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Kallis seals win as SA take 2-1
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Stripper bares all about Warne Bangladesh defeated, not disgraced, says
skipper Sehwag, Harbhajan rested for Challenger series India conceded too many penalty corners India,
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Two
missing cricketers return Chaos after false start rule comes into play at world
championship A race official (L) shows the red card to Jon Drummond of the USA, who was disqualified for a false start in the second round of the men's 100
m event at the World Athletics Championships at the Stade de France in Saint Denis, north of Paris, on Sunday. —
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Li Xiao-peng
of China performs on the vault during the apparatus finals at the World Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, California,
on Sunday. Li won gold medals in both the parallel bars and vault. —
Reuters photo Paes not suffering
from cancer
Randeep, Sarabjit to
clash in boxing final PU to host rowing Weightlifting teams for Asian
championship
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Kallis seals win as SA take 2-1 lead Leeds, August 25 England, set an unlikely 401 to win at Headingley, resumed on 165 for five but crashed to 209 all out within 50 minutes and 70 deliveries, Mark Butcher dismissed second ball of the day to begin the procession. Allrounder Kallis, who took nine wickets in the match, collected four for 16 on Monday morning in just 33 deliveries. Kallis proved the perfect stand-in after South Africa went into the match without leading bowler Shaun Pollock, who returned home to attend the birth of his daughter. England captain Michael Vaughan, however, hailed man-of-the -match Gary Kirsten as the difference after his innings of 130 and 60. “I thought he was outstanding, and probably the difference between the two sides. They were more disciplined and played smarter cricket than we did,” Vaughan said. Kirsten batted for more than 11 hours on an unreliable pitch. Butcher had clipped the first ball of the day off his legs for four to reach 61 before edging Kallis’s next delivery to Andrew Hall at second slip, ending a 74-run stand. Andrew Flintoff reached his half-century before falling next delivery, also edging to Hall, before Martin Bicknell, Kabir Ali and James Kirtley quickly followed. Kallis took his haul in 17 overs, his fourth five-wicket return in Tests, as well as nine wickets for 92 in the match. Kirsten, however, had the honour of sealing the win by catching the last two batsmen. South Africa last won a series in England in 1965. The last Test starts on September 4 at The Oval. Scoreboard South Africa (first innings): 342 (G.Kirsten 130, M.Zondeki 59, J.Rudolph 55) England (first innings): 307 (M.Butcher 77, M.Trescothick 59, A.Flintoff 55) South Africa (second innings): 365 (A. Hall 99 not out, G. Kirsten 60) England (second innings): (overnight 165-5) Trescothick c Gibbs b Ntini 4 Vaughan c Gibbs b Kallis 21 Butcher c Hall b Kallis 61 Hussain lbw b Kallis 6 Smith c Smith b Hall 7 Stewart c Boucher b Ntini 7 Flintoff c Hall b Kallis 50 Bicknell c Boucher b Kallis 15 Kabir Ali c Kirsten b Kallis 9 Kirtley c Kirsten b Hall 11 Anderson not out 0 Extras (lb-9 w-2 nb-7) 18 Total (all out, 61.4 overs) 209 Fall of wickets: 1-11 2-44 3-62 4-81 5-95 6-169 7-182 8-189 9-206. Bowling: Ntini 11-2-40-2, Hall 21.4-3-64-2, Pretorius 9-3-27-0, Kallis 17-4-54-6, Zondeki 3-0-15-0. —
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Stripper bares all about Warne Sydney, August 25 Angela Gallagher, (38), said she started a sexual relationship with Warne in May this year and that the leg spinner owes her an apology for telling her he had an open relationship with his wife Simone. Gallagher’s claims, paid for by the New Idea magazine and by the Channel Seven television network, were published in the magazine on Monday as the banned superstar sets up temporary refuge in Britain with his wife and children. Channel Seven is due to screen the interview later Monday. The latest episode in the Warne soap opera follows allegations by South African Helen Cohen Alon earlier this month that he had harassed her with lewd text messages. The scandal-prone leg spinner lost the Australian Test vice-captaincy over an earlier scandal in England three years ago, in which a nurse accused him of making raunchy telephone calls to her. Gallagher told New Idea magazine she decided to go public over her relationship with Warne because she was angry at public criticism of Helen Cohen Alon. Gallagher said Warne was on the phone to her “every spare minute he had”. “We’d meet up, go out to clubs and meet up with his mates,” she said. “He seemed to make no secret of me.” She described Warne as a “gentle, charming man” whom she said could do a lot of good with his profile. “This saga is a real shame but it’s time he faced the truth and apologised,” she added. “I want Shane to apologise and I want him