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Decision on Nehra’s inclusion today, says Wright Fleming slams
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Hockey stars join hands to promote game
Atwal, Randhawa, Jeev lead Indian challenge
East Bengal win in Durand Cup PBA honours players, coaches HAP Range boxers dominate Sandeep,
Jagtar are best lifters Mohit, Varun take SD College into final Indian Bank win TT title
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Decision on Nehra’s inclusion today, says Wright Cuttack, November 4 Wright, who was here along with the Indian team for net practice, said Nehra had been bowling consistently in the nets. To a question whether Murali Kartik would replace of Kumble, Wright said, “It is an outstanding opportunity for Kartik. He has performed well whenever he has an opportunity to play for the team.” Talking about possible change in the batting order, he said it depended on the captain. It was his responsibility to decide the batting order, he said. The coach was all praise for the pitch. He said, “it is a very good one-day wicket and a beautiful stadium.” On Mohammad Kaif, he said, “Kaif has only played one innings in the tournament. We cannot draw any conclusion about his performance.” Abour Sehwag, he said, “Virender Sehwag is a match winner on his day. He can single handedly win the match for the team.” When asked to specify the area in which he felt need for improvement, Wright said, “There is no particular area where we need an improvement. But efforts will be on the entire aspect of the game.” He said, “we have learnt from the last match at Gwalior conceding less runs in the first 15 overs.” The Indian team arrived in Bhubaneswar yesterday and spent some time in the Kalinga stadium. Kumble opts out Sairaj Bahutule is likely to replace him. “Kumble has informed the board of his unavailability due to the sudden demise of his father K.N. Krishnaswamy,” Indian cricket board secretary S.K. Nair told PTI over the telephone today. Kumble would join the team for the November 12 match here against Australia, Nair said. “Bahutule is likely to replace Kumble but a final decision would be taken by the selectors and the team management,” Mr Nair added.
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Fleming slams schedule NEW DELHI: New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming has said the ongoing TVS Cup tri-series was “descending into a farce” as the schedule suited hosts India, while early morning starts were ruining his team’s chances against world champions Australia. He slammed the organisers for making the Kiwis play the Aussies only day matches, which had resulted in early morning starts thereby ruining his team’s chances of making it the title clash. “They’ve got it wrong, you can’t start this early with wickets like this, there’s no point,” Fleming was quoted as saying on The New Zealand Herald website after his side’s fifth straight loss to Australia in Pune on Monday. “We’ve been on the wrong side of it twice and it makes the next game a lottery too. We can complain but it falls on deaf ears because India aren’t playing.
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Zimbabwe hang on against Windies
Harare, November 4 Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak had won the toss and decided to bat on a wicket which offered opportunities for fast bowlers early on but which was eventually expected to favour batsmen. The home side still have a good opportunity to make a challenging total though at one stage were 58 for 3. Debutant batsmen Vusi Sibanda and Stuart Matsikenyere performed promisingly, Sibanda making 26 before edging to Ridley Jacobs off Fidel Edwards. Five fallen Zimbabwe batsmen were caught behind the stumps, either by wicketkeeper Jacobs or at slip. Zimbabwe (1st innings): Sibanda c Jacobs b Edwards 18 Gripper c Lara b Taylor 41 Vermeulen c Hinds b Edwards 8 Carlisle c Lara b Collymore 8 Wishart c Jacobs b Hinds 47 Matsikenyeri c Jacobs b Edwards 57 Taibu not out 75 Streak not out 16 Extras: (b-1 nb-12 w-1) 14 Total: (6 wkts, 90 overs) 284 Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-35, 3-58, 4-112, 5-154, 6-233. Bowling:
Collymore 15-3-63-1, Edwards 17-2-73-3, Hinds 12-5-30-1, Drakes 18-3-46-0, Taylor 9.4-3-32-1, Gayle 10.2-6-8-0, Sarwan 6-0-24-0, Chanderpaul 2-1-7-0.
