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 HARARE : Zimbabwe batsman Craig Evans falls LBW to the bowling of Anil Kumble for 4 runs as India's Nayan Mongia celebrates behind the stumps during Zimbabwe's 2nd innings on Saturday, in Harare, Zimbabwe. AP/PTI India lose by 61 runs HARARE, Oct 10 — The much-vaunted Indian batting failed to click today as the visitors slumped to a humiliating 61-run defeat with over a day to spare in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Ground here today.
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Rathore puts PCC in final
Punjab
(Red) eves shock SCR |
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Seeded
players move up in Bhiwani meet Golden
double for Uzma; Nitin wins Shane
Warne not to testify Indian
cueists may boycott world meets Ali
Sher wins championship Bhupathi-Paes
duo in final |
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India crash to 61-run defeat HARARE, Oct 10 (PTI) — The much-vaunted Indian batting failed to click today as the visitors slumped to a humiliating 61-run defeat with over a day to spare in the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Ground here today. The Indians have only themselves to blame for the defeat after their bowlers did a good job of restricting Zimbabwe to 293 in their second knock, after they resumed on 219 today. But the visiting batsmen made heavy weather of the 235-run victory target and were skittled out for 173 on a wicket which held no terrors. India, who began the test on a high note after winning the one-day series 2-1 and the three-day tour game, had complacency getting the better of them as they gave their worst showing. The babes of cricket scripted a big win inside four days despite conceding a 59-run first innings lead and setting an easily achievable winning target. Zimbabwe seized the initiative with early blows and had the top order — Nayan Mongia (0), Navjot Singh Sidhu (0), Sachin Tendulkar (7) and skipper Mohd Azharuddin (7) — back in the pavillion with the score reading 37 for four. Rahul Dravid (44) and Saurav Ganguly (36) the saviours in the first innings, tried to stem the rot but didn’t much succeed as the hosts did not let the initiative slip and struck after the duo had added 67 runs for the fifth wicket. Robin Singh (12) and Anil Kumble, with an identical score, could not do much and by then the writing was on the wall. Javagal Srinath (23) and
Harbhajan Singh (15) resisted for a while raising 40 runs
for the tenth wicket but could not stop the inevitable. |
Rathore puts PCC in final CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 — Test discard Vikram Rathore hit a brilliant 124 to enable Punjab Cricket Club to rout Oil and Natural Gas Commission, New Delhi, by nine wickets and enter the final of the fifth JP Atray Memorial Cricket tournament at the PCA stadium, SAS Nagar, today. The Punjab Cricket Club skipper Vikram Rathore won the toss and opted to field first. Sandeep Sharma and Manoj Mudgal opened for the ONGC team. Manoj was the first to go, trying to pull a short delivery from Harvinder Singh. Radhey Shyam was caught in the gully by Dinesh Mongia off the bowling of Lalit Kapoor. The next batsman Deepak Bhatnagar was trapped LBW by Harvinder Singh. The batsman could not open his account. The ONGC team were reduced to 21 for three at this stage. Sandeep Sharma was, however, not deterred by the fall of wickets as he continued to score runs at will from the other end. He scored a fluent 69 runs off 88 balls which included 10 hits to the fence. Skipper Rizwan Shamshad played the sheet-anchor role initially but later on opened up to score an impressive 71 runs of 86 balls. It was largely due to his knock and his partnership of 87 runs with Sanjay Verma (37) which enabled ONGC to score 228 runs in the allotted 50 overs. Left arm spinner Tejinder Singh of Punjab Cricket Club bowled an impressive spell to capture four wickets for 41 runs. The target was a modest one as it was a beautiful batting strip. Vikram Rathore proved it by playing a hurricane knock of 124 runs