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October 13, 2000, Chandigarh, India   
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Upbeat India clash with SA today
Anwar spared Pak the blushes Cricketers welcome
ban on Cronje Injured Srinath opts out |
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Despite ignominy, they made merry
Sunil, Shruti enter semis Indian veterans
win hockey title Irina leads with
9 over 225 Punjab cops beat BSF, enter last 4 Haryana beat Delhi
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Upbeat India clash with SA today NAIROBI, Oct 12 (UNI)— Defending champions South Africa hold the edge against India as the two sides meet in the second semifinal of the $ one million
ICC Knockout Cup at the Nairobi Gymkhana here tomorrow. New Zealand have already qualified for the finals having beaten Pakistan yesterday. India, in fact, has emerged as the team to watch at this biennial tournament. The win over Australia in the quarter-finals five days ago was quite impressive and expectations against Shaun Pollock’s side are sky-high. The two teams met in one-day internationals in India in 1999 and India emerged winner by a 3-2. They have also played here before in the LG Cup last year with India winning once and the Proteas once. The recent record, therefore is a fairly even one. At stake is a shot at the impressive prize money amount of $ 250,000 for the winners. With the Kiwis in the title round, both India and South Africa will be keen to give their best for whoever wins will start title favourites in the final three days from now. Money, however, will be the second consideration in this game. There is a great deal of pride to play for as both teams came into this tournament with dark clouds hanging over their cricketing affairs. For South Africa, the Hansie Cronje confessions were a body blow but they have recovered strongly as was evident during their trip to Australia last month and their performances here. India too will be looking to put behind the controversy that has dogged their cricket since April this year. Coach Kapil Dev has opted out of his job and Mohammed Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja have a cloud hanging over their names. There is a great deal of motivation in Sourav Ganguly’s men to shut the door on this unsavoury past and steer Indian cricket towards a more fitting future. If beating Australia was a huge result for the Indians, a win over Pollock’s team will be an even bigger one. South Africa demolished England in the quarter-finals and will be looking to repeat that result against the Indians. Pollock, Roger Telemachus and Allan Donald bowled quite superbly to restrict Nasser Hussain’s side before Jacques Kallis and young Boeta Dippenaar batted England out of the match with a flawless, clinical display. For India, therefore, there is a two-fold task at hand. One will be to counter an accurate and hostile attack where the presence of Kallis, Lance Klusener and Nicky Boje lends variety and then to get the better of a talented batting lineup in which vice-captain and wicket-keeper Mark Boucher, no mean batsman himself, comes in as low as number seven. Above him are the likes of Gary Kirsten, Kallis, Rhodes and the skipper, who has emerged as the world’s leading allrounder at the moment. Clearly, South Africa are the hardest side to beat in international cricket at the moment. India have gained in confidence as the display against Australia showed and have also adopted modern techniques in fielding and preparations that were glaringly missing. Preparations for tomorrow’s game include intense study of South Africa’s last match on videotape almost unheard of an Indian cricket team. Much has been made of India’s win over Australia. It was a display the likes of which has not been seen from an Indian team for many years and after a long time, the players looked like they believed in themselves. Such self-confidence will be a key factor in the semi-final and beyond, if India get past the Proteas. As always, much will ride on Sachin Tendulkar. Against Australia, he came out with a plan to demolish the opening bowlers and in blazing his way to a 37-ball 38 that included three sixes off Australia’s key bowler, Glenn McGrath, to set the victory. It is a measure of his confidence that he managed to do so while looking completely at odds with little movement of his feet and some alarmingly wild swings of the bat. Australia never recovered from that battering. Yuvraj Singh (84) and Vinod Kambli (29) responded, well as India coasted home to victory. Against South Africa, Tendulkar