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Windies enter final Indian colts beat England Ratra to lead Haryana Career-best knock by Gagan Khoda |
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AAFI
bans 25 athletes Double crown for PSCB shuttlers JCT go down
to Vasco PSEB to lift ban on
recruitment
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Windies enter final PERTH, Feb 2 (AP) — West Indies secured a berth in the final of the tri-series one-day international with a convincing 44-run victory over Zimbabwe in their last league encounter here today. West Indies, electing to bat, were all out for 178 runs thanks largely to Brian Lara’s unbeaten 83 and then dismissed Zimbabwe for 134. Nixon McLean claimed three wickets for 21 runs while Marlon Samuels had the figures of 3-25. The best of three finals start next Wednesday. Australia are already through to the finals with an all-win record. The last league match between Australia and Zimbabwe on Sunday now has only academic interest left in it. Lara hit six fours in his 98-ball knock. Apart from Lara, only Ricardo Powell (37 from 36 balls) and Daren Ganga (22 from 57) made significant scores in an innings that featured five run outs. Bowling honours were shared by medium-pacer Mluleki Nkala (2-34) and spin bowler Dirk Viljoen (2-31). Zimbabwe had grounds to be disappointed with the umpiring yet again, having been on the unlucky end of a number of borderline decisions during the series. Opening batsman Daren Ganga drove a fast delivery from Bryan Strang to mid-on, where Heath Streak raced in and appeared to hold a fine diving catch. Both umpires appeared to have a clear view of the
incident-t, but called on third umpire Randolph Woolridge to study the film and adjudicate. He examined the footage for two minutes before ruling in Ganga’s favour much to Zimbabwe’s chagrin. The winners will meet Australia in the best-of-three finals starting in Sydney on Wednesday. SCOREBOARD West Indies: D. Ganga run out 22 S. Campbell run out 0 M. Samuels c Campbell b B. Lara not out 83 R. Powell c Campbell b J. Adams run out 8 R. Jacobs run out 9 L. Williams run out 0 M. Nagamootoo c A. Flower b Viljoen 4 N. McLean c Viljoen b Nkala 0 C. Cuffy lbw b Viljoen 1 Extras: (lb2, w2) 4 Total: (all out, 47.2 overs) 178 Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-24, 3-43, 4-105, 5-130, 6-154, 7-160, 8-171, 9-172. Bowling: H. Streak 9-3-20-0, B. Strang 10-1-30-0, N. Nkala 8-0-34-2, B. Murphy 10-0-35-1, G. Whittall 4-0-26-0, D. Viljoen 6.2-0-31-2. Zimbabwe: A. Campbell c Jacobs b McLean 1 G. Whittal lbw b S. Carlisle c Campbell b A. Flower c Jacobs b McLean 4 G. Flower c Powell b Cuffy 1 T. Madondo c Campbell b D. Viljoen c Jacobs b Samuels 29 H. Streak not out 33 M. Nkala c McLean b Samuels 7 B. Strang run out 4 B. Murphy c Williams b Extras: (lb-2, w-3) 5 Total: (all out) 134 Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-14, 3-20, 4-25, 5-42, 6-64, 7-104, 8-125, 9-129. Bowling: N. McLean 9-2-21-3, C. Cuffy 8-4-17-1, L. Williams 7-0-31-1, M. Nagamootoo 10-2-31-1, M. Samuels 7.3-0-25-3, J. Adams 1-0-7-0. |
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Indian colts beat England HYDERABAD, Feb 2 (PTI) — In a low scoring match, Indian colts defeated England by three wickets in the first under-19 one day cricket match at Lal Bahadur Stadium here today. Electing to bat first, England were all out for 127 and the hosts scored 130 in 26.1 overs losing seven wickets. England lost opener J. Sadler for one and skipper Ian Bell (27) and Nickey Peng (28) tried to stabilise the innings but spinner Vidyut Sivaramakrishna dismissed the duo reducing the visitors to 62 for 3. Indian bowlers dominated the proceedings thereafter and sent English batsmen back to the pavilion in quick succession with only R. Ferley scoring a defiant 27 and the team was bundled out for 127 in 46 overs. SCOREBOARD England: J. Saddler b Agarawal 1, N. Peng c and b Sivaramakrishnan 28, Ian Bell c Ratra b Sivaramakrishnan 27, G. Pratt c Mane b Yadav 2, G. Muchall c Mane b Yadav 