of 130 balls which included three towering sixes and nine hits to the fence. His knock made mockery of the total put up by the ONGC team. He toyed with the depleted bowling attack of the opponents who sorely missed the services of Chetan Sharma and Pardeep Jain. The brightest part of the innings came when Rathore struck three huge sixes, one each off Ravi Sehgal, Deepak Sharma and Rizwan Shamshad. Ravneet Ricky played well to score a patient unbeaten 75 off 117 balls. On Sunday, Bishnoi Cricket Club will face PUNCOM-XI . The match will began at 9 a.m. sharp. Brief scores: ONGC- 228 all out (Rizwan Shamshad 71, Sanjay Verma 37, Harvinder Singh 3 for 48, Tejinder Singh 4 for 41) Punjab Cricket Club - 232
for 1 (Ravneet Ricky 75 n.o., Vikram Rathore 124). |
Police aiding hooligans? JALANDHAR, Oct 10 (PTI) — Top Sports Department officials here today claimed their lives were in danger from land mafia which was trying to usurp prime real estate of the local Hans Raj Stadium with senior police officers remaining mute spectators despite official complaints lodged with them. District Sports Officer Sudesh Kumar Viash and Deputy Director (Sports) Bhupinder Singh Bodhi said in spite of repeated complaints to Senior Superintendent of Police P.S. Gill that certain persons were indulging in hooliganism and damaging the stadium property,no action was taken. "Instead, the goons, who were duly identified, indulged in similar hooliganism again this morning in the presence of an additional SHO at Division number four," Sports Department officials said in a statement issued here. While SSP P.S. Gill was not available for comment, Additional Deputy Commissioner Praveen Kumar told PTI that he had not received any complaint in writing. Mr Kumar said sports department officials had contacted him yesterday following which he had asked them to ensure that the grounds were duly made available to the players. Mr Bodhi said while the
civil administration was cooperating with the Sports
Department, which owned the stadium land along with the
Municipal Corporation, the police was not doing anything
to check the hooliganism. |
South Zone finish on top CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 — South Zone today became the overall champions in athletics on the concluding day of the KVS sports meet. KV, HMT Pinjore was adjudged the best school in athletics. The school won 12 golds, six silver and two bronze medals. Meenakshi of North Zone was declared the best swimmer in the under-14 section and Sarath of South Zone the best in the under-14 boys section. The overall title in swimming for boys went to East Zone while in the girls section North Zone finished on top. The tournament today ended with a colourful cultural programme by young students from schools. The Finance Minister, Punjab, Capt Kanwaljit Singh, gave the prizes and trophies. Results: Volleyball — Girls: (South 1, West 2, North 3). Boys: (Hostel 1, South 2, North 3). Kho-kho girls: (Central 1, East 2). Boys (East 1, North 2). Kabaddi girls: (East 1, South 2). Boys: (Central 1, East 2). Lawn tennis girls: (West 1, North 2, Central 3). Boys: (West 1, East 2, South 3). Football boys: (North (W) 1, West (W) 2). Basketball girls: (East 1, Central 2, South 3). Boys: (South 1, West 2, North 3). Table tennis girls: (West 1, East 2, South 3). Boys: (East 1, North 2, South 3). Swimming U-19 boys: (East
1, North 2, North 3). U-17 boys: 100 metres butterfly:
(South 1, South 2, North 3). U-14 boys: 100 metres
butterfly: (West 1, East 2, West 3). U-19 boys: 200
metres breast stroke: (North 1, North 2, South 3). 200
metres butterfly: (East 1, North 2). U-17 butterfly:
(South 1, East 2, Central 3). U-14: 200 metres butterfly:
(West 1, East 2, South 3). U-19 girls: 200 metres back
stroke: (North 1, Central 2, Central 3). 400 metres
freestyle: (North 1, Central 2). U-17 girls: 400 metres
freestyle: (West 1, North 2, South 3). U-14 girls: 400
metres freestyle: (South 1, North 2, South 3). 200 metres
back stroke: (East 1, Central 2, North 3). U-19 boys: 400
metres individual medley: (East 1, S East 2, North 3).
