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Murali enlivens
drawn Test
Muralitharan joins ‘300’ club NZ, Zimbabwe settle for draw
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Madhavan submits
report on Chopra 4 Indians ousted in
first round Belgium prevail over
Japan Anand rounds off a brilliant year for
chess BSF, Army XI in title clash Karate meet results Punjab record big
win Punjab win overall
championship 5th consecutive
title for MDU Archery meet results SAIL girls thrash
Pepsu XI
Chess meet for blind from Jan 4 More shooting ranges ‘needed’
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DURBAN, Dec 30 (Reuters) — Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan enlivened the final day of the drawn first Test against South Africa by becoming the 17th player to take 300 Test wickets. Muralitharan joined the "300 club" by dismissing South African captain Shaun Pollock, his fourth wicket of the innings. Muralitharan finished with six for 39 as South Africa, 204 ahead on first innings, declared their second innings on 140 for seven. Sri Lanka, set a token target of 345, were 149 for six when bad light forced a premature end with eight overs to be bowled. The home side struck back shortly before tea and at the interval Sri Lanka were 85 for four after losing three quick wickets in the space of seven overs. Kumar Sangakkara was given out stumped for 17 by television umpire Ian Howell off left-arm spinner Nicky Boje in the 27th over. Four overs later, Boje struck again to have opener Marvan Atapattu caught behind by Boucher for 20. Mahela Jayawardene, on seven, suffered a similar fate at the hands of fast bowler Makhaya Ntini without a run added to the total. South Africa had resumed the day on 47 for one and attacked the bowling to score 93 runs in the 21.3 overs they faced before the declaration came at 140 for seven. The South Africans’ approach aided the cause of off-spinner Muralitharan, who took six for 39 to finish with match figures of 11 for 161 — the fifth time he has taken 10 or more wickets in a Test. Scoreboard
South Africa (Ist innings): 420 Sri Lanka (Ist innings): 216 South Africa (IInd innings): Dippenaar lbw b Muralitharan 22 Kirsten c Arnold b Muralitharan 34 Kallis b Muralitharan 15 Pollock c Dilshan b Muralitharan 11 Boje c Sangakkara b Fernando 8 Boucher c Vaas b Muralitharan 10 Mckenzie lbw b Muralitharan 13 Klusener not out 11 Cullinan not out 2 Extras: (b-4 lb-3 nb-7) 14 Total: (for seven wickets, declared) 140 Fall of wickets: 1-46 2-75 3-91 4-92 5-108 6-114 7-132 Bowling: Vaas 9-1-25-0, Zoysa 5-1-21-0, Fernando 10-0-48-1 (nb-7), Muralitharan 10-1-39-6. Sri Lanka (IInd innings): Atapattu c Boucher b Boje 20 Jayasuriya c Cullinan b Ngam 26 Sangakkara st Boucher b Boje 17 Jayawardene c Boucher b Ntini 7 Arnold c Dippenaar b Pollock 30 Dilshan not out 28 Kaluwitharana c Boje b Pollock 1 Vaas not out 3 Extras (b-4 lb-7 nb-6) 17 Total (for six wickets) 149 Fall of wickets: 1-41 2-69 3-80 4-80 5-132 6-140. Bowling: Pollock 16-5-35-2 (nb-2), Ngam 13-3-34-1 (nb-4), Ntini 10-4-18-1, Kallis 6-1-14-0, Boje 24-12-30-2, Klusener 5-1-7-0. |
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Muralitharan joins ‘300’ club DURBAN, Dec 30 (AFP) — Sri Lankan offspinner Muttiah Muralitharan took his 300th Test wicket on the final day of the first Test against South Africa at Kingsmead today, reaching the milestone in the second lowest number of matches in history.