0, C. Tremlett c Ratra b Maninder Singh 6, M. Wallace run out 10, R. Ferley c and b Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan 27, I. Pattson lbw b Maninder Singh 3, J. Bishop c Ratra b Yadav 1, A. McGarry not out 12. Extras: (b-1, w-2, nb-7) 10. Total: (all out in 46 overs) 127. Fall of wickets: 1/1, 2/57, 3/62, 4/62, 5/63, 6/78, 7/88, 8/95, 9/104. Bowling: Trivedi 7-2-17-0, Agarwal 5-2-26-1, Maninder Singh 5-2-13-2, Sivaramakrishnan 10-0-26-3, Yadav 10-2-20-3, Mishra 9-2-24-0. India: G. Gambhir c Wallace b Tremlett 18, V. Mane c Wallace b Tremlett 12, M. Bisla b Bishop 6, A. Naidu c Wallace b Pattson 17, N. Arjun Yadav c Peng b McGarry 12, A. Ratra not out 22, Maninder Singh lbw b McGarry 17, V. Sivaramakrishnan c Pratt b Tremlett 15, A. Mishra not out 2. Extras: (lb-2, w-6, nb-1) 9. Total: (for 7 wkts, 26.1 overs) 130. Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-33, 3-39, 4-61, 5-69, 6-93, 7-115. Bowling: Bishop 10-0-45-1, Tremlett 7-1-31-3, McGarry 6.1-1-35-2, Ian Pattson 3-0-17-1. |
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Ratra to lead Haryana ROHTAK, Feb 2 — Ajay Ratra, who led Indian colts to a 1-0 victory in the three-Test series against England (under-19), will lead Haryana (u-19) in the Chidambram Trophy cricket match against Rest of India (under-19). Giving this information, Mr Ranbir Singh
Mahendra, secretary, disclosed that the match will now be held from February 7 to 10. The match will be played at Maharaja Aggarsain Stadium, Rohtak. The Haryana team for this match was also announced today. The selectors have retained the same squad which did duty in the Cooch-Behar Cricket Tournament. It may be recalled that Haryana made their maiden appearance in the Cooch Behar final and won the title beating Madhya Pradesh at Pune in December last. The team: Ajay Ratra (Capt), Sumit Sharma, Amit Mishra, Nitin Aggarwal, Ishan Ganda, Manvinder Bisla, Joginder Sharma, Yuvraj Siddharth, Rohit Arya, Gaurav Vashishta, Sukhbir Singh, Sumit Narwal, Bhuvnesh Sharma and Deepak Joon. |
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Career-best knock by Gagan Khoda PANAJI, Feb 2 (UNI) — A career-best unbeaten double tone by Gagan Khoda (246) and belligerent unbeaten 75 by Yere Goud and their unseparated 187-run partnership for the fourth wicket enabled Central Zone amass 469 for 3 in their first innings at the close of the second day’s play of the four day Duleep Trophy league tie here today. Central Zone, who skittled out South Zone for a paltry 141 all out yesterday, gained a first innings lead of 328 runs over South looked set to score an outright win. At stumps Khoda and Goud were at the crease. Resuming at the score of 178 for 2, the overnight pair of Khoda and Kaif, punished both the seamers and spinners with a flurry of strokes, thus taming the South attack. Both the batsmen were in an aggressive mood, scoring at almost every ball and added a brilliant 176 for the third wicket. South Zone used eight bowlers with intervals but none could break Khoda and Kaif’s stand until 282 on the scoreboard, when Kaif lost his wicket on 69, of off-spinner Ashish Kapoor caught by Tilak Naidu. Goud then joined Khoda and both continued to keep the scoreboard moving. The former reached his half century in 92 balls with eight hits to the fence, while Khoda’s career best knock (246) was laced with 24 fours and five sixes off 308 deliveries. At close of play both Khoda and Goud had an unseparated partnership of 187 runs. South Zone: 141 Central Zone: JP Yadav run out 08, Gagan Khoda not out 246, Amay Khurasia c Bharadwaj b Kapoor 51, Mohd Kaif c Naidu b Kapoor 69, Yere Goud not out 75, Extras:- 20 (lb 5, b 4, nb 11). Total: 469 for 3 in 135 overs. Fall: 1/8, 2/106, 3/282. Bowling: J Srinath 14-3-47-0, V Prasad 29-9-71-0, A Kapoor 27-5-99-2, S Joshi 25-9-84-0, V Raju 26-3-86-0, V Bharadwaj 7-0-26-0, H Badani 6-0-30-0, V Laxman 3-0-17-0. |
