Thursday, December 31, 1998
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India fail to break jinx
abroad National
soccer league from Jan 5 |
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Delhi to host first Test
match Upset
victories for Anirban, Shubham
Haryana
grapplers win team title Sasikiran,
Kidambi joint leaders Robin,
Nikhil, Kanitkar for one-dayers Walsh
to miss Test; Ambrose doubtful Bhupathi
drubs Fazaluddin Services
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India fail to break jinx abroad WELLINGTON, Dec 30 (PTI) — India’s miserable record abroad continued as their bowlers failed today to tame the New Zealand batting to lose by four wickets the second cricket Test which was tantalisingly poised on the first four days. With the Basin Reserve track here providing no assistance to their spinners the Indians could do little but watch the Kiwis run away with the match this morning, thanks to a century partnership for the sixth wicket between Craig McMillan and chris cairns which saw the home side overhaul a modest victory target of 213 by scoring 215 for six, just 23 minutes after lunch. While the Indians have yet to break the jinx of not winning an away Test in five years, the New Zealand’s win, fifth successive triumph on home soil, gave them 1-0 lead in the three-match series after rain forced the first Test in Dunedin to be abandoned without a ball being bowled. The last Test India won abroad was at Colombo in 1993 when they won the three match series against Sri Lanka 1-0. In the final morning, India tasted early success but their fielding was ordinary as they failed to put pressure on the Kiwis compounding the ineffectiveness of the bowling. Resuming at overnight score of 73 for four, New Zealand lost an early wicket of Paul Wiseman (0), trapped leg before wicket by paceman Javagal Srinath but the pair of MacMillan (74 not out) and Cairns (61) made light of the 140 runs they needed during the day — against all speculations of an uphill struggle. The pair put on 137 runs for a record sixth-wicket stand against India bettering the previous best of 87 by J.W. Guy and A.R. MacGibbon compiled at Hyderabad in 1955-56 season and dispelled all expectations of the visitors. It was New Zealand’s fourth win from six Test matches this year while India faced third straight defeat from five Tests this year — losing both the away matches. India started the day on an encouraging note claiming Wiseman’s wicket before the home side could add any runs to their overnight total. The ever-unpredictable Cairns joined McMillan in the middle and showed no nerves to pace-spin attack of Srinath-Anil Kumble. He started gracefully stroking runs at ease and with handy crowd cheering him, the Indians began to lose poise and efficiency on the field. McMillan soon coasted to his half century (50 — 4x4, 1x5, 81b) after he suffered a deadly blow on his shoulder from a Srinath delivery, which did not lift as much as the batsman had expected to. With Cairns punishing the bowlers, the 50-run stand between the two came in only 51 minutes off 72 balls before he survived a close call when an appeal to a straightforward catch by Rahul Dravid at forward short-leg was denied by the umpire much to the chargin of the Indian fielders. Carins rubbed further salt in India’s wounds when he came down the pitch and slammed Harbhajan Singh out of the ground and raced to a career-reviving 50 (4x4, 1x6, 71b) as New Zealand went for lunch sitting meerely at 188 for five. The all-rounder started the second session and looked to be in hurry to finish off the match. Cairns twice drove Srinath straight down the ground for fours before Kumble dropped him at gully. Srinath, however, had the consolation of taking Carins’ wicket with hosts needing just two runs for victory. The batsman played an uppish shot to Ajay Jadeja in extra cover. Dion Nash flicked the first ball he faced to the square-leg boundary and brought up an exciting win for his team. Overnight batsman McMillan remained unbeaten on 74, made off 121 balls in 194 minutes and laced with six fours. India, hungry for a win abroad, however, gave a lacklustre performance on the field even as bowlers failed to gain any turn from the pitch. Skipper Mohammad Azharuddin mainly relied on his pace-spin attack of Srinath-Kumble and they both tried to justify captain’s confidence, but lacked a cutting edge. Srinath claimed nightwatchman Wiseman quickly, but then had to wait for Cairns to play a loose shot near the end to gain further reward. The third and final Test will be played in Hamilton from January 2 with Indian captain hinting some changes in the team composition when the visitors will aim to square the series. SCOREBOARD India (1st innings): 208 (M. Azharuddin 103, S.R. Tendulkar 47, S.B. Doull 7-65). New Zealand (1st innings): 352 (Nash 89, D.L. Vettori 57, A. Kumble 4-33). India (2nd innings): 356 (S.C. Ganguly 48, Tendulkar 113, Azharuddin 48, D.J. Nash 3-20). New Zealand (2nd innings): Bell c Dravid b Srinath 0 Horne lbw b Kumble 31 Fleming b Kumble 17 Astle retired hurt 1 McMillan not out 74 Parore run out 1 Wiseman lbw Srinath 0 Cairns c Jadeja b Srinath 61 Nash not out 4 Extras (B-9, LB-9, NB-8) 26 Total (for 6 wkts, 60.3 overs) 215 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-42, 3-51, 4-67, 5-74, 6-211. Bowling:
Srinath 19.3-1-82-3, Prasad 10-3-26-0, Kumble 23-5-70-2,
H. Singh 5-1-11-0, S. Tendulkar 3-0-8-0. |
National soccer league from Jan 5 BANGALORE, Dec 30 (PTI) — JCT, Phagwara, will clash with Mohun Bagan in the inaugural match of the third National Football League which gets under way at Delhi’s Ambedkar Stadium on January 5. Releasing the league draft, Alberto Colaco, Chairman, National Football League, said the top three teams from each of the two groups would qualify for the super league to be played on a home-and-away format, which would again be on a double-leg basis. "The Santosh Trophy will be held at Chennai from March 16 while it would be held in Kerala in the year 2000. Bihar will be conducting the under-21 championship. Negotiations are on with the Orissa Government for the Nehru Cup, but it is yet to be confirmed,’ said Colaco. Asked about the poor performance of the Indian football team at the Asian Games, he said "lack of exposure is the main reason." "We are looking out for a foreign coach and the present coach has been relieved from duty." Group "A" Mohun Bagan, Air-India, Dempo, JCT, Tollygunge and Churchil Bros. JCT v/s Mohun Bagan (Jan 5 at Delhi); Tollygunge v/s Air-India (Cal-Jan 6); Dempo v/s Churchill Bros (Goa-Jan 6). Mohun Bagan v/s Air-India (Cal-Jan 10); Dempo v/s JCT: (Goa-Jan 9); Tollygunge v/s Churchill Bros: (Cal-Jan 11). Mohun Bagan v/s Churchill: (Cal-Jan 14); Tollygunge vs Dempo: (Cal-Jan 13); Air India v/s JCT (Mumbai-Jan 14). Mohun Bagan v/s Dempo: (Cal-Jan 18); Churchill Bros v/s Air-India (Goa-Jan 18); JCT v/s Tollygunge (Ludhiana-Jan 19). Dempo v/s Air-India (Goa-Jan 22); Mohun Bagan v/s Toillygunge (Cal-Jan 23); Churchill Bros v/s JCT (Cal-Jan 25). Mohun Bagan v/s JCT: (Cal-Jan 28); Air-India v/s Tollygunge (Mumbai-Jan 29); Churchill v/s Dempo: (Goa-Jan 30). Air-India v/s Dempo: (Mumbai-Feb 4); Tollygunge v/s Mohun Bagan: (Cal-Feb 3; JCT v/s Churchill: (Ludhiana Feb 3). Air-India v/s Mohun Bagan: (Mumbai-Feb 6); JCT v/s Dempo: (Ludhiana-Feb 7), Churchill v/s Mohun bagan (Goa-Feb 10); Dempo v/s Tollygunge: (Goa-Feb 11); JCT v/s Air-India (Ludhiana-Feb 11). Dempo v/s Mohun Bagan (Goa-Feb 14); Air-India