U-17 boys: 400 metres individual medley boys: (East 1,
Central 2, East 3). U-14 boys: 400 metres individual
medley: (West 1, West 2, South 3). U-17 boys: 4x100
metres medley: (North 1, South 2, East 3). U-14 boys:
4x100 metres medley: (West 1, East 2, South 3). In the
cricket U-16 boys match, Delhi Hostel beat North Zone by
110 runs, North Zone (W) defeated West Zone (R) by four
wickets in another match. The cricket tourney will be
played up to October 15. |
Punjab (Red) eves shock SCR CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 — The Punjab (Red) women's team took advantage of their tall height defeat to South Central Railway, Hyderabad, with ease on the second day of the Raja Porus All India Basketball Tournament here today. Punjab (Red) girls started displaying their skill from the start and scored many points within no time. They defeated South Central Railway 79-57. In the first half Punjab (Red) were leading 48-27 and as expected they won the match easily. Reena, Prabhjot, Lavraj and Mandeep Brar with their speed on the court remained unstoppable. In another match, FACT, Kerala who lost their first match yesterday to Southern Railway, today won their second match against Punjab (Blue) by a margin of 67-49. Their emphatic win against Punjab (Blue) revived their chances in this prize money championship. In another match, Punjab (Blue) women's team faced defeat against Eastern Railway. The Punjab team could collect only 23 points while Eastern Railway collected 49 points. In another match, Indian Youth men's team surprised the spectators by giving a tough fight to BSF. In a neck-and-neck fight BSF defeated Indian Youth. In another match Rest of Punjab men's team defeated RCF 74-69. Though the margin was narrow, Rest of Punjab shooters remained invincible. Jasdeep Singh and Manjeet Singh displayed good speed. Jasdeep Singh also collected 26 points for his team. Tharanjit Singh of RCF collected 18 points for his team. In another match Central
Railway women's team defeated South Central Railway
43-38. |
Paul Lissek to coach Indian
hockey team PATIALA, Oct 10 — German hockey legend Paul Lissek has agreed to come to India in November this year, on the invitation of the Indian Hockey Federation, to coach the national hockey team for the Asian Games scheduled to be held at Bangkok from December 6 to 20. Paul Lissek, who coached the Malaysian national hockey squad which won a silver medal in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games held at Kuala Lumpur, has been invited by the IHF to "iron out the deficiencies in the team which surfaced during the Commonwealth Games, primarily in the areas of penalty corner conversion and other related fields". The exact date of Lissek's arrival and the amount to be paid to him has not yet been disclosed. However, this is a temporary arrangement, as the chief coach of the national squad slated to participate in the Asian Games will be Maharaj Kaushik. A final decision as to whether to retain Lissek or not will be made after the conclusion of the Asian Games, according to a top IHF source. Meanwhile, taking a cue from the senior women's nationals held in channai recently where a plethora of one-sided matches had threatened to reduce the nationals to a farce, the IHF has now decided to change the traditional format of the senior men's national hockey championships. In an effort to stress upon the quality rather than the quantity of the national championships the number of the competing teams will be reduced. This will be done by weeding out non-performing teams based on the performance in the previous nationals. The new format envisaged a gradation system which would facilitate promotion and relegation of teams depending upon their performance into 'A' and 'B' divisions. This will also lessen the financial burden on the association hosting the event and also encourage performing teams while at the same time separating teams which just make up for the numbers. The IHF has also decided
to host the 1999 Asia Cup in the run up to the 2000
Sydney Olympics. The venue and the dates will be decided
later. |
Seeded players move up in Bhiwani
