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November 7, 2000, Chandigarh, India   
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Durand Cup Disappointment
for Woods Hewitt wins
title Dharmani,
Mongia in big stand India falter
in 8th round CBI report
marks end of Azhar’s career Zimbabwe
expect a tough series Top
cricketers not in IT net |
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Bhandari
puts Delhi in command
Crushing defeat for
Palam school
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Durand
Cup NEW DELHI, Nov 6 (UNI) — Calcutta
giants Mohun Bagan cruised into the semifinals of the Durand Cup after
trouncing Tata Football Academy (TFA) 3-0 in their last quarterfinal
match here today.
In the other match of the day Mahindra United (Mumbai) edged out
defending champions Salgaocar Sports Club (Goa) by a solitary first-half
goal.
The Mohun Bagan team’s domination over the match was total and
unlike its previous encounters, the team today played an attacking game
and gave little room to its opponents to manoeuvre.
The IFA Shield champions fired the first salvo in the 17th minute
when medio Basudev Mondal gave a cross to mercurial forward Barreto
inside the rival penalty box. Barreto adroitly dribbled two TFA
defenders and tapped the ball into the TFA goal to make the score 1-0.
The Calcuttans clinched the lead in the 23rd minute when Barreto
snatched a TFA pass and gave a long cross to fellow forward R.C. Prakash.
Prakash passed the ball to the team’s Brazilian striker Joao Santos
inside the box. Santos’ powerful grounder rocketted into the TFA goal.
Bagan increased the margin in the 40th minute of the match when
Santos gave a cross to Barreto outside the TFA penalty box and Barreto
turned around and shot a powerful grounder which beat TFA custodian V.
Satish Kumar into the net.
Even after the lemon-break the lads from Jamshedpur failed to impress
despite playing an attacking game. They missed a scoring opportunity in
the 65th minute when left stopper back D. Mazumder shot a free-kick
which was fisted away by Bagan custodian Rajat Ghosh Dastidar.
This apart the TFA failed to convert numerous free-kicks, primarily
due to their short stature. Their long passes were mostly intercepted by
tall and well-built Bagan defenders.
Bagan coach Subroto Bhattacharjee later speaking to newsmen expressed
satisfaction on the outcome of the match and informed that he had asked
his boys to score at least three goals to qualify for the semis. He
lamented that the team missed several scoring opportunities, but praised
his boys for playing a good match. In the semifinal encounter with Goa
league champions, Churchill Brothers he said the team has to play well
and win the match and it will be a tough match.
The second match of the day between Mahindra United and defending
champions Salgaocar was a do-or-die contest as both the teams had
chances to qualify for the semis. So the match between them turned out
to be a no-holds-barred one in which both the outfits began on an
attacking one.
It was Mahindra lads who missed the first scoring opportunity when
medio Anthony Pereira passed the ball to fellow medio Abbas Ali Rizvi
inside the rival penalty box, but Rizvi’s header missed its target. A
few minutes later left half Habib Adekunle’s shot from outside the box
was fisted away by Salgaocar custodian Juje Siddi.
Mahindra fired the lone match winning salvo in the fifth minute of
the first half when Pereira intercepted a Salgaocar pass and lobbed it
to outside-right Abhay Kumar, but Kumar missed the ball which was
grabbed by left back S.Venkatesh whose powerful right-footer hit the
crosspiece and recoiled into the Salgaocar goal to make it 1-0.
Thereafter, the Mumbai League champions made good forays into the
rival half by advancing in 4-4-2 combination and wreaked havoc on the
Salgaocar defence.
Right from the commencement of the tournament defending champions
Salgaocar never looked comfortable apparently and their forwards seemed
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ATLANTA, Nov 6 (Reuters) — Phil
Mickelson handed Tiger Woods a rare final-round disappointment yesterday
when he fired a four-under 66 to beat the world number one by two
strokes and win the $ 5 million U.S. Tour Championship at East Lake.
In notching his fourth tournament victory of the year Mickelson
emulated rotund journeyman Ed Fiori as the only golfer to deny Woods a
victory when he had either held or shared the lead going into the final
round.
