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October 14, 2000, Chandigarh, India   
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India beat SA, enter final Bookies back in business Mumbai skittled
out for 260 Toddler gobbles up
dad’s Olympic pin |
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Chance for Blewett
to revive career Paes-Bhupati
duo storms into semis 2002 Asian
Games at Pusan Irina Brar retains title Malleswari, Mukesh
to be honoured Sunil, Kirtane in title clash Ailing Kuerten quits;
Philippoussis ousted Romario faces tax
evasion charges IB, IOB in final Amandeep, Navjot shine Asian school hockey
in January Failure not ‘frustrating’
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NAIROBI, Oct 13 (PTI) — A resurgent India stormed into the final of the ICC Knockout Cricket Tournament here today thrashing South Africa after a great batting display highlighted by skipper Saurav Ganguly’s unconquered 141. The new-look Indian side humbled the fancied South Africans by 95 runs to qualify for Sunday’s final with New Zealand in a tournament marked by upsets. Newcomers Zaheer Khan and Yuvraj Singh continued to dazzle but it was the batting of Ganguly that put India in a virtually unassailable position after they had made a huge 295. Then the South Africans were bundled out for 200 with nine overs to spare. Earlier, captain Saurav Ganguly hit a majestic unbeaten 141 runs to lead India to a mammoth 295 for six. Ganguly’s 142-ball knock included 12 fours and six huge sixes and was the mainstay of the Indian innings which also saw the entire top-order firing today. The left-handed opener batted through the 50 overs to post the highest individual score for an Indian against South Africa surpassing the 122 by Sachin Tendulkar. Ganguly’s decision to bat first proved to be right, when he and Tendulkar combined to give India another good start adding 66 runs for the first wicket. Tendulkar was the more impressive of the two as he raced ahead of Ganguly but just as he looked set for a big score he was caught by Lance Klusener at first slip off Jacques Kallis beauty. He hit four well-timed fours in his 50-ball 39. Then came the most productive stand of the innings between Ganguly and his deputy Rahul Dravid, who added 145 runs for the second wicket off just 150 balls. The duo played skilfully running singles and twos and not taking any risks against Alan Donald and Jacques Kallis. Indian scoring just slowed down a little bit during this time. But the moment Nicky Boje was introduced as the fifth bowler, Ganguly cut loose and hit him for three huge sixes to take 26 runs from his two overs. Boje was promptly withdrawn but the South African misery continued as the Indian captain showed no signs of restraining his aggression. India’s third fifty came in just 43 balls compared to the 84 it had taken for the second. Dravid, meanwhile, was content with playing second fiddle to Ganguly and provided able support to him. He worked his shots into the gaps for quiet singles and twos, ocassionally punishing the odd bad deliveries. But once in command, he also came into his own, hitting Pollock for two fours and a single in the 35th over to bring up his half-century. However, he was out soon after mistiming a pull off Klusener for Boucher to take a well-judged skier. Yuvraj Singh, the hero of India’s win over Australia in the quarter-final, started from where he had left in that game and played a cameo knock of 41 off just 35 balls, that was studded with six powerful hits to the fence. Ganguly, meanwhile, completed his 14th one-day century off 113 balls and the duo went for some big hits all over the field. Ganguly hit Kallis for two successive sixes in the 47th over which yielded 19 runs. Yuvraj responded by hitting two fours in the next over from the miserly Donald to take the innings beyond the 250-mark. But just as the Indians looked set for posting a total in excess of 300, Yuvraj was brilliantly caught at long off boundary by Jonty Rhodes off Kallis which led to a collapse that saw four wickets tumble in the space of seven balls. The third wicket stand realised 82 runs off just 55 deliveries. Robin Singh was run-out off his first ball trying to sneak a single to give his captain the strike. Donald then caught new man Vinod Kambli leg before wicket off the very next ball to make it five down for 293. Vijay Dahiya was caught by Andrew Hall off the last ball to become the third wicket to fall in the last over which saw just two runs being added to the Indian total. The usually sharp South Africans were today sloppy in the field