meet BHIWANI, Oct 10 — In the senior Indian Grand Prix Prize Money Badminton Tournament being held at Bhim Stadium here all seeded players maintained their supremacy in the men's singles matches played today. Sidharth Jain (AI), however, lost his first game to opponent Madhur Kila (Dli) due to a knee injury but manoeuvered to come up in the second and third games to overpower and beat him 6-15, 15-6, 15-3. There was a neck and neck fight between Parvin Gekhawat (Dli) and Sanket Setty (Mah), and Thomas Kurian (Ker) and Parag Modi (AI) as their opponents extended their games to the decider and won. The detailed results of singles matches played today are as under: Men's singles: Ravinder Singh (AI) bt Vijay Khanna (AP) 15-10, 15-6, Jaison Xavier (Ker) bt Mohd. Salim (Pb) 15-7, 15-5, Vikrant Patwardhan (Mah) bt Mayur Ghakkar (Rly) 15-13, 15-4, Sushant Saxena (UP) bt Harish Chander (Rly) 15-6, 15-6, Joy T. Antony (Ker) bt M. Palekar 14-17, 15-6, 15-7, Sidharth Jain bt Madhur Kalia (Rly) 6-15, 15-8, 15-3, Anuj Gupta (Guj) bt Rajiv Bagga (Mah) 15-11, 15-0. Srikant Bakshi (Rly) bt Ajay Rathi (Har) 15-4, 15-10, Kiran Kumar (AI) bt Chouggal 15-9, 15-7, Thomas Kurian (Ker) bt Parag Modi (AI) 6-15, 15-5, 15-10, Devender Dhillon (Dli) bt Virender (Har) 15-6, 15-4, Sunil Suberhan (Ker) bt Ramlekhan (Pb) 15-9, 15-7, Manish Sharma (UP) bt Ashish Chadha 15-6, 7-15, 15-5. Women's singles: Kanika
(Dli) got w/o Geeta Aggarwal (Chd), Navdeep Kaur (Pb) bt
Vinay Shattey (Mah) 10-2 after one set she conceded the
match. |
Northern India junior golf in city CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 — For the first time, the Northern India Junior and Subjunior Golf Tournament will be held at the Chandigarh Golf Club from October 13 to 16. An annual feature of the Delhi Golf Club, the Indian Golf Union-categorised tournament has been brought to Chandigarh through the sponsorship of St Xavier's Secondary School. The Chandigarh tournament will be the first in the circuit. The remaining three tournaments will be played in Bangalore (November 17 to 20), Calcutta (December 15 to 18), and Mumbai (December 29 to January 1 , 1999). The finals will be played in Calcutta from January 6 to 9. The players will have to play in all the four tournaments to qualify for the IGU merit list. Golfers from all over the country will be vying for honours. Talking to the Press the chairman of the media and publicity committee of the Golf Club, Dr G.S. Kochhar, said the local challenge will be led by Sahir Singh among and Irina Brar among girls. Among the favourites is Sandeep Syal who played in the Asia Pacific. Competitions will be held in the following age-groups: Group Handicap Handicap (Boys) (Girls) Under-18 12 and below 18 and below Under-15 16 and below 20 and below Under-13 30 and below 36 and below Under-10 |
Golden double for Uzma; Nitin wins NEW DELHI, Oct 10 (PTI) — Top seed Uzma Khan of Andhra Pradesh completed a grand double, winning the women’s and girls’ (under-18) titles in the DSCL Open National Tennis Championship here today. Uzma came back from a set and 3-1 down in the second to beat second-seeded Sai Jai Lakshmi of Tamil Nadu 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the women’s final, but had little difficulty winning the girls’ crown two hours later. She whitewashed Delhi girl Shruti Dhawan 6-0, 6-0. Uzma hardly showed the form that earned her the national grasscourt title last year at Duliajan (Assam) in the first set. After taking the first two games, she was broken four times by Lakshmi, whose pin-point baseline shots and winners from the net seemed to leave Uzma clueless. In all there were 15 service breaks in the entire match. Lakshmi took three games in a row, breaking Uzma in the third, closing out the next with an ace and breaking the top seed again when she hit wide while down 15-40 in the fifth. Lakshmi, who dropped her serve in the next game, broke Uzma again in the seventh before taking the set on her opponent’s serve in the ninth, Uzma serving wide on set point. The next set saw both players breaking each other’s serve easily. Both also committed a number of unforced errors. It was in the sixth game of the second set that Uzma came into her own. After Lakshmi had gone up 0-15 with a winner, Uzma hit one down the line and another across the court to reach 30-15. Although Lakshmi drew level at 30-30, Uzma held serve, taking the game with two more winners to make it 3-3 in the second. Former Davis cupper Nitin