Mickelson, playing in the group ahead of Woods, got the fast start he
needed with birdies at four of the first nine holes before completing
his 66 for a 13-under-par 267.
It hoisted Mickelson, who began the day one shot back, two shots
clear of Woods, who struggled with his driver for an erratic 69.
Vijay Singh, who had set out tied with Woods at 10 under, played
poorly for a 73 to fall into a share of third place with Zimbabwe’s
Nick Price (67) and South African Ernie Els (69) on 273.
After collecting a check for $ 900,000 that lifted him to $ 4,746,457
and second place on the money list behind runaway leader Woods,
Mickelson smiled: "I know I have something in common with Ed Fiori
and I hope it isn’t his figure.
“We call him the Tiger Slayer and I am very proud because Tiger is
such a great front-runner.”
It was the second time this year that the elegant left-hander had
beaten the world’s best golfer down the stretch, following his triumph
in the Buick Invitational when he ended Woods’s six-win stretch in San
Diego last February.
Mickelson’s win prompted him to join the exodus of US-based who
have declined to play in the World Championship of golf event in
Valderrama, Spain, starting on Thursday.
He said he was satisfied to end his season with a Tour Championship
victory.
“Tiger has had a great year and it was important for me to have the
best year apart from him,” he said. “It feels special and that is
why I wanted to finish second in the money race.”
It was the second successive week that Woods had failed to win when
well-placed following his third place in the Disney tournament the
previous weekend.
“I grinded my butt off to give myself a chance but I hit some
pretty bad shots this week,” said Woods, whose U.S. Earnings of $
9,030,821 nearly doubled Mickelson’s winnings.
“It was the same as last week, I didn’t drive the ball well and
didn’t give myself enough legitimate birdie chances.”
Woods will be defending at Valderrama, his last opportunity to match
Sam Snead’s 10 wins in a year in 1950, but he doesn’t intend a
serious work-out on the range to cure his problems.
“I am doing nothing,” he said. “I have a tough schedule coming
up and if I go out and start pounding balls I will be fried within a
couple of weeks. It’s just a question of regaining my rhythm.’’
His only consolation was that his last eight rounds have been in the
60s even though they failed to produce a victory. He said: "I feel
pretty good about that because if you actually watched some of those
rounds, it is not pretty."
“If I don’t accomplish 10 wins then obviously that will be
disappointing because I was so close. But the fact that I won three
Majors in a year is not a bad thing either.’’
Mickelson gave a fan a golf glove after his opening drive ricocheted
off the spectator and onto the fairway to set up a birdie and he threw
the challenge to Woods by going out in a four-under 31.
Woods responded with a hat trick of birdies from the seventh and
pulled alongside his fellow-Californian when he also birdied the 12th
from four feet.
But Mickelson got a crucial birdie at the long 15th, which Woods
could only par, and the defence of his title was over when he pulled his
approach from sand almost into the water at the 17th for a bogey.
Mickelson, along with Woods, is also likely to miss the World Match
Play Championship in Australia in January, again citing disapproval of
the scheduling. Still, the left-hander said he was looking forward to
their next duel.
“This has given me tremendous encouragement for next year even
though I didn’t play as I hoped on the back nine,” he said. “I
made some key putts and that enabled me to beat Tiger.” |
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STUTTGART (Germany), Nov 6 (AP) —
Wayne Ferreira captured his first title in four years when he beat
rising star Lleyton Hewitt in five long sets to win the Stuttgart
Masters Series.
Ferreira, a 29-year-old South African, needed more than four hours to
prevail over Hewitt 7-6 (6) 3-6 6-7 (5) 7-6 (2) 6-2.
It was a captivating performance from one of the veterans on the
tour, who had not won a title since 1996 in Toronto.
Ferreira raised his arms in triumph after a forehand by Hewitt sailed
long on the South African’s first match point to give Ferreira his
14th career title.
“The older I am, the better I am,” Ferreira said after picking up
the winner’s check for $ 434,000. “Age and experience got me
through.”
Hewitt, an Australian who has won four titles this year, was seeded
eighth. He earned $ 228,000. Hewitt is sixth in the Champions Race that
will produce the new No. 1 for the year at the end of the season.
