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Confident Lanka take
on Zimbabwe today Ganguly has a dig at media Kaif to replace Dravid Lanka by far the superior side |
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Sengupta, Humpy
annex gold Golota’s
trainer apologises
Bagan ground
AI, lift Governor’s Cup 71-year-old back with gold Haryana crush
Himachal Surinder Kaur to lead hockey team
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Confident Lanka take on Zimbabwe today SHARJAH, Oct 24 (PTI) — Riding high after winning both their matches in the triangular Coca Cup series, Sri Lanka would now try to make easy work of luckless Zimbabwe, now in a do-or-die situation, tomorrow. Though the final is not scheduled till next Sunday, Sri Lanka’s win tomorrow would make it three out of three for the islanders and put them in the title round match. It would also mean Zimbabwe, who have drawn blank from the first three games, would leave India to win just one game out of two to slip into the final. India, who suffered a defeat against Sri Lanka in the opening match of the triangular last Friday, will now meet Zimbabwe on Thursday. The farings of the tournament indicate that Zimbabwe have had the worst of draw in this tournament since in both the legs of the league phase, their matches have been back-to-back affairs. Zimbabwe, comparitively the weakest of the three teams here, are looking to regroup and rebuild after two of their star players, Murray Goodwin and Neil Johnson, opted to play for Western Australia and first class cricket in South Africa earlier this year. Fortunately, they have a few good youngsters coming through with 19-year-old fast bowler Travis Friend and middle order batsman Dirk Viljoen looking promising in the first phase of the league games. Their former captain Andy Flower has been in terrific touch and captain Heath Streak would look forward to Alistair Campbell, also a former captain, for roaring scores which could boost Zimbabwe’s chances. However, it is the bowling which is giving both Streak and coach Carl Rackemann sleepless nights. “We are not bowling well in the final overs and it is a major worry,” admitted Rackemann. Streak admitted after their defeat against India that the main reason for the loss was conceding too many runs in the final overs. The problem also became evident when they fielded second to Sri Lanka in their first game and their key bowler, Paul Strang could just not properly grip the dew-soaked ball under the lights. “When you can’t bowl your main spinner in these conditions, it is a worry,” Streak had said and not without reason. Strang was given just four overs in this game against Sri Lanka. Next day against India, he was not played. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, seem to be doing most of the things right. Their batting looks formidable, for besides openers Sanath Jayasuriya and Avishka Gunawardena and middle order guns Mahela Jayawardena and Marvan Atapattu, they have the lower order of the calibre of Kumara Sangakkara and Rumesh Kaluwitharana, not to speak of versatile Russel Arnold. In bowling, Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Zoysa are hard-to-get—away bowlers and Muthiah Muralitharan, as always, is posing the maximum questions to batsmen. Teams: Zimbabwe: Douglas Marillier, Alistair Campbell, Mark Vermeulon, Stuart Carlisle, Dirk Viljoen, Andy Flower, Grant Flower, Travis Friend, Heath Streak, Bryan Strang, Guy Whittall and Mpulelo Mbangwa. Sri Lanka: Sanath Jayasuriya, Avishka Gunawardene, Marvan Atapattu, Mahela Jayawardene, Russel Arnold, Kumara Sangakkara, Rumesh Kaluwitharana, Muthaih Muralitharan, Chaminda Vaas, Nuwan Zoysa and Kaushalya Weeraratne. Umpires: George Sharp (Eng) and Steve Dunne (nz). Match referee: Denis Lindsay. |
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SHARJAH, Oct 24 (UNI) — Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly today had a dig at the mediapersons for “misreporting” his comments when he said Vinod Kambli was not a good player of the short ball and that he did not want to score centuries as an opener as long as India won matches. After the second league match against Zimbabwe in the ongoing Coca Cola Cup tri-series on October 22 in which Ganguly sent his deputy Rahul Dravid to open with Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian captain had said that he did not want to open as he had not got runs in that slot in the Sharjah cricket ground. “I do not want to be selfish as an opener to score centuries. For me a century has no meaning unless India win matches,” Ganguly