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Australia defeat rusty World XI
Shane Watson of Australia appeals successfully for the dismissal of Kevin Pietersen of World XI during their Super Series one-day international in Melbourne on Wednesday.
Tendulkar bats for 20 minutes
Challenger on Net, mobiles
Gloster, Joshi to examine Ganguly
Austin’s views on Sourav resemble
Flintoff’s
Cronje’s dark days revisited
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Anand draws again
India down New Zealand, enter final
Indian players celebrate after scoring the second goal during their match against New Zealand in the Indira Gandhi Gold Cup hockey tournament in New Delhi on Wednesday. — Tribune photo by Mukesh Aggarwal
Puerta may face life ban
PSEB in semis
Sundernagar polytechnic shuttlers win title
Hockey probables
Tennis meet results
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Australia defeat rusty World XI
Melbourne, October 5 Watson finished with figures of three for 43 as the highly vaunted World XI batting line-up crumbled to 162 all out in the 43rd over in reply to Australia’s 255 for eight. Only Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara (64) provided any real resistance to the Australian attack and the victory margin would have been greater if the hosts had not dropped three relatively simple catches. New Zealand left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori was the pick of the World XI bowlers, taking four for 33 off his 10 overs. The World XI team failed to come to grips with Australia’s four-pronged pace attack. Glenn McGrath was particularly miserly, his opening seven overs costing just 13 runs, as he took the wickets of Virender Sehwag (6) and Jacques Kallis (8) to leave the visitors struggling at 45 for two. Former West Indian captain Brian Lara lasted just two balls before he was caught by Andrew Symonds off Nathan Bracken for a duck. Rahul Dravid (4), Kevin Pietersen (2), Sangakkara and supersub Shahid Afridi (2) departed in rapid succession soon after. When World XI captain Shaun Pollock was run out for five by a direct hit from 35 metres by Watson, the visitors slumped to 117 for eight in the 33rd over and all but lost the match. Ashes man of the series Andrew Flintoff, who was dropped by Lee on six, provided late resistance with a battling 38 before he became Watson’s third wicket when he holed out to McGrath in the deep. Australian captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and decided to bat in front of a disappointing crowd of less than 5,000 at the start of play. Officials said the crowd grew to 18,435, though there were tracts of empty seats in the 53,000-capacity stadium. Australia failed to capitalise on a brisk start provided by Simon Katich (58) and Adam Gilchrist (45), who put on 80 for the first wicket, with tight spin bowling and poor shot selection leading to a middle-order collapse. After Gilchrist was bowled by Kallis, Ponting (23) combined with Katich for a 48-run second-wicket partnership before Pollock enticed a leading edge off his rival skipper’s bat to Lara. Damien Martyn was caught by Vettori for a third-ball duck, continuing the poor run of form that caused him to be dropped from the Test side, before Katich and Michael Clarke (6) misread slower deliveries from Muttiah Muralitharan and Vettori. Mike Hussey (32) and Symonds (36) resurrected the innings when they combined for a 52-run sixth-wicket partnership before Lee contributed a cameo 26 off 17 balls to guide Australia to their total. Scoreboard Australia Gilchrist b Kallis 45 Katich c & b Muralitharan 58 Ponting c Lara b Pollock 23 Martyn c Vettori
b Muralitharan 0 Symonds c Flintoff b Vettori 36 Clarke c & b Vettori 6 Hussey c Pietersen b Vettori 32 Watson c Lara b Vettori 8 Lee not out 26 Bracken not out 2 Extras
(b-2, lb-6, nb-5, w-6) 19 Total (8 wkts, 50 overs) 255 Fall of wickets:
1-80, 2-128, 3-128, 4-142, 5-154, 6-206, 7-223, 8-231. Bowling:
Akhtar 9-1-49-0, Pollock 8-1-32-1, Flintoff 9-1-66-0, Kallis 4-0-26-1, Muralitharan 10-0-41-2, Vettori 10-1-33-4. World XI Sangakkara c Ponting
b Watson 64 Sehwag c Hussey b McGrath 6 Kallis lbw b McGrath 8 Lara c Symonds b Bracken 0 Dravid c Ponting b Lee 4 Pietersen lbw b Watson 2 Flintoff c McGrath b Watson 38 Afridi lbw b Symonds 2 Pollock run out 5 Vettori c Ponting b Lee 15 Akhtar not out 10 Extras
(lb-1, nb-1, w-6) 8 Total (all out, 41.3 overs) 162 Fall of wickets:
1-18, 2-45, 3-50, 4-75, 5-82, 6-101, 7-104, 8-118, 9-150. Bowling:
Lee 7.3-2-31-2, McGrath 7-1-13-2, Bracken 8-0-36-1, Watson 10-0-43-3, Symonds 9-0-38-1.
