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S. Africa defeat revives Pakistan hopes PRETORIA, July 11 — Disgraced South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has been invited to act as guest lecturer in sports ethics at a Pretoria university, but will not be paid for the job, the institution said today. Sampras’ mark ‘unbeatable’ |
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game CHENNAI, July 11 — Punjab and Sind Bank, fighting for a place in the knockout semifinals along with Karnataka from group B, survived a two-goal deficit and held favourites Air-India to a 2-2 draw and kept their chances alive in the 78th All -India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament at the Astro Turf Stadium here today. Whitall equals 1-day record DORTMUND, July 11 — British grandmaster Michael Adams (3) joined Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand (3) at the top by scoring a shocking victory over top seeded grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (2) of Russia in the fourth round of Sparkassen chess meeting supertournament being played here. ‘Last chance’
for Aussies to win gold Video rental business to get a big boost at Sydney SYDNEY, July 11 — Australian paceman Brett Lee has been reported to the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a suspect bowling action. 102 grapplers for coaching camp India’s soccer ties live on Doordarshan Selection trials
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S. Africa defeat revives Pakistan hopes COLOMBO, July 11 (AFP) — South Africa crashed to an eight-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka today to resurrect Pakistan’s campaign in the Singer Cup. The hosts shot out South Africa for a meagre 167 and then cruised home in the 28th over to record their fourth successive win in the tri-series. Opener Avishka Gunawardena led Sri Lanka’s charge with 87 off 75 balls which contained 16 powerful boundaries. The left-hander was, however, denied his maiden one-day century — and the first by any player in matches between South Africa and Sri Lanka — when he was trapped leg-before by Nicky Boje. Marvan Atapattu, who added 129 for the second wicket with Gunawardena, remained unbeaten on 44 as Sri Lanka completed a facile win at the Sinhalese Sports Club ground. Had South Africa won, they would have knocked Pakistan out of the race and qualified for Friday’s final against Sri Lanka. Instead, Shaun Pollock’s men face a virtual semi-final here tomorrow against Pakistan, who suddenly find themselves back in contention despite three successive defeats. Sri Lanka’s impressive win was set up by the spinners in the morning session when they spun a web around the South African batsmen. Leg-spinner Upul Chandana grabbed 2-20 from 10 overs and off-spinner Kumar Dharmasena finished with 2-37 as South Africa were bowled out with four balls to spare. Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 83, but found no assistance at the other end as the tourists collapsed to 110-7 before Nicky Boje led a minor recovery. Boje made 19 during an eighth-wicket stand of 38 with Kallis, but it came too late after a reckless display by the top-order. South Africa, sent to bat in their 200th one-dayer, lost the openers by the third over and failed to build on the third-wicket stand of 60 between Andrew Hall and Kallis. The gamble to open with Lance Klusener backfired as the left-hander was out to the first ball he faced, driving Pramodaya Wickremasinghe straight to covers. The other opener Gary Kirsten was bowled by Nuwan Zoysa in the third over, but Sri Lanka had to wait till the 14th for their next success. Hall hit 32 off 34 balls when he pulled Dharmasena to square-leg where Mahela Jayawardena picked up the skier. South Africa slipped from 84-3 to 94-5 as Daryll Cullinan and Jonty Rhodes were run out attempting risky singles against the alert Sri Lankan fielders. Chandana opened up the tail with the wickets of captain Pollock and his deputy Mark Boucher in the 28th over. Boucher failed to keep a drive down and was snapped up by Jayawardena in the covers. Pollock did not judge the line of a top-spinner and was leg-before without scoring. SCOREBOARD South Africa: Kirsten b Zoysa 3 Klusener c Atapattu b Wickremasinghe 0 Hall c Jayawardenab Dharmasena 32 Kallis not out 83 Cullinan run out 8 Rhodes run out 5 Boucher c Jayawardena
Pollock lbw b Chandana 0 Boje st Sangakkara
Hayward run out 0 Ntini b Jayasuriya 1 Extras: (lb-1, nb-4, w-3) 8 Total: (all out in 49.2 overs) 167 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-4, 3-64, 4-84, 5-94, 6-110, 7-110, 8-148, 9-158. Bowling: Zoysa 7-2-23-1, Wickremasinghe 6-0-41-1, Dharmasena 10-0-37-2, Murlitharan 10-0-32-0, Chandana 10-1-20-2, Jayasuriya 6.2-2-13-1. Sri Lanka S. Jayasuriya c Ntini b Pollock 1 A. Gunawardena lbw b Boje 87 M. Atapattu not out 44 M. Jayawardena not out 14 Extras: (b-4, lb-9, nb-1, w-8) 22 Total: (for two wickets) 168 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-140 Bowling: Pollock 6-0-22-1, Hayward 2-0-26-0, Ntini 5-0-35-0, Hall 3-0-11-0, Boje 6.3-0-39-1, Klusener 4-0-18-0, Cullinan 1-0-4-0. |
