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King closes inquiry Andy Ram sends Donovan packing Phadke, Sheetal crash out
Woodruff stuns Pete Sampras Stage set for Kila Raipur festival 6-member Challenge 2001 squad named
Salgaocar, Bagan split points Yoga contests on March 10, 11
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Dighe, Powar flay Aussie attack Mumbai, February 22 Powar, with 65 and Nilesh Kulkarni, with 14, were at the crease at close of play. Mumbai, electing to bat after winning the toss were in deep trouble at 57 for four and then 82 for five, but Dighe played a captain’s knock and, along with Bahutule and Powar, helped Mumbai put up a respectable score. Dighe was involved in two partnerships — a 117-run partnership with Bahutule for the sixth wicket and then a 63-run partnership with Powar for the eighth wicket — which gave respectability to the Mumbai score, which at one stage looked like folding for less than 150 runs. Dighe came in at the fall of the fourth wicket with the score at lunch, with the Mumbai score reading 82 and half the side was already back in the pavilion. Bahutule then joined his captain, and the two slowly built the Mumbai innings without taking any undue risks. Sairaj, who was slow to start with, however, opened up as his confidence kept on growing and played some lovely shots on both sides of the wicket. Dighe then took charge of the Australian attack starting with a superbly timed cut of Shane Warne to point boundary and then followed it up sweeping the bowler fine for another boundary in his next over. He then played a glorious cover drive off Miller, who after bowling medium pace in the morning, resorted to off-spin. Dighe reached his fifty with a cover drive of Warne. His 50 came in 88 balls with nine boundaries. At the other end, Sairaj also started coming into his own as he cover drove Warne for a boundary and then took on Damien Fleming, hitting some glorious shots. However, soon after the tea break Sairaj was consumed by part time medium pacer Ponting, being trapped in front of the wicket after completing his fifty. Sairaj made 51 in 108 balls with six boundaries. The next man in Robin Morris did not last long as he went for an expansive drive on the up only to give an edge for keeper Adam Gilchrist to gobble up the catch off Ricky Ponting. Morris made only two and at that time the Mumbai score was 202 for seven. Powar, the next man in, showed his batting capabilities as he shared a rollicking stand with his skipper to take Mumbai to a decent score. The Mumbai batsmen were on the lookout for runs as Dighe took on Miller, hitting him for three fours in an over. Powar then broke loose starting with an on-driven four off Miller. He then hit Matthew Hayden for two consecutive boundaries on two occasions to bring up the 50-run partnership for the eighth wicket in just 35 minutes and 72 balls. However, Dighe’s long vigil soon came to an end when he edged one from Fleming immediately after the new ball was taken, for Gilchrist to take a good diving catch to his right. Dighe made 84 in 178 balls with 14 boundaries. Paras Mhambrey, the next man in, then proceeded to take the fast bowlers on, hitting three consecutive fours off McGrath. However after playing a cameo of 19 runs in just 13 balls he tried to clear mid-on but was caught by Fleming off McGrath. Powar and Kulkarni then further frustrated the Australians putting on 32 runs for the unfinished last wicket stand. At close Powar, with 65 off just 67 balls with 13 boundaries, and Nilesh Kulkarni with 14 with three fours, were going good. Mumbai (first innings): V Mane b Hayden 19 W Jaffer c M Waugh J Paranjape c Fleming b Warne 27 A Mujumdar lbw Miller 1 V Kambli c Ponting b McGrath 0 S Dighe c Gilchrist b Fleming 84 S Bahutule lbw R Ponting 51 R Morris c Gilchrist b R Ponting 2 R Powar batting 65 Mhambrey c Fleming b N Kulkarni batting 14 Extras (5b, 16lb 9nb) Total: (for nine wickets, after 94 overs) 328 Fall of wickets: 1/27, 2/52, 3/57, 4/57, 5/82, 6/199, 7/202, 8/265, 9/296. Bowling: McGrath 19-6-46-3 (3 nb); Fleming 19-4-56-1 (3nb); Miller 21-6-64-1 (1nb); Hayden 7-0-37-1; Warne 19-4-81-1, (1nb); M Waugh 3-0-13-0; R Ponting 6-0-10-2 (1nb).
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Mark Waugh injured Mumbai, February 22 Waugh injured his left hand when he tried to stop Mumbai batsman Sairaj Bahutule’s flick shot while fielding at slips just before tea break. “Waugh has got stiches on his finger and probably will not be allowed to bat tomorrow as we cannot afford such type of injuries ahead of first test,” Australian coach John Buchanan said and added that he had talked to the physiotherapist who had advised him rest. “There are five more days to go before the start of the first Test and I hope he will fully recover before that,” Buchanan said.