and Ganguly will face the most accurate attack at this tournament. Pollock and Roger Telemachus tied England down to just five runs in the first eight overs and when Donald was brought on, he knocked over two batsmen in no time. These were the blows England could not cope with despite the brilliance of Graeme Hick. Given their new-found determination, the Indians will be looking to consolidate on the gains from the quarter-final victory. What they will need to guard against is the handicap of a long layoff. India take to the field after a six-day break tomorrow, which is an unusually long gap for an event with this format, and it remains to be seen how much of the momentum gathered in the earlier game still remains. It remains to be decided is whether or not to play left-arm spinner Sunil Joshi, whose career-best figures of five wickets for six runs came against South Africa in the league match of the
LG Cup. Teams : India (from): Sourav Ganguly (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Vinod Kambli, Hemang Badani, Robin Singh, Sunil Joshi, Vijay Dahiya (wk), Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, Venkatesh Prasad, Yuvraj Singh, S.Sriram and Zaheer Khan. Coach: Anshuman Gaekwad. South Africa (from): Shaun Pollock (captain), Mark Boucher (wk), Nicky Boje, Allan Donald, Andrew Hall, Jacques Kallis, Gary Kirsten, Lance Klusener, Boeta Dippenaar, Makhaya Ntini, Jonty Rhodes and Roger Telemachus, Neil McKenzie and Shafiek Abrahams. Coach:
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Experts comments The way Pakistan had played and won against Sri Lanka in the previous game the general consensus seemed that they would be too much for New Zealand and certainly the way they began with Anwar and Nazir batting without a care in the world it looked as if they would post a total that would demolish New Zealand even before they began their reply. But the glorious uncertainties of the game helped no doubt by some thoughtless batting and running between the wickets by the Pakistanis allowed New Zealand to stay in the hunt and limit Pakistan to a score much lower than was thought of after the first 10 overs of the innings. Anwar was the one who held the batting together through the middle order collapse and it was his partnership with Razzaq that spared Pakistan the blushes. On a pitch where the ball came nicely on to the bat, Anwar was quickly into his stride and though Nazir didn’t quite match him it was not long before the young man was delighting with his driving. But like most youngsters impetuosity got the better of him and he perished trying to pull a ball that was shorter, quicker and importantly angled across him. In such a situation the batsman is better off not trying to hit the ball too hard but Nazir will learn that not every ball that looks scoreable is so. Youhana too looked a bit more relaxed and a touch overconfident and like Nazir got off to a start and then lost his wicket. The fabulous start by the openers may have lulled Inzamam into taking a quick nap for he left his crease and was stumped on the off-side which is not a dismissal that is usually seen off a medium-pacer. Down the leg-side yes, as the follow through can take you out of the crease but on the off-side is very rare. But for the tail wagging Pakistan were in danger of being shot out for just over 200 and their final tally would have disappointed them. Roger Twose has been in magnificent form for the Kiwis and this time he not only helped Nathan Astle through the early stage where Wasim gave him a torrid time but also took the initiative to keep the score ticking. It is rare too for Twose to outscore his partner, especially one as good as Astle but that’s exactly what happened. Astle as he grew in confidence played some spanking drives and their partnership got New Zealand on the way. But against Pakistan, especially if the asking rate is over five runs an over it is never easy for they have five top class bowlers and even if one has a bad day the others can make up. The fall of Astle to Azhar Mahmood and Twose to Saqlain in quick succession tilted the balance back towards Pakistan and when Parore and Harris too did not do much it looked as if it was all over for the Kiwis. But Styris who had taken the place of Cairns provided McMillan with just the support the pugnacious. New Zealander needed and in what has been the closest match of the tournament, New Zealand scampered home. All the matches, bar the India — Australia match, had been pretty one-sided and maybe the result of this first semifinal might be the first of close finishes to follow.
