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Karnataka restrict Rest of India BANGALORE, Oct 2 — Rest of India were restricted to 100 for three in their first innings after they wrapped up Karnataka for 326 earlier on the second day of the five-day Irani Trophy match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here today. Kumble spins web around Board XI HARARE, Oct 2 — Anil Kumble took five wickets for 34 runs to skittle out a young Zimbabwe Board President’s XI for 156 before India nearly overhauled the score on the first day of their three-day match here today. BPCL trounce Chandigarh XI CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — Justifying their seeding in the last eight, star-studded Air-India, Mumbai, and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited stormed into the semifinals of the 28th All-India Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament with convincing victories in the quarterfinals at the Sector 42 hockey stadium here today. |
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Bruguera, Moya register victories PALMA DE MALLORCA, (Balearic Islands ), Oct 2 — Sergi Bruguera routed fellow Spaniard and second-seeded Alex Corretja 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 yesterday to reach the third round of the Marbella Open clay-court tournament. Chandigarh eves move into q-finals CHENNAI, Oct 2 — Mumbai became the first team to make the quarterfinals of the Bank of Baroda 49th Senior Women’s National Hockey Championship with a 3-0 (HT 1-0) win over Karnataka in a pool ‘F’ league match. Jolly stars in PGI CC win CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — Superb bowling performance by Rakesh Jolly (4 for 12) and Sanjay Massey (4 for 14) helped PGI Cricket Club rout Jal XI by nine wickets in the 22nd Jal Cup league cricket tournament here at the PGI cricket ground today. 3 Indian men in Asian TT round three NEW DELHI, Oct 2 — National champion Chetan Baboor and former national champions S. Raman and Arup Basak reached the men’s singles third round but all Indian women except Poulami Ghatak were eliminated in the Asian Table Tennis Championship at Osaka today. |
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Karnataka restrict Rest of India BANGALORE, Oct 2 (PTI) — Rest of India were restricted to 100 for three in their first innings after they wrapped up Karnataka for 326 earlier on the second day of the five-day Irani Trophy match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here today. Left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi and Dodda Ganesh took early wickets to tie down Rest of India to a paltry 100 runs losing three wickets. The opening pair of the Rest team, Laxman and Jyoti Yadav, took some time to settle down before Laxman opened the scoreboard with a boundary off Venkatesh Prasad. The two openers could not resist for long and attempted rash shots. Ganesh got the first breakthrough for his team when he got captain Laxman caught by Girish Rao at mid-wicket. Laxman’s 19 came in 47 minutes off 31 balls. Yadav fell to Joshi’s bowling on 11 when he was caught at mid-off by Ganesh. Just when Amol Muzumdar and Sarath looked threatening, Joshi sent Muzumdar (17) back to the pavilion through a neat catch taken at the slips by Prasad. Rest of India, which lacked good partnership earlier in the day, found a saviour in Rohan Gavaskar (21 batting) who displayed some extraordinary shots including three boundaries and one six. Scoreboard
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Kumble spins web around Board XI HARARE, Oct 2 (PTI) — Anil Kumble took five wickets for 34 runs to skittle out a young Zimbabwe Board President’s XI for 156 before India nearly overhauled the score on the first day of their three-day match here today. India, who rested most of their top batsmen, including Mohammed Azharuddin and Saurav Ganguly, finished the day on 138 for two in the possible 36 overs. Navjot Singh Sidhu fell leg before to seamer Bryan Strang’s first ball for 19. Rahul Dravid followed suit after making 25 with the help of four boundaries. He missed the line of a Mark Vermulen delivery and was castled. Ajay Jadeja then played a captain’s knock of 57 and was unbeaten at stumps along with Robin Singh (34). Jadeja was in a belligerent mood and singled out first medium-pacer Angus McKay, whom he hit for two fours either side of the wicket