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Warne, McGrath in ‘duck race’
Shane to pay $20,000 to Galle Club
Jayasuriya’s Nelson sinks Kiwis
WADA asks PCB to suspend Shoaib, Asif
Haryana lose to Baroda
CFA players to train in Germany
Liberals Hockey
Rastogi rallies to enter semis
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SA dominate in gloom Ashis Ray Kingsmead (Durban), December 28 Only VVS Laxman, with an unbeaten 50 held out on the burning deck. India folded up for 240 in their first innings, thus conceding a significant lead of 88. The hosts were 64 for no wicket in their second venture, when a combination of power failure, which blanked the electronic scoreboards and extinguished the floodlights, and poor light aborted proceedings, with 37 overs remaining. Thus, 89 overs have been sacrificed in the first three days. Conditions were perfect for fast bowling. It was overcast, humid and, since play started half an hour early, there was greater residual sweat on the pitch from the overnight cover. But the ball was old; and the confidence with which Sachin Tendulkar and Laxman resumed - the former more aggressively, his partner sound, but cautious - it could well have been sunny on a shirt front. The Mumbai master sumptuously off-drove Makhaya Ntini to complete his first half-century of the year. Indeed, he looked in command, when he, in the circumstances, attempted an amazingly irresponsible square cut to pay the penalty. The fourth wicket partnership added a partially stabilising 64 runs. But another wicket fell without disturbing the scorer, as Ntini produced a snorter in the same over, which flew to gully off the handle of Saurav Ganguly’s bat. A shell-shocked batsman walked after substitute umpire Ian Howell didn’t bother to adjudicate. The presence of the TV umpire, Howell, on the field was necessitated by Mark Benson retiring after complaining of heart palpitations. He was taken to hospital for a precautionary electro-cardiogram. The light progressively deteriorated. The floodlights were activated to artificially facilitate play. The South Africans, particularly Andrew Nel, ruthlessly but legitimately aimed at Laxman’s head and heart, with a forward short leg in attendance. But the Hyderabad stylist, who bats without an arm-guard, skilfully withstood the barrage, though once struck a painful blow on the upper arm, which required attention. Barring an indiscreet hook, which he fortuitously didn’t connect, he was bent on occupation rather than ostentation. It took him nearly two hours to unfurl his first boundary of the day; and he procured a mere 18 runs in the two and a half hour session before lunch. But, running out of partners, he slightly accelerated after the break, once memorably punching off the back foot through extra cover. Mahendra Dhoni is invariably in one-day mode with the bat. He tempted fate by uppishly running the ball between three slips and a gully, then drove more authentically into the offside, before inevitably driving without taking his front foot to the line of the ball to present Abraham de Villiers with his third catch of the innings at second slip. Morne Morkel, having thus captured his maiden Test wicket, proceeded to ensnare two more, before the Nel-Sreesanth sparring was rekindled. The giant fast bowler twirled his index finger as he discomfited the Keralite with bouncers. The latter replied by whirling his bat, after managing to edge a four to thirdman. Indeed, he not only saw off his nemesis with a well timed drive to the long-off ropes, but repeated this with equal alacrity against Andrew Hall. The total climbed past 200, the 50 came up for the ninth wicket, but it was too good to last. Scoreboard South Africa (1st innings) 328 India (1st innings) Jaffer c De Villiers b Ntini 26 Sehwag c De Villiers b Nel 0 Dravid lbw Nel 11 Tendulkar c Boucher b Ntini 63 Laxman not out 50 Ganguly c Gibbs b Ntini 0 Dhoni c De Villiers b Morkel 34 Kumble c Boucher b Morkel 0 Zaheer c Amla b Morkel 2 Sreesanth c Boucher b Hall 28 VRV c Boucher b Pollock 4 Extras (b-1, lb-7, nb-12, w-2) 22 Total (all out, 77.5 overs) 240 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-35, 3-61, 4-125, 5-125, 6-179, 7-179, 8-183, 9-235. Bowling: Nel 23-5-60-2, Ntini 15-4-41-3, Morkel 18-1-86-3, Pollock 14.5-10-17-1, Hall 7-0-28-1. South Africa (2nd innings) Smith batting 28 De Villiers batting 31 Extras (lb-2, w-1, nb-2) 5 Total (no loss, 19.3 overs) 64 Bowling: Zaheer 10-4-22-0, Sreesanth 7.3-2-20-0, VRV Singh 2-0-20-0.
