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TFA shock SBT to enter last eight India winning purely on
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Board indifference
‘raises suspicion’ I am innocent, says Jadeja Delhi manage slender lead Redgrave
announces retirement Eriksson to be England coach?
Kamaljeet, Reetika champs Convincing win for Haryana Kurukshetra, MD varsities win Haryana enter
knockout stage Crucial lead for HP Comfortable victory
for Punjab 3 meet records
established Gymnastics squad
HFA office-bearers
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Durand Cup NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (UNI) — Displaying sheer grit and inflexible fortitude Tata Football Academy (TFA) scored a hard-fought victory over State Bank of Travancore (SBT), 2-1, in the knock-out match to qualify for the quarterfinals of the Durand Cup at the Ambedkar Stadium here this afternoon. It was a do-or-die match for both the teams and they went into the offensive from the word go and began making forays into each other’s territory. Playing in a 4-4-3 combination TFA launched a series of attacks on the opposition and a couple of times were successful in dodging their way to the penalty box area, but SBT defenders negated these attempts with ease. TFA fired the first salvo in the 27th minute when outside-left Akbar Singh intercepted a SBT pass and lobbed it to right half Malsum Thunga who again passed it to advancing centre forward Subhash Chakraborty inside the penalty box and Chakraborty very adroitly placed the ball into the goal to make the score 1-0. This goal galvanised SBT into action and the team began playing through long passes to draw optimum advantage of their height. The equaliser came in the 35th minute when SBT right back Jiju Jacob gave a long pass to outside left Asif Saheer. Saheer on sensing that he was being pursued, lobbed the ball over the head of a TFA defender to centre forward V.P. Shaji inside the rival penalty box whose powerful swerving right-footer hit the net to make the score 1-1. After the lemon-break, TFA lads were seen quickly shuffling their position and sharpening their man-marking. However, they were way ahead over their rivals in their agility and speed. By shuffling their positions quickly, they could baffle SBT on some occasions. The final salvo of the match was fired by TFA in the 80th minute when Thunga intercepted a long pass of the SBT and passed to Akbar who was outside the rival penalty box. Akbar swiftly lobbed the ball to Thunga whose left-footer hit the net to make it 2-1. SBT made two substitutions in the match in the second half which did not pay dividends. In the last five minutes of the match SBT did get a couple of opportunities but failed to score. The lads from Jamshedpur now face defending champions Salgaocar on November 2. The lads from Travncore did give their best but were unfortunate. Shaji in particular was spectacular with his accurate long passes and more or less played the role of a game-maker. The quarterfinals begin tomorrow. There will be two matches. The first match between Zee Churchill Brothers (Goa) and JCT Mills (Phagwara) will kick off at 1 p.m. while the second match between Kingfisher East Bengal Club of Calcutta and Muktijoddha of Bangladesh will kick off at 3 p.m. |
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India winning purely on
talent: Marsh MUMBAI, Oct 31 (UNI) — Geoff Marsh, a strong candidate for the Indian coach post, is confident of making Indian cricketers as strong as a nail. “Lack of it may be the reason letting them down like it happened in Sharjah on Sunday’’, the burly Australian said here today. Marsh arrived yesterday and was preparing to leave for the interview when some media persons caught up with him to find out why he changed his mind after withdrawing from race he was in along with Greg Chappell and John Wright. Marsh, probably one of the very few shy Australians, said Indian cricketers are winning purely on talent which can not make them consistent. The Australians and South Africans are coached to be very tough on the field and that will be one of his main concerns if he gets the assignment, he added. He also said that there should be a right balance of fitness in gym and also on the field for which some method and science is needed. |
