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Batsmen must score runs: Ganguly
Tendulkar set to miss Chennai Test
We are missing Ponting,
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Ponting, Benaud lead Miller tributes
Champions Trophy FIH asks India to send team
Santosh Trophy: AIFF does away with age restriction
Varsity seeks post for disabled boxer
Khalsa School boys record big win
Shahabad girls scrape past Imphal
DDA, Malaysia share title
MDU, KU enter final round
Parimarjan starts favourite in junior chess
Reliance Energy win carrom meet
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Batsmen must score runs: Ganguly
Chennai, October 12 “We lost the first Test by the third day when we were bowled out for 246 and gave Australia a lead of over 200 runs. I am convinced that if we can put up runs on the board we will do it,” Ganguly said. “The wickets for the remaining three Tests will have more bounce than the Bangalore track and that will help our spinners. I think the bowlers did extremely well, it is now the turn of the batsmen to deliver.” Ganguly said despite trailing 0-1 in the series, after they lost the first Test by 217 runs, India still could make a comeback and win the series. “We have done it before and I am sure we will do it again. There is a lot of cricket left in this series. There’s a huge opportunity for us to come back and win the series.” India’s determination to bounce back from the dumps was evident when Ganguly said they were seeking inspiration from cyclist Lance Armstrong, who overcame cancer to win the ‘Tour de France’ title six times. Ganguly wanted his teammates, who watched a documentary on Armstrong yesterday, to imbibe the fighting spirit of the American in the remaining matches of the series. “Few sportsmen inspire as much as the great man. His determination and single-minded devotion to his sport is what anyone would want to emulate,” he said. The toss and batting first could again prove to be advantageous in the crucial second cricket Test match, M A Chidambaram stadium curator K. Parthasarathy indicated. A veteran of many a Test and one-day International as well as Ranji and Duleep Trophy matches, in preparing the pitch at the Chidambaram stadium, Parthasarathy observed that the strip for the second Test would have a good bounce. He indicated that the pitch would be ‘hard and true’. The side batting first could hold the advantage, he indicated, as some newsmen asked him about the wicket. Spinners could also benefit from it, he observed. It was the luck with toss and batting first that gave Australia the advantage which they converted into victory in the first Test at Bangalore. Meanwhile, an upbeat Australian side, leading 1-0 in the four Test series, and the crestfallen Indian team, had their first session at the nets at the M A Chidambaram Stadium here this afternoon. Skipper Sourav Ganguly arrived here from Bangalore on yesterday morning and other members of the team, except vice-captain Rahul Dravid, joined him later in the evening. Dravid flew in from his home town Bangalore this morning. The Australian team also arrived here yesterday evening along with the Indian squad. Captain Adam Gilchrist, who participated in a programme with children from economically poor background as ambassador of an NGO, “World Vision”, in the morning, told newspersons that the Bangalore Test where he led his team to a 1-0 lead in the series was his best so far. The teams had nets as the stadium was being spruced up for the expectedly pulsating contest provided the weather does not play spoilsport.
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Tendulkar set to miss Chennai Test
Chennai, October 12 "It's very very unlikely that he will play in this match. But I am hoping that he will get to play a role in some stage of this series," coach John Wright told reporters here today. The 31-year-old batting maestro, who has been out of action for the past two months due to a tennis elbow, attended the practice session at Chepauk ground today but did not bat at the nets. "It's been frustrating for him. We have made a day-by-day assessment of the situation. The team physio will release a statement later on," he said. "From my limited medical knowledge, Tendulkar needs to get to the nets and come back to say he is okay," Wright said. Tendulkar, the world's highest run getter in one-day internationals, just bowled his leg-spinners at the nets so as not to put any pressure on his injured left elbow. The ace batsman will now be looking to attain full fitness before the third Test, beginning in Nagpur on October 26. "Tendulkar's presence will be an enormous boost to our side for the Nagpur Test," Wright said. The Australians seeking to record their first ever series win on Indian soil in close to four decades are leading the series 1-0 with a 217-run win in the first Test in Bangalore. New Delhi: Frustrated at being sidelined due to an elbow injury, Sachin Tendulkar had earlier said today that he would not mind playing in the second Test against the Australians in Chennai even if he had not recovered fully. "It is very, very frustrating to wait on the sidelines. I am tired of waiting. It's 50:50 for me now and I honestly do not mind taking a chance at Chennai and playing the game. However, it all depends on how the muscles cope and how much of pain I can take," Tendulkar said. Lack of match practice does not bother the batting maestro who is battling the injury for the last eight weeks.