v/s Churchill: (Mumbai-Feb 14); Tollygunge v/s JCT: (Cal-Feb 14). Group (B) East Bengal, Salgaocar, ITI, Indian Bank M&M and FCK Salgaocar FCK v/s M&M (Goa-Jan 7); East Bengal v/s FCK (Cal-Jan 7); ITI v/s Indian Bank (Bge-Jan 6). Salgaocar v/s East Bengal (Goa-Jan 10); ITI v/s M&M (Bge-Jan 13); FCK v/s Indian Bank (Kerala-Jan 10). Indian Bank v/s M&M (Chennai-Jan 17); FCK v/s Salgaocar (Kerala-Jan 17); ITI v/s East Bengal (Bge-Jan 17). Salgaocar v/s ITI (Goa-Jan 24); Indian Bank v/s East Bengal (Chennai-Jan 22); M&M v/s FCK (Mumbai-Jan 24). M&M v/s East Bengal (Mumbai-Jan 27); Indian Bank v/s Salgaocar (Chennai-Jan 26); ITI vs FCK (Bge-Jan 27). M&M v/s Salgaocar (Mumbai Feb 1); FCK v/s East Bengal (Kerala-Jan 31); Indian Bank v/s ITI (Chennai-Feb 1). East Bengal v/s Salgaocar (Cal-Geb 4); M&M v/s ITI (Mumbai-Feb 5); Indian Bank v/s FCK (Chennai-Feb 3). M&M v/s Indian Bank (Mumbai-Feb 8); Salgaocar v/s FCK (Goa-Feb 8); East Bengal v/s ITI (Cal-Feb 8). ITI v/s Salgaocar (Bge-Feb 13); East Bengal v/s Indian Bank (Cal-Feb 12); FCK v/s M&M (Kerala-Feb 13). East Bengal v/s M&M
(Cal-Feb 17); Salgaocar v/s Indian Bank (Goa-Feb 17); FCK
v/s ITI (Kerala-Feb 17). |
Upset
victories for Anirban, Shubham JALANDHAR, Dec 30 — The 6th day of the 60th Junior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship proved to be a day of upsets as seeded players trumbled on the day. In boys’ section unseeded Anirban Nandi of Bengal defeated fourth seed Prithvi Raj Bose (Bengal) in three straight games. In another upset quarterfinal match in this section, sixth seed Shubham Chaudhary of Bengal outwitted third seed Sukanta Dass of Bengal in three easy games by 21-12, 21-17, 21-12. The girls quarterfinals also saw an upset when sixth seed Malika Parikh of Maharashtra defeated third seed Sushmita Roy in a hard fought nailbiting, five set thriller. Malika when down by one game to two came into her own in the last two games and executed some fine forehand strokes to upset Sushmita. She won the match 21-17, 18-21, 17-21, 21-18, 21-18. Results: Boys singles (pre-quarter finals): Ranbir Dass (Ben) Pankaj P Chutia (Asm) 21-17, 18-21, 21-17. Somyadeep Roy (PSCBA) b Jayanta Chandra (Ben) 21-9, 21-15. Subhajit Saha (Ben) A Sarath Kamal (TN) 21-17, 20-22, 21-19. Shubham Chowdhary (Ben) beat Arunava Ganguli (PSCBA) 21-17, 21-18. Sukanta Das (Ben) Eric Fernandes (Mah) 21-16, 21-18. Prithviraj Bose (Ben) b Selva Muthu Kumar (Pond) 21-19, 22-20. Anirban Nandy (Ben) b Anil Kashyap (PSCBA) 22-20, 21-18. Subhajit Saha (Jr) (PSCBA) b Saurav Chakroberty (Ben) 21-8, 21-10. Boys (quarterfinals): Ranbir Dass (Ben) Soumadeep Roy (PSCBA) 15-21, 21-17, 21-17, 14-21, 21-19. Shubham Chowdhary (Ben) b Sukanta Dass (Ben) 21-12, 21-17, 21-12. Subajit Saha (Ben) b Subhajit Saha (Jr) (PSCBA) 21-12, 21-17, 21-12. Anirban Nandi (Ben) b Prithvi Raj Bose (Ben) 21-19, 21-14, 21-14. Girls singles (pre-quarter finals): Poulmi Ghatak(Ben) b Jonali Handique (Asm) 21-13, 21-9. Mamta Prabhu (Mah) b Sumana Bose (Ben) 21-14, 20-22, 21-13. B.M. Ashwini (Knt) b Moon Moon Basak (Ben) 21-14, 21-15. Vishakha Vijay (PSCBA) b Kaushiki Wagle (M.P.) 21-14, 21-8. Sushimita Roy (Ben) b Mrigakhi Bordoloi (Asm) 21-11, 22-20. Malika Parikh (Mah) b Sinjini Mitra (Bengal) 21-19, 21-15. J Swetha (TN) b Suman c Paul (Knt) 21-14,21-11. Mouma Dass(Ben) b K. Ramaya (TN) 22-20, 21-8. Girls
(quarter-finals):-Mouma Dass (Ben) b J. Swetha (TN)
21-14, 6-21, 22-20, 21-16. Poulmi Ghatak (Ben) b Mamta
Prabhu (Mah) 21-23, 21-22, 21-16, 21-9. Vishakha Vijy
(PSCBA) b B.M. Ashwani (Knt) 15-21, 21-14, 21-19, 16-21,
21-13. Malika Parikh (Mah) b Sushmita Roy (Ben) 21-17,
18-21, 17-21, 21-18, 21-18. |