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Waugh may quit after World Cup SYDNEY, Oct 31 (AFP) — Australian captain Steve Waugh plans to retire from international cricket after the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. Waugh, Australia’s second highest Test runscorer after Allan Border, with 8,373 runs at an average of 50.44, said the World Cup would be the ideal way to close his career. “I’d like to be around maybe for the next World Cup,” Waugh, 35, told reporters. |
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Action will be
taken against “erring players” TIRUCHIRAPPALLY, Oct 31 (PTI) — The Sports Ministry would take suitable action after it received reports from the respective sports bodies in the country on selection of teams/athletes to the recently held Sydney Olympics, Union Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports Pon Radhakrishnan said today. “The ministry has sought detailed reports and action will be taken as soon as the reports reached the Sports Ministry,” Radhakrishnan told reporters here today. On the issue of weight-lifter Kunjrani Devi, who was not selected, he said it was not the only case, and added that a lot more complaints had been received. He said his ministry would strive hard to “avoid politics within sports bodies” and see to it that Indian sports was free from political interference. On the CBI report on cricket match-fixing, which has named four Indian cricketers, he said “action will be taken against the erring players.” He said a national sports academy on the lines of the National Institute of Sports in Patiala would be set up in South India. |
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Board indifference
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NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (PTI) — Raising suspicions over the role of Indian cricket board in the match-fixing scandal, the CBI in its report said the BCCI had shown resolute indifference to probe even matches, results of which were patently questionable. “Although there is no concrete evidence to suggest the direct involvement of any of the members of the BCCI in match-fixing, their resolute indifference does give rise to suspicions that there was perhaps more than what meets the eye,” the investigating agency said in its report submitted to Sports Minister S.S. Dhindsa yesterday. CBI said it was the elementary duty of the BCCI, which has been the single biggest beneficiary of the enormous commercial success of the sport, to keep a close watch on the performance of the team and to thoroughly investigate the slightest gossip, leave alone suspicion, of any malpractice. “The BCCI, however, did not care to even investigate allegations which were bound to have been within their knowledge. “It defies credulity to believe that the apex body did not find the need to investigate thoroughly the results of matches which are patently questionable.” |
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JAMMU, Oct 31 (PTI) — Cricketer Ajay Jadeja tonight expressed ignorance about his name being mentioned in the CBI report on match-fixing and said he was totally innocent. “Whatever I’ve come to know is from the media only. I am innocent,” Jadeja said here. Jadeja is one of the players named by CBI, in its report submitted to Sports Minister Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, in connection with match-fixing. Jadeja denied he had ever been questioned by CBI or been asked to appear before it. “(However) if CBI asks, I’ll not hesitate to appear before it. “If any charge is proved against me, I will respect law as I am a law-abiding citizen,” Jadeja said. Jadeja, who was dropped from the team for the recent series in Kenya and Sharjah, however, said the cricket board had not put a ban on his playing. “I was dropped because of my poor performance and when I improve my performance I will be back in the team,” he said. Jadeja criticised the media for sensationalising the whole issue. HYDERABAD: Former skipper Mohammad Azharuddin remained incommunicado today after he was named in the CBI report on match- fixing scandal which shook the cricketing world. His