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Oram rescues Kiwis
India third in ODI rankings
Sania unfazed by injuries
Table soccer tourney
concludes Modern
School win six-a-side title
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Jeev wins China Open
Beijing, April 16 “I just can’t explain this feeling, it's been a long seven years,” Singh said later. Jeev, who started the day with a bogey and ended it in a similar fashion, fired four birdies in between, which were enough to win him the title and a prize money of $3,00,000. The win also took him to the top of the UBS Order of Merit. Jeev said he started the day without any expectations so as to avoid disappointment if he didn’t win. “I’ve let so many tournaments go in the last few years and went in to today with reverse psychology, thinking that if I didn't win it didn’t matter,” he said. Jeev’s closest rival, Fernandez-Castano’s bogeyed the last hole, which gave away the advantage to the 34-year-old Indian and the Spaniard said he was disappointed on missing out on a playoff with Jeev. “It was a shame about the drive on the 18th which cost a bogey because...I would have liked to have parred it to put pressure on Singh,” Fernandez-Castano said. The Spaniard finished with a total of nine-under 279 after a one-under final round. “When I saw my competitor bogey the 18th, I decided to play it safe and not even go for the flag,” Singh said while talking about Fernandez-Castano's dropped shot. Overnight leader David Lynn (280) of England fired four bogeys and three birdies to end the day at three-over and finish third. “I feel I have let this one slip to be honest,” he said adding, “I was trying to be patient but on the back nine, crunch time, I got a dose of the three putts at the wrong time.” Defending champion Paul Casey had a level-par final round to end up tied fourth on the leaderboard. Meanwhile, among the other Indians in the fray, Amandeep Johl jumped 25 places to finish tied 20th with a four-day total of two-under 286. Harmeet Kahlon (294) and Rahil Gangjee (295) finished over-par to end up at tied 54th and tied 60th respectively.
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Germany beat India
New Delhi, April 16 The match was tied 1-1 at half time but India, playing under new coach V Baskaran, spoiled the good work by letting Germany pump in three goals after the breather. Christopher Zeller, who scored three goals (23rd, 37th and 69th minutes), was the main architect of the host team’s win yesterday while Sebastian Draguhn (44th) chipped in with one. Young striker Tushar Khandekar (29th) was the lone scorer for India. Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 in another match yesterday. In the absence of some of their main players, Germany’s error-prone attack faltered while penetrating into the Indian defence in the first half. After Zeller failed to convert the first penalty corner, Matthias Witthaus lost a big opportunity to score in the 21st minute thanks to the exploits of Indian goalkeeper Bharat Chetri. Germans drew first blood when a Nicolas Emmerling pass from the backline found a perfectly positioned Zeller in front of the goal and the latter shot home without wasting any time. A few minutes later, Indians fought back to score the equaliser through Khandekar. The Germans played with purpose after the change of ends while India lost track. Couple of minutes after the break, Zeller converted a penalty corner to give his side a 2-1 lead and within 10 minutes Sebastian Draguhn netted the third goal for the hosts. The Germans messed up a few more chances, including two penalty corners. India tried to get their act together but could not succeed. Rajpal Singh came closer to reduce the margin but his hit was far off the target. In the dying moments, Zeller put it past Chetri once again to hammer the final nail on India’s coffin. Indian team manager G M Srivastava said the team played well in the first half, but could not keep up the momentum in the second. “Our performance was very good in the first half. But something went wrong in the second,” he told PTI over phone from Monchengladbach today. However, he expressed satisfaction over the players’ ability to acclimatise and staying fit. “It’s good that our players have managed to acclimatise very quickly and all are fit. Key players like Dilip Tirkey, Gagan Ajit Singh and Jugraj Singh played almost the full duration of the match,” he said. Srivastava said the Indian team would play the second match against Spain with the same line-up. |
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Aussies in driving seat
Chittagong, April 16 Earlier, paceman Gillespie (3-11) and leg spinners Stuart MacGill (3-68) and Shane Warne (3-47) proved too hot to handle for the home team’s batsmen. Debutant spinner Dan Cullen also took his maiden test wicket when Mashrafe Mortaza was caught behind by Adam Gilchrist for four. Bangladesh, who won the toss and opted to bat, lost their first wicket without a run on the board when first-test centurion Shahriar Nafees was caught at square leg by Brett Lee off Gillespie. The start of play had been delayed for 10 minutes after a row between the police and a photographer at the Divisional Stadium. Australia are 1-0 up in the two-Test series. Media boycotts Test