to get help,” she said. “I expect awful things will be said about me after this, but everything that happened is true and I hold my head up high.” Gallagher said she exchanged mobile phone numbers with Warne after meeting him on May 11 at Melbourne nightspot, The Motel. She discovered several explicit text messages from the cricketer after she arrived home later that night, including one that said: “Sweetie, I want to meet you in the toilets”. Warne had later called and asked if he could come around and see her. “I’d had enough by then so I said goodbye. He said: Well, if I can’t be with you, can I have phone sex with you?” Gallagher, separated from her husband at the time, agreed to meet Warne after he called again the next day. “I asked him about his wife and he led me to believe they weren’t together,” she said. “He told me they had a very open marriage.” She said his story was confirmed by a friend of hers who worked with the Victorian Cricket Association. A sexual relationship started and continued until Warne went to the USA with the Starlight Children’s Foundation and Gallagher reunited with her husband Paul. MELBOURNE: Shane Warne has defused potential further disciplinary action from Cricket Australia (CA) by deciding against playing in an English charity match while serving a drugs ban. Already serving a 12-month ban for testing positive to a banned diuretic and under intense scrutiny over his very public private life, Warne risked further trouble by indicating he planned to play with the Lashings Cricket Club in Surrey on Friday. CA chief executive James Sutherland said today it was inappropriate and against the spirit of cricket for Warne to play as he is halfway through a 12-month ban for taking a prohibited fluid-loss pill. But a CA spokesman said later that Warne’s manager and brother Jason had phoned Sutherland and confirmed Warne would not play in any charity matches during his England trip. Warne left with his family on Saturday bound for London to get away from intense scrutiny over his private life. —
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Bangladesh defeated, not disgraced, says skipper Peshawar, August 25 Bangladesh lost to Pakistan in the southern port city Karachi yesterday after five days of a Test that marked international cricket’s return to the terror-hit country after a 15-month drought. “Bangladesh were defeated but not disgraced and I am happy the way the team has performed,” said Mahmud, who took over as captain following Bangladesh’s win-less World Cup campaign in March. “Our boys worked hard but we couldn’t stay at the wicket as long as required.” The second match of the three-Test series starts in this northwest border town on Wednesday. “What is important for us is to keep the improvement intact. The improvement graph must go up and I think we are going in the right direction,” Mahmud, 31, said. Berated for their below-par showings at international level since gaining Test status in 2000, Bangladesh have lost 21 of their 22 Tests. The other result was a draw caused by bad weather. However, since the induction of former Australian player Dave Whatmore as coach in June the Test minnows have shown signs of improvement. Though they lost both Tests against world champions Australia by an innings last month they brushed off claims of a humiliation, and enjoyed some good sessions in a series dubbed the “biggest mismatch” in Test history beforehand. “I am not happy with my own performance and have said before the tour that if I don’t perform well I will leave the captaincy,” said Mahmud, whose performance is under scrutiny. As a medium pacer Mahmud conceded most runs, including 406 for a single wicket on his team’s tour of Australia. As a lower order batsman he averages less than 12 per innings. Victorious Pakistani captain Rashid Latif praised the Bangladeshis’ fighting spirit. “I give full credit to Bangladesh, they took the Test to the fifth day and it goes to their advantage and help them further improve,” said Latif. Pakistan are likely to play the same eleven for the second Test after retaining the 15-man squad announced for the Karachi Test. —
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Sehwag, Harbhajan rested for Challenger series Bangalore, August 25 Bengal tiger Saurav Ganguly will captain the Indian Senior team, while Leggie Anil Kumble and Rahul Dravid will lead India ‘A’ and India ‘B’, respectively in the five-day day-night tournament. While Indian coach John Wright would be the coach for the Seniors, Sandeep Patil would be the Coach for India ‘A’ and Ashok Malhotra for India ‘B’. Aakash Chopra who missed out the Indian probables conditioning camp here due to a new injury, will play for India ‘A’. Announcing the teams here today Board of Control for Cricket in India Honorary Secretary S.K. Nair said Sehwag, Harbhajan and Nehra would, however, remain in Bangalore and continue their training. For quick recovery, they are not going back. They would be attended by Andrew Leipus, he added. Mr Nair said, Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and Mohammed Kaif, who were currently playing English county cricket would be reporting for second phase of the camp beginning on Septermber. All the probables would be there for the second short camp, also as coach Wright felt it would improve the players condition. Replying to a question, Mr Nair said since Javagal Srinath, who opted out of the conditioning camp, had not conveyed his willingness to join the team, no decision could be taken regarding his selection. Teams: India Seniors:
