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East Bengal are new league champions JCT win, qualify for next edition Ferrero outlasts Moya for Barcelona title
Zimbabwe sweep series
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Fitness and fielding ‘will be key areas’ Soumyadeep Roy
loses India not to play
in Asia Cup 7 killed, 51 injured in soccer stampede Venus heads field in Hamburg Victories have ‘boosted team’s morale’ Coaching camp at Rohtak Patiala cricketer for National Cricket
Academy
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East Bengal are new league champions Thiruvananthapuram, April 30 Defending champions, Mohun Bagan were the runners-up and Churchil Brothers finished third. Striker Omolaja Olalekah scored both the goals for East Bengal in today’s match. Mohun Bagan, Kolkata (twice), JCT Mills, Phagwara, and Salgaokar, Goa, are the previous winners of the National Football League. SBT, Thiruvananthapuram with 20 points from 22 matches will be relegated to the NFL-II division, unless the All-India Football Federation decides to increase the number of teams. Nigerian striker Omolaja Olalekan scored both the goals for East Bengal in the 42nd and 74th minutes of the game. The huge crowd that turned up today braving the pre-match showers were treated to some pleasing fare. Despite the rain-sodden pitch and the wet ball, both teams played skillful and business-like football. East Bengal were worthy winners revealing good team work and coordination. Home side too had an equal share of the exchanges and scoring chances but lacked the all important finishing touch. BANGALORE: Defending champions Mohun Bagan were dethroned despite a 2-0 win over local giants ITI in an action-packed final league round match here on Monday. With this win, Bagan, the Kolkata outfit, finished runner-up, ending with 45 points from its 22 engagements, a mere one point behind East Bengal, who defeated SBT at Thiruvananthapuram 2-0 to lift the title. Mohun Bagan shot into the lead in the 42nd minute as Brazilian Jose Barretto, the league’s top scorer with 14 goals going into the match, gave a superb pass to Basudeb Mondal whose splendid header was on target. ITI protested the referee’s decision to award the goal, but in vain. After the breather, Amar Ganguly banged home off a James Singh pass in the 56th minute to seal ITI’s fate. Tempers ran high as rival team players were seen pushing around their opponents and police had to intervene to restore normalcy. Kenneth Raj (ITI) and Mondal (Mohun Bagan) were shown red cards by the referee following the altercation and scuffle. ITI had a few chances, especially in the second half, but the forwards failed to convert. Starting with a must-win situation to be in the race to retain title, the Kolkata team took time to settle down as the ITI made initial moves without success. The danger man was Brazilian striker Jose Barretto lurking around the ITI goal. His lob was pushed away to safety by custodian Mark Mascarenhas, who was tested
severely. ITI tried in vain to open the account and it was the same story of missed chances for the local team. Kenneth Raj headed out a good lob from Rishi Kapoor. George Ikeh, who strived hard without success, dodged two defenders in a brilliant run and the superb shot was equally well collected by Bibash Ghosh. Kenneth Raj and Rishi Kapoor got yellow cards. In the second session, Mohun Bagan came close to scoring thrice. First Amar Ganguly’s kick hit the upright and rebounded to the relief of the telephonemen. Dolal Biswas’ shot was blocked by mark while Amar Ganguly’s long ranger sailed over the bar. MUMBAI: Air-India clinched a last-gasp goal to edge past Vasco of Goa 2-1 in the final match here at the Cooperage. The win took Air-India’s 22 match-tally to 21 points. For Air-India to stay in the the NFL and for their coach Bimal Ghosh to keep the job either SBT or JCT has to lose. Air-India, whose many players are poorly-paid contract players, were fully aware of the consequences and played their heart out but nearly lost their soul when few seconds before the final whistle the score read 1-1. The second half of the match was completely dominated by the city team. They should have put the issue beyond any doubts but they continued to bungle in the box and once almost all players went down on the knees as Godfrey Perreira’s kick thudded on the post. As the seconds ticked by Perreira again gave a short pass to Anthony Fernandes whose shot rebounded off Brazilian goallie Rogerio Ramos to Ratan Singh, who had space and time to knock it in. Air-India got to a good start in the 14th minute when Ratan Singh’s high centred toss was shouldered in by Khetan Paite over Ramos for the first goal. Vasco hit back when Vishant Pednekar stole the ball from the defence wall, went around it and hammered a high-shot