and then lofted left-arm spinner Raymond Price for a straight six. Jadeja’s 50 came off 74 balls with eight fours and a six. Robin Singh also played a hurricane knock, scoring 34 off only 40 balls with the help of five fours and a six. Earlier, the Zimbabwe side, who were 84 for three at one stage, collapsed dramatically after lunch, succumbing to the guiles of spinners Kumble, Harbhajan Singh (2/38) and Rahul Sanghvi (2/16). The departure of Vermulen (46) just before lunch break was a big blow for the hosts. Vermulen, who has captained the Zimbabwe under-19 side, batted for 139 minutes facing 111 balls and hit six fours but his exit triggered a slide. With Javagal Srinath, coming in for Saurav Ganguly who was rested in a late decision, going wicketless after six overs of searing pace, it was left to his statemate Kumble to make the breakthrough. The Indian leg-spinner trapped D. Marillier leg before for eight when the total read 30. Sixteen runs later, D. Vijleon (12) departed well caught by Harbhajan at mid-off off Debashish Mohanty. Vermulen and T. Modondo then took the score to 84 before Harbhajan had Modondo caught by Mohanty for 14. Then Kumble struck again as Neil Johnson (21) and T. Penny (8) returned to the pavilion. Johnson was trapped plumb in front of the wicket while Penny was smartly taken at silly point by Dravid. Left-arm spinner Rahul Sanghvi raised visions of a hat-trick when he packed off McKay (1) and price (0) off successive balls in the 65th over. But number 10 Bryan Strang safely negotiated the next ball. However, Kumble sent back Strang (15), before he could bolster the innings, and Everton Matambanadzo (4). The wicket, devoid of any pace or bounce, played easy but the inexperienced host batsmen, overawed by the visitors’ reputation, fell like nine pins.
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Slater, Steve prop up Aussies RAWALPINDI, Oct 2 (Reuters) — Centuries by Michael Slater and Steve Waugh rescued Australia after they had lost three early wickets on the second day of the first Test against Pakistan today. Australia, reeling early on at 28 for three, were 237 for four at the close in reply to Pakistan’s first innings 269. Slater, who hit 108, and Waugh, who ended the day on 104 not out, shared a fourth-wicket partnership of 198 runs in 246 minutes. They came together in the morning session after pace bowler Wasim Akram had claimed the wickets of captain Mark Taylor and Justin Langer in successive deliveries and leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed had dismissed Mark Waugh for nought. Slater was out playing a tired shot, caught at cover by Mohammad Wasim off left-arm spinner Mohammad Hussain after tea. He hit 11 fours and a six off Mushtaq in his eighth Test century. His hundred came in 238 minutes and 205 balls and his innings lasted 298 minutes. Waugh’s hundred, his 15th in Tests, came half an hour later in 256 minutes and 220 balls, with nine fours and a six off Saqlain Mushtaq. The Pakistan bowlers did beat the bat on occasion but had no luck as Slater and Waugh mixed caution with aggression to thwart them. "It was highly satisfying to make a hundred in the first Test against Pakistan," said a delighted Slater, whose last century was 219 against Sri Lanka in 1995-96 in Australia. "It was tough but enjoyable," Waugh said. Saeed Anwar and Mushtaq resumed the Pakistan innings in the morning at 253 for eight, having rescued their side yesterday with a record ninth-wicket stand for Pakistan in Tests against Australia. But the last two wickets fell for only 16 more runs just 50 minutes into the morning session. Opener Anwar, 132 overnight, was caught by Langer at short leg off leg-spinner Stuart MacGill for 145, having hit 12 four and batted for 386 minutes. The ninth-wicket stand was finally worth 120. MacGill finished with five for 66, his second Test haul of five wickets since he made his debut earlier this year. Pakistan (Ist
