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Sachin scales 11,000-run summit
Indian bowlers deserve credit, says Cook
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Chawla bowls India ‘A’ to big win
CAB Poll
Tour de France
Kapur tied sixth; Jeev, Atwal disappoint
Montreal Chess
Asian Athletics Championship
India’s FIFA ranking down to 162
Soccer tourney in Srinagar
Dalbir academy emerge
victorious
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India tighten grip on Test
A skilful and stylish opening partnership of 147 between Dinesh Karthik (77) and Wasim Jaffer (62) laid the foundation for India taking a firm grip on the second Test against England at Trent Bridge. With Sachin Tendulkar, having completed his half-century, at the crease, a spectre of further toil loomed large over the Englishmen. At a slightly premature close on the second day because of bad light, India had advanced to 254 for three, after sweeping past England’s modest first innings total of 198. Tendulkar crossed the milestone 11,000 runs in his 139th Test. On a pitch of variable bounce, James Anderson struck the grill of his helmet with a nasty shorter ball. This generated animated debate among English TV commentators about his allegedly fading reflexes. Revenge, though, was swift, as he creamed the ball through the lush green turf with a wristy panache bordering on genius. Rahul Dravid, though, played early to Monty Panesar to be consumed at the squarer of two short extra covers positions employed by Michael Vaughan. Another full house greeted the Indians. Not surprisingly, a sizeable number were their supporters, as this East Midland region of England, especially Leicester, boasts a significant Indian origin population. Several draped themselves in the Tricolour, sometimes whipping it off to celebrate with it. “India, India,” they chanted! More privately, visiting former Indian cricketers, including the chairman of selectors, Dilip Vengsarkar, partook of local businessman Nat Puri’s hospitality in a suite named after the Nottinghamshire hurricane Harold Larwood, who shook the serenity of world cricket with his bodyline bowling in Australia in 1932-33. Anil Kumble and Zaheer Khan, with over 700 Test wickets between them, polished off England’s tail within 40 minutes of resumption. Of course, the big test was envisaged to be the English quicker bowlers in conditions still quite lenient to the leather. Karthik and Jaffer not only survived, but exhibited sumptuous shots, especially through the covers. Scoreboard
England (1st innings) Strauss c Tendulkar b Zaheer 4 Cook lbw Ganguly 43 Vaughan c Tendulkar Pietersen lbw RP Singh 13 Collingwood b Sreesanth 28 Bell lbw Zaheer 31 Prior c Dravid b Kumble 11 Tremlett b Kumble 20 Sidebottom not out 18 Panesar c Laxman b Zaheer 1 Anderson b Kumble 1 Extras (b-4, lb-11, nb-3, w-1) 19 Total (all out, 65.3 overs) 198 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-24, 3-47, 4-101, 5-109, 6-147, 7-157, 8-186, 9-195. Bowling:
Zaheer 21-5-59-4, Sreesanth 12-7-16-1, RP Singh 10-1-56-1, Ganguly 8-4-11-1, Kumble 12.3-2-32-3, Tendulkar 2-0-9-0. India (1st innings) Karthik c Cook b Panesar 77 Jaffer c Prior b Tremlett 62 Dravid c Bell b Panesar 37 Tendulkar not out 57 Ganguly not out 4 Extras (b-6, lb-10, w-1) 17 Total (3 wkts, 79 overs) 254 Fall of wickets:
1-147, 2-149, 3-246. Bowling: Sidebottom 17-1-55-0, Anderson 18-4-68-0, Tremlett 20-8-32-1, Collingwood 6-0-33-0, Panesar 18-5-50-2.
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Sachin scales 11,000-run summit
Nottingham, July 28 Tendulkar, who is the highest run-getter in one-day internationals, drove left-arm spinner Monty Panesar through the covers to achieve the feat during India's first innings. West Indies great Brian Lara (11,953) and former Australian captain Allan Border (11,174) are the two batsmen ahead of Tendulkar. After openers Dinesh Karthik and Wasim Jaffer had provided a solid start to India, Tendulkar accompanied captain Rahul Dravid to get past the England's first innings total of 198. The Mumbai batsman was targeted with bouncers by the English pacers, especially spearhead James Anderson. On one occasion, he received a nasty blow on the grill of his helmet, but still carried on to reach the landmark. Tendulkar had recently become the first batsman ever to reach 15,000 runs in one-day international cricket.
