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tottering at 128 for eight Tendulkar hits a boundary as Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist (R) watches on the second day of the second Test in Calcutta on Monday. India are chasing Australia's first innings total of 445 all out.
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surrender to Pakistan’s blitz Babloo
bowls Punjab to innings victory Gopichand
joins big league Parliament
applauds Gopichand Jeev
finishes fourth Windies-SA
Test evenly poised SAI’s
no to weightlifting camps Packed
field for Wills Indian Open
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India tottering at 128 for eight Kolkata, March 12 The Indians were tottering at a miserable 128 for eight at the close of second day’s play after allowing their formidable opponents to reach 445 in their first innings, marked by a classic 110 by skipper Steve Waugh. The last two Australian wickets put on 176 runs despite another good spell of bowling by off spinner Harbhajan Singh who took a career-best seven for 123. Having allowed the Australians to pile on a big total, the Indians came out to bat and it was a virtual procession as Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and the rest capitulated before the varied Australian attack. The Indians need another 118 runs to avert the follow-on and they have only the last two wickets in hand to do the highly improbable job. It was another pathetic display by the hosts with none of the batsmen being able to hang around for long on what appeared to be a good batting track. Weighed down by the huge Aussie total, the Indians never recovered from the early jolts inflicted by speedster Glenn McGrath, who generated a fair amount of pace to expose the Indian batsmen’s vulnerability to genuine fast bowling. All the Aussie bowlers looked dangerous as they bowled to a plan, while the hosts surrendered meekly to leave the huge Eden Gardens crowd in a daze. The all-conquering Aussies, leading the three-match series 1-0, have now set their sights of breaking a 31-year series winning drought on Indian soil to reaffirm their supremacy in the longer version of the game. The Indian innings began on a disastrous note as the left-handed opener Sadgopan Ramesh perished for a duck in Jason Gillespie’s first over, allowing the visitors to take control of the proceedings from the very outset. Both Ramesh and his opening partner Shiv Sundar Das have failed to provide a good start for the team in the three innings so far exposing the middle order batsmen to counter the new ball in the early stages. Ramesh, who has not been in the best of forms of late, paid a heavy price for playing a rather casual stroke as he needlessly flashed an outside the off-stump delivery from Gillespie, only succeeding in edging to Ricky Ponting at second slip. Both Aussie new ball bowlers McGrath and Gillespie bowled with a great deal of venom in the first spell, but the diminutive Das and Rahul Dravid, who joined the action after Ramesh’s departure, prevented any further setback by remaining unseparated till the tea break. The post-tea session saw the Indians lose their way again as the lanky McGrath unleashed a devastating second spell from the pavilion end to evict Das (20) and batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar (10) in quick succession to leave the hosts gasping at 48 for three at one stage. The young Das, who was tested with a barrage of short pitched deliveries right through his brief knock, returned to the pavillion when wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist dived full length to his left and latched on to an inside edge much to the delight of his team-mates. A thunderous cheer greeted Tendulkar as he walked into the middle with the responsibility of rebuilding the Indian innings, but he could survive only for 25 minutes, falling to a gem of a delivery from the dangerous McGrath. Tendulkar tried to play an incoming ball on the leg side but missed the line to be trapped in front of wicket. A hushed silence descended on the Eden Gardens as umpire Peter Willey lifted the dreaded finger signalling the maestro’s long walk back to the pavilion. Dravid and captain Sourav Ganguly arrested the slide briefly with a 40-run fourth wicket partnership before Dravid chose to commit ‘harakiri’ by