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Davenport goes down to Tauziat MUNICH, Oct 2 (AP) — In her first match since clinching the US Open and closing in on the No. 1 ranking, Lindsay Davenport stumbled yesterday at the Grand Slam Cup, losing in three sets to Nathalie Tauziat. "It’s a good wake-up call for me,’’ Davenport said. "The first tournament in Europe, I need to play a lot better the next two tournaments.’’ Tauziat, the Wimbledon runner-up, rallied to win 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 despite 12 double-faults and 37 unforced errors. Venus Williams made sure there will be at least one American in the semifinals of the 6.7 million dollars tournament when she beat French Open champion Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario 6-3, 6-2. She will next play Tauziat. In a men’s quarterfinal, Mark Philippoussis, one of the biggest servers in the game, overcame Jonas Bjorkman, one of the best returners, 4-6, 7-6 (7-1), 6-1. Philippoussis, the US Open runner-up, served 13 aces and battled back from a break down in the second set to turn the match around. Since losing to Tauziat in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon, Davenport had won four tournaments, also beating the French woman on the way to her US Open title earlier this month. "I definitely felt a little bit rusty and definitely a bit sluggish,’’ said Davenport, who took a week off after the US Open. I started hitting last week. I got in Monday, maybe a couple of days here would have helped,’’ she said. "I think losing here today might even help me because it’s definitely going to make me practice harder the next few days,’’ Davenport said. Davenport trails top-ranked Martina Hingis by only 26 points and she could be the new No. 1 after next week’s tournament in Filderstadt, Germany. She will also play in Zurich, Switzerland. "I know it’s going to be very tough because I know Martina is going to play very well. I just hope I can play well, too,’’ Davenport said. But ranking has never been a huge priority of mine, it’s never been a huge, huge obsession of mine. Whatever happens with the ranking happens. If it happens, I’ll be very happy, though. "The one I wanted to win was the US Open,’’ Davenport said. After splitting the first two sets, both Davenport and Tauziat had trouble holding serve in the third. Serving for the match at 5-4, Tauziat saw Davenport rip a backhand passing shot that made it 5-5. But Davenport again dropped her serve, allowing Tauziat to serve for the match for the second time. Davenport saved one match point with a lob but Tauziat fired her sixth ace to advance. "I had a chance to close the match earlier. I didn’t do it. I was lucky to finish at the end,’’ Tauziat said. Williams, ranked no. 5, has won the last three of her five matches against Sanchez-Vicario. The American reached the semifinals of the US Open earlier this month by beating Sanchez-Vicario and made the quarterfinals in the other three Grand Slams. Sanchez-Vicario won her fourth Grand Slam career title in Paris this summer and is ranked No. 4 in the world. The tournament, which awards no ranking points, nominally brings together players with best records in the four Grand Slam events of the year — the Australian, French and US Open and Wimbledon. But while only one of the year’s Grand Slam champions among the men is here Australian Open champion Petr Korda — the eight women included all the champions and all the top-ranked players except Monica Seles. Three Grand Slam champions already have been eliminated — Davenport, Sanchez-Vicario and Jana Novotna. The Wimbledon champion was ousted on Wednesday by Patty Schnyder. Hingis, the Australian Open champion, plays Schnyder, her Swiss teammate, in the other women’s semifinal.
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BPCL trounce Chandigarh XI CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — Justifying their seeding in the last eight, star-studded Air-India, Mumbai, and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited stormed into the semifinals of the 28th All-India Gurmit Memorial Hockey Tournament with convincing victories in the quarterfinals at the Sector 42 hockey stadium here today. While Air-India overpowered All-India Customs 5-2 after leading by a solitary goal at half time, BPCL trounced Chandigarh XI 6-3 in another high scoring tie. Last year's semifinalists Punjab Police also kept alive their hopes of making it to the last four with a resounding 6-1 victory over Rail Coach Factory, Kapurthala. They will now take on Punjab and Sind Bank Academy, Jalandhar, for deciding the semifinalists from the group tomorrow. In the last quarterfinal to be played tomorrow, Northern Railway and Punjab and Sind Bank will lock horns and the winners will meet BPCL in the semis. Air-India boasting of several internationals who did