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11, 2001, Chandigarh, India   
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Paes, Bhupathi help India to 2-1 lead Lapentti brothers
stun Aussies
Mark Waugh denies
meeting Gupta ICC to quiz Lara; another probe in Pak |
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Award surprises
Brian Lara Sunil wins ITF jr crown Tollygunge record first
win Karnataka spikers
down Delhi Abhinav in
Baltic Cup finals BSF pummel hapless
Assam 14-0 Bopanna, Mahadevan
in second round Mauresmo ousts
Kournikova Bedi feels India can beat Aussies Kalaswala Cup
Golf today Abhay Chautala is IABF chief Haryana clinch Chidambram Trophy SCR pip IA,
lift title
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Paes, Bhupathi help India to 2-1 lead LANG FANG (CHINA), Feb 10 — Formidable Indians Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi gave a glimpse of their superiority defeating the Chinese duo of Yang Jingzhu and Xu Ran for a 2-1 lead in the Asia-Oceania Davis Cup group-I tie here today. Resurrecting their partnership after series of defeats coupled with injury problems, the Indian pair put up a great show outwitting their Chinese opponents 6-2 6-4 6-4 in an hour and 50 minutes. After sharing points on the first day, India went about the task of winning the crucial doubles and Bhupathi, who opted out of the singles to rest his shoulder, played the major role today allowing Paes to take it easy ahead of tomorrow’s crucial reverse singles. The Indians’ court-craft was fantastic and whenever the two approached the net together, ran and Jingzhu found it difficult to pierce through. Standing strong like the ‘great wall of China’ Paes and Bhupathi broke ran and Jingzhu once each in the first set as they made easy work of the Chinese taking it 6-2. Having gauged the strength of their opponents, the Indians allowed the second set to go with serve till six games before punishing Ran in the seventh — the only break witnessed in this set, which they closed out (6-4) in 35 minutes. The world-beating Indian pair were given a minor scare when Paes was broken in the fourth game of the third set and Bhupathi was stretched to four deuces in the sixth. But the two came out unscathed to propel India ahead going into Sunday’s reverse singles. Jingzhu, more experienced at 24 years than his 20-year-old team-mate, decided to serve first and it turned out to be unlucky for the Chinese as the Indians concentrated on attacking Ran — the weaker of the two. Paes and Bhupathi were attired in track-suits despite temperatures giving some respite this afternoon. But unlike yesterday, Paes’ movements did not seem restricted and he had Bhupathi to do more running around. The Indians raced to 4-1 lead via breaks in the third and fifth games as Paes showed what he is better at - reflex shots at the net. Bhupathi was battling a running nose which he suffered after arriving here with sub-zero temperatures prevailing in this suburban city. But during the play he did not show any effect of it as he helped Paes dig out of trouble twice in the match. In the fifth game, Paes hit away from his body a reflex volley while standing very close to the net to give India the second break. Bhupathi came up with strong deep serves which Ran and Jingzhu struggled to return. Playing in tandem, Paes hit a superb half-volley to set the Indians on course to a good lead (5-1). After Ran took the next game, Paes was fired up to serve out the set as he blasted an ace on two set points. Though the scoreline in the first set was 6-2, long rallies and good tennis stretched it to 45 minutes. Notwithstanding a few line-calls that went against them, the Indians kept their cool. The Australian chair umpire though over-ruled a few in India’s favour as the line judges made some glaring mistakes. Probably the lack of international tennis in China and inexperience of officiating such a fast-paced match was reflected in their mistakes. Bhupathi survived a minor hiccup in the second game of the second set when he double-faulted twice to give the Chinese pair some hope. But Paes was at his best, though not revealing it in full to save himself for tomorrow’s crucial reverse singles rubber, as he swiped the ball close from the net to dig Bhupathi out of the trouble. With games going with the serves till 3-3, the Indians seized the initiative in the seventh game as they earned two break-points off Ran when Bhupathi hit a perfect backhand shot. Paes held his own after a bit of workout in the eighth game as did Yang in the next before Bhupathi served out the set taking the 10th game at love. Smarting under the loss of two sets, Jingzhu made a bid to prove China’s worth after Ran