Ferreira moved two spots to No. 11.
Ferreira wasted two set points in the first tiebreaker - one with a
forehand that went just wide and then a backhand down the line that was
no more than an inch off.
But on Ferreira’s third set point, Hewitt hit a forehand wide.
Helped by breaks of serve at the start and at the end of the set,
Hewitt breezed through the second and jumped to a 5-1 lead in the third.
That’s when the drama began.
Ferreira saved one set point while serving in the eighth game. A
netted forehand saw Hewitt drop the next game.
The South African was in trouble again in the 10th game but saved
five more set points then forced Hewitt into an error and hit service
winner to level the score.
Ferreira then hit a return winner to break Hewitt’s serve and take
a 6-5 lead. But he was unable to serve out the set and Hewitt forced a
tiebreaker. |
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JALANDHAR, Nov 6 (PTI) — Punjab were
366 runs for three wickets in reply to first innings score of 168 runs
scored by Jammu and Kashmir on the second day of Ranji Trophy league
match at Burlton Park here today.
Jammu and Kashmir struck early blows and at one time Punjab had lost
three wickets for just 36 runs in 14 overs. But unbeaten 330-run
partnership between Pankaj Dharmani and D. Mongia for the fourth wicket
put Punjab in strong position.
The left-arm medium pacer Surinder Singh struck an early blow and
bowled out Punjab opener R. Ricky for just six runs in 10th over.
Captain Vikram Rathore met the same fate when Surinder Singh uprooted
his middle stump in 12th over.
Ashwini Gupta took a fabulous catch at second slip and Munish Sharma
was shown the door for just three runs, again off Surinder Singh.
But things changed as Dharmani and Mongia started batting and made
centuries by despatching the ball to all corners of the stadium.
Mongia made an impressive unbeaten knock of 176 runs (his eighth
century in first class cricket) with eight boundaries and five sixes.
Dharmani has also played a beautiful knock of 148 runs with 11
boundaries and three sixes was still on the crease.
Jammu and Kashmir in its bid to break the partnership tried eight
bowlers but in vain. Scoreboard
Jammu and Kashmir (1st innings): 168
Punjab (1st innings): Ricky b Surinder 6, Rathore b Surinder
23, Munish c A.Gupta b Surinder 3, Dharmani not out 148, Mongia not out
176.
Extras: (wides- 3, leg byes-1, byes-6) 10.
Total: 366 runs for 3 wickets in 90 overs.
Fall of wickets: 1/25, 2/32, 3/36.
Bowling: A.Qayoom 13-1-65-0, Surinder 16-3-52-3, A.Gupta
22-5-81-0, Shashi 9-3-20-0, Indris 4—0-18-0, Sanjay Sharma 12-3-60-0,
D. Mahajan 5-0-29-0, V. Bhaskar 9-0-35-0. |
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ISTANBUL Nov 6 (PTI) — India tasted
bitter defeat in the eighth round of the Chess Olympiad here today with
both its men’s and women’s teams succumbing before their rivals.
The men’s team lost to Uzbekistan 1.5-2.5 while the women went down
to Poland 1-2.
In the men’s section, Germany (23.5) maintained a full point lead
over nearest rivals Russia by outplaying the Netherlands by a 3-1
margin. The Russians had a similar victory over Slovakia today.
The score of Indian men tallied a respectable 18.5 points despite the
loss today.
The Chinese appear unsurpassable in the women’s event. They blanked
a talented Vietnam team 3-0 and widened their lead to 1.5 points over
Georgia.
The major casualty for India was gm krishnan Sasikiran’s loss to
Rustom Kasindzhanov. Playing black, Sasikiran employed the Slav defence,
deserting the Kings Indian that had serve him well in previous few
games.
After blitzing out the theoretical moves, Sasi got a balanced
position but as is prevalent with the Slav, his king pawn came under
pressure. The game entered the endgame where Sasi had to part with an
exchange and the battle looked lost for him there on.
Kasimdzhanov opted for the simplest yet effective method to march his
passed queen rook pawn to glory and scored an important victory for his
team.