had said. “I was shocked to see on the internet that my comments were linked to Sachin Tendulkar. I did not even mention his name,” he said and urged the media to be careful in reporting as “we are in the process of building a new side.” “I do not want to break the team at a time, especially at a time when it is doing well,” the skipper said and coach Anshuman Gaekwad concurred. “Any criticism has to be constructive and the media has to play a responsible role,” Gaekwad said. Both felt that such distortion of comments could cause damage to the team spirit. Ganguly was also shocked to see his comments on Vinod Kambli being presented in a misconstrued manner. The Indian captain said: “When I said that Kambli is not a good short ball player, I also talked about myself and Australian captain Steve Waugh.” He said it was not meant to be an affront on the left-handed batsman from Mumbai. After the last match in which Kambli who was out pulling a short ball, Ganguly had said that he (Kambli) wanted to prove a point which a batsman should not get tempted to. In this context, he had also referred to Waugh as not a good player of the short ball, but managed to get many Test centuries. “The idea is not to lose one’s wicket,” Ganguly had said. |
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MUMBAI, Oct 24 (PTI) — Uttar Pradesh middle order batsman Mohd Kaif will replace injured Indian team vice-captain Rahul Dravid for the remainder of the Sharjah tri-series, the cricket board (bcci) announced today. “Kaif will leave for Sharjah in a day or two to replace Dravid who has suffered a fractured finger while fielding in the slips during India’s last match against Zimbabwe. Dravid is expected to be out of action for two weeks and will return home immediately,” board secretary Jaywant Lele informed pti from Baroda. “I think so,” was Lele’s answer to a query whether the injury meant that Dravid, one of the batting mainstays for India, will not be fit in time for the one-off Test in Dhaka against Bangladesh scheduled from November 10 to 14. The Test would be Bangladesh’s inaugural one after being accorded full member status at the last agm of the International Cricket Council. Meanwhile, Anshuman Gaekwad would be persuaded to continue as the Indian team’s coach till all formalities regarding the appointment of the new foreign coach are completed, Lele said. “Gaekwad has already been appointed the coach till the Test match in Dhaka and will be persuaded to continue till the new coach is able to take over,” he said. Lele angrily refuted reports from Sharjah that the new foreign coach will be able to take over only in February prior to the Aussies’ scheduled tour to India. “A lot of formalities have to be completed which include clearance from the authorities for paying the new coach in foreign exchange.” “I do not know how much time these will take. It’s all rubbish to say he can take over in February only. We may get the clearance in a week or a month or it may take longer,” Lele said. Australians Geoff Marsh and Greg Chappell and New Zealander John Wright are in the running for the high-profile job. Bcci officials interviewed Chappell and Wright in Chennai yesterday and also announced that the third candidate Marsh will be interviewed at a later date. The matter will then be referred to the board’s working and finance committees before the final choice is made. |
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Match-fixing report
may be delayed NEW DELHI, Oct 24 (UNI) — The Central Bureau of Investigation today confirmed that the inquiry report into the match-fixing and betting scandal which sullied the image of cricket in India, names “certain” top players, officials and bookies. The investigation report which was scheduled to be submitted to the government tomorrow has been put off at the last moment. It is now likely to be handed over to the government only after a couple of days as the agency was still in the process of completing the formalities. CBI sources said: “The report contains the names of some Indian cricketers, officials and bookies.” They refused to disclose the names, until the submission of the report. |
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Expert