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We are missing Ponting,
says Gilchrist
Chennai, October 12 “If India are missing Sachin, Australia are missing Ponting. Ponting has been going through a series of scans and other tests to assess his fitness and to see whether he would be available for the next Test,” Gilchrist told reporters here. The Australian was speaking to the media during a visit to a slum community in suburban Otteri, supported by World Vision, a relief and development organisation working towards “a full life” for girls and boys around the country. Gilchrist has joined the World Vision as its ambassador. Even though the first Test, won by Australia by 217 runs, was marred by a few umpiring decisions, Gilchirst advocated giving more power to on-field
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Ponting, Benaud lead Miller tributes
Melbourne, October 12 Miller, who took 170 wickets and scored 2,958 runs in 55 Tests, would have made an even bigger impact had he played during the age of television, Benaud said today. ‘’No one is even close to him in the modern era. Miller was a one-off. There was a golden aura about him,’’ the 74-year-old told local television. ‘’He’s as much loved in England as was the case in Australia. “In England they had television, whereas television didn’t start here until 1956 so we lost Miller because he retired in that year. “Around the world, there will be a real sadness that Keith has gone,’’ added the former Australia captain.’’ A former World War II bomber pilot, Miller went on to play in Don Bradman’s 1948 Ashes-winning ‘’Invincibles’’. He later worked as a cricket journalist in England. A young player once told him about the pressures of cricket, something he said an old-timer like Miller would not understand. Miller famously replied cricket was just a game, and real pressure was having a German fighter plane on your tail, Benaud recalled.
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Champions Trophy FIH asks India to send team
New Delhi, October 12 In the communication, Secretary-General of FIH Peter L. Cohen said since Australia declined to take part in the December 4 to 12 competition, India, which had finished seventh in the Olympics, “has now qualified for the event and accordingly we are inviting you to participate in the tournament.” FIH’s invitation came a day after Australia withdrew from the event citing security reasons. Justifying the decision to pull out of the event, Hockey Australia said in a statement in Sydney today, “The advice for all Australians to defer travel to Pakistan leaves us with no choice but to withdraw.” Meanwhile, IHF media adviser Anupam Ghulati said India had already sent a reply to FIH confirming that it would participate in the elite six-nation tournament. The last date for confirming participation is October 15. “It’s indeed a great news for us and we are immensely pleased. The heartening factor is that this is the third time in a row we are taking part in the meet, having played in the last two editions,” Ghulati said. “With India hosting the next one in 2005, it would make it four on the trot, which is a record of sorts since we have never played the event
so many time consecutively.” — PTI |
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Santosh Trophy: AIFF does away with age restriction
New Delhi, October 12 For the past few seasons, the AIFF had restricted the Santosh Trophy Championship for under-23 players, with the intention to preserve the leading players for the National League. But the age restriction has been limiting the option of the states to pick their best players, and hence, the AIFF has decided to revert to the old format, allowing the states the freedom to field their top players. Indian captain Baichung Bhutia will be leading Sikkim while fancied teams like Bengal and Kerala would also be bringing their leading players. AIFF president Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi said here today that the federation would appoint talent spotters at the Santosh Trophy to pick promising players to form the core group of the national team for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha. Thirtythree teams will be participating in the championship and 29 teams, divided into eight clusters, will battle