younger brother Abrar said Azhar was not willing to make any statement or comment at this stage. “I have spoken to him and he expressed his unwillingness to make any statement at this stage,” Abrar told PTI. The Hyderabadi batsman remained out of bounds for media personnel who gathered at his Banjara Hills residence for his reaction. Earlier in the day, Azhar visited his ailing mother at a private hospital here. Reached in Baroda tonight for his comment, Mongia said he had not seen or read the CBI report. “Therefore, I have no comments,” he said. The Indian team’s former physiotherapist Dr Ali Irani has been named by CBI as having “acted as a conduit for receiving payments on behalf of Azharuddin from M.K. and Associates.” Azharuddin also paid him money on each occasion that he received payments on his behalf, the report said. Irani, who was also with the team for several years, could not be reached for his comments on CBI’s allegations. |
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Delhi manage slender lead NEW DELHI, Oct 31 (UNI) — Delhi managed a slender but crucial 32-run first innings lead as Sudhakar Ghag and Robin Singh Jr shared the honours as host restricted services to 224 in reply to its first innings score of 256 on the second day of their North Zone Ranji Trophy league match here today. At stumps, Delhi were 91 for the loss of opener Ashu Danis wicket to take an over lead of 123 runs. DELHI
(1st innings): 256. Services (1st innings): Narender Singh c A Chopra b Robin 8, Harish Bhaskar lbw Robin 46, Pankaj Maitrey c Devender Sharma b Robin 10, Sarabjeet Singh c Chawla b Nehra 10, Sanjay Verma b Robin 5, Amit Nadkarni c Bhandari b Robin 0, K.K Dixit b Bhandari 14, Sudhakar Ghag c Manhas b Sanghvi 62, M.V Rao b Nehra 11, Syed Javed not out 25, Arun Sharma c Bhandari b Chopra 7. Extras:
26 (b-7, lb-16, nb-3). Total: (in 67.5 overs) 224. Fall of wkts: 1/14,2/38, 3/ 55, 4/ 68, 5/68, 7/90, 7/118,8/172,9/184. Bowling: Amit Bhandari 16-7-42-1, Ashish Nehra 18-4-43-2, Robin Singh Jr 20-8-61-5, Nikhil Chopra 2.5-1-3-1, Rahul Sanghvi 11-3- 52-1. DELHI
: (2nd innings): Akash Chopra batting 25, Ashu Dani c Sarabjeet b Ghag 2, Pradeep Chawla batting 57. Extras: 7 (lb-6, w-1). Total: (for 1 wkt, in 26.1 overs) 91. Fall of wkt: 1 for 4. Bowling: M.V Rao 7-1-31-0, Sudhakar Ghag 10.1-2-23-1, Syed Javed 6-1-22-0, Arun Sharma 3-1-9-0. |
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Redgrave
announces retirement LONDON, Oct 31 (AFP) — Britain’s top Olympian Steve Redgrave, who won five Olympic rowing gold medals, announced today that he would retire from competition. The 38-year-old, who won his fifth gold medal in the men’s coxless fours in Sydney in September, has been in the sport for 20 years. ‘‘I’m not carrying on,’’ he told BBC radio ahead of a Press conference here. ‘‘I didn’t want to make an announcement at the Olympics.’’ Redgrave won his medals at Los Angeles in 1994, Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996 and Sydney last month. He was the first Olympian to win gold at five successive games in an endurance sport. Only Aladar Gerevich, with six successive golds in the Hungarian sabre team at the beginning of the last century, has achieved more. Redgrave had announced his retirement in 1996 after winning his fourth crown in Atlanta, famously saying: ‘‘I hereby give permission to anybody who catches me in a boat again to shoot me.’’ |
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Eriksson to be England coach? ROME, Oct 31 (AFP) — Lazio’s Swedish coach Sven Goran Eriksson has agreed to become the new coach to the England national side, Italian news agency ANSA reported today. Eriksson, the agency reported, agreed a deal with the English Football Association (FA) yesterday and will take the helm on July 1, 2001 after his contract with the Italian first division side expires at the end of the season with the blessing of the club, the reigning Italian champions. The Swede, speaking by telephone, would not confirm or deny the reports, saying he was obeying his club’s current policy of not speaking to the Press except at mandatory conferences for Champions League games. “I am not saying anything, I am not speaking to the Press,” said Eriksson. But ANSA said the