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Pak beat New Zealand by 28 runs Wellington, February 22
Off spinner Saqlain Mushtaq had Franklin stumped by skipper Moin Khan as he fell over and dragged his back leg trying to sweep. The dismissal gave Moin a record 65 stumpings in 188 matches as he passed Sri Lankan Romesh Kaluwitharana’s 64. McMillan carried on briefly with left hander Chris Harris to add another 34 runs. Medium paceman Abdur Razzaq, who had struggled throughout his spell, finally came good and produced a double blow in his penultimate over. Razzaq had McMillan caught on the square leg boundary and two balls later trapped Harris lbw to end New Zealand’s hopes. McMillan’s innings lasted 83 balls an included a hooked six off Waqar and six boundaries. Man-of-the-Match Saqlain took 3-26 while Wasim bowled No. 11 Chris Martin to claim 3-41. Pakistan’s fielding once again appeared to let itself down as a dropped catch and numerous misfields frustrated the tourists. Youhana dropped an easy catch by Vincent on the square leg boundary and luckily for Pakistan the right-hander managed only nine more runs. Youhana earlier gave the Pakistan innings a facelift with a fine 47 off 48 balls as the visitors posted a challenging total. Scoreboard Pakistan: Anwar run out (Vincent) 57 Nazir c Fleming b Tuffey 32 Elahi c & b Harris 30 Haq c Twose b Harris 12 Youhana c Astle b Franklin 47 Razzaq c Vincent b Franklin 8 Moin Khan c Astle b Tuffey 15 Akram c Vettori b Franklin 9 Mahmood b Tuffey 17 Younis not out 5 Mushtaq not out 1 Extras (w-6 nb-2 lb-2) 10 Total: (for nine wickets, 50 overs) 243. Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-105, 3-132, 4-152, 5-172, 6-202, 7-216, 8-229, 9-242. Bowling: Tuffey 9-0-52-3 (w1), Martin 7-1-30-0 (w1, nb1), Franklin 8-0-61-3 (w1, nb1), Vettori 10-1-43-0 (w1), Harris 10-0-31-2 (w2), Astle 6-0-24-0. New Zealand: Fleming lbw b Akram 1 Astle lbw b Akram 10 Twose c Moin b Waqar 1 McMillan c Youhana b Razzaq 64 Vincent st Moin b Saqlain 34 Harris lbw b Razzaq 11 Parore not out 34 Vettori b Mahmood 7 Franklin b Saqlain 8 Tuffey c Elahi b Saqlain 3 Martin b Akram 1 Extras (w-6 nb-7 lb-25 b-3) 41 Total: (all out, 48.2 overs) 215 Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-16, 3-18, 4-118, 5-152, 6-152, 7-161. Bowling: Akram 9.2-0-41-3 (w1 nb1), Waqar 10-1-43-1 (w2 nb1), Mahmood 10-0-33-1 (w2 nb1), Razzaq 10-0-44-2 (nb4), Saqlain 9-1-26-3 (w1).
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Unbeaten 85 by Marvan Atapattu Galle, February 22
England’s bowlers persevered but were rewarded only with a wicket in each of the first two sessions, Darren Gough removing Sanath Jayasuriya for 14 and off-spinner Robert Croft dismissing Sangakkara, both to catches by Craig White.