was broken in the third game. A casual Paes lost his serve at 15-40 and then in the sixth game Bhupathi allowed the hosts to feel at home as he was stretched to four deuces. The Indians survived a bit of fright, but their ability to cope up with pressure saw them through. Yang double-faulted to give India another break before Bhupathi scripted the victory with another love game executing a drop volley to finish off the duel. Paes confident “Though the conditions are favouring Zhang Yu, I have my task cut out for me,” Paes said at a post-match news conferen-ce after he and Mahesh Bhupathi defeated the Chinese pair Yang Jingzhu and Xu Ran. Tomorrow’s singles would be the third straight match for Paes. While a win for Paes in the first reverse singles would propel India into the next round, a defeat would result in a 2-2 tie between China and India. This would bring immense pressure on Fazaluddin to defeat Wang Yu in the second reverse singles. Fazaluddin earlier lost 4-6, 1-6, 0-6 to Zhang in the second singles yesterday. Commenting on tomorrow’s match between Paes and Zhang, non-playing captain Ramesh Krishnan said he was confident that Paes would defeat Zang. “The Indian team is rated high and is supposed to win. However, one has to play out the full match, the winner is decided after that,” Krishnan said adding that the persisting bitter cold conditions in the indoor stadium was a cause for concern. Commenting on today’s doubles match, Bhupathi said he and Paes had decided to end the game in three sets as extending it to five would have sapped the energy of Paes, who had to play tomorrow. — PTI Indians feel at home in China LANG FANG (China), FEB 10 — A bus-load of enthusiastic Indians made a lot of difference to the general atmosphere in the crucial India-China Davis Cup Asia-Oceania doubles match here today. “The arrival of enthusiastic Indian supporters certainly lightened up the otherwise dull atmosphere,” the non-playing Indian captain Ramesh Krishnan said.
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Lapentti
brothers stun Aussies PERTH, Feb 10
The Lapentti brothers took the match 6-2, 2-6, 1-6, 7-6, 12-10 to prevent Australia from taking an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five tie. Australia still lead 2-1 heading into Sunday’s concluding reverse singles, needing to win just one of the remaining two matches after winning both singles matches on Friday. Giovanni Lapentti will take on Patrick Rafter before older brother Nicolas faces Lleyton Hewitt in the final match. The winner of the tie will play either Brazil or Morocco in the second round in April.— Reuters Mark Waugh denies meeting Gupta MELBOURNE, Feb 10 — Australian batsman Mark Waugh today said he told the International Cricket Council (ICC) investigators he had never met Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta, who was at the centre of match-fixing allegations. “Like I said, I denied the allegations when they first came out and that hasn’t changed,” Waugh told reporters after his interview with a panel of three ICC and Australian Cricket Board (ACB) investigators at Melbourne’s Hilton Hotel. “I’ve met one bookmaker and that was John.” Waugh and team-mate Shane Warne were fined in 1995 after admitting they had accepted money from a bookmaker identified only as John in 1994 in exchange for pitch and weather information. “I’ve seen the photo of Gupta, yeah. I don’t know who’s in the photo.” Waugh met ACB investigator Greg Melick and two members of the ICC’s anti-corruption unit (ACU) for two hours and 20 minutes at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday morning. Indian bookmaker Gupta has said he paid $ 20,000 to Waugh in exchange for information about the team and its tactics at a six-a-side tournament in Hong Kong in 1993. Waugh was among nine non-Indian players, including former Test captains Brian Lara, Alec Stewart and Martin Crowe, named in an Indian Central Bureau of Investigation report into match-fixing last year as having connections with bookmakers. Waugh avoided the media scrum by staying at the Hilton Hotel and meeting his lawyers while photographers waited outside the hotel for him to arrive. “I was a little bit nervous but I was fine once I was in there. I answered all the questions that were asked of me, it was a friendly atmosphere and I’m glad it’s over,’’ Waugh said. Asked if that was the end of his name being raised in ACU investigations, he said: “That’s not up to me, that’s up to the ICC.” Asked if he had cleared his name, he said wearily: “I answered all questions that were asked of me.’’ Melick refused to answer questions from reporters but said the
ACB appreciated the fact that Waugh had been co-operative.