Name Country Mat- ches Wic- kets C. Walsh West Indies 126 492 Kapil Dev India 131 434 R. Hadlee New Zealand 86 431 Wasim Akram Pakistan 100 409 C. Ambrose West Indies 98 405 I. Botham England 102 383 M. Marshall West Indies 81 376 S. Warne Australia 84 366 Imran Khan Pakistan 88 362 D. Lillee Australia 70 355 R. Willis England 90 325 Waqar Younis Pakistan 68 313 L. Gibbs West Indies 79 309 A. Donald South Africa 64 308 F. Trueman England 67 307 G. McGrath Australia 66 305 M. Muralitharan Sri Lanka 58 302 Muralitharan (28) was playing in his 58th Test, two more than Dennis Lillee of Australia needed to reach 300 wickets. He is the 17th player to achieve the feat. Muralitharan’s 300th victim was South African Shaun Pollock, who was caught by Tillekeratne Dilshan at Silly point, although replays indicated the ball may have gone straight from Pollock’s pad without hitting the bat. Pollock had promoted himself in the batting order as South Africa sought to score quick runs before making a declaration after the fourth day was lost to rain. The bowler was mobbed by his team-mates as umpire Riazuddin’s finger went up to signal that Pollock was out. Muralitharan has been Sri Lanka’s star bowler since making his debut against Australia in Colombo in 1992-93. No other Sri Lankan bowler has yet reached 150 Test wickets. The spin bowler, who achieves prodigious turn on almost any surface because of a freak ability to rotate his wrist, went on to claim his fifth wicket of the innings when Mark Boucher was caught at mid-on. It was his 24th five-wicket haul and completed his fifth bag of 10 wickets in a match. Muralitharan’s best figures of nine for 65 against England at the Oval in 1998 were the eighth best figures in Test history and his match figures of 16 for 220 in the same Test were the fifth best. Muralitharan has also claimed the best figures in one-day internationals, seven for 30 against India in Sharjah earlier this year. He has taken 211 one-day international wickets. |
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NZ, Zimbabwe settle for draw WELLINGTON, Dec 30 (AP) — Zimbabwe decided to close up shop early today, forcing a one-off Test between the visitors and New Zealand to end in a draw. Faced with a winning target of 301, Zimbabwe never entertained the task of scoring seven runs an over and ended their second innings on 60 for two when stumps were drawn 13 overs ahead of schedule. Those to depart were Guy Whittall for six and Gavin Rennie for 37. Stuart Carlisle was not out 16 and Alistair Campbell had not scored. New Zealand declared their second innings closed on 153 for four an hour before the tea break, giving the tourists a minimum of 43 overs to score their first Test win over the home side. Earlier in the day Zimbabwe cut short their first innings on 340 for six, having added 52 runs to their overnight score before captain Heath Streak gave New Zealand the chance to set the tourists a final innings’ run chase. Streak was unbeaten on 19 and Trevor Madondo was not out 74, his maiden Test half century. Chris Martin took the only Zimbabwean first-innings wicket to fall today when he had Doug Marillier caught for 28 by wicketkeeper Adam Parore. The dismissal gave Martin his first five-wicket bag in just his fourth Test. He had figures of five for 71 off 32.5 overs. His only blemish was in the field when he dropped a simple chance offered by Gavin Rennie in the second innings off legspinner Brooke Walker. New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming top-scored in New Zealand’s second innings with 55 while Nathan Astle was unbeaten on 51, giving him a fine double for the match after he scored a Test-best 141 in the first innings. New Zealand opener Matt Horne had a dismal return to the Test arena after injury, scoring one in the first innings and a duck today. He was making his return after breaking a finger on the tour of Zimbabwe in September. The teams play the first of three one-dayers on Tuesday in Taupo.
Scoreboard New Zealand (1st innings) : 487-7 decl. Zimbabwe (1st innings): Rennie c Parore b McMillan 93 Whittall b Martin 9 Carlisle c Horne b Martin 0 Campbell lbw Martin 24 Flower c Parore b Martin 79 Madondo not out 74 Marillier c Parore b Martin 28 Streak not out 19 Extras (b-3, lb-9, nb-2) 14 Total (for 6 wkts decl., 138.5 over) 340 Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-23, 3-66, 4-196, 5-237, 6-295. Bowling: Chris Martin 32.5-11-71-5, O’Connor 16-7-29-0, Wiseman 54-13-131-0, Walker 22-1-68-0, McMillan 9-4-22-1, Astle 5-2-7-0. New Zealand (2nd innings): Horne c Flower b Streak 0 Sinclair c Flower b Murphy 18 Fleming run out 55 Astle not out 51 McMillan c Madondo b Strang 10 Parore not out 3 Extras (b-5, lb-5, nb-6) 16 Total (for 4 wkts decl., 40 overs) 153 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-44, 3-103, 4-126. Bowling: Streak 5-1-18-1, B. Strang 11-2-25-1, Murphy 18-0-86-1, Olonga 2-0-12-0, Whittall 4-3-2-0. Zimbabwe (2nd innings): Rennie c Parore b Wiseman 37 Whittall c Parore b O’Connor 6 Carlisle not out 16 Campbell not out 0 Extras (lb-1) 1 Total (for 2 wkts, 30 overs) 60 Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-57. Bowling: Martin 5-2-6-0, O’Connor 8-4-8-1, Wiseman 6-2-15-1, Walker 11-1-30-0. |