comments The break between matches before the second round robin games begin will give all three teams the opportunity to look back at the matches played so far and how to improve the chances of getting to the finals. Of the three teams the Sri Lankans are the only team that can breathe easy having won both their games and very comfortably too. They have been by far the superior team in batting, bowling and fielding and they will have to perform really badly not to qualify. Under Jayasuriya the team looks determined and keen and there seems to be no undercurrents in their team. Jayasuriya is getting back to the destructive form that made him the most feared batsman in 1996 and with Atapattu shrugging off his poor run in Nairobi with a good innings against Zimbabwe a major Sri Lankan worry will have been removed. Russel Arnold is playing a superb role in the middle order in his quiet, unobtrusive way and his bowling also has come in very handy for Jayasuriya. Zimbabwe have lost both their matches but the way they stuck till the end against India chasing a pretty stiff target will have given them hopes for the rest of the tournament. Their main problem is finding a partner for Alistair Campbell who is in such good nick. Perhaps reverting Grant Flower to open the batting may well do the trick for having him come to bat when quick runs are required is not the way he likes to bat. Guy Whittall another late bloomer is also wasted down the order and batsmen in form need to be given as many overs to bat as possible for it is then that they will be able to deliver than when sent to slog in the final overs. In Viljoen they have found a fine utility cricketer and Travis Friend has been quite impressive with the surprising pace and bounce he has generated on the Sharjah pitches. Zimbabwe would want to beat India if only to get their confidence up before they embark on the Indian tour early next month. After their show in Nairobi the Indians should have had the least problems for they seemed to have a settled side and the only question was whether to pick a spinner or stay with three seamers. Instead after losing to Sri Lanka in the first game of the tournament, they started experimenting with their top order and almost got into trouble. There aren’t too many opening pairs in the one-day game more successful than the Tendulkar-Ganguly one yet we saw the main strength of the Indian team being dismantled to plug some hole in the middle. A careful look at the middle order performance will indicate that so well had the first three batsmen played in Nairobi that those who followed had no options but to go for the big shots in the final overs. If they got out doing that surely that is not bad form. But by splitting the top pair there is a possibility that the middle order will be exposed and may well struggle. So why not carry on with the pair that is doing such a splendid job. Only in India can such a thing happen where as established successful pair can be split up to fill some imaginary hole down the order. India can still win the tournament but the tinkering has to stop. The communication between players is woefully lacking as can be seen by the mix-ups leading to run-outs and two fielders converging on the ball and neither intercepting it and letting it go. If this is the situation with an Indian language speaking coach it sure would be interesting to see what happens with an overseas coach. — PMG |
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OROPESA (Spain), Oct 24 (UNI) — Deep Sengupta and Koneru Humpy bagged the gold medal in the boys under-12 and girls under-14 categories, respectively, in the World Youth Chess Festival. However, Harika missed a golden opportunity and had to be content with a silver. Deep had a higher progressive tie-break score over Brkic Ante of Croatia when they entered the last round with 8 points each. Deep played a marvellous last round game against Kjartansson (Isl) to win convincingly. However, Brkic was held to a draw by Rauf Mamedev of Azerbaijan. Thus Deep, who hails from Chakradharpur in Bihar, won the world u-12 boys championship. He is the fifth Indian to win a world chess title after Anand (world junior 1987), Harikrishna (world u-10, 1996) Humpy (world u-10,1997, u-12 1998) and Arthie Ramaswamy (world u-18 girls 1999). Humpy tied with Nana Deagnidze of Georgia with 9 points, thanks to a last round victory over Yugoslavia’s Nandezda Stojanovic. Dzagnidze was held to a draw by Maria Kursova of Russia. The tie-break score of Humpy was vastly superior to Dzagnidze’s. Humpy, who is having the sponsorship of Bank of Baroda, has already won the u-10 girls in 1997 and u-12 girls in 1998. In 1999 she managed a silver. Indians here have done better this time than in previous years. Last year, India had won one gold and one silver only. Indian scores after the final round: U-10 girls: 1-2 Zhong yi Tan (Chn) Harika 8.5, Sindhu 6 U-12 girls: Shobhana 6, Kritika Nadig 6 U-14 girls: 1-2 Humpy, Dzanidze 9 each, Tania Sachdev 7.5, Eesha Karwade 6.5 Nabeela Farheen 5 U-16 girls: Sharaddha Samani 6 U-18 girls: j.e. kavitha 5 U-10 boys: Mekala Abhinay 7.5 (10th place) Sai Srinivas 6.5 U-12 boys: 1 Deep Sengupta-9, Akshai Kore-7, Abhijeet Gupta 6 U-14 boys: Hari Krishna 7.5, Saptarishi Roy 6, Himanshu Kumar 4 U-16 boys: Yash Pal Singh Sonwani 4 U-18 boys: p. magesh Chandran 5.5. |