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Cricketers welcome ban on Cronje CALCUTTA, Oct 12 (UNI) — Former Test cricketers from the city today said the life ban on South Africa’s Hansie Cronje for his involvement in match-fixing issue was a fully justified decision as the cricketer had brought disgrace to the game. “The former South African skipper has openly admitted his guilt and so this decision was quite an expected one though at one point it seemed that he might be pardoned,’’ former Test opener Pankaj Roy said. “Such a cricketer deserves retirement from the game,’’ Roy said. Echoing similar sentiments, former Test cricketer Arun Lal said, “I think even the life ban on Cronje is a lenient decision. It was quite expected and more severe punishment should have been meted out to such a player.’’ However, commenting on the report that the CBI has not found any evidence so far to link Kapil with match-fixing, Pankaj Roy said it was indeed unfortunate that a player of Kapil’s stature and virtuosity was harassed and insulted in such a manner. “He is such a big allrounder and just see how he was harassed and subjected to ignominy by the various authorities on unfounded grounds,’’ he said. “I hope the CBI does not find anything against Kapil. He is such a nice person and a dear friend of mine,’’ commented Arun Lal, adding, “It is upto the CBI however to find anything against Kapil.’’ JOHANNESBURG (AFP): Earlier, The United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) has imposed a life-ban on disgraced former captain Hansie Cronje, who has admitted receiving money from bookmakers. The ban, which was widely expected, extends to all UCBSA’s related cricket activities as well as that of its affiliates, a board statement said. The resolution was passed by the UCBSA general council at a meeting here on Tuesday. Cronje in June admitted to the King Commission of inquiry in often tearful testimony that he received thousands of dollars from gamblers and bookmakers on five separate occasions between 1996 and 2000. He also confessed that he offered team-mates money in exchange for underperforming in Test matches. The commission will resume its hearings into the matter in November and is likely to make recommendations to government by early December. |
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MUMBAI, Oct 12 (PTI) — Ace speedster Javagal Srinath has opted out of the Rest of India team to play against Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai in the five-day Irani Cup clash, commencing at the Wankhede Stadium here tomorrow, because of a knee problem. “Srinath sent us a faxed message yesterday in which he expressed his inability to play in the Irani Cup tie as he has been advised rest by his doctor after taking injections for his troublesome knee. He has been replaced in the team by (Karnataka
pacemate) Dodda Ganesh, “cricket board executive secretary Sharad Diwadkar told PTI today. Despite the absence of Srinath, who had earlier opted out of the ICC Knock-out Trophy event now in progress at Nairobi and the October 20 to 29 Sharjah tri-series, the Rest of India team seem to possess enough ammunition to hold the upper hand against the depleted Mumbai side. The absence of Sachin Tendulkar, Vinod Kambli and Ajit Agarkar, all doing duty for India in Nairobi, has left Mumbai pretty weak, especially in batting, and their not-so-sound top-order would be up against a varied attack. The Mumbai batting line-up wears a thin look especially in terms of experience with the uncapped Nishit Shetty and Sushant Manjrekar, who made his debut only last season, placed in the middle with team vice-captain Amol Muzumdar. The batting will rely heavily on the wiry-looking Muzumdar, who has not lived upto his early promise, and opener Wasim Jaffer, who made his Test debut last season and will have a rookie as partner to launch the innings, Vinayak Mane. Jaffer, Mane, replacement for Amit Pagnis who has joined the Railways, Muzumdar, Kiran Powar, Shetty, Manjrekar and skipper Sameer Dighe will be tested by the Rest of India attack of Ganesh, Ashish Nehra, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Murali Karthik and Sarandip Singh. The performance of Jaffer and Muzumdar would be watched intently by the five national selectors who are expected to be present. The Mumbai bowling too, in the absence of kingpin Agarkar and the retired Abey Kuruvilla, looks threadbare. The major burden will fall on the shoulders of experienced Paras Mhambrey who will have back-up seam support from Santosh Saxena, and either Sriram Kannan or Swapnil Hazare, another newcomer. The Mumbai spin attack, manned by one of the two left-armers - Rajesh Pawar or Nilesh Kulkarni - and offie Romesh Powar can pose some problems to the Rest of India batting line-up which is quite impressive and is led by their captain VVS Laxman, the wristy Hyderabad strokemaker. Laxman has been given the go-ahead by the selectors to bat in the middle-order for the Rest of India team after his failure in opening the innings for India at the international level barring a blazing 167 in the Sydney Test against Australia. |
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Despite ignominy, they made merry CHANDIGARH, Oct 12 — The dark side of India’s participation in the Sydney Olympics has started unfolding with Mr Syed Shahnawaj Hussain taking the lead to take the lid off. Mr Hussain, who deputed for his Cabinet Minister, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa , at the Sydney Olympic Games, in an interview with a leading TV network, made some sensational revelations. He said while Indian sportspersons were tasting defeat after defeat in the Games, most of the officials of sports organisations were busy throwing lavish parties. Mr Hussain said that in one such party dance performance was so vulgar that his wife (Mr Hussain’s) told him to leave the venue immediately.