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Martina Hingis, Kournikova advance TOKYO, Feb 2 (AFP) — Martina Hingis pulverized hopes of a local crowd by eliminating Japan’s ace Ai Sugiyama to make a berth in the semi-finals of the Pan Pacific Open Tennis Tournament today. The Swiss world number one took the first seven games in a row before Sugiyama started to fight back in the second set, but stood firm in the decider for a 6-0 5-7 6-1 victory. Russian pin-up girl Anna Kournikova, third seed, wriggled her way through to a 7-6 (7/4) 6-2 win and avenged her loss to Anne-Gaelle Sidot of France at Wimbledon last season. Kournikova lost her serve to go down 4-5 and 5-6 in the first set, but each time she broke back to force a tie-breaker in which she chalked up a comfortable 4-1 lead before getting into her rhythm. Eighth seed Magdalena Maleeva of Bulgaria earned a semi-final place against Hingis when she outclassed the last local hope, Shinobu Asagoe, 6-1 7-6 (7/1) in 85 minutes. "There were close calls in the second set, but that was not the problem. That was more of me losing concentration, I wasn’t focused there," Hingis said of her second set lapse. "Still I was serving for the match at 5-4 and 30-all. I should have finished there, but she played a few good points and she was still hanging on there. I have to give her credit for that." "But in the third set, I took a higher risk again, especially towards the end, I served better again. That was the key," added Hingis. Sugiyama, whose only win over Hingis came at the Atlanta Olympics, got off to a sluggish start with a double fault on a break point, symbolizing the remainder of the first set. But Sugiyama never hesitated to attack, forcing Hingis to make some errors, and came back from one service break down three times in the second set. She broke again in the 12th game to even the match. However, Hingis soon steadied herself and, although she lost the second game, never let the momentum get away to finish off the match in 96 minutes. Hingis stretched her win-loss record against Sugiyama to 5-1. "Although I lost the first set 6-0, I was playing well, I had a chance to make it 3-3, so I never felt disappointed," said Sugiyama. "I tried to galvanize myself in the second set and I started to play in my rhythm and hit better afterwards. "But Martina has no vulnerable point. Maybe her second serve is the only chance that I can attack. So I attacked on her second serve. I think that’s why I broke her serve several times in the second set," added Sugiyama. |
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Amanjot, Sania tennis champs CHANDIGARH, Feb 2 — Amanjot Singh of Chandigarh avenged city mate Sunil Kumar’s humiliation, demolishing Rohan Gajjar 6-3, 6-2 in 62 minutes to romp home with the prestigious boys singles title on the concluding day of the Drish ITF Junior Tennis Tournament at the CLTA courts, Sector
10, here today. The girls singles title was grabbed by top seed Sonia Mirza, the 14-year old girl from Hyderabad who came from behind in both sets to down second seed Megha Vakharia in 65 minutes, thus
becoming the owner of two titles as she already won the doubles title yesterday. Local lad and darling of the city, left hander Sunil Kumar, however, had the consolation of winning the boys doubles title today when he, along with Vinod Sewa, justified their seeding by outplaying Rohan Gajjar and Vikrant Sane in three sets. The boys singles final proved to be exciting with everyone in the spectator gallery waiting to see, how Amanjot would fare today. Hard hitter Amanjot who never believed in long rallies began with 15-0, then went to 30-0, which led Rohan to bounce back and the two slices down the line enabled the Mumbai boy to wrap up the first game lead at 1-0 which was then equalised by Amanjot at 1-1. The St Stephen’s School student, however, was in high spirits when he pushed down Rohan to the baseline and surged ahead at 2-1. Rohan came back to make it 2-2. and then 3-3. At this moment, Amanjot made a clean sweep, making it 4-3 with no break in serve. Then there was no stopping him as the Hoshiarpur born Amanjot completed the set in 35 minutes at 6-3. The reigning national junior