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Dharmani, Yuvraj to Punjab’s
rescue
Khetrapal threatens to sue Fleming
Harvinder puts Railways back on track
Manan Chandra retains pool
title
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East Bengal beat JCT, enter
final
Gurjeet shines for Faridkot
school
Pepsu women’s hockey from November 15
Rupinder wins 1500 m
gold
Top players for amateur
golf
Punjab cops win honours in
golf
Army School win basketball championship
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Dharmani, Yuvraj to Punjab’s
rescue
Chandigarh, November 8 When Uttar Pradesh were tottering at 166 for six yesterday, they looked in an unenviable position. At least formidable batting line-up of Punjab made one think so. But the visitors deserve credit for fighting doggedly. Thanks to an unbeaten century from a resolute Rohit Prakash (112), who carried his bat through, first they prolonged their first innings to give it measure of respectability. Then their bowlers bowled their hearts out and pegged the Punjab total to a reasonable score. Veteran paceman Ashish Winston Zaidi led the Uttar Pradesh attack remarkably well. He was rewarded for his persistence with three wickets, while young left-arm seamers Salabh Srivastava and RP Singh lent excellent support to Zaidi and scalped one wicket each. Left-arm spinner Praveen Gupta did not lag behind and chipped in with the wicket of wicketkeeper Chandan Madan. Except for Pankaj Dharmani and Yuvraj Singh none of Punjab batsmen could stay at the wicket facing a determined rival bowling attack. After the departure of Yuvraj after a well-compiled half century, veteran middle order batsman Dharmani held the innings together. At close, he was keeping Punjab hopes alive, unbeaten at 83. Chasing Uttar Pradesh’s total of 269, Punjab were off to a disastrous start. Openers Ravneet Ricky and Reetinder Sodhi were back in the pavilion with just 23 runs on the board. While Sodhi scored 11, Ricky’s contribution was a 7. Punjab suffered another setback when skipper Dinesh Mongia was back in the pavilion immediately thereafter. He was ruled out off a back-pad catch and the batsman palpably looked dissatisfied. Yuvraj Singh and Pankaj Dharmani then rescued the innings with a 71-run fourth-wicket stand before a well-set Yuvraj fell to an injudious pull shot to be caught at fine leg off seamer RP Singh. Yuvraj’s 52-run knock was studded with eight scorching fours. Wickets again fell in quick succession before the innings was steadied again by a 57-run seventh-wicket stand between Dharmani and Amit Uniyal. The partnership seemed to be taking the match in favour of Punjab untill the dismisal of Uniyal, who fell to a doubtful lbw decision at the fag end of the day’s play. Uniyal contributed 28. Scoreboard Uttar Pradesh (1st innings): Jyoti Yadav b Gagandeep 9 R Prakash not out 112 M Kaif lbw Gagandeep 14 Raina c Ricky b VRV Singh 42 Elahi lbw Rajesh Sharma 15 GK Pandey lbw Rajesh Sharma 5 Amir Khan b Rajesh Sharma 5 P Gupta c & b Uniyal 21 AW Zaidi b Gagandeep 11 Srivastava lbw Gagandeep 0 RP Singh c Mongia
b Gagandeep 11 Extras (b 2, lb 9, w 3, nb 10) 24 Total (all out, 100.5 overs,) 269 FoW: 1-13, 2-39, 3-103, 4-144, 5-158, 6-166, 7-210, 8-235, 9-239 Bowling: Gagandeep Singh 29.5-7-68-5, Amit Uniyal 22-4-60-1, VRV Singh 21-2-71-1, Rajesh Sharma 21-5-44-3, Reetinder Sodhi 3-1-7-0, Dinesh Mongia 4-1-8-0. Punjab (Ist innings): RS Ricky b Zaidi 7 RS Sodhi lbw Srivastava 11 Yuvraj c Srivastava b RP Singh 52 Mongia c Elahi b Zaidi 6 P Dharmani batting 83 G Gupta run out (Srivastava) 7 Chandan Madan b Gupta 6 Uniyal lbw Zaidi 28 Gagandeep batting 0 Extras (lb 6, w 1, nb 14) 21 Total (7 wkts, 74 overs) 221 FoW:1-19, 2-23, 3-43, 4-114, 5-142, 6-164, 7-221 Bowling:
AW Zaidi 20-5-59-3, Srivastava 17-4-57-1, RP Singh 10-2-30-1, Praveen Gupta 17-3-41-1, Suresh Raina 3-0-12-0, GK Pandey 7-2-16-0. |
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Khetrapal threatens to sue Fleming
New Delhi, November 8 Khetrapal strongly denied having offered any money to the Kiwi captain and said the allegation levelled against him were a "gimmick" by the cricketer to sell his book. "I am certainly considering filing a defamation suit but I cannot do so only on the basis of media reports. We will go through the book and what is written in it and would take appropriate decision in a couple of days," Khetrapal told reporters here. The sports