Saurav Ganguly (captain), VVS Laxman, Hemang Badani, A.T. Rayudu, Sanjay Bangar, Parthiv Patel, Amit Mishra, Murali Kartik, Sarandeep Singh, Zaheer Khan, L Balaji, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Aakash Chopra. India A: Anil Kumble (captain), Sachin Tendulkar, Gautam Gambhir, Rohan Gavaskar, Mohammed Kaif, Wasim Jaffer, S Sriram, Ajay Ratra, Irfan Pathan (Jr), Ajit Agarkar, Mithun Minhas, Romesh Pawar. India B: Rahul Dravid (captain), Shiv Sunder Das, Satyajit Parab, Amit Bhandari, Yuvraj Singh, Thilak Naidu, Vijay Bharadwaj, J.P. Yadav, Avishkar Salvi, Siddharth Trivedi, Sairaj Bahatule, Dinesh Mongia. —
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India conceded too many penalty corners The Indians conceded too many penalty corners and had to pay a heavy price for that in the end. Though they played quite well against arch-rivals Pakistan in the 3-4 places playoff, the Champions Trophy bronze medal eluded them because of the awful tackling by some of the defenders. The number of penalty corners the team conceded was much too high at this level of the game. No matter how well you play, scoring goals is the key to victory. The Indians must have realised that playing well is not enough to take you to the podium, they have to score the goals in crunch situations. What is important is how well you come back into the game after conceding the lead. The players have to work on this aspect of the game, or else the same story will continue in other major events. India’s tendency to concede goals in the dying stages continues to be a problem and it came to the fore again in this elite
championsnhip, particularly in the first match against Holland when the team swallowed four goals in the last seven minutes. The Pakistanis won the bronze medal by beating India, but the quality of hockey displayed by them was not of a high standard. I felt India’s game was much better but they just could not sustain the momentum till the very end to lose against their traditional rivals for the first time in
Amstelveen. After a rivetting contest in their last league match, the clash of the Asian giants for the bronze medal was expectedly played at a different tempo. Both the teams were conscious that the bronze medal was at stake and that somehow played at the back of their minds. The Indians were handicapped to a great extent by the injury-induced absence of their two outstanding midfielders —Baljit Singh Saini and Ignace
Tirkey. Coach Rajinder Singh had no other option but to play Jugraj Singh at the right half position and Vikram Pillay as link man, pushing Viren Rasquinha to left out position. This combination worked well. Both the teams, no doubt, were a little nervous and were too cautious in the first 15 minutes. It was only in the second half that the Indians came out from the shell and played some excellent hockey. I have always maintained that the midfielders have a vital role to play in the pattern the Indian team plays. Truly, the new-look midfield was the heartening feature of the match. The ball rotation and position were quick and the movements with the forwards had more fire in their distribution. Their support to the deep defenders both in tackling and interception was also well monitored. On the other hand, Pakistan looked a lot more disjointed with the heavy loss against India on Friday still seeming to have an affect on them. Their agile-looking forward line was not able to combine or show its individual skill. The Indian forwards worked very hard and credit should be given to captain Dhanraj Pillay and veteran Baljit Singh Dhillon for their waiting game. The errors from them were very few and their support to Gagan Ajit Singh, Deepak Thakur and Prabhjot Singh made the Pakistani defence look untidy. This system of play helped the Indian forwards to enter the Pakistani ‘D’ frequently. It was the collective performance of the forwards which helped them take the lead on each occasion before Rehan Butt sealed the fate of the Indians with his 68th minute strike. Pakistan were indeed lucky to escape with a victory. The high rate of goals conceded through penalty corners is an aspect which needs to be addressed. This was due to the awful tackling by Kanwalpreet Singh, Bimal Lakra and Viren Rasquinha. The performance of young Vikram Pillay, playing his first match, will give him a great deal of confidence. I strongly feel that Rajinder Singh should have tried him in earlier matches. Even