it out for the eight berths in the quarter-final league. Defending champions Manipur, runners-up Kerala, and last year’s semi-finalists Goa and Services have been seeded directly into the quarter-final league. The seeded teams would be joined by the toppers of the eight clusters in the quarter-final league. AIFF secretary Alberto Colaco said the 59th edition was shifted to Delhi when original hosts Kerala expressed their inability to conduct the championship due to rains and Ramzaan. Kerala would now host the 60th edition in March next year. Delhi, who hosted the inaugural championship in 1944 and won the title, defeating Bengal, would be hosting this premier soccer event after a gap of 60 years. Organising secretary N.K Bhatia said various government agencies like the Railway Sports Control Board, the Services Sports Control Board, the Sports Authority of India, the Delhi Government, the Delhi Transport Corporation and different ministries of the Union Government have extended their full co-operation to make the championship a grand success. Meanwhile, former champions Punjab have been placed in a comparatively easy Cluster V, along with Meghalaya, Tripura and Chhattisgarh. Punjab play their first match against Chhattisgarh on October 15 at the Nehru Stadium practice ground. Chandigarh are grouped in a tough Cluster III, along with the Railways, Bihar and Uttaranchal, while Haryana have been put in Cluster VI, along with Karnataka, Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh. Fancied Bengal, many times former champions, are grouped together with Andhra Pradesh and Mizoram in Cluster I. Indian Oil Corporation will be the title sponsors while GAIL, ONGC, BPCL and the HPCL will be the co-sponsors. Delhi will take on Gujarat in the opening match on October 14 at the Ambedkar Stadium. The other cluster matches will be played at the Chattrasal Stadium in Model Town, Nehru Stadium practice ground and Thyagaraja Nagar ground. Services head Group A in the quarter-final league, while Manipur, Kerala and Goa will be leading Groups B, C and D, respectively. There will, in all, be 54 matches, which will be supervised 24 referees. Doordarshan will telecast the semi-final and final matches live while recordings of other matches will be shown on prime time. |
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Seeded players sail through
Chandigarh, October 12 Earlier the five-day meet meant for below 13 and below 16 was
inaugurated by Mr Lalit Sharma, Advisor to the Chandigarh
Administration. Results: Sub-Jr Boys Singles (U-16): First
round; Niket Karnatak (BAI) b Mohit Sharma (RAJ) 15-6,15-2; Rohit
Pranavat (UTH) b Gaurav Verma (HAR) 15-3,15-5; N.Arun (AP) b Tarun
Prakash (BHR) 15-7,15-4; Anup B.J. (KTK) b S.Rath (ORS) 15-4,15-5; Sub.Junior
Girls Singles (U-16) 2nd Round : Diksha (J&K) b L.Rinzuli (Miz)
11-2,11-4; Pradnya Gadre (MAH) b Varada Dixit (Mah) 11-7,11-4. Pradnya
Gadre (MAH) b Seema (CHG) 11-5,11-0; M.Sruthi (KER) b Kartika Gautam
(RAJ) 11-9, 8-11,11-3; Akanksha Nehra (DLI) b Rakhee Aloni (CG)
11-8,11-3; Nitya Sosale (KTK) b Riddhi Sen (HP) 11-0,11-6; Parsha Naqvi
(UP) b Dipika Haldar (WB) 11-2.11-5; Kadambari Chheda (MAH) b M.Suguna (PY)
11-0,11-1; Ashwini Ponnappa (Ktk) b Meghana Bharadwaj (Asm) 11-2,11-1;
Purnika (Chg) b Diksha (J & K) 11-8,11-6;J.Shruthi (AP) b A.Priya (TN)
11-4,11-8; N.Shweta (AP) b Shruti Bansal (Pnb) 11-5,11-1; Manisha
Vinayak (Ktk) b Rishma Chitnis (Goa) 11-0,11-6; Alka Kumar (Bhr) b Kanan
Bala Devi (Mnp) 11-4,11-8; Pallavi ( Har) b Niru (Uth) 11-2,11-3;
Yashika Punnaccha (Ktk) b Sikha Singh (Jhr) 11-0,11-0; Gayatri Vartak (Mah)
b Deepali Sharma (Tpr) 11-0,11-0; Komal Preet ( Pnb ) b Anupama Singh (Bhr)
11-4,11-2; Sub-Jr Girls Doubles (U-16): Gayatri Vartak (Ktk)
& G.M.Nishchita (Ktk) b Diksha & Vandana (J&K) 15-0,15-3;
P.Jyotsana & Susweta (AP) b Sikka Singh & Sona Salika (Jhr)
15-0,15-1; J.Shruthi & Raamya Teja (AP) b Pooja Naik & Pritam
Desai (Goa) 15-2,15-1; Kanu Priya & Pallavi (Har) b Varada Dixit
& Mudra Dhainje (Mah) 15-9,15-1; Purnika & Aastha (Chg) b Rakhee
Saloni & Snehalata Chaterjee (CG) 15-9,15-0; Dikshika & Sheetal
(Uth) b Suguna M & Avanti (PY) 15-0,15-3; Aswathy Mary Mathew &
A.Priya (TN) b Ayesha Ansari & Asha Gaur (UP) 15-3,15-12; Seema
& Akriti (Chg) b L.Rinzeali & L.Remsiami (Miz) 15-7,15-3.