“Kahan ley aye hai aap mujhko”, were the words uttered by her, Mr Hussain said. “I felt ashamed and left immediately along with my wife for the hotel”, he said. “I was feeling hurt”, he added. No patriotic Indian can celebrate the defeat, he added. He said he had come to know that four or five such parties were thrown by certain officials and lakhs of rupees were spent. He said most of the federations had outlived their utility. These were doing nothing to promote the sports. Most of the organisations were headed by aged people who do virtually nothing to promote sports. Entire system needed a surgery, he added. Earlier, he made another revelation. The day K.M. Beenamol qualified for semi-final in 400 metres, Ms Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Mr Bill Clinton, President of the USA, congratulated Mr Hussain for Beena Mol’s performance. Mr Hussain and Ms Chelsea were together at a dinner hosted by a Sports Minister of another country for Sports Ministers of various countries. At the end of the day, Sports Ministers of various countries used to go back together to the hotel. Mr Hussain said that often they used to be together in the lift and talked about the peformance of their respective countries during the day. He said that he had to cut a sorry figure as Indian sportspersons were performing poorly. Mr Hussain said that he cut short his visit to Sydney at least by four days and came back as “ I was feeling very upset”. Country’s (India) sports politics was major issue of discussion in
Sydney. Most of the officials were more interested in planning strategies to remain of the saddle in their respecitve sports federations and election of Indian Olympic Association. Karnam Malleshwari, who won the lone medal, a bronze, in Sydney, for the country also had a dig at the Weightlifting Federation of India. She said though she won the world championship twice and gold medals at Asian meets, the federation remained indifferent to her. She said that even once a certain coach threatened her to drop from the Olympic team if her personal coach did not withdraw a particular letter. Same story was told by Kunjarani Devi. She said that in her weight category the women who won gold medal lifted only 190 kg while she had already lifted 200 kg a number of times. She was upset that she was not taken to Sydney. |
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World Cup qualifiers HELSINKI, Oct 12 (AFP) —England began life without coach Kevin Keegan with an uninspiring 0-0 draw against Finland in their World Cup 2002 European zone group 9 qualifying match here yesterday. Keegan resigned after Saturday’s 1-0 home defeat by group favourites Germany, and although Ray Parlour almost won it right at the end when his powerful shot hit the underside of the crossbar, England’s campaign continued to falter. Missing the injured quartet of David Beckham, Tony Adams, Graeme Le Saux and Gary Neville, England looked far from convincing and have now picked up just one point from their opening two matches. A point for Finland means they now have four points after two games having beaten Albania in their opener in Helsinki in September. England struggled to find form against a determined Finland side but were unfortunate not to see the home goalkeeper sent off early on after striker Teddy Sheringham was brought down on the edge of the penalty area. Keegan’s shock departure caught Finnish printers by surprise as he was still included in the match programme as England coach. After seven minutes, a dreadful decision by French referee Alain Sars prevented England taking the lead. A bad back pass left Sheringham with a clear run at goal and he slipped the ball past keeper Antti Niemi. But the Hearts’ keeper hauled the United striker down outside the area as he was about to knock the ball into an empty net and incredibly escaped with only a booking. England were furious with the referee and when the free kick was eventually taken, Sheringham’s effort was struck tamely into the defensive wall. Both teams struggled with the blustery conditions as play swung from end to end but it was England who were carving out the better chances, but they failed to find the target and a mistake by Dennis Wise almost gave the home side the lead. The Chelsea captain tried to dribble the ball out of defence and it broke to Forssell whose fierce effort was only inches too high. The wind picked up in the second period making it difficult for both teams to settle on the ball and play became scrappy with chances at premium. Finland did most of the pressing but the overall quality of the game was poor. Jari Litmanen was behind most of the few moments of quality and one pass picked out Forssell, whose eventual shot was blocked. The game still lacked sparkle although Forssell missed a great chance to give the Finns the lead 14 minutes from time. A back-heel took him clear of the England defence but he lost