The dynamite from India, Im Pendalya Harikrishna levelled the score
by putting it across gm sergei Zagerbelny on the second board. Playing
white, the 14 year old opened with the queen pawn and got a miniscule
advantage from the opening.
As the game progressed, tension started building up in the Indian
camp as Harikrishna embarked on a double-edged variation. The risk
reaped high dividends as Zagerbelny struggled in the face of complicated
variations and Harikrishna earned a well-deserved victory.
On the third board, gm dibyendu Barua had no difficulty in holding gm
safin Shukrat to a draw from the black side of a semi slav game.
Safin failed to get any advantage out of the opening and exchanged
pieces at regular intervals. The draw was agreed to after 41 moves in an
endgame where Safin had four pawns and a knight to Barua’s two pawns
and a rook.
Im Surya Sekhar Ganguly lost rather tamely to m dzhumaev. In a modern
defence game where Surya was white, Dzhumaev took advantage of
lacklustre moves in the opening and initiated an attack on the
queenside.
Surya tried opening the king side for counter-play but found Dzhumaev
alert on that front too. In the end Dzhumaev won a piece to decide
matters.
Wgm subbaraman Vijayalakshmi’s victory over m socko was the only
silver lining for the women’s team. |
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CBI report marks end of Azhar’s career NEW DELHI, Nov 6 (PTI) — There can be
few things more beautiful in life than to watch Mohammed Azharuddin in
flight, wrote his official biographer.
A week after the CBI presented its report on betting and match-fixing
in which it claims that the former India captain had admitted fixing
matches, Azhar has not said a word. It appears to be flight of a
different kind.
Azhar was taught that whatever is in your ‘muqaddar’ (fate) will
happen, wrote biographer Harsha Bhogle, adding this was bound to create
in Azhar a sense of fatalism as also the ability to take failure
philosophically.
Has he accepted his plight today with the same sense of fatalism?
There is no way of knowing, for Azhar is keeping to himself.
He made a record-setting entry into world cricket, delighted cricket
lovers with his majestic batting and became India’s most successful
captain.
Today his reputation and career are in tatters.
Has CBI’s report on betting and match-fixing written finish to one
of the most dazzling cricket careers in the game’s history? It appears
so, irrespective of whether the CBI’s case stands court scrutiny.
It has been a truly roller-coaster ride for the middle-class boy from
Hyderabad. Cricket made him a household name and gave him his riches.
But, alas, his fall has been equally dramatic.
The shy Hyderabadi made a sensational debut in 1984-85 against the
visiting England team. He hit three successive Test centuries and
remains the only batsman in the 123-year history of Test cricket to do
so.
Azhar’s accomplishments include 6215 runs (at an average of 45.03)
with 22 centuries in 99 Tests.
It was his ambition to play his 100th Test match for India, but the
CBI appears to have run him out at 99.
His one-day record is an equally impressive 9378 runs (36.92 average)
with seven centuries in 314 matches.
Easily the fittest and most agile fielder in the team, he has taken
an astounding 261 catches for India — 105 in Test and 156 in one-dayers.
After the spectacular start, Azhar failed in Sri Lanka in 1985-86
where he scored only 112 runs in six innings, with 43 as his highest, in
1985-86. The failure continued in the tour of Australia that followed
where he collected just 113 runs in three Tests.
After a reasonable recovery on the tour of England, he notched up a
dazzling 199 in the only innings he played against Sri Lanka in 1986-87.
He was back in form in the home series against Pakistan and in the
Reliance World Cup, he headed the batting averages for India with an
impressive 63.33.
Azhar’s career took a major leap when he was appointed India’s
captain, even to his own surprise.
“Miya captain banoge? (gentleman, will you become captain),”
selection committee chairman Raj Singh Dungarpur asked Azhar in words
that have their own place in India’s cricket folklore.
Azhar went on to become India’s most successful cricket captain,
but he would hardly be regarded as a brilliant leader or communicator.
He didn’t look back thereafter. He became a national sporting hero
which brought its own rewards and pitfalls.
Commercialisation of the game brought huge financial gains to leading
players. Azhar was no more the next door guy.