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ICC to quiz Lara; another probe in Pak MELBOURNE, Feb 10
And Pakistani cricket is headed for more turmoil after International Cricket Council President Malcolm Gray revealed a second judicial inquiry would begin there shortly, this time looking at allegations Pakistan threw two matches in the 1999 World Cup in England. That inquiry will probe Pakistan’s performances in defeats against India and tournament minnows Bangladesh. While Australian batsman Mark Waugh today appeared before the Australian Cricket Board’s investigator Greg Melick to defend allegations made against him by Indian bookmaker Mukesh Gupta, Lara has yet to face any probe despite also having been named in an Indian police report. While Waugh was accused of accepting $20,000 from Gupta for supplying weather, team and pitch information, a charge he again denied today, Lara was accused of underperforming in two one-day matches in India in 1993-94. However, the West Indies’ cricket board has so far refused to take any action on the matter, despite all other boards having launched inquiries into the allegations against their players. But Mr Condon, speaking here today after briefing the ICC executive into his progress at curing cricket’s ills, said an inquiry in the West Indies was imminent. “Watch this space over the next few days,” he said. Meanwhile, Mr Gray said the new inquiry in Pakistan was expected to be completed soon. “That will be in a matter of weeks - it should not be a long exercise,” he said. That inquiry will deal with allegations made by South African cricket supremo Ali Bacher during the King Commission, which led to former captain Hansie Cronje being banned for life. Dr Bacher alleged that Pakistan deliberately lost both matches. The inquiry will also look into Dr Bacher’s allegation that Pakistani umpire Javed Akhtar deliberately gave bad decisions to influence the result of a South Africa-England Test match. Meanwhile, Mr Condon said he is aiming to complete his own report into cricket’s bribery scandal by the end of April. However, his report will not deal with specific cases such as those allegations levelled against Waugh and Lara. They will be dealt with in individual reports by separate investigators, such as Mr Melick, but with the full backing and assistance of the ICC. “My report in April will be a general review of this whole scene,” he said. “When it started, how it started, where it started, how it developed, why it wasn’t picked up earlier and what we are doing about it now and what we should be doing about it in the future.” Mr Condon, who was appointed to clean up cricket last July, said the whole bribery saga was “a very unpleasant but necessary diversion that must be cleared up.” He said it was vital to have it done as quickly as possible for the players against whom allegations were made and for the integrity of the sport. “A lot of the players are sick and tired of the innuendos,” he said. “And they are sick and tired of having their names besmirched and sick and tired of the pressure placed on their families.” He said while the saga opened up a legal minefield for all Test playing cricket boards, it had to be tackled to ensure the sport’s credibility was restored. “This only needs to impact on one international match to impact on the credibility of cricket,” he said. “When people watch cricket they want to know it’s about skill and craft and endeavour, not about a seedy mobile phone call and spread betting in India.”
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Award surprises
Brian Lara MELBOURNE, Feb 10 —In a decision which surprised many including the recipient, West Indian batsman Brian Lara was declared Player of the Carlton Series for his “outstanding performance in the preliminary matches” of the tri-nation tourney. The crowd booed at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when Lara was announced the winner of the award last night despite Australia clinching the series without conceding a single defeat. The decision must have come as a disappointment to Australian batsmen Mark Waugh who scored 542 at 108.5 and Ricky Ponting with 393 at 49.13 as compared to Lara’s 372 at 46.5. But the organisers clarified that only performance in the eight preliminary matches was taken into account while polling for the award. This ruled out Waugh who missed out on three preliminary matches due to the Australian policy of rotating players to give a fair chance to its players but Lara played all the matches. Waugh’s final figures got a boost mainly due to his record knock of 173 in the second final last night. Under the voting system, Lara was outright winner, polling 11 to Waugh’s 9 and Ponting’s 8. Votes were awarded on a 2-1 basis after each game by nominated media representatives. A sheepish Lara admitted in his acceptance speech he did not deserve the award - a $ 20,000 high performance Honda motorbike. “Don’t blame me, I agree with you,” Lara said when the crowd booed. Australian skipper Steve Waugh was a bit shocked too. “I’m not sure how the points system works,” he said “but I can’t ride a motorbike anyway.” “But good luck to Brian. He was pretty humble about it and in the overall scheme of things, it’s not a big deal.”