dropping a couple of easy chances and letting balls go through their hands. Tendulkar was given a reprieve early in the innings when Klusener dropped a simple offering from the maestro when on 35. Nicky Boje dropped Yuvraj Singh when the batsman was just one which proved to be a costly mistake for the South Africans. Boje had absolutely no idea of the ball and though he was positioned well, he couldn’t even manage to get his hands underneath the ball. The exception, however, was Jonty Rhodes, who as usual latched on to every ball that threatened to pass from his vicinity and capped his effort with a brilliant low catch at the long-off boundary to dismiss Yuvraj. India S Ganguly not out 141 S Tendulkar c Klusener b Kallis 39 R Dravid c Boucher b Klusener 58 Yuvraj Singh c Rhodes b Kallis 41 Robin Singh run out 0 V Kambli lbw b Donald 0 V Dahiya c Hall b Donald 1 Extras
(nb-3, w-5, b-1, lb-6) 15 Total (for six wickets in 50 overs) 295 Fall of wickets: 1-66, 2-211, 3-293, 4-293, 5-293, 6-295. Bowling: S Pollock 10-1-43-0, M Telemachus 9-0-62-0, A Donald 10-1-34-2, J Kallis 10-0-71-2, l Klusener 6-0-29-1, N Boje 2-0-26-0, A Hall 3-0-23-0. South Africa Kirsten run out 12 Hall b Z. Khan 1 Kallis b Prasad 15 Dippenaar c Dahiya b Z. Khan 5 Rhodes c Prasad b Yuvraj 32 Boucher c Tendulkar b Ganguly 60 Klusener c Dahiya b Kumble 29 Pollock st Dahiya b Kumble 4 Boje b Tendulkar 10 Telemachus c Prasad b Tendulkar 13 Donald not out 1 Extras: (b-3, lb-4, w-7, nb-4) 18 Total: (all out in 41 overs) 200 Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-24, 3-28, 4-50, 5-104, 6-161, 7-171, 8-179, 9-199. Bowling: Z. Khan 5-0-27-2, V. Prasad 8-0-54-1, A. Kumble 9-1-28-2, A. Agarkar 7-1-21-0, Yuvraj Singh 4-1-15-1, S. Tendulkar 5-0-32-2, Robin Singh 2-0-11-0, S. Ganguly 1-0-5-1. |
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Bookies back in business HISAR, Oct 13 — With India coming good at Nairobi, Cricket bookies are back in business. Although betting was off to a sluggish start at the beginning of the tournament itself, serious betting gained strength only last night when bets were placed at Hansi, near here, for the first time after the match fixing scandal broke out in March last. The local police had booked six persons for betting during the opener between India and hosts Kenya. They were caught placing bets inside a shop while watching the game on television. However, the stunning effect of the raid did not last beyond the India-Australia tie which India won. Though there was little serious betting on this tie, but India’s performance heightened interest in the semifinal against South Africa. The Hansi bookies were seen accepting bets today in the same open manner in which they operated before the Hansie Cronje episode. Cellphones which bookies had dropped like hot bricks in the wake of the match-fixing scandal are back in use too with a vengeance. Most of the bets today were accepted on mobile phones. Going by the betting trends today, India should not only make it to the final by winning today’s tie, the betters expect it to win the title too. Heavy bets have been placed on India’s victory. However, young Yurraj Singh upset the carts of many a better by getting out on 41. There was heavy betting on his getting a 50 in this match. Towards the end of the Indian innings, bets were placed hurriedly on whether India would reach the 300 run mark. But that was not to be and for many over enthusiastic followers of the game, Allan Donald’s last over proved to be costly. But Saurav Ganguly’s blistering knock of 141 did not catch the fancy of the betters. “He is too predictable. He gets runs all the time. So, what’s the fun in betting on him. I am bound to lose”, a compulsive better
commented after Ganguly returned unbeaten to the pavillion. Yet, despite this, the betting business is still not the same as before. Betting
publically at paan stalls which was common at Hansi and here in the pre-Cronje days, is still to stage a comeback. Likewise, betting amounts, according to the bookies, are still nowhere near the level they were before March. Nevertheless, they expect the market to pick up if India make it to the final and then go on to win the tourney. If that happens, they expect betting to be back during the Sharjah Cup later this month. |