national duty either in the Olympics or the Asian Games were definitely a superior side as compared to Customs. They displayed the coordination in every department. While the forwards, including Gaganajit, Olympian Darryl D'Souza and Edward Aranna functioned like a well-oiled machine moving up and down in tandem, the half line and defence lent valuable support. It was as early as in the fourth minute that Air-India shot into the lead when outside-right Edward Aranna sent the ball towards Darryl D'Souza parallel to the goal-line. Darryl struck like lightning, tapping the ball into the goalmouth to make it 1-0. After being at the receiving end for a considerable period, Customs launched a counter-attack through outside-right Suresh who advanced towards the 'D' menacingly. However, skipper Surinder Kundu of Air-India made a timely interception and dispossessed him of the ball. On changing ends, Customs made serious attempts to wipe out the deficit in the 43rd minute, centre-forward, Dalit Singh's scoop off a penalty corner caught the Air-India custodian on the wrong foot but skipper Kundu made a goal-line save. In the 46th minute Air-India made it 2-0 when Darryl D'Souza raced in like lightning with Gaganajit moving alongside and despatched an angular hit which the latter neatly deflected into the cage. Six minutes later it was the turn of Customs to attack and they managed to pull one back when Kulwant Rai capitalised on a pass by Suresh to make it 1-2. Air-India struck again in the 58th minute through Gaganajit who shot home after receiving a cross from Manoj Lokhandas (3-1). Two minutes later, Gaganajit again set up a move for Edward Aranna who made no mistake in hitting past the goalkeeper (4-1). Customs forced a penalty corner thereafter and managed of reduce the margin through outside-left Sunil (2-4). However, Air-India replied with a counter-attack once again and made it 5-2 when Manoj Lokhandas capitalised on a pass by centre-half Davinder Kumar.
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Bruguera, Moya register victories PALMA DE MALLORCA, (Balearic Islands ), Oct 2 (AP) — Sergi Bruguera routed fellow Spaniard and second-seeded Alex Corretja 7-6 (7-5), 6-3 yesterday to reach the third round of the Marbella Open clay-court tournament. Bruguera, two-time French Open champion, but now ranked 126 in the world, hasn’t won a tournament since the Czech Open four years ago. Top-seeded Carlos Moya of Spain easily defeated Slava Dosedel of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4 and will face Thomas Schiessling of Austria who defeated Yugoslav Vemic Dusan 4-6, 6-4, 6-3. Spain’s Fernando Vicente ousted countryman and No 3 seed Albert Costa 7-6 (7-3), 4-6, 6-3. Tommy Hass of Germany needed three sets to defeat fourth-seeded Alberto Berasategui of Spain 5-7, 6-1, 6-4. Eighth-seeded Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil rolled over Spaniard Oscar Serrano 6-1 6-1, and plays Bruguera today. TOULOUSE (France): Junior Wimbledon champion Roger Federer pulled off his second sensational result at the Toulouse Open Tennis Tournament yesterday when he beat No 7 seed Richard Fromberg in straight sets. Federer, who turned 17 in August, has now beaten two top 50 players in what is his first professional tournament. In the first round, the young Swiss defeated France’s Guillaume Raoux, 6-2, 6-2. Federer, who entered the Toulouse tournament with a world ranking of 878, began in outstanding form against Australia’s Fromberg, demonstrating speed around the court, powerful serves and accurate returns to take the opening set 6-1. Fromberg held his own in the second set, but lost the tiebreak 7-5. In the quarterfinal, Federer will face the winner of the second round contest between No 2 seed Jan Siemerink and Jerome Golmard. Jeff Tarango crashed out in the second round, losing to Switzerland’s Marc Rosset in straight sets. Tarango, the USA’s only entrant here, lost 6-3, 6-4. Martin Sinner, seeded No 8, was a surprise loser to unseeded Frenchman Arnaud Clement, collapsing 7-1 in a third-set tiebreaker. Clement’s countryman Stephane Huet also caused a shock, beating Armenia’s Sargis Sargsian 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3. No 3 seed Thomas Johansson qualified for the last eight, beating Czech Daniel Vacek, 6-4, 6-3. Britain’s Greg Rusedski, No 1 seed, had few problems overcoming Ukraine’s Andrei Medvedev, 6-4, 6-3.