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Ganguly extremely stubborn: Gaekwad MUMBAI, Dec 30 (UNI) — Former Indian coach and opening batsman Anshuman Gaekwad has come down heavily on several Indian players, including captain Sourav Ganguly, accusing them of being uncooperative and having a lackadaisical attitude. In an interview to India.com, Gaekwad also criticised the manager of the Indian World Cup squad Brijesh Patel, saying appointing him was “biggest blunder that I made”. About the Indian captain, Gaekwad said while Ganguly was receptive to ideas when he was a “mere” player, “I, however, found his attitude changed after he became captain.” “He became extremely stubborn,” Gaekwad said. Speaking about Patel, Gaekwad said the former used to “interfere in my job, when Bobby Simpson was there as the consultant along with me as the coach. “He also used to interfere by advising players, especially those from Karnataka,” Gaekwad, alleged. Gaekwad further said when the then captain Azharuddin had made it mandatory to speak in English or Hindi when the team was together so that no one felt left out, Patel used to speak in Kannad with the players from the South. Gaekwad also came down heavily on the attitude of new Indian find Yuvraj Singh. “Yuvraj was an unknown player during the Nairobi tournament. However, when he made runs in the match against Australia, he signed contracts with sponsors and felt that he had achieved everything and would not listen to me. “I hope he has realised he cannot take everything for granted in this game,” Gaekwad said. Gaekwad suggested that it was time “we follow the Australian method of contracting the players for one full year.” “At the moment, the Indian players are insecure and when they go out in the middle they think about the incentives offered by their sponsors and forget the team’s goals,” Gaekwad added. |
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Madhavan submits report on Chopra KOCHI, Dec 30 (UNI) — BCCI Anti-Corruption Commissioner K.Madhavan today said he had submitted a report on former cricketer Nikhil Chopra to the board after examining him on charges of match-fixing. “It is for the BCCI to make it public or not,” he told newspersons here, but refused to disclose the contents of the report submitted on December 27. Mr Madhavan, a former CBI Joint-Director, said he would also examine ex-skippers Kapil Dev and Ajit Wadekar on January 6 and 7, respectively, in the wake of charges against them. They have been summoned to appear before him at the office of the Delhi District Cricket Association at the Feroz Shah Kotla grounds on these dates. His findings on them would be submitted to the BCCI on January 31. Mr Madhavan has so far submitted three reports to the BCCI since he was appointed Anti-Corruption commissioner to look into the charges levelled against prominent cricketers of the country. Answering a question, Mr Madhavan said the post of the Anti-Corruption Commissioner in the BCCI would be retained, as charges of match-fixing, if any, against cricketers, would have to be looked into in future as well. Mr Madhavan said there had been sufficient evidence against some cricketers. “These may require departmental action, but they cannot be proved in a court of law.” He replied in the negative when asked whether there had been pressure from any quarter to exonerate any tainted player. Some of the players and individuals who were found guilty in the CBI probe had already been exonerated by him for want of sufficient evidence against them, he pointed out. Mr Madhavan was here in connection with the release of a book on his “Thirty years of service with the CBI”, published by the Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company. |
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4 Indians
shown the door CHENNAI, Dec 30 (UNI) — Four of the five Indians on view in the qualifying rounds of the ATP Gold Flake Open World Tour Tennis Championship crashed out in the first round here today. Barring Vishal Uppal of Delhi, who won against his compatriot Vijay Kannan, Kamala Kannan, Harsh Mankad and Rishi Sridhar fell rather tamely. While Vishal got the better of Vijay Kannan 6-7(5-7), 7-5, 6-4 in a nerve-wrecking battle, Kamala Kannan failed to cope with the power game of Petr Kralert of Czech losing 3-6, 2-6. Rishi Sridhar too looked clueless against Arvind Parmar of Great Britain losing 2-6, 4-6 and Harsh Mankad, who won the invitation tennis tournament at KTC yesterday, went down fighting to Barry Cowan of Great Britain 4-6, 6-7(3-7) in a keenly contested affair. However, there were two upsets in the first round with fifth seeded Gross Oliver of Germany going down to big serving Oleg Ogrodov of