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Weather holds the key The weather will decide the outcome of the Durban Test match if one goes by what happened over the past three days. While it hasn’t rained during the day, the light has gone down so badly and so quickly late in the afternoon that there has hardly been any play after tea on all the three days. And though the umpires have started the game early the next days to try and catch up on lost time, it is still only half-an-hour or so and with the teams being packed with new ball bowlers the over rate hasn’t exactly been sprightly to say the least. At this level teams don’t mind being fined if it suits the teams interests because quite simply a fine is preferable to a defeat in the game. The fine can always be made up with the winners’ cheque though international cricket offers the worst prize money to world-class players compared to other big televised sports. It is quite pathetic really and the reason why players don’t mind dawdling about because there is not much to lose nor much to gain either. If and when the home boards finally give a greater percentage of the TV rights as prize money to teams for winning games and thus maintaining the interest in the game, there will continue to be these situations where bowlers will take their own time and fielders will be moving at their own sweet pace to move into positions and it will be the game that will suffer and lose supporters. India did well to bat on and reduce the South African lead to less than 100. That means that the initiative to try and win the Test and level the series is with the home team who will have to make all the moves. The South African top order is not in the best of form and so it isn’t easy for them to go hammer and tongs at the Indian bowling to get a quick score on the board and set up a declaration to win the game. The weather forecast being what it is, the overs needed to get India out in the second innings cannot be properly estimated and no team will want to leave a smallish total against this Indian side to chase simply because of the Sehwag factor. Even though he is not in prime form, he is perfectly capable of taking the game away and so the declaration has to be very carefully thought out. Tendulkar’s dismissal was disappointing as he was looking good for a real big one and he too would be upset with the manner of his dismissal trying to steer a ball through the slip cordon. That it was his first fifty of the year is hard to believe but it also tells you that this game can be cruel to the greatest of players. Laxman’s innings was a patient one, and one that the team needed. It was important that India not only got runs but also took time for unless South Africa collapse in the second innings India will be looking to draw the game and thus go to Cape Town knowing that they can’t lose the series. There are now about 200 overs left in the game but perhaps the weather will reduce it to less than 150 and which may not be enough to get a result. — PMG
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Melbourne, December 28 The Australians, hellbent on exacting full revenge for losing the Ashes in England last year, routed the tourists for 161 in their second innings off 65.5 overs to win the Boxing Day Test inside three days. Led by pacemen Brett Lee and Stuart Clark, Australia wrapped up the comprehensive victory at 5:44 pm and will be out to emulate Warwick Armstrong’s 1921 team when they shoot for a series clean sweep in the fifth Test, starting on Tuesday. It was Australia’s 15th win (one drawn) in their last 16 Tests since losing the Ashes in September 2005. Lee captured 4-47 off 18.5 overs and Clark claimed 3-30 from 16 overs, including the psychological wickets of Kevin Pietersen (1) and skipper Andrew Flintoff (25). It was another sorry England batting performance following their abject first innings of 159 off 74.2 overs after winning the toss and trailed by 260 runs on the first innings. Clark triggered England’s demise when he bowled Alastair Cook and Pietersen in the hour after lunch when England slumped to 49 for three. Cook got an inside edge onto his stumps and was bowled for 20 and Ian Bell was leg before wicket for the second time in the Test when trapped by Glenn McGrath for two to give the retiring paceman his 557th Test wicket in his 123rd match. Pietersen, promoted above Paul Collingwood to No. 4 in the order, lasted just nine balls before he was beaten by Clark and bowled off-stump for one. Collingwood was out for 16 in a soft dismissal, taking a Lee delivery on the rise and driving straight to Justin Langer close in to the wicket. Andrew Strauss was out to the fifth ball after tea, nibbling at Lee to be caught by Gilchrist for 31 in 174 minutes. Clark struck again for the third time, trapping Flintoff leg before wicket for 25 to expose England’s brittle