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Wednesday,
September 24, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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India trounce Bangladesh to romp into semis
Indian cagers stun fancied Kuwait |
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Shakti
wins silver in Asian athletics New Delhi, September 23 Shakti Singh won India’s third silver in the 15th Asian Athletics Championship in men’s shot put on the concluding day of the meet in Manila, the Philippines today. India also won another bronze in the women’s 4x400m relay.
SA agree to tour
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Nine-member
panel to handle case of players Top women stars set sights on Olympics
ONGC, PSB Academy win; Ropar Hawks lose CISF win
Farid hockey
Delhi, Haryana shuttlers dominate Associates Banks XI beat MPCA
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India trounce Bangladesh to romp into semis Kuala Lumpur, September 23 Toying with a sloppy Bangladeshi defence, eight players sounded the board as India scripted the biggest win of the tournament so far. While Dilip Tirkey (7th, 55th) and Gagan Ajit Singh (37th, 50th) scored twice each, Deepak Thakur (11th), Vikram Pillay 16th), Dhanraj Pillay (33rd), Sandeep Michael (35), Prabhjot Singh (48th) and Baljit Singh Dhillon (53rd) netted once. India, who scored five goals each in both halves, could have won by a bigger margin had they not frittered away at least a dozen scoring opportunities. The big win must have done a world of good to the side’s confidence since they will be playing arch-rival Pakistan tomorrow. Though the match against Pakistan will only help determine the pool leaders, for India it will be of immence
importance since it will give them the perfect opportunity to avenge for the loss they suffered against their arch-rivals in in Champions Trophy in Amstelveen last month. India took the lead in the seventh minute through Dilip Tirkey, who came up with a commendable performance in the absence of regular short corner expert Jugraj Singh. Tirkey’s goal opened the floodgates as the Indians scored at will against their weak opponents, who struggled for ball possession throughout the match. —
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Indian cagers stun fancied Kuwait New Delhi, September 23 According to information received here today, the Robinson-led Indians, who were on the court within two hours of their arrival, played a percentage game throughout and kept the pressure on their Asian rivals. Combining well, playmaker Sambaji Kadam and Sridhar fed the shooters upfront and helped India surged ahead with a lead of 19-12 by the end of the first quarter. The Indians increased their lead further, thanks to some excellent play in the second quarter, where they had wrested the initiative with a 23-point lead of 47-24 at half time. This forced the Kuwaiti cagers on the back foot and it was visible in the third quarter when they were finding the going real tough despite making amends for their second quarter play. Though the Kuwaitis somewhat made up for the loss in the third quarter, the Indians with better execution and fine work under the ring by the Desraj-Robinson combine kept the lead to 17 points. When the last quarter began, the Indians only had to keep playing the way they began and that is precisely what they did. In the end, the Indians had won the game with a lot to spare — 20 points — and now they look forward to taking on Malaysia in their next game tomorrow. According to chief coach K.K. Chansooriya, the Indians despite the jet-lag, kept their concentration going once they entered the court. ‘’Besides combining well, our defence also stood its ground and forced the Kuwaitis into making error,’’ said the chief coach. Both Robinson and Desraj may have done the bulk of scoring but it was the experience of Parminder Singh senior which did the trick for the Indians as Parminder played his role — both in rebound collection and in scoring — to perfection in the first two quarters. ‘’In fact, this is what changed the complexion of the game from which the rest of our players capitalised on,’’ said Chansooriya. Brief scores: |
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Shakti wins silver in Asian athletics New Delhi, September 23 India also won another bronze in the women’s 4x400m relay. But apart from these two events, it was again a tale of disappointment for the Indian contingent who competed in Manila without top stars. Shakti cleared a distance of 19.04m to finish a distant second behind Qatar’s Bilal Saad Mubarak who beat the Indian by a big margin, touching 19.41m. Qatar also won the bronze when Khaled Habash al-Suwaidi finished further behind clearing 18.57m, according to information received here. The women’s 4x400m relay team won a bronze behind China and Kazakhstan to take India’s collection to three silver and three bronze medals in the four-day meet. The quartet of Pinki Parmanik, Manjeet Kaur, S Geetha and Kalpana Reddy clocked 3:35.34 seconds to finish third. China clocked 3:31.30s and Kazakhstan (3:32.82). India’s
medal hopes in the men’s 800m were shattered when Asian Games silver
medallist K M Binu was forced to pull out of the race with fever. The