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MUMBAI, Oct 13 (PTI) — Young Rest of India spinners Murali Kartik and Sharandeep Singh shared eight wickets equally to skittle out Ranji Trophy champions Mumbai for a modest first innings total of 260 in the first innings on the opening day of the five-day Irani Cup match here today. But the hosts fought back well to reduce the Rest to 23 for two in six overs at close. The batsmen out were openers S. Ramesh (4) and Shiv Sunder Das (0). Night-watchman Kartik, who had bowled a fine spell of left-arm spin on either side of lunch to grab four for 73 in 26 overs, was unbeaten on 16 and the other not out batsman at stumps was his skipper VVS Laxman (2). Earlier, the home team batsmen squandered the chance to bat first on winning the toss by getting into a tangle against the spinners after seeing off the Rest new ball attack to be bundled out just before close in the 82nd over. Jaffer was the lone top-order batsman to impress with a well-compiled 56 in three hours and his 108-ball was studded with seven cleanly-struck fours. The next-best contribution was from number eight Romesh Powar who made a quickfire 40 off 36 balls with five fours and a six, besides adding 39 runs with Paras Mhambrey (21) for the seventh wicket and 24 for the eighth wicket with Rajesh Pawar (9). Mumbai’s tail wagged vigorously with the last-wicket pair of Nilesh Kulkarni (14 no) and Santosh Saxena (27 off 26 balls with 1 six and 4 fours) putting on 42 runs before the latter was sent back by left-arm seamer Ashish Nehra. Off-spinner Sharandeep Singh got 4 for 55. Mumbai (1st innings): Vinayak Mane st Ratra b Kartik 19; Wasim Jaffer b Kartik 56; Kiran Powar c Laxman b Kartik 13; Amol Muzumdar lbw Ganesh 15 Nishit Shetty c Ratra b Kartik 13 Sameer Dighe c Ratra b Sharandeep Singh 13; Paras Mhambrey c Laxman b Sharandeep Singh 21; Ramesh Powar c Kartik b Sharandeep Singh 40; Rajesh Pawar c Ratra b Sharandeep Singh 9; Nilesh Kulkarni not out 14; Santosh Saxena lbw Nehra 27; Extras: (b2, lb 4, w4, nb 10) 20; Total: (all out in 81.5 overs, 360 mins) 260; Fall of wickets: 1-60, 2-95, 3-112, 4-114, 5-137, 6-150, 7-189, 8-214, 9-218 Bowling: Ganesh 14-6-23-1, Nehra 14.5-3-45-1, Shukla 10-1-58-0, Kartik 26-5-73-4, Sharandeep Singh 17-5-55-4. Rest of India (1st innings): Shiv Sunder Das c Jaffer b Mhambrey 0; Sadagopan Ramesh c Dighe b Saxena 4; Murali Kartik batting 16; Vangipurappu Laxman batting 2; Extras: (lb 1) 1; Total: (for 2 wkts, in 6 overs) 23; Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-8. Bowling: Mhambrey 3-1-16-1, Saxena 2-0-6-1, Kulkarni 1-1-0-0. |
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Toddler gobbles up dad’s Olympic pin SYDNEY, Oct 13 (AFP) — During the Olympics, Sydney was inundated with pin traders, as hardened as any stock broker. They wore hats, the insides of which looked like porcupines. And their vests bore the metallic logos of just about every corporate, media and sporting organisation represented at the Games. Thousands of pin collectors, traders, brokers and spotters and yes, bludgers (beggars), came from all over, determined to chase the elusive swap of a lifetime. But despite their globe-trotting obsession for things pointy, nobody actually swallowed one. That is, until 15-month-old toddler Liam Coughrane took a fancy to his father’s official Irish Olympic 2000 pin, complete with shamrok and Olympic rings. The pin, about 1.5cm (one inch) in diameter, became lodged in Liam’s throat yesterday. The boy’s father, Jason, told reporters today Liam was recovering at his Gosford home from an operation to remove the treasured pin. Mr Coughrane vowed to keep an x-ray of his son’s throat with the pin lodged inside. “We’ll frame it and give it back it to him when he’s 21 or so,” Coughrane said. “I also made the doctor give me back the pin, he had it in his pocket, we’re going to keep it for good luck now.” Coughrane said the pin had been given to him during the Sydney Olympics by the chef de mission of the Irish team. “I was working security at the athletes village and I loved the Irish pin; my wife, Belinda, is of Irish heritage. “I was given at least 40 of them but gave them all away to friends and family, but Liam gobbled that one up. “If you look at some of the other x-rays, how close it was to his larynx and vital organs up in his throat ... It could have been bad. “But this escape, it’s the luck of the Irish.” Coughrane said his son is going through a stage dreaded by all parents — the eat anything era — with Liam’s favourite meal at the moment being pot plant soil. |