for the equaliser two minutes later. Air-India’s goallie Israt Kamal who had a very bad day in the last match was excellent under the bar saving atleast two definite goals thwarting Riston Rodrigues and and another Brazilian Edson Wanderly from close range. MARGAO: Local league champions Zee Churchill came from behind to humble star-studded Football Club Kochin 3-1 and clinch the third place in the concluding round match at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda here. Igor Shkvirin in the 47th minute, substitute Abhisek Yadav in the 53rd minute and substitute Ajay Singh in the 71st minute scored for Churchill, while the lone goal for F.C.Kochin came in the 13th minute of the first half through striker Aaron Cole. With Monday’s win Churchill jumped on to the third spot with 36 points from 22 outings registering their 10 win, six draws and six defeats and were richer by Rs 16 lakh. Churchill avenge the defeat they suffered against F.C.Kochin by 1-2 in the first leg clash and relegated F.C.Kochin to fourth place with 34 points from nine wins, seven draws and six defeats. Trailing by a goal at the breather, Churchill regrouped well and played with renewed vigour to scored two goals in quick succession. Churchill’s striker Igor Shkvirin restored the parity, with his powerful header, which found the net 1-1 following a flag kick taken by Somatai Shaiza in the 47th minute.
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JCT win, qualify for next edition Ludhiana, April 30 Faced with a do-or-die situation, JCT rose as one man to subdue their rivals through opportunistic strikes by skipper Ram Pal and Hardip Gill. Such was the millmen’s domination that Salgaocar hardly got any opportunity to test Arvind Kumar under the JCT
bar. On the few occasions that former India captain Bruno Coutinho,
Tijani Ahmed and Christian Okoye posed danger, the JCT defence ably manned by Tarsem Lal, Balkar, Ranjit and Daljit stood its ground and Arvind displayed fine anticipation in thwarting their designs. JCT commenced the proceedings in whirlwind
fashion, with the mercurial Hardip Gill cutting past a defender before relaying the ball to the onrushing Jaswinder
inside the box but before Jaswinder could do any damage, a rival defender made a timely clearance. Salgaocar’s counter attack through medio Dharamjit Singh also proved abortive as Tijani Ahmed failed to head the ball home. A long ranger by Dennis Cabral also went abegging. Hardip Gill of JCT was again on the move. Moving swiftly into the box from the
right, he sent a back pass but there was nobody to provide the finishing touch. It was in the 37th minute that JCT’s sustained efforts bore
fruit. A power-packed grounder by the promising Jaswant saw Salgaocar goalie Juje Siddi making a vain bid to collect. As he
fumbled, the ball rolled over and Ram Pal shot into an empty net (1-0). The second half again saw JCT calling the shots. Hardip
Gill, initiating another good move, relayed the ball for Sukhjit who was ideally positioned near the far post but he failed to tap the ball home. Salgaocar’s Tijani Ahmed also had a good chance thereafter but his powerful volley sailed over the bar. A Gill-Sukhjit move which followed nearly resulted in a goal but Sukhjit, despite being in a one-to-one situation with Siddi, failed to shoot home with the latter advancing out of
charge. Another move by the duo also went waste and this time Gill was the culprit. Salgaocar’s Bruno
Coutinho, who had managed to move up to the top of the box, tested Arvind Kumar with a piledriver but the ball bounced back into play. The second goal for JCT followed in dramatic fashion. Hardip Gill, after latching on to the ball on the
left, rushed towards the target. Salgaocar goalie Siddi, sensing danger, rushed
forward to check him. With a fine body swerve, Gill dodged past him and placed the ball in an empty goal (2-0). Towards the end, a power-packed right footer by substitute Jatin Bisht brought out the best in JCT custodian Arvind Kumar who leapt high to punch the ball over the bar. With today’s
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Ferrero outlasts Moya for Barcelona title Barcelona, April 30 As an epic match between two outstanding clay-court players yesterday entered its fifth hour, Moya, serving at 5-6, double-faulted to give Ferrero his third match-point and put a simple overhead into the net and let a match he had appeared to have in his grasp slip away. It was a desperate way for Moya to lose a contest that lasted four hours nine minutes and featured moments of sublime tennis. “You don’t want to know what went through my head at that moment,” said Moya, who had missed two break-points when leading 3-1 in the final set only to let Ferrero back in. “To play for that length of time and then to miss out with a double fault and a smash into