champion in the under-18 section, Rohan varied his gameplan, compelling Amanjot to come near the nets. It was all in vain for Amanjot who took a 2-0 lead to dominate from the beginning. The ‘killer’ of Sunil, Rohan was not able to display his earlier form and was able to capture one more game till the score read 1-4 in his favour.The ‘lion’ in Amanjot roared and he stopped Rohan’s fury by clinching the tie in just 27 minutes to emerge as a new hero of the meet. The girls final between Sania-Megha went on unexpected lines as Delhi ITF’ meet runner-up Sania began on a bad note, surrendering 1-4 to the Mumbai girl, a trainee of Sandeep Kirtane. Sania watched by her mother, forced Megha to commit mistakes repeatedly at the nets. As a result Megha lost concentration and bowed out 4-6, allowing five games in a row to Sania and the set ended in 36 minutes. History repeated itself in the second set when again after a handsome 4-1 lead, Megha lost control of the match and began losing to eventually surrender the all-important tie, which saddened her coach, Sandeep. Ultimately Sania won at 6-4 in 29 minutes. The boys doubles final was a thriller as the Sunil-Vinod combination, after winning the first set in 12 minutes at 6-0, lost the second at 4-6. This lacklustre approach of the top seed proved fatal as the Rohan-Vikrant pair took maximum advantage and took the third set to tie breaker. Sunil-Vinod duo won 7-6, (7-4) to bag the doubles title. Results: (All finals): boys singles—Amanjot Singh (Ind) b Rohan Gajjar (Ind) 6-3, 6-2. Doubles: Sunil Kumar Sipeya and Vinod Sewa (Ind) b Rohan Gajjar and Vikrant Sane (Ind) 6-0, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4). Girls singles: Sania Mirza (Ind) b Megha Vakharia (Ind) 6-4, 6-4. |
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AAFI bans 25 athletes NEW DELHI, Feb 2 (PTI) — Amateur Athletic Federation of India yesterday banned 25 athletes for one year after they were found overaged in recent Junior Athletic Championships. The athletes, who participated in the recently concluded Bangalore meet from January 17 to 20, have been provisionally debarred for a period of one year as they were found overaged, AAFI secretary Lalit K. Bhanot said in a press release here. Mr Bhanot said the federation had given them 30 days time to appeal and prove the genuineness of their age. The banned athletes are: Vishal Singh Sodi (J&K — hammer throw), Harpreet Singh (Pun — discus) Ranvijay Singh (UP — shotput), K. Satishweran (TN — shotput), Pushpinder Singh (Pun — discus), Jagmandar (Chd — shotput), Amarjeet Singh (Pun — discus), Gursevak Singh (Pun — discus), Harpal Singh (Pun — hammer throw), Satish Kumar (Del — long jump), Upendra Singh (Raj — heptathlon), Tippu Hembram (Ori - 400m), Rampal (Guj — pole vault), Jagmohan Singh (Guj — javelin), M. Palanikumar (TN — heptathlon), Pratap Rathwa (Guj — 400m), Hamsu (TN — shotput) Aruna Mishra (AAFI — discus), Barmeshwar Nath (Bih — decathlon) Gajanan Kumar Upadhaya (Bih — pole vault), Aishwarya (Bih — 400m hurdles), Anto Jose (Ker — shotput, discus, hammer), Nikhil (Ker — shot put), Pradeep (AAFI — pentathlon), Vinod (TN — pentathlon). Meanwhile, the AAFI has revised the results of the junior athletic event as doubts were raised about overall standings. Kerala were pronounced champions with 391 points while Tamil Nadu finished second. Earlier, Tamil Nadu, with 18 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze medals, were crowned champions, but Kerala (22, 16, 12) had doubted the points tally. |
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Double crown for PSCB shuttlers JAIPUR, Feb 2 (PTI) — A star-studded Petroleum Sports Control Board reasserted their supremacy in the game lifting both men’s and women’s team titles at the Senior National Badminton Championship here today. PSCB men, led by world number six Puella Gopichand, demolished Kerala with yet another 3-0 win in the final to