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Sunil wins ITF jr crown KOLKATA, Feb 10 The talented Sipaeya, known for his power-packed game, ran away with the first set in 35 minutes at the DKS Court here. The top seed, who hails from Chandigarh, was broken in the very first game but recovered immediately to demolish Sewa’s serve in the next game. Sunil, who served well, clinched the set by breaking Sewa in the eighth game. The second set saw close contest with both players repeatedly charging up to the net and fighting for every point. Sewa, the local favourite, broke his higher-ranked opponent in the second game and then retained the next to open up a 3-0 lead. But Sipaeya came back by
demolishing Sewa in the fifth game. Thereafter, the next five games went with serve. In the 11th game, Sipaeya put pressure on Sewa’s service by advancing 40-0 to get two break points. Sewa saved one but then netted a forehand to concede the break and trail 5-6. With Sipaeya serving for the match, the next game was a thriller with the pendulum continually swinging either way. Sewa played an inspired game gaining four break points in the marathon match, but finally Sipaeya prevailed on his third match point as his opponent netted a backhand. Later, Sipaeya and Sewa combined well to lift the doubles title with a straight set 6-4, 6-4 win over Dhruv Kumar and Manoj Kumar Sewa. Girls’ top seed Sania Mirza had to draw on her reserves in the second set before
putting a stop to unseeded local girl Reddhina Parekh’s giant-killing run in a 65-minute final. Like the boys’ singles, the girls’ singles final also saw Reddhina in the first set starting in a great fashion to take the lead, breaking Sania in the very first game only to fade away there after. Unfancied Reddhina, who ousted a couple of seeded players on her way to the final, had problems with her services. Besides, she netted several easy returns. On the other hand, Sanya with powerful volleys and
accurate cross court forehand shots dominated the show to win her first major title this season. After conceding the first game of the first set, tall and athletic Sania found her rhythm soon and levelled the score breaking Reddhina in the very next game. Sania then broke Reddhina in the fourth and sixth games besides holding her own serves to bag the first set cheaply at 6-1. In the second set, Reddhina put up a better fight and after losing her serve in the very first game of the second set, she broke back Sania in the very next game to level the score 1-1. After both held their own serves till the eighth game, Sania again bounced back in the ninth to snatch a 5-4 lead and then held her own serve to bag the second set 6-4 and romp home for the girls’ singles crown.
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Tollygunge record first win BANGALORE, Feb 10 — Nigerian striker Abul Lateef Seriki helped Maniksha Tollygunge Agragami of Kolkata to record their first victory beating local outfit Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) by a solitary goal in a lacklustre sixth round match in the National Football League here, today. The lone goal of the match came in the 29th minute when the lanky Nigerian latched on to a defence lapse and scored the winner. Both the teams played listless game and coordinated moves were hardly witnessed. With this victory, Tollygunge have five points from six matches, having lost three and drawn two. ITI would stay at five points, having lost three and drawn two and a win against East Bengal in the home ground. ITI will meet Salgaocar of Goa in the same venue on February 17, while Tollygunge will clash with Vasco on February 15 in Kolkata. It was Tollygunge that dominated the proceedings in the beginning and the local team looked like a jaded side. In the fifth minute, Seriki, who was involved in a lot of action, passed to advancing Sashthi Duley and found him kicking the ball wide. In the 29th minute, a long lob from the middle landed in front of the goal. Defender Firoz reacted late and before he could recover, tall Seriki put his foot forward and kicked the ball beating custodian Mark Mascaranhas to surge ahead. For Tollygunge, custodian Prasanta Dora, who has come in the place of his injured brother, did a fine job under the bar and never allowed the local team to score with neat collections. George Ikeh, who led the side as K.V. Dhanesh was serving a match suspension, was not successful today and did not get adequate support from the midfield. Bagan, Kochin
split points At half time Bagan led 2-1. Enjoying an upperhand, Bagan drew the first blood through striker R.C. Prakash in the 8th minute which was neutralised by Kochin’s Eugene Gray in the 24th minute. Bagan again shot into the lead through James Singh in the 37th minute and Kochin struck the equaliser in the 53rd minute through Joe Paul Ancheri’s free-kick. The tussle between the two teams provided keen competition with the Kolkata strikers showing enough speed and dash which the professional club matched effectively. The Bagan midfield functioned with flexibility and verve and dominated the exchanges. Medio Basudeb Mondal initiated moves from deep inside his own half. Resorting to long diagonals he sent his striking duo of Prakash and Brazilian Baretto away a number of times, yet their final passes went astray or they yielded possession to the rival defenders. The Kochin team was unlucky not to have scored the match winner with minutes to go for the whistle. Sunday Seah who had custodian Bivash Ghosh in front drove over and on another
occasion Rashidi Williams header flew wide over the bar.
