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Kuerten knocked out; Hingis advances Indians lose in first
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Anand held, waits
for breakthrough Harikrishna
wins with black Positive day for Indians Golden goal
helps Bosnia into last
4 Srinath storms
into last four BCCI exonerates
Nikhil Chopra Face-saving victory for Sri
Lanka Mohanty floors
North Zone Sunaina wins silver
for Punjab Bombay Customs
enter semis United Brothers
play Kang Club
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Kuerten knocked out; Hingis advances MELBOURNE, Jan 18 (Reuters) — Top seed Martina Hingis stayed on a collision course with the Williams sisters today when she sped past Belgian Els Callens 6-1, 6-0 to reach the third round of the Australian Open. Men’s fifth seed and Olympic champion Yevgeny Kafelnikov hit a few speed bumps, though, as he struggled to a 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Germany’s Nicolas Kiefer in an enthralling 187-minute second round match on centre court at Melbourne Park. Fourth seed Magnus Norman of Sweden steered an easier course into the third round with a 7-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Frenchman Fabrice Santoro. Australian teenager Lleyton Hewitt then played chicken with German Tommy Haas, coming from behind to win 7-5, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 win. It was another crowd-pleasing, aggressive showing from the seventh-seeded Hewitt after Tuesday’s five-set win over Swede Jonas Bjorkman. The 19-year-old Australian powered past Haas despite falling 0-5 behind in the opening set. “I just about felt like I was going to lose it,” Hewitt said of his 183-minute tussle with Haas. “To my credit I hung in there, kept fighting, got the breaks when I needed to and played the big points well,” said Hewitt, who won a lead-up tournament in Sydney last week. Hingis, a finalist here the last four years and champion three times, may have to beat both Venus and Serena Williams this year just to reach the final. The draw, which has put her in the same half as the two Williams sisters, will make it tough for her to make up for lean Grand Slam pickings of late. The 20-year-old has not captured a Grand Slam title since she won in Melbourne in 1999. “I’m hoping for another one, that’s for sure,” Hingis said of her Grand Slam drought. “If it will be here, that’s great.” Trend-setter Venus stayed in the race to meet Hingis when she swept past US compatriot Meghann Shaughnessy 6-3, 7-6. The US Open and Wimbledon champion is drawn to meet Hingis in the semifinals. Serena is drawn to meet Hingis in the quarterfinals. Venus rolled through the first set of her match and raced to a 4-1 lead in the second before briefly losing her way against Shaughnessy. The third seed lost four straight service games, allowing 31st-ranked Shaughnessy to push the second set into a tie-break, which Venus claimed 7-3 to set up a third round meeting with Czech Denisa Chladkova. Venus was again wearing the controversial outfit which has dominated the headlines since she unveiled it on Tuesday. The 20-year-old, a fashion design student at a Florida university, appeared to have made some slight alterations to her new outfit to make it slightly less revealing, but still tugged at it constantly to keep it in place. She later fended off questions about the top seeming awkward to play tennis in. Kafelnikov, runner-up in Melbourne last year and champion the year before, had to work hard to live up to his recent Australian Open record. The Russian admitted to “losing it” in the fourth set against a consistent Kiefer, the German plugging away from the baseline and forcing Kafelnikov into error. Kafelnikov turned the match around in the fourth set, which had got off to a bad start when he smashed a ball into the stands following a double fault. The fault handed Kiefer a service break and the Russian was also warned for ball abuse. “I just got frustrated. I was a break down in the fourth and I just lost it a bit,” Kafelnikov said. “I was able to calm down and it helped,” he said. Kafelnikov’s compatriot and ninth seed Elena Dementieva almost became another women’s casualty but fought back from match point down to beat German qualifier Andrea Glass 2-6, 7-6, 6-3. Amy Frazier was not so lucky, the off-form 16th seed beaten easily 4-6, 