attempting an ambitious stroke off leg spinner Shane Warne and paid the price. Dravid, who was looking quite composed in the middle, was bowled through his gates by a lovely ball and the home team were in dire straits again. Ganguly, who executed a couple of sweetly timed boundaries, followed Dravid to the pavilion soon after with rival skipper Steve Waugh bringing off a brilliant catch in the gully off Michael Kasprowicz who was introduced into the attack from the pavilion end after tea break. With all their star batsmen cooling their heels in the dressing room, Indian innings looked to be in total disarray with nobody capable of putting up a recovery act. From 88 for three, the hosts lost as many as five wickets for the addition of just 25 runs as the visitors went about tightening the noose on the Indians many of whom repeated their mistakes of the first Test. SCOREBOARD Australia (1st innings): Slater c Mongia b Zaheer 42 Hayden c sub (Badani) b Harbhajan 97 Langer c Mongia b Zaheer 58 M. Waugh c Mongia b Harbhajan 22 S. Waugh lbw b Harbhajan 110 Ponting lbw b Harbhajan 6 Gilchrist lbw b Harbhajan 0 Warne c Ramesh b Harbhajan 0 Kasprowicz lbw b Ganguly 7 Gillespie c Ramesh b Harbhajan 46 McGrath not out 21 Extras (b-19, lb-10, nb-7) 36 Total
(all out in 131.5 overs) 445 Fall of wickets: 1/103, 2/193, 3/214, 4/236, 5/252, 6/252, 7/252, 8/269, 9/402. Bowling:
Zaheer Khan 28.4-6-89-2, Prasad 30-5-95-0, Ganguly 13.2-3-44-1, Raju 20-2-58-0, Harbhajan Singh 37.5-7-123-7, Tendulkar 2-0-7-0. India (1st innings): Das c Gilchrist b McGrath 20 Ramesh c Ponting b Gillespie 0 Dravid b Warne 25 Tendulkar lbw b McGrath 10 Ganguly c Steve Waugh
b Kasprowicz 23 Laxman batting 26 Mongia c Gilchrist b Kasprowicz 2 Harbhajan c Ponting b Gillespie 4 Z. Khan b McGrath 3 Raju batting 3 Extras
(lb-2, nb-10) 12 Total (for 8 wkts in 46 overs) 128 Fall of wickets:
1/0, 2/34, 3/48, 4/88, 5/88, 6/92, 7/97 8/113. Bowling: McGrath 11-7-13-3, Gillespie 8-0-39-2, Kasprowicz 10-2-18-2, Warne 17-3-56-1. PTI |
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Ganguly takes exception to Chappell’s comments Kolkata, March 12 “I’ve been deeply distressed by some of Ian Chappell’s comments. While I respect Chappell’s right to be critical of my batting and captaincy, he has no business talking about things he doesn’t know of first hand,” Ganguly today said in a rejoinder published on the front page of “The Telegraph”, in which the Australian writes his column. “Specifically I object to his observation that I am arrogant towards fellow players and that I don’t treat them with enough respect,” he said. Ganguly said these comments were not only ‘unwarranted’ but terribly misplaced. “How does Chappell know what goes on in our dressing room? Also, what does he know of my relationship with team-mates? Frankly, either Chappell is himself ignorant or has made the observations at the behest of somebody else. This isn’t cricket.” Ian Chappell had said in his column yesterday: “Sourav Ganguly has made a number of poor decisions lately (not all of them on the field), however, it is his arrogance towards his fellow players that is the biggest threat to his tenuous hold on captaincy. That and his inability to make big scores in Test matches against teams with a strong attack... If Ganguly can’t change that trend in this series (the signs were not promising in Mumbai) and in the process treat his players with more respect, not only is the Gavaskar-Border Trophy lost but his leadership is in peril.”
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to be cleared for Sharjah? Dubai, March 12 The Gulf News, quoting Foreign Ministry sources in New Delhi, said the Indian team would not be cleared to take part in any tri-angular or quadrangular series in which Pakistan also participates. However, when contacted in New Delhi, Sports Minister Uma Bharti told PTI: “I don’t know anything about such a decision”. The Gulf News report added that the Indian team would be allowed to take part in tournaments like the World Cup, even if Pakistan is one of the contestants. The Indian Government’s policy in this matter applied to other disciplines too, the report added. India has taken this stand against sporting links with Pakistan after the Kargil war nearly two years ago. The Sharjah tournament is scheduled to take place from April 8 to 20.