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Cronje invited
to speak on ethics PRETORIA, July 11 (AFP) — Disgraced South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has been invited to act as guest lecturer in sports ethics at a Pretoria university, but will not be paid for the job, the institution said today. “Cronje could, as a community service, share his experience of temptation and corruption with students who would gain priceless insight into the nature and mechanics of corruption,” Pretoria Technikon (technical university) spokeswoman Professor Rene Uys said in a statement. “It is rare to have the opportunity of studying high profile individuals in scandals of the magnitude of ‘Hansie Gate’ and such opportunities should be grasped,” she said. The Technikon had not yet received a formal reply from him to its invitation, Uys said. “No remuneration whatsoever is envisaged should Cronje become involved.” Cricket-loving South Africa was last month rocked by revelations before a commission of inquiry into match-fixing that Cronje, who was fired in April, on five occasions took money from gamblers and bookmakers between 1996 and 2000. |
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Sampras’ mark ‘unbeatable’ LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) — Australian Roy Emerson congratulated Pete Sampras today for breaking his record of 12 Grand Slam men’s singles titles and said he doubted the American’s new record of 13 would ever be beaten. Emerson missed Wimbledon final between top seed Sampras and Australian Pat Rafter, which Sampras won 6-7, 7-6, 6-4, 6-2, because he was travelling to London. He said he would telephone the seven-times Wimbledon champion later today. “He deserves it, he’s been a terrific champion,” Emerson told Reuters. “I can’t think of anyone I would rather see break the record.” “I feel fine, no different, the record was there to be broken. But this one that Sampras has got now is going to last a long time.” “I don’t think anyone will ever be as dominant as he has been over the past seven to eight years.” “I plan to give him a call at a responsible hour later this morning.” Emerson, now 63, won singles and doubles titles at all four Grand Slam tournaments — the only man to achieve this — and earned his 12th singles title at the French Open in 1967. He was flying to London from Switzerland yesterday and missed the final, which took a total of six hours to complete because of rain, ending at twilight on Centre Court. I didn’t see a point but I listened to bits of it on the radio. He (Sampras) must have played terrific. His serve, if it’s on grass, is pretty much unreturnable unless someone is terrific at returning. “He would have been a bit nervous about coming back the next day.” The match hinged on Rafter, 4-1 up in the second set tie break, missing chances to take a two-set lead against the defending champion. “I heard Rafter missed a couple of first serves and volleys and that’s all it takes — there were not too many points separating them. At 2-0 Pat would have been a tough opponent to beat.” Sampras, at 28, has time to add more Grand Slam titles to his collection, Emerson believes. “Pete was No. 1 for six years and that by itself in the present day is unbelievable. I expect he will win Wimbledon again, I’m sure he’s odds-on again if he comes back next year. “He’s got plenty of time to win more Grand Slams and put it out of reach of anyone else.” “It’s pretty tough to be on top for that long. To win seven Wimbledons — boy, he loves the grass. It’s pretty demoralising when you can’t get a good look at his serve because the ball is coming in at a terrific pace and it’s very hard to pick.” Emerson still holds the record for total Grand Slam titles — 28 doubles and singles — and he believes that one will stay out of reach, maybe for ever. “That one will last a long, long time, I’m definitely proud of that one — that could last for ever unless they change the rules to make the top players play the two events. I would like to see that,” Emerson said. |