control and that gave England goalkeeper David Seaman the chance to block. Despite struggling to find form, England came close to escaping with a last-minute victory when Parlour’s shot bounced off the underside of Niemi’s crossbar. COLUMBUS (Ohio): Victory would have lifted either Costa Rica or the USA into next year’s North American World Cup 2002 qualifying finals, but the teams played to a goal-less draw here yesterday. Now both nations must wait until the final day of the semifinal round-robin competition, November 15, to determine their fate. “It was a very balanced match,” Costa Rica Coach Gilson Nunes said. “We’re satisfied with the result because we felt we were standing pretty good.” Mexico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and Honduras have already secured spots in next year’s six-team continental qualifying tournament to determine three berths in the 2002 World Cup finals to be co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. Had either Costa Rica or the us team won here, the nation would have sealed a berth in the final six. But the draw leaves each vulnerable from Guatemala to claim one of the final two group E berths. Costa Rica kept the group lead at 3-1 with one drawn for 10 points with the us team moving to 2-1 with two drawn for eight points. Guatemala stood third at 2-2 with one drawn for seven points. Final matches find Costa Rica at Guatemala needing only a draw to advance and the us team visiting Barbados, where a victory would assure advancement. Before a crowd of 24,430 at Columbus Crew Stadium, the Americans entered the match severely handicapped. They played without four key players due to injuries or suspension and coach Bruce Arena banished. Playmaking midfielder Claudio Reyna started his two-game suspension for his post-game conduct in the first match against Costa Rica, a 2-1 loss in July. Midfielders Eddie Lewis (red card) and Earnie Stewart (yellow-card accumulation) also missed the match, each with a one-game ban. Forward Brian McBride also has been sidelined indefinitely with a blood clot in his arm. |
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Paes, Bhupathi advance to last eight TOKYO, Oct 12 (AFP) — India’s Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were inundated with fans seeking their autographs and pictures after winning their doubles match at the Japan Open Tennis Tournament today. Paes and Bhupathi, the 1999 French Open and Wimbledon champions, survived a close battle against the eighth-seeded Australian duo of Paul Kilderry and Peter Tramacchi 6-4,3-6, 6-4 in the second round. “We won a first close match, it give us a lot of confidence. We are getting better every match we play. It’s a positive side,” said Paes after the match in which only one break in each set decided the winners. “Also the combination was good today. We encouraged each other even when things were not looking so good and kept each other positive and in good spirits.” |
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Kuerten, Philippoussis advance TOKYO, Oct 12 (AP) — Top men’s seed Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil came from behind to beat Italian Andrea Gaudenzi 3-6 6-3 6-4, while reigning women’s champion Amy Frazier of the USA cruised past Austria’s Silvia Plischke 6-1 6-2 in third-round action today at the Japan Open Tennis tournament. Among other favourites in the $ 970,000 competition at Ariake Colosseum, third-seeded Mark Philippoussis of Australia got more than he bargained for from South Korean qualifier Yong-il Yoon but prevailed in straight sets 7-6 (9-7) 6-4. Kuerten, who overpowered Chile’s Nicolas Massu yesterday, needed three sets and almost two hours to shake off the hard-hitting Gaudenzi. In gusty conditions, the world no. 3 could get only 46 per cent of his first serves on target. He lost his service in the eighth game of the first set after unforced errors gave the Italian a triple break point. Overcoming his mounting frustration, Kuerten pulled a few tricks out of his bag in the second set, forcing his No. 103-ranked opponent deep into the corners and then stranding him with drop shots at the net. The 24-year-old Brazilian used the same tactic to break Gaudenzi in the fifth game of the third set and never looked back, blanking the Italian in the decisive 10th game. “I played better in important points after the first set and that’s what you need to win a match like this,” said Kuerten, who is trying to bounce back from a quarterfinal loss last week at the Salem Open in Hong Kong to Australia’s Patrick Rafter. In the next match, Philippoussis’s serves proved too hot to handle for Yoon — the 14th-ranked Australian slammed 17 aces — but he struggled at times when his scrappy opponent moved him around the court with well-placed ground strokes. Philippoussis won the first tiebreaker with a booming serve that the South Korean qualifier returned long and the difference in power began to show in the second set as the 23-year-old Australian attacked the net. |