Kirtane won the national hardcourt title beating up and
coming youngster Vijay Kannan in straight sets in the
section today. Vijayendra Laad completed a double for Maharashtra on the side court when he clinched the boy’s (under-18) singles crown beating fourth seed Akshay Vishal Rao 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Laad and Rao, both
baseliners, played great tennis with long rallies and
smashing returns enthralling the sparse crowd at the DLTA
deco-truf courts. Second seeded Kirtane aims to get back into India’s Davis Cup squad, which has now relegated to the Asia-Oceania zonal competition for 1999. Kannan started the match comfortably, breaking Kirtane in the fourth game of the first set to take 3-1 lead. But Kirtane replied back immediately in the fifth as Kannan’s killer instinct was found missing. Kirtane soon took over the
charge and stretched the ninth game on Kannan’s
service to duece before sending a backhand cross court
winner to earn decisive break for a 5-4 lead. |
Shane Warne not to testify MELBOURNE, Oct 10 (Reuters) — Australian spin bowler Shane Warne has ruled out any possibility that he might appear at the inquiry into alleged match-fixing by Pakistan cricketers. Warne, told reporters in Australia yesterday that he had nothing to add to the statement he made four years ago when he, Mark Waugh and Tim May accused Pakistan’s Salim Malik of offering them a bribe to play poorly. "We signed affidavits and wrote down exactly what happened and we got called liars from a Pakistan judge", said Warne, who withdrew from Australia’s current tour to recover from shoulder surgery. "We told the right authorities, we told our manager, we told all those sort of people and we left it up to the authorities. May, who has retired from the game but now serves as president of the Australian Cricketers’ Association, has also refused to travel to Pakistan to testify. The former spinner said he was dismayed at the way the whole affair had been handled, blaming the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not taking a more active role. "I think it’s been handled poorly from the start. It should have been dealt with four years ago", May said. "We gave sworn statements in 1995 and we stick by every word of them". The manager of the Australian team that toured Pakistan in 1994, Col Egar, has also criticised the ICC’s approach to the scandal. Egar said he informed ICC chief executive David Richards, who was in Pakistan at the time, as soon as he was told of the alleged offers but said he did not know if the matter was passed on to the Pakistani authorities. "I think at the time the ICC should have taken a hold on the whole allegations", Egar told Australian Radio. The criticism by the three
Australians followed a call by Australia’s top
cricket official for the ICC to take a more significant
role in the investigation. The judge who investigated the original charges exonerated the Pakistan players and accused the Australians of concocting the charges. However, an interim report released by the PCB three weeks ago recommended that Malik, Wasim Akram and Ijaz Ahmad should not be selected until the investigations were completed. Waugh, the only member of the original trio currently in Pakistan, repeated his allegations of bribery to the government-appointed judge investigating the charges. But the Australian camp
were angry at the way the hearing was conducted, with
Australian manager Steve Bernard describing it as an
"ambush". |