Local Bangladeshi media mounted a boycott of the second Test between Bangladesh and Australia after at least 10 of them were injured by the police, witnesses said today. About 20 officers with batons damaged cameras and clashed with around 50 reporters and photographers who were protesting by the side of pitch outside the press box during the lunch break on day one. They were upset over an incident before play began when a policeman assaulted a photographer in a row over using transport in the restricted stadium vicinity. “At least 10 reporters and photographers were injured and five were taken to clinic for treatment,” a reporter from the scene said over telephone, describing the lunchtime protest. Haji Zahir, a veteran photographer, said: “We are leaving the press gallery in protest against excesses by police and there will be no more media coverage if authorities do not take action against unruly policemen.” Majedul Haque, a senior officer with Chittagong Metropolitan police, said the police had gone into action as a number of unruly people identifying themselves as reporters threatened the police, who had then promptly acted in self defence. “However, the incident would be investigated and if policemen were responsible they will be punished,” he said. The policeman involved in the earlier assault has expressed regret and been suspended. Scoreboard Bangladesh (1st innings) Omar lbw Gillespie 2 Nafees c Lee b Gillespie 0 Bashar c Jaques b Gillespie 9 Saleh b MacGill 71 Ashraful c Hayden b Warne 6 Ahmed c Gilchrist b Warne 18 Mashud not out 34 Rafique c Hayden b MacGill 19 Mortaza c Gilchrist b Cullen 4 Razzak c Lee b MacGill 15 Hossain c Gillespie b Warne 0 Extras
(lb-10, nb-6, w-3) 19 Total (all out, 61.2 overs) 197 Fall of wickets:
1-0, 2-11, 3-17, 4-41, 5-102, 6-130, 7-152, 8-157, 9-193, 10-197. Bowling:
Lee 9-2-36-0, Gillespie 5-2-11-3, Warne 18.2-3-47-3, MacGill 22-4-68-3, Cullen 7-0-25-1. Australia (1st innings) Hayden c sub b Rafique 29 Jaques not out 38 Gillespie not out 5 Extras
(lb-2, w-2) 4 Total (1 wicket, 24 overs) 76 Fall of wickets:
1-67. Bowling: Mortaza 6-0-25-0, Hossain 7-1-21-0, Rafique 7-1-23-1, Razzak 4-2-5-0.
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Oram rescues Kiwis
Centurion, April 16 South Africa (1st innings) 276 New Zealand (1st innings) Marshall b Ntini 6 Fulton c Boucher b Pollock 14 Fleming c & b Ntini 0 Styris c Gibbs b Ntini 17 Astle c Boucher b Steyn 4 Oram c Pollock b Steyn 133 McCullum c Boje b Kallis 31 Vettori c Prince b Ntini 81 Franklin c Boucher b Ntini 8 Mills c Boje b Pollock 12 Martin not out 1 Extras
(lb-12, nb-8) 20 Total (all out; 71.4 overs) 327 Fall of wickets:
1-8, 2-12, 3-32, 4-38, 5-45, 6-89, 7-272, 8-280, 9-322. Bowling:
Ntini 19-2-94-5, Steyn 18.4-1-95-2, Pollock 15-4-45-2, Kallis 9-1-41-1, Boje 7-0-29-0, Smith 3-1-11-0. South Africa (2nd innings) Smith not out 3 Gibbs not out 0 Extras
(nb-1) 1 Total (0 wickets; 1 overs) 4 Bowling: Franklin 1-0-4-0.
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India third in ODI rankings
Dubai, April 16 Dhoni began the series in fifth position in the listings but 177 runs at an average of 59, including 96 in Jamshedpur, has pushed him up the list and he is now just seven rating points behind Australia’s Ricky Ponting, who tops the rankings. India’s triumph, which means they have won 17 of their last 22 ODIs, saw them leapfrog New Zealand and Pakistan in the Championship table and they are now just three rating points behind second-placed South Africa. And if India can win both their upcoming ODIs against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday and Wednesday, they will reduce that margin to just one point. Australia is 13 points clear of South Africa at the top of the table. Third place is India’s highest position since the Championship table was launched. In April 2005, they were in eighth spot. Dhoni is one of four India players in the top 20 for batsmen. Yuvraj Singh is ninth, Dravid is 11th and Sachin Tendulkar, who missed the entire series due to injury, is 18th. Virender Sehwag, who scored 78 runs in five innings during the ODI series, has dropped seven places in the rankings and is now 28th in the batting list. All-rounder Irfan Pathan has also made some progress up the Player Rankings. The left-armer is now fourth in the bowling list, behind South African Shaun Pollock, Australia's Glenn McGrath and Shane Bond of New Zealand and he has eased up to third in the ODI all-rounder's table behind Pollock and England's Andrew Flintoff. Harbhajan Singh, the leading wicket-taker in the ODI series, is up six places to seventh in the Player Rankings for ODI bowlers while, further down that list, Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, who took 6-55 in Indore, has moved up 32 places to joint 66th with his best-ever haul of rating points. For England the positives from their crushing series lose come in the shape of James Anderson and Kevin Pietersen, both of whom have made significant strides up the rankings. Pietersen, the leading run-scorer on either side with 291 runs in five innings, is into the top 10, up eight places to the seventh slot and now has his best-ever haul of rating points. And Anderson, England's most successful bowler in the series with nine wickets, is back into the top 20, up six places to the 18th position. Pietersen is England’s highest-ranked batsman with Flintoff slipping five places to 19th and Marcus Trescothick, who missed the entire Test and ODI series for personal reasons, dropping to joint 20th, alongside Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq. Stephen Harmison is England’s top-ranked ODI bowler in the although he has dropped two places after missing the entire India series through injury, while Flintoff is joint 15th in the list with West Indian Ian Bradshaw. Further down that list, left-arm slow bowler Ian Blackwell has climbed 36 places to joint 55th, and now sits on the same number of rating points as Kenya’s Thomas Odoyo. England can at least draw a crumb of comfort from their series loss as, although they ended it in seventh place in the Championship table, they were sixth on April 1 and that means they have qualified for the second stage of the ICC Champions Trophy in India. Pakistan can overtake India and move into third place if they win both ODIs in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday and Wednesday. Two victories would give them 116 rating points and drop India to 114.