successfully defend the Rahmutullah Cup. The men won the championship without losing a single game. However, the women faced a tough fight in the Chaddha Cup final against Andhra Pradesh with the shock defeat of top seed Aparna Popat to junior national champion Jwala Gutta ensuring the tie was stretched to its full length. Manjusha Kanwar made it even for PSCB with a hard-fought three-game win over 17-year-old Shruti Kurien in a match affected by power failures. Kanwar then combined with P.V.V. Laxmi to defeat the pair of Kurien and Gutta to clinch the title for PSCB. Earlier formidable Petroleum Sports Control Board entered the final of both men’s and women’s team championship yesterday. The men drubbed Air-India 3-0 to enter the final of the Rahmutullah Trophy to set up the title clash with Kerala, who defeated Maharashtra by an identical margin in the other semifinal. PSCB then beat Delhi 2-0 in the women’s event for Chaddha Cup. In the final, they will take on Andhra Pradesh, who also registered a 2-0 win over Railways in the other semifinal match. In the first semifinal of the Rahmutullah Cup, world No 6 Puella
Gopichand, a slow starter by habit, was erratic in the beginning and saw his 19-year-old opponent Abhishek Bakshi take a 9-1 lead in the first game. Gopi pulled up his socks and took 14 points in a row to take the game 15-9. Abhishek, a trainee at the Badminton Association of India and is playing in only his second year at the senior level, gave a tough fight in the second game too before Gopi utilised all his experience to win 15-13 and give a 1-0 lead to
PSCB. Abhinn Shyam Gupta won the second singles easily, beating A. Pridhvi 15-6, 15-3 and the formidable doubles pair of Jaseel Ismail and Vincent Lobo beat Gaurav Singh and Anup Sridhar 15-5, 15-7 to carve a straight win for
PSCB. The other semifinal too was one-sided as the young brigade from Kerala over-powered Maharashtra 3-0. Results (semifinals): Men
(Rahmatullah Cup): PSCB b Air India 3-0, P. Gopichand b Abhishek Bakshi 15-9 15-13; Abhin Shyam Gupta b A. Pridhvi 15-6 15-3; Jaseel P.
Ismail-Vincent Lobo b Gaurav Singh-Anup Sridhar 15-5, 15-7. Kerala b Maharashtra 3-0 Thomas Kurien b Rutuparna Kulkarni 15-10, 15-2; Sanave Thomas b Vivek Gautam 15-5 15-5; Jasson
Xavier-Roopesh Kumar b Rajeev Bagga-Milind Ghate 15-9, 15-17, 15-4. Women
(Chaddha Cup): PSCB b Delhi 2-0 Aparna Popat b Gayatri Mehndiratta 11-1 11-2; Manjusha Kanwar-PVV Laxmi b Manju T. George-Krishna Hazarika 15-0 15-2. Andhra Pradesh b Railways 2-0 Shruti Kurien b Madhumita Bisht 11-5, 11-7; Jwala Gutta-Shruti Kurien b Madhumita Bisht-Sampada Sheteya 15-8, 17-15. |
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JCT go down to Vasco MARGAO, Feb 2 (PTI) — Depleted Zee Churchill face a tough task when they take on upbeat East Bengal in the National Football League at Nehru Stadium here tomorrow. Local league champions Zee Churchill have resumed the challenge in the national league on a far from bright note losing to Vasco (0-1) and FC Kochin (1-2) and holding to a goalless draw to the SBT. Following Zee Churchill’s dismal performances in the ongoing league, coach Gregory Testvi has been asked to resign, team management said. Zee Churchill, who have one point from three matches, look strong on paper but have to prove themselves on the field and will be looking for the home advantage to get the right start. They have a sound midfield comprising Rocky Baretto, Noel Wilson, Jose Colaco, Andre Requena. In the defence they have Husseni Osumanu, Mahesh Gawali, Mir Farooq Hayder and Ansah Edward forms the last defence line. Zee Churchill’s fortunes will depend on the upfront Francis Silveira and Edson De Crasto who have not lived up to their reputation as they missed close scoring chances. On the other hand, East Bengal are playing well except their poor performance against ITI which they lost 1-0. They have six points from three matches. East Bengal will bank on their foreign recruits defender Jackson Agaypong, Suleh Musah, Medio Isiaka Awoyemi and striker Omoloja Olalekan. Omoloja, who played for Salgaocar two years back, opened his campaign with a goal against the SBT. He will be assisted by Bijen Singh in the upfront. They have a reliable midfield comprising Isiaka, Chapman, Chandan Das and Dipankar Roy. The defence will be manned by Suleh Musah, Jackson, Dipak Mondal and Rattan Singh. East Bengal coach Manohar Battercharge, who took over two weeks ago, said he was happy with the team’s performance. “They are playing well and hope they continue to play in the same spirit and win tomorrow”, added