1-6 by Italy’s Rita Grande. The Italian beat Frazier on the way to winning her first career title in Hobart last week. Seeded Frenchwomen Mary Pierce and Amelie Mauresmo had no such trouble, advancing to the third round in double quick time. Seventh seed Pierce beat unseeded Argentine Mariana Diaz-Oliva 6-2, 6-2 in under an hour while 13th seed Mauresmo outclassed Australia’s Nicole Pratt 6-0, 7-5. On the men’s side, 11th seed Franco Squillari of Argentina headed for the exit after he was beaten 6-3, 2-6, 4-6, 5-7 by Canadian journeyman Daniel Nestor. Tenth seed Wayne Ferreira of South Africa beat Frenchman Julien Boutter 3-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. Sixth seed Serena Williams beat Russia’s Nadejda Petrova 6-3, 6-2 in the second round. Williams completed a comfortable victory in 65 minutes to advance to a meeting with Thailand’s Tamarine Tanasugarn. AFP adds: Tamarine Tanasugarn stormed into the third round with a clinical destruction of overwhelmed Austrian Patricia Wartusch. The Thai star needed just 43 minutes to wrap up a 6-1, 6-1 victory that lines her up for an expected third round clash with Serena Williams. “I didn’t miss that much and I think she might have been rushing some of her shots,” she said. Tamarine has an unfortunate record of being drawn against either Serena or her sister Venus in major tournaments. She lost to Serena in the fourth round at Wimbledon and was beaten by Venus at the Sydney Olympics. Martina Hingis had a veiled dig at former doubles partner Anna Kournikova saying it was such a pleasure playing with a professional like Monica Seles. The freshness and enthusiasm helped the pair upset top seeds Lisa Raymond and Rennae Stubbs in the first round. The unseeded duo romped to a 7-6 (7/2), 6-3 victory and a glamorous second round tie against Jelena Dokic and Jennifer Capriati. Dokic and Capriati, also unseeded, took care of Indonesia’s Yayuk Basuki and Dutchwoman Caroline Vis 6-2, 6-3.
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Indians lose in first round MELBOURNE, Jan 18 (PTI) —The crack Indian combination of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi were today shown the exit door by Australian tandem of Joshua Eagle and Andrew Florent as the Indian challenge came to an end at the Australian Open Tennis Championship here. After a disastrous 2000, Paes and Bhupathi were aiming to start afresh the current season, but the unknown Aussies gave them a rude shock with a 7-6 (7/5) 6-4 win in the first round of men’s doubles event. The Indians, who reached the semifinals of the season-opening Gold Flake Open, were made to sweat for every point by the Australian pair as the first set stretched into the tie-breaker. The number 10 seeds from Australia packed too many shots in their armour to take the tie-breaker 7-5 and then scored a workman-like 6-4 win in the second to move into the second round. Nirupama Vaidyanathan, who partnered Renata Kolbovic of Canada, lost to the Williams sisters — Venus and Serena — 6-1 6-3 yesterday in the women’s doubles section. AFP adds: In 1999 the pair of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi reached the final of all four grand slams — a feat not accomlished since 1952 — and won the French Open and Wimbledon. But at the height of their success they split and since getting back together before last year’s US Open they have found it tough going. Their latest setback came today. “It just didn’t work out today. It was a tough match, a tough draw. The fact that we haven’t played too many tough matches recently didn’t help. We’re not as sharp as we should be,” Paes said. But the dejected pair vowed they would do whatever it takes to get back on top of the doubles pile. If it means going back to satellite tournaments with miserable prize money, they’ll do it. “We have to take a step back and take a long hard look at our game,” Paes said. “We’re playing spurts of good tennis and plenty of not so good tennis. We know we’re one of the best doubles teams out there and we don’t want to let people down". “With the Woodies retiring, we were expected to be the next to take over. That’s a responsibility and also a certain challenge for us. “We have to take pride in our work ethic, but we’re on a bit of a low. We don’t want to be one year wonders.” The pair weighed into the debate on the future of doubles