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Kiwis surrender to Pakistan’s blitz
On his last two balls in his first Test he clean bowled James Franklin and Daryl Tuffey, and had that not been the end of his over, he’d have had a chance of the hat-trick. As it was, Saqlain got last man Chris Martin first ball after the other batsman, Adam Parore, scrambled a leg-bye. Saqlain played a huge part in New Zealand’s second innings slump, taking four wickets for 24 in all. He also ran out opening batsman Matthew Bell yesterday to end an opening stand with Mark Richardson at 91. He had Richardson out in the first over today when he was caught by Imran Farhat, and took the wickets of Stephen Fleming, Nathan Astle and Martin. He also pulled off a brilliant catch to get rid of Craig McMillan at mid-on, diving to his right and grabbing the ball with his finger-tips. Saqlain’s figures on Monday were 12.4 overs, four maidens, four wickets for three. New Zealand were hoping to hang on for the minimum 103 overs but lasted just 24.4. Losing Richardson so early turned out to be a heavy blow, but night watchman Paul Wiseman and Mathew Sinclair went along reasonably comfortably to 121 when New Zealand lost their way. They lost their final eight wickets for just 10 runs. The result represented New Zealand’s worst loss after chasing a total. Their previous worst was the loss by 297 runs to Australia at Auckland in 1973-74. Pakistan captain Moin Khan said after the match he was surprised it finished before lunch. “When we got Richardson this morning I knew we would win, but I didn’t expect it to be so quickly,” he said. Scoreboard Pakistan (1st innings): 346 New Zealand (1st innings): 252 Pakistan (2nd innings): 336-5 decl New Zealand, (2nd innings): overnight 105 for one Richardson c Farhat b Saqlain 59 Bell run out 28 Wiseman b Sami 8 Sinclair c Youhana b Sami 10 Fleming lbw b Saqlain 5 Astle b Saqlain 1 McMillan c Saqlain b Sami 0 Parore not out 0 Franklin b Sami 0 Tuffey b Sami 0 Martin b Saqlain 0 Extras (12b, 7lb, 1nb) 20 Total: 131 all out ; overs :59.4 Fall of wickets: 1-91, 2-105, 3-121, 4-126, 5-127, 6-130, 7-130, 8-130, 9-130, 10-131. Bowling:
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Babloo bowls Punjab to innings victory SAS Nagar, March 12 It was the debutant left-arm spinner Babloo Kumar, who emerged as the star performer for the winners. Incidentally, Babloo did not get the opportunity to bowl in the first innings as the seamers were able to run through the rival batting line-up. Babloo, who got to bowl today just before lunch break, bowled an impressive spell claiming a well-deserved five-wicket haul to hasten the end of the Rajasthan innings. Rajasthan batsmen fared much better in the second innings displaying much better application and skill in handling the Punjab bowling attack. But a couple of them were guilty of throwing away their wickets when looking set for big scores. A defeat for Rajasthan was the foregone conclusion after they were bundled out in less than three hours on the opening day. But they could have easily averted the ignominy of the innings defeat had they not played mindless
strokes. Skipper Gagan Khoda, Saket Bhatia and Sanjeev Sharma were certainly guilty on this count. The visitors lost opener Vineet Saxena, medium pacer Gagandeep Singh trapping him lbw when the batsman had just entered the double-figure mark. Khoda in association with Rahul Kanwat adopted a cautious approach and collected runs without resorting to any extravagance. Rahul, after carting debutant seamer Vineet Kumar thrice to the fence on a trot in the same over early on, settled to play an impressive innings. With lunch break in sight and a sudden rush of blood, in the very first over of Babloo, saw well-set Khoda step out and attempt an extravagant stroke only to see his timber disturbed. Kanwat then repaired the damage somewhat in the company of Nikhil Daru. Kanwat was the dominant partner as both added crucial runs to the total. Just when the innings seemed headed in the right direction, Babloo consumed Daru. Kanwat, who looked set for a century and had hit 14 scorching fours and twice hoisted leg-spinner Sandeep Sawal over the widish long-on and deep mid wicket boundaries for big sixes, became Babloo’s next victim. A good partnership between Saket Bhatia and wicketkeeper