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Sania unfazed by injuries
New Delhi, April 16 “It’s a risk playing. But some time, we have to take risk, may be a bigger risk, though I hope I don’t break my bone or something...”, Sania noted. She admitted that she had back spasm “which is painful, but it’s not that bad”. Sania said she had no plans to rest as she was keen to play in the Fed Cup to compensate for her absence from last year’s edition, held in Delhi. “With Sania Mirza around, we start as the firm favourites,” said coach Enrico Piperno, after a practice session at the DLTA centre court here today. Sania, Ankita Bhambri and Isha Lakhani had a long sparring session, on the eve of their departure for Korea, and all three looked fit and raring to go. Piperno said Shikha Oberoi was asked to go straight to Korea from her base in the US to get adjusted to the “time zone difference” as last year, she had found it difficult coming to terms with the time zone lag. Piperno, a former Davis Cupper, was all praise for Sania for hitting the ball true and hard. “If she plays like this, nobody would be able to match her in Korea. With her around, we are the favourites. I wish last year was this year,” the coach-cum-non-playing captain said. (Sania did not play last year due to injury). “We have a great chance, Australia are beatable,” added Piperno. The tie will be played on hard courts, and Pipero did not envisage any problem. He expressed his surprise that “Sania has not won many matches in the past (with this kind of solid game)”. There would be seven teams, divided into two groups of four and three teams each, in the fray but Piperno was confident that India would reach the final, more so because Sania has been playing doubles quite well in the circuit in the recent weeks. |
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Table soccer tourney
concludes Fatehgarh Sahib, April 16 Saffron City School, Fatehgarh Sahib, lifted the overall trophy with the Table Soccer Academy, Jaipur, and Mahatma Gandhi International School, Ahmedabad, finishing second and third, respectively. On the final day of the competition, teams from Punjab and Chandigarh claimed four gold medals each. Rajasthan accounted for two out of the 10 on stake on the final day. Fatehgarh Sahib Additional Deputy Commissioner Devinder Pal Singh Walia distributed the prizes. Results: Girls u-6 singles: 1 Harmanpreet (Punjab), 2 Poonamjit (Punjab), 3 Nitika (Punjab). U-6 mixed doubles: 1 Jaswinder and Navjot (Punjab), 2 Dhurav and Kareen (Haryana), 3 Gursharan and Harmanjot (Punjab). Mixed doubles u-8: 1 Sahil and Diksha (Chandigarh), 2 Kritka and Kamal (Punjab), 3 Drishti and Patish (Chandigarh). Boys doubles u-10: 1 Jivanjot and Parssony (Punjab), 2 Sahil and Ashu (Punjab), 3 Nitin and Kamal (Punjab). Mixed doubles u-12: 1 Shubham and Rajlakshmi (Rajasthan), 2 Gagandeep and Diksha (Punjab), 3 Rajat and Jaspreet (Chandigarh). Boys u-14 singles: 1 Rahul (Rajasthan), 2 Lovjot (Punjab), 3 Gursimran and Mohit (Punjab). Girls u-14 doubles: 1 Gurleen and Sahiba (Chandigarh), 2 Sukhjeevan and Manjinder (Punjab), 3 Sonya Saini and Pooja (Rajasthan). Boys u-17 doubles: 1 Sarabjit Singh and Maninder (Punjab), 2 Sandeep and Satinder (Punjab), 3 Navdeep and Parshant ( Punjab). Boys u-19 doubles: 1 Kuljinder and Abhinav (Chandigarh), 2 Tribhuvan and Ankit (Chandigarh), 3 Sumit and Satyvrat (Haryana). Girls u-12 singles: Renu (Chandigarh), 2 Ayushi (Gujarat) and 3 Jainy (Gujarat).
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Modern School
win six-a-side title Patiala, April 16 The prizes were distributed by the former BCCI vice-president, Mr Sunil Dev, in the presence of the YPS Principal, Mr R.P Devgan, and other staff members of the school.
Jagrit Anand of Modern School, New Delhi, was declared the player of the final and the best all-rounder of the tournament. The best bowler’s prize went to Gaurav Gogoi of Assam Valley School, Guwahati while the best batsman’s prize was awarded to Sahil Kher of Modern School, New Delhi. The best fielder’s prize was given to Amitoz Singh of YPS, Patiala.
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