the net. It’s disappointing but it was a great game and either one of us could have won.” Ferrero agreed. “It was incredibly close,” he said. “We both played at a very high level, in terms of our tennis and our fitness, and really no one deserved to lose that match. “I said before the game it would be close but I don’t remember a final being quite that close, with so many twists in the final set.” Moya, the 1998 French Open champion, had started the match in irresistible form. He dropped just six points on his serve in the opening set as his immense forehand and much-improved backhand kept Ferrero flailing on the slippery clay-court surface. He broke again at the start of the second set but somehow Ferrero, winner of two titles already this season and the beaten finalist in Barcelona last year, hauled himself back into the match. The 21-year-old, seeded three to Moya’s 11, broke back immediately as a disputed line call went in his favour to give him 15-40 and his distracted opponent put a weak backhand wide on the first break-point. Ferrero held in game five despite being taken to six deuces and he broke Moya in the next game to get his nose in front. Moya broke back in the next but missed three more break-points in game nine to leave himself having to serve to stay in the set twice. Ferrero took advantage on the second occasion as Moya mishit an attempted drop-shot and then sent a forehand long on the resulting break-point. Ferrero, with the momentum now in his favour, broke at the start of the third as Moya seemed to tire, putting a backhand and then a forehand to the net to gift his opponent a 2-0 lead. Moya could not find any consistency on his serve and was being kept on the back foot by the accuracy of Ferrero’s ground-hitting. He had one chance to break back in game nine but Ferrero saved with a terrific volley, low at his feet from Moya’s rasping return. Moya held comfortably in the opening game of the fourth and that seemed to revive him. He broke in the next as Ferrero made two unforced errors on his forehand on the crucial points but Moya returned the favour in game five to leave the set evenly poised. Moya thrashed a forehand wide on break-point in the next but Ferrero let him come back as he overhit on the forehand again to fall 4-2 behind. Moya held on for the set and raced into a 3-1 lead in the decider as some of his earlier fluency returned. Ferrero found reserves of strength to save two break-points in game five — a moment picked out as the key by Moya — and he got his reward with a break back in the next. The match went with serve until the final game when Moya, fighting to stay alive at 5-6, saved two match-points with a nerveless forehand and a volley that killed the ball dead, only to lose his composure with his two costly mistakes.
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Zimbabwe sweep series
against Bangladesh
Harare, April 30 Earlier, seam bowler Brighton Watambwa and the Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak put their team on the brink of victory at lunch. They took two wickets each, and a smart run-out by substitute Gavin Rennie reduced Bangladesh from overnight 219 for five to 266 all out in 75 minutes. This left Zimbabwe only 100 to get and by the break they were 33 without loss, requiring only 67. The day began well for Bangladesh and they knew they would not have to contend with Andy Blignaut who was obliged to pull out with a calf injury. Captain Naimur Rahman and Habibul Bashar moved the score forward at a brisk pace and the overnight overall lead of 52 with five wickets in hand was stretched to 79. But from 246 for five Bashar, Enamul Haque, Mohammad Sharif and Monjurul Islam were all caught at slip or by wicketkeeper Andrew Flower and Naimur Rahman was run out and only another 20 runs were added. The session was a big success for new Zimbabwe bowler Brighton Watambwa, who used good away swing to capture four wickets for 64. Scoreboard Bangladesh (1st innings): 254 Zimbabwe (1st innings): 421-9 dec Bangladesh (2nd innings): (overnight 219-5) J.Omar c G.Flower b Price 43 M.Hossain c Blignaut b Watambwa 0 Al-Shariar c Streak b Watambwa 68 A.Islam lbw b Price 2 H.Bashar c A.Flower b Streak 76 A.Khan c Campbell b Price 31 N.Rahman run out 36 E.Hoque c A.Flower b Watambwa 3 M.Rahman not out 2 M.Sharif c Carlisle b Streak 0 M.Islam c A.Flower b Watambwa 0 Extras (lb-2, nb-2, w-1) 5 Total 266 Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-97, 3-99, 4-127, 5-203, 6-246, 7-264, 8-264, 9-265. Bowling:
Streak 21-7-47-2, Watambwa 21.5-64-4, Blignaut 15-6-27-0, Price 30-9-94-3, Flower 6-0-13-0, Nkala 6-0-19-0. Zimbabwe (2nd innings): Whittall b Haque 60 Ebrahim run out 10 Carlisle not out 29 Campbell not out 0 Extras (lb-1) 1 Total
(for 2 wkts) 100 Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-92. Bowling:
M. Islam 9-2-21-0, M. Sharif 6-0-36-0, E. Haque 3-0-8-0, M. Rahman 6-0-26-0, N. Rahman 3-0-8-0.
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Fitness and fielding ‘will be key areas’ Bangalore, April 30 “We are lacking in fitness. The real difference between us and winning sides is about 20 per cent. That can be made up by fitness and fielding”, he told newsmen amidst busy meetings. The other area would be to inculcate discipline among the boys. Value of hardwork would be imbued in the teenagers, he added. Stressing that he would be following the blueprint evolved in the last year, the member of 1983 World Cup winning team, said that his experiences as a coach would be utilised for harnessing the talents. “My experience of over 10 years as a coach should come in handy”, he added. Zonal academies with those below 17 years of age would start functioning from tomorrow in Chennai (South), Delhi (North), Kanpur (Central), Kolkata (East) and Mumbai (West). It may be recalled that Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary J.Y.Lele had criticised the grand plans of NCA chairman Rajsingh Dungarpur to start new zonal centre and one national centre at the Cricket Club of India in Mumbai. Balwinder Singh expressed happiness over the facilities available at the M.Chinnaswamy stadium of the Karnataka State Cricket Association from where the NCA had been functioning since its inception. “We need some more latest equipment. They would be in place soon. Now we know where to look for what”, he said. The coach felt that the indoor nets would be of great help to the boys. Starting the five zonal academies would help in ensuring steady supply of good players to the NCA, he opined. Some of the boys like Ajay Ratra and Swapnil Hazare are back in the academy. A few with short stint in the academy are also back. To a question, he said the boys above 19 had been preferred for the NCA. However, senior players were also welcome to correct their flaws. He said meetings were being held to ensure that there was uniform method of coaching at all the centres. A lot of inputs were going into it to see that the standards were met, he added. Balwinder Singh would be assisted by E.A.S.Prasanna, Jayanthi Lal and Roger Binny. Besides, former international cricketers would also be called to share their experiences. The meetings are being attended by heads of coaching Nari Contractor (West), Yashpal Sharma (North) and Kailash Ghattani (Central) and assitant coach Syed Kirmani (South) and physio Arjun Singh Rana. Former NCA Director Hanumanth Singh continues to be a member on the committee. The coaches and administrators had been holding series of meetings for the last couple of days. The following is the list of trainees at the NCA: Vinayak Mane (Mumbai), Gautam Ghambir (Delhi), Y.Gnaneswara Rao (Andhra), Ishana Ganda (Haryana), Gagan Inder Singh (Punjab), Arindam Das (Bengal), Arjun Yadav (Hyderabad), Kashinath Kakdikar (Maharashtra), Ajay Ratra (Haryana), Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan (TN), Raja Ali (Railways), Salil Yadav (Gujarat), Uday Karkera (Mumbai), L.Balajee (TN), Maninder Singh (MP), Shallabh Srivastava (UP), Pratik Patil (Gujarat), Deep Dasgupta (Bengal), Dharmichand (Karnataka) and Swapnil Hazare (Mumbai).