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Sunil, Shruti enter semis NEW DELHI, Oct 12 — Defending champion and sixth seed Sunil Kumar of Chandigarh committed far too many errors, yet was good enough to tame third seed and Davis Cupper Vishal Uppal of Delhi 6-2, 7-6 (7-3), in a men’s quarterfinal match of the DSCL Senior National Open Tennis Championship at the Delhi Tennis Association deco-turf court here today. In the semifinals tomorrow, Sunil Kumar takes on second-seeded Vinod Sridhar of Tamil Nadu. Vinod outplayed seventh-seeded Saurav Panja of Bengal 6-2, 6-3 in 49 minutes while eighth-seeded Rishi Sridhar of Tamil Nadu made a mockery of seedings, crushing top seed and cousin Vijay Kannan 6-1, 6-3. Sridhar simply rushed past Kannan in 53 minutes, though in the second set, he had to battle back from a 1-3 deficit to roar to a straight sets victory. Rishi Sridhar clashes against fifth-seeded Nitin Kirtane of Maharashtra in the semifinals. Nitin, as is his wont of late, hit back from a set in arrear, to decimate his cousin and fourth seed Sandeep Kirtane 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. But the Sunil Kumar-Vishal Uppal clash hogged the spotlight, not because of the quality of the encounter, but for the lack of it, and the many debatable line calls and umpiring decisions. The umpire’s rulings seemed to upset the pair, who are otherwise very close friends and training partners. Uppal was more upset, but his game was nothing to speak about either, and despite Sunil’s waywardness, the Delhi boy could not seize his chances. Sunil broke Vishal in the third and seventh games of the first set to lift it. In the second set, Sunil broke Vishal in the first game and then held serve to lead 2-0. But then Vishal held serve and broke back in the fourth game. Sunil broke Vishal again in the fifth and seventh games to lead 5-2, and as he was closing in one the match, the defending champions lapsed into all sorts of errors, to gift away four games in a row to a seemingly disinterested Vishal, who led 6-5. But Sunil then held serve, and proved his mettle in the tie-breaker to emerge winner. Sunil played from the baseline, and at times rushed to the net to make some stunning volleys. Vishal, on the other hand, just could not get his volleying right, and that was his undoing. In the women’s section, unseeded Shruti Dhawan of Chandigarh caused an upset, toppling fourth-seeded Sonal Phadke of Maharashtra, albeit after a tough struggle, at 5-4,4-5,4-1,4-0 to setup a semifinal clash against top-seeded Sai Jayalakshmi of Tamil Nadu. Sai outwitted Shalini Thakur of Delhi 5-3,4-1,4-0 while second-seeded Rushmi Chakravarthi of the IOC had to bring out her best to overpower sixth-seeded Megha Vakharia of Maharashtra after a sapping five-setter at 4-2,4-5,4-0,4-5,4-0. The tall and talented Rushmi, who has not really realised her full tennis potential, meets seventh-seeded Radhika Tulpule of Maharashtra in the semifinal. Radhika got the better of Liza Pereira of Maharashtra 4-0,4-2,4-2 without much fuss. |
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Indian veterans
win hockey title CHANDIGARH, Oct 12 — The Indian veterans’ hockey team won the World Veterans’ Hockey Championship by overpowering Australia 3-0 in the final played recently at Perth. In earlier matches, India defeated Hong Kong 10-2, Malaysia at 3-2 and drew with Singapore at 2-2. The team: Surmukh Singh, Ranjit Singh, Mohan Singh, Kiran Kumar, Rajinder Singh, N.S. Sodhi, Bhupinder Singh, Phool Chand, Ripudaman Singh, Jagdeep Singh, Amandep Singh, Jasbir Singh, Lakhwinder Singh, Devinder Singh Garcha, Surinder Singh and Pritam Singh. |
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Irina leads with
9 over 225 NEW DELHI, Oct 12 — Defending champion Irina Brar of Chandigarh maintained her good show to lead the field with a nine over 225, with Parnita Garewal shooting her second successive one-over 73 to come within four strokes of the leader, on the penultimate day of the 33rd Siel Northern India Ladies Open Golf Championship at the Delhi Golf Club here today. Parnita aggregated 13-over 229, and was followed by Anjali Chopra at 233, while Shalini Malik was in the fourth place at 235. Ayesha Kapur was fifth at 239 while Shruti Khanna had a terrible day, as she shot an 81, after incurring a two-stroke penalty for marking her ball wrongly. Irina made a bogey on the third hole, but bounced back with a birdie on par four sixth. However, she was one-over at the turn, after dropping another stroke on the par five eighth hole. On the back nine, the Chandigarh-based junior made bogies on the 10th and 13th, and parred the rest to finish at three-over 75. Parnita was in superb form for the second day running, and was in fact one-under after 12 holes, with a birdie on par three seventh hole. Thereafter, she had a lapse of concentration in the 13th, 15th, 16th before pulling one back on the final hole. |