Scoreboard Sri Lanka (1st innings): M. Atapattu batting 85 S. Jayasuriya c White b Gough 14 K. Sangakkara c White b Croft 58 A. De Silva batting 56 Extras (lb-1, nb-7) 8 Total: (for 2 wkts, in 90 overs) 221 Fall of wickets: 1-18, 2-110. Bowling: Gough 15-3-59-1, Caddick 16-10-13-0, White 16-4-45-0, Giles 23-4-54-0, Croft 16-5-41-1, Hick 4-0-8-0. Reuters, AFP |
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King closes inquiry Cape Town, February 22 Judge Edwin King told a news conference that Cronje and former team mates Herschelle Gibbs and Henry Williams were the only South African players implicated in the match-fixing scandal which triggered the inquiry. “I have now formally approached the President (Thabo Mbeki) to close the commission at my request, subject to the compilation of my final report,’’ King said. “I have been informed by Shamila Batohi, who has led the evidence at the commission, that there is no evidence implicating any other member of the team, former member of the team, administrator or official,’’ he added. “I promised at the outset there would be no cover-up and no witch hunt”, King said. Reuters
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Andy Ram sends Donovan packing Chandigarh, February 22 In the first match of the day Uzbek qualifier Dimitri Mazur overcame a stiff challenge from Per Thornadtsson of Sweden to enter the quaterfinals with a 7-6(7/2), 7-5 victory.In the last singles match Israeli Noam Okum halted the progress of Boris Borgula of Slovakia 6-3, 6-4. India’s Leander Paes will be seen in action tomorrow when he takes on Frantisek Cermak of the Czech Republic in the quaterfinals. In the first match Thornadtsson broke Mazur’s service in the fifth game to go 3-2 up but in the eighth game ,Mazur broke back to equalise at 4-all. After that both the players held their services to push the set into the tie-breaker. On the first point of the tie-braeker Mazur double-faulted to hand his opponent the point but then won the next six points to make it 6-2 in his favour. Thornadtsson won the only other point when Mazur failed to reach a passing shot. On the next point he netted a return to hand Mazur the set. In the second set Mazur broke Thorndtsson’s service in the first game with an angled low passing shot. He then won his service to go 2-0 up. In the eighth game Mazur came back from three break-points down to make it 40-all, then survived two dueces to take a 5-3 lead but could not sustain the pace in his next service game to be broken. Thornadtsson took the game to equalise at 5-5. It loked as if Mazur was in a hurry to finish the match and he promptly broke his opponent’s service and then won the game, set and match on the next game. Andy Ram easily won the first five games for a 5-0 lead. September finally won the sixth game to open his
account. He then broke Ram to show some semblence of a fight. Serving at 5-3, the second seed smashed a lob and then forced an error from September to settle the set in his favour. Ram broke in the first game to lead 1-0 in the second set.
September broke back in the sixth game to level 3-3. After 4-4 Ram won the next two games to wrap up the match 6-3, 6-4. The Delgado-Spottl match began on a fast pace. Delgado opened his account with a love game but after that both the players fought well to reach deuce a number of times. In the third game Delgado fought off deuce eight times to hold his serve. Spottl finally broke Delgado in the ninth game to lead 5-4 and take the set at 6-4. In the opening game of the second set Delgado missed a lot of easy shots to let Spottl lead 1-0. In the fifth game Spottl came from 0-40 down to break Delgado’s serve and lead 4-1. He easily took the set 6-2. Qualifier Naom Okun was the last to reach the quaterfinal stage defeating Boris Borgula of Slovakia in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. In the eighth game of the opening set Borgula was broken after five deuces. in the second set he traded breaks in the second and third
games. Okum again broke in the ninth game and then served out the match. Okum
served six aces while his opponent double-faulted four times. In the doubles the duo of Stefano Galvani (Italy) and Igor Kunitcin
(Russia) came back after losing the first set to take the match away from Artem Derepasko (Russia) and Dmitri Tomashevich (Uzbekistan) 5-7, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the semifinals. Thornadtsson along with partner Bjorn Rehnquist gave a walkover to Giorgio Galimberti (Italy) and Nir Welgreen (Israel). |
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Phadke, Sheetal crash out Bangalore, February 22 In the biggest upset of the tournament, eighth seeded Nandita Chandrasekhar, playing her second satellite event, wrecked Sonal 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in 135 minutes to take on unseeded Jordanna Seymour of Australia in the semifinals. Jordanna, who clawed back to knock out Liza Pereira of India 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 in 110 minutes. Nina Wennerstrom of Sweden and South Paw Radhika Mandke of India completed the semifinal line up. In a marathon match that lasted five minutes less than three hours, Nina Wennerstrom of Sweden prevailed over the seeded player and 3-6, 7-5, 7-5 thanks to her stamina. Radhika Mandke of India toyed with Chirashathi Rajur 6-0, 6-0 and needed just 40 minutes to win. Sonal, who was the finalist in the first leg in Chennai, played well in patches and showed signs of the bouncing back into the match when she made staged recovery act in the first two sets. But, Nandita was steady and committed only a few unforced errors and scored winners in crucial moments to walk out victorious. Nandita, the Chennai girl, was leading 4-1 in the set against Sonal Phadke of Maharashtra, the highest rated player in the tournament, before losing her game in the eighth. Both held their serves and Nandita won the first 6-5. Nandita looked like winning with ease when she raced to 4-0 lead breaking the top seed in the first and third games. Sonal, however, broke back Nandita in the sixth, eighth and 12th games to level the set score. In the decider, the crucial break came in the fifth game which gave Nandita 3-2 lead and went on to win 6-4. Local lass Sheetal should blame herself for squandering opportunities against Swedish player. Though Sheetal started losing her served, she recovered fast and broke Nina in three games on a trot to lead 5-1. But she lost her serve in the seventh game. She held her serve in the ninth game to go one-up. In the second set, Sheetal came up with some good returns and even advanced to the net to upset the tall Swedish girl. But she lost her serves in the second and eighth games after breaking Nina in the third to allow the Swedish girl to make the set score one-all. In the decider, Sheetal surged ahead breaking Nina in the third game but lost her serves in the fourth and 12th games. Following are the quarterfinal results: Nandita Chandrasekhar (Ind) b Sonal Phadke (Ind) 6-4, 5-7, 6-4; Nina Wennerstrom (Sweden) b Sheetal Goutham (Ind) 3-6, 7-5, 7-5; Radhika Mandke (Ind) b Chirashathi Rajur (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Jordanna Seymour (Australia) b Liza Pereira (Ind) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.