tennis — being discussed by officials in Melbourne. It has been suggested that doubles could be cut to two sets with a tie-breaker and Bhupathi said he was in favour of whatever makes the discipline more attractive. “The key problem is that no one person promotes doubles,” he said. “It’s strange. Other than Australia, India and South Africa doubles never gets on TV. That needs to be looked at.” While women’s doubles is boosted by many of the top names taking part, like Martina Hingis and the Williams sisters, the men’s format struggles to find star players. Paes said it was also going to be difficult while the singles competition was five sets. “It would be great to see more top players playing doubles but from the players point of view it’s tough to play singles and doubles year through,” he said. “I don’t think many players are up to five sets of singles then coming out to play doubles. I know if I knew I had a chance to win singles tournaments I wouldn’t play doubles.” |
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India start favourite; Uzbekistan beat
Iran LUDHIANA, Jan 18 — India start as favourites when they take on Sri Lanka in the third Asian School Hockey Championship at Punjab Agricultural University here tomorrow. In all three matches are billed for the day. While India will clash with Sri Lanka in the lung opener, Uzbekistan will lock horns with Malaysia in the second tie.The third match will be played between Iran and Malaysia. As many as seven teams are participating in the championship being organised under the aegis of the School Games Federation of India. They are India,Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Uzbekistan, Malaysia, Iran and Singapore. According to Mr PS Chabra, secretary-general of the SGFI, the teams have been placed in two pools. While India,Sri Lanka and Bangladesh comprise pool A, Uzbekistan, Malaysia,Iran and Singapore are in pool B.The championship is being played on league-cum-knockout basis. The inaugural edition, held in Chandigarh in 1994, was incidentally won by India. The second edition held at Macau in 1998 saw Korea emerging as a new powerhouse. However, India did not take part in the Macau meet. India’s 7-0 victory over Bangladesh in the final of the inaugural edition in Chandigarh on December 21,1996, still serves as a motivating factor for the current team. The historic win opened new vistas for the promising hockey players, most of whom were invited to join various railway outfits. Alen Barla, Kabul Singh, local lad Chander Pal and Ingo Singh who played a significant role in India’s title win, are now in the fold of Western Railway.Another promising lad, Amrit Lakra, has been assisting South Central Railway ever since. In the inaugural edition,India had put up an impressive performance from day one. After routing Japan 7-0, the hosts went on to trounce Malaysia 2-0 and Bangladesh 7-1 and 7-0 to lift the title. However, it will be an entirely new team doing duty at Ludhiana from tomorrow. The team has been picked after rigorous trials and includes two players from Tamil Nadu (MG Sutosh and Rajnikant) three from Haryana (Jitender Sasoha, Satya Prakash, and Bharat); five from Delhi (Bipul Halwan, Yoginder Gulia,Sudhir Kumar, Raju and Dinesh Rana); four from Punjab (Ravinder Kumar, Harnek Singh, Satwinder Singh and Jatinderpal Singh);one from Gujarat (Sunil Singh); two from Himachal Pradesh (Harpinder Singh and Ashok Kumar); and one from Uttar Pradesh (Santosh). According to Mr CL Negi, chairman of the selection committee, the boys were selected after a 15-day camp at Chandigarh. They had already proved their mettle in the National School Games earlier. The grounds of Punjab Agricultural University have produced some of the most scintillating results in the field of sports. The university hosted the historic Ranji Trophy final between Punjab and Maharashtra way back in 1993. March 30,1993 remains etched in the record books as Punjab lifted the Ranji Trophy for the first time,beating Maharashtra by 120 runs. Later the Irani Trophy tie was also played at the same venue. PAU will also be the venue for the forthcoming National Games. Although many inter-unversity hockey and football meets have been played on the university grounds previously, no major international hockey meet has yet been held here. With the new astro-turf having been