meeting took place yesterday at the Formello training complex after Lazio’s new signing Dino Baggio was presented to the Press. Eriksson began to take a training session and was then called over by club vice-president Dino Zoff and director general Massimo Cragnotti, son of Lazio president Sergio. He was then led to a room for a meeting with the FA delegation and Sergio Cragnotti and a deal was swiftly concluded. If confirmed, Eriksson would be the first foreigner to coach the England side, taking over at a time when the fortunes of the national side are at a low ebb. The 52-year-old cut his coaching teeth in his homeland with Degherfors and Gothenburg before taking his first foreign posting as manager with Portuguese giants Benfica. In 1984-85 he became coach to AS Roma — his first job in Italy’s Serie A — before spending two years at Fiorentina and then returning to Benfica. He then had a long stint at Sampdoria before taking his current post at Lazio in 1997-8. In May he finally won the Italian title for Lazio — only the second in their history and their first for 26 years. The Swede would replace Kevin Keegan, who quit after England lost their World Cup 2002 qualifier 1-0 to Germany at Wembley Stadium. Since then Howard Wilkinson stood in for the World Cup qualifier with Finland in Helsinki while Leicester City boss Peter Taylor, assisted by Manchester United assistant manager Steve Mcclaren, is scheduled to lead England in their friendly against Italy in Turin next month. Eriksson’s reported agreement has come after a host of names such as France’s World Cup winning coach Aime Jacquet and Arsenal’s French manager Arsene Wenger have ruled themselves out of contention for a job regarded by many as a poisoned chalice. |
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Defeat not disgraceful: Hussain RAWALPINDI, Oct 31 (AFP) — England Captain Nasser Hussain has said his side’s 2-1 defeat against Pakistan in the one-day series was not a disgrace and would help the tourists focus on the task ahead in the upcoming Test series. “If anything this loss is going to strengthen our thoughts of what we need to do,” in the remaining part of the tour, Hussain told reporters yesterday. “The defeat is not disgraceful,” he added. England suffered an eight-wicket defeat in the final one-dayer, losing the series by 2-1. England lost both the one-dayers due to their vulnerability against spin bowling but their real challenge starts next month when they face the home team in three Tests. “Its hard work against spinners but we are learning,” the England skipper added. England were restricted to 211-9 in the second match in Lahore and 158 in the third match here yesterday. England won the first match in Karachi by five wickets, successfully chasing 305 run target. “We were bowled out in 42 overs or so which never gave us any chance, obviously the wicket spun and Saqlain bowled well,” Hussain said. “We will have to show character and fire. We showed it with the ball here and with the bat in the first game but we have got to put things together,” he said. Hussain said crowd violence outside the stadium and insects flying in the lights did not affect the team’s performance. “That’s how cricket is played in this part of the world. We knew its going to be different.” Hussain refused to comment on his dubious leg before dismissal: “I repeat I will not comment on umpiring decisions on this whole tour and you guys saw replays you write what you have seen,” he said. England captain was adjudged leg before wicket by umpire Mohammad Aslam off Wasim Akram’s delivery but replays showed the ball was missing leg stump. Pakistan captain Moin Khan said the victory would boost his team’s morale before the Test series. “The confidence of the team is high and we will win the Test series as well,” Khan said. Khan said Pakistan would not rely only on spinners. “We have an experienced attack and its not right that we will totally rely on spinners,” he said. England play two side games before taking on Pakistan in first of the three Tests in Lahore from November 15. |