Uzbekistan 3-6, 6-3, 3-6 and seventh seeded American Michahel Russell was toppled by Frenchman Lionel Roux 6-7(7-9), 4-6. Vishal now has to beat Lionel Roux in the second round to increase Indian representation in the main draw. Second seeded Jual Carlos Ferroro had earlier pulled out citing “fatigue”. The following are the first round results of the qualifying round matches: Cyril Saulnier (Fra) b Robin Vik (Cze) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Arvind Parmar (UK) b Rishi Sridhar (Ind) 6-2, 6-4; Barry Cowan (UK) b Harsh Mankad (Ind) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3); Vadim Kutsenko (Uzb) b Jonathan Erlich (Isr) 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(7-5); Eyal Ran (Isr) b Sergei Krotiouk (Rus) 6-2, 7-5; Nikolay Davydenko (Rus) b Ota Fukarek (Cze) 7-6(7-5) 2-2(retd); Yuri Schukin (Rus) b Rik De Voest (Rsa) 6-4, 6-0; Oleg Ogorodov (Uzb) b Oliver Gross (Fer) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Petr Kralert (Cze) b Kamala Kannan (Ind) 6-3, 6-2; Laurence Tileman (Ita) b Aisarn Qureshi (Pak) 6-2, 7-6(7-5); Vishal Uppal (Ind) b Vijay Kannan (Ind) 6-7(7-5), 7-5, 6-4; Lionel Roux (Fra) b Michael Russell (USA) 7-6(9-7), 6-4; Kristian Pless (Den) b Johan Landsbert (Swe) 6-3, 6-3; Tomas Behrend (Ger) b Mose Navarra (Ita) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Frantisek Cermak (Cze) b Dmitri Tomashevich (Uzb) 7-6(7-4), 6-3. |
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PERTH, Dec 30 (DPA) — A pair of hopeful qualifying nations battled through seven hours of tennis today before Belgium booked the eighth and final place in the $ 550,000 Hopman Cup mixed teams event with a 2-1 win over Japan. The teenaged pair of Kim Clijsters and Olivier Rochus managed to make it into the field a day before group competition begin on Sunday with top seed Switzerland opening against last year’s finalists Thailand. Rochus and Clijsters, who both won debut titles last season on their respective tours, clinched their country’s place in the eight-nation field with a deciding mixed doubles win over Takeo Suzuki and Ai Sugiyama 6-4, 6-4. Clijsters (17) had begun the three-match tie in the morning with a momentum-shifting singles win over the world’s top doubles player Sugiyama 7-6 (7-3), 5-7, 6-4. Suzuki levelled for Japan as he beat Rochus 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. The tie completes the line-up for the tournament, which concludes next Saturday, putting Belgium into group B headed by Russia with Marat Safin and Elena Likhovtseva. Others in that bracket are the USA (Monica Seles and Jan-Michael Gambill) and Slovaka with Dominik Hrbaty and Karina Habsudova. Switzerland lead group A comprising holders South Africa (Wayne Ferreira and Amanda Coetzer), Australia with late entry Richard Fromberg and Nicole Pratt plus the Thais (Paradorn Srichaphan and Tamarine Tanasugarn). Clijsters, ranked 19th in the world, survived a topsy-turvy contest with Sugiyama. The European grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first set only to lose it as both women had accumulated three service breaks apiece by the ninth game. Clijsters won the opener in a tie-breaker and advanced 3-0 in the second before Sugiyama (25) fought back for a 7-5 decision after saving three match points. In the third, Clijsters managed to prevail and Sugiyama was treated for cramping, but played on. “It’s always hard to start this way,” said the winner. “I had too many unforced errors. But I’m ready for new season, I’m getting happier with my level.” She added: “The first of the year is always difficult but I feel fine.” Suzuki squared the tie against Rochus, who had to beat his brother Christophe on the way to a title in September in Italy on clay. |
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Anand rounds off a brilliant year for chess NEW DELHI, Dec 30 (UNI) — The crushing victory for Viswanathan Anand over Alexei Shirov in the World Chess Championships final in Tehran was the proverbial icing on the cake. Even without this ultimate triumph in the Iranian capital, the year 2000 was turning out to be a great one for Indian chess. The fact that success was not limited to just one individual made it all the more noteworthy. If Anand rounded off a brilliant year with the world championships, after collecting prestigious titles in large numbers, there were age-group world champions in Koneru Humpy — winning a third World Championships in four years — and Deep Sengupta in the under-10 world title in Spain. The number of grandmasters rose from three to five, and Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi became India’s first woman grandmaster besides becoming an international master on the men’s side. Anand began the year with the World Blitz Cup and continued with the title at the Wydra International in Haifa and the advanced chess event in Leon. He continued the winning spree at Giants Classic in Frankfurt and the Dortmund International, where he was the