberations with nine participating states and union territories. Barring Nagaland and Lakshadweep, representatives from Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Pondicherry, Sikkim, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu said they would provide primary infrastructure to start tournament from next year. The tournaments are under “New Areas Development Programme” (NADP) to popularise cricket in the non- traditional areas of the country. However, the BCCI’s working committee would decide later whether it would be limited over tournaments or longer version of cricket, Mr Dalimiay said. He said while the BCCI would provide monetary help like providing fitness equipment, coaching facility, travel, cricket kits and other expenses, the states and union territories would provide ground and other basic infrastructure for holding tournaments. He said before starting the tournaments, the BCCI would coach all units from September this year. The BCCI also formed a special “NADP committee” with convener BCCI’s joint secretary Jyoti Bajpai to monitor the progress of the new project. The other members are BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah, Prof RS Shetty, MP Pandove, Chitrak Mitra. Amrit Mathur has been entrusted with the responsibility of liaisoning with the governments and others. Mr Dalmiya said the project would help producing new cricket talents for the country. He hoped the project would produce fast bowlers specially from north east in future. UNI
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Wright cautions senior players Bangalore, June 2 “We don’t want players to rest on their laurels. So, you need to be performing consistently all the time... and it’s important for the players who are playing for India to know that young and keen and hungry players will try and force themselves into the top side,” Wright told reporters here. Wright is here to assist Sandeep Patil, coach of India ‘A’, which is currently having its 18-day training camp at the National Cricket Academy here ahead of their six-week tour of England, where they would play 11 matches, beginning June 22. Asked if there were “slots” for some of India ‘A’ players in the top side, Wright said: “It always depends on the performance of the incumbents. What I can say is that if there is a lot of competition, it’s good for Indian cricket.” He said he was working with Patil and helping him prepare the team for England. “It is very good from my point of view because I get to work with some of the boys who might have an opportunity to force themselves into the top side. I am looking forward to it.” Wright said there would not be any clash in the coaching styles of Patil and himself as both were working for the same purpose. “I have played against him (Patil). I admire him for the job he has done for the Kenyan team. It’s important that coaches learn and know from each other”. On wicket-keeper Parthiv Patel, Wright said he had an outstanding start to his career but now needs experience. Terming his new assignment a “challenge”, Patil said: “boys are looking good”. Asked if he believed India A players stood a chance to break into the senior side, which right now appeared well-set, he said “it’s for the boys to create opportunities.” He expressed the hope that the coming England tour would offer a “broader view” for the selectors when they select the Indian team for the home series against New Zealand.
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Ferrero, Gonzalez enter quarterfinals
Paris, June 2 Ferrero, the runner-up at Roland Garros last year, improved to 7-0 against Mantilla by winning 6-2, 6-1, 6-1. The third seeded Ferrero will next play No. 19 Fernando Gonzalez, who beat No 30 Jarkko Nieminen 6-3, 6-3, 6-2. The quarterfinal between Ferrero and Gonzalez will be a rematch of the 1998 boys final at Roland Garros, which Gonzalez won. “This,” Ferrero said, “is more important than the juniors final. It’s going to be a good show,” Gonzalez said. Gonzalez, who hits perhaps the hardest forehand in tennis, has won their two meetings as pros, neither on clay. “You know the second or third shot is going to be a cannonball,” Ferrero said. “I must try to control the point before he hits the cannonball.” After a week of sunny, warm weather, play was delayed 30 minutes by rain at the start. When the courts dried, Ferrero and Gonzalez were ready. Gonzalez, playing on centre court, hit 40 winners and took advantage of 49 errors by Nieminen. Ferrero hit 52 winners to 13 for Mantilla and broke serve eight times. When the 20th-seeded Mantilla won a game after falling behind 5-0 in the final set, he raised his arms in mock jubilation. Ferrero then served out the victory at love. “I didn’t do any mistakes,” Ferrero said. “I was very solid. To play the rest of the tournament like this would be fantastic.” In women’s fourth-round play yesterday, Venus Williams was upset by Vera Zvonareva, a poised and precocious 18-year-old Russian, who won 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. Guillermo Coria, the seventh seed, advanced to a quarterfinal showdown with second seed Andre Agassi of the USA following a marathon two-day battle with fellow Argentine Mariano Zabaleta. Coria, a former junior champion here, had been leading two sets to one when the fourth round tie was halted last night because of failing light. Coria (21), who captured his first Tennis Masters Series title in Hamburg, dug deep to claim his third win over his countryman in as many meetings coming through 6-4, 7-6 (7/4), 5-7, 6-7 (4/7), 6-3 winner in four hours 41 minutes, making it the longest match so far in the tournament. Paes-Martina crash out New Delhi:
The mixed doubles team of Leander Paes and Martina Navratilova has crashed out of the French Open tennis tournament. The seventh-seeded duo lost a close first set in tie-breaker but surrended meekly in the second set to go down 6-7, (5/7), 2-6 to the unseeded pair of Sweden’s Jonas Bjorkman and Corina Morariu of the USA in the pre-quarterfinals yesterday.