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Karnataka spikers
down Delhi NEW DELHI, Feb 10
In a marathon match, Karnataka emerged victorious 22-25,25-23, 25-22,21-25,15-13. National champion Kerala staged a fine rally as the overcame the two set
deficit to defeat Madhya Pradesh 3-2 in their fourth match of the national league volley championship. In the women’s section Delhi blanked West Bengal 3-0 in the inconsequential match as both the teams are out of the race for the super league, with Railways and Karnataka having already booked their berth for that. Karnataka-Delhi match was thriller all the way. The host started by winning the set but Karnataka not only levelled but took the lead claiming next two sets. Delhi, spearheaded by Sandeep Kumar, Kiranpal Rana, Arun Sharma and Rajwinder Malik fought back and drew parity by winning the fourth set. However in the decider, Karnataka just managed to spike the host by two points to emerge winner. This was Karnataka’s third win in four outings and for Delhi second defeat in four matches. National champion Kerala technically kept their hopes alive of making it to the superleague when they staged a superb rally to snatch victory from jaws of defeat as they beat Madhya Pradesh 20-25,23-25,25-20,25-18,25-09. Delhi also is in contention as the hosts have two victories to their credit and they take on Madhya Pradesh in their last match tomorrow. Trailing 0-2 Kerala put their act together in the last three sets. Sunil Kumar, Kishore, Sanjeev and Manoj played superbly to ensure their team’s victory. Delhi women defeated West Bengal to finish the league with one win in three outings. Delhi won25-15,15-25,25-22,25-23. Bengal lost all their three matches.
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Abhinav in
Baltic Cup finals CHANDIGARH, Feb 10
Abhinav, who has already won the RIAC 2001 Cup, Nissan Cup and Den Haag Cup, is determined to lift the Baltic Cup in the European Circuit Shooting Championship. Eighteen-year-old Abhinav is the first shooter in the history of India to reach such heights. It may be mentioned that in his first semi-final match he had a score of 591 and 103.4 with a total aggregate of 694.4 on February 9 in Arhus, Denmark. |
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BSF pummel hapless
Assam 14-0 CHENNAI, Feb 10
While Border Security Force (BSF) pummelled a lowly Assam 14-0 (half time 9-0) to notch up their second victory in group D, Services had to wage a grim battle against Andhra before winning 5-2 (half time 3-0) in group B to collect full points. BSF, who had defeated Jammu and Kashmir 5-1 in its first outing yesterday, displayed their attacking prowess in no uncertain terms as they pounded their hapless rivals scoring from all angles. For Assam this was their second humiliating defeat having lost to Karnataka by a similar margin yesterday. The Karnataka-BSF match on Monday will decide the quarterfinalist from the group. Forward Mandeep Singh set the ball rolling striking as early as in the third minute for the first of his two goals before medio Pardeep Singh wrought havoc with the listless Assam defence scoring six goals, which included a penalty stroke conversion. Seven of the BSF players joined the goal scoring act with Pardeep doing the bulk of scoring. Prabhjit Singh (two), Ranjit Singh, Karambir Singh, Mukhjinder Singh and Raj Singh were the other scorers. In another match, Andhra after losing to Punjab and Sind Bank last evening, came up with an inspired performance, especially in the second half, but could not prevent Services from collecting full points. The first half belonged to the armymen who struck thrice through Sosan Topno (7th minute), C S Xalxo (23rd minute) and Raj Narayan (33rd minute). Trailing by three goals at half time, the Andhra boys went all out in the second session and pulled one back in the 45th minute through a penalty stroke conversion by Harsha Vardhan. Though Services stretched the lead to 4-1 when Ajay Kumar made most of a defence lapse in the very next minute, Andhra enlivened the proceedings with a peach of a goal by Sekar Babu in the 47th minute. Three goals in a span of two minutes brought the goodly crowd on their feet. Andhra pressed hard, before Xalxo scored his second goal, this time off a penalty corner in the 59th minute, to dash the hopes of Andhra, who were now out of the reckoning.