joint winner. He carried on winning at the World Cup in Shenyang, China, and Corsica Masters in France. And rounded off the year with a brilliant and emphatic win in the World Chess Championships in New Delhi and Tehran. Underlining the strength of the new crop, Krishnan Sasikiran and Abhijit Kunte, who became grandmasters during the year, are close to the 2600 elo rating, while Pentyala Harikrishna, at 14 is already past 2500 and a international master. He has one GM norm too and is next in line to become a GM. Apart from that there are youngsters like Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Tejas Bakre, who after Anand and Abhijit Kunte became only the third Indian to win the Asian junior title. The Asian scene was almost totally dominated by the Indians. At the Asian juniors in Tehran, Indians won five of the six titles at stake. V. K. Sindhu (girls under-10), Tania Sachdev (girls under-14), M. Abhinav (boys under-10), Abhijit Gupta (boys under-12) and the already established P. Harikrishna (boys under-14) won the titles and all of them will be heard of a lot more in coming years. Individual feats apart, the growth also manifested itself in the Indian men’s performance at the Istanbul Olympiad, where they finished an all-time high eighth, made all the more creditable because Anand skipped the event. It was an improvement upon the 10th place achieved in 1990 in Novi Sad. A mere half point in the last round could have seen India get into the top six and earn a berth for the World Team Championships event. The women finished 13th, which did not better their ninth place finish in 1982, but was still certainly noteworthy. There can be no denying that the chess revolution in India over the last few years has been the result of Anand’s continued success at the world level. He has been in the top three for more than six years and for most of that period has been in the No 2 slot behind Garry Kasparov. His success has led to a mushrooming of new chess academies and renewed interest in the established ones like Tal Academy in Chennai, Alekhine Centre in Calcutta and Botwinnik Centre in New Delhi. The All-India Chess Federation has done well to increase the number of domestic national tournaments for various age groups to over 20 and the number of private tournaments organised by clubs and state associations has also multiplied. In fact, chess players are well cared of at one level. Not only are more employers taking on players, but also the number of prize money events means the players can make a decent earning from the tournaments. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing how many youngsters are playing the game, it is still a safe bet to say that numbers are now in thousands, maybe lakhs. As Pravin Thipsay, a grandmaster and many times national champion, pointed out: “At a recent camp in Mumbai, hundreds of parents brought in their children and all of them had one idol, Anand. His success has been the single biggest reason for the growth of chess in India.’’ The response is fantastic, but there is a crying need to support at the grass roots level. That’s one area where sponsors must be encouraged to step in. However, the number of big events sot up suddenly in 2000. For years Goodricke Open in Calcutta had been the lone big grandmasters level event, but this year three big events cropped up in south India. The Chalapathi GM tournament in Guntur, the Wipro GM in Hyderabad and the Pentamedia GM event in Chennai showed increased interest on the part of sponsors. What’s more, sponsors like Wipro, Pentamedia and NIIT have shown interest in sponsoring players, too. NIIT has taken on Anand as their brand Ambassador, a privilege so far only cricketers and film stars had been accorded by other sponsors. The result of sponsorship has also meant that youngsters like Sasikiran, Harikrishna and Kunte are playing abroad more than ever. International and India captain, DV Prasad, who once had a GM norm but did not quite make it to the title, says: “The chances for youngsters these days have gone many times. And the results have been fantastic.’’ |
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Western India golf title for Harinder Chandigarh, Dec 30 — Local caddie-turned-golfer Harinder Gupta has done it again. This time he has claimed the title at the Western India Junior Golf Championship held in Mumbai from December 26 to 29. Harinder had scores of 76, 77, 78 and 74 over four rounds to emerge winner. For somebody who started playing golf only as late as last year, 17-year-old Harinder has shown maturity far beyond his years. His first success was when he secured the first position in the Samarvis Sahi Tournament in Chandigarh. He then secured the third position in the All-India Junior Tournament held at DLF, Delhi from November 14 to 17 and the third position in the Northern India Tournament at the Delhi Golf Club from November 21 to 24. Harinder has also secured the first position in the West India Junior tournament at KGA Golf Club, Bangalore, and the sixth position in East India Junior Championships at Royal Club, Calcutta. The last success came just before the Mumbai tournament. According to Dr Ravinder Chadha, Chairman of the media and protocol committee of the Chandigarh Golf Club, the club president, Mr G.S. Sandhu, has promised all help to Harinder Gupta so that he can further improve his game. |