gold in the event went to Adam Abdu Ali of Qatar who won in 1:46.20
seconds. — PTI |
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SA agree to tour
Pakistan Durban, September 23 “It has been decided in principle that the tour will go ahead,” UCBSA spokesman Moabi Litheko said. He said the decision was taken at a meeting of the management committee of Cricket South Africa in Johannesburg. South Africa captain Graeme Smith and coach Eric Simons also attended the meeting. The Pakistan tour was given a final go-ahead last week, but the UCBSA then decided to call it off because of a bomb blast in Karachi on Friday. “The tour is confirmed and there are no problems with that,” PCB chief executive Rameez Raja told Reuters in Karachi. “But we are in the process of finalising the itinerary —
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Nine-member
panel to handle case of players Chandigarh, September 23 Talking to The Tribune, Mr Kang said since the action taken report in the case has to be filed in Punjab and Haryana High Court on October 21, the committee has been asked to submit its report in a time-bound manner. Mr D.S. Bains, secretary, Sports, will be the convener of the committee. Other members of the Committee are Mr D.R. Bhatti, Additional Director-General of Police, Punjab Armed Police; Mr Rajdeep Singh Gill, Additional Director-General of Police, Telecommunications and Wireless; Mr Sanjeev Gupta, Inspector-General of Police (Headquarters); Mr M.S. Bhullar, former Director-General of Punjab Police; Mr K.S. Sidhu, Secretary, Punjab Olympic Association; Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, President, Chandigarh Olympic Association; Olympian Colonel Haripal Kaushik(retd) and Director/Joint Director of Sports. Besides Director of Sports (Haryana) and Legal Remembrancer (Punjab) shall be special invitees to the meetings of the nine-member committee. Mr
Kang said since the time at the disposal of the committee was short,
it has been asked to hold its meetings on regular basis to thrash out
a legal solution so that no outstanding sportsman or woman faces any
reversion, demotion or removal from service from Punjab Armed Police. |
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Top women stars set sights on Olympics New Delhi, September 23 ‘Iron Lady’ Karnam Malleswari’s immediate goal is to qualify for the Olympics, and she is toiling hard to make the grade at the World Weightlifting Championship, to be held in Vancour in November. Malleswari’s 69kg event has been scheduled for November 19, and this has put her in a major dilemma as she would not be able to participate in the inaugural Afro Asian Games to be held in Hyderabad, the capital city of her home State, Andhra Pradesh, from October 24 to November 1. Malleswari plans to concentrate on the world championship, and indicated that she would skip the Afro-Asian Games, though with a heavy heart. But she added that a final decision about her participation in the Afro-Asiad would be taken by the Weightlifting Federation of India (WFI). Track queen KM Beenamol, who shared the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the highest sporting honour bestowed on a sportsperson in India, with shooter Anjali Bhagwat this year, may skip the Afro-Asian Games for a different reason, as the injury she suffered on her foot was yet to fully heal. Beenamol said she had dropped the bar on her foot while doing weight training in Bangalore two months back, and the injury has been troubling her ever since. She pulled out of the Asian Athletic Championship at Manila due to this injury, though she said she had begun training on track in Patiala. But her level of fitness would be known only when she competes in the Open Nationals to be held in Bangalore from September 28. Shooter Anjali Bhagwat said she would compete in the Afro-Asian Games, but her immediate target was the World Cup to be held at Milan next week for the best eight shooters of the world. The World Cup will be followed by the Afro-Asian Games and the Commonwealth Championship, slated to be held in New Delhi in December. |
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ONGC, PSB Academy win; Ropar Hawks lose Chandigarh, September 23 In the day’s other matches, Punjab and Sind Bank Academy carved out a 5-2 win over Bhopal XI and Centre of Excellence, Patiala, shocked Central Railway 6-5 in sudden death after the two sides were locked goal-less at the end of regulation time. It was indeed an unlucky day for the Railway outfits. Southern Railway, coached by former national coach Vasudevan Baskaran’s brother Jaya Sekaran, managed to hold the rivals 1-1 in regulation time, but in the tie-breaker that ensued they managed to convert only one stroke while the rivals struck thrice to knock them out of contention. After a goal-less first half, ONGC took the lead in the 38th minute when international Anurag Raghuvanshi, who represented India in the 2000 Asia Cup, sounded the board with a hard it off a short corner. The fast-paced encounter saw quick exchanges and off a counter-attack in the 57th minute, Devakaran restored parity through a field goal. Thereafter ONGC’s Anwar Khan, who played in the junior World Cup, and Vivek Gupta carried out some forays but failed. In the battle of strokes, ONGC’s Vivek Gupta, Amit