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Kapil’s tips await pace bowlers Windies on top against Bangladesh Ramnaresh Sarwan slammed an unbeaten 261 and Shivnarine Chanderpaul added a 101 not out as the West Indies took command against Bangladesh on the third day of the second and final Test at Sabina Park. Shoaib back
to old ways Afghan cricketers dream of glory McEnroe’s advice
spurred Gaudio
Zidane will be a headache: Eriksson
Matloob elected karate-do chief
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62 Indians qualify for Athens New Delhi, June 7 The disciplines in which Indian sportspersons have attained the Olympic qualifying marks are: archery (6), athletics (9), badminton (2), boxing (4), hockey (16), judo (1), rowing (1), shooting (8), swimming (1), table tennis (2), wrestling (7), weightlifting (4) and equestrian (1). India expects another 26 sportspersons to qualify for the Athens games. Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President Suresh Kalmadi said India would field sportspersons in 15 disciplines. In tennis, Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi are expected to get wild card entries for doubles. India had fielded a 71-member contingent for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, with athletics packing 29 sportspersons — 14 men and 15 women. In all, 47 men and 24 women represented the country in the Sydney games, though Karnam Malleswari’s bronze from weightlifting was the only medal to boast of. All-India Football Federation (AIFF) President Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, who is the Union Water Resources Minister, will be the Chef-de-Mission of the Olympic contingent while Basketball Federation of India secretary-general Harish Sharma will be the Deputy Chef-de-Mission. Indian Hockey Federation secretary-general Jyotikumaran has been named the secretary-cum-treasurer of the contingent. Mr Kalmadi said the IOA has requested the government to enhance the daily allowance of the Olympic participants from $35 to $ 50, and the ceremonial kit allowance from Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. Mr Kalmadi said many more athletes, particularly the relay teams, KM Beenamol and the throwers, were expected to attain the qualifying marks at the three Asian Grand Prix events to be held at Thailand (Bangkok) on June 23, at Colombo on June 27 and at Manila on July 1. The athletes who have already attained the qualifying norms are woman long jumper Anju Bobby George, discus throwers Neelam J. Singh and Seema Antil, long jumper Amritpal Singh, JJ Shoba in heptathlon, KM Binu (400m, men), Rajvinder Kaur (400m, women), Anil Kumar (discus throw) and Bahadur Singh (shot put, men). Archery: Three men and three women archers qualified for the Olympics during the 42nd World Archery Championship held in New York from July 10 to 21. However, the names of the archers would be decided by the Archery Association of India. Badminton: Aparna Poppat and Abhinn Shyam Gupta. Boxing: Jitender Kumar (81kg), Akhil Kumar (51kg), Divakar Prasad (57kg) and Vijender (67kg). Judo: Akaram Saha (60kg). Rowing: PT Paulose (open single sculls for men). Shooting: Abhinav Bindra (air rifle), Maj Rajyavardhan S. Rathore (double trap), Anjali Bhagwat (air rifle, women), Mansher Singh (trap), Manavjit Singh (trap), Deepali Deshpande (50m rifle three-prone positions), Gagan Narang (air rifle) and Suma Shirur (air rifle). Swimming: Shikha Tandon (50m and 100m). Table
tennis: Mouma Das and A. Sharad Kamal (both in singles). Wrestling: Sushil Kumar (60kg freestyle), Sujeet Mann (74kg freestyle), Ramesh Kumar (66kg freestyle), Yogeshwar (55kg freestyle), Palwinder Cheema (120kg freestyle), Anuj Choudhary (85kg freestyle) and Mukesh Khatri (55kg Greco-Roman). Weightlifting: Kunjarani Devi, Sanamacha Chanu, Pratima Kumari and Karnam
Malleswari.