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Irina Brar retains title NEW DELHI, Oct 13 — Irina Brar of Chandigarh retained her Siel Northern India Ladies Open crown in style, when she lifted the title with a margin of seven strokes over city-mate Parnita Grewal at the par-72 Delhi Golf Club course here today. Irina returned a two-over 74 card on the final day to finish the four-day tournament at 11-over 299. Parnita finished second at 18-over 306 after recording a five-over 77 card on the final day. The other competitors were left far behind with Delhi’s Anjali Chopra taking the third place at 313, while junior golfer Ayesha Kapur shot a 78 to jump up the leaderboard, and tie for the fourth spot at 317, along with Shalini Malik. It was a double triumph for the 16-year-old Vivek School student Irina, as she also won the Siel Juniors Trophy. Her four-day aggregate of 299 proved to be 18 strokes better than Ayesha Kapur (317) while Guneet Raikhy was third at 323. “I am feeling extremely good about winning the title for the second successive year. I played solid, attacking golf today to counter the aggressive style of Parnita. My putting was pretty good on the back nine, but that, I guess, was because I was seven strokes ahead of Parnita, and there was no pressure on me”, Irina said after her triumph. Irina now leaves for Hong Kong to play in the amateurs there, starting on October 16. Mrs Chaya Shriram gave away the prizes. Malleswari, Mukesh
to be honoured HYDERABAD, Oct 13 (UNI) — Fading hockey star N. Mukesh Kumar and the “inform” badminton star P. Gopichand, who represented the country in the recently-concluded Sydney Olympics, would be given Rs 5 lakhs each by the Andhra Pradesh Government. Gopichand, who rushed back this morning from Germany after participating in the German Open badminton tournament, will recieve the purse along with Mukesh this evening. They would be felicitated along with Karnam Malleswari, who won a olympic bronze medal in the 69 kg weightlifting event. |
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Chance for Blewett
to revive career PERTH, Oct 13 (AFP) — Deposed Australian Test batsman Greg Blewett has been given an unexpected opportunity to press his claim to be included in Australia’s side for the five-Test series against the West Indies, which starts next month. Blewett was invited today to play in the Australian Cricket Board Chairman’s XI to meet the West Indies in their tour opener at Lilac Hill Park, Caversham, near here on November 7. The Australian selectors normally use the one-day festival match as an opportunity to expose a promising young player to international competition. The selection of 28-year-old Blewett illustrates the selection panel, headed by chairman Trevor Hohns, sees Blewett as a player with the potential to re-build his international career. The South Australian opener has had only one innings in the new season, hitting 36 before being run out in a one-day match against Queensland last weekend. The full Chairman’s XI side was to be announced later. The West Indies are scheduled to arrive here November 3 to prepare for their tough itinerary, which also includes a series of one-day games against Australia and Zimbabwe. |
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Paes-Bhupati
duo storms into semis TOKYO, Oct 13 (AFP) — Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi moved another step closer to winning India’s first title in 14 years here by reaching the men’s doubles semi-finals at the Japan Open. The unseeded pair, last year’s French Open and Wimbledon champions, powered past the second-seeded Swedish-German duo of Jonas Bjorkman and David Prinosil 6-4 7-5. Their semi-final opponents will be Nicolas Massu of Chili and Andre Sa of Brazil, the winners over the South African-Israeli duo of Brent Haygarth and Harel Levy 6-1 6-7 (1/7) 6-3. Ramesh Krishnan is the only player from India to have won a title at the Japan Open, taking the men’s singles title in 1986. |
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2002 Asian
Games at Pusan SEOUL, Oct 13 (AFP) — The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) officially reinstated Pusan as hosts for the 2002 Asian Games today after securing new money guarantees from the South Korean city. OCA Director-General Abdul Muttaleb Ahmad said the new accord “successfully addressed all concerns” following a dispute over marketing revenues. The council had threatened to move the 2002 Games if Pusan did not meet new financial conditions by this Sunday. New Delhi and Kuala Lumpur were ready to step in as emergency hosts. But Pusan has in return won a concession in only having to pay for 20 per cent of the athletes going to Asia’s biggest sporting event instead of all of them as it promised when it won the games. “The winner in this is the Asian Games which will be held in Pusan in 2002 and organised solely according to the wishes and desires of the Asian Games family,” said Mr Muttaleb. |