Indian cueists may boycott world meets MUMBAI, Oct 10 (PTI) — Indian cueists, including world amateur snooker runner-up Ashok Shandilya and former Asian champion Yasin Merchant, have threatened to pull out of World and Asian meets in future "if the government fails to reimburse the money spent by them" on earlier trips. The cueists are also demanding that 40 per cent of the expenses be granted in advance for future world meets by the government or the Billiards and Snooker federation of India. Devendra Joshi, Dharmendra Lilly, B. Bhaskar, Rafat Habib, Alok Kumar and Manan Chandra are supporting the demand. Three-time world amateur billiards champion Michael Ferreira, who was the coach-cum-manager of the Indian team for the Asian Amateur Snooker Championship at Karachi recently, said here yesterday that four Indian cueists and the manager of the Indian team, Arvind Savur of Karnataka, were yet to be reimbursed the money they had spent during the Malta World Championships last October. "Railways’ Shandilya, who finished runner-up at Malta, B. Bhaskar of Karnataka, Prem Prakash of Tamil Nadu and Anand Rao of Bihar and the team manager are running from pillar to post to get back the promised sum of around Rs 1 lakh each", Ferreira said. "I don’t know the reason for the delay in releasing the payments to these players. At a national monitoring committee meeting at Delhi last month, attended by Sports Minister Uma Bharti, I raised this point but was told to provide the details", Ferreira said. "I do not know how many times the BSFI will have to submit details and reminders before the players actually get paid", Ferreira said. "The government apathy is leading to a bad situation. The tours are cleared at government cost, but since the government does not hand over the money in time, the BSFI asks the players to shell out money since their contention is that the tours have been cleared at the government’s cost", he said. "The Malta championship was held a year back and I think one year is too long a time to settle the account. Savur, who went as the manager of the team to Zimbabwe last year, is yet to receive Rs 60,000 which he spent during the trip", he said. It is also reliably learnt from BSFI sources that 80 per cent of the expenses during the Asian championship at Karachi, where Joshi and Shandilya formed the Indian team along with the coach-cum-manager Ferreira, has been reimbursed by the government recently. Ferreira also felt that the Indian government should take steps to finance the teams for future trips as the federation is not in a position to do so due to lack of funds. "The government
should also seriously take up the threat by players to
boycott all international events, except the Asian Games
at Bangkok where the teams are cleared through the Indian
Olympic Association, otherwise the games (snooker and
billiards) will suffer a big blow", he added. |
Ali Sher wins championship NEW DELHI, Oct 10 — Ali Sher made the most of the home course as he bagged the Rs 5 lakh Le Meridien-Gokarna Pro-AM Golf Championship at the Delhi Golf Club (DGC) course here today. Staying calm and calculative even after making a double bogey on the 10th and another on the 12th. Ali Sher returned a level par card of 72 to get an aggregate of 286. This saw him prevail upon Shiv Prakash who got Rs 55,550. This was Ali Sher's seventh title at the home course. Basad Ali finished third with an aggregate of 290, while veteran Vikramjit Singh was tied with Jyoti Randhawa and Vivek Bhandari for the fourth position. It was fine going for Vikramjit Singh in his first tournament as a pro Judging from his form and determination, he could cause many surprises as the season progressed. Ali Sher and Shiv Prakash began the fourth round with two-under. Ali Sher made a birdie on the first but dropped a stroke on the second. Shiv Prakash could not come on terms with himself. Ali Sher made three birdies before the turn on the 4th, 5th and 8th. He finished first nine three-under and was five-under in aggregate half-way through. Shiv Prakash, in the meantime, whithered away and was as many as four strokes behind Ali Sher at this stage. Ali Sher earned a birdie on the 13th, while Shiv Prakash had one on the 14th. The difference stayed just one stroke. Shiv Prakash faltered on the 16th. He had a bogey. This gave a two stroke lead to Ali Sher. Then Shiv Prakash got another bogey and that sealed his fate. Expressing satisfaction at his win. Ali Sher said that he was indeed happy that he was playing better than what he was doing in the 1991 and 1993 when he won the Indian open. "I have to improve my consistency and also be more focussed on putting," said Ali Sher, adding, "If I do it, I should be able to reap a rich harvest during the season". Ashok Kumar was the best