— PTI
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Indian bowlers deserve credit, says Cook
Nottingham, July 28 England were struggling at 169 for 7 at close after being put into bat on a track that had received lot of rain in the lead up to the match. "It was one of those days when none of the batters got in, or if they did, kept getting out," Cook added. Despite the England scoreboard not wearing a healthy look, Cook remained optimistic of his bowlers. "A good judge of a wicket and the conditions is when the second team bats," he said. "If we can bowl consistently as well as they did we can build pressure, and a couple of early wickets look big. "Tomorrow we'll know what's happened today. We might not have done well or we might have done excellently. "With the amount of rains we've had, the moisture will keep coming out in the sun, so it'll keep nipping around." He gave credit to the Indian bowlers for not giving his team enough scoring options. "When it swung and nipped around like that it was tough, and the Indian bowlers didn't give us too many scoring options."
— PTI
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Chawla bowls India ‘A’ to big win
Harare, July 28 Zimbabwe were dismissed for 216 in the second innings, leaving the Mohammad Kaif-led A team with a target of 65, which Team India discard Irfan Pathan and Rohit Sharma rattled off for the loss of just opener Robin Uthappa's wicket. Needing 136 more runs to avoid an innings defeat, Zimbabwe resumed the last day's play at 15 for one in the second innings with hopes of batting out the entire day to force a draw. But Pathan struck early, removing opener Hamilton Masakadza early. After that there was a lull as Indian pacers toiled away without success for a long time through a 108-run partnership between Vusi Sibanda (69) and Tatenda Taibu (40) before the young Piyush Chawla got into the act. He grabbed four wickets that included Sibanda, Taibu and Elton Chigumbura (30) to propel India towards victory. Mumbai's Romesh Pawar chipped in with two wickets and Rohit Sharma took one wicket while VRV Singh added another wicket to his overnight victim. Pathan, then opened in the second innings, hitting a breezy 30-ball 39 to take India home. Earlier replying to India's 489 all out, Zimbabwe were dismissed for 338, just two runs short of avoiding a follow on, with overnight not out Taibu doing bulk of the scoring to come up with a defiant 123 off 245 balls, studded with 11 fours. Chawla was the star performer for India 'A' in the first innings too, snapping up 4 for 40 off 22 overs while Pathan and Yo Mahesh picked up two wickets apiece. ''We started very well in the morning with Sibanda and Taibu getting quick runs but everything crumbled once Taibu fell,'' Zimbabwe Cricket spokesman Blessing Maulgue told VOA. ''The experienced guys need to pull up the socks. Only Taibu performed in the first innings. The guys like Masakadza, Sibanda and Chigumbura need to perform consistently and our batsman have to give something for our bowlers to defend,'' Maulgue said. The two sides will now square up in the second and final four-day game at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo starting on Tuesday. Brief scores: India A 489 (Uthappa 88, Patel 67, Sharma 66) and 69 for 1 (Pathan 39) beat Zimbabwe Select 338 (Taibu 123, Utseya 53, Chawla 4-40) and 216 (Sibanda 69, Taibu 40; Chawla 4-30) by 9 wickets.
— UNI
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CAB Poll
Kolkata, July 28 Mukherjee, also the city police commissioner, who retained the president’s post unopposed, had cause for more cheers as both his nominees for the joint secretary’s posts, Amitava Banerjee and Samar Pal, emerged winners over their rivals from the Dalmiya camp. Pal, who fought for the joint secretary’s post against the Dalmiya group spiritedly but unsuccessfully for years during the former board chief’s marathon reign over the association, finally succeeded, got 80 votes. Banerjee, who switched over to the Mukherjee camp just before the elections, finished second with 57. The two candidates of the Dalmiya panel, current joint secretary Saradindu Pal and assistant secretary Biswarup Dey, were rejected by the 118-member electorate. Dey managed 50 votes, while Pal got 40. Mukherjee’s nominee for the treasurer’s post, Tushar Sarkar, also emerged victorious over incumbent SK Kalyani. Sarkar got 68, while Kalyani received 50 votes.