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MELBOURNE, Dec 30 (Reuters) — Australia recalled star leg-spinner Shane Warne today for the final Ashes Test after a surprise win for England gave the tourists a chance of levelling the series. The world’s greatest slow bowler, who has taken 313 Test wickets, replaced novice paceman Matthew Nicholson in the 12-man squad for the fifth Test starting in Sydney on Saturday. "I feel like I’m starting my career all over again," said Warne, who has not appeared for Australia since shoulder surgery in May. "I’m feeling pretty confident with my bowling, but the proof of the pudding will come next week." Warne missed the first four Tests while he returned to first-class cricket — without much success — for Victoria state in Sheffield Shield matches. He has also been caught up in one of the sport’s worst scandals after news broke that he and fellow Test player Mark Waugh had taken money from a bookmaker to provide pitch and weather information during a 1994 tour of Sri Lanka and Pakistan. After that revelation, Warne and Waugh have been summoned to appear before a Pakistani inquiry into match-fixing and bribery. The inquiry will sit in Melbourne on January 8 to hear the two cricketers, who were reluctant to travel to Pakistan. Team: Mark Taylor (Captain), Michael Slater, Justin Langen, Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh, Darren Lehmann, Ian Healy, Damien Fleming, Colin Miller, Stuart Macgill, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. The final Test has been given extra spice by England’s amazing 12-run victory in the fourth Test on Tuesday. Although Australia have retained the Ashes, England could level the series at two Tests each if they win. Nicholson, a Western Australian fast bowler, had played just seven first-class matches before being called up for the fourth Test after claiming seven English wickets in an innings during a tour match. He replaced injured paceman Jason Gillespie. Nicholson captured four wickets for a total of 115 runs in the two innings in the Melbourne Test and hit 14 runs. Warne said he had been experimenting over the past six weeks to make sure that all his deliveries, including his trademark "wrong’un", were right. "I’ve been experimenting in the last six weeks in the nets to see that all my deliveries are right," he said. And he added that his recall came the day after he found out that his wife, who is due to give birth to their second baby in late May or early June, would be having a boy. The couple already have a girl. "It’s been a
great 48 hours for me," Warne said. |
Haryana
grapplers win team title ROHTAK, Dec 30 — Haryana grapplers bagged the team championship securing 48 points on the penultimate day of the 23rd All India Rural Sports Tournament at Chhutu Ram Stadium here today. Tamil Nadu's V. Amar Nath created a new national record in the high jump scaling, 1.88 meters and clinched the gold. B. Raja Sirohi, also of Tamil Nadu, and Haryana's Rohit finished second and third, respectively. Sharda Rani of the host state won gold in girls category of high jump event. In shot put Haryana's Sandeep Kumar claimed gold medal. Punjab sprinter Navjot emerged the fastest sprinter in 100 mtrs. Haryana's wrestlers Anand Singh, Devender and Narender won gold medals in 42, 45, 48 kg weight categories, respectively, whereas Hardeep and Lakvinder Singh won silver medals in 38 and 52 kg categories to enable Haryana finish ahead of Punjab whose wrestlers secured 39 points. Delhi remained 3rd with 35 points. The hosts dominated the
proceedings in other events also. In newly-introduced
event of tug-of-war, Haryana reached the final by beating
Madhya Pradesh 2-0. They will now meet Delhi in the
final. Delhi beat Punjab 2-1 in the semifinals. Boys and
girls from Haryana also entered the finals of kabaddi.