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Delhi score 345 Patiala, November 4 After Punjab’s first innings folded up for 205 in the morning, 48 runs behind the visitors first innings total, the Delhi batsmen sent the leg weary fielders on a leather hunt for the entire day. Their opener Shikhar Dhawan scored a strokefull 144 and his 129-run first-wicket partnership with Gaurav Sharma (39) took the sting out of the hosts attack which looked pedestrian through out the day’s proceedings. Delhi by virtue of their 48-run first-innings lead managed to garner two vital points from the match while the hosts failed to get a single point. |
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Victory due to team work, says Gagan Ludhiana, November 4 The star hockey player was in the city in connection with a felicitation function organised jointly by the Punjab Basketball Association and the Trident Group of Industries. Gagan said in the Afro-Asian Games at Hyderabad, the entire team played superbly though they were under tremendous pressure as they were without senior players such as Dhanraj Pillay, Baljit Singh Saini and Baljit Dhillon and the youngsters proved their mettle in crunch situations. Gagan Ajit praised Harpal Singh (replacement for Jugraj Singh) and Sandeep Michael whom he said, exhibited excellent capability to fill up the slots. When asked about the controversy which involved former captain Dhanraj Pillay and national coach Rajinder Singh at the Chennai airport when the team returned victorious after annexing the Asia Cup, Gagan Ajit Singh said the player should avoid talking to the media during the camps as well as during the tournaments. He further said coaches Rajinder Singh and Baldev Singh had done a wonderful job in preparing the boys to play under pressure and it was only because of this reason only that the boys were capable of bouncing back into the crunch situation as seen during the Asia Cup. |
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Hockey stars join hands to promote game Jalandhar, November 4 Addressing a press conference here today, Indian hockey team star and President of the trust Baljeet Singh Dhillon and former Olympians Ramandeep Singh, Hardeep Singh and Harinder Singh Gill, said the trust would make arrangements to provide sports kits, infrastructure and equipments to upcoming players upto 16 years. The training would be imparted to the players by former Olympians and international players on regular basis and special camps would be organised at Ludhiana and Jalandhar. They maintained that the trust had decided to extend full financial help to support outstanding hockey players belonging to poor families. Besides, their education expenses would be borne by the trust. Dhillon said the main aim of setting up of the trust was to infuse killer spirit among the youngsters as hockey had witnessed a downfall at the grass-roots level during the past two decades. “In fact, we have approached some NRIs and sports promoters to fund the training programmes and to sponsor the selected players, “he said, adding that the venture would help restore the glory of Punjab, which was once known as the hub of international hockey players. He further said teams in different age group would be formed to contest in tournaments. |
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Atwal, Randhawa, Jeev lead Indian challenge New Delhi, November 4 This will be the first time in more than 20 months that the big three of Indian golf will be seen together on home soil. However, Harmeet Kahlon will not be there to defend his title. The defending champion has opted out as he is playing in the qualifying tournaments in USA. The field for the sixth edition of Hero Honda Masters is one of the strongest-ever assembled in India, with as many as 47 Asian PGA titles between them. Arjun Atwal, the current order of merit leader and American Gerry Norquist lead the list with five titles each. Four others — Jyoti Randhawa, Jeev Milkha Singh, Boonchu Ruangkit and Thammanoon Srirot have four each. Apart from the trio, two others — Gaurav Ghei and Vijay Kumar, have won APGA titles here in 1995 and 2002, respectively taking the number of titles which the Indians have won to 15. Ghei and Vijay Kumar will also be part of the strong Indian challenge, which seeks to keep its reputation of being “unbeatable at home” intact. Players from 18 countries, as diverse as the USA and Ecuador, will be participating in the most prestigious and looked forward to event of the subcontinent. The largest contingent will be from the USA (15 players), while 12 players will represent Australia.