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BSF, Army XI in title clash NABHA, Dec 30 — A resolute BSF, Jalandhar, stroked out star-studded Bharat Petroleum 4-2 in an enthralling contest to enter the final of the 25th All-India Liberals Hockey Tournament at the Ripudaman college grounds here today. Egged on by a vociforous but partisan crowd, Bharat Petroleum, with two present and two former Olympians in their ranks, were the favourites to reach the final but were thwarted in their designs by the steady securitymen. In fact, the lively encounter turned out to be a battle of wits played between the individual brilliance of Bharat Petroleum players and the cohesive play of the securitymen. In the summit clash, BSF will square off with Army XI who derailed an insipid Northern Railway 3-0. BSF stunned the holiday crowd in the first minute of the match by firing the first salvo when defender Naiman Kullu sounded the board with a stinging drive off a penality corner. Despite being a goal down, the moves were flowing from both the flanks where two other olympians S.S. Gill and Sabu Varkey excelled. Gagan Ajit Singh stood out for his darting runs in the danger area repeatedly showing the rival defenders a clean pair of heels. BSF knew that Gagan should be kept in check and heavily marked him with the result that he was starved off some good passes. The equaliser came just before the breather when left out Ravi Naiker
centred the ball for Gagan Ajit who connected it beautifully to unleash a withering shot which brooked no resistance from the goal tender. With confidence restored the oilmen attacked with vigour and almost went ahead when Sabu Varkey fed S.S. Gill with an incisive pass but much to the chagrin of his
teammates, Gill in his enthusiasm, seeing the goaltender out of position drove the ball wide. Towards the fag end of the second session, BSF defenders Chritopher Ekka and Iqbaljit Singh stood like a rock and thwarted many attacks by the oilmen. The tie-breaker rule had to be enforced in which the securitymen netted four times while the Bharat Petroleum players scored only twice in the process giving not only ensuring a 4-2 win for BSF but with it a deserving place in
tomorrow's final too. Army XI outplayed Northern Railway 3-0 to earn a place in the final. The margin of the Armymen’s win gives a misleading picture for the railmen could have made it tougher for the Army team to make the final grade had they not squandered numerous
opportunities that came their way in both sessions of play. After Ghanshyam scored with his stinging drive sounding the board, the fast moving E. Ekka and the steady Anand Vellu added two more goals to complete Northen Railway’s misery. |
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Karate meet results SOLAN, Dec 30 — The following are the results of the fifth international karate championship, which got underway at the KTS Public School campus, here today. Women’s category ( individual): Ritu Thapa (India) 1, Til Kumari Thapa (Nepal) 2, Varsha (India) 3. Men’s category (coloured belt individual): Sumit Senapati (India) 1, Amit Kumar (India) 2, Akhilesh Karwa and Sunjay Thakur (India) 3. Men (black belt individual): Anand Raj (South Africa) 1, Ashish Kumar Pandey and Bishan Singh (India) 2, Hek Bahadur and M. Hassan (India) 3. Below-5 years boys (Individual): Saajan K. Charlesh (India). Open Category (team): |
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5th consecutive
title for MDU ROHTAK, Dec 30 — Hosts MD University, Rohtak, proved the law of averages wrong when they clinched the fifth consecutive title in the All-India Inter-University Boxing Championship which concluded at the Maharishi Dayanand University sports complex here today. The hosts reigned supreme after garnering 50 points, closely followed by Kurukshetra University finished second securing 49 points. Punjabi University, Patiala, were third with 28 points. In fact, the hosts owed it all to the five boxers who won their semifinal bouts yesterday. Each one of them tasted victory in the finals too. Akhil (light fly weight), Ravinder (light weight), Praveen (light welter weight), Subodh (welter weight) and Suresh (middle weight) ruled the ring. On the other hand boxers from Kurukshetra University, who appeared to have an upper hand at the end of semifinals yesterday, conceded ground today when two of their finalists failed in the final bout. In bantam weight category Rajesh lost to Tara Singh of Punjabi University, Patiala, when the referee stopped the contest in the third round and in feather weight category