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Golota’s
trainer apologises EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, Oct 24 (Reuters) — Andrew Golota’s trainer, feeling guilty for berating the heavyweight for quitting Friday’s bout with Mike Tyson after the second round, apologised yesterday upon learning of the severity of the injuries suffered by his fighter. “Following the Andrew Golota-Mike Tyson bout on Friday, October 20, I made several comments criticising my fighter, Andrew Golota, for his decision not to answer the bell for round three,” trainer Al Certo said yesterday in a statement issued through promoter Main Events. “At the time of the stoppage I was unaware of how injured my fighter was. It has now come to my attention that Andrew suffered several injuries. “Obviously, a fighter’s health takes priority over continuing a boxing match,” Certo said. Golota, who was knocked down by Tyson in the first round and refused to continue the bout after the second, was hospitalized with a concussion, a herniated disc in his neck and a fractured cheek bone. Following the fight, Certo said that Golota had wanted to quit after the first round but that the trainer forced him to go out for the second. When Golota refused his mouthpiece and walked away prior to the third round, Certo was heard yelling at his fighter: “What are you doing? What are you doing?” As he left the ring, fans jeered the 32-year-old heavyweight and threw cups of beer on him as he walked through the aisles toward his dressing room. But the neurologist who treated Golota, Dr Wesley Yapor, said the Polish fighter did the right thing by walking away. Yapor said on Sunday that had Golota received further blows to the head he could have been paralysed. |
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Cycling star admits taking drugs LILLE (France), Oct 24 (AFP) — French cycling star Richard Virenque stunned a court here today when he admitted for the first time that he had taken banned drugs to improve his performances. Virenque, the most high-profile defendant in the Tour de France doping trial, admitted he took them to “be part of the team”. “I was like a sheep and if I had strayed out of the flock I was finished,” he told the court. “I just went with the flow.” Asked by presiding judge Daniel Delegove whether he “was finally admitting he had taken banned substances”, Virenque answered “yes”. The admission was a sharp about-turn for the 30-year-old Virenque, after he insisted on the trial’s opening day yesterday in this northern France city that he had never knowingly taken drugs. But then came damning testimony from two former officials of the Festina team he rode for who said it was Virenque who had asked to be given the drugs and he was fully aware they were illegal. Virenque’s lawyer Eric Hemmerdinger then requested that his client be allowed to give further evidence at the opening of today’s session. The trial against 10 defendants is the culmination of two years of accusations and counter-accusations in France over drug-taking among professional cyclists that has shaken the sport to its foundations. The defendants are charged with various offences connected with encouraging and facilitating the use of illegal drugs in sporting competitions. Most of the defendants face jail terms if found guilty. The scandal has become known as the “Festina Affair” after the Andorran-registered watchmaking company which sponsored the Franco-Spanish team taking part in the Tour de France race two years ago when the scandal broke. Festina’s masseur Willy Voet was stopped on the Franco-Belgian border on his way to the race in possession of hundreds of bottles of doping products, triggering a massive investigation that almost caused the Tour to be abandoned. Virenque, five times the winner of the King of the Mountains climbing title at the Tour de France, had until today maintained his innocence saying he had never knowingly taken doping products nor incited team-mates to do so. Investigating Judge Patrick Keil had insisted the former team leader with “moral authority” over the other festina riders should appear in court to answer the charges. Virenque, the 30-year-old Moroccan-born son of a French army officer, was appearing along with five former members of the Festina training staff, including then sports director Bruno Roussel, 43, and Voet, 54, formerly the team masseur. Chemist Christine Paranier and her husband Eric, accused of supplying Festina with illegal products, were also in court. The ramifications of the doping scandal have led the sport’s world governing body UCI to work on much tougher testing but cycling’s image has struggled ever since to throw off its tarnished image despite its efforts. |