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East Bengal win in Durand Cup New Delhi, November 4 East Bengal, without their five regular players, looked listless in the midfield and played without any imagination for most part of the group B quarter-final league match at the Ambedkar Stadium. The highly tensed Kolkata Super League play-off against Mohun Bagan on Sunday seemed to have taken a toll on their players. East Bengal coach Subhas Bhowmick blamed the referee for 3-2 result as he held the second goal of Indian Bank a clear foul. “We conceded the first goal through a silly mistake while the second one was a clear foul on Subhash Chakraborty,” he said.
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PBA honours players, coaches Ludhiana, November 4 The members of the Punjab senior men’s team that finished runners-up in the national championships at Ludhiana in 2001 and also in Hyderabad in 2002; junior boys team which had come out triumphant in Goa in 2002 and Ludhiana in June this year and youth team that had won the gold medal at Jalandhar and the bronze medal at Kangra recently were honoured on the occasion. Punjab women team members who achieved fourth position in the 52nd national meet in Ludhiana in
February 2001 and junior girls team that won the bronze medal in June this year in the junior national championship in Ludhiana were also felicitated. The organisers also honoured coaches, referees and upcoming
cagers. They include Vipan Kumar, Parminder Singh jr and Gagnesh Kumar for their outstanding performance during the past one decade; Snehpal Singh (best junior player), Jagdeep Singh (best upcoming player), Kamajit Kaur (best woman player), Dr S. Subramanian (best senior coach), Ramesh Kailey (best junior coach) and Amarjot singh (best referee). Mr Satish Kumar, Deputy Director, Sports, Punjab who retired recently and Parminder Singh
Sr, who got the Arjuna Award were honoured for their contribution in promoting basketball. Some outstanding players of other
discplines, namely Pargat Singh, Gagan Ajit Singh and Kamalpreet Singh (hockey), Inder Singh (football), Sukhpal Singh (volleyball), Shivdev Singh
(kabaddi), Bahadur Singh and Neelam J. Singh (athletics), Satpal Singh (equestrian), Harpal Singh (boxing), Palwinder Singh Cheema (wrestling), Narinder Singh (judo), Vicky Batta (weightlifting) and Satwinder Singh (handball) were also honoured on this occasion. Mr Vishwajit Khanna and Mr Rajinder Gupta, chairman and Managing Director, Trident Group, Mr Rajdeep
Singh Gill, ADGP and President, Basketball Federation of India
(BFI), Mr Kartar Singh, Director, Sports, Punjab, Mr Narinder Pal Singh, Senior Superintendent of Police, Ludhiana, and Mr Ranbir Chopra, vice-president,
BFI, were among other prominent persons who attended the function. |
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HAP Range boxers dominate Madhuban, November 4 Sanjay of Gurgaon Range proved too hot for Vikrant of Special Range in the heavyweight semifinal bout. He let loose a volley of punches and had a comfortable victory. Vikrant could not get going and lost the contest without much fight. Mahipal of Ambala Range and Buta Singh of Special Range had an almost equal share of exchanges in the heavyweight category. The bout went full distance in which the former emerged the winner. Pugilist Rajinder Singh of HAP Range outclassed Pardeep Kumar of Special Range and won a gold in the light welterweight final. In the shortest contest of the day, Rajinder unleashed a stinging blow which sent Pardeep sprawling on the ground