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Mumbai, October 5 Tendulkar, who is to get back to competitive cricket on October 10 at Mohali on the opening day of the N K P Salve Challenger Series after a four-month lay-off following his elbow surgery, batted for twenty minutes against pace as well as spin bowlers. Earlier, he had a lengthy fielding drill and also had a stint with the ball. In all he was at the ground for three hours practising with the probables named by the Mumbai Cricket Association. Tendulkar had practiced yesterday too with his Mumbai mates after having gone through light net sessions at the MIG Club closer to his residence in suburban Bandra whenever he got a chance to do so during the monsoon season. The champion batsman has been included in the India Senior team, to be led by Sourav Ganguly, in the Challenger Series. — PTI
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Challenger on Net, mobiles
Mohali, October 5 Domestic matches would be beamed across Test-playing nations, Canada and parts of Africa, he added. He said Kingfisher Airlines would sponsor the title of the series and the three teams.
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Gloster, Joshi to examine Ganguly
Mumbai, October 5 "Gloster would be reaching here from Adelaide tomorrow night and would examine Ganguly on Friday," Board sources said. Gloster would then proceed to Mohali for the N K P Salve Challenger Series, they added. A top Board official said earlier in the day that Ganguly was to consult Gloster and the Board's Mumbai-based medical panel chief Dr Anant Joshi on his injured right elbow.
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Gloster, Joshi to examine Ganguly
Mumbai, October 5 "Gloster would be reaching here from Adelaide tomorrow night and would examine Ganguly on Friday," Board sources said. Gloster would then proceed to Mohali for the N K P Salve Challenger Series, they added. A top Board official said earlier in the day that Ganguly was to consult Gloster and the Board's Mumbai-based medical panel chief Dr Anant Joshi on his injured right elbow.
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Austin’s views on Sourav resemble Flintoff’s
New Delhi, October 5 Ganguly had played one season, in 2000, at Old Trafford with a decidedly mixed record, failing to score a century in the four-day county championship, but doing well in the limited-overs tournaments. Ganguly had taken over the captaincy of the Indian team earlier that year from Sachin Tendulkar. He had been recommended to Lancs by former county coach Bobby Simpson, who had been consultant with the Indian team at the 1999 World Cup in England. According to Austin’s book, “The bottomline for an overseas player is that he produces runs in the middle, but there is more to it than that. It is important that he becomes an integral part of the whole set-up. Unlike Wasim Akram, Muttiah Muralitharan, Danny Morrison and Steve Elworthy, Ganguly never did that. “The lads did their best to make him feel welcome, part of the dressing room. They offered to take him out in the evenings, but he did not want to know. Before long, the feeling was that if he could not be bothered to make the effort, neither could we. There was no bust-up. He just went his way and we went ours. “It was so different with Murali and Wasim. Perhaps those two spoiled us. The dressing-room culture is an important part of the framework of a team. Everyone has to fit, take the jokes on the chin and join in the banter. Ganguly did not see it that way. In a way, I feel sorry for him. He missed on something special.” Austin opined, “Maybe one day, he will look back on his time with Lancashire and wonder if he could have made more of it. He simply was not the right man for the Lancashire dressing room.”
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Cronje’s dark days revisited
Johannesburg, October 5 As the South African government, cricket officials and his family members struggled to come to terms with the ramifications of his confession, Cronje began to fear the vindictive nature of the betting mafia in India. “Where are you going? Please stay with me today,” Cronje pleaded to his personal bodyguard Raymond Van Staden, as the former South African Defence Force intelligence officer prepared to leave after accompanying him from Durban to Cape Town. It was April 11, 2000, the day he had faxed his confession to South African cricket chief Ali Bacher and his wife Bertha. “Hansie, apparently, genuinely feared for his own life and the lives of his family and wanted some professional security,” writes Garth King in ‘The Hansie Cronje Story: An Authorised Biography’. “Paranoia danced with a growing realisation of the magnitude of his offences and the effect it was having on the media. And would the corrupting bookies and their dark servants seek to silence him somehow, or exact revenge?” Van Staden, a qualified forensic investigator and electronic counter-surveillance expert, would ultimately stay with Cronje and ‘smuggle’ him past more than one highway speed traps and unite him with his wife and parents in Bloemfontein.
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Anand draws again
San Luis, October 5 The Indian Grandmaster, playing with white and opening with a king pawn, had to defend Svidler's onslaught on many occasions — the first one being a check on his king in the 16th move even though the Indian took care of it easily. After some fast moves and exchanging the queens, both the players, playing Rue Lopez Marshall format, opted for a truce after 39 moves. Anand plays Alexander Morozevich in his next match. Svidler got several opportunities to check the white king, with Anand somehow managing to repulse the attacks. Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Peter Leko also drew their game. Playing Sicilian Sveshhnikov game, both the players tried hard to gain opportunities but in the end settled for a draw. The game between Michael Adams and Alexander Morozevich also ended in a draw. The best game of the sixth round was, however, played between Hungarian Judit Polgar and Veselin Topalov, with the former stretching the championship leader to over seven hours with white pieces. Topalov, however, kept pressing for a win and finally succeeded in his quest. The win gave him a two-point lead over his nearest rivals Viswanathan Anand and Peter Svidler. Topalov now has five white and three black games in the remaining eight games and is heading towards the title win.