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Varsity seeks post for disabled boxer
Amritsar, October 12 Dr SP Singh, Vice-Chancellor, admitted that as the university did not have any post as per Shiv’s qualification he had written a letter to Mr GP Chopra, president of the DAV Colleges Managing Committee, New Delhi. He said the pugilist was a student of DAV College, Amritsar. Shiv, along with 10 other students, including eight boxers, had gone to participate in the All-India Inter-University Men’s Boxing Championship at Dr Y S Parmar University. A group of university students went on the rampage while the tournament was in progress. In the ensuing brawl, Shiv got seriously injured while his younger brother, Prem Sharma, also a boxer, sustained minor injuries. A bronze medallist in the last inter-university championship, Shiv, a resident of Gurdaspur, said the injury has cut short his career as he was unable to move three fingers of his right hand. Subhash Chander, Shiv’s father, a retired bank employee, said he had written letters to various departments concerned for help. He said the incident had left Shiv ineligible for jobs in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police, South-East Central Railway and the Punjab and Haryana High Court, from whom he had received letters to appear in their tests. Mr Dhani Ram, Principal of DAV College, Amritsar, said the matter would be discussed at the next meeting of the managing committee. |
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Khalsa School boys record big win
Jalandhar, October 12 The Jalandhar team opened their account in the 10th minute when Daler Singh converted a penalty corner. He struck again in the 14th minute through another penalty corner. Daler scored a hat-trick with a field goal in the 16th
minute. The lead was consolidated in the 29th minute when Prem Kumar converted a penalty corner. In the second half, the Jalandhar boys again dominated the game and scored six goals. In the second match, Raj Government Senior Secondary School, Sangrur, won by a solitary goal, which was scored by Rajbir Singh through a penalty corner in the 48th
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Shahabad girls scrape past Imphal
New Delhi, October 12 Saravjeet Kaur struck once in each half to ensure the Haryana team’s victory while K Nirmala Devi pulled off the consolation goal for the Manipur girls. Saravjeet converted a penalty corner to score the first goal in the 10th minute while the second was a field goal, which came in the 37th minute. In other matches, Birsa Munda Vidyapitha, Rourkela defeated Kreeda Prabodhini Shiv Chattarpati, Pune 3-0 while Government Girls School, Ranchi drew with Thenzawl School, Mizoram 1-1. |
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DDA, Malaysia share title
New Delhi, October 12 DDA, who were put into bat by the visitors, were 142 for 1 in 22 overs, when rain halted the match. Hemant Singh and Robin Bisht cracked unbeaten 40 and 78 respectively. Robin was adjudged the man of the series while Hemant got the best batsman award. |
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MDU, KU enter final round
Rohtak, October 12 MDU defeated Agra University 60-33 whereas Kurukshetra University beat Lucknow 60-45. Newly established Ch Devi Lal University defeated HPU, Shimla, 44-24. CCS University registered a convincing 55-21 victory over PU, Chandigarh. |
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Parimarjan starts favourite in junior chess
New Delhi, October 12 This is for the second year running that the Delhi Chess Association is hosting the championship. Parimarjan and Devangi Patankar had won the boys’ and girls’ title, respectively, last year. Both these players will be representing the country in the World Youth Chess Championship to be held at Heraklion (Greece) from November 4 to 14. |
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Reliance Energy win carrom meet
Nangal, October 12 More than 100 engineers of various state electricity boards are participating in the three-day chess and carrom tournament which began here yesterday. In carrom events, Narsingh Rao of Reliance scored a wide slam in the final against Mohamad Ali of Tamil Nadu. He also scored a wide slam in the semifinal against MM Dheriwala from Gujarat State Electricity Board. A total of 54 engineers participated in the carrom singles event, which started today. The final will be held tomorrow. In chess, after the third round, Tamil Nadu state electricity Board and Andhra Pradesh Tranco were leading. Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board and Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board were at second place and Andhra Pradesh Genco and BBMB were third. The final will be held tomorrow. |
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