promoter-turned businessman was named by Fleming as the one to approach him to join the match-fixing syndicate in 1999 in his book 'Balance of Power', written by journalist Richard Boock. Fleming said he was approached in the bar of the team's Leicester hotel during the 1999 World Cup in England by a man later identified as Khetrapal, an associate of Indian bookmaker Sanjeev Chawla. Khetrapal maintained that he had met Fleming in July, and not during the World Cup as mentioned by the cricketer,
in connection with the staging of an exhibition match for the Punjab Cricket Association, which did not fructify. —PTI |
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Harvinder puts Railways back on track
New Delhi, November 8 The right-arm seamer made amends for the disappointment of the first day and picked six for 75 to rip through the Mumbai middle order and put the hosts back on track. The visitors, resuming at a healthy 261 for three, were bowled out for 361 half an hour after lunch. At stumps on second day, Railways were sitting pretty at 111 for three with Tejinder Pal Harvinder well set on 37 and Shreyas Khanolkar on 20. Harvinder made the second new ball tell as he claimed the wickets of Vinod Kambli and Ramesh Powar in the space of five balls, with only two runs added to the overnight score, to rattle Mumbai. He then returned after lunch to dismiss wicketkeeper batsman Vinayak Samant (32) and Avishkar Salvi. JP Yadav lent the right support from the other end while captain Sanjay Bangar scalped his Mumbai counterpart Sairaj Bahutule (29) who added 31 vital runs with Ajit Agarkar for the seventh wicket. Ganguly scores 27 Kolkata: Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly, returning to action after a two-week injury layoff, looked in good shape during his brief stay at the wicket on the second day of the four-day match between Bengal and Karnataka here. —
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Manan Chandra retains pool
title
Ludhiana, November 8 Earlier, in the semifinals, Manan Chandra had a close call against Dharminder Lilly of Punjab as he prevailed 9-7. Calm and unruffled, Chandra rode on luck to strom into the final. In fact, Manan led from the beginning and was never tested while Lilly was a trifle unlucky. The green pocket continued to give the Punjab cueist great discomfort as he missed unbelievable sitters. Lilly muffed up chance after chance and eventually lost the match. In the second semifinal, Alok Kumar was in an invincible mood as he swarmed K Ranjan of Tamil Nadu convincingly 9-2. Padma Shri and seven-time world billiards champion Geet Sethi gave away the glittering trophy to Manan Chandra after Mr Surinder Singla, Finance Minister, Punjab, did not turn up. In his message to Mr DS Bains, President of the Punjab Billiards and Snooker Association, the minister announced a grant of Rs 1lakh for the association. The Punjab Billiards and Snooker Association (PBSA) felicitated the cueists who had brought laurels to the state. Arjuna awardee Alok Kumar got a purse of Rs 1,01,000 and Dharminder Lilly received Rs 15,000 while local lad Dhruv Verma, Joy Mehra and Achint Verma pocketed Rs 11,000 each. |
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East Bengal beat JCT, enter
final
New Delhi, November 8 Nabi’s header in the 71st minute off a superb throw by Habibur Rahman saved the day for the red and yellow brigade, who were otherwise outsmarted by the JCT team, making their first semifinal after losing to the same opponents in 1999. The final between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, who booked their berth in the summit clash beating defending champions Salgaocar SC will take place on Wednesday. When the two teams last met in the title round in 1994 Bagan had emerged winners. Nabi's winner came against the trend of play which saw the Punjab team going close a number of times before missing the goal either due to finishing mistakes or denied by custodian Rajat Ghosh Dastidar. The goal came after one of the few moves made by the Kolkatans —Nabi tried to move in through the right and was challenged by Bimal Barua. In the tussle for the ball, Nabi was pulled by the linesman for an unwieldy tackle but escaped the eye of referee Benjamin D’Silva. Getting the caution Nabi went back inside the box and then rose high above his markers to head home the goal and ran back in jubilation. —
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Gurjeet shines for Faridkot
school