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Tennis now a power game THE grass court season in the UK comes to an end with Wimbledon and I always wonder if the world’s biggest event, is seeing the last years of the grass court surface. The conversation regarding the surface always comes up during the championships and especially when rain affects play as it does so frequently in London. Knowing Wimbledon and the tradition involved, it is an impossibility, though the next conversation of the possibility of a sliding roof over the center court has become a talking point at the All-England Club. The club has just completed magnificent refurbishment of the existing facility and has added many more facilities that were overdue. But they have also done it with the same class and tradition that the club has always had, keeping in mind the history of these famous grounds. The modern attachments blend beautifully with the old clubhouse and the colour of green and purple have been maintained along with glass and wood. The players’ entrance is now off Somerset road and gives the players easy access to all the facilities and the dressing rooms have been made larger and with every possible need being taken care of. I was at the reception hosted by the Chief Executive of the club Mr Christopher Gorringe and his wife and told him that the additions were exactly what were needed. The money generated from the club’s Wimbledon championships has always supported both the development of tennis in the United Kingdom and also these kind of expansions that the club has done especially over the last five years. The completed facility looks and feels great giving it everything that you would want to have at a major event but at the same time fiercely protecting the tradition and history of the club and the championships. I have always hoped that grass court events would continue the world over but maintenance and the equipment made today has made this the only month which has managed to retain the grass court events. Tennis has certainly become much more of power game and it is exaggerated more on these surface as the ball bounces low and fast. Though the texture of the grass has changed over the years to make it a bit slower, and the balls are heavier than when I played the game through the seventies and eighties, the equipment has made the game faster and more powerful. Also the average height when I played the game was about 5’10” and now its about 6’ 2”, all of these makes the game on grass a little more different to take especially when you see big players pound down three or four aces a game. Unless you see an Agassi or Kuerten return well and play some from the back using the whole court it is not been fun to watch. I enjoyed the Phillippoussis – Henman match even though the rallies were not that many but it is a different kind of pressure. As this new millennium begins and the future of the game continues to be bright, the future of grass court tennis is not quite as secure. The players are getting younger and stronger and better athletes and the quality of the game gets better as the balls are hit harder but the greatness and tradition of tennis will always remain with Wimbledon and as long as the championships remain on grass.
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PSB rally to hold Air-India CHENNAI, July 11 (UNI) — Punjab and Sind Bank, fighting for a place in the knockout semifinals along with Karnataka from group B, survived a two-goal deficit and held favourites Air-India to a 2-2 draw and kept their chances alive in the 78th All -India MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup Hockey Tournament at the Astro Turf Stadium here today. In a match which petered out into a defensive contest, Air-India, who had already qualified for the semis with two successive league wins against IHF juniors and Karnataka-XI now top the group with seven points to four against Punjab and Sind Bank. They snatched a 2-0 lead in the space of one minute through two splendid goals, mounting an attack on the left flank. First Darryl D’Souza caught the Punjab and Sind Bank defence napping, striking hard past the goalkeeper Maninder Singh in the 20th minute. In the very next minute, Edward Aranha did an encore striking close to the target past an out of position Maninder Singh. However, Punjab and Sind Bank mounted a quick counter and forced a second penalty corner in the 23rd minute. Rajinder Singh converted with a stinging shot past the defence and reduced the margin (1-2). However, Air-India went on the defensive despite forcing a few good moves through Roshan Tete, Alex D’Souza and Davinder Kumar, but also wasted three penalty corners. The Punjab and Sind Bank attack in the hands of captain Baljit Singh Chandi, Sanjeev Kumar and Rajwinder Singh, went into the second session under pressure, down 1-2. But they equalised through their fourth penalty corner in the 53rd minute. Rajinder Singh made no mistake with his shot. But after this goal, the Punjab and Sind Bank front line also seemed to lack the sharpness to hustle past the Air-India defence manned by Anil Aldrin and Cornelius D’Costa. Next they will be going into their last league encounter against Karnataka needing just a draw. Earlier, hosts Tamil Nadu entered the semifinals outplaying Indian Airlines by a solitary goal and
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Whitall equals