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Soumyadeep Roy loses Osaka, April 30 Soumyadeep, who was the lone Indian left in the qualifying rounds after S. Raman, Subhajit Saha and Shibaji Datta stumbled in the second round, lost in straight games 12-21, 13-21 to crash out of competition. Soumyadeep received a walkover from Jelly Da Costa of Indonesia in his first match in group 30 and came from behind to defeat Chih Chin-Shui of Chinese Taipei 18-21, 23-21, 21-15 in the second round.
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India not to play
in Asia Cup Bangalore, April 30 The ABC was not keen on inviting the Indian team without All-England champion Pullela Gopichand and Abhinn Shyam Gupta, who had expressed their inability to take part in the $170,000 team event, BAI secretary S.S Mani told PTI here. He said the championship sponsor, Total Sport Asia, was reluctant to invite the Indian team which was bereft of star players like Gopichand and Gupta and decided to replace India with Thailand. Mani said Gopichand was preparing for the forthcoming world championship slated to be held in Seville in June, while Gupta had expressed inability to participate in the Asia Cup tourney citing a bereavement in his family. Moreover, the Asia Cup championship was an invitation tournament and not a ranking event. As a result, the non-participation of the country’s team in that tournament would have no bearing on its ranking, he added.
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7 killed, 51 injured in soccer stampede Kinshasa, April 30 The disaster occurred yesterday evening after police moved to break up rioting at a top local clash in Lubumbashi between the southern city’s two biggest clubs, Mazembe and Lupopo, Information Minister Kikaya Bin Karubi told Reuters. The incident was the latest in a string of sports-related tragedies on the impoverished continent, coming less than three weeks after 43 soccer fans were killed in Johannesburg in South Africa’s worst sporting disaster. Kikaya said Lupopo had been leading Sunday’s tie 1-0 when Mazembe scored a few minutes from time, angering Lupopo fans who began pelting Mazembe players with missiles. “Towards the end of the match Mazembe equalised and people started to throw things — they even went down onto the pitch. The police intervened to protect the players,’’ Kikaya said. “They used tear gas. When the people saw this they tried to escape and some people were suffocated,’’ he added. “We are still waiting for the final toll, but this morning it is still seven dead and 51 seriously injured.’’ It was not clear exactly how many people were in the stadium, which was packed with rival fans for the clash between two of the country’s top teams. Africa’s sporting history is dotted with similar tragedies. The Johannesburg disaster occurred on April 11 when thousands of fans broke down gates and surged into a packed stadium mid-way through a high-profile match between local teams. Police have often been criticised for using heavy-handed methods to control volatile soccer crowds that only increase the risk of a disaster. Police in Zimbabwe accepted some blame for the deaths of 13 people killed last July in a stampede when they used tear gas to quell rioting after a World Cup qualifier against South Africa. In Congo itself, four people were killed in November 1998 when police opened fire on fans at a Kinshasa match between Vita Club and Motema Pembe. Two people were killed in Kinshasa in December 1996 in a stampede during a match in the national stadium.
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Venus heads field in Hamburg Hamburg, April 30 The 20-year-old Wimbledon and US Open champion will be hoping that this year’s injury worries do not stop her from advancing past the quarter-finals, where she was eliminated last year. A year ago Williams struggled in all her matches and after an unconvincing win over Irina Spirlea she was beaten by Amanda Coetzer — although to be fair Hamburg was her first tournament of the season after missing out months due to tendinitis in her wrists. This time, however, Venus will have no excuses despite mysteriously suffering an injury only minutes before she was due to play her younger sister Serena at Indian Wells early in March. The controversy arose hours after Venus pulled out before the start of a semi-final, leaving Serena to advance in a walkover after Venus cited tendinitis in her right knee. The last-minute withdrawal fuelled speculation that Richard Williams had made the decision not to have his daughters play against each other. Serena has already withdrawn from next week’s German Open in Berlin with an unspecified “long term” injury that is expected to vanish just in time for the year’s second Grand Slam at Roland Garros. In Hamburg Venus has a bye in the first round, along with South African second seed Coetzer, third seed Conchita Martinez and fourth seed Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, both of Spain. She will then face either a qualifier, or Spain’s Gala Leon Garcia, who was good enough to take a set from her at the 1999 Italian Open. But her first real test should come in the semi-finals, where she is due to meet three-time former champion Sanchez-Vicario. At 29, the Spanish veteran still offers no indication that she is even thinking of retirement, despite her marriage last July and the often stated desire to have a large family. Coetzer could run into trouble a little earlier, as she is expected to face the promising Belgian number six seed, Justin Henin in the quarters. If she gets past that challenge, Martinez would provide a stern test in the semi-finals. The remaining seeds are Bulgaria’s Magdalena Maleeva at five, Meghann Shaughnessy of the USA at seven, and Spain’s Magui Serna at eight. None of those should seriously trouble the big guns.