Today they defeated Punjab in a one-sided affair 55-10 in
the boys categories, and Maharashtra 27 in the girls
categories. |
India-Pak
series NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (UNI) — The much-awaited Test series between India and Pakistan will be resumed after 12 years,with Delhi hosting the first tie from January 28 to February 1. The second and the final Test will be played from February 4 to 8 either at Kanpur or Chennai. The Pakistanis,who arrive here on January 21, will take on board President’s XI on January 23 to 25 at a venue yet to be finalised. BCCI Secretary J.Y. Lele told newspersons here after the working committee meeting that Pakistan will also be playing against India-under 25 on February 11 to 13,at a venue to be announced later. Mr Lele said the final decision regarding the venue of the second Test and about the two three day matches will be announced in few days. He made it clear that Pakistan will not be playing in Maharashtra though Pune and Nagpur will host one-dayers of the triangular series. The BCCI secretary said that earlier it was decided to host a three Test and five one dayer series against Pakistan,but the Asian Cricket Council which met here on December 15 desired that in view of the coming World Cup, Sri Lanka should also get a chance to prepare for the event and hence the decision to hold the Asian Test championship and triangular series. He said India will now get a chance to play four Tests and if it reaches final then it can play the fifth Test also. In the triangular series India will be playing two matches each against Pakistan and Sri Lanka and if "we make it to the final, then we get to play fifth match too’’. Mr Lele said the final of the Asian Test series will be played at Dhaka from March 12 to 16 while Bangalore will host the final of the triangular series on April 3 which will be a day-and-night affair. Mr Lele said the Pakistan will open their tour campaign with a three-day match against Board’s President XI to be played from January 23 to 25. The visitors will also be playing a three-day match against India U-25 from March 11to13. The venues of these two matches have yet to be finalised. Mr Lele said that the Indian team for the Test matches against Pakistan and for the Asian championship can vary from fixture to fixture. The selectors have the right to make changes after every Test if they feel so’’. He said the national selectors will meet in Calcutta on January 12 to shortlist 30 players for the World Cup.The list has to be submitted to the International Cricket Council (ICC) by January 15. By February 28 the further pruned list of 20 players included five reserves has to be submitted to the ICC. The final 15 and four
reserves players’s for the World Cup is to be given
to the ICC by march 31. |
Sasikiran,
Kidambi joint leaders JALANDHAR, Dec 30 — The 6th day of the 28th National Junior Chess Championship at the local MGN Public School saw the top seeds showing their class with Tamil Nadu players I.M. K. Sasikiran and S. Kidambi snatching the lead with 5.5 points each. International Master K. Sasikiran trounced S. Vikramjit of Manipur in just 32 moves of Modern Binoni Opening. Vikramjit sacrificed an exchange on move 24 to get compensation but Sasikiran craftily deployed his pieces knight and black bishop around the white king. Taking advantage of Vikramjit's blunder on 31st move Sasikiran sacrificed his queen for a mate in three moves. The clash between international masters Tejas Bakre of Indian Airlines and yesterday's leader S. Kidambi of Tami Nadu saw the latter exchanging his pieces right form the word go, showing his intentions for a draw and Tejas was unable to do anything. The end game saw light coloured bishops with both the players with no opportunity for either of them to win. R. Karthik, the defending champion from Tamil Nadu, came back on to top reckoning after defeating Vikas Sharma of Punjab convincingly and pushed him down the ladder. Playing king's Indian defence with an excellent piece play with his queen, knight and bishop, he mated his Punjabi rival in just 38 moves. The former world under-10 champion P. Harikrishna of Andhra Pradesh was held to a draw by Rahul Shandily from Bihar. Though Rahul committed some mistakes in the middle game, Harikrishna could not use them to his advantage. Rahul's brilliant idea of capturing h2-v8 diagonal through Be5 turned the tables but tough A.P. lad did not allow him more than half a point. Tamil Nadu's T.V. Karthekeyan in a Scicillian Scandanavian opening went on loosing his grip on the game to a fighting Bengali player Deepanjan Dass, who blundered by capturing a c3 pawn with his rook and lost it with a knight fork and also the game. Dileep Tripathi of UP playing white against S. Satyapragyan of Orissa in a king's Indian Seemich shocked his rival with 14 Bg5 after his rival made a blunder Qh4, trapping his queen and forcing him to resign in just 35 moves. Rishipal Singh of Hyderabad shocked V.R. Kamble of Maharashtra in Scicillian Defence after warding off his aggressive attacks, moving his bishops harmoniously, winning a piece on 43rd move and the game in 55 moves. Neelotpal Dass broke his drawing spree against Sameer Singh of Delhi today in a Scicillian Alpine opening sealing his rival's fate in just 30 moves. Points at the end of the 6th round: I.M. Sasikiran and S. Kidambi 5.5 points each, Tejas Bakre, R. Karthik 5 each; P. Harikrishna, Rahul Shandilya, Neelopal Dass, Dileep Tripathi Beenish Bhatia, Shashi Kant Kutwal and D. Ravishanker 4.5 each. The results: S. Kidambi
5.5 draws Tejas Bakre (5); K. Sasikiran (5.5) b Vikarmjit
Singh (4); R. Karthik (5) b Vikas Sharma (4); P.