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Rely on coaches, says Donavan Chandigarh, February 22 Donavan, who ousted Mustafa Ghose of India in the first round and today gave a harrowing time to second seed Andy Ram of Israel in the second round, said it was his wife who was constantly motivating him. A native of Cape Twon (South Africa), Donavan did his schooling from the USA followed by masters and was involved in coaching youngsters at Birmingham (Albema). On the question of match-fixing in cricket by Hansie Kronje of Cape Town, he said when cricketers earn to much by playing matches, they should not get into all this ‘mud’. He said such an act was bad for any sport and sportspersons also. At 31, Donavan wants to play for another one year in the international circuit and said if he could not make it to the big title, he would quit and join the work force along with training youngsters. He said a player who has good exposure could be a better coach. He further said that he also advised his trainees to take care of diet, with stress on nutritional value, along with endurance and mental management which every player should possess in the cricket perspective. Coming back
to his courtship with Ambereen, he said they met during his study course in the USA and she herself was a polo player. When asked about his looks resembling Indians, he said interestingly, when he went to Brazil for the ITF meet, people called him Brazilian; when he went to Malaysia, he was misunderstood to be a native of that country. He said he liked Lahore very much and would certainly love to play there if any meet was organised there in future. |
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Woodruff stuns Pete Sampras Memphis (Tennessee), February 22 Sampras, winner of 13 Grand Slam tournaments, lost 7-6 (7-4) 6-2 to Woodruff, a Tennessee native who had not beaten Sampras in three previous attempts. After dropping a first-set tiebreaker, Sampras went down easily. He was broken at love to open the second set, beaten by a trio of Woodruff return winners. Woodruff broke him again in the seventh game. “It’s got to be right up there with some of my biggest wins,” Woodruff said. “I don’t know if I ever thought I had it won. I have a lot of respect for Pete. I can appreciate what he’s done in tennis. I just made some stance adjustments on my return and I got on a roll.’’ Sampras’s loss prevented a third-round pairing between Goran Ivanisevic and Sampras in a rematch of two previous Wimbledon finals. Sampras, playing in Memphis for the first time since winning the event in 1996, said he felt match fit despite playing only one event this year and thought he started strong. But he let a questionable out call on what he thought was an ace affect him late in the first set and Woodruff broke back to tie the match at 5-all. “I give Chris a lot of credit,” Sampras said. “He returned my serves well. At this point, it’s a tough loss for me. I got a tough call at 5-4 and 15-love and it led to a tough service game and then kind of got on my serve.’’ Sampras said woodruff played a great second set and got into a zone. “He really caught me off guard in the first game of the second set,” Sampras said. Top seeds advancing on Wednesday included No. 3 Tommy Haas and No. 6 Michael Chang. In another second-round upset, Canadian doubles specialist Sebastien Lareau, whose crowning moment last year was winning the doubles gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, made a singles statement. Lareau, ranked 117th in singles at the end of last year, upset No. 4 seed Nicolas Lapentti of Ecuador 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) in a second-round match at the $ 800,000 ATP tour event. Lareau (27) overcame a sluggish start and served well over the final two sets to force the tiebreak. In the tiebreak, Lareau got up a mini-break to go up 2-0 on a forehand volley winner and added another mini-break to go ahead 5-2 when a Lapentti forehand sailed long. He won the match by smashing a deep overhead that Lapentti could not return. Oklahoma City, (Oklahoma): Australian Open champion Jennifer Capriati beat Maria Vento of Venezuela, 6-2 6-1 in the second round of the IGA Indoor Championships on Wednesday. Top-seed Monica Seles also won convincingly, beating fellow-American Jenny Hopkins 7-6 (7-1) 6-3. American Alexandra Stevenson used her big serve to beat Jana Kandarr of Germany, 6-3, 7-6 (9-7) and 17-year-old Aniko Kapros of Hungary, a qualifier with a No. 336 ranking, upset Jana Nejedly of Canada, 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7-5). Capriati needed just 37 minutes to overpower Vento, ranked No. 106. Vento got her only service break of the night in the first set to tie things at 2-2. Capriati then took over, getting two service breaks and limiting Vento to one point the final three games of the set. Capriati had three more service breaks in the 18-minute second set. “My confidence and conditioning are really good right now,’’ Capriati said. “I was anxious to see how I’d play in my first match back. Everything has come together in my game.’’ Seles struggled some vs. Hopkins in the first set and had to go to a tie-breaker. She was more in command the second set with seven aces. “It is always tough when you’re playing your first match in a tournament,’’ seles said. “I missed a lot of shots at first, but I got a lot more confidence as the match went on.’’ Seles is the defending
IGA champion. Stevenson had 13 aces in beating Kandarr, ranked No. 80. “I am happy with the way I’ve been playing,’’ Stevenson said. “I am serving well. Everything this year is building toward Wimbledon, to play on the grass.’’