to win a favourable ruling in the second round. Sanjay Kumar of Special Range was forced to retire in the first round in the welterweight final against Surender of HAP Range. Surender wasted no time and let to a forceful blow the ribs, earning the gold medal. HAP wrestlers established complete domination during the day, winning four gold medals in the freestyle and five gold in the Greco-Roman section. Gurdev Singh of Ambala Range cleared 55.80 metres to win gold in hammer throw. Mukhtiar Singh of HAP with 44.44m and Bhushan Kumar of Hisar Range with 41.25m took silver and bronze, respectively. Jaidev of HAP Range cleared 13.85m to win the triple jump gold, while Manoj Kumar (12.70m) of Rohtak Range and Parminder Kumar (12.38m) of Combined Range had to settle for silver and bronze. HAP judokas won the trophy collecting 27 points, while Rohtak Range were runners-up. Dr R.C. Mishra, organising secretary of the games, said Mr B.R. Lall, DGP-cum-Chairman, Haryana Police Housing Corporation, will preside over the closing ceremony tomorrow evening. The results: Hockey:
GGN Range b RTK Range (golden goal), HAP Range b SPL Range 7-0. Volleyball:
GGN Range b RKT Range 25-16, 15-25, 25-20, 24-26, 15-12; HAP Range b AMB Range 25-19, 25-23, 25-19. Handball:
SPL Range b AMB Range 25-10, HAP Range b HSR Range 28-21. Football:
RKT Range b HSR Range 5-1, HAP Range b SPL Range 5-0. Kabaddi:
HRS Range b RTK Range 65-46, HAP Range b SPL Range 54-23. Boxing:
finals: feather weight (54.57 kg): Rajnish (HAP Range) b Bhagat Singh (SPL Rante), lightweight (57-60 kg): Pankaj (HAP Range) b Anil, light welterweight: Rajinder Singh (HAP Range) b Pardeep Kumar (SPL Range), welterweight (63.5-67 kg): Surender (HAP Range) b Sanjay Kumar (SPL Range). Judo (all finals):
81 kg: 1 Sandesh (RTK Range), 2 Om Parkash (HAP Range), 3 Manoj Kumar (SPL Range), Rakesh 1752/GGN (SPL Range); 90 kg: 1 Narender (HAP Range), 2 Narender (RTK Range), 3 HC Ram Kumar (GGN Range), 4 Ct. Phool Kumar (RTK Range); 100 kg: 1 Sanjay (GGN Range), 2 Rakesh (HAP Range), 3 Krishan Singh (SPL Range), 4 Anoop Singh (SPL Range); open weight: 1 Dilbag (HAP Range), 2 Naresh (GGN Range), 3 Bhagat Singh (RTK Range), 4 Rajbir (SPL Range). Trophy:
(HAP Range) 27 points Runners-up: (RTK Range) 15 points. |
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Jagtar are best lifters Sangrur, November 4 Results (All Finals): Senior:
56 kg 1 Lakhvir Singh, 2 Sunil, 3 Balwinder Singh; 62 kg: 1 Naib Singh,2 Manjinder Singh, 3 Sonu Singh and Pradeep;
69 kg: 1 Manjit Singh, 2 Amanpreet Singh; 85 kg: 1 Gurmail Singh, 2 Bikram Singh, 3 Sumit Sharma;
94 kg: 1 Amit Singla, 2 Rahul; 105 kg: 1 Jagtar Singh Tari. Juniors: 56 kg: 1 Daljit Singh, 2 Maninder Singh, 3 Jagtar and Bikramjit;
62 kg: 1 Varinder Singh, 2 Paramvir Singh, 3 Yadvinder Singh;
69 kg: 1 Gurpreet Singh, 2 Harminder Singh; 77 kg: 1 Mansa Khan, 2 Amandeep Singh. Girls: 48 kg: 1 Balvir, 2 Sumandeep, 3 Sukhandeep; 53 kg: 1 Amandeep, 2 Baljinder, 3 Kuljinder;
58 kg: 1 Harpreet Kaur, 2 Manpreet, 3 Paramjit; 63 kg: 1 Rajvir, 2 Sunita; 69 kg: 1 Sandeep Kaur; 75 kg: 1 Randeep Sharma. |
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Mohit, Varun take SD College into final Ludhiana, November 4 SD Government College won the toss and invited GGN Khalsa College to bat. They were all out for 181 in 43.2 overs. Mandeep Singh top scord