The boy who was taught the basics of “middle class morality” by
his grandfather, acquired designer labels, highly expensive cars and
watches, and divorced his wife Naureen, the mother of his two sons,
Abbas and Ayaz. He married glamorous Sangeeta Bijlani, a Mumbai film
star.
When whispers of betting and match-fixing started making rounds,
Azhar’s name got mentioned often.
He reacted with anger when Hansie Cronje, South African captain,
himself in the dock for match-fixing, said that Azhar had introduced him
to bookie Mukesh Gupta. Cronje was a racist, he said.
And in remarks he came to regret later, Azhar said he was being
targeted because he was from the minority community.
Then the CBI got into the act. He was questioned at length about
allegations against him. He continued to put on a brave front.
All the whispers and allegations about match-fixing scandal had not
prepared the country for the bombshell that the CBI report is. It
contains Azhar’s alleged admission of fixing a few matches.
Perhaps the fittest of Indian cricketers even at 37, Azhar had hoped
to play for India for at least two more years. |
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Zimbabwe expect a tough series MUMBAI, Nov 6 (PTI) — The Zimbabwe
cricket team arrived three hours late today, sans baggage and skipper
Heath Streak for their 40-day tour of India from November 8 to December
15.
After arrival, team manager Babu Meman told reporters the baggage was
held up at London airport due to some technical problem while skipper
Streak stayed back for a couple of days more as he had to get his tooth
extracted.
“However, Streak is expected to join the team on November 9 at
Indore which means he will miss the first three-day warm-up match
against the National Cricket Academy (NCA) XI starting at Indore on
November 8,” he added.
“Another member of the 15-player squad, Brian Murphy, too will be
joining the team later as was busy taking his university examinations in
Harare, while our baggage will reach Indore directly tomorrow,” Meman
said.
“Zimbabwean coach Carl Rackemann, former Aussie bowler, is already
in Delhi and would be joining the team at Indore tomorrow,” Meman
added.
Meman said Zimbabwe was a young side with a few experienced
cricketers in Alistair Campbell, Guy Whittall (vice captain), Andy
Flower, Grand Flower, Paul Strang and the captain himself.
The team left for Indore after a few hours’ rest.
“We are expecting a tough series ahead of us as we know from our
past experience that the Indians are hard to beat on their own soil. It
will be a very good exposure for the youngsters in our side and they are
all looking forward to it,” Meman said.
The Zimbabweans had lost the Test series badly when they last toured
the sub-continent, but had beaten the Indians at home in their home
series.
When queried about the match-fixing scandal which has rocked the
cricketing world, Meman said, the scandal would not effect them in any
way and they were here to play some good cricket.
The visitors would be playing two warm-up games at Indore and
Faridabad against Board President’s XI from November 13 to 15 and two
Test matches against the hosts at Delhi (November 18-22) and Nagpur
(November 25-29).
They also play five one-dayers at Cuttack (December 2), Ahmedabad
(December 5), Jodhpur (December 8), Kanpur (December 11) and at Rajkot
(December 14) before leaving for home on December 15.
Team: Heath Streak (capt), Guy Whittall (vice-capt), Alistair
Campbell, Stuart Carlisle, Andy Flower (wicketkeeper), Grant Flower,
Travis Friend, Trevor Mandondo, Douglas Marillier, Brian Mruphy, Mluleki
Nkada, Henry Olonga, Gavin Rennie, Bryan Strang and Paul Strang. |
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Top
cricketers not in IT net
NEW DELHI, Nov 6 (UNI) — The income tax sleuths, currently busy
giving final touches to the appraisal reports of cricketers whose
premises were raided in July, have no plans to broaden the exercise to
include other top players like Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly,
department sources said today.
“We have found nothing wrong against the top cricketers of the
current Indian team like Tendulkar and Ganguly. Tendulkar files a return
of Rs 20 crore ... Ganguly’s records are also clean as is the case
with the other major players,’’ said the sources. “We do not want
to waste time on them.’’
“Searches are carried out only after we do a thorough homework to
get accurate or reliable and elaborate information about any individual.
We also carry out reconnaisance missions before the actual exercise,’’
the sources said.