Jugraj, playing as right-half, gave a good account of himself. But goalkeeper Devesh Chauhan was the most consistent performer for the Indians. He was brilliant right through the tournament. —
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Pak officials to meet in Malaysia Islamabad, August 25 The officials, who were scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the just-concluded Champions Trophy in Amstelveen, Holland, failed to do so as the marketing agent of the IHF could not reach the country on time for the meeting. “Now
we hope to meet next month in Malaysia on the eve of Asia Cup to
discuss prospects of a hockey series at a neutral venue,” Mr
Jothikumaran was quoted as saying by the APP news agency here today. India and Pakistan officials were set to meet at Amstelveen for sorting out details for reviving hockey ties and to hold a three-nation series next year at a neutral venue, possibly in Malaysia. However, both Mr Jothikumaran and Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary Brig Musarrat Ullah Khan had an informal meeting in which they discussed important matters pertaining to revival of bilateral series between the two countries. The IHF secretary said staging of matches between the two countries would help develop the game in the subcontinent. “For
sure we want to play each other and resumption of hockey ties is in
the larger interest of both the countries and for the development of
the hockey in the subcontinent.” The last bilateral series
between India and Pakistan was held in 1999. —
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Two
missing cricketers return Jalandhar, August 25 “Rajwant
Kaur and Parvesh Rani came back to me and subsequently, I informed the
police about their coming back so that they can complete their
interrogation regarding the other three missing girls,” Sharma told
The Tribune over the phone from London. “The three other
cricketers, Mandeep Virk, Baljeet Kaur and Ekta Andotra are still
missing and I have no contact with them,” Sharma said, claiming that
two of these girls, Baljeet and Ekta, had contacted him two days back
through their solicitor and even offered him an amount of £ 1600 for
giving back their passports. The two girls have just come to me and are in panic due to the media reports and they revealed that they were under pressure from those who gave shelter to them to go back to the team to avoid legal action, he said. When contacted, Paramjit Kaur, sister of Rajwant Kaur, said she was unaware about her coming back but said the family was happy to hear the news of her return. Jaswinder Singh, brother of Baljeet Kaur of Begowal in Kapurthala, said he had received only a phone call from his sister a few days back and she had informed the family of her well being, he added. |
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Chaos after false start rule comes into play at world
championship
Paris, August 25 Chaos ensued yesterday at the World Athletics Championships. There were long delays in completing the quarterfinal heats. The huge crowd turned rowdy. Drummond wept on the grass of an adjacent practice track, then floated in the steeplechase pit. The drama was so intense, and the acrimony between runners and race officials so raw, that Kelli White’s victory in the women’s 100 metres an hour later seemed almost an afterthought. With Olympic champion Marion Jones doing TV commentary on the race, White ran away from the field to win in 10.85 seconds. Jones, who gave birth in late June, hopes to return for the 2004 Athens Olympics. US compatriot Torri Edwards won the silver medal in 10.93 seconds and 1991 world champion Zhanna Block of Ukraine was third. Drummond’s angry protest highlighted a day on which new international rules governing false starts were ridiculed by male and female sprinters. Previously, a runner was disqualified only after his or her second false start in a race. Now, the field is allowed one false start. After that, anyone who jumps the gun is out of the race. The craziness began when Jamaica’s Dwight Thomas was called for a false start. Then both Drummond and Jamaica’s Asafa Powell were called for leaving their blocks too early. TV replays were inconclusive, but the official meet computer showed Drummond indeed had left the blocks too early. Drummond’s foot may have flinched, which could have told the computer he had left the blocks. Drummond lay on his back on the track for several minutes, yelling, “I did not move, I did not move,” at a race official who stood over him with a red card. He stood up, walked around, then flopped to the track again. Finally, he arose and ripped off his racing top as he walked away. Then he turned around and fought back tears as he marched to the starting line, where he settled into the blocks. Thirteen minutes after the false start was called, all the runners in the heat were ordered off the track. Drummond blew kisses to the crowd. The remaining quarterfinal heats were run, then the runners from Drummond’s heat were called back to the start. But, with