too Pankaj, Kurukshetra box lost when the referee stopped the contest. However, Kurukshetra University boxers won in the fly weight, light middle weight, light heavy weight and super heavy weight categories. Ajitpal of Panjab University, Chandigarh, took the heavy weight title beating Neeraj Sharma of Rajasthan University, Jaipur 14-3. Feather weight champion P, Sree Kant of Osmania University was adjudged the best technical boxer of the championship and Parminder of HAU, Hisar was declared the best loser. The results (finals): Light fly weight: Akhil (MDU) b B. Sharma (Kumaon varsity). Fly weight: Naveen Dev (KU) b Ashish (Bundelkhand). Bantam weight: Sree Kant (Osmania) b Pankaj (KU). Light weight: Ravinder (MDU) b Harinder (Pbi varsity). Light welter weight: Parveen (MDU) b Vikram (HAU). Welter weight: Subodh (MDU) b Bikram (Pbi varsity). Light middle weight: Harpreet (KU) b Joginder (Delhi). Middle weight: Suresh (MDU) b Rohtas Singh (Nagpur). Light heavy weight: Hazari Lal (KU) b Rajinder (Rajasthan varsity). Heavy weight: Ajitpal Singh (PU) b Neeraj Sharma (Jaipur). Super heavy weight: Shakti Singh (KU) b Shwetank Pathak (Rajasthan varsity). |
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NAVI MUMBAI, Dec 30 (PTI) — Maharashtra boys managed to beat Madhya Pradesh 51-45 in a thrilling pre-quarter-final of 17th Youth National Basketball Championship here today. Down throughout the first half and most of the second, the host caught up with at 41 and then took a lead through lanky Siddharth Aphale, with captain Sachin Rao and Suleman not at their best, the hosts were struggling to score and Rohan Kumar fumbling in the offence, could not stop MP by taking the lead at half time. Manish Panwar and Dhyanesh Kumar did their best for MP but were not consistent and missed many opportunities in the latter part of the match. Tall Siddharth Aphale and Raymond Irani were good in defence and it was difficult for MP to beat them in the restricted area. Hence they tried for long range shots, but were not successful. The hosts fumbled in last two minutes missing easy shots and messing up with hasty attempts but were lucky that their opponents too messed with hasty attempts. Maharashtra owed their victory to Siddharth Aphale and Raymond Irani. In the other pre-quarter-final, Orissa beat favourites Services 56-45 to enter the last eight. Services were too dependent on Sunil Kumar and Rekhinder Singh, who did score but were not effective in defence. Orissa combined well and all the players contributed to their victory. Much was expected from Services after watching them beat Karnataka in their opening match, but their performance, surprisingly, came down match after match. Score: Orissa 56 (Ganesh 12, Karthik Bahera 12) b Services 45 (Rekhinder Singh 25, Sunil Kumar 13) HT 28-27. Girls Gr B: Kerala 54 (Cimi Jose 11, P.K.Ambi 14) b Bihar 07 HT 33-4. Girls Gr A: Manipur 33 (Meinam Devi 17, Makiram Devi 15) b Delhi 27 (A.Jain 10) HT 15-07. Boys Gr C: Punjab 73 (Amit Parashar 37, Fatehjit Singh 12, Lakhvinder Singh 11) b Karnataka 41 (Bala Srinivas 9, Sachindra B M 9) HT 29-27. Boys Gr D: MP 70 (Manish Panwar 17, Dhyanesh Kumar 17, Kamal Singh 18) b Kerala 51 (Monish Wilson 18) HT 37-32. Boys Gr C: Services 60 (Rekhinder Singh 22, Sunil Kumar 18) b Haryana 58 (Virender Singh 10, Madan Khokar 10, S Sunil 10) HT 24-24. Archery meet
results Patiala, Dec 30 — Gurcharan Besra of Bihar won the gruelling 70 metres FITA round event in the boys section of the Junior National Archery Championships held at the Polo grounds here today. He was followed by Gurpal Singh and Jeewanjot Singh, both of Punjab, in that order. Other Results: 60 metres (Girls): Reena Kumari (Bihar)-1, Sakro Besra (Bihar)-2, Sujata Dass (W.Bengal)-3. 90 metres (Boys): Manoj Kumar (U.P), Gurpal Singh (Punjab), Vikas (U.P.). (Girls): Reena Kumari (Bihar)-1, Sujata Dass (W.Bengal)-2, Kezien Gunno (Bihar)-3. 30 metres (Boys): Vishal (Punjab)-1, Gurcharan (Bihar)-2, Vikas (U.P)-3. (Girls): Beena Kumari (Bihar)-1, Kezien Gunno (Bihar)-2, Bansara Dhar (Bihar)-3. |
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Punjab win overall championship THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Dec 30 (PTI) — Punjab claimed the overall championship with 117 points in the National Track Cycling Championship which concluded here today. Manipur came second with 99 points and hosts Kerala third with 66 points. Punjab, who won the junior championship with 51 points, also claimed the junior boys title with 40 points, sub-junior boys U-16 title (26 pts), girls U-14 title (10 pts) and runner-up in men’s section (21 pts). Fourteen-year-old Gurpreet Kaur, ninth standard student of Tagore Public School, Kurukshetra, claimed three golds. On the final day, she clinched gold in 500 m time trial clocking 45.08 seconds. Earlier she had won golds in girls (under-14) 1000 m individual pursuit and 500 m time trial. In the last Delhi nationals she had won four golds. Former champions, Punjab