tail at 108 for six. Shane Warne removed Sajid Mahmood (0) and Steve Harmison (4), both lbw, for his 706th Test wicket. Lee had Monty Panesar caught in the gully for 14 and clinched victory when he bowled Matthew Hoggard for five. Wicketkeeper Chris Read remained not out on 26 in 127 minutes. Warne, playing in his last Test in Melbourne before he retires after next week’s final Test, remained unbeaten on 40 with six fours in Australia’s first innings of 419. Scoreboard England (1st innings) 159 Australia (1st innings) 419 England (2nd innings) Strauss c Gilchrist b Lee 31 Cook b Clark 20 Bell lbw McGrath 2 Pietersen b Clark 1 Collingwood c Langer b Lee 16 Flintoff lbw Clark 25 Read not out 26 Mahmood lbw Warne 0 Harmison lbw Warne 4 Panesar c Clarke b Lee 14 Hoggard b Lee 5 Extras (lb-12, w-1, nb-4) 17 Total (all out, 65.5 overs) 161 Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-47, 3-49, 4-75, 5-90, 6-108, 7-109, 8-127, 9-146. Bowling: Lee 18.5-6-47-4, McGrath 12-2-26-1, Clark 16-6-30-3, Warne 19-3-46-2. — AFP
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Melbourne, December 28
Australia’s champion bowlers, who retire from Test cricket after the Sydney Test against England at the SCG, will be out to do their best to avoid taking second place on one of cricket’s most unwanted rolls of honour. The prolific tag-duo might be the most potent threat to any opposition with their bowling arsenal, but the regularity of their ducks has always given opposition something to cheer about. McGrath’s duck in Australia’s first innings on day three of the fourth Test at the MCG gave the fast bowler 35 noughts in Test matches, one more than Warne, who made 40 not out in the home side’s 419. Warne’s record is no better. The master spinner has been dismissed 34 times on zero in 198 Test innings, while McGrath’s 35th duck came in his 137th innings. Former West Indies fast bowler Courtney Walsh remains Test cricket’s biggest duck collector, with 43 from 185 innings. However, the saving grace for Warne is that he is the best batsman among the most prolific duck makers, with 11 half-centuries, including a career best score of 99. Muttiah Muralitharan, most likely to take over Warne’s record for Test wickets, with only four ducks behind Warne, is also certain to pass him on the duck ladder. — PTI
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Shane to pay $20,000 to Galle Club
Melbourne, December 28 Warne announced more than $500,000 in donations to four Australian children’s charities on Tuesday, the second anniversary of tsunami, and promised that he would also pay to the Lankan Club. “I can say we’re giving the Sri Lankan Cricket Club $20,000 today, which goes towards helping build some cricket grounds,” he was quoted as saying by the Sydney Morning Herald today. Club Director Jayananda Warnaweera threatened Warne of legal action after his Charitable Trust had failed to deliver a promised $50,000 for repair of the ground, where the spinner took his 500th Test wicket in March 2004. Warne’s foundation had promised in an email that their fund-raisers would net $50,000 for the reconstruction of the ground but later said that “unfortunately” the cost of the promotion was greater than the amount collected and there would be no money forthcoming. — PTI
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Monty beats Castro for best beard award
London, December 28 The Beard Liberation Front (BLF), an informal network of beard wearers, said in a press note that Panesar has finished on top, narrowly beating Castro. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and veteran trade union leader Paul Mackney were tied for the third place after a vote of BLF supporters for the hirsute person who has made the most impact on public life in 2006. Other nominees for this year’s award included author Bill Bryson, broadcaster Bill Frindall, politician George Galloway, journalist Christopher Howse, broadcaster Brian Perkins, author Terry Pratchett, broadcaster Tom Robinson, Stilton cheesemaker Richard Rowlett, actor Ricky Tomlinson, Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia and musician Robert Wyatt. Panesar, first Sikh player to don England jersey, has been a front-runner for the award right from the beginning and BLF organiser Keith Flett told BBC Radio Northampton that it was combination of facial hair and on-field heroics which tilted the scale in the spinner’s favour. “He may have a beard for slightly different reasons, but at the end of the day it’s still a beard, and it’s a magnificent beard,” Mr Flett reasoned. Incidentally, Andrew Flintoff had won the inaugural edition of the award back in 2004 and was declared joint winner, along with Paul Mackney, last year for his gingery-blond designer stubble. Fighting a lost Ashes battle in Australia, Flintoff did not feature in the nominations this year as his “beard has declined during 2006,” according to the BLF statement. The Beard of the Year Award is a prize awarded in December of each year in the UK by the BLF to acknowledge someone in the public eye who has created positive publicity for the wearing of beards. — UNI