laid, the third Asian School Hockey Championship may be a harbinger of international meets to be played in the city in future. Meanwhile, all the teams, barring Bangladesh, have arrived in the city and have been lodged in various hotels. Bangladesh are also expected to reach the city late tonight. The Indian team,who will launch their campaign tomorrow, had some practice sessions at the venue today after the Iran-Uzbekistan tie. India will meet Sri Lanka at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Meanwhile, Uzbekistan rallied to down Iran 2-1 in the opening match. After Saed Nezami put Iran ahead by capitalising on a through pass in the sixth minute, Uzbekistan hit back to restore parity a few seconds before half-time through a penalty stroke converted by Qalandavov Golib. The winning goal came in the 46th minute following the award of a penalty corner. Ahmadnlin Rinat sounded the boards with a direct hit to give his team full points. Following a change in schedule, Uzbekistan and Iran were asked to play the opening match today itself although the tie was slated for January 20. Uzbekistan,who had reached the city today, shrugged off the jetlag to pip their opponents, for whom football and not hockey is a national passion. Uzbekistan initially seemed shaky with Ahmadnlin Rinat committing some defensive errors. Iran, in fact found the target by capitalising on these errors and the through pass which Saed Nezami received could have been easily intercepted. With the ball moving goalwards, Nezami provided further momentum to it and was happy to see it roll past Askarov Marsel under the Uzbekistan bar. Uzbekistan had to wait till a few seconds before half time for the equaliser when Ahmadnlin Rinat’s hit off a short corner was followed by an infringement by a rival defender inside the ‘D’ and the umpire immediately pointed to the dreaded spot. Qalandavov dutifully converted the penalty stroke to restore parity. After the lemon-break, Ahmadnlin Rinat shot home the match winner with a powerful hit following a penalty corner in the 46th minute. On the whole, the match hinged on mediocrity with neither side initiating worthwhile moves. Earlier, the Punjab Education Minister, Mr Tota Singh, inaugurated the championship. A colourful cultural programme by students of Sacred Heart Convent School and other local schools was the highlight of the ceremony which was appreciated by the foreign guests. A pipe band from Baddowal was also in attendance. |
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Anand held, waits
for breakthrough WIJK ANN
ZEE, Jan 18 (UNI) — the smile is very much in place, but the flow of points has been somewhat of a trickle for fide world champion, Viswanathan Anand. The Indian, unable to make any headway in the opening with white pieces, settled for another quick draw in 19 moves against the temperamental Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine in the fifth round of the Corus 2001 Grandmaster Chess Tournament. That fourth draw in five games meant Anand now has three points from five rounds and as the tournament reaches its second break —tomorrow is the second rest day-more discussion on strategy is likely over in the Anand camp. As Anand and Ivanchuk left the hall on this freezing day, there was light snowing outside but the day’s featured clash between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, which was still in progress, promised some heat. This is their first clash since Kramnik beat Kasparov in the famous Braingames World Championships match last September.
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Harikrishna
wins with black WIJK ANN ZEE, Jan 18 (PTI) — Grandmaster norm holder
I.M.P. Harikrishna outclassed Nino Vink of Netherlands in the second round of the group B GM tournament to move on 1.5 points. Grandmaster Boris Gulko of the usa and Friso Nijboer of the Netherlands lead the 12-player field with a perfect score. Playing black, Harikrishna opened with the Sicilian Sveshnikov and faced a harmless variation. Slow seizure of center enabled Harikrishna to gather advantage and he gradually converted his advantage into a full point. Results of second round: B. Gulko (2) b R. Teimour (1), B. Manuel (1.5) b T. Luther (0.5), N. Vink (0) lost to P. Harikrishna (1.5), M. Gurevich (1) drew D. Vreugt (0.5), E. Hoeksema (0) lost to F. Nijboer (2).