— PTI
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On a roller-coaster
Stanford (USA), July 28 Unseeded Sania downed Schnyder 7-6 (7/2), 6-1 and set up a semifinal clash with eighth seed Sybille Bammer of Austria. The 20-year-old Hyderabadi has been enjoying a roller-coaster ride of late, reaching the last four stage in last week’s Cincinnati Open. Bammer advanced with a 6-2, 6-1 win over wild card Lilia Osterloh of the US. Sania had been in top form in the tournament and accounted for sixth-seeded Tatiana Golovin of France for a place in the quarterfinals. World number 17 and last year finalist Schnyder got off the blocks in a flash and raced to a commanding 5-2 lead before Sania came back hitting some powerful strokes and pushed the set to a tiebreak which she pocketed 7-2. Cheered on by a big crowd, Sania was into her elements in the second set and disposed Schnyder 6-1. “Experience and maturity are two things that I have learnt over the last two years and it helped out tonight,” said Sania, who reached the semifinals at Cincinnati last week. “When I am on the court, the crowd does get me going. This crowd is always cheering and there is always a positive vibe. But at the end of the day, you are the player and you are down 5-2, so you have to get it done,” Sania said. Sania, however, said beating two players ranked in top-20 does not mean that she is going to take her semifinal opponent Sybille, whom she has never played before, lightly. “Just because I was able to beat Golovin and Schnyder does not mean the road gets any easier tomorrow. Sybille is a great player and she is in the semifinals so she has been doing things right too.” “She (Sybille) has also been to a final this year. The only advantage maybe is that I played a left-hander today and now I will be playing another left-hander tomorrow,” said the world number
35. — PTI
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Tour de France
Angouleme (France), July 28 Casar scraped his hip in the crash and went on to win a Tour stage for the first time. He prevailed in a sprint among four cyclists who broke away from the main pack during the 211-km ride from Cahors to Angouleme yesterday. The 29-year-old Frenchman pumped his right fist as he crossed the line in 5 hours, 13 minutes, 31 seconds. He was followed by Axel Merckx of Belgium and Laurent Lefevre of France. “Finally! It’s been awhile that I’ve been waiting for this,” Casar said. “I almost dropped out after the fall, I didn’t see it coming.” Tom Boonen of Belgium cemented his hold on the green jersey given to the race’s best sprinter by leading the pack across the finish line, 8:34 after Casar. With the race heading into today’s crucial stage - a 55.5-km individual time trial from Cognac to Angouleme - Cadel Evans of Australia gained three seconds against Contador in the overall standings as the pack split near the finish. He now trails Contador by 1:50 with two stages left. US cyclist Levi Leipheimer is third, 2:49 back. “This yellow jersey is very important. It’s important that I have it tonight,” said Contador, who rides with the Discovery Channel team. “Tomorrow is the most difficult day of my career as an athlete. In this time trial, everything can change, my entire life can change and I hope I’ll keep it.” After Casar hit a dog, Evans rode into a female spectator at the finish line. Evans stayed on his bike, and the fan was unhurt, but in this topsy-turvy Tour it was another bizarre incident.
— AP
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Kapur tied sixth; Jeev, Atwal disappoint
Hamburg (Omaha), July 28 Overnight tied 61st, Kapur, who has managed to make the cut only once in his previous five outings, was in his elements yesterday. He opened his account with a superb eagle on the par-five third hole. He gained another stroke on the sixth and made the turn at three-under. Successive birdies on the 14 and 15th holes saw Kapur returning day’s second best card and jump a whopping 55 places up the leader board. At the halfway stage of the European Tour event, the 25-year-old Indian was aggregating six-under 138, three strokes off the pace jointly held by Englishmen Zane Scotland (68) and Lee Slattery (69). The other Indians, however, failed to advance to the weekend action and while Gaurav Ghei (74) and Randhawa (73) were done in by late bogeys, both missing the cut by a stroke, Jeev was never in the reckoning as he carded a horrendous 79 to slide to the bottom. Meanwhile, at the Nationwide Tour’s Cox Classic tourney in Omaha, Nebraska, Arjun Atwal returned a vastly improved two-under 69 but that couldn’t prevent him from missing the cut at the 650,000 event. The orlando-based Indian aggregated two-over 144 in two rounds where as the cut was applied at five-under. Roland Thatcher of the US fired eight-under 63 yesterday to take the lead with 15-under 127, while compatriot Scott Sterling (68) stayed at second with just a couple of strokes off the pace.