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Victories have ‘boosted team’s morale’ Chandigarh, April 30 He said the two recent wins at the Cairo (Egypt) and Dhaka had boosted the morale of the team. The team was confident that it will qualify for the 10th World Cup to be held at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). He said in World Cup qualifiers at Edinburg (Scotland) from July 17 to 29, India will have to be among top seven countries to be able to participate in the World Cup. Gill said from first Champions Challenge hockey meet for both men and women will be held at New Delhi from December 7 to 15, this year for which IHF was preparing. He said due to the Afro-Asian Games to be held in the first week of November this year, the work was on for laying of synthetic turfs in New Delhi, while four turfs were being laid in Haryana. On the recent success achieved by the team he said coach Cedric D Souza was able to infuse new spirit among boys. He said the real test for the team was the World Cup. He was of the opinion that SAI should consult the IHF before taking any decision on opening Centres of Excellence in hockey. He said the centres in Calcutta and Bangalore were doing satisfying job but emphasis should be laid on regional level academies which will benefit fresh talent. On the question of sponsorships, he said they did not have any permanent tie-up but before any event they get sponsorships. On the merger of IHF with the Indian Womens Hockey Federation, he said everything had been done amicably. The IWHF will, however, continue to take care of domestic tournaments. |
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Coaching camp at Rohtak Rohtak, April 30 Mr Ranbir Singh Mahindra, secretary, Haryana Cricket Association, told The Tribune on phone from Bhiwani today that the duration of the camp will be three weeks. Former Haryana cricketer Mr Ashwani Kumar will be the trainer. Mr Mahindra said that the thrust during the camp will be on physical fitness and practice. Physiotherapist V.P. Mathur, who was the physio of the Haryana team last year, will be present. Haryana wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra will not be taking part in the camp due to his selection to the National Cricket Academy at
Bangalore. Nitin Aggarwal, Amit Mishra, Deepak Joon and Sumit Sharma will also not be attending the camp because of their selection to North Zone Cricket Academy at Delhi. The following will attend the camp: Parwinder Sharma, Paramjit Sehrawat, Rajesh Puri, Jasvir Singh, Sanjay Dalal, Vineet Jain, Pankaj Thakur, Sonu Sharma, Satish Ohlan, Feroze Ghyas, Jitender Singh, Saurav Virmani, Deepak, Pradeep Sahu, Yuvraj Siddharth Singh, Davinder Rana, Joginder Sharma, Manvinder Bisla, Ishan Ganda, Deepak Sain, Gaurav Vashistha, Sumit Narwal, Sandeep Kharab, Gaurav Bhardwaj and
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Patiala cricketer for National Cricket
Academy Patiala, April 30 Garry, a right-handed opening batsman, is only the second cricketer from the city to have got selected in the NCA. The first was all-rounder Reetinder Sodhi who, after a stint with the NCA, went on to play for India in three one-day internationals matches against Zimbabwe last year. Gaganinder, who will be joining the NCA on May 8, has scored a glut of runs this season in junior cricket, with his best performance coming against the visiting England-19 side early this year in Mumbai where he scored 84 runs and took two very good catches. Exponents of the game say that Garry as an opener has immense potential and plays extremely well under pressure. He is blessed with virtues like mental resilience, solid technique etc. Patiala has produced a number of international cricketers like the legendary Lala Amarnath, Navjot Sidhu, Dhruv Pandove, Pankaj Dharmani, and Reetinder Sodhi. The NCA is just the first step for young Gaganinder in his endeavour to make it big in the cricket arena. He