LINARES, (Spain) Jan 18 (UNI) — With just one more round to go in the Linares International Open Chess Tournament here, five Grandmasters, Bacrot (France), Zhang Zhong (China), Sulskis (Lithuania) and Kacheisvilli (Russia), Sturua (Georgia) are in joint lead with 7.5 points. While teenaged Grandmaster Etienne Bacrot signed peace in less than half an hour with gm sturua, the only decisive result among the top five boards came from Kacheisvilli who defeated fellow Russian Grandmaster Kobalija with the black pieces. Bacrot who has the advantage of the white pieces in the final round is the crowd’s favourite to win the title. Barring a single loss, it was a calm and positive day for the Indians. It was a treat to watch young im sandipan Chanda going all out for a victory over Cuban Grandmaster Walter Arencibia. Facing the ‘deferred Stenitz defence’ in response to his Ruy-Lopez opening, Sandipan stirred up complications with a pawn sacrifice. The Grandmaster had to come up with exact defensive plans during each and every stage of the interesting fight before the game ended in a draw after 48 moves. Im Ramesh too drew his game but not before surviving a scare at the hands of Danish International Master Pilgaard on the black side of the Sicilian classical defence. Ramesh sacrificed a pawn in the opening albiet in the wrong way and ended up in a difficult situation. He, however, managed to complicate the game through another pawn sacrifice and finally drew the game through perpetual checks. Multiple im norm holders Dinesh Kumar Sharma and c s gokhale had a quite day too drawing their games against im paragua of the Philippines and Vasilev Milen of Bulgaria respectively. While Gokhale’s draw came after 65 moves in a rook and pawn endgame, Sharma blundered a pawn in a better position to settle for half a point in 52 moves in the Danish opening. A very costly mishap occured in im-elect Rahul Shetty’s game when he lost two pawns in a row to im estremera Panos of Spain. In an equal position arising out of the Semi Slav defence, Shetty transposed the order of his moves to find himself losing material without any sort of compensation. Finding no point in prolonging the already lost struggle, he resigned. iwm aarthie Ramaswamy and Sriram Jha scored quick victories over Galocchkin of Spain and Potapenko of Russia, respectively. While Aarthie delivered checkmate in 25 moves from the white side of the Pelikan defence, Jha took 30 moves to mate the enemy monarch from the black side of the double edged ‘note-boom’ variation of the slav defence. Important results: gm z sturua (7.5) drew with gm e bacrot (7.5) gm s sulskis (7.5) drew with gm z zhang (7.5) gm m kobalija (7) lost to gm g kacheishvilli (7.5) im sandipan Chanda (5.5) drew with gm walter Krencibia (5.5) im r b ramesh (5.5) drew with im k pilgaard (5.5) m paragua (5) drew with d k sharma (5) Perez Candelario (4) lost to k visweswaran (5) a potapenko (4) lost to Sriram Jha (4.5) r aarthie (4.5) beat s galochkin (3.5) m vasilev (4.5) drew with c s gokhale (4.5) Estremera Panos (5) beat Rahul Shetty (4).
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Golden goal
helps Bosnia into last
4 KOCHI, Jan 18 (UNI) — Fancied Bosnia powered their way into the semifinal of the Sahara Cup football tournament, edging past higher-rated Latin American forces Uruguay, through the golden goal of Mirsad Beslija, in the first quarterfinal here tonight. In the gruelling first knock-out match, played at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here, both teams were tied 2-2 in the given time forcing them to go for the golden goal option. In the seventh minute of extra time, substitute Mirsad dribbled past the fallen Uruguayan goalkeeper to hit home and sent his young brigade into raptures. Daniel Pereira and Segales Juan scored for the Latin American side while Sehrudin Kavzovic and captain Dzelaudin Muharemovic moved the net in the
allotted time for Bosnia.