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Jayasuriya’s Nelson sinks Kiwis
Napier, December 28 Jayasuriya’s Nelson (111) came from just 82 balls as Sri Lanka overhauled New Zealand’s respectable 285-8 — including an undefeated 128 from rookie Ross Taylor — with 10 overs to spare on an ideal batting surface at McLean Park. Jayasuriya and fellow opener Upal Tharanga plundered the wayward attack, smashing 90 runs from the first 10 overs and hitting another 50 from the next five. The 37-year-old Jayasuriya showed no signs of age as he hit 12 fours and five sixes in his whirlwind innings. James Franklin despatched both openers in consecutive balls in the 25th over, bringing to an end the 201-run partnership. Jayasuriya was caught a few steps inside the backward point boundary and Tharanga offered a nick to wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum. But Sri Lanka’s victory was all but in the bag, with skipper Mahela Jayawardene (34 not out) and Kumar Sangakkara (36) ensuring the victory. The absence of the home side’s top bowlers, including speedster Shane Bond who was being rested, cost New Zealand dearly. New Zealand pace bowlers Andre Adams, Michael Mason and debutant Mark Gillespie all conceded more than seven runs an over. Left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori, standing in as skipper for a resting Stephen Fleming, was the only bowler to emerge with his reputation intact, finishing with 1-36 from eight overs. Taylor and veteran Nathan Astle (83) provided the backbone of the New Zealand innings in a 151-run partnership, which at one stage appeared likely to set up a huge total. But New Zealand lost six wickets for 63 runs in the last 12 overs as the Sri Lankan bowlers found the tight line which had eluded them earlier. The big-hitting Taylor, playing only his third one-dayer, scored his first international century off 133 balls in a masterful innings which included four sixes and 12 fours. The 22-year-old brought up his century in the 44th over and had to battle cramps as he struggled through to end of the innings. Astle survived some shaky early overs and poor recent form to recover his swashbuckling style of old. His innings ended cruelly when bowler Jayasuriya deflected a drive from Taylor on to the stumps at the non-striker’s end, leaving Astle stranded outside the crease. The wily Chaminda Vaas with 3-50 was the pick of Sri Lanka’s bowlers, taking the wickets of Vettori and James Marshall in consecutive balls to put the brakes on the New Zealand innings. Lasith Malinga made up for a loose early spell with two late wickets for a tally of 2-66. Scoreboard New Zealand McCullum lbw Vaas 10 Astle run out 83 Taylor not out 128 Fulton c Sangakkara b Muralitharan 24 Vettori c Jayawardene b Vaas 5Marshall lbw Vaas 0 Marshall c Sangakkara b Fernando 17Franklin b Malinga 2 Adams b Malinga 3 Gillespie not out 1 Extras (lb-4, nb-4, w-4) 12 Total (8 wkts, 50 overs) 285 Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-169, 3-222, 4-229, 5-229, 6-257, 7-262, 8-280. Bowling: Vaas 10-0-50-3, Malinga 10-0-66-2, Fernando 5-0-43-1, Muralitharan 10-0-48-1, Jayasuriya 10-0-42-0, Dilshan 5-0-32-0. Sri Lanka Tharanga c McCullum b Franklin 68Jayasuriya c Fulton b Franklin 111Jayawardene not out 34 Sangakkara c&b Vettori 36 Atapattu not out 7 Extras (b-3, lb-3, nb-12, w-12) 30Total (3 wkts, 40 overs) 286 Fall of wickets: 1-201, 201-2, 3-271. Bowling: Franklin 10-0-69-2, Mason 6-0-60-0, Gillespie 9-0-64-0, Adams 7-0-54-0, Vettori 8-0-36-1. — AFP
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WADA asks PCB to suspend Shoaib, Asif Karachi, December 28 PCB should conduct fresh dope tests of the two bowlers and until a decision is reached by WADA on the issue both players should be suspended from playing national or international cricket, Dr Waqar Ahmed, WADA’s representative in Pakistan, told a news channel tonight. It would be best for both players if they were stopped playing until the traces of nandrolone were gone from their bodies, Ahmed said in an interview. “WADA has the authority to send its team to any country and also conduct target and out of competition tests,” he said, adding that there was wrong impression about the authority and jurisdiction of WADA once countries became a signatory to its anti-doping policy. “Even the International Cricket Council has the authority to stop both players from playing international cricket,” Ahmed said. Dr Ahmed was on the drugs inquiry panel of the board that had in November banned Shoaib for two years and Asif for one year after they tested positive for a banned substance, nandrolone.