among amateurs. He had an aggregate of 302 followed by
young Sulemann Ali (313). Scores: Ali Sher (72, 71, 71,
72) 286, Shiv Prakash (72, 70, 72, 74) 288, Basad Ali
(73, 72, 71, 74) 290, Vikramjit Singh (76, 70, 69, 76)
291, Jyoti Randhawa (78, 70, 70, 73) 291, Vivek Bhandari
(71, 74, 73, 73) 291. |
Bhupathi-Paes duo in final BEIJING, Oct 10 (PTI) — World number three Indian pair of Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes entered final of the Shanghai Open ATP Tournament and will clash with top seeds Australians Woodies for the title tomorrow. The number two seeds Bhupathi-Paes received a walkover when dangerous combination of Brett Steven (New Zealand) and Patrick Galbriath (USA) failed to arrive for the first semifinal match. In the second semis the
Woodbridge-Woodforde pair defeated third seeds duo of
Wayne Black (Zimbabwe) and Peter Tramacchi (Australia)
7-6 (7-2) 6-2. |
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Title for Chander PANCHKULA, Oct 10 (BOSR)
— Chander, national gold medallist representing
Hansraj Skating Club, bagged the 5 km skating road race
clocking 14:58:84 in the above-16 years category on the
second day of the Panchkula Skating Tournament at Hansraj
Public School here. In the girls section (under-16),
Priyanka of HSC clinched the title by clocking 8:59:96.
In the subjunior roller hockey match, Hansraj Public
School routed Blue Bird School 10-1. Sidhu's exclusion draws flak CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 — The Sahibzada Cricket Club, SAS Nagar, at a meeting here today under the chairmanship of Mr Preet Inder Singh strongly condemned the exclusion of Navjot Singh Sidhu from the teams selected for the Challenger Trophy. "The five-member selection committee consisting of Ajit Wadekar (Chairman), Madan Lal, Shiv Lal Yadav, Ashok Malhotra and Anil Deshpande is once again going to play with the career of the great opening batsman. It is not the first time that Navjot Sidhu has been treated in such a harsh manner. It seems the selection committee is giving clear signals that they no longer need the services of the stylish opener from Punjab which is regarded as an 'untouchable' zone by the BCCI", Mr Preet Inder Singh said in a statement here today. After playing in the Sahara Cup in Toronto, where he scored an average 30 runs, he was not given even a single game to play in the one-day series between India and Zimbabwe. Independence Cup hockey from tomorrow CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 (TNS) — Northern Railway, Indian Air Force, Border Security Force and Sikh Regimental Centre are among the eight teams participating in the second Independence Cup Hockey Tournament to be held at Mandi from October 12 to 17, Mr Suresh Bhatia, Organising Secretary of the tournament, announced today. Mr Suresh Bhatia said other teams participating in the tournament are Punjab State Electricity Board, Rock Rovers, District Hockey Association XI (Amritsar) and Himachal XI. The tournament will be played on league-cum-knockout basis. Patiala on top PATIALA, Oct 10 (BOSR) — Mansa's decision of putting Patiala in after winning the toss on a pure batting track which hardly offered any help to the bowlers badly misfired as the hosts piled up a mammoth 421 for 4 in the Dhruv Pandove Cricket Tournament (under-19) here today. Scores; Patiala 421 for 4 in 90 overs (Harman Harry 152, H. Sekhon 125 not out, Harikrishan Kali 56 not out, Saida Khan 42, Tarikjot 20, Sanjeev 3 for 84, Kapil Sharma 1 for 53). Swimming results CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 (BOSR) — Kiran and Arvind romped home with two events each on the opening day of the 12th senior, junior and subjunior swimming championship on the PU campus here today. While Kiran won the under-14 girls free style and back stroke events, Arvind was declared winner in under-14 free style and back stroke in the same age group. Jolly to lead CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 (BOSR) — Rakesh Jolly will be the captain of the newly created Punjab zone comprising Punjab, Haryana, HP, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh which will participate in the Inter-State Invitational Revenue Cricket Meet to be held at Calcutta from October 30 to November 6 this year. Easy victories for PU Campus CHANDIGARH, Oct 10(BOSR)