KOLKATA, Jan 18 (UNI) — India’s Prahlad Srinath caused the major upset of the meet when he dismissed second seed Uzbek Tomashevich Dimitri 6-4, 6-0 to storm into the semifinals of the $ 100,000 ITF futures at South Club here today. The Mysore tennis sensation would now meet Czeck Levinsky Jaroslov in the semifinal tomorrow. The Czeck downed Britain’s Luke Milligan in a serve and volley quarterfinal 6-3, 6-0 in court four. The 27-year-old Indian, whom many had scratched off as a threat, was now fighting a lone battle for the country. Prahlad looked to be a winner right from the first game matching the second seed in every move. But what really stole the thunder from Dimitri was the superb backhand returns and drop volleys that left the Uzbek napping. Prahlad broke in the ninth game and from then on went on to win seven games at a stretch to seal the match. The tie in court No. 1 was over in 100 minutes. Yesterday, unseeded Prahlad had ousted Russia’s Donavan September in straight sets 6-3, 6-2. Talking to UNI after the match Prahlad said: "I am playing better and not worried about the outcome of the match tomorrow. I will just go out there and play my game. Levinsky is a powerful server and a good baseline player. I am looking forward to a good match tomorrow’’. In another quarterfinal match Austria’s Spottl Martin also moved into the last four stage beating Russia’s Rik De Voest 6-3, 6-4. Spottl would now meet the winners of the fourth quarterfinal match between Hemmes Fred of the Netherland and Slovak Hasko Juraj. Local star Syed Fazaluddin, who went out yesterday 6-7(5-7), 3-6 against Britain’s Luke
Milligam, will now pair with Tomashevich Dmitri in the doubles to play against Pramono Hendri and Suwandi of Indonesia. |
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BCCI exonerates
Nikhil Chopra CHENNAI, Jan 18 (UNI) — The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today exonerated Delhi off-spinner Nikhil Chopra from the match-fixing scandal based on the inquiry conducted by its anti-corruption commissioner K. Madhavan in the wake of the CBI’s charge that Chopra had nexus with bookmakers. Announcing this at a press conference here tonight,
BCCI President A.C. Muthiah said Nikhil Chopra could now play for India again subject to his selection on merit by the selection committee. Earlier Chopra appeared before the
BCCI disciplinary committee comprising Dr Muthiah, Rammohan and Kamal Morarka. “We summoned Chopra only in the wake of the report submitted to us by Mr Madhavan and not because of the revelations of the Income-Tax authorities that Chopra had concealed an income of Rs 50 lakh”, Dr Muthiah said. Referring to Chopra’s reported concealment of money from the IT Department, he said the “Panchnama” which the IT sent to Chopra before raiding his premises was submitted to the committee by the Delhi player. There was no evidence of any concealment there, he explained. Regarding the submissions made by former
BCCI President I.S. Bindra of the Punjab Cricket Association in response to the show cause notice issued to him by the
BCCI disciplinary committee, Dr Muthiah said it would be placed before the working committee meeting in New Delhi on January 22. The committee would have to have two-thirds majority to decide on any punishment to Mr Bindra, he said. Mr Bindra gave his explanation on the board’s criticism in writing today, he added. |
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Face-saving victory for Sri Lanka JOHANNESBURG, Jan 18 (Reuters) — Sri Lanka stopped the rot of five straight defeats in thrilling style when they edged past South Africa by four runs in the sixth and final one-day international of the series at the Wanderers yesterday. The home team, chasing a revised target of 209 to win from 42 overs, looked to be heading for a 6-0 clean sweep in the series when they reached 169 for four in the 35th over. But the dismissal of Jonty Rhodes for 23 triggered a collapse that saw the last six wickets fall for only 35 runs as South Africa were bowled out for 204 in 42 overs. A win would have also allowed South Africa to equal West Indies’ world record of 11 consecutive victories in one-day internationals. The match was reduced to 42 overs per side after a thunderstorm earlier in the day. With the tourists having lost three wickets when the rain came, the South African target was revised down to 209 using the Duckworth-Lewis method. Russel Arnold top scored