— PTI
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Haryana lose to Baroda
Vadodara, December 28 This crucial win earned four points for Baroda and kept the team in contention for a semifinal berth with a tally of 13 points. Set a target of 213 runs for victory, Baroda, in the second innings, were in a precarious position overnight as they had lost five wickets with just 119 runs on the board. When proceedings began this morning, overnight batsman Ajit Bhoite (1) failed to add to the score and was brilliantly caught in the first slip by Sunny Singh off a Joginder Sharma delivery. With the score reading 134 for six, skipper Martin dropped anchor and batted cautiously. He got good support from 18-year-old wicketkeeper Pinal Shah, who made an unbeaten 36 runs. Haryana captain Joginder Sharma tried his best to break the partnership between Martin and Shah and went to the extent of asking wicketkeeper Mahesh Rawat to bowl five overs. Sharma tried seven bowlers, but could not break the rhythm of the batsmen. The two got their act together and forged a seventh-wicket partnership of 79 runs in 225 balls to see their team coast to victory in the 90th over. Martin hit the winning runs by hitting a Sunny Singh delivery to the fence. His knock contained 11 fours. Punjab gain 2 points
Jaipur: Punjab gained two points by virtue of a first-innings lead of 99 runs as their Elite Group B Ranji Trophy match against Rajasthan ended in a draw here on Thursday. In reply to Rajasthan’s first-innings total of 332, Punjab finished at 431, with skipper Pankaj Dharmani contributing 167 and Uday Kaul hitting 117. In the second innings, Rajasthan were 65 for 2 when stumps were drawn. — Agencies
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Himachal CM honours shooters
Dharamsala, December 28 During a ceremony at the Vidhan Sabha complex, the Chief Minister presented a draft for Rs 30 lakh to Samresh for winning five gold, one silver and one bronze, Rs 10 lakh to Vijay Kumar for winning two gold medals and Rs 8 lakh to Anuja for winning one gold and one silver. Mr Virbhadra Singh said these Himachal players had been honoured as per the announcement made by him during the Vidhan Sabha session held in March. Ram Lal Thakur, Youth Services and Sports Minister, talked about the various schemes being implemented by the state government for the welfare of sportspersons. Samresh has won 26 gold, 16 silver and eight bronze in international events. He was also declared the best sportsperson of the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Vijay has the credit of winning 24 gold, eight silver and 24 bronze in various national events. Anuja has bagged 17 gold, 12 silver and 10 bronze medals in national meets.
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CFA players to train in Germany
Chandigarh, December 28 The Finance-cum-Sports Secretary of Chandigarh Administration, Mr S.K. Sandhu, and the Director of Sports, Mr Inderjit Singh Sandhu, have just returned from Germany after signing an agreement with the Leipzig institute. The agreement provides for specialised training of young players of the academy at one of the largest indoor artificial turf hall in Germany. Besides, the Leipzig institute also has outdoor artificial turf grass fields thus providing the year round training facilities for football players. It may be pertinent to mention here that the Director of Sports, Mr Inderjit Singh Sandhu, had during his preliminary exploratory visit to Leipzig during the World Cup had visited the institute. Mr Mukesh Lal, an NRI engaged in catering and hotel industry, acted as facilitator in getting the agreement signed in Leipzig last week. The agreement was signed by Mr S.K. Sandhu and Mr Andre Kuhn, Director of the Leipzig institute. The first batch of 12 players and a coach will be in Leipzig from May 24 to June 8 this year. The second batch of 12 players and a coach will go on November 18. The training would be provided to young Chandigarh footballers on nominal payment basis, which would include boarding, lodging, classroom teaching and practical training. Visiting Chandigarh players would also play regular matches with local teams in Leipzig. Besides, the two batches, a German coach would visit Chandigarh Football Academy in September next year for evaluation, assessment and to supervise the progress of trainees. Since Mr S.K. Sandhu heads Department of Local Bodies in the Chandigarh Administration, he also visited office of the Mayor of Leipzig besides going to Leipzig Graduate School of Management for a possible tie-up for exchange programme for students for the two countries.