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Sunil, Kirtane in title clash NEW DELHI, Oct 13 — Defending champion Sunil Kumar will meet fifth seeded Nitin Kirtane of Maharashtra in the men’s singles final of the DSCL Senior National Open Tennis Championships at the Delhi Tennis Association Deco-turf court here tomorrow. In the women’s singles final, defending champion and top seed Sai Jayalakshmi takes on her Indian Oil Corporation team-mate and second seed, Rushmi Chakravarthi, in the final. In the semi-final matches here today, sixth-seeded Sunil Kumar had to wage a two-hour and four minutes battle to overwhelm second seeded Vinod Sridhar of Tamil Nadu 6-4, 2-6,6-4 while Nitin Kirtane took just one hour and 20 minutes to quell the challenge of eighth-seeded Rishi Sridhar of Tamil Nadu 6-3, 6-4. The unseeded Shruti Dhawan of Chandigarh gave a close run to Sai Jayalakshmi before she could prevail at 4-1, 4-2,2-4,3-5,4-2 in two hours and nine minutes while the second seeded Rushmi Chkravarthi did not have to encounter too many problems from seventh seeded Radhika Tulpule of Maharashtra before winning at 4-2,1-4,4-2,4-2. After winning the first two sets, Sai Jayalakshmi thought that she was on a strong wicket, but Shruti Dhawan had other ideas as her all-round game, with a lot of power behind her shots, started producing results, and soon, it was two sets all. The tall and compactly-built Shruti seemed to posses all the right weapons to counter the experienced Jayalakshmi, as her solid ground strokes, and stunning passing shots caught the defending champion on the wrong foot. In the crucial fifth set, Shruti got a little worked up, and Jayalakshmi played the waiting game and by using her experience, came up tops. A genuinely disillusioned Shruti banged her racket on her kit bag to show her disappointment. Till the last point was hit, it was anybody’s match, and Shruti can take heart from the fact that she played well, and lost to the top seed. But Sunil Kumar, playing on the adjacent court, made up for Shruti’s loss, as he ensured that at least one player from the City Beautiful would be figuring in the final. Sunil’s route to the final was not that easy, though. A blister on his left hand seemed to trouble him a lot, and in a clash of the left-handers, second seeded Vinod Sridhar made use of the discomfort of the defending champion to wrest the second set, after losing the first. But Sunil had the perseverance and stamina to stay put in the game, and in the end, the better player triumphed. The sixth-seeded Sunil Kumar won the final point against Sridhar in style, with a double-fisted cross-court smash. Nitin Kirtane played a steady, focussed game to pip eighth-seeded Rishi Sridhar. The end result was a straight sets defeat. In the second set, Nitin should have wrapped up the match in the ninth game, as serving for the tie at 5-4, he wasted three match points, to drop serve, but broke back in the tenth, to sew up the set and the match. |
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Ailing Kuerten quits;
Philippoussis ousted TOKYO, Oct 13 (DPA) — Listless and ailing top seed Gustavo Kuerten today hit the quarter-final wall for the third straight tournament, quitting in his third set against Dominik Hrbaty to exit the $ 800,000 Japan Open 6-7 (6-8), 6-2, 3-0. The Brazilian who leads the season points table on the atp Tour with six weeks of play remaining before the eight-man Masters final in Lisbon, gave up after one hour and 42 minutes on court complaining of light-headedness and fever. Kuerten lost at the round of eight stage at the Sydney Games (to eventual gold medallist Yevgeny Kafelnikov) and was beaten in the quarters last week in Hong Kong by Patrick Rafter. Hrbaty from Slovakia now leads their series 2-0. The normally smiling Kuerten was clearly not himself as he sleep-walked through the final set, winning only two points before calling for the trainer after going down 0-3. He retired a few moments later. Dutch number 12 seed Sjeng Schalken relied on near-perfect baseline play to upset australian mark Philippoussis 6-3 6-2 in the quarter-finals. |
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Romario faces tax