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Leeds, June 7 Marcus Trescothick was 30 not out and Mark Butcher five not out. "Any Test victory is a bit special," said England captain Michael Vaughan. "We've got to keep building but to beat a strong New Zealand side is a special effort." It was England's second successive Test series triumph following their first series win in the West Indies for 36 years in April. England won the first Test at Lord's by seven wickets. New Zealand, after losing four wickets in 19 balls on Sunday, resumed on 102 for five in their second innings. That left them 15 runs behind England's first innings 526 which featured 132 from Trescothick and a maiden Test century of exactly 100 from wicket-keeper Geraint Jones. Scott Styris was seven not out and Jacob Oram four not out. Styris took three fours off the first over of the day from Stephen Harmison before Oram's three off Matthew Hoggard ensured England would have to bat again. But with New Zealand on 118, just one run ahead, they lost their sixth wicket when Styris (19) was brilliantly caught one-handed by Jones, diving in front of first slip, off local hero Hoggard. SCOREBOARD New Zealand (1st innings): 409 England (1st innings): 526 New Zealand (IInd innings): Richardson c Jones b Hoggard 40 Fleming c Strauss b Flintoff 11 McCullum c Trescothick b Harmison 20 Astle lbw b Hoggard 8 Styris c Jones b Hoggard 19 Tuffey c Jones b Harmison 7 Oram not out 36 Cairns lbw b Hoggard 10 Papps c Vaughan b Harmison 0 Martin run out 0 Vettori absent injured 0 Extras
(b-4 lb-4 nb-2) 10 Total (all out, 42 overs) 161 Fall of wickets:
1-39 2-75 3-77 4-84 5-91 6-118 7-144 8-149 9-161 Bowling: Hoggard 15-4-75-4 (nb-2), Harmison 16-5-57-3, Flintoff 6-0-16-1, Saggers 5-3-5-0 England (IInd innings): Trescothick not out 30 Strauss c Astle b Tuffey 10 Butcher not out 5 Extras
0 Total (one wkt, 8 overs) 45 Fall of wicket: 1-18 Bowling: Martin 4-1-17-0, Tuffey 4-0-28-1.
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Laws of game being violated openly, says Bedi Dharamsala, June 7 Bedi, while reacting to news reports that Muralitharan was preparing to take legal action against him, said in that case he will have to take action against scores of other critics who have declared his action incorrect. ``Why I’m not talking about other players like Shane Warne and only about Muralitharan. I have nothing personal against him but being a bowler myself I don’t subscribe to his style,’’ said Bedi, who is in Dharamsala to give training to budding cricketers at the city stadium. And Muralitharan’s action, he added, was setting a wrong precedent for the coming generation of bowlers. “I have come across youngsters who try to copy his action, little aware of the fact that it is not as per the laws of the game. The umpires should also be more vocal on such issues,” said Bedi. “This is not cricket. I believe that most of the wickets taken by Muralitharan are run outs. This is exactly what an umpire told me after a series against England where Muralitharan had taken a total of 16 wickets. He is doing it openly but no one wants to kick off a controversy by pointing a finger at him,” said Bedi. What to talk of taking immediate action, players with suspect bowling action are given as many as three warning over a period of three years, which is enough time to do damage to the game. “Many more bowlers in Sri Lanka would eventually develop such action in case we do not wake up to the reality,” he said. For me, he further said, this is even bigger scandal than match-fixing cases and most of the players with objectionable action are from the sub-continent. “There are some in the Indian squad also. The laws of the game are being violated openly and nobody is taking note of it. I think the ICC should exercise its powers and the umpires should also express themselves about the action,” said Bedi. Today, a former captain of Sri Lankan team has been quoted saying that the Sri Lankan team had messed up the whole thing by asking Muralitharan to go to Australia to get his action rectified, said Bedi. |
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Kapil’s tips await pace bowlers
Bangalore, June 7 As many as 16 bowlers — regulars and potential youngsters alike would assemble for the camp, where fitness would be the mantra that they will chant for the next few days. Exception will be Zaheer Khan, who is slated to join the combined fitness camp that commences here on June 13. BCCI secretary SK Nair told PTI over phone that Kapil Dev would be at the camp from June 11 to 16 in his role as pace bowlers’ consultant. The bowlers, who would go through their paces under the charge of physical trainer Gregory Allen King, include Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, L Balaji, Amit Bhandari, Munaf Patel, Avishkar Salvi, Sreesanth, SS Pal, S Mathur, Siddarth Trivedi, N C Aiyappa, Gagandeep Singh, Joginder Sharma, T Kumaran and Mohammed Faisal. King expressed happiness with the progress made by the pacemen in terms of physical fitness since the last camp in August last year but hastened to add that it did not mean there was no room for improvement. Sources said the pace bowlers would start the day with an hour-long yoga session at a five-star hotel where they would be put up followed by two fitness sessions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium here. The pace bowlers’ camp would be followed by the combined fitness camp, which would be attended by the top flight cricketers, from June 13 to 19. King said both the camps would focus on fitness but the July 3 to 11 camp would deal with cricketing skills as well. Kapil would interact with bowlers in the second camp as well, Nair said. Those attending the second camp are: Sourav Ganguly, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammed Kaif, Parthiv Patel, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Ramesh Powar, Akash Chopra, Hemang Badani, Sairaj Bahutule, Zaheer Khan, Nehra, Agarkar, Pathan, L Balaji, Patel, Bhandari, Rohan Gavaskar and Gautam Gambhir. India have a gruelling season ahead starting with Asia Cup in Sri Lanka in mid-July. Other engagements include ICC Champions Trophy, and the four-match Test series against Australia at home. — PTI