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Bopanna, Mahadevan
in second round MUMBAI, Feb 10
Bopanna, who had crushed Gerard Mandl of Austria 6-3 6-2 in the first round, drubbed Australian Todd Perry in the second round with identical score-line while Mahadevan, who had accounted for his compatriot Deeraj Shetty 6-1 6-4 in first round, sidelined Kobi Ziv of Isreal 6-3 6-2 in the next. Perry had defeated Russia’s Serguel Pozdnev 6-2 6-4 in the first round, while Ziv had accounted for Frenchman Jean-Michel Pequery 6-3 7-6 (7-3) in the earlier round. Bopanna will now meet Italian Daniele Musa, who beat Zuned Sunesra of India 6-4 6-3 in the second round, to book a berth in the main draw begining from Monday. Results men’s singles (qualifying) 2nd round: Rohan Bopanna (Ind) b Todd Perry (Aus) 6-3 6-2, Daniele Musa (Ita) b Zuned Sunesra (Ind) 6-4 6-3, Manoj Mahadevan (Ind) b Kobi Ziv (Isr) 6-3 6-2.
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Mauresmo ousts
Kournikova PARIS, Feb 10
Kournikova, the second seed, led by a set and 3-0 before her French opponent finally got her service working, moved into top gear and ultimately overpowered the 19-year-old Russian. Eighth seed Mauresmo now faces third-seeded defending champion Nathalie Tauziat, who brushed aside the challenge of seventh-seeded American Amy Frazier to win 6-0, 6-2 in just 48 minutes. Mauresmo, beaten finalist in this event in 1999, won her only previous meeting with French compatriot Tauziat. Kournikova has now played in 87 WTA Tour events without managing to win one. Ranked eighth in the world, she had been in fine form this year, reaching the last eight at the Australian Open and the semifinals last week in Tokyo.
— Reuters Bedi feels India can beat Aussies MUMBAI, Feb 10 — Former India captain Bishen Singh Bedi, too, like his illustrious spin partner Erapalli Prasanna, says India can beat the Australians in both Test and one-day series during their 54-days tour of India. Before leaving for Delhi, the left-arm spin wizard, told PTI today: “I feel we can beat them provided we field better than the Australians. I think fielding will be the key”. Prasanna, who had the reputation of developing the science of off spin bowling into an art, had said yesterday that the Indian team was as strong as the Australian team and that an interesting duel was on the cards. — PTI |
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Kalaswala Cup
Golf today CHANDIGARH, Feb 10
Teams from each school will consist of three golfers with the best two cards counting towards the championship. There are various competitions both individual and team. The Alumni of schools that have confirmed participation include Doon School, Dehra Dun, Lawrence School, Sanawar, Modern School, Delhi, Mayo College, Ajmer, Yadavindra Public School, Patiala, St John’s School, Chandigarh, Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, Carmel Convent, Chandigarh, Sainik School, Kapurthala. Over the years the championship has grown into an exciting an with an extra dose of competition being infused by the old school spirit. Charisma Gold Wheels, Coca Cola and some other companies are sponsoring the tournament. This tournament for the Alumni is organised every year by the mainstream Bajwa family as an affirmation of their attachment to and nostalgia for their roots now left behind in Pakistan. |
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Abhay Chautala is IABF chief CHENNAI, Feb 10
The election followed the executive committee meeting of the IABF during the first National Women’s Championship and Sub-Junior Championship being held here, according to Tamil Nadu Boxing Association (TNBA) Secretary A.Karunakaran. The other office-bearers elected were: Hony Secretary: Mr Rajesh Bhandhari. Treasurer: Mr I.D. Nanawati. Vice-president: Col. A.D. Sharma (Services Sports Control Board), R.S. Dalal (Haryana), Mr N.S. Khichi (Rajasthan), Mr Aslt Bannerje (Bengal), Mr D. Gogai (Assam), Mr Kholbe Salam (Manipur), Mr Ashok Khanna (SPSB), Mr P.W.C. Davidar (Tamil Nadu), Mr N.R. Chaudhary (Railway Sports Promotion Board). Joint-secretaries: L.B. Chhetri (Meghalaya), Mr Anil Boidar (Orissa), Mr R. Gopu (Pondicherry), Mr J.C. Vyas (Bihar), Mr Lennny D’Devan (RSPB) and Mr A. Karunakaran (Tamil Nadu). RCC Chairman-Lt. Col. Murlidharan (SSCB), Chairman Legal Commission Mr B.D. Boldar (Orissa), Chairman Medical Commission Dr Nirmolak Singh (Jammu and kashmir) and Chairman Disciplinory Committee Mr Santosh Misra (Uttar Pradesh). Thanking the office-bearers for electing him unanimously as president, Mr Chaulala promised the formulation of a calendar of sports events spread over different regions of the country so that boxing championships do not get restricted to the period between November and February only.