— Panjab University Campus scored two easy wins over
their rivals in the PU Inter-College Volleyball
Tournament for men and women being played here. Ludhiana, Patiala shuttlers in final SANGRUR, Oct 10 (BOSR) — Ludhiana will clash with Patiala in the final in boys under 19 category in the Panjab Schools Badminton Championships, while in the girls section, Sangrur and Hoshiarpur will fight for top honours. In the first semifinal in boys section Ludhiana thrashed Amritsar 2-0 Jatinder won the first singles defeating Vaibhav 15-6-15-5. Later on, Jatinder joined Dilpreet Singh to beat Rasik and Sandeep 15-9, 15-2 in the second semifinal. Patiala edged out Sangrur 2-0 Harinder Singh sailed past Arif 15-1, 15-1 while Harinder and Ashok thrashed Arif and Amir 15-1, 15-5. Sangrur defeated Amritsar in the girls section 2-0. After losing the first singles to Sangrur rather tamely Amritsar girls put up great fight in the doubles. Amritsar's pair of Radha and Jyoti lost to Shahnaaz and Farina of Sangrur 13-15, 15-6, 13-15. In the second semifinals Hoshiarpur thrashed Ludhiana 2-0. Gorika defeated Mandeep 11-0, 11-0. Gorika and Gurpreet defeated Rupinder and Parminder 15-2, 15-7. SPS win by 62 runs CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 (BOSR) — Shivalik Public School, Sector 41 ousted Shard Servhitkari Model School, Sector 40, by 62 runs in the Shivalik Trophy Knockout Prize Money Tournament being played here.SPS-41 were asked to bat first and they were 134 all out. SSMS-40 were bundled out for 72 runs only with Harjeet taking four wickets for 14 runs and Sohil claiming 2 for 10 runs. Brief scores: SPS 134 all out (Nitin 39, Hardeep 20, Harjit 13 n.o., Gaurav 5 for 24, Sumit Sood 2 for 12) SSMS-40, 72 all out (Harjeet 4 for 14, Sohil 2 for 10). All-India karate meet in Delhi CHANDIGARH, Oct 10 (TNS) — Delhi Karate-Do Association, a newly-formed registered body to promote martial arts and affiliated, among others, to World Karate Federation, will organise an all-India karate championship in New Delhi in January. Mr S. Thapa, president of the association, disclosed that the association would then participate in South Asian karate competition being held in Nepal in March. Later it would hold a South Asian championship in New Delhi. As many as 19 players have acquired black belts under the training of S. Thapa. Ludhiana pile up 394 LUDHIANA, Oct 10 (BOSR) — A brilliant century (130) by opener Pardeep Atwal and equally useful contributions from Gagandeep Singh (69) Rajan Singh (57) and Deepak Dhir (51) helped hosts Ludhiana to amass 394 runs against Fatehgarh Sahib on the first day of their pre-quarterfinal match of the Punjab State Inter-District Cricket Tournament (u-19) for the Dhruv Pandove Trophy at the SD Government College grounds here today. Ludhiana won the toss and piled up 394 for 7 in the allotted 90 overs in their first innings. PTU Badminton meet from Oct 16 JALANDHAR,
Oct 10 (BOSR) — The Punjab Technical University
Inter-College Badminton Championships for Men and Women
will be held on October 16 and 17 at the Raizada Hansraj
Stadium here. The Director (Sports) Punjab Technical
University, Mr Gurmej Singh Dhaliwal, has said the event
will be hosted by Regional Engineering College,
Jalandhar. Ten teams from various colleges will
participate in the championship. Last year's champions
REC have been awarded the first seeding in the men's
section while Engineering College, Ferozepore, has been
seeded second in the women's section. REC, Jalandhar and
GNE, Ludhiana have been seeded first and second,
respectively.
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