Police claimed gold in men’s 1000 m sprint and 4000m team pursuit. They also claimed the men team championship with 24 points. Hosts Kerala won three golds today. In women 1000m M.V. Rajani won the gold timing 14.18 seconds. In 10 km point race Anita Andrews reigned supreme with 35 points and in girls (U-16) 2000 m individual pursuit R.S. Sugenthi bagged the gold clocking 3:23.31. Kerala bagged title in girls (U-16) with 15 points, and runner-up in women (24 points), girls U-18 (7 points) and in girls U-14 (6 points). Last year’s champion, Railways finished third in the men’s section with 13 points behind Punjab, who were runners-up with 21 points. Railway’s C.H. Premjith won the gold in men’s 20 km point race and they came second in the 4000m team pursuit. In junior boys section, Sweden of Andaman and Nicobar claimed four gold in the championship. He won gold in boys (U-16) 500 m time trial and boys (U-14) 1000 m mass start on concluding day. Andaman claimed boys (U-14) title with 10 points. Manipur
retained women’s title and girls U-18 title. M. Dinita Devi claimed
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SAIL girls thrash
Pepsu XI JALANDHAR, Dec 30 — It was a lucky day for Steel Authority of India in both the men’ as well as women’s section in the 17th Indian Oil Surjit Memorial Hockey Tournament here today. In the women’s section SAIL, began their compaign, defeating yesterday’s stars Pepsu XI 4-0, while in the men’s section they prevailed over Sikh Regimental Centre 4-3 in sudden death. The combination of experienced and young-stars, from SAIL team cut short the dreams of Pepsu team. They outplayed Pepsu in a one-sided match. SAIL forward Araminder Kaur scored the first goal after a pass from team-mate Manjinder in the striking circle. Second goal was scored by Harvinder Kaur in the 21th minute. At half time score was 2-0 in favour of SAIL. Centre forward Mohan Davinder increased the lead in the 38th minute to make it 3-0. Harvinder Kaur completed the score tally in 45th minute and made it 4-0. |
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Chess meet for blind from Jan 4 AMBALA, Dec 30 — The third North Zone Chess Championship for the Blind will be held here from January 4 to 6. The president Haryana Sports and Chess Association for the Blind, Mr K.K. Malik, said all blind players of chess, men and women, are invited to participate in the championship to be held at the Aggarwal Dharamshala, near Football Chowk, Ambala cantonment. He said 20 outstanding men players and five women players would be selected who will take part in the National (B) Chess Meet at Mumbai in June affiliated to the All-India Chess Federation for the Blind, according to a press note. The rules of the tournament include the game of chess will be played as International FIDE rules (seven rounds) Swiss League system. Mr Malik can be contacted at SD Institute for the Blind, Jagadhari Road, Ambala cantonment. |
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More shooting
ranges ‘needed’ CHANDIGARH, Dec 30 — “At present our country needs adequate number of shooting ranges at every state and district headquarters”, uttered Baljit Singh Sethi, Secretary-General of the National Rifle Association of India. In an informal chat with The Tribune, last evening during the prize distribution function of the Northern India Shooting Championship, Sethi recalled that during the Sydney Olympics, one US shooting official based at Atlanta revealed that the city alone have 20 international level ranges. Sethi said when that he asked him about India, he had to cut sorry figure since only Delhi has got international-level shooting range at Tughlakabad and that too required modernisation. Mr Sethi, who was only last week re-elected for another term, disclosed that under the open general licence scheme of the government, the import of weapons would be allowed. This will benefit the promising shooters. He said that efforts are on to provide subsidy on purchase of equipment so that budding shooters did not suffer due to lack of equipment. Mr Sethi said that gradually the performance of Indian shooters was being recognised at international level and today so many promising shooters in rifle and trap, skeet section were there. He said that in Asian Games, Commonwealth Games and this Olympics the show by Indian shooters was satisfactory. Regarding the sponsorship for the shooters he said that Sports Authority of India had initiated a number of schemes which could be utilised at different level. On the hosting of the shooting event at the National Games, Sethi hinted that if the games are held in March as proposed, then range at Phillaur would be adequate since it has got the required facilities for pistol and rifle events while for trap and skeet, the arrangements could be made. He said that making of a new range at SAS nagar as discussed, but possibility looked remote in such a short period. |
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