AP, PTI
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India bag 7 medals
New Delhi, June 2 Maha Singh leapt to a distance of 7.50 metres, an improvement of 0.12 metres over his jump in the first leg of the event in Hyderabad last week, to finish behind Mohammad Al Khuwalid of Saudi Arabia (7.96) and bag one of the seven medals for India. The only other silver medal came in the men’s 4x100m relay where the Indian team finished in a time of 41.41 seconds, with the gold medal going to hosts Sri Lanka who clocked 40.77 seconds, according to results provided by the Associated Press. Anil Kumar also improved upon his performance in the previous leg, throwing discus to a distance of 57.96 metres but the effort could win him only a bronze medal. He had won the silver in Hyderabad with a distance of 57.83m. Soma Biswas won the bronze medal, the same that she had won in Hyderabad, in the 100m hurdles for women with a timing of 14.68 seconds. Sanjay Ghosh (100m, 10.86 seconds), Harminder Singh (javelin, 65.84m) and the women’s 4x100 m relay team were the other bronze medal winners for India. In Hyderabad, India had won nine medals, including two silver medals. PTI
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IWF bans four coaches Patiala, June 2 The action comes close on the heels of the IWF clamping a ban of varying periods on 35 lifters who had returned positive dops tests during the Hyderabad national games, the Lucknow senior national championship and the junior nationals held at Chennai in January this year. The coaches are Delhi-based, Mr S.C. Goel, Mr H.S. Sandhu of Punjab, Mr K. Amarnath of Andhra Pradesh and Mrs Hansa Sharma of the Lucknow-based Centre of Excellence. Mr S.C. Goel was associated with the training of Kunjarani Devi when she participated in the Senior Asian Championships held in South Korea in 2001. Subsequently, she had a positive dope test for a stimulant, strychnine, and was banned for six months. Mr K. Amarnath was the personal coach of Pujari Shelja during the national camp at the NIS here in preparation for the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship held in Tonga early last month. The IWF had withdrawn the lifter’s name as it was clear that she had tested positive for a banned substance during the Chennai junior nationals, where 23 lifters tested positive. Mrs Hansa Sharma, who is one of the coaches at the Lucknow-based Centre of Excellence, finds herself in a soup as two of her trainees — Poirein Ganbi Chanu and Thoinu Devi — returned positive tests. While P.G. Chanu tested positive during the Lucknow Senior National Championship, Thoinu Devi was found to have used two stimulants —
methandienone and mephentermine — during the Chennai junior nationals. Mr H.S. Sandhu has been banned by the IWF as a majority of Punjab lifters, who tested positive, are his trainees. The Punjab lifters who have already been banned are Tejinder Singh, G. Munivel, Davinder Singh, Simranjit Singh, Laljit Singh, Lad Singh and Gurdeep Singh. While Tejinder Singh had used banned drugs during the Hyderabad National Games, G. Munivel’s name figures in the list of erring lifters during the Lucknow senior nationals. Davinder Singh, Simranjit Singh, Laljit Singh, Lad Singh and Gurdeep Singh had tested positive at the Chennai junior meet. |
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Coaches
on contract for Punjab Ropar, June 2 The Minister for Sports and Youth Services, Punjab, Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang, gave this information while talking to newsmen yesterday evening. He was here to preside over the prize distribution function of the football tournament organised at the sports ground of the Ropar Government College. The tournament was organised by the college authorities to mark the inauguration of the sports ground that has been resurrected by the efforts of old students and the district administration. In the final Mehar Club, Kurali, defeated Government College, Ropar, 4-1. |
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Punjab boys set to dominate “These three consecutive victories are seen as a golden hat-trick by us,” stated general secretary, Punjab Basketball Association, Mr Teja Singh Dhaliwal, who is also the Vice-President of the Basketball Federation of India. Expressing confidence that the boys would repeat the feat, he said there were three national-level players in the team, who could turn the game for the side. Jagdeep Singh of Ludhiana is the tallest player at 6’ 6’’ . He had played for the country in the Asia Schools Basketball