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Windies on top against Bangladesh Kingston (Jamaica), June 7 The pair’s stroke-filled partnership of 262 set up a mammoth West Indian total of 559 for four declared, a lead of 275 runs on first innings yesterday. Bangladesh stumbled to 66 for three at the close, staring at their 27th defeat in 30 Tests with two days remaining. Left-armer Pedro Collins led the slide with two wickets, while Tino Best added the other. Sarwan, who completed his fifth Test century overnight, transformed his 106 not out to the eighth highest score by a West Indian. The right-hander, two weeks away from his 24th birthday, blasted 32 boundaries to all parts of the outfield in a knock spanning nine and half hours. He faced 401 balls in compiling his highest ever first-class score. Chanderpaul, slow to get going, eventually matched his partner stroke for stroke to energise a crowd of nearly 7,000. The 29-year-old left-hander cracked 11 boundaries off 190 balls in 4 1/2 hours. Captain Brian Lara’s declaration came soon after Chanderpaul passed his 10th Test century in his 76th match. Lara has threatened to relinquish his captaincy if the West Indies failed to beat Bangladesh in this Test after a draw last week. Scoreboard Bangladesh (Ist innings): 284 West Indies (Ist innings): Gayle c Mashud b Aziz 14 Devon Smith run out 44 Sarwan not out 261 Lara c Mashud b Rafique 120 Best c Mashud b Baisya 4 Chanderpaul not out 101 Extras
(4-b, 5-lb, 1-w, 5-nb) 15 Total: (four wkts decl) 559 Fall of wickets:
1-26, 2-109, 3-288, 4-297. Bowling: Tapash Baisya 25-5-99-1, Tareq Aziz 19-2-76-1, Mushfiqur Rahman 33-3-127-0, Mohammad Rafique 38-2-124-1, Manzarul Islam Rana 28-2-100-0, Mohammad Ashraful 1-1-0-0, Rajin Saleh 7-1-24-0. Bangladesh (IInd Innings): Omar c Dwayne Smith b Best 5 Sarkar lbw Collins 10 Bashar not out 28 Saleh c Dwayne Smith b Collins 0 Islam Rana not out 7 Extras:
(4-b, 5-lb, 5-w,2-nb) 16 Total: (3 wkts in 20 overs) 66 Fall of wickets:
1-16, 2-24, 3-34. Bowling: Pedro Collins 8-1-17-2, Tino Best 6-0-19-1, Omari Banks 4-2-12-0, Chris Gayle 2-0-9-0.
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Shoaib back
to old ways Islamabad, June 7 Shoaib baffled one and all when he opted to bowl for the English county yesterday, contrary to his own statements earlier that he would only bat in the National League Division two limited overs match against Scotland to avoid stress and exertion. “I will not be bowling at all in the one-day games... I will play as a batsman. They (Durham) wanted me to rest but I was very keen to play so they said okay ‘you don’t bowl but you play as a batsman’. I look at this new role as a real challenge in these two games,” he had said. Media reports here said Shoaib did come in to bat at No 3 for Durham in yesterday’s match against Scotland, but managed only 15 runs in a total of 203 for nine in 45 overs. He stayed at the wicket for 33 minutes, faced 25 balls and hit one four. He opened the bowling as well, with a first spell of five overs, one wicket and seven runs. His final figures read 9-2-30-2.
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Afghan cricketers dream of glory Peshawar, June 7 Afghanistan’s squad leaves for Malaysia on Tuesday where they will join 15 other teams in the Asian Cricket Council Trophy, a pre-qualifier for the 2007 World Cup to be staged in the West Indies.
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McEnroe’s advice
spurred Gaudio Paris, June 7 The unheralded 25-year-old Argentinian, who had never got beyond the fourth round of any Grand Slam before and had won just two titles in a steady and unspectacular career, came back from two sets down to defeat Argentinian compatriot Guillermo Coria 0-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6 here yesterday. He had been such a nervous wreck, winning just one of the opening 12 games of the final, that he even thought of calling it a day until he remembered what McEnroe told him just before he went on court. “It’s like touching heaven. I was really suffering before the match and I asked John for some advice,” said
Gaudio, the first Argentinian man to win here since his hero Guillermo Vilas in 1977. “He told me to relax and enjoy being in the final because in a few years time you will ask youself why you didn’t enjoy being in a Grand Slam final when you had the chance,” said
Gaudio. “During the match I thought about that.” Gaudio, the fourth lowest ranked player ever to win a Grand Slam and only the seventh man to win after recovering from a two-set deficit, also believes that his decision to employ a psychologist has proved to be an inspired decision. “I was playing so bad and I wasn’t doing anything on clay but then this year I reached the final in Barcelona and from that moment I started to get into my tennis again,” said
Gaudio. “He has helped me in the way that I have to enjoy things more, like trying not to suffer on the court and trying to be happy, trying to fight all the time,” Gaudio said.