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Stage set for Kila Raipur festival Chandigarh, February 22 This year the festival would witness several welcome additions. The three-day rural meet would not only witness a virtual Punjab athletic championship but would also provide shooting enthusiasts an opportunist to see some of the top and budding clay pigeon shooters. The entire track and field contingents of both the Punjab Police and the Border Security Force besides all athletic academies of Punjab would be participating in the event to give it a new look. To encourage athletes, special events would be organised for physically handicapped and mentally retarded , both in seniors and juniors section for both men and women. Traditional events like bullock cart races, mule cart races, camel races, tent pegging, horse races, dog races, sack lifting, suhaga race and other events would be organised as usual. Kabaddi competition would not only feature teams from villages from all over the state but also some of the star players, both jaffis and raiders, to make the event memorable one. In Bhagwant Gold Cup Hockey Tournament, top hockey teams of the country, including Punjab Police, BSF, Punjab and Sind Bank and Rail Coach Factory, would participate. In the juniors sections, all hockey academies of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh are also likely to field their teams in the tournament. Besides there will be competitions in cycling, gymnastics and weightlifting. Another attraction would be tug-of-war competition featuring top teams from the region. In the evenings prominent folk singers will perform. During the day artistes from North Zone Cultural Centre and other institutions would perform folk dances, including bhangra and
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6-member Challenge 2001 squad named New Delhi, February 22 Four Square Challenge is a three-day whitewater adventure race, which comprises four different whitewater rafting contests - Raftathon, Aquacash, Flying Slalom and Raft-Kross. Introducing Team Four Square here today, joint managing director of IMG/TWI, South Asia, Peter Hutton said the selected sports persons are the “best of adventure stalwarts”. Issac Wilson and Alan Burt, the world-renowned rafting stalwarts and trainers, will take charge of Team Four Square for a one-month training course at Rishikesh from tomorrow. The team members are (four men and two women): Sujeet Sabnis from Pune, Nikhilendra Singh from Jodhpur, Bipin Bejjenki from Secunderabad, Deepa Thatte from Mumbai, Dhruv Rana from Rishikesh and Flt. Lt. Paidhi Singh. |
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Salgaocar, Bagan split points Margao, February 22 Both Salgaocar and Bagan maintain their lead with 16 and 15 points finishing at third and fourth positions, respectively, below table toppers East Bengal(19 points) and FC Kochin (18 points). Salgaocar played at full steam with strikers Bruno Coutinho and Alvito D’ Cunha tearing open the Bagan defence repeatedly in the opening session and held a complete sway over the proceedings but failed to convert on at least two occasions. Bagan, on the other hand, had a lacklustre first half. UNI
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Yoga contests on March 10, 11 Chandigarh, February 22 A sopkesman of the department informed today that the competitions would be held in 8-11, 11-14, 14-17 and 17-21 age groups. The participants should be within the prescribed age groups as on April 1, 2000. Eight boys and as many girls from each district can take part in these competitions who would be selected through selection trials to be held at the district level. Cash prizes of Rs 300, Rs 250 and Rs 200 would be given to the first, second and third prize winners, respectively, in each age group. |
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Haryana kho-kho New Delhi, February 22 Teams from Rohtak, Ambala, Yamunanagar, Karnal, Kaithal, Panipat, Jhajjar, Bhiwani, Mahendergarh, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Hissar, Sonipat, Fatehabad, Jind and Rewari will participate in the championship. |
Wrestling meet New Delhi, February 22 |
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