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Punjab cops beat BSF, enter last 4 GIDDERBAHA, Oct 12 — Punjab Police cagers, who were earler plagued by bad performances in the league matches of the All-India Invitation Prize Money Basketball Tournament, entered the semifinals by defeating BSF here today. Showing considerable improvement in the game and movements on the court, the Pubjab Police cagers managed to win by 61-51. In the semifinal, Punjab Police will clash with Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai. Though Punjab Police players played an improved game, they did not utilise the fast-break opportunities. On the contrary, BSF made some fast counter attacks. However, BSF made some erratic attempts in the dying minutes and surrendered the opportunity to win. Parminder Singh (sr) collected 25 points, Mandeep 13 points and Parminder Singh (jr) 12 points for Punjab Police while Satyanarayan emerged the highest scorer for BSF with 17 points. Varinder Kumar scored 14 points. On the other hand, Western Railway entered the semifinals and will clash with Indian Bank, Chennai. Western Railway entered the semifinals defeating Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) 73-68. The powermen were leading by nine points at half time and during the last few minutes of the game surrendered their lead and lost the match. For Western Railway, Ashok Kumar scored 18 points, Raj Kumar 14 points and Rudolf Brown-14 while for PSEB, Ashis emerged as the highest scorer by collecting 20 points and Ravi was the second highest scorer with 18 points. However, the match played between Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai and Western Railway last night disappointed and agitated the spectators who had descended in large numbers at the local Sri Ganga Ram Municipal Stadium. The display by the Western Railway with the aim to avoid a clash with Punjab Police in the semifinals made the public sad. Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai, considered a better side than Western Railway, took an early lead of 26 points as the Western Railway cagers played a slow game. Finally Indian Overseas Bank, registered an emphatic 110-86 victory. In the women’s section, Jalandhar will fight against Kapurthala and Ludhiana will face Northern Railway, Amritsar, in semifinal matches. The Jalandhar women secured a berth in the semifinals by defeating Hoshiarpur by 60-27. The game was one-sided from the word go and the Jalandhar women maintained their domination on the court from the beginning. Ludhiana women pushed themselves into the semifinals defeating Amritsar 42-20. |
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Haryana beat Delhi ROHTAK, Oct 12 — Haryana registered an outright victory over Delhi by a margin of eight wickets on the third and final day of the North Zone Cooch Behar (U-19) cricket match at Maharaja Aggarsain Stadium here today. The hosts gathered full eight points from this opening encounter of the U-19 tourney. Delhi, after being bundled out for 85 in the first innings and conceding a lead of 152 runs to Haryana, had scored 99 for four at stumps yesterday. Today they took another 155 minutes to carry their second innings total to 193. Perhaps, the only point of consolation for the visitors was that they forced Haryana to bat again. Rajiv Uniyal made a useful 47 in Delhi’s bid to avoid an innings defeat. Uniyal hit nine fours and a six. Amit Mishra was the most successful Haryana bowler, capturing five wickets for 43 runs. Joginder Sharma took 3 wickets. Chasing a target of 42 runs for victory, Haryana lost opener Manvinder for 20 and Raj Kumar for 11. Score Board: Delhi (Ist innings) :
85, Haryana (Ist innings) 237, (Delhi (2nd innings) : Dhruv Mohan b. Nitin Aggarwal 29, Rajinder Bisht lbw Joginder Sharma 3, Gautam Gambhir c.
M. Bisla b. Nitin Aggarwal 27, Dilip T. T. lbw Amit Mishra 12, Yash Pal Singh lbw Amit Mishra 11, Kunal Lal st. Joginder Sharma b. Amit Mishra 2, Rajeev Unjyal lbw Joginder Sharma 47, Dweepender Bola c. Sumeet Sharma b Amit Mishra 1, Tarun Gupta c. Ishan Ganda b. Amit Mishra 2, Vivek Khurana not out 10, Yogesh Sachdeva c. Manvinder b. Joginder Sharma 2, Extras (b-25, lb-8, w-6, nb-8) 47, Total (all out) 173, Fall of wickets : 1-8, 2-70, 3-75, 4-94, 5-104, 6-122, 7-128, 8-134, 9-183, 10-193. Bowling analysis :
Joginder Sharma 14.2-6-22-3, Nitin Aggarwal 18-4-49-2, Gaurav Vashist 14-6-28-0, Amit Mishra 22-11-43-5, Ishan Ganda 11-5-13-0, Abhishek Parashar 2-1-5-0,
Haryana (2nd innings): Manvinder Bisla c Dweepender b. Yogesh Sachdeva 20, Raj Kumar b Kunal Lal 11, Ishan Ganda not out 10, Sumeet Sharma not out 1, Total for 7 wickets 42, Fall of wickets 1/13, 2/39, Bowling analysis: Kunal Lal 3-0-18-1, Yugesh Sachdeva 4.5-0-17-1, Vivek Khurana 2-0-7-0. |
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