evasion charges RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 13 (AP) — Prosecutors allege soccer superstar Romario evaded Brazilian taxes while he played in Europe and could owe millions of dollars to the government, local media reported yesterday. The charges stem from the years between 1988 and 1993 when Romario played in Holland with PSV Eindhoven and then in Spain for the FC Barcelona team. As a star at both teams Romario received multimillion dollar salaries and endorsements. Prosecutors allege Romario failed to declare taxes during these years as Brazilian law requires even for those living abroad, even though during the same period Romario bought apartments, businesses and cars in Rio, the Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper reported. The prosecutors requested permission from a federal judge to investigate Romario’s bank accounts and finances in order to determine if Romario evaded taxes, and how much he owes Brazil’s government if he did, Estado said. The prosecutors will also investigate if Romario ever lied on his taxes or filed false information, Estado said. Misrepresenting financial information to tax authorities in Brazil carries a sentence of two to five years in jail. The 34-year-old Romario now plays with Rio’s Vasco da Gama team and many consider him the best attacker in Brazilian soccer’s recent history. |
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IB, IOB in final GIDDERBAHA, Oct 13 — Cagers of Indian Bank, Chennai, and Indian Overseas Bank, Chennai will clash for the title in the All-India Invitation Prize Money Basketaball Tournament organised by Raja Poros Sports Club in the Sri Ganga Ram Municipal Stadium here. In the semifinal, Punjab Police started off well and took an early lead of eight points due to quick counter attack of Tajeinder Singh and Gagnesh Kumar but lost to Indian Overseas Bank by 77-66. Gagnesh Kumar, who had to miss the earlier matches due to injury on his right hand in an accident recently, was brought to play in the crucial tie. Tejinderjit Singh who was marked by Robinson of IOB, scored a few baskets in the beginning and collected a good number of defensive rebounds white intitiating counter-attacks through long passes to Gagnesh. However, the Punjab Police defence was not effective. Robinson outmanoeuored the tall Parminder (Senior) of Punjab Police and scored the first four baskets jumping in front of Parminder, who could not block his shots. In the second semifinal, experienced Indian Bank prevailed over Western Railway, Ajmer, by 75-63 points. From the beginning, Indian Bank played to the gameplan and did not find any difficulty in beating the railway men even without the tall Sarvanan, who was seated on the bench. Jaishanker and Sunny of Indian Bank did the spade work for the team. For Indian Bank, Jaishanker (25), Sunny (17), Jenson Peter (13) and Vigneshwaran (10) were the main scorers. For Western Railway, Ram Kumar (12) Ranjeet (15) and Narinder (13) reduced the margin. In the women’s semi-finals, Jalandhar district did not face any opposition from Kapurthala whom they beat by 55-48 points. In the second semifinal between Ludhiana and Northern Railway the former emerged victorious by 60-56. |
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Amandeep, Navjot shine HOSHIARPUR, Oct 13 — On the second day of the Punjab State Games for Women international Amandeep of Ludhiana won the shotput event with a distance of 14.02 metres. Reeta Rani and Monica of Ropar got the second and third positions, respectively. Jalandhar’s Navjot Kaur got the first position in 200 metres. Kuldip Kaur of Gurdaspur and Jaswinder Kaur of Jalandhar seemed the second and third position, respectively. In kabaddi Moga managed to beat Bathinda 35-34 while Faridkot thrashed Mansa 109-11. In handball Sangrur just managed to beat Roapr 17-14 in a well-contested match. The following are the results. Athletics: Long Jump — Reeta Rani (RPR) I, Bhupinder Kaur (LDH) II, Gurwinder Kaur (ASR) III. High jump Sandeep (LDH) I, Kulwinder (GSP) II, Kashmir Kaur (JAL) III. 400 metres hurdles — Sarmishta (LDH) I, Monika (ASR) II, Sharanjit (RPR) III. 200 metres — Navjot Kaur (JAL) I, Kuldip Kaur (GSP) II, Jaswinder (JAL) III. High jump — Sandip (LDH) I, Kulwinder (GSP) II, Kashmir Kaur (JAL) III. Kabaddi — Amristar beat Faridkot 47-22, Jalandhar beat Ropar 44-18. Hoshiarpur beat Moga 39-2, Patiala beat Sangrur 41-22. Handball — Sangrur beat Ropar 17-14, Amritsar beat Hoshiarpur 17-11, Jalandhar beat Faridkot 13-1, Ludhiana beat Patiala 24-3. Basketball — Ludhiana beat Patiala 44-25, Hoshiarpur beat Amritsar 38-26, Muktsar beat Jalandhar 55-32, Gurdaspur beat Kapurthala 43-15. Hockey — Hoshiarpur beat Ropar 3-0, Kapurthala beat Jalandhar 2-1, Ferozepore beat Patiala 1-0, Kapurthala beat FGS 10-0 and Moga beat Ludhiana 6-0. Volleyball — Jalandhar beat Ferozepore, Hoshiarpur beat Ludhiana, Sangrur beat Patiala and Amritsar beat Ropar.