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Haryana clinch Chidambram Trophy ROHTAK, Feb 10
After conceding a lead of 63 runs in the first innings, Haryana lads made a remarkable comeback in the game. Starting their innings from overnight total of 247, Haryana were all out today after adding another 37 runs in 40 minutes of play. They set a target of 222 runs for the Rest of India to score in the second innings today. Haryana bowlers did a commendable job claiming three early wickets when the scoreboard was reading 29. Some casual shots by the Rest of India batsmen added to their woes further. Kashinath Khadikar emerged as top scorer with 30. However, the last wicket partnership of 35 between Kiran Adhav and Rajesh Banik delayed Haryana’s victory by few minutes. Finally the Rest of India innings folded at 140. Medium pacer Nitin Aggarwal and right arm leg-spinner Amit Mishra bagged four wickets each. Mr Ranbir Singh Mahendra, Secretary, Haryana Cricket Association, gave away the Chidambram Trophy to the Haryana skipper Ajay Ratra who had led Haryana to their maiden Cooch Behar title triumph in December last.
Scoreboard Haryana (first innings): 242. Rest of India (first innings): 305 Haryana (2nd innings): Manvinder Bisla c Faiq b Adhav 13; Bhuvnesh Sharma b Adhav 26; Ishan Ganda hit wicket Kashinath 101; Sumeet Sharma c Naman b Adhav 0; Ajay Ratra lbw Faiq 8; Deepak Joon c Lazarus b Faiq 17; Joginder Sharma lbw Lazarus 28; Amit Mishra c Lazarus b Adhav 37; Gaurav Vashishta c Kashinath b M. Faiq 21; Y.S. Singh not out 4; Nitin Aggarwal c Gnaeshwar Rao b Adhav 8. Extras (B-3, LB-12, W-1, NB-5) 21. Total
in 83.4 overs 284. Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-59- 3-59, 4-85, 5-135, 6-195, 7-239, 8-272, 9-272,10-284. Bowling:
S. Lazarus 11-1-39-1, A.S.K. Verma 2-0-8-0, Kiran Adhav 27.4-8-77-5, Kashinath 13-2-56-1-, M. Faiq 24-6-65-3, R. Banik 4-0-9-0, Mohnish Mishra 2-0-15-0 Rest of India (2nd innings): N. Oza c Ishan b Nitin Aggarwal 6; Gagan Inder Singh c Y.S. Singh b Amit Mishra 16; Deepak Chowgele lbw Amit Mishra 9; G. Rao lbw Nitin Aggarwal 0; Kashinath Khadikar c Sumeet b Ishan 30; Mohnish Mishra c Gaurav b Amit Mishra 0; A.S.K. Verma c Manvinder b Gaurav Vashishta 15; M. Faiq lbw Nitin Aggarwal 5; Steve Lazarus lbw Nitin Aggarwal 10; Kiran Adhav not out 16; Rajesh Banik c Sumeet b Amit Mishra 16;. Extras
(LB-2, W-6, NB-9) 17. Total (in 59.3 overs) 140. Fall of wickets:
1-29, 2-29, 3-29, 4-42, 5-48, 6-81, 7-85, 8-104, 9-105, 10-140. Bowling:
Nitin Aggarwal 15-5-41-4, Joginder Sharma 9-2-26-0, Amit Mishra 22.3-7-50-4, Gaurav Vashishta 8-3-12-1, Ishan Ganda 5-2-9-1. |
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SCR pip IA,
lift title LUCKNOW, Feb 10
Despite the presence of many internationals in their ranks, national champions seemed off colour today. The both teams began on an
aggressive note but Indian Airlines were the first ones to pose any real threat to rivals when they forced a penalty corner. Although Rajnish Kumar’s hit landed into the goalmouth but the goal was not allowed as the ball had lifted. In the last minute of the first half Airlines had a second chance but Railways goalkeeper Tagore Babu prevented the hard push by Len Aiyappa’s hard push from inflicting any damage. After the lemon break Railways flurry of attacks on the rival citadel and their efforts paid off. Getting a free hit outside the ‘D’ Ajai Bharti pushed it towards G. Lugun, who made a minor touch to the ball which went inside the goalmouth. — UNI |
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