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UNA, Oct 31 (PTI) — Chasing a massive total of 526 for seven declared in the North Zone Ranji tie against Punjab, the host Himachal struggled to avert follow on,losing three wickets for just 75 runs in their first innings here today. Resuming the play at the overnight total of 385 for two, Punjab piled up 526 runs losing five more wickets till lunch and declared the innings. Skipper Vikram Rathore scored a sparkling 203 runs while Reetinder Sodhi and Ravneet scored 125 and 113 runs respectively. Rakeshwar claimed two wickets for 46 runs. Himachal made a disasterous start losing the opener Rahul Panta’s wicket without any score and lost three wickets with just 11 runs on the board. Amit Sharma (40 n.o.) and Rajiv Nayyar (23 n.o.) added 64 runs for undefeated fourth-wicket partnership. Reetender in impressive spell got three wickets for just 23 runs. Scoreboard Punjab (Ist innings): Extra 28 Total (declared for 7 wickets): 526 Fall of wickets
1-277, 2-385, 3,-402, 4-412, 5-463, 6-477, 7-481 Bowling: Rahul Panta 13-00-83-01, Rakeshwar 16-2-46-02 Sangram Singh 11-00-42-00, Jaswant Rai 33.2-04-106-00 Rajinder Thakur 18-01-78-01, Nishhal Gaur 15.2-03-50-02 Ajay Sharma 05-01-17-00 Amit Sharma 29-02-90-01. HP (Ist
innings): 75 for 3 Panta c Ricky b Reetender Sodhi 00 Gaur c Rathore b Sodhi 05 Nayyar n.o. 23 Ajay c Jugnu b Sodhi 04 Amit n.o. 40. Extra
: 3 Total (for 3 wicket in 30 overs) 75 Fall of wickets: 1-0. 2-05, 3-11 Bowling
: Reetender Sodhi 10-03-23-03 Amrinder Singh 05-00-17-00 Harvinder Singh 05-02-11-00 Sarandeep Singh 02-00-03-00. |
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Kamaljeet, Reetika champs KHANNA, Oct, 31 — Kamaljeet Singh of Patiala and Reetika Chopra of Ropar emerged champions in the cadet boys and girls sections respectively on the second day of the 41st Punjab State Inter-District Open Table Tennis Tournament at the Hindi Putri Pathshala School here today. In the final, Kamaljeet Singh quelled a spirited challenge from his opponent Rohit Kholia of Amritsar before registering a 21-17,19-21 and 21-17 victory. In the girl’s section , Reetika Chopra survived some anxious moments before emerging winner against her town-mate Kanika 21-19,21-17. Earlier, in the semi-finals, Rohit outplayed Munish of Patiala 21-17,21-19 while Kamaljeet Singh scraped past Robin Singh also of Patiala 21-18,21-19 while in the girl’s section, Reetika Chopra seat Ankita of Patiala 21-17,21-15 and Kanika overpowered Jaswinder of Ropar 21-17,19-21 and 21-19. Other
results:- Subjunior boys singles (3rd round) Randeep (PTL) b Gurpreet ( PTL) 21-16,21-18. Robin Verma (PTL) b Inderjeet Singh (LDH) 21-17,21-15 Subjunior girls singles (3rd round)
Manisha (PTL)b Deepinder (RPR) 21-16,21-13. Gurpal (RPR) b Ankita (PTL) 21-17,21-15. Ravneet (RPR) b Dimple (KHN) 21-19,21-17. Gagandeep ( RPR) b Jaspreet (PTL) 21-19,21-14. Sarika (PTL) b Jaswinder (RPR) 21-15,21-14. Reetika (RPR) b Isha (KHN) 21-7,21-9. Junior boys singles (3rd round)
Disney (LDH) b Gurdeep (RPR) 21-12,21-13.Pawan Saini (PTL) b Jasbir (SNG) 21-19,21-17. Rakesh Handa (ASR) b Paramjeet (PTL) 21-17,21-19. Gaurav (LDH) b Sher Bahadur (PTL) 21-19,21-18. Mohit Kundra (ASR) b Jaspreet (PTL) 21-16,21-19. Randeep (PTL) b Vipan (RPR) 21-11,21-16. Rakesh (RPR) b Anil Ahuja (JAL) 21-17,21,16. Rahul Bose (PTL) b Vishal (SNG) 21-18,21-17. Rohit Mahajan (ASR) b Lovin (LDH) 21-19,21-17. Vaneet (RPR) b Rohit Kholia (ASR) 21-15,21-14. Rubal Arora (LDH) bTarun (ASR) 21-13,21-16. Girls singles (pre-q Finals)
Rishu (JAL) b Gurpal (RPR) 21-17,21-13. Mandeep (RPR) b Manisha (PTL) 21-14,21-17. Reetika (RPR) b Sarika (PTL) 21-13,21-15. Hardeep (JAL) b Ravneet (RPR) 21-17,21-18. Gagan (RPR) b Navdeep (ASR) 21-13,21-17. Charu (JAL) b Ashu (KHN) 21-19,21-18. Meenakshi (JAL) b Noori (ASR) 21-18,21-14. Men’s singles (pre-q finals)
Vikas Sharma (ASR) b Rohit Mahajan (ASR) 21-16,21-13. Vikramaaditya (PSEB) b Sumit Bahri (ASR) 21-15,21-16. Rama Kant (Customs) b Lovepreet (JAL) 21-19,21-17. Janak Raj (PSEB) b Harmeet (ASR) 21-13,21-17. Vaneet Chopra (SBOP) b Luv Kush (FZR) 21-13,21-15. Munish Joshi (JAL) b Disney (LDH) 21-19,21-17. Dupinder (SBOP) b Pankaj Sharma (PSEB) 21-19,17-21,21-16. Vikas Mahajan (PSEB) b Rahul Bose (PTL) 21-17,21-19. Women’s singles (pre-q finals)
Anu (JAL) b Shelly (KHN) 21-19,21-17. Shaelly Dhawan (ASR) b Ravneet (RPR) 21-13,21-15. Madankani (ASR) b Pinky (ASR) 21-17,21-17.