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Top seed Katarina Daskovic upset NEW DELHI, Oct 24 — Top-seeded Katarina Daskovic of Yugoslav was shocked by unseeded Maja Malakar of Slovakia 1-4, 1-4, 1-4 in the $ 10,000 prize money ITF Women’s Tennis Circuit Tournament at the Delhi Tennis Association courts here today. In another major upset, unseeded Archana Venkataraman knocked out fifth-seeded Sai Jayalakshmi after hard work by at 4-1, 4-5 (4), 4-0, 2-4, 4-1. Third-seeded Manisha Malhotra crawled back from the brink of defeat to post a hard-fought 2-4, 2-4, 4-0, 5-3, 5-4 (4) victory over Angela Cardoso while Shalini Thakur failed to seize her chances and lost to seventh-seeded Andrea Van Den Hurk of the Netherlands 4-1, 2-4, 4-1, 1-4, 4-0. In other all-Indian matches, Jyotshna Vashish subdued R Parekh 4-0, 5-4 (4), 4-0, Ankita Bhambri beat Isha Lakhani 4-1, 5-4 (3), 4-1 and national champion Rushmi Chakravarthy, the eighth seed, disposed of Radhika Tulpule, albeit after a tough battle, at 2-4, 5-3, 2-4, 4-1, 4-2. |
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2nd loss for B’desh in two days DURBAN, Oct 24 (AFP) — Bangladesh were humiliated for the second time in two days, losing by 202 runs to a South African Invitation xi at Kingsmead yesterday. The Invitation side, composed largely of cricketers on the fringe of national senior team selection, made 259 for 5 in 50 overs in the Indian Ocean city. And the South Africans proceeded to bowl out the visitors for 57 runs with only middle-order batsmen Akram Khan (10 not out) and Enamul Hoque (10) presenting serious resistance. Khan emerged unbeaten after facing 63 balls during 90 minutes at the crease and saved Bangladesh from even greater embarrassment after losing their first seven wickets for only 27 runs. Bangladesh, who were granted Test status last June and face India next month in their first five-day international, fared even worse against the Invitation xi sunday, scoring just 51 in a 10-wicket defeat. The four-match tour proved a humbling experience for the rookies with an 82-run loss to Griqualand West in a four-day match followed by three one-day defeats against the Invitation xi. |
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Bagan ground
AI, lift Governor’s Cup GANGTOK, Oct 24 (UNI) — Calcutta giants Mohun Bagan annexed the 22nd All-India Governor’s Gold Cup, thrashing Air-India 3-0 at the Palzor Stadium here today. Bagan lifted the cup for the eighth time on their tenth entry into the final. The match , which never rose to any dizzy heights, witnessed Bagan dominating the proceedings right from word go. Bagan made umpteen forays into the Air-India forte and could have romped home with a bigger margin, had their upfront not bungled many opportunities that came their way. The Calcutta giants forged ahead in the 29th minute of the first half, when R.C. Prakash fired the first salvo (1-0). Bagan buttressed the lead in the 37th minute of the same half, when Brazilian recruit Santos banged home (2-0). At the lemon break, Bagan were ahead by 2-0. In the second half, Air-India tried to bounce back into the reckoning, but of no avail. Bagan again consolidated thier position at the fag end of the play, when another Brazilian star Jose Barreto converted a penalty to strike the last nail in Air-India’s coffin (3-0). Bagan took sweet revenge of their defeat at the hands of Air-India in the 1996 final. |