Harikrishna (4.5) draws Rahul Shandilya (4.5); Rishipal
Singh (5) b V.R. Kamble (4); Neelotpal Dass (4.5) b
Sameer Singh (3.5); Dileep Tripathi (4.5) b Satyapragyan
(3.5); Beenish Bhatia (4.5) b Ajaybir Singh (3.5); Naveen
Jain (4) draws B. Handique (4); Shashikant Kutwal (4.5) b
Ashish P. Thate (3.5); D. Ravishankar (4.5) b Ismeet
Vohra (3.5); Abhey Karnataki (4) b Biby Sebastian (3). |
Robin, Nikhil, Kanitkar for one-dayers NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (PTI) — The cricket board caused no surprises as it named Tamil Nadu veteran Robin Singh, Pune left-hander Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Delhi off-spinner Nikhil Chopra to be flown to New Zealand as replacements for the five match one-day series to be held from January 9 to 18. Board secretary Jaywant Lele told reporters the trio would be replacing opener Navjot Sidhu, teenaged off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and medium-pacer Robin Singh (Jr) in the squad currently doing duty in the Test series. The replacement players will be reaching New Zealand on January 4, the third day of the third and final Test to be played in Hamilton from January 2 to 6. The three were picked after the selection committee, which met here yesterday to pick the Board President’s XI and Wills XI for the Wills Trophy tournament, held a tele-conference with the team management at Wellington, Lele said. Robin Singh played in India’s victorious campaign in the Sharjah triangular tournament in November while pune all-rounder Kanitkar, who went out of favour after India returned from their Zimbabwe tour in October gets another chance to cement his place in the limited overs squad. Chopra had given a good account of himself with a clutch of wickets in the Sharjah tournament and was expected to be on the Kiwi tour from the outset, but teenager Harbhajan Singh was picked ahead after the cloud over his bowling action was cleared. Lele said no other names
were considered. |
Walsh to miss Test; Ambrose doubtful DURBAN, Dec 30 (Reuters) — The beleaguered West Indies cricket team suffered a body blow today with the news that Courtney Walsh will miss the fourth Test against South Africa because of a hamstring injury. New-ball partner Curtly Ambrose is struggling with knee and back problems which could also rule him out of the match at Newlands in Cape Town starting on Saturday. "Courtney has a slight hamstring tear and will not be playing any cricket for seven to 10 days," said West Indies manager Clive Lloyd. "Another day or two and the doctors should be able to tell us whether he will be fit to play." Walsh sustained his injury
while fielding on the final day of the third Test in
Durban yesterday. South Africa won by nine wickets to
take an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. |
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NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (PTI) — The Indian Cricket board has substantially increased the wages of those playing for the country, with the Test match allowance going up by Rs 15,000 and that for one-dayers by Rs 10,000. Announcing the decision taken at the BCCI working committee meeting today, Board Secretary Jaywant Lele said the Test match allowances will go up from Rs 25,000 to Rs 40,000 and one-day payment from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000. This does not include money earned through wearing logos and sponsorship. Umpires will also receive the same benefit and will be paid the same amount as players for both Tests and one-dayers. Lele said board President Rajsingh Dungarpar would be taking part in the crucial International Cricket Council executive board meeting in Christchurch on January 10 and 11. He denied India had
supported any Pakistan proposal to seek a life ban on
Aussie stars Mark Waugh and Shane Warne for their
confession to taking money from an indian bookie.
"It is only a Pakistani opinion," he said. The
issue will be on the special agenda of the meeting. |
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MUMBAI, Dec 30 (PTI) — Indian Davis Cup star Mahesh Bhupathi drubbed teammate Syed Fazaluddin 6-4 6-2 to enter the men’s singles quarter-final of the $ 50,000 prize money ATP challenger tennis at the Dr R.A. Ranade centre here today. Bhupathi, ranked 390 in the world, will now take on the winner of the Ahmedabad ATP challenger and third seeded Anthony Dupuis of France in the quarter-finals tomorrow. The Frenchman, the highest ranked player in the fray at 206 after the first two seeds were knocked out in the first round itself, took one hour six minutes to oust unheralded Ofer Sela of Israel 6-1 6-3 in the second round. Qualifier Sebastian De Chaunac of France too had a good day when he ousted Kentaro Masuda of Japan 6-4 6-4 in one hour 35 minutes on way to the last eight stage while Masuda’s 226th ranked compatriot, Goichi Motumara, seeded eighth here, rallied magnificently after dropping the first set to oust unseed Radovan Svetlik of Czech Republic 4-6 7-5 7-6 (7-5) in a two hours and 38 minutes marathon. Another unseeded Julian
Boutter of France also made it to the quarter-finals,
sidelining qualifier and younger brother of US Davis Cup
star Maliva Washington, Mashika Washington 6-1 6-4 in one
hour eleven minutes. |
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NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (UNI) — The following is the schedule of the matches of the visiting Pakistan cricket team, Asian Test championship and the triangular one-day series. The schedule was announced by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary J.Y. Lele after the working committee meeting here today. Pakistan team is slated to arrive here on January 21. Pakistan vs Board’s president XI January 23-25 (venue yet to be decided) First Test: January 28 to February 1 at Delhi. Second Test: February 4 to 8 at Kanpur or Chennai. Pakistan vs India-u 25: February 11-13, (venue to be decided later). Asian Test championship: India vs Pakistan: February 16 to 20 at Calcutta. India vs Sri Lanka: February 24 to 28 at Colombo. Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: March 4 to 8 at Lahore or Karachi. Final: March 12 to 16 at Dhaka. Triangular one day series involving India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka from March 19 to April 3. March 19 at Jamshedpur March 21 at Nagpur, March 24 at Jaipur, March 26 at Vizag, March 29 at Pune, March 31 at Mohali, Day-and-night final on April 3 at Bangalore. Though the venues for the
one dayers have been decided, the fixtures will be
announced later. |
Services retain handball title VIJAYAWADA, Dec 30 (PTI) — Services retained the title by defeating Madhya Pradesh 35-26 in the finals of the 27th Men’s Senior National Handball Championship here yesterday. Services team consisting of international and nationl players were leading 16-11 at half-time. Ajineesh (7) and Pradeep Kumar, Arunachalam and Sateesh Kumar (six goals each) were the top scorers for the winners, while B.D. Karupati (4), Binu (5), Pervinder (4), Feroz Khan 4 and Tripathi (3) were the main scorers for Madhya Pradesh. Bihar occupied the third
place, defeating Jammu and Kashmir 36-28. Bihar were
leading 21-10 at half-time. Jose (15), Randhava (10) and
Kalitha (5) were the main scorers for Bihar while Ranjit
Singh and Fraj Kumar scored nine and five goals,
respectively, for Jammu and Kashmir. |
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Pawan
moves into semifinal John's
Red win |
PU eves lose in final GND University, Amritsar, got third place. PU team won the opening
singles when their star player Simmi Rani edged past
Vaneeta at 6-4, 6-2, but Tarminder Grover of PU went down
tamely to Keshawi Bhatt at 0-6, 0-6. In the doubles K.
Bhatt and Jhanvi Sunderam of Pune got the better of Simmi
and Tarminder at 6-4, 6-2. |
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