1-day record CANTERBURY (England), July 11 (Reuters) — Guy Whittall made the most of his promotion to open for Zimbabwe by plundering 83 against West Indies to equal his highest score in one-day internationals today. Whittall, normally an attacking middle-order batsman, replaced injured regular opener Craig Wishart and spurred Zimbabwe to 256 for 4 off their 50 overs after being put in by West Indies in the triangular series one-day match. Missed three times — on 40, 49 and 80 — Whittall capitalised on his good fortune to make his runs from 111 deliveries, hitting five fours, as he equalled his previous best of 83 against Kenya in Nairobi in 1997. Whittall’s innings blossomed after a relatively low-key start when he was overshadowed by fellow opener Neil Johnson (51). |
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Adams joins Anand at the top DORTMUND, July 11 (UNI) — British grandmaster Michael Adams (3) joined Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand (3) at the top by scoring a shocking victory over top seeded grandmaster Vladimir Kramnik (2) of Russia in the fourth round of Sparkassen chess meeting supertournament being played here. It was Kramnik’s first loss in the last 18 months. Neither the world’s strongest player Garry Kasparov nor mercurial Viswanathan Anand could defeat him during this period. Now Kramnik is in danger of losing his second spot to arch rival Anand because of loss of rating points due to this loss. Meanwhile, Israeli computer program “Junior6” outplayed world chess champion Alexander Khalifman only to mishandle the winning position and letting him off the hook with a draw. Anand was in an uncomfortable position against Russian grandmaster Evegenny Barrev from the black side of semi slav defence. A gritty defence from the Chennai-born-Indian, frustrated Barrev and forced him to agree for a draw after 60 moves. Anand played his usual fast game against Barrev. He exchanged queens on the 13th move and entered an apparently inferior ending. Barrev enjoyed an advantage of double bishops which would have troubled an ordinary grandmaster. The spectators were impressed by Anand’s speed with which could play the difficult game. Adams started his game on a sedate note when he employed nimzowich-rossolimo attack known for its harmless nature at the top level. Kramnik, who recently replaced Anand at the world No 2 spot easily, equalised in spite of Adams’ new move on the 13th move. Kramnik must be kicking himself after his mistake on the 18th move whereby he weakened his king position. Adams mounted pressure slowly and could have finished off the game with a combination on the 35th move. Kramnik came back into the battle only to commit a serious error on the 41st move. Adams did not let go the opportunity and dominated the proceedings. Kramnik, in desperation, sacrificed a piece and resigned after 51st move when the Englishman defended accurately. |
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‘Last chance’
for Aussies to win gold SYDNEY, July 11 (AFP) — Senior striker Stephen Davies has told his Australian men’s field hockey team-mates to treat the Sydney Olympics as their last chance to win gold. The Kookaburras are hoping to end one of Australian sport’s longest and most painful droughts. Only eight of the 16 are likely to be around for Athens in 2004 but Davies’ message was directed as much at them as the senior players. “Treat it as your last chance,” said 31-year-old Davies, who played in the losing 1992 Barcelona final. “You never know, it might be.” It wasn’t lost on captain Michael York, padding up for his fourth Games. “There’s the added incentive of being the last time and being at home so it’s something we desperately want to achieve,” he said. Full back Matthew Wells was the surprise choice in the team announced today while striker Matthew Smith was the unlucky man, having been Australia’s best player this year. |
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Video rental business to get a big boost at Sydney THE question is looming large in Olympic city. How are non-sport loving Sydney sider going to pass the time during the Olympics? TV will be saturated with sport. Traffic jams will stop locals getting to the cinema, and in any case, there’ll be nothing worth seeing because the movie halls have decided to hold back their best stuff until November. In the end, it’ll come down to videos. The video industry newsletter, Video Trader, reports that a bunch of rental stores have formed a committee called VOCOG to ensure there is plenty of new material available in September. In Atlanta in ‘96 the Olympics really did have an impact on rental business. Most distributors are timing big releases in Sydney for late August, September and early October. Universal Pictures, for example, will fight the Olympic menace with the multiple Oscar winner American Beauty, the sci-fi satire Galaxy Quest, the kid adventure Dragonheart 2, and the long melodrama The