Drummond sobbing next door at the practice track, the crowd would not let the race resume. Powell returned to his lane and began warming up. Then a course official confirmed that he, too, had been disqualified and made him leave. Each time the six remaining runners got into their blocks, spectators at the Stade de France booed and whistled. It took seven attempts before the heat finally took place, 45 minutes after Drummond’s disqualification. Patrick Johnson of Australia, who held the world’s fastest time this season of 9.93 seconds, finished last and didn’t qualify for the semifinals. “I flinched, the guy next to me flinched and another guy flinched. I didn’t understand the rule to mean that a flinch is a false start,” Drummond said in a statement released through USA Track and Field. “I protested because this is my livelihood. At this point in my career, for me to lose an opportunity to pursue a dream, it crushes me. I walked away from what I had worked for the whole year.” It was reminiscent of the men’s 100 metres final at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where Britain’s Linford Christie refused to leave the track after being disqualified. Ironically, the winner of Drummond’s disputed heat was Ato Boldon, who also was in that 1996 Olympic final. He said yesterday’s chaos was “way worse” than the Atlanta situation and blamed it on the International Association of Athletics Federations for its new false start rule. Bekele (21) displayed maturity which the 34-year-old American lacked by outpacing his legendary countryman Haile Gebrselassie to take gold. Youth was also the order of the day as 20-year-old Swedish pin-up Carolina Kluft held her nerve masterfully to win the heptathlon and become only the third athlete to go over the 7,000 points landmark seeing off a sprited challenge by France’s 1999 champion Eunice Barber. In the 10,000 metres, Bekele not only left Gebrselassie trailing in second but rubbed salt into the wounds by breaking his compatriot’s championship mark with a time of 26 minutes 49.57 seconds, destroying the old one by 23 seconds. “Haile was a great champion and it is a real honour to succeed him as Ethiopian No 1,” said Bekele. Gebrselassie said losing was not what mattered to him personally. “I am happy with the silver because last time I lost the title to the Kenyans and that was not a happy experience for me.” —
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Li’s heroics
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Anaheim (California), August 25 “I feel I can do my job,” said Li. “I feel very confident and I trusted myself.” Li’s heroics, combined with Fan Ye’s gold on balance beam, helped propel China to the top of the overall medals table ahead of runner-up, the USA. China had a total of eight medals, including five gold and two silver, to the USA’s seven medals. The USA also had five gold while Japan was third with two gold and two bronze. “Before the competition we weren’t sure how we would do as a team,” said Li’s team-mate Huang Xu. “Since (Sydney Olympics), we haven’t really competed. We haven’t shown the world what we have but since the podium training we have done that.” There was no repeat on Sunday of the string of dead heats that marred Saturday’s individual apparatus finals. On Saturday there were six shared medals, including three shared gold and no silver medals in the men’s programme, drawing a stinging reaction from the fans. “I am happy,” said Li. “I would rather win by myself than share a gold medal.” Li, the reigning Sydney Olympic champion in parallel bars, scored a 9.825 on bars to beat Huang. There was one tie on Sunday as Huang had to share the silver medal with Alexei Nemov of Russia. Huang and Nemov each had scores of 9.762. Li won the vault by an even bigger margin than the bars, scoring a 9.818 on vault to beat runner-up Marian Dragulescu (9.687). China’s Fan Ye, whose point deduction in team finals cost China a bronze, redeemed herself by winning the balance beam gold on Sunday. “I have never received such a high score,” said Fan. “Now I want to be Olympic champion on beam.” Fan scored 9.812 points, crushing her competition and the nearest competitor Catalina Ponor, of Romania, (9.587) by over two-10ths of a point. That is nearly the same figure the judges took from Fan’s score in Wednesday’s team finals for warming up too soon, knocking China off the medal podium and giving the bronze to Australia. Brazil’s Daiane Dos Santos captured the first gold for her country at a world championships by winning the floor exercise. She also captured the hearts and minds of the frenzied crowd of 8,000 who shook the rafters of the Arrowhead Pond arena during her sizzling routine. “I just wanted to do the best routine I could,” said Dos Santos, who had right knee surgery for a meniscus tear two months ago. “This means a lot for Brazil because it shows that Brazil has grown and will continue to grow in gymnastics.” Dos Santos, who was the last to compete on the floor, scored 9.737 points to snatch