Championship held in China last year. He had performed well as a pivot. Another Ludhiana lad, forward Snehpal Singh, had ample experience after participating in the Asian Basketball Championship for junior boys in China last year. Yadwinder Singh of Amritsar, who has the advantage of height at 6’ 5’’, is another valuable player for the team. The Punjab boys have been crowned champions five times in the past 10 years. Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh stand second as they had won twice in the same time span. Meanwhile, Punjab junior girls present a dismal picture at the national level as they failed to win even one match in the past 10 years. The last time they won a match was in 1992. Mr Dhaliwal said Punjab senior girls used to be a force to reckon with and they had created a record by winning the senior nationals for five consecutive years, from 1979 to 1983. Ever since the state government closed down the sports wing, the number of girls joining sports had come down drastically, he added. This time the girls team also has some good players, who were being trained by a coach of national repute. Harjit Kaur of Patiala is the tallest player at 6’ 1’’ while three players stood 5’ 11’’ tall
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Gymkhana
Club win Walia cricket meet Fatehgarh Sahib, June 2 In the final match after
winning the toss J.J. Club elected to bat and scored 164 runs in the
allotted overs. Chasing the score the Gymkhana Club scored 166 runs at
the loss of seven wickets and won the match by three wickets. The
highlight of the match was a breezy score of 60 runs from 25 balls by
Amit Kakria with the help of five sixers and four fours. He was also
declared man of the match. Dr Harbans Lal, Minister for Forest, who
gave away the prizes, called upon the youth to take keen interest in
sports as the sports kept them away from drug abuse. He announced a
grant of Rs 25,000 for the club. |
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Jasneet, Shreya bag double gold in shooting Patiala, June 2 Other results: Air pistol—men: Jasneet Bhullar 1, Indermeet Singh 2, Y.S Matta 3. Women: Deepam Matta 1, Harveen Sarao 2, Sumanpreet Kaur 3. .22 standard rifle
(peepsight)—men: Jasneet Bhullar 1, Arshdeep Singh 2, Dharamveer 3. Junior men: Arshdeep Singh 1, Dharamveer 2, Jashanbir Singh 3. .22 standard rifle
(o.s)—men: Ravinder Singh 1, Simran Singh 2, Baljinder Singh 3. Women: Shreya Talwar 1, Shanti Gurung 2, Mukhwinder Kaur 3. Junior men:Simran Tiwana 1, Jogeshwar Singh 2, Attal Sekhon 3. Junior women: Shreya Talwar 1, Shanti Gurung 2, Rashmi Dixit 3. .177 air rifle
(o.s)—men: Ravinder Singh 1, Navandeep Singh 2, Indermeet Singh 3. Junior men: Jogeshwar Singh 1, Rahul Sayal 2, Parampreet Singh 3. .177 air rifle
(peepsight)—men: Sukhmanwinder Singh 1, Jashanbir Kaur 2, Dharamveer Singh 3.Junior men: Jaspreet Singh 1, Jashanbir Singh 2, Dharamveer Singh 3.Sub-junior boys: Sukhmanwinder Singh 1, Jagpreet Singh 2, Joydeep Singh 3.
Yadav to lead Punjab
Vinay Yadav will lead a 13 member Punjab team for the national indoor cricket championship scheduled to be held on the Khurda Road (Orissa) from June 5 to 7. The team is: Vinay Yadav (Captain), Ravinder Singh, Bhupinder Singh, Harvinder Singh, Naveen Jindal, Mukesh Maheshwari, Naveen Sharma, Sumit Kumar, S.S Bhattal, Lakhwinder Singh, Jitender Singh and Vinod Kumar. Mr Mandeep Kumar and Mr Amarinder Singh Shergill will accompany the squad as coach and manager, respectively.
Chandigarh win cricket tourney
Stadium XI ,Chandigarh, beat MES coaching centre (II) by 53 runs to win the title in the 5th Patiala Hot Weather Cricket Tournament, which concluded at the Army School grounds here today. Opting to bat, Stadium XI piled up 154 for 6 in the stipulated 30 overs. Sahil Sampson (46) and Gaurav Puri (23) were the batsmen who took their team to safety. Akshit Chadha also chipped in with a useful 18. In reply, the MES team could muster only 101 runs in 32.2 overs with Akshit Chadha bowling an inspired spell of 4 for 10. YPS youngster Amandeep Singh, who displayed fine temperament and sound technique throughout the tournament, was declared the best batsman. Gurinder Singh of Stadium XI was adjudged the best bowler while Sahil Sampson, also of Stadium XI, was declared the best wicketkeeper. Mohit Mohindera of NICS, who gave a good account of himself with both the bat and the ball in all matches, was adjudged the best all-rounder. Akshit Chadha of Stadium XI was declared the best boy of the match in the final. Jaspreet Singh and Karan Kumar, both of MES coaching centre, were given the best fielder awards. The prizes were distributed by Dronacharya awardee Gurcharan Singh, whose team Dronacharya Cricket Academy (DCA), New Delhi, also took part in the tournament alongwith teams from Karnal and Ghaziabad.
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Bhutia to join East Bengal
Kolkata, June 2 Announcing this at a press conference here, Bhutia said, “I decided to join East Bengal in view of the club’s ambitious projects to make it big at international tournaments. I wanted to be associated with their ambition.” While refusing to disclose the exact amount to be paid to the former Indian skipper, East Bengal sources said the club had offered an amount close to Rs 20 lakh. PTI
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