Green Mile. Columbia will release the kids’ favourite Stuart Little early in September. Roadshow will offer the young adult thriller The Talented Mr Ripley. Fox has the teen comedy Drive Me Crazy and the Leo DiCaprio thriller The Beach. That takes care of eight nights during September. As for the remaining days of muscular madness, well why not just leave the city and go out in the country. Tickets on line off target Organisers admit that they are running almost a month behind schedule in their plan to sell Olympic tickets online, saying they are still waiting for final technical confirmation that the Web site will be able to handle the transactions and extra traffic. The computer giant IBM, official provider of the SOCOG’s olympics.com Web site, said it had not yet received instructions that online ticket sales were about to be launched. The “SOCOG’s thinking about tickets online is that it is an upcoming part of their ticketing strategy but we don’t know when that is going to happen,” an IBM spokeswoman said. IBM received an additional $10.7 million from Games organisers last month as part of the NSW Government’s $140 million bailout of the SOCOG’s budget. The company has promised Games organisers that the Web site will allow fans to see real-time results, athletes’ biographies, statistics and in some cases pictures and detailed scoreboards during the Games. It predicts the site will attract 700 million hits over the two weeks. Although the number of hits on the site for ticket sales would not be of that magnitude, the anticipated announcement is still likely to boost traffic to the official Olympic Web page. Two months before the Olympics, organisers have been forced to admit that they are unlikely to have enough buses to transport many disabled people to the Games. The Olympics Roads and Transport Authority said it expects to be short of at least 60 wheelchair accessible buses, which it had hoped to hire. It estimates it needs 150 such buses for the Olympics and 200 for the Paralympics. So far it has earmarked about 75 which could be made available in NSW for the Olympics, and about 130 for the Paralympics. Hi tech brings Greece to Sydney When the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney began negotiations in Athens four or so years ago with the Greek Government to bring dozens of Greece’s most precious antiquities to Australia, there was one particular object that featured at the top of the “must-haves” list. It was the large bronze statue of Zeus from Artemesion - an authentic treasure of Ancient Greece and a direct link to the original Olympic Games, a religious as well as a sporting festival that was conducted in honour of the Greek god Zeus. It was a speculative request from the Australians since the statue of Zeus appears on the Greeks’ rather elongated list of “can’t haves”. The Greeks, to be blunt, were as willing to allow their statue of Zeus to leave their shores as they were to cede Cyprus to the Turks. No worries, the Australians, thought. Sydney can still have its statue of Zeus. And so it will, when the exhibition that emerged from those negotiations, 1,000 Years of the Olympic Games: treasures of Ancient Greece, opens on July 19 at the Powerhouse Museum. By exploiting the latest advances in virtual reality and interactive technology, similar to that employed by the recent Hollywood epic Gladiator, institutions like the museum are able to supplement exhibitions beyond the static, physical displays of objects in glass cases. One of the few surviving examples of early classical statuary, Zeus will be presented in 3D at the exhibition after a team travelled to Greece to capture the statue using a high-resolution scanner and digital photography. When visitors view the 3D version in Sydney, the real thing is firmly fixed in position in Athens. With the use of special “shutter glasses”, it will appear at its actual size and rotate, providing the impression that the viewer is walking around it as if it were being viewed in person. The 3D Statue of Zeus, as well as a virtual reality tour of Ancient Olympia and an interactive Web site, is a joint project between the museum, the computer giant Intel and the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne. In addition to the Statue of Zeus, the exhibition also features a virtual reconstruction of Ancient Olympia, where the Olympics began in 776 BC. The recreation of the ancient precinct — today a series of ruins — from about 200 BC includes temples adorned with marble statues and votive offerings. One of the most thrilling elements of the virtual tour is the journey through the tunnel that led athletes from the main part of the site into the stadium where races were held before large crowds. A tour of the present-day archaeological site of Ancient Olympia will also be available by accessing more than two dozen 360-degree spherical photographic panoramas.