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PSEB to lift ban on
recruitment PATIALA, Feb 2 — The Punjab Power Minister, Mr Sikandar Singh Maluka, has assured that the ban on recruitment of sportspersons in Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) will be lifted shortly. Mr Maluka gave this assurance to a delegation of the PSEB Sportsmen’s Welfare Federation which met him at his residence at Chandigarh on Wednesday. The delegation, which was led by the federation president Mr K.S. Dhillon, and general secretary, Mr Munish Kaushal, comprised several international and national-level sportspersons working in the board. The ban on sports recruitment has been in effect since the past couple of years and has lead to stagnation of sports activities in PSEB. Mr Maluka also assured that promotion channels for sportspersons, which till now were blocked, will be opened soon and deserving sportspersons will be promoted on seniority basis. In order to circumvent the ban, the board authorities were keeping sportspersons on contract basis for a period of three years. However, a couple of months ago a ban was imposed by the management on keeping sportspersons on contract basis due to which sports activity in the board virtually came to a halt. |
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Abhinav shoots gold CHANDIGARH, Feb 2 — Olympian world record holder rifle shooter Abhinav Bindra of Chandigarh again brought glory and did India proud in the ongoing European Circuit Rifle Shooting Championships when he won the fifth gold in a row at the Den Haag Shooting Championship 2001 at The Hague in Holland last evening with a score of 595+101.6, a total aggregate of 696.6. The silver was won by C. Sanvoll of Norway with a score of 593+103.5 an aggregate of 696.5 while the third position was claimed S. Grelli of Luxembourg with a score of 585+100.4=684.9. Abhinav Bindra was leading with a score of 595 out of 56 international shooters from 23 countries participating in the circuit and went in the final shoot and shot a score of 101.6. This was the most closely contested match of the circuit with Abhinav getting past his rival of just 0.1 point. Abhinav again shoots tomorrow for the seventh circuit match for the Denghaag Cup. The circuit then moves to Arhur, Denmark, from February 6 to 10. |
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Civil services soccer ROHTAK, Feb 2 — The duration of this year’s All-India Civil Services Football Championship has been extended by three days, according to Mr M.S.
Hooda, District Sports Officer, Rohtak. The championship scheduled to be held at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium
Oplam, Pondicherry, will now be held from February 5 to 10. Earlier it was to be held from February 5 to 7. |
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Dept of Evening Studies champs CHANDIGARH, Feb 2 — The hockey team of the Department of Evening Studies, Panjab University, won the Inter-College Hockey Tournament held at Government College for Boys, Ludhiana, defeating Gurusar Sadhar 4-2, on Wednesday. |
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Cyclist dead MUMBAI, Feb 2 (UNI) — Former Olympian Adi-Havewala, the last of the country’s famous cycling trio, who represented India in a number of international cycling meets, died here on Thursday. He was 83. Havewala along with late M Malcolm and late N.K. Mistry participated in the 1948 London Olympics and also in other European races. Later his son Rustom, in the seventies, had won quite a few national level titles in cycling. |
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