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71-year-old back with gold CHANDIGARH, Oct 24 — The grand old woman of Chandigarh tennis and athletics, aged 71 years, is none other than Ms Bhupinder Banta Singh. She deserved kudos with her continued upward graph in the world of sport. Thanks to her hardwork and untiring zeal in aiming at this old age. Ms Bhupinder had earlier this month clinched the gold medal in the 22nd National Veterans Athletics Championship held at Bhopal while last year also she had won the same title at New Delhi. It was in 1979 that Ms Bhupinder had won 100 metres in ladies section in 50- 55 age group thus her third gold medal in the nationals so far. She also broke the Asian record of 18.30 seconds held by Morita Mitsu of Japan in 1996, by now clocking in 17.01 seconds, thus a rare feat. This year the Asian Veteran Athletics meet will be held at Bangalore from November 6 and Ms Bhupinder is yet to hear the inclusion of her name in that. Ms Bhupinder also has the distinction of taking part as the only lady in July 1979 in the 3rd World Veterans Athletics Championship held at Hanover (Germany) when she had the best of timings among all the other Asian competitors. It may be recalled that Ms Bhupinder had captained the Kinnaired College for women, Lahore, during the pre-partition days in tennis. She said that her real source of inspiration remained her elder brothers while she has also won accolades in folk dances, gidha competitions. Interestingly Ms Bhupinder also once upon a time remained the inter-varsity badminton champion but her first love was tennis. Ms Bhupinder always make it a point to watch live all the matches of tennis and athletics played in Chandigarh is a source of motivation for the present generation. |
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Haryana crush
Himachal ROHTAK, Oct 24 — Haryana crushed Himachal Pradesh by an innings on the third and final day of the north zone Cooch Behar cricket tie at Maharaja Aggarsain Stadium here today. This was Haryana’s third successive outright victory in the tournament this season. Himachal were in deep trouble yesterday when Haryana’s opener Manvinder Bisla and Ishan Ganda had helped Haryana to declare the first innings closed after raising a mammoth total of 526 for two wickets in reply to Himachal Pradesh’s first innings total of 52. Bisla was at his best, scoring 283 off 379 balls after occupying the crease for 488 minutes. His innings was studded with five sixes and 33 fours. He was ably supported by Ishan Ganda who hit an unbeaten 152 (in 345 minutes off 249 balls). The pair had added 347 runs for the second wicket. Resuming their innings at the overnight score of 58 for 2. The Himachal innings folded up today at 132 after 44.3 overs giving Haryana victory by an innings and 342 runs. Prince Angaria scored 30 and Shashi Kumar made 29. Nitin Aggarwal, who had claimed five Himachal wickets for 16 runs in the first innings took another from to take his tally of wickets to nine from this match. SCORE BOARD Himachal
(first innings) 52 Haryana (Ist innings) Manvinder Bisla run out 283, Dhuvnesh Sharma Ibw Shashi Kumar 62, Ishan Ganda not out 152, Sumeet Sharma not out 2, Extras: 27. Total: (for 2 wickets declared) 526. Fall of wkts: 1/158, 2/505. Bowling: Abhishek Gujral 13-1-54-0, Mohan Singh 10-1-41-0, Ankit Aggarwal 38-3-166-0, Prince Angaria 30-1-113-0, Paras Dogra 20-4-68-0, Shashi Kumar 15-2-32-1, Hitesh Angrish 1-0-9-0, Jagdish Thakur 1-0-2-0, Hemant Dogra 4-0-19-0. Himachal (2nd innings): Anil Kumar b, Joginder Sharma 8, Jagdish Thakur b, Nitin Aggarwal 11, Prince Angaria c Deepak Joon b, Joginder Sharma 30, Prashant Kumar Ibw Nitin Aggarwal 7, Hemant Dogra c Amit Mishra b, Nitin Aggarwal 8, Hitesh Angrish c Deepak Joon b Nitin Aggarwal 5, Paras Dogra b Joginder Sharma 10, Shashi Kumar c Ajay Batra b Amit Mishra 29, Mohan Singh st Ajay Ratra b Amit Mishra 12, Abhishek Gujral not out 0, Ankit Aggarwal bowled Amit Mishra 2. Extras: 10 Total
132 Fall of wickets: 1/13, 2/60, 3/62, 4/62, 5/70, 6/80, 7/113, 8/129, 9/130. Bowling: Joginder Sharma 15-3-45-3, Nitin Aggarwal 16-4-43-4, Amit Mishra 11.3-4-32-3, Gaurav Vashista 1-0-8-0, Deepak Joon 1-1-0-0. |
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Surinder Kaur to
lead hockey team NEW DELHI, Oct 24 (UNI) — Forward Surinder Kaur was today named captain and Mamta Kharab as vice-captain of the Indian women’s hockey team (U-18) for the AHF Cup to be held at Hong Kong from November 13 to 19. While naming the captain and vice-captain, the Indian Women’s Hockey Federation (IWHF) also shortlisted 22 probables, from which a team of 18 will be selected. The probables are: Goalkeepers: Marita Tirkey, Neha, S.S. Nilan. Ful-backs: Subhadra Pradhan, Sushila Lakra, Ajanta Devi, Nilima Kujur. Half-backs: Balwinder Kaur, Mukta Barla, Fulamni Soy, Manju, Asunta Lakra. Forwards: Anita Ekka, Simrajeet Kaur, Surinder Kaur (capt), Mamta Kharab (v.capt), Amrita Minz, Annarita Kerketta, Saba Anjum, Premshila Kujur, Guddi Kumari and Sarita Lakra. Coaches: S.S. Walia, N.S. Saini. Manager: Mrs Renuka Lakshmi. Judge: Ms Raj Gurdip. Umpire: Ms Asrita Lakra. |
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