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Liberals Hockey Ravi Dhaliwal
Nabha, December 28 After today’s matches, CISF, Punjab Police, Namdhari XI and PSB Academy beat their respective rivals to make it to the last-eight stage. The teams which have already qualified for the quarterfinals are Jagraon Police, who are turning out to be the dark horses of the tournament , Friends Club, Jagraon, Air Force, New Delhi and SRC, Ramgarh. The highlight of the day was the cautious yet effective display by eight-time winners Punjab Police, who delivered the knockout punch to holders Corps of Signals 6-5. Punjab Police, an outfit known to question umpires’ decisions at the drop of a hat, played like a disciplined team today and the proceedings were well controlled by international umpire Satinder Sharma and his colleague Devinder Singh. The Punjab cops went ahead in the first half when striker Satwinder deflected home the ball but the policemen’s joy was shortlived when Signals levelled the score off a penalty corner. Playing with extra caution, the policemen did not take too many chances and the match went into the tie-breaker, in which the cops won 6-5. The first match turned out to be a dull encounter with both CISF and Central Railway, Mumbai, putting up an insipid display. Mumbai started out as the pre-match favourites but its midfield failed to coordinate with both the frontline and the defence. Bereft of good passes, the Mumbai frontline looked toothless. The fact that Mumbai’s only goal, scored late in the second half, was scored by Nilesh Mane, playing as a withdrawn midfielder, underlines how ineffective the attack was. For a major part of the first half, CISF, who won 2-1, dominated with forwards Shahid Hussain and Jai Pal jelling well with the later showing a lot of agility with his darting runs down the middle. Just close to the lemon time, centre-half Parteek Kumar fed Shahid Hussain with a measured pass near the 25-yard line. Hussain collected the ball neatly and sent in a reverse flick which saw Mumbai custodian Shailendra Rana diving the wrong way. A buoyant CISF started playing with aggression. An infringement in the striking circle saw a penalty corner being awarded to CISF and Harish Kumar, after fumbling in his earlier attempts, scored his team’s second goal off an indirect attempt. The sinking Mumbai railmen became a trifle bit too aggressive and started resorting to some rough play. Just towards the close of the match, Nilesh Mane sounded the board for Western Railway to reduce the margin. In other matches, Namdhari XI downed RCF, Kapurthala, 4-2, while PSB Academy got the better of Northern Railway 2-0.
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Rastogi rallies to enter semis
New Delhi, December 28 The fourth-seeded Rastogi thus justified his seeding as the fifth-seeded Jelenic was a very tough opponent, who, however, got tired in the decider. Ashutosh Singh was, however, not that lucky as despite winning the second set, he could not prevail over Todor Enev of Bulgaria and lost 2-6, 6-3, 2-6 after battling it out in extremely cold and windy weather. Top-seeded Alexey Kedriouk of Kazakhstan posted the quickest victory when he despatched Sarvar Ikramov of Uzbekistan 6-4, 6-4 in 58 minutes. Hyun-Woo Nam of South Korea avenged his defeat in the final of the first leg last Saturday when he knocked out third-seeded Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan 6-4, 6-4 in about an hour. Meanwhile, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya of Chandigarh, partnering Kedriouk, made amends for his early exit from singles to move up in doubles, defeating the Indian duo of Aditya Madkekar and Purav Raja 7-5, 6-3. Stephan Amritraj and Mustafa Ghouse also kept themselves in the title fray when they got the better of Vinod Sridhar and Vishal Uppal 6-4, 6-4.
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