— PMG (The writer is a well-known sport journalist now settled in Australia) |
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Brett Lee reported to ICC for suspect action SYDNEY, July 11 (Reuters) — Australian paceman Brett Lee has been reported to the International Cricket Council (ICC) for a suspect bowling action. The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) told a news conference today that Lee, who was named last week as Wisden’s Young Player of the Year’, had been reported for throwing during Australia’s tour of New Zealand in March. Lee, who made his Test debut against India in December, said he was shocked by the news was certain he would be cleared. “I’ve got nothing to hide. As far as I’m concerned, my action is pure,” Lee said. ACB chief executive Malcolom Speed said he was also confident Lee would be cleared and he was upset at the way the ICC had handled the
matter. Although Lee was reported to the ICC almost four months ago, the ACB was told only on Monday about the concerns. Speed said the ICC had not provided any specific details on Lee’s alleged problem except to say it was only with the “occasional” ball. “We are very disappointed with how this has been handled and have said so to the ICC,” speed said. “We have no concern whatsoever with Brett’s action. Our intention is to mount the strongest, most compelling and comprehensive case possible to address any doubts that others may hold regarding Brett’s action.” Even if the ICC’s 10-member illegal deliveries panel, made up of one representative from each of the Test-playing nations, finds a problem with his action, the only action they can take is to refer the matter to the ACB. The 23-year-old has been selected to play for Australia in next month’s limited-over series indoors at Melbourne’s Colonial Stadium. “I’ve had the chance to fact Brett in the nets and play alongside him for some time now and as far as I’m concerned, there is no problem with his action,” said Australian captain Steve Waugh. “Like everyone else, I’m disappointed with the procedure. Nothing’s been proven and there’s no evidence to suggest that he’s a chucker.” |
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102 grapplers for coaching camp HISAR, July 11 — The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has selected 102 grapplers, including 32 women to attend the national coaching camps to prepare the Indian junior team for the third Junior Asian Freestyle Greco-Roman and Women Wrestling Championship to be held in New Delhi from August 9 to 13. Announcing this here today, Mr Sukhbir Singh, joint secretary of the WFI said players 34 wrestlers were in freestyle section and 36 for the Greco-Roman style in boys section. The 25-day national coaching camp for boys will be from July 12 to August 7 at NIS Patiala, while girls camp will be held at Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi. The probables: Boys (freestyle): 50 kg: Naresh Kumar (Har), Yogeshwar Datt (Del), Amit Sharma (Pb), Sushil Kumar (Del); 54 kg: Bijender Singh (Har); Kishan Kumar (HP), Raj Kumar (Pb), Rohtas (Del); 58 kg: Jagbir Singh (Har), Ravinder (Raj), Niranjan (Chd); 63 kg: Sheokender Tomar (RSPB), Ombir (Pb), Balwant Bhati (MP), Devender (Del); 