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Asian school hockey
in January CHANDIGARH, Oct 13 — The Asian Schools Hockey Championship which was scheduled to be held from October 17 to 24 at Ludhiana will now be held at same venue from January 18 to 25 next year, according to Mr P.S. Chhabra, secretary-general School Games Federation of India. He said some of the invited countries had requested the postponement in view of the annual examinations in November-December. Besides a few had already exhausted their budgets due to the Sydney Olympics. Mr Chhabra said Asian Schools Sports Federation had agreed to extend the invitation to non-Asian countries like Switzerland. A coaching camp for providing intensive training to Indian probables will now be held at the PAU hockey turf, Ludhiana, after the conclusion of the National School Games in Delhi in December. The camp will be held with the permission of Government of India and Sports Authority of India under the aegis of the SGFI. Mr Chhabra also announced the revised calendar for the National School Games in various disciplines. Competitions in diving (boys and girls), baseball (boys and girls under-19) will be held at Goa from November 3 to 7; roller skating (under-14, 17, 19)-speed, artistic and roller hockey from November 24 to 29, football (boys-under 17) at Jammu from December 11 to 16. Bengal will host the gymnastics competition (boys and girls) at Garia and archery (boys and girls) for under-14,19 at Calcutta from December 24 to 29 and January 5 to 7, 2001. The swimming competition (under-14, 17 and 19-boys and girls) will be held at Guwahati from November 21 to 24.
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CALCUTTA, Oct 13 (UNI) — Sydney syndrome continued to plague the Indians even at home turf of the 40th open national athletics meet-2000 which concluded here on Wedensday. Out of 43 disciplines, of them 21 for women, only three national records and three meet records were created in the three-day meet. The records were, however, much below the international standards. Railwayman Shakti Singh who had represented the country in Sydney miserably failed in the two events — shot put and discus throw — in which he participated here. He attributed his failure to back injury and returned without a medal. K.M. Beenamol, who had given a good show in the heats in Sydney, ran her favourite 400-m race in style here with new national mark 52.25 sec, was also well short of her 51.51 timing in semi-final in Australia. She battered Shiny Wilson’s six-year old mark of 52.41 sec. Newcomer LIC’s Hardeep Kaur made her new national mark in hammer throw eclipsing Jebeswari Devi’s 58.36 Hardeep threw to a distance of 58.95m. India’s chief coach Bahadur Singh who was here, however, said Sydney’s failure was not at all frustrating. Indian athletes had been improving but not reaching up to the mark that was required in the international arena. He was yet to postmortem the success and failures of the Sydney Olympics. Railways Swaraswati Dey, who became the fastest woman covering 100-m race in 11.91 sec in the meet here, said Sydney Olympics would go a long way in enhancing the capability of endurance. She was in Sydney with the Indian women’s relay team for 4x100 race. She said “We need more practice and rigorous training to compete in the international level. The exposure is also good for developing skill”. Another record was created when Railways Karamjit Kaur bettered her own national pole vault mark of 2.82 m with a leap of 3.10. Her feat, however, gave a new hope because for the first time any woman athlete in the country could negotiate more than 3 meters. Bahadur Singh, however, said fresh talents have come up in the meet in some diciplines like pole vault, shot put discus and 400m hurdles. |
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