Rohit Jhalani appeared in the offing but Rohit who had played some impressive strokes, was adjudged lbw off Reetinder Sodhi. Saket, who also was in superb touch and had completed his half century with the help of 10 fours, had to pay for his indiscretion. He tried to send Sawal delivery out of the ground over the bowlers head but ended up being bowled. Sanjiv Sharma played some glorious strokes, including a six and two fours in the same over from Sawal. When it looked as if the play may enter the fourth day and Rajasthan might just avoid the innings defeat, Sanjeev in the last over of the day opted to take the aerial route and ended up giving a simple catch to Yuveraj Singh at long-off to signal the end of the innings. Punjab now travel to Mumbai for the quarterfinal match against the reigning champions from March 20 to 24, while it is the end of the road for Rajasthan. SCOREBOARD Rajasthan
(1st innings): 111 Punjab (1st innings): 429 Rajasthan (IInd innings): Vineet Saxena lbw Gagandeep 11, Gagan Khoda b Babloo 40, Rahul Kanwat b Babloo 88, Nikhil Daru lbw Babloo 14, P Krishan Kumar c Rathore b Sawal 16, Saket Bhatia b Sawal 53, Rohit Jhalani lbw Sodhi 27, Sanjeev Sharma c Yuveraj b Babloo 37, Devender Pal lbw Sawal 00, Mohammad Aslam c&b Babloo 04, Pramod Yadav not out 00. Extras:
( lb 5, nb 11): 16 Total (all out in 94.2 overs) : 306 Fall of wickets:
1-25, 2-97, 3-151, 4-170, 5-206, 6-261, 7-270, 8-276, 9-285, 10-306 Bowling:
Gagandeep Singh 14-3-25-1, Vineet Kumar 14-2-51-0, Reetinder Sodhi 15-3-30-1, Sandeep Sawal 26-3-127-3, Ravneet Ricky 4-1-16-0, Babloo Kumar 17.2-6-48-5, Dinesh Mongia 4-0-4-0. |
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Birmingham, (England), March 12 All 16 of the world’s top ranked players contested the All-England championship, including the three medal winners from the Sydney Olympics and current No 1 Peter Gade of Denmark. No hiding place — but it was the quiet, thoughtful 27-year-old from Bangalore who lifted the trophy yesterday after beating China’s Chen Hong 15-12, 15-6 in the final. It was the first Indian victory in the men’s singles tournament since Prakash Padukone, now Gopichand’s national coach, won the title in 1980. Gopichand, a typical Asian mixture of power and touch, played consistently at the top of his game, disposing of both Gade and Olympic champion Ji Xinpeng of China along the way. Beating big names is nothing new for the Indian. Previous victims over the years have included the two previous Olympic champions Allan Budi Kusuma of Indonesia and Denmark’s Poul Erik Hoyer Larsen. But such victories in the big events have tended to be one-offs. Putting together five or six wins in a row to clinch a major tournament like the All-England is a big breakthrough. A ready winner of fairly minor fare such as the Scottish and Toulouse titles, but typically a last 16 player and no more in the big ones — that has been the Indian’s profile to date. Gopichand, thrilled to fulfil a childhood ambition, admitted: “I have always had the game but I have had a few weaknesses which people have exploited. “I have patched them up a bit now and I feel more confident as a player.” Acid tests await. Having arrived, can Gopichand stay at or near the top of the sport? The World Grand Prix finals in Brunei loom at the end of the month followed by the world championships in Seville in June. Gopichand, his defensive game improved after special attention, could be joining the movers and shakers, albeit at a relatively late age. Sunday’s loser Chen can look back with satisfaction on an event in which compatriots Ji and Xia Xuanze, the defending champion, both disappointed. But generally, China had a good championships once more. The women’s singles title went to Olympic champion Gong Zhichao who defended her All-England crown with a comfortable 11-7, 11-3 success over compatriot Zhou Mi. Then Gao Ling teamed up with Huang Sui to win the women’s doubles after earlier lifting the mixed doubles title with Zhang Jun. The mixed doubles victory spelt agony for the top-seeded Danish pair of Michael Sogaard and Rikke Olsen who failed to convert two match points and lost 13-15, 15-12, 17-14. At the Sydney Olympics last September the Danes also had two match points in the bronze medal game but missed out, handing the medal to Britain’s Simon Archer and Jo Goode.