the gold from Ponor, who had to settle for the silver. Dos Santos knew she had won the moment she finished her routine, flashing a big smile and leaping off the podium into the arms of her coach. The cheers turned to tears as Dos Santos wept as her scores were posted. Japan’s Takehiro Kashima captured his second gold medal of the world championship, winning a dramatic men’s high bar final on Sunday to go with his gold in the pommel horse. “I didn’t expect to finish with the gold,” said Kashima. Kashima scored 9.775 points to beat silver medallist Igor Cassina of Italy, who scored 9.750 on the bar. Nemov was third with a 9.737. Nemov, who has 12 Olympic medals, said he was very fortunate to get the silver in parallel bars. “The judges helped me. I don’t think I deserved it, but that might be my imagination,” he said. —
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Paes not suffering from cancer New York, August 25 Paes, who was admitted to the hospital a week ago suffering from severe headaches, was not suffering from brain cancer, the doctors said in a statement. “We are relieved that this is not a cancerous tumor. The blood tests from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and a repeat MRI along with other tests, confirmed the diagnosis,’’ the statement said. A malignant tumour had initially not been ruled out but a series of tests revealed a tiny lesion on the left side of his brain. The 30-year-old Paes, who won the mixed doubles with Martina Navratilova at the All-England Club last month, went to a local hospital near his home in Florida after suffering the headaches. He was transferred to the Anderson Center, where the lesion was found after a CT scan and an MRI. Paes will miss the US Open starting in New York on Monday and has been ruled out of all tennis until the end of September, including India’s Davis Cup world group playoff tie against the Netherlands next month. The treatment protocol is now being decided by the specialists and will include a combination of antiparacitic medication Albendazle, steroids and anti-seizure medication. “Leander is deeply touched by the overwhelming support, he continues to receive from around the globe. From the honourable President of India, to the millions of fans offering puja (which brough tears to his eyes), to the nuns at Mother Teresa’s home offering prayers to his family and friends, and to members of the sporting, business and medical fraternities,’’
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Randeep, Sarabjit to
clash in boxing final Jalandhar, August 25 Earlier, Randeep Singh outpuncherd Amandeep Singh 15-17 while Sarabjit Singh outclassed Amritsar’s Birbal Kumar in the second set. Gurmukh Singh of Sangrur defeated Kulwinder Singh of SAI Training Centre 17-6, and Jalandhar’s Gurdev Singh ousted Patiala lad Nitin Kumar 24-20 to enter the final of 48-57 kg category. Semifinal results: 51-54 kg: Gopal Singh (Patiala) b Mandeep Singh (Gurdaspur). Birdavinder Singh b Ajit Singh 37-22; 54-57. Sukhwinder Singh (Amritsar) b Rakesh Kumar 18-2, Somnath (Mansa) b Inderjit Singh (Bathinda) 12-3. |
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PU to host rowing Chandigarh, August 25 The North Zone Inter-varsity championship in netball (men and women) will be held by Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, cycling (men and women) be held at Patiala from October 30, korfball will be hosted by Kurukshetra University from October 30 and judo for both men and women will be held by Punjabi University from November 5. Guru Nanak Dev University will also hold gymnastics (men and women), rythmic gymnastics (women) and malkhamb events while boxing for men will be held in HPU, Shimla, from November 15. Dr Y.S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Nauni (Solan), will conduct kabaddi for men, then GND University will hold table tennis for both men and women, while HP Krishi Vishvidyalya, Palampur is to organise volleyball (men) events. Similarly on two-zone basis, Panjab University ,Chandigarh, will hold the North-East Zone meet in tennis (men) in December.
Patiala, August 25 The team comprises Nandini Devi (53 kg), Prasmita Mangraj (58 kg), Pratima Kumari (63 kg), Nansita Devi (69 kg) and Geeta Rani (75 kg). The chief coach of the squad will be Mr Pal Singh Sandhu. The federation has also announced a five-member men’s team that will take part in the 35th Senior Asian Men Championship to be held at the same venue. The squad comprises Vicky Batta (56 kg), Chandandeep (62 kg), Sudhir Kumar (69 kg), Senthil Kumar (85 kg) and Gurvinder Singh (105 kg plus). The coaches who will accompany the men’s squad are Mr Jaswant Singh and Mr Paramjit Sharma.
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Paris, August 25
Wimbledon mixed doubles champion Leander Paes is suffering from
neurocysticercosishas, according to doctors attending on him at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Centre in Orlando in Florida. 
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