Kumar, and Gurpreet Singh were on target while for Southern Railway only MV Rahval was successful. Central Railway also tasted defeat in similar fashion. After the two teams were locked goal-less in regulation time, Centre of Excellence prevailed over the rivals 6-5 in sudden death after the two sides were level 3-3 in the tie-breaker. For the Patiala outfit, the scorers were Harvinder Singh, Sandeep Singh and skipper Sachin. Punjab and Sind Bank Academy overpowered a fighting Bhopal XI 5-2 after leading 3-1 at half time. The academy lads took the lead in the eight minute through a field goal scored by Jarnail Singh. Bhopal XI restored parity two minutes later through Tabbez. Thereafter, Harmeet Singh and Yadvinder Singh scored two quick field goals to make it 3-1 for the Patiala outfit. In the second session, Bhopal XI struck through Haseebuddin who converted a penalty corner to make it 2-3. But thereafter Punjab and Sind Bank Academy added two more goals through Jarnail singh and Gurpreet Singh in the 49th and 68th minutes, respectively, to make the issue safe for their team. Earlier, EME Jalandhar edged out Ropar Hawks 2-1. Having taken the lead in the 15th minute through a field goal scored by Rajesh Kumar, EME surrendered the advantage late in the second half when Kulbir Singh of Ropar Hawks sounded the board with a deft placement in the 65th minute. But with two minutes to go for the long whistle, EME settled the issue through another field goal scored by Rajesh Kumar (2-1). Wednesday’s fixtures : All-India Postal XI v ONGC — 12.30 pm; EME v Chandigarh XI — 2 pm; Western Railway v PSB Academy — 3.30 pm. |
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CISF
win Farid hockey Faridkot, September 23 CRPF at half time was leading 1-0 through its right half Sudhir Kumar who opened the account with field gold in the 25th minute. Both the teams put pressure on each other show excellent performance. In the second half CISF put more pressure the opponents and ultimately Partik Kumar outside right struck the field goal and equalised in the 50th minute. Just
two minutes before the final whistle G.V. Xaxa centre forward struck
the winning goal for the CISF. — PTI |
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Delhi, Haryana shuttlers dominate Shimla, September 23 Delhi defeated Chandigarh (3-2) in the finals. Devinder Dhillon of Delhi beat Gurjeet of Chandigarh 15-3,15-12 in the first singles while Tanvir Gill (Del) beat Ashish Sharma (Chg) in the second singles 15-13, 15-8. The Chandigarh boys fought back and Amit Sachdeva (Chg) won the reverse singles defeating Himansu (Del) 15-13,14-17, 15-9 to extend the match to the fourth tie. Ashish and Amit (Chg) won the first doubles defeating Devinder and Parveen (Delhi) 15-13,10-15, 15-10 levelling the match at 2-2. In the last game both the sides fought for every point. In the women’s section, Kannu Aggarwal of Haryana beat H. Sarda of Chandigarh 11-6, 13-10 in the first singles and Haryana got a walkover in the doubles as Mala of Chandigarh fell ill and could not play. Haryana lifted the trophy defeating Chandigarh 2-0. In the girls section Haryana beat Delhi (2-1) to lift the Safi Quershi Cup. In the boys section, Delhi beat Chandigarh (2-0) to lift the Narang Cup in straight sets. —
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Associates Banks XI beat MPCA Chandigarh, September 23 The match, played at DAV School, Sector 8, was reduced to 30 overs a side due to overnight rain. Madhya Pradesh won the toss and elected to field but the bankmen put up a spirited fight as they scored 177 for seven in their allotted overs. Their innings was held together by an unbeaten 93 Devendra Bundela who faced just 81 balls. His knock included 10 fours and two sixes. In reply, Madhya Pradesh could muster just 161 runs for nine in their quota of overs. Brief scores: Associate Banks 177 for 7 in 30 overs (Devendra Bundela 93 not out, Pawan Kumar 29, Yogesh 3 for 26). Madhya Pradesh 161 for 9 in 30 overs (Naman Ozha 38, M.Pasha 32, Rahul Bakshi 28, Manish 3 for 22, Devendra Bundela 2 for 23) In another match, played at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium, ONGC got past Rajasthan Cricket Association by 22 in yet another 30-over-a-side encounter. The oilmen owe a lot to Gagan Khoda, who came good with the bat, scoring a fluent 71. Brief scores: ONGC 176 for nine in 30 overs (Gagan Khoda 71, Rizwan Shamshed 40, Anup Dawe 5 for 30). Rajasthan 154 for nine in 30 overs (Rohin Jalani 60, Sumit Mathur 27 not out, Mithun Minhas 3 for 26, Amit Uniyal 2 for 20, Amit Sharma 2 for 24). In a closely fought encounter at the Panchkula Cricket Stadium, IOC beat Air-India, Mumbai, by a slender margin of seven runs. This was the only match which was played overs 50 overs a side here. Patiala (OSR): PCA Colts downed Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) XI by a three runs in an group C league match at the Dhruv Pandove stadium here. Brief scores: PCA Colts: 223 for 9 (Ankur Kakkar 54, Udey Kaul 48, Gaurav Gupta 35, Ranadev Bose 2 for 49, S.S Paul 2 for 40). CAB XI: 220 all out (Sanjib Sanyal 65, Shiv Sagar Singh 55, Deep Dass Gupta 23, Devang Gandhi 18, Ishan Malhotra 4 for 32, V.R.V Singh 3 for 49, Gagandeep 2 for 31). |
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