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Orissa celebrates Das’s selection BHUBANESWAR, Oct 31 (IANS) — Cricket crazy residents of Orissa are jubilant over the selection of 23-year-old opening batsman Shiv Sunder Das in the Indian cricket team to play the one-off Test match against Bangladesh at Dhaka from November 10 to 14. Soon after news of the Orissa youngster’s selection spread, his house at plot no 2569, Tankapani Road, on the outskirts of this city was teeming with well-wishers and cricket fans. Das is the second Orissa player after medium-pacer Debasis Mohanty to win an India cap. ‘‘I felt extremely happy when I was informed about the selection,” Das told IANS. He has recently returned from Australia after a one-and-a-half month stint at the National Cricket Academy there. “It is a precious moment. The people’s blessings and support has made me more determined now,’’ he said. ‘‘We are all proud because Shiv is a class player. He should have been selected for India long ago,’’ Mr Pankaj Patnaik, secretary of Shahid Sporting Club, said. Mohanty is a member of this club. Das scored an impressive 660 runs in the 1999-2000 Ranji national championship season and hit an undefeated 131 against West Zone in a Duleep Trophy tie. He was a member of the Rest of India team that plays the traditional season opener against the previous year’s national champions. Das was also part of the India A team that toured Los Angeles last year to play a five-match series against Australia A. ‘‘We have seen him play here and hope that he will prove to be a quality opening batsman in Test cricket,” said Jagadananda, a student of Ekamra College, Bhubaneswar. ‘‘We are very happy that we have two international cricketers from our state,’’ said Atanu Sabyasachi, a cricket fan. ‘‘We are proud of both Shiv and Debasis,’’ he added. ‘‘Budha (Das’ nickname) has been picked for the Indian team by the grace of Lord Jagannath,’’ said Mrs Kanchanbala Das, the player’s mother. His father, Mr Uttam Das, a retired schoolteacher, also expressed happiness at his son’s selection. ‘‘Shiv is dedicated, disciplined and very hard working. I am confident that he will do well in the one-off Test against Bangladesh,’’ his coach Kishor Mania said. |
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Convincing win for Haryana ROHTAK, Oct 31 — Haryana defeated Jammu and Kashmir by a convincing margin of an innings and 100 runs in the BCCI (U-14) cricket match on the third and final day at Sat Priya Cricket Academy here today. In fact Haryana’s victory looked almost certain when play ended yesterday. The visitors had lost five wickets for 107 runs in their second innings after facing the follow-on. They needed another 191 runs to avoid an innings defeat. However, the ninth wicket partnership between Manish Raghuvanshi and Appannam Gupta worth 64 runs delayed Haryana’s victory. Manish scored 54 in 50 minutes off 49 balls with the help of 11 fours and a six. Appannam made 18. Jammu and Kashmir’s second innings finally folded at 198. Right arm off-spinner Prem Prateek dismissed four batsman for 54 and Deepak Saini bagged four wickets for 52 runs. Haryana gained 8 points from this outright victory. SCORE BOARD Haryana (Ist Innings): 369 Jammu and Kashmir (Ist Innings): 71 Jammu and Kashmir (2nd Innings) Extras: 17 Total in 76.3 over 198 Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-87, 3-102, 4-103, 5-103, 6-112, 7-116, 8-124, 9-188, 10-198 Bowling: Abhishek Choudhary 7-3-8-0, Sant Kumar 11-3-33-0, Manish Verma 6-4-5-0, Gaurau Chopra 2-1-3-0, Prem Prateek 24.3-8-54-4, Nitin Mehtani 6-2-19-2, Deepak Choudhary 3-1-12-0, Deepak Saini 17-3-52-4. |
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Kurukshetra, MD varsities win CHANDIGARH, Oct 31 — Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, and MDU Rohtak won their respective matches, overpowering CCU Meerut and Jammu University, Jammu, respectively, in the North East Zone Inter University Kho- Kho championship for women at Panjab University grounds here today. Results: Calcutta University, Calcutta beat GGU, Bilaspur, by an innings and 19 points; NBU, Darjeeling beat MJP Rohilkhand, Bareilly, by an innings and 11 points; KU Kurukshetra beat CCU, Meerut by an innings and six points; MDU, Rohtak beat Jammu University, Jammu, by eight points. |
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Haryana enter