— UNI
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Montreal Chess
Montreal (Canada), July 28 Harikrishna now occupies the second position along with Tiviakov, half-a-point behind Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine. It was an exciting day in the tournament as four of the five games ended decisively and Ivanchuk made the most of Tiviakov's loss by shooting into the lead with a win against GM Kamil Miton with the black pieces. Grandmaster Nigel Short overcame his abysmal form to register his first victory of the tournament by beating Pavel Eljanov while Gata Kamsky fell back to the fourth position when he drew his game against Pascal Chabonneau.
— PTI
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Asian
Athletics Championship
New Delhi, July 28 Navpreet threw the iron ball to 19.70m in his second attempt to claim the yellow metal. Ming Huang Chang (19.66m) won the silver, while Khaled Habash M Al Suwaidi(19.51m) got the bronze. Earlier, Preeja finished second in 5,000m women’s final.
Preeja, who had won the silver in the 10,000m on Wednesday, clocked 16:56.16 behind Bahrain’s 19-year-old Jasmin Saleh Kareema (16:40.87). Korean Kim Gyong Mi (18:21.32) claimed the bronze medal.
Chitra Soman had won India’s first gold of the championship yesterday by triumphing in the women’s 400m race.
— PTI
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Asian Cup
Palembang (Indonesia), July 28 Lee Woon-jae blocked Japan’s sixth spot kick from Naotake Hanyu to give the 2002 World Cup semifinalists a place in the 2011 Asian Cup. South Korea were reduced to 10 men when Kang Min-soo was dismissed for a second yellow card after 57 minutes. South Korea’s Dutch coach Pim Verbeek and two of his assistants were ordered to follow Kang down the tunnel for protesting furiously at the referee’s decision. Japan’s bid for a third successive title ended in a 3-2 defeat by Saudi Arabia in the semifinals, while South Korea were knocked out by Iraq on penalties.
— Reuters
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India’s FIFA ranking down to 162
New Delhi, July 28 India had begun 2007 with a 0-6 drubbing at the hands of Japan and then lost to Yemen 0-3 at home in the Asian Football Confederation Cup qualifiers, from which the country are yet to recover, despite the appointment of English coach Bob Houghton as the chief national coach. Surprisingly, India’s little neighbours like Myanmar (151), Maldives (157) and Sri Lanka (160) are better-placed, though as a minor consolation, Bangladesh (172), Pakistan (176) and Bhutan (196) lag behind India. Japan head the Asian Football Confederation with a ranking of 36 while Iran (46) and Australia (49) occupy the second and third positions, respectively. India enjoyed a high ranking of 94 in February 1996, which fell to 143 in July, 2004. Since then, India have been struggling to break into the 100-club without success. The top 10 in the FIFA ranking are Brazil, followed by Argentina, Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Croatia, Portugal, Spain and Mexico.
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Soccer tourney in Srinagar
Srinagar, July 28 A total of 36 top teams have confirmed their participation in the 21-day tournament, JKFA president Zameer Ahmad Thakur told a news conference here today. Appealing to business houses to come forward to help revive, once the most popular football in the valley, Thakur said, ''we lack fields and other facilities for the game.''
— UNI
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Shooting coach Dhillon promoted
Chandigarh, July 28 Dhillon was the coach during the Doha games and World Cups held in Sydney (April 25 to May 3) and Bangkok (May 3 to May 11).
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Dalbir academy emerge
victorious
Patiala, July 28 In the last league match, Dalbir academy, aided by a splendid effort by stopper back Karamjit Singh downed New Public Football Academy, Chandigarh 1-0. With today's victory, Dalbir academy accumulated 12 points to emerge triumphant in the tournament which was basically meant to tap talent from the rural areas. Sports wing, Bhado emerged runners up by gathering 10 points. In today's match the Bhado team beat Khair Accharwal 1-0. The Bhado outfit could have been in the running for the top slot had Dalbir Football Academy not steamrolled its way past it by a 6-0 in yesterday's league match. The prizes were distributed by Parminder Dhindsa, PWD Minister, Punjab in the presence of S.S Boparai, vice-chancellor, Punjabi University, Dr Raj Kumar Sharma, Director (sports), Dr Gurdeep Kaur, Assistant Director (sports), Gagandeep Singh, chairman of the Dalbir Football Academy, the organisers of the tournament, and a host of other sports dignitaries. On the occasion, Parminder Dhindsa announced a grant of Rs 81,000 to Dalbir football academy.
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