“We have found large amount of undisclosed income and unexplained
expenditure in the case of all the cricketers whose premises were
searched,’’ the sources said. |
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Bhandari puts Delhi in command GURGAON, Nov 6 (PTI) — A late order
rally by Amit Bhandari, who hit a patient 72 runs, saw Delhi score a
respectable 349 in their first innings and then pegged Haryana to 98 for
2 on the second day of their North Zone Ranji Trophy cricket match here
today.
Bhandari struck just two fours in his 262 minute stay at the wicket
in providing some respectability to Delhi’s score as off-spinner
Pankaj Thakur (5/107) returned with the best figures.
Bhandari and Nehra frustrated Haryana bowlers with some patient
batting after overnight batsman Rahul Sanghvi (29) fell to Feroz Ghyas
(3/63) in the first over of the day.
Former champions Haryana, who are facing a crisis with no India
batsman doing duty for them, saved the day thanks to Jasvir Singh’s
unbeaten knock of 52.
Delhi (Ist innings): Total (all out in 131.2 overs) 349
Fall of wickets: 1/95, 2/96, 3/132, 4/146, 5/189, 6/197,
7/203, 8/275, 9/328.
Bowling: Vineet Jain 16-3-59-0, Feroz Ghyas 25-6-63-3,
Parinder Sharma 2-0-6-0, Amit Mishra 42-7-99-2, Pankaj Thakur
45.2-13-107-5, Ishan Ganda 1-0-2-0.
Haryana (Ist innings)
Padamjeet c Vijay Dahiya b Ashish Nehra 30, Jitendera Singh c Vijay
Dahiya b Ashish Nehra 2, Jasvir Singh batting 52, Parvinder Sharma
batting 9, Extras (lb-2, nb-3) 5.
Total (for 2 wickets, 47 overs) 98
Fall of wickets: 1/12, 2/68.
Bowling: Amit Bhandari 8-2-21-0, Ashish Nehra 11-1-32-2, Robin
Singh 9-2-22-0, Rahul Sanghvi 11-3-18-0, Nikhil Chopra 7-4-3-0, Virendra
Sewag 1-1-0-0. |
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MUMBAI, Nov 6 (PTI) — The Bristol
Rovers Cup Football Tournament, which will be celebrating its centenary
year, has been postponed to the last week of December.
The tournament was scheduled to be held at the Cooperage from
November 10 but as the participating teams did not have sufficient break
before the National Football League, the organisers were forced to
postpone the tournament, a Western India Football Association (WIFA)
press note said here today.
The National Football League is starting from November 28 while the
Rovers Cup final was slated for November 25 which would have left hardly
any time for the players to get any rest, the note added. |
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Central
Unit clinch overall team title MANDI, Nov 6 — Central Unit won the overall team range championship
in the 40th H.P. Police Sports, Athletics and Duty Meet-2000 which
concluded at Paddal Stadium here today. Const Kuldeep, const Bheem
Singh, const Harish, all from Central Unit won the Best Judoka, Best
Gymnast and the Best Athlete prizes.
Central Range clinched the final volleyball title while Central Unit
won the final kabbadi match. Constables Pawan Kumar, Haresh Kumar,
Surinder Kumar and Sanjeev Kumar all from Central Unit bagged seven
first positions in different athletics events. Murari Lal, Manoj Kumar
and Surinder won first positions in 100m, 200 m and 4x100m relay events.
Southern Range had to satisfy themselves with just one first position in
10000m.
Murari Lal from Central Range won the long jump and triple jump
titles and Sujan Singh of Central Unit took away the high jump prize.
Shot put and discus throw events were won by Rajesh Negi and C. Goving
from Central Unit while hammer and javelin throw prizes went to HC
Sadanand and constable Dinesh of Central and Southern Range,
respectively.
North Zone also made their presence felt by winning titles in 54 kg
and 58 kg in the wrestling. Budhi Singh and Suresh Kumar were the sole
winners from the North Zone in all the events held today. Kushal Chand,
Chhota Ram, Kuldeep Singh and Swaroop Singh, all from Southern Range,
won first positions in 63 kg, 69 kg, 76 kg, and 97 kg categories,
respectively.