New Delhi, November 8 In a massacre of the innocents, Gurjeet Singh struck the first goal for Faridkot in the 19th minute when he converted a penalty corner (1-0). He also accounted for the second goal two minutes later, scoring a stunning field goal (2-0). But Ernesh Surin pulled one back for Sundergarh six minutes before half time (1-2). On resumption, the Punjab team went on a goal rush, with Varinderjit Singh adding the third goal immediately after the break (3-1) while Sundergarh got their second goal a couple of minutes later through Sudeep Kindo (2-3). Shamsher Singh made it 4-2, and also scored the ninth goal, while Gurjeet Singh scored all the other goals. In an all-Punjab clash, Government Model Senior Secondary School, Jalandhar, fought back in the second half to defeat SGPS Academy, Sri Bhaini Sahib, 2-1. Karamjeet Singh weaved his way up to put SGPS Academy in the lead in the sixth minute (1-0) and protected it till the 44th minute. Amritpal Singh levelled the score for the Jalandhar School while Jaskaran Singh earned their match-winner nine minutes later (2-1). Government Model High School, Chandigarh failed to hang on to an early lead to suffer a 1-2 defeat at the hands of Birsa Munda Vidyapitha, Rourkela (Orissa). Rupinder P Singh slotted in a field goal two minutes into the match to put Chandigarh in the lead, but lost the advantage when Priyabrata Swain converted a penalty corner to level the score in the 23rd minute. A minute after the interval, Suman Lugun scored the match-winner for Birsa Munda. In a high-scoring match, Town High School, Sundergarh, whipped School Boys Team, Sri Lanka, 6-0. |
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Pepsu women’s hockey from November 15
Patiala, November 8 The championship will also act as trials to select the Pepsu team for the 53rd Senior National Hockey Championship to be held at Bangalore from November 25 to December 4. |
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Rupinder wins 1500 m
gold
Ropar, November 8 Sarabjit Kaur of Gurdaspur won gold in long jump, Gurdeep Kaur of Nawanshahr stood second while Narinder Pal Kaur of Ludhiana secured third position. In shot-put, Bimi Singh of Jalandhar won gold while Manjeet Kaur of Ropar stood second and Manpreet Kaur of Fatehgarh was third. In Kabaddi matches, Nawanshahr beat Ropar, Hoshiarpur beat Mansa and Kapurthala beat Moga. Ludhiana got a walk-over from Muktsar. In Badminton, Ludhiana beat Kapurthala by 2-0, Ropar beat Ferozepore by 2-0. In hockey, Muktsar beat Moga by 3-2 while Bathinda defeated Ropar. In kho-kho, Hoshiarpur beat Kapurthala by 12-9, Jalandhar trounced Mansa by 23-7, Ropar defeated
Fatehgarh by 19/10 and Amritsar routed Moga by 9-2. |
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Top players for amateur
golf
New Delhi, November 8 Keshav Misra, who claimed the Royal Challenge Northern India Amateur title in July, will look to add another title, as will Gaganjeet Bhullar, who won the Southern India amateur title. Thrice Sri Lankan amateur title winner Simarjeet Singh, Southern India amateur title winner Jaideep Patwardhan, Saurabh Bahuguna and Anitya Chand will lend tough fight. |
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Punjab cops win honours in
golf
Chandigarh, November 8 While Devinder Singh Garcha, who was a member of the 1980 Moscow Olympics gold medallist Indian hockey team, paired up with SK Sharma to win the runners-up trophy in the gross category, Swinder Singh was the second best golfer in the individual section (net category). Punjab Police team comprising Rajan Gupta, SK Sharma, Devinder Singh Garcha, Ranbir Singh Khatra, Naunihal Singh, Swinder Singh and Amrik Singh Powar, returned home with four trophies — two each in team and individual events. The performance was a repeat of Kolkata, where they had won same number of team and individual awards last year.
Army School win basketball championship Ambala, November 8 Ms Neena Khanna,
Principal of the school said six schools, including Army School, Chandi
Mandir, Army School, Patiala, Army School, Dehradun, Army School, Nahan,
Army Public School, Dagshai and Army School, Ambala Cantonment
participated in the championship. Col T.S. Kalra (retd), Deputy
Director, AWES HQ 2 Corps, was the chief guest. He gave the medals and
certificates to the winners. The boys team of Ambala Cantonment Army
School entered the final by defeating Army School, Patiala, while Army
School Dehradun, defeated Army Public School, Dagshai, to enter the
final. In the final, Army School Ambala Cantonment defeated Army School
Dehradun, 46-35 Among girls the final played between Army Public School
Dagshai and Army School DehraDun, Dehradun girls won the match. |
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