with 65 not out in Sri Lanka’s total of 214 for six. Seemingly in cruise mode when they reached 100 for three in the 21st over, South Africa crumbled from 169 for four to 182 for nine. Captain Shaun Pollock did his best to get his team home, hitting two huge sixes off Sanath Jayasuriya and Muttiah Muralitharan in consecutive overs. The home side needed 13 off the last over and Pollock struck Jayasuriya for a straight six off the penultimate delivery, leaving five needed for victory. But he could only steer the last ball back to the Sri Lankan captain, who ran out Allan Donald as the number 11 was backing up. Sri Lanka, having been put in to bat by Pollock, made a poor start. They slid to 21 for three before the rain arrived, with Jayasuriya, Romesh Kaluwitharana and Aravinda de Silva all falling to opening bowler Roger Telemachus, who went on to take three for 25 from his eight overs. Justin Kemp, who made his one-day international debut in the previous match in Bloemfontein on Sunday, chipped in with the scalps of Mahela Jayawardene and Marvan Atapattu, who added 65 for the fourth wicket after the resumption. Atapattu made 55 before he holed out to Jacques Kallis at deep point. Arnold, who was named Man of the Match, put on 50 with Kumar Sangakkara off just 40 balls before the latter was run out by a direct hit from Rhodes. Arnold and Vaas then shared an unbroken stand of 40 in the closing overs, Arnold finishing unbeaten on 65 off just 56 deliveries. SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka Jayasuriya c Boucher b Telemachus 6 Kaluwitharana lbw b Telemachus 4 Atapattu c Kallis b Kemp 55 De Silva c Dippenaar b Telemachus 7 Jayawardene c Boucher b Kemp 25 Arnold not out 65 Sangakkara run out (Rhodes) 22 Vaas not out 13 Extras (lb-6 w-11) 17 Total (for six wickets, 42 overs)214 Fall of wickets: 1-7 2-12 3-20 4-85 5-124 6-174 Bowling: Pollock 9-1-37-0; Telemachus 8-1-25-3; Donald 6-0-31-0; Kallis 9-0-53-0; Kemp 7-0-34-2; Boje 3-0-28-0. South Africa Dippenaar lbw b Fernando 18 Gibbs c Sangakkara b Vaas 3 Kallis b Vaas 18 Boje c Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya 46 McKenzie b Jayasuriya 47 Rhodes b Muralitharan 23 Boucher c and b de Silva 7 Kemp c Arnold b de Silva 0 Pollock not out 21 Telemachus b Muralitharan 1 Donald run out (Jayasuriya) 1 Extras (lb-3 nb-2 w-14) 19 Total (all out, 42 overs) 204 Fall of wickets: 1-7 2-38 3-55 4-131 5-169 6-179 7-179 8-181 9-182 Bowling: Vaas 4.5-0-27-2; Zoysa 7-0-19-0; Jayawardene 0.1-0-4-0; Fernando 7-0-56-1; Muralitharan 9-2-25-2; de Silva 6-1-31-2; Jayasuriya 8-0-39-2. |
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Mohanty floors North Zone GUWAHATI, Jan 18 (UNI) — A fiery spell from Test discard Debasish Mohanty floored a fancied North Zone as they were bowled out for just 206 in their fist innings on the first day of the Duleep Trophy match played at Maligaon Railway Stadium. The green turf of stadium today provided additional support to the medium pacers as the East Zone also lost two quick wickets in their reply and at the stumps were 26 for two. But the star of the day was Debasish Mohanty who gave another reminder to the national selectors for the Australian tour taking six wickets for a meagre 57 runs. He and Assam lad Zaved Zaman gave the North batsmen a torrid time after putting them to bat picking up wickets at regular intervals. The veteran Vikram Rathore was the first to go flirting with a Mohanty offcutter to give wicketkeeper Deep his first of the four catches of the innings. Zaman firing from the other end had Akash when Rohan Gavaskar caught a fine edge in the slips. Big hitter Yuvraj Singh was the next man to go as he too was at sea before the duo’s beautiful usage of the morning dew and could score just six runs before he became Mohanty’s second victim. North Zone (Ist innings): Akash Chopra c Rohan b Zaman 09, Vikram Rathore c Deep b Mohanty 1, Yuvraj Singh c & b Mohanty 6, Dinesh Mongia c Deep b Mohanty 72, Virendra Shewag c Deep b Mihir 10, Reetender Singh Sodhi lbw b Zaman 16, Vijay Dahia c Deep b Mohanty 1, Sharndeep Singh c Parida b Mihir 29, Rahul Sangvi lbw b Mohanty 24, Asish Nehra c Zaman b Mohanty 22, Surebders Sing Baggal not out 4. Extras: 12. Total: 206 all out Fall of wicket 1-4, 2-13, 3-47, 4-61, 5-99, 6-108, 7-148, 8-158, 9-195 Bowling: Mohanty 25.1-10-57-6, Zaman 18- 4-65-2, Mihir 13-1-63-2, Utpal 6-2-15-0, Sukhvinder 1-0-2-0. East zone (Ist innings): Shiv Sundar Das c Dahia b Nehra 3, Nikhil Haldipur lbw b Nehra 1, R.R. Paroda not out 17, Mihir Diwakar not out 1. Extra: 2. Total: 26-2. Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-9 Bowling:
Asish Nehra 6-3-4-2, Surinder Singh Baggal 5-2-8-0, Rahul Sangvi 2-1-8-0, Sarandeep 1-0-2-0. |
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Sunaina wins silver
for Punjab VISAKHAPATNAM, Jan 18 (UNI) — Orissa’s Prasamita Mangaraj won the gold in the 58 kg category with a total lift of 192.5 kg (snatch 82.5 kg; clean and jerk 110 kg) in the women’s section of the 53rd Senior National Weightlifting Championship here today. Sunaina of Punjab won the silver with a total lift of 190 kg (80+110) and Chandrasouri Devi of Orissa (total 187.5 kg—82.5+105) bagged the bronze. It turned out to be a close race in the snatch section as Mangaraj, Chandrasuri Devi and Krishnakumari (AP) were tied at 82.5 kg each. However, Mangaraj was placed first by
virtue of her lesser body weight. In the clean and jerk Mangaraj cleared 105 kg in her first attempt and improved it by 5 kg in the second, before faltering in the third and final attempt when she opted for 112.5 kg. However, Sunaina, who cleared 80 kg in the snatch, managed to come into the medal bracket clearing 105 kg in the first attempt in clean and jerk and improved it upon by touching 110 kg in the second. She failed to clear 115 kg in the third. Chandrasuri Devi got off to an ominous start when she was disqualified from taking the first lift of 100 kg for arriving late. |
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Bombay Customs enter semis MUMBAI, Jan 18 (UNI) — Bombay Customs today rode on luck to enter the semifinals of the Gold Cup Hockey Tournament here first beating Uttar Pradesh XI 4-2 in the tie-breaker and then getting a bye into the last four following the withdrawal of Bharat Petroleum. At the start of the event Indian Oil had withdrawn, which gave the custom a free passage further. Today in the pre-quarterfinal match, Steel Authority of India (SAIL) rallied to overcome Railway Coach Factory (RCF), Kapurthala, 5-2 in the tie-breaker. The Delhi team was staring at defeat minute away from the full-time when they equalised 1-1 through a short corner drive from Surjeet Singh. In the tie-breaker Gurinder, Gurwinder, Mahabir and Somsher Singh scored mainly due to a very poor anticipation of bad pushes by goalkeeper Preet Singh. At the same time RCF saw S.Barla’s push hit the post, B.Singh scooping wide and then SAIL goalkeeper Sapan Sharma making a save off Jagmohan’s push. Customs were almost left rueing the wastage of 10 short corners. Customs would have been down by a goal in the seventh minute had Taseem Sheikh not effected a goal-line save off a reverse push from Dinesh Kumar. The local team opened the account in the injury time of first half through Suresh Perreira. But the scorer turned into villain when he missed a sitter in the second half and then pushing over the bar in the tie-breakers. Amjad Khan took the game into spot shoot out after UP’s second and last corner in the 69th minute. The irony of it was the battered UP team would have made it but for the three acrobatic saves from goalkeeper Anson Thomase in the tie-breaker. In the RCF-SAIL match L.Ekka’s angular shot gave RCF lead in the first half and kept it till Surjit took the last corner hit. |
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United Brothers
play Kang Club SRIGANGANAGAR, Jan 18 — A foreign team will be playing an exhibition match for the first time in the history of this city tomorrow. Even as the team reaches the city this evening, all roads will be leading to Maharaja Ganga Singh Stadium tomorrow afternoon when the Canadian United Brothers Field (UBF) Hockey Club play a friendly match with a team of the Kang Club, Kesrisinghpur, at 1 p.m. Organising secretary Brij Lal Budania told TNS that the event was being held to give much needed exposure to the local players and give a fillip to the national game in the region. "We feel that we have no dearth of good players in the region but they lack the temperament and the ability to withstand the pressures witnessed during international level fixtures." Accompanying him were Mr Pravinder Singh Kang, secretary of the Kang Club, Mr Jaswinder Singh Mann, and Mahendra Singh Brar, District Sports Officer. Both Kang and Mann have played in international tournaments. |
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