with 41 runs followed by Nazim Hussein and Navdeep Singh who contributed 24 and 22 runs, respectively. For SD Government College, Mohit Mangal was the most successful bowler who claimed four wickets for 21 runs while Sukhwant and Varun took two wickets each. SD Government College batsmen surpassed their opponent’s total in the 36th overs after losing four wickets. Varun Gupta remained unbeaten on 86 which came off 103 balls, laced with 12 boundaries. Salil Kaushal made 41 while Karan
Puri contributed 31 runs. Mandeep Singh, Sandeep, Babbar Kailey and Gagan of Khalsa College chipped in with one wicket each. |
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Indian Bank win TT title Patiala, November 4 Results: Table Tennis (men final):
Indian Bank beat Dena Bank 3-0 (R.Abhishek beat Sunil Babras 11-6, 13-11, 13-11; A Rajath Kamal beat Deepak Thukral 11-5, 11-5, 11-6; M. Subash beat Kirti 11-6, 11-4, 7-11,11-5) In the women's section, Indian Bank players made it a double for their team when they outclassed Dena Bank 3-0. Results: Table Tennis (women final):
Indian Bank beat Dena Bank 3-0 (N.Arul Selvi beat Ashwini 8-11, 11-5, 11-6, 9-11, 11-8; Shamini beat Suchetra 11-7, 11-3, 11-2; N. Arul Selvi and Shamini beat Indu Puri; and Ashwini 13-11, 7-11, 11-8, 11-4). Cricketer-turned commentator Navjot Singh Sidhu distributed the prizes to the players in the finals. In badminton, favourites Reserve Bank downed Canara Bank 3-2 to clinch the title in the men's section. In the league matches of the basketball event, Vijaya Bank downed State Bank of Saurashtra 89-39, Indian Bank beat Indian Overseas Bank 84-67, State Bank of Saurashtra downed Punjab National Bank 50-33 and Indian Overseas Bank scrapped past Vijaya Bank 87-69. In the kabaddi league matches, State Bank of Mysore routed Cooperative Bank 51-5, while Bank of Baroda edged past Bank of India 46-36 in a tight match. Other results: Kabaddi-men (league matches):
Dena Bank beat Andhra Bank 29-11; Vijaya Bank beat Union Bank of India 31-10; State Bank of Mysore beat Central Bank of India 43-16; Bank of India beat Canara Bank 26-7; and Central Bank of India beat Saraswat Bank 33-13. Reserve Bank also won the Carrom championship when they beat Union Bank of India. Bank of India stood third while Bank of Maharashtra were placed fourth. Athletics results: (all finals)— 400m (women):
H.M. Jyothi (Canara Bank)-1, Swapna (Indian Bank)-2, V. Benjamin (Canara Bank)-3.
5000m (women): Jhuma Khatun (Allahabad Bank)-1, Prasanna Kumari (Indian Bank)-2, Sudha Sharma (Punjab National Bank)-3.
5000m (men): K. Shankar (Indian Bank)-1, Ram Niwas Badam (Oriental Bank of Commerce)-2, J.P Saroya (Punjab National Bank)-3. |
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Multipurpose school bags best play award Ropar, November 4 Mr Harpal Singh Randhawa won the best director award, while Gajjan Singh won best actor and Satbir Kaur won best actress awards for the play. The second place was won by Senior Secondary School, Rupal
Heri, Fatehgarh, for the play “Sukhi Basae Maskenian” written by famous playwrite Bahi Mana Singh, while the third place went to SNS Senior Secondary School,
Gobindgarh, for the play “Bhuk da fufar’ written by Dr Ravinder Kumar. Mr Ramesh Dutt Sharma, Minister of State for Grievances and Transport, gave away the prizes to the winners. The SDM Ropar, Mr Daljit Singh, and Deputy Director of the Language Department, Mr Avtar Singh, were among others present on the occasion. |
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BANGALORE: Leg spinner Anil Kumble has opted out of Thursday’s triangular series one-day cricket international against New Zealand in Cuttack following the death of his father here yesterday. 
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