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Parliament applauds Gopichand New Delhi, March 12 The Lok Sabha applauded the feats with loud thumping when immediately after the question hour Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee stood up to say that these two players had ‘brightened the horizon of sports’ with their performance. In the Rajya Sabha also the members were all praise for the two Indian sportsmen after Mr Ram Deo Bhandari of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) raised the matter through a special mention. The Prime Minister in his statement said: “The whole nation is proud of them”. He added that Gopichand had already been promoted by his employers Indian Oil from a Deputy Manager to the post of a Manager. “So far as cricket is concerned the whole country has been yearning to hear some good news. Harbhajan Singh has brought us the cheer”, he said. The feat of the two sportsmen also attracted the attention of the leader of Opposition Sonia Gandhi, who while endorsing the feelings of the Prime Minister said her party congratulated the two sportsmen for their splendid deeds. While raising the issue in the Rajya Sabha the RJD member said yesterday was a special day for the country when the two sportsmen had made India proud through their feats. Mr Bhandari said their feat was also a message to the other up and coming sportsmen to strive for bringing laurels to the country. As several members joined him to convey their appreciation of the achievements of the two sportsmen, Chairman Krishan Kant said that the whole House would like to congratulate them. Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has felicitated off spinner Harbhajan Singh for showing excellent performance in the opening day of the second cricket Test match at Kolkata. He also congratulated Gopichand who won the coveted All-England men’s singles title. HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu announced in the State Assembly a cash reward of Rs 25 lakh to badminton wizard Gopichand. The House unanimously adopted a resolution lauding the shuttler for doing India pround. Mr Naidu, who moved the resolution said Gopichand would also be given a house site of his choice. He said a badminton academy would be set up in consultation with Gopichand, who would be involved in its functioning.
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New Delhi, March 12 Jeev Milkha Singh put up an enthralling display on the final day to finish tied for the fourth place in the season-opening $834,000 Token Corporation Cup on the Japan Golf Tour. According to information reaching here from Tado, Japan, Jeev aggregated four-under 209 in freezing conditions in a tournament which was reduced to three rounds following a heavy snowstorm on the opening day. The second round was cancelled. Jeev, who became the first Indian golfer to qualify for the lucrative Japanese Tour after finishing third in the qualifying school, shot the day’s best round of four-under 67 to leapfrog from tied 34th place to fourth after the second round. The conditions on the final day were so unfriendly with uninterrupted rain and sub-zero temperature that only four players broke par. Shingo Katayama of Japan won the tournament at eight-under 205. Katayama shot a two-over 73 on the final day and won by two strokes over Tsuneyuki Nakajima. |
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Windies-SA Test evenly poised Georgetown, (Guyana), March 12 West Indies wiped out the deficit and were 50 for no wicket at the close, an overall lead of 22. South Africa seemed poised for a big total when they reached 171 for one in reply to the West Indian first innings total of 304. But a dubious leg before wicket decision against Jacques Kallis started a slide in which the tourists lost nine wickets for 151 runs. Kallis was given out by English umpire John Hampshire although television replays showed clearly that he got a thick edge to a ball from Nixon McLean before it hit his pad. Kirsten and Kallis (50) put on a record 146 for the second wicket and neither looked troubled after resuming at the overnight total of 130 for one. South Africa then quickly lost Daryll Cullinan and Neil McKenzie, who both fell to the legspinner, Dinanath Ramnarine. Kirsten and Mark Boucher (52) put on 76 for the fifth wicket, with Boucher striking the ball crisply and reaching his fifty off 89 balls, the fastest half-century of a match in which batsman have had difficulty scoring quickly on a slow pitch. Kirsten’s dismissal shortly before tea, when he played a tired-looking cut against Courtney Walsh and was caught by wicketkeeper Ridley Jacobs, started another collapse, with the last six wickets adding only 58 run. It was the 12th Test century by Kirsten, (33), who equalled the South African record for most centuries held by team-mate Daryll Cullinan. Scoreboard West Indies
(Ist innings): 304 South Africa (Ist innings) (overnight 130-1): Kristen c Jacobs b Walsh 150 Gibbs b Dillon 8 Kallis lbw b McLean 50 Cullinan c Jacobs b Ramnarine 7 McKenzia b Ramnarine 4 Boucher lbw b Walsh 52 Klusener lbw b McLean 5 Boje c Hinds b Dilon 15 Pollock not out 17 Donald c Lard b Ramnarine 2 Ntini c Jacobs b Dillon 11 Extra:
(b4, lb5, nb2) 11 Total: (127 overs) 332 Fall of wickets:
1-25, 2-171, 3-186, 4-198, 5-274, 6-285, 7-287, 8-310, 9-315. Bowling:
Walsh 28-7-56-2, Dillon 27-5-64-3, McLean 22-0-75-2, Ramnarine 41-9-105-3, Hooper 8-0-21-0, Samuels 1-0-2-0. West Indies
(2nd innings): Hinds not out 13 Gayle not out 26 Extra:
(b5, lb1, nb5) 11 Total: (no wkts, 15 overs) 50 Bowling: Donald 5-3-8-0, Pollock 3-023-0, Kallis 4-0-9-0, Boje 3-2-4-0.