— AFP
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Brazil held, Uruguay lose again
Rio De Janeiro, June 7 Argentina missed a chance to go top of the South American group when they were held to a home draw by Paraguay while Peru and Venezuela also shared a goal-less stalemate in Lima yesterday. The weekend’s results left the race for Germany 2006 wide open with only three points separating second-placed Argentina and seventh-placed Peru. The top four nations qualify directly for the World Cup finals while the fifth plays off against the winners of the Oceania region for another place. Brazil stayed top after their draw on a cold night in Santiago. The world champions, who won and converted three penalties when they beat Argentina 3-1 on last Wednesday, enjoyed another slice of fortune when Luis Fabiano gave them a 16th-minute lead with television replays suggesting he was off side. But their luck ran out with one minute to go when Rodrigo Perez tumbled in the penalty area. Although replays suggested no contact was made, Argentine referee Horacio Elizondo pointed to the spot and Reinaldo Navia converted. “Everyone saw it wasn’t a penalty. Even the Chilean players said it wasn’t a penalty,” Brazil defender Roberto Carlos told reporters. The point kept Brazil top with 13 points from seven games, followed by Argentina (12), Chile and Paraguay (11), Ecuador and Venezuela (10), Peru (9), Colombia and Uruguay (7) and Bolivia (6). Colombia, who lost four of their first six matches, and Uruguay, beaten at home by Venezuela and Peru in their last two games, met in Barranquilla and it was the Uruguayans who came off worse. Victor Pacheco and Tressor Moreno scored two quick goals as Uruguay went two down in 20 minutes for the second game in a row. Pacheco added another first-half strike before John Jairo Restrepo skipped through the defence for a brilliant fourth in the 81st minute. Sergio Herrera tapped in another five minutes later, the 11th goal conceded by Uruguay in three outings. — Reuters
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Zidane will be a headache: Eriksson
Manchester, June 7 Quizzed as to whether a diamond midfield or a ‘flat’ 4-4-2 line-up was more suited to keeping the Real Madrid midfielder quiet, Eriksson told reporters: “To be honest, whatever you play, Zidane will be a headache. He’s a headache for everyone. “He was voted the number one player of the last 50 years and he will create problems for sure over the 90 minutes. Let’s hope the problems are not too big.” Eriksson dismissed any idea of using a defensive midfielder to shadow Zidane in what will be a crunch Group B match for both sides before the easier games on paper against Switzerland and Croatia. “If we mark him man-to-man we will lose a lot of our play and I’m not prepared to do that against anyone,” Eriksson said. “I’ve never done it in my life. Why should I do that now?” The key to England’s hopes of coping with Zidane, along with strikers Thierry Henry and David Trezeguet, he said, lies in the degree of communication between midfielders and defenders. “When you meet France, you have to talk because you never know if Zidane is going to be on the left side or central, and then on the other side there’s (Robert) Pires. “If you give Pires space, he will beat people, put in crosses or take a shot himself. And up front you have two players who are not bad,” he added with a grin. England captain David Beckham knows Zidane’s range of skills better than anyone else in Eriksson’s squad after playing alongside him for the past season in Real’s midfield. “Zidane is one of the best players, if not the best player in the world,” Beckham said. “To play with him is a pleasure. But to play against him is going to be a tough game. It’s something we have to overcome.” Ominously for England in the run-up to Sunday’s game in Lisbon, Zidane said last week he feels at the very top of his form. The playmaker, whose two goals against Brazil in the final guided France to World Cup glory in 1998, told reporters: “I feel at the peak of my career. I’m going to be 32 years old and this European championship is coming at just the right time.” — Reuters
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Matloob elected karate-do chief New Delhi, June 7 Mr Ramesh Jai Singh of Maharashtra was elected as the secretary-general while Mr Vikram Kapoor of Delhi got elected as the treasurer. The other office-bearers elected are: senior vice-president: Aruna Singh (Uttar Pradesh); Vice-presidents: Sushan Gupta (Delhi), Atul Khanna (UP); Paravin Ranka (Karnataka) and S Kothandan (Tamil Nadu); executive secretary: Krishna Kumar Singh (Jharkhand); executive members: Sandeep Jaipuria (Rajasthan) and Sanjeev Sharman (Himachal Pradesh).
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