knockout stage ROHTAK, Oct 31 — The North Zone Cooch Behar cricket tie played between Haryana and Punjab at Maharaja Aggarsain stadium ended in a draw today. However, Haryana entered the knock-out stage after gaining 5 points from this match on the basis of first innings lead. Punjab could get only 3 points. Resuming their innings at overnight score of 91 for 2 Punjab batsmen raised their second innings total to 314. The highlight of the Punjab innings was an unbeaten knock of 61 by Amit Uniyal who batted late in the batting order. He occupied the crease for 161 minutes and faced 117 balls. He hit 8 fours and 2 sixes also. Gautam Mandora, batting at numer 11, contributed 32. After having lost 8th wicket at 176, Punjab went on to cross the 300-run mark. Another noteable feature of this innings was that Haryana conceded 84 extras. Joginder Sharma was most successful Haryana bowler claiming 4 wickets for 52 runs, while Gaurav Vashishtha took 3 for 77. Sumeet Narwal captured 2 wickets. |
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Crucial lead for HP CHAMBA, Oct 31— Himachal got a crucial lead of 11 runs against Jammu and Kashmir during the second day of the North Zone (Under-19) Cooch Behar Cricket Championship here today. Himachal started their innings with 10 for no loss with Hitesh and Pershant. Both batted well and at one stage they took the score to 85 for not loss. Hitesh who was batting so well was out when he completed 50 runs. Amit joined Pershant and scored 17 runs. Hament came next but was out for zero. However, it was Pershanat and Paras Dogra who saved the collapse and both took the score to 175 when Pershant, who was batting quite well and remained on crease for about three-and-a-half hours, was out for 45 runs. Shashi also played well for his 35. Himachal were all out 252 getting the lead of only 11 runs. At close J and K were 41 for 6. Score J & K (1st innings):
242 all out. Himachal (first innings): 253 all out. Hitesh 53, Pershant 45, Paras Dogra 36, Shashi 35, Vijay 22, Amit 17, Anoop 4 for 45, Kulbhushan 4 for 50. J & K (second innings): 41 for 6, Ashif batting 20, Sammy batting 4, Prince 3 for 7, Paras Dogra 1 for 10, Mohan Singh 1 for 10. |
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Comfortable victory
for Punjab PATIALA, Oct 31 — Punjab carved out a comfortable innings and 345-run victory against minnows Himachal Pradesh in the BCCI inter-state (under-14) cricket tournament league match which concluded at the Dhruv Pandove Stadium here yesterday. The match which finished inside two days saw some fine performances by batsmen Munish Bhatia, Prabhal Sharda and Ankur Jund from the Punjab team while no younger shone for Himachal Pradesh, who along with J and K are considered the whipping boys of North Zone in all grades of cricket. Brief Scores: HP
(Ist Innings): 24 all out Punjab (Ist Innings): 429 for 7 (Munish Bhatia 87, Prabhal Sharda 79, Ankur Jund 50, Karun Goel 50, Ashish Vinayak 29, Sahil 4 for 67, Pankaj 2 for 84, Aditya 1 for 61). HP
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3 meet records
established JALANDHAR, Oct 31 — CRPF athletes again performed brilliantly in the second day of the 49th all-India police athletic championship — 2000 currently underway at Punjab Armed Police headquarters at Jalandhar cantonment where three meet records tumbled today. Two of them were set up by CRPF while one by the CISF. Julie E.L. of CISF set up a new meet record in the 100 m hurdles (women), Manjimma Kuriakose of CRPF rewrote meet record in 400 mtrs among women, while 4x100 m relay team of CRPF proved supremacy by creating new meet records. The results: 5000 m run (men): 1 Gojan Singh (BSF), 2 Joseph Baxla (CISF), 3 Om Parkash (Rajasthan). 400m hurdles (men): 1 Sahib Singh (Punjab Police), 2 Surinder Singh (Punjab Police), 3 L. Suleman (CRPF). 400 m run (women): 1 Manjimma Kuriakose (CRPF), 2 Jimcy Philips (CRPF), 3 Spinder Kaur (Punjab Police). 100 m hurdles (women): 1 Julie E.L. (CISF), 2 Bindu M.C. (CRPF), 3 Poonam Sahu (CISF). Discus throw (men): 1 Dawinder Singh (Punjab Police), 2 Hirenand (CISF), 3 Upkar Singh (Punjab Police). Discus throw (women): 1 Seema Antil (CRPF), 2 Binita Kumari (CRPF), 3 Surinderjit Kaur (Punjab Police). Pole vault (men): 1 Geesh Kumar V.V. (CISF), 2 Shamsher Singh (CRPF), 3 Subash Yadav (BSF). 4x100 mtrs relay race men: 1 CRPF, 2 Punjab Police, 3 BSF. |
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Gymnastics squad CHANDIGARH, Oct 31 —Sudhir Mittal, President, Punjab Gymnastics Association, will be the manager of the Indian junior gymnastics team for the Tulit Memorial Cup to be held at Kiskunhalas (Hungary) on December 2 and 3, according to Mr P.S. Virk, Secretary, Gymnastics Federation of India. Mr Virk said the selected players will also attend a one-month coaching camp at NIS, Patiala. The gymnasts are: Abhishek Dixit (UP), Aroop Debnath ( UP), Dipesh Sahoo (Tripura), Abhinav Dixit (UP), Udai Bhaskar Singh (UP), Santanu Bhomick (Tpr), Rohit Jaiswal (UP), Prachur Saxena (UP), Sanjay Chaudhary (UP), Diptanu Banik (Tpr), Mayank K Verma (UP), Saraswat Patel (MP). |
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