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SAI’s no to weightlifting camps Patiala, March 12 Weightlifting Federation of India (WFI) sources reveal that the SAI has stopped the sanction of camps to be held in future at the NIS here and at other centres due to the tug-of-war going on between two groups within the WFI. This unprecedented decision has caught the top weightlifters unawares as most of them have yet to start training since the 53rd Senior National Weightlifting Championships concluded at Vijayawada on January 23. A number of International meets, including the all-important world and Commonwealth championships, are scheduled to be held this year. The senior Asian championships, which will also act as a qualifying competition for the Afro-Asian Games, are also slated to be held this year in South Korea along with the SAF championships to be held at Islamabad in mid-October. Meanwhile, nobody in the WFI knows the status of the ongoing senior women national weightlifting camp which commenced at the NIS on March 6. Only three lifters have been invited for the camp, out of which two, Olympian Sanamacha Chanu and Pratibha Devi, are attending the camp while the third lifter Kunjarani Devi has yet to join. Sources reveal that the SAI has asked the WFI to set its house in order before sanction for holding camps is accorded. It may be recalled that for the last two years the affairs of the WFI are being run by a two member ad-hoc committee comprising of former nine times national champion Balbir Singh and R.R. Singh. The ad-hoc committee was constituted by the IOA President, Mr Suresh Kalmadi, following a deadlock in the WFI general body elections. Sources say while Balbir Singh heads one faction, the other is headed by R.R. Singh and Gopal Khanra, the former secretary of the WFI. Everything worked smoothly till the Sydney Olympics but immediately after the Olympics internal politicking once again reared its head. One of the reasons was Malleswari’s outburst against chief coach P.S. Sandhu, who reportedly has the backing of Balbir Singh. Due to internal squabbling the contract of Malleswari’s foreign coach L.Taranenko was not renewed, despite the lifter’s repeated pleas to renew the contract. WFI sources confirm that a list of probables to attend various camps was sent to the Executive Director (teams), New Delhi recently. However, the proposal to sanction camps was shot down on the plea that the list was signed by only one member of the ad-hoc committee, Balbir Singh. The SAI has asked for a joint proposal which looks unlikely as, till yet, there is no concrete move to bridge the differences between the warring groups within the
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Packed field for Wills Indian Open New Delhi, March 12 The Indian challenge will be led by defending champion Jyoti Randhawa and former champion Arjun Atwal. The duo will be supported by Feroz Ali, who lifted the trophy in 1998, and has witnessed an eventful year on the current Wills Sport PGAI Golf Tour, and Ali Sher, who holds the distinction of having won the Wills Indian Open title twice, in 1991 and 1993. International Management Group Director Rishi Narain said here today Japan would field the largest number of professionals — 18 — followed by Korea (12), the USA(11), South Africa (8), Australia (6), Thailand (5), Philippines and Taiwan (4 each), and Mynamar and Pakistan (three each). “The Wills Indian Open 2001 field has considerable depth”, said Rishi Narain. He said 32 of the top 60 golfers from the 2000 Asian Professional Golf Association Davidoff Order and Merit will compete head to head at the Classic Golf Resort. |
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