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India down New Zealand, enter final
New Delhi, October 5 Earlier, Australia beat Italy 4-1 to brighten their chances of a berth in the final, though their fate will be decided only after their last league match against India on Friday. If they lose to India, then New Zealand can better their prospects, provided they record a handsome victory against Malaysia tomorrow. New Zealand beat Italy 2-1 and then held Australia goalless. But their defeat at the hands of the hosts have complicated matters for them as Australia can sail through even if they split points with India. Defending champions Australia displayed their fire power when they mauled Italy, after taking a 3-0 lead at half time. Angie Skirving struck a brace while Sarah Taylor and captain Nikki Hudson scored the other two goals. Matilde Canavosio scored off a penalty corner for Italy's lone goal. The victory against the Kiwis was remarkable as the Indian girls staved off a tremendous assault by the Kiwi girls in the first 15 minutes to not only stay alive, but also mount counter attacks to put the tall, well-built and fast-moving New Zealanders under pressure. It was quite a task for the nippy Indian girls to snatch the ball from their rivals, and then pierce through the tightly-knit rival defence, to create chances. After a barren first half, with New Zealand muffing six penalty corners and a couple of virtual sitters, compared to two penalty corner and one 'sitter' wastage by India, the action picked up momentum in the second half when the hosts went for the kill. And they tasted success in the 16th minute when Rajwinder Kaur's penalty corner push off India's fifth and last penalty corner, got deflected off a defender, and Sanggai Ibemhal Chanu pushed in the rebound. India enhanced the lead 11 minutes later when Chanu's shot from the left came off custodian Jurgeleit Beth's pads, and Saba Anjum pounced on the rebound to slot in the second goal. Five minutes before the final hooter, New Zealand scored a deserving goal when Dillon Honour deflected the ball into the goal off a long pass from Mahon Kate from the top of the D. Dillon was New Zealand's live-wire in the attack, as she played in tandem with Sharlan Kayla, to rip open the Indian
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Puerta may face life ban
Paris, October 5 The player could face a life ban as he had already been banned for nine months for testing positive for an anabolic steroid in 2003. He tested positive for Etilefrine, used for hypotension. Puerta, who lost the Roland Garros final to Spain's Rafael Nadal, has climbed into the top 10 after starting the year at 400. L'Equipe said the player will not be identified by the men's ruling body, ATP, until he has appeared before a doping panel.
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PSEB in semis
Patiala, October 5 PSEB registered their third successive win when they overcame India Youth 102-73. In other
matches, Young Cagers Club downed BSNL, Kerala, 75-65 and Indian Army defeated DLW 70-52. In the morning, India Youth downed Punjab 71-59 and Punjab Police Club beat Young Cagers Club 78-62. In the women’s section, Southern Railway, Chennai, crushed Punjab 62-31. |
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Sundernagar polytechnic shuttlers win title
Kangra, October 5 In football, Polytechnic College, Kangra, lost to Polytechnic College, Hamirpur, 0-1 in the
semifinals. In volleyball, Polytechnic College, Sundernagar, defeated Polytechnic College, Kangra, 22-25, 25-19, 25-20, 25-17 and Polytechnic College, Hamirpur, defeated Polytechnic College, Rohru, 26-24, 25-12, 25-14 to reach the final. In basketball semifinals, Polytechnic College, Kangra, defeated Polytechnic College, Hamirpur, 38-27 and Polytechnic College, Sundernagar, defeated Polytechnic College, Rohru, 33-11. In kabaddi, Polytechnic College, Hamirpur, defeated Polytechnic College, Ambota, 49-40. |
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Hockey probables
Jalandhar, October 5 The probables are: goalkeepers — Kamaldeep Singh, Maninder Singh, Teja Singh, Sarvinder Singh, Paramjit Singh, fullbacks — Kanwalpreet Singh, Harmeet Singh, Baljinder Singh, midfielders — Balwant Singh, Kuljit Singh, Avtar Singh, Baljit Singh Saini, Devindepal Singh Bhath, Gurbaz Singh, and forwards — Baljit Singh Dhillon, Tejveer Singh, Satwinder Singh, Deepak Thakur, Prabhjot Singh, Rajpal Singh, Baljit Singh Chandi, Ravipal Singh, Ajitpal Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Rajwinder Singh, Gurwinder Singh, Mandeep Singh, Deedar Singh. |
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Tennis meet results
Jalandhar, October 5 In boys under-14 singles, Chandril Sood beat Gagandeep Singh 6-3, Jaideep Singh beat Archit Sood 6-4, Tejwansh Singh beat Ankush Aggarwal 6-0 and Vishesh Mahajan beat Ankit Chadha 6-0. In boys under-16 second round matches, Sushant Arora beat Inderjot Singh 6-2 and Ujjawal Khanna beat Kanav 6-2. In third round matches, Javid Hazari beat Arshbeer 6-1, Satveer beat Lakshit Sood 6-5, Sanjeev beat Puneet Singh 6-2, Tushar Sharma beat Harmeet Singh 6-0 and Ammie beat Ramesh 6-0. |
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