Rajinder Kumar and Shamsher Singh from Central Range won the 85 kg
and 97 kg category titles.
In judo, Inder Ram, Deepak Kumar, Kuldeep Kumar, Suresh Kumar and
Birdin won first positions in the below 61 kg, below 66 kg, below 73 kg,
below 81 kg and below 100 kg categories. Below 56 kg, below 90 kg and
below 100 kg open titles were grabbed by Ashwani Kumar, Ram Swaroop and
Sucha Singh, all from Southern Range.
Southern Range bagged five titles and Central Unit four titles in the
boxing event. Bhajan Chauhan in fly weight, Ashok Kumar in bantam
weight, Amit Gangla in light weight, Sucha Singh in heavy weight and
Kamal Khan in super heavy weight: all from Southern Range won first
positions. Raghujeet Singh, Sandeep Kumar, Ram Singh and Rakesh Kumar
won first positions in feather wt., lt welter wt., lt. heavy wt. and
light wt. categories. Dharam Singh and Surinder Kumar from Central Range
won the lt. and middle wt. titles.
Central Unit sweeped the gymnastics section taking away all the three
first positions — C. Shehs Ram in parallel bar, Pawan Kumar in
pommelled horse and Bheem Singh on floor exercises.
Somesh Goel, DIG, Mandi, and Mr Sanjay Kundu, SP Chamba, won first
prizes in golf and lawn tennis games.
Police Station, Dharamsala, was declared the best police station in
the Himachal Pradesh.
Chief Minister, Mr Prem Kumar Dhumal, gave away the prizes to the
winners, Chief Minister’s trophy and cash award of Rs 5000 was given
to Dharamsala Sadar Police Station. He declared the meet formally
closed. |
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MP
clinch junior korfball crown FARIDABAD, Nov 6 — Madhya Pradesh won the eight National Junior
Korfball Championship defeating the last year’s Champion and hosts
Haryana by 12-9. The winners were leading 7-5 at the half time. Uttar
Pradesh beat Maharashtra to clinch the bronze medal in the four-day
tournament which concluded at the Modern Vidya Niketan (MVN) school
grounds here last evening.
Teams from 15 states and union territories took part in this
championship. Earlier Haryana got past Uttar Pradesh by 11-5 while
Madhya Pradesh beat Maharashtra in the semi-final convincingly by a
margin of 10 goals.
Rajender of Madhya Pradesh scored five goals in the final match. The
organisers later announced the following national junior korfball team:
Boys: Paramvir and Lalit both Haryana, Dharmender and Mohammed Arif
both MP Amit Chhabra and Ankur both UP, Jaikumar (Maharashtra), Rahul
(Delhi), Jogeshwar (Punjab) and Arvind (Rajasthan). Neeraj from Haryana
has been named as extra player. Girls Rinku (Haryana), Renu and Mahima
(UP), Nidhi and Bharti (MP), Mridula (Maharashtra), Sandhya and Sunita
(Delhi), Sunita (Chandigarh), Sandeep Kumari of Jind and Savita from
Haryana have been included as extra players.
The Town and Country Planning Minister, Mr Dhirpal Singh, gave away
medals and prizes. |
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Crushing
defeat for Palam school NEW DELHI, Nov 6 — Shri Kamlakar Chauba Adarsh Sewa Vidyalaya,
Varanasi, crushed Govt Boys Senior Secondary School, Palam (Delhi) 15-1
in the 18th Nehru-ONGC Sub-Junior Hockey Tournament at the National
Stadium here today.
In a massacre of the innocents, the Varanasi school led by 8-1 at
half-time. Mohd Amir scored four goals, Sanjay Yadav struck five goals,
Pramod Kumar and Vijay Singh Rai a brace each while Vineet Singh and
Amit Singh pitched in with a goal each. The lone goal for the hapless
Delhi school was scored by Sandeep.
In another match, Thawai High School, Manipur, beat Army Boys Sports
Company, Danapur. Sumeshkanta Singh (two) and Deepak Singh were the
goal-getters. |
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