69 kg: Ramesh Kumar (Del), Rakesh Kumar (HP), Jai Bhagwan (Har); 76 kg: Chand Ram (Del), Jang Bhahadur (Pb), Raj Din (HP), Narinder Singh (Del); 85 kg: Naresh (Raj), Sajjan Pal (Har), Balraj (Pb), Anuj Kumar (RSPB), Sandeep Kumar (Pb); 97 kg: Anil Mann (Del), Sandeep Rathi (Del), Naveen (Har); 130 kg: Palwinder Cheema (Pb),Virender (Haryana), Auninder Singh (HP), Devender (HP). Boys (Greco-Roman): 50 kg: Naveen Kumar (Del), Tirloki Nath (UP), Varinder (Har), Sonu (Del); 54 kg: Mukesh Khatri (Del), Anil Kumar (Del), Rajiv Kumar (Har), Sarup Singh (Pb); 56 kg: Ravinder Singh (Del), Anand (Del), Gautam (UP), Satish (Har); 63 kg: Sukhdeep Singh (Pb), Deeraj (Mah), G. Nagraj (Kar), Dilbag (Har); 69 kg: Bijender (Del), Ravinder Patil (Mah), Ameer Chand (MP), Harinder Singh (UP); 76 kg: Suraj Mal (Raj), Ajit Singh (HP), Jagbir Singh (Del), Govind Pawar (Mah); 85 kg: Rahul (Mah), Premvir Singh (Pb), Ravinder (Del), Megh Raj (Mah); 97 kg: Satish Kumar (Pb), Anil (Del), Datta Gaikved (Mah), Ved Pal (Har); 130 kg: Yogesh Dedka (Mah), Mukesh (HP), Rakesh (Del), Bajinder (Chd). Girls: 43 kg: Summi (Del), Manisha S. Gohal (Guj), Geetika Pant (MP), Meena Kumari (Har); 46 kg: M. Ramnichani Chanu (Man), Seenu Jain (Har), Farha Banu (MP), Chetna Sharma (Chd); 50 kg: Ibemche Devi (Man), Renu Bala (Pb), Kiran Jangra (Har), Kulvinder (Chd); 54 kg: Sunita Sharma; (Har), Neha Rathi (Har), Nayena Rana (Guj), Anjoli Daodkar (Mah); 58 kg: Gurmeet Kaur (Pb), Naresh Kumari (Pb), Mamta Arya (Del), Beena Vargash (Ker); 63 kg: Manisha Arya (Del), A. Kiran (Men), Jesa (Ker), Balwinder (Chd); 68: kg: Kiran Sihag (Del), Sukhwinder Kaur (Pb), Vandna Chaudhary (UP), Jasmina George (Ker); 75 kg: Sonika Kaliraman (Har), Aruna Devi (Man), Monika Yadav (Har), Renu Teotia (UP). |
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India’s soccer
ties live on Doordarshan NEW DELHI, July 11 (UNI) — Doordarshan will telecast live the three matches the Indian soccer team will play in England on July 22, 26 and 29. This is the first time that the Indian soccer team is touring England for training and exposure. The Indian team is scheduled to play against Fulham Club, West Brownwich Albion (WBA) Club and Bangladesh team. These matches will be telecast on Doordarshan’s sports channel and national network (DD-1). The telecast schedule: July 22: India vs Fulham in London 7.30 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. (DD-Sports. July 26: India vs WBA Club Midland 11.30 p.m. (DD-1 and DD-Sports). July 29: India vs Bangladesh in Birmingham — 6.30 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. (DD-Sports). |
Selection trials NEW DELHI, July 11 — Players from 13 states — Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Mumbai — are taking part in the selection trials of the Indian team for the 2000 World Cup Indoor Cricket Championship, to be held from October 8 to 22 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The trials began here yesterday. According to Indian Indoor Cricket Federation general secretary Mohinder Singh Khalsa, Punjab, Rest of India, Delhi and Indraprastha Sports Academy (Delhi) have qualified for the semi-finals of the selection tournament.
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