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Chandigarh eves move into q-finals CHENNAI, Oct 2 (PTI) — Mumbai became the first team to make the quarterfinals of the Bank of Baroda 49th Senior Women’s National Hockey Championship with a 3-0 (HT 1-0) win over Karnataka in a pool ‘F’ league match. Karnataka, who needed only a draw to make the grade found its citadel breached in the eighth minute itself when Mumbai’s energetic centre forward Pakpi gave a tailormade pass to Paulina who scored. Heavy showers then held up play for 15 minutes and when play started again, Karnataka found their goalkeeper Bindya failing to stop a feeble push from Paulina, thereby conceding another goal. This upset Karnataka’s coordination, and it came as no surprise when Pakpi reverse flicked a brilliant cross from the right to put the issue beyond doubt. Mumbai now meets Bihar in the knockout stage. Chandigarh made the last eight from pool ‘C’ defeating Maharashtra 9-0 (HT 5-0). Chandigarh, who secured nine points with an all win record in the pool, will meet holders Indian Railways in the quarterfinals on Sunday. Inside right Mamta scored five goals, including one off a stroke while centre forward Nishi was credited with three and centre-half Harpal Kaur one. In a pool ‘E’ match in the morning, Punjab defeated Jammu and Kashmir 3-0 (HT 1-0). With a clash against Delhi tomorrow, Punjab looks nearer to making the quarterfinal berth as even a draw can take them to the knockout stage on better goal difference. In the Punjab-Jammu and Kashmir match, Sneh Bala drew first blood for Punjab scoring off a penalty corner while Rajwinder and Sarabjita added to the score. Punjab won 3-0. In inconsequential matches, Himachal Pradesh beat Bundelkhand 5-1 (HT 3-1) in pool "F". Santosh Kashyap (4) and Neeta netted for HP with Vibha reducing the margin for the losers. Similarly Gujarat tasted victory over Andhra Pradesh 5-0 (HT 2-0) with goals from Jagrati (2) Shivani (2) and Poonam in pool "G" and Kerala had the same experience beating West Bengal 5-1 (1-0). Arunthathi (3), Rejani and Subha were the scorers for Kerala with Rita netting the solitary goal for West Bengal.
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Maradona may play in Spanish league BUENOS AIRES (Argentina), Oct 2 (AP) — Diego Maradona could return soon to professional play in Spanish League second division team Badajoz, the former soccer star’s manager has said. Maradona played professionally for Argentine league team Boca Juniors until August 1997, when he tested positive for a controlled substance for the third time in his career. This will be his third return to Spain after playing from 1982 to 1984 for Barcelona and in 1992 for Sevilla.
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DAV-8 eves win TT title CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — In the CBSE Inter-School table tennis tournament being conducted at New Public School, Sector 18, Bhavan Vidyalaya-27, will clash with New Public School in the under-18 boys event. Scores (semifinals): NPS-18 b LPS Shimla (3-0), Amit b Siddharth 21-14, 21-14, Neeraj b Vipul 21-13, 21-9, Ashish b Gaurav 21-5, 21-10. Manav Mangal-21 made the shortwork of Sacred Heart-26, 3-0 in the first semifinal of the girls (under-16) but later lost to DAV-8 in the final, the scores being 2-3. DAV-8 had beaten Bhavan Vidyalaya-27 earlier in the semifinals. The latter got third place by defeating Sacred Heart-26. Scores (final): DAV-8 b Manav Mangal 3-2. Aanchal (MM) lost to Ruchi Gautam (DAV), 14-21, 5-21, Amarpreet (MM) b Nadia Saini (DAV) 21-14, 21-9. Aanchal & Amarpreet (MM) b Ruchi & Nadira (DAV) 21-19, 21-17. Amarpreet (MM) b Ruchi (DAV) 21-13, 19-21, 19-21. Nadia Saini (DAV) b Aanchal (MM) 21-19, 21-17. Shishu Niketan-22 and Manav Mangal-21 will meet in the final of the boys (under-16). They ousted New Public-18 and Bhavan-27 in the semifinals, respectively. Score: SN-22 b NPS-18 3-0 (Raimat b Neeraj 21-10, 21-14, Sunil b Sachin Monga 21-6, 21-9, Manikant b Maninder 21-10, 21-9 MMS-21 b BV-27 (3-1) (Aditya Puri lost to Rachit 20-22, 22-20, 15-21. Nishant b Ravi 22-20, 21-19, Achir Malik b Kunal 22-10, 22-17. Nishant b Rachit 21-16, 21-19. Third place: NPS-18 b BV-27 (3-1) Sachin lost to Rachit 19-21, 18-21, Neeraj b Ravi 21-9, 21-13 Maninder b Kunal 21-16, 15-21, 23-21. Neeraj b Rachit 21-13, 21-6.
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Jolly stars in PGI CC win CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — Superb bowling performance by Rakesh Jolly (4 for 12) and Sanjay Massey (4 for 14) helped PGI Cricket Club rout Jal XI by nine wickets in the 22nd Jal Cup league cricket tournament here at the PGI cricket ground today. Brief scores: Jal XI: 51 all out (Ajay Disodia 15, Sandeep Sandhu 15, Rakesh Jolly 4 for 12, Sanjeev Massey 4 for 15). PGI CC: 53 for one (Rajinder Singh 19 n.o. Rakesh Jolly 17). Yesterday, fine bowling by left-arm spinner Girish Bhanot (3 for 7) helped Godrej Cricket Club score a comfortable 66-run win over CNS XI in the opening match. Brief scores: Godrej CC-126 all out (R.P. Singh 37, Vinod Binta 17, Vineet Jain 16, Arun Tuli 15, Birender 3 for 21, Jasneet 2 for 16, Vivek 2 for 31). CNS XI-60 all out (Harminder 14, Takesh Verma 13, Girish Bhanot 3 for 7, Vinod Binta 3 for 15, Tajesh Arora 2 for 9, Arun Tuli 2 for 13). In the second match on the opening day Navdeep Singh helped Mohali Gymkhana CC beat DYFI-XI by 72 runs. Brief scores: Mohali Gymkhana: 165 for 3 (Navdeep Singh 78 (n.o.), Munish Arora-37, Gurdeep Rana 31 n.o. Arvind Sagar (1 for 23). DYFI-XI: 93 all out (Abhay Bhandari 24, Sanjeev Paul-11 n.o., Munish Arora 3 for 24, Navdeep Singh 2 for 6).
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Mahilpur college record win CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — In the Panjab University inter-college inter-zonal football (A) division tournament being played at the university grounds, SGGS Khalsa College, Mahilpur, defeated Guru Nanak College, Moga, by 7-0. In another match of the same group, DAV College, Hoshiarpur, ousted Government College, Sector 46, by 8-0. In a (B) division football match, GTB National College, Dakha, got the better of Khalsa College, Garhdiwala, by 3-1.
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3 Indian men in Asian TT round three NEW DELHI, Oct 2 (PTI) — National champion Chetan Baboor and former national champions S. Raman and Arup Basak reached the men’s singles third round but all Indian women except Poulami Ghatak were eliminated in the Asian Table Tennis Championship at Osaka today. In singles, Baboor beat Bibish Bayarmagnai of Mongolia 21-14, 21-14, 21-10, south paw Raman downed Foad Kaseb of Israel 21-17, 21-8, 23-21 and Basak won 21-13, 21-12, 21-16 over Thai Sanan Ariyachotima, as per results from AFP. But Soumyadeep Roy lost 14-21, 12-21, 19-21 to 14th-seed Lee Chul-Seung of South Korea and Deepak Thukral lost 9-21, 20-22, 12-21 to Shinnosuke Kiho of Japan in the second round. In women, Poulami Ghatak moved into the third round with a walkover from Miao Miao (Australia) but Kasturi Chakravarthy fell 6-21, 12-21, 9-21 to 15th seed Keiko Okazaki of Japan and national champion M.S. Mythili went down fighting 21-16, 18-21, 10-21, 21-13, 10-21 to Rossy Pratiwi Dipoyanti of Indonesia. Ninth seeds Baboor and Raman downed Majid Ehteshamzadeh and Shahram Sarbakhsian of Israel 21-12, 21-11 after beating low Dai Yei and Wong Kai Siong (Brunei) 21-10, 21-9 in men’s doubles. Basak and Roy beat Lim Ming Xian (Singapore) and Chris Herlihy (New Zealand) 18-21, 21-11, 21-12, but lost 14-21, 6-21 to 12th seeds Leung Chu-Yan and Yung Long of Hong Kong in the second round. In the women’s doubles, Ghatak and Chakravarthy lost 11-21, 16-21 to ninth seeds Chen Jing and Chen Chiu-Tan of Taiwan in the second round. N. R. Indu and Mythili lost in the first round to Yelena Pereverzeva and Elmira Zainabudinova (Kazakhstan) 12-21, 21-12, 14-21. The second-seeded pair of Wang Liqin and Wang Nan captured the mixed doubles title to bring the third gold medal to China at the Asian Table Tennis Championships today. The Chinese, who eliminated two Korean pairs in their previous two rounds, cut down a third Korean challenge of the day beating Lee Chul-Seung and Ryu Ji-Hye 21-7, 21-15 in the final.
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Chandigarh chess begins CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — The ninth Chandigarh Chess Championship being organised by the Chandigarh Chess Association, got underway at St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School here today. This year there are a record number of 72 participants. Mr V.V. Rozario, Vice-Principal of the school, inaugurated the meet. The point position at the end of the second round is as follows: 2 points: Naveen Jain, Titus Verghese, Kanwar Sandeep Singh, A.N. Dey, Nitin, Ramesh, Thakur, Sanjeev Kumar, Abhinandan Vohra, Champak Kumar, Sanjeev Biswas, Vipnesh Bhardwaj, B.S. Rawat, Sameer Malhotra, Sanjeevan, Amit, Baijnath Prasad, Ajay Jaswal, R.S. Tiwari. 1.5 points: Varun Khullar, Depash Rawal, Rajeev Verma. 1 point: Naveen Bansal, Gaurav Jaswal, S.P. Singla, Rakesh Kumar, Hitpal Singh, Sanjeev Prashar, Dev Anand, Selva Kumar, Nitin Swami Ravinder Singh, Gurpreet Singh, Joy Bhatia, N.K. Arora, Birender Singh, Sumeet Juneja, R.K. Garg, C.M. Sharma, Jatinder Kaur, Madhusheel Arora, Ashwani Kumar, Bhalinder Singh, Vijay Gupta, Ripudaman, Karna, Pawan Kumar, Sahil Dhawah, Balwinder Singh, Rohit Kanwar, V.K. Gupta. 0.5 point: Varun Rawat, Amandeep Singh, Ankit.
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PSEB to meet BSF in semis PATIALA, Oct 2 — After days of agonisingly lop-sided matches, the decks were cleared for the semifinals of the 23rd All-India Gurdarshan Memorial Football Tournament being played at Nabha, near here, today. PSEB will square off with BSF, Jalandhar, and RCF, Kapurthala, will cross swords with Switchgear, Phagwara, for a place in the final. In the first match of the day PSEB downed HSB Club, Nawanshahar, by the odd goal to three to book a berth in the last four. After Parminder put the powermen ahead, Gurdish Singh scored the second goal for PSEB when he dodged his way past a horde of defenders to put the ball home. Sandeep Saini made it 3-0 for the powermen, while Ranbir Singh scored, what may be termed as a consolation goal, in the dying minutes of this one-sided encounter. Favourites Punjab Police had to say goodbye in the tournament in a sad manner as they were downed by Switchgear XI in the dreaded tie breaker.
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Chetan Sharma to lead Chandigarh CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — Chetan Sharma will lead the Chandigarh team in the Haryana Inter-District Cricket Tournament for the Pataudi Trophy. Giving this information to The Tribune, the Honorary Secretary of the Chandigarh Cricket Association, Mr Surinder Singh, said a 20-member team, including four standbyes, had been named after the selection trials held today. The team: Chetan Sharma (captain), Vineet Jain, Ravinder Nain, R.P. Singh, Randhir Nain, Rajesh Patha, Gautam Sharma, Sandeep Arora, Gulab Rubani, Ajay Sikka, Rohit Chauhan, Kamaljeet Saini, Bhupinder Singh and Girish Bhanot. Standbyes: Yadvinder Singh, Charanpreet Singh, Sanjay Rajpal, Abhishek Verma and Ramandeep Singh. The team of the under-19 tournament will be selected on October 4 for which boys born after September 1, 1979, can report for the trials at DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, Chandigarh on October 4 at 8 a.m.
Panchkula CC enter semis CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — In the Edmund Rice Cricket meet in progress at St John's High School, Sector 26, Panchkula Coaching Centre and St Stephen's, Sector 45, entered the semifinals in the under-12 section here today. Brief scores: Panchkula beat St. Kabir-26 by 33 runs. Panchkula CC: 110 for 6 (Sunny 30, Nikhil 15, Prateek 2 for 23). St. Kabir (Manish 26 n.o., Nitin 18, Aparshakti 3 for 18). St. Stephen's beat Stadium
Juniors-16 by 10 runs. St Stephen's 80 for 9 (Paresh 10,
Ankush 3 for 2, Aman 2 for 10. Deepankar 2 for 21).
Stadium Juniors 70 all out (Ankush 13, Aman Behl 5 for
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Mahajan, Ricky lift Amritsar AMRITSAR, Oct 2 — A superb hundred by Sanjay Mahajan and a polished knock by Ravneet Ricky made it possible for Amritsar to pile up 343 for 8 in the first innings in the first semifinals of the Punjab Inter-District Katoch Shield Cricket Tournament against Chandigarh, being played here today at the Gandhi Grounds. Winning the toss, the local team opened with Ricky and Munish Sharma, but the Amritsar boys kept losing wickets at regular interval. The hundred partnership for the third wicket between Ricky and Mahajan steadied the innings. Ravneet was later brilliantly run out for 63. Mahajan and Sarandeep added another hundred for the ninth wicket with the former scoring 103 and Sarandeep contributing 45. Chandigarh would play tomorrow. Brief scores: Amritsar: 343 for 8 (Ravneet Ricky 63, Munish Sharma 22, Sanjay Kumar 60, Sanjay Mahajan 103, Sarandeep 45, Jaideep 3/133 and Dinesh Mongia 2/84).
Royal CC win CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — Royal Cricket Club beat DYFI by 11 runs on the second day of the first Super Eight Cricket Tournament being played at Government Model Senior School, Sector 32-D, here today. In the second match,
Danger Cricket Club beat City Youth(I) by 53 runs. Sanju
Cricket Club beat Babbar-8 by five wickets. In another
match while City Youth Club (2) beat Kumar Cricket Club
by 39 runs in the last match. |
Chandigarh carrom CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — The VIII Chandigarh State Carrom Championship for Seniors and Juniors began at St. John's High School, Sector 26, here today. The championship is being organised by the Chandigarh Carrom Association. Sanjay Negi, Devinderjit, Ramanpreet and Rozerio Sampson, all of them seeded in the boys' junior singles category, sailed into the third round. In the women singles:
Puneet Lamba, Nabh Sahini and Meena Manocha entered round
two. In the girls singles (Juniors) first round Puneet
Lamba, Harjit Kaur, Eveleen and Poonam Jain won their
respective matches. PHHC XI win by 100 runs CHANDIGARH, Oct 2 — The Punjab and Haryana High Court Lawyers XI continued their winning spree when they bundled out Delhi HC Lawyers XI by 100 runs to enter the finals of the Ist Invitational Inter-High Court Lawyers Cricket Tournament at the DAV College here today. Punjab & Haryana HC amassed 182 for the loss of nine wickets in the stipulated 30 overs. Chasing a target of 183 runs, Delhi HC fell victim to fine bowling by Navdeep Singh and Sanjeen Trikha and were all out for 82. Navdeep Singh of P & H, HC team was declared man-of-the-match. Brief scores: P &H HC
Lawyers XI-182 for 9 in 30 overs, Premjit Handal 38,
Puneet Bali 35, Hemant Bassi 24 n.o. Ravi Chawla 3 for
30. Delhi HC Lawyers XI: 82 all out in 21.3 overs,
Kuldeep Singh 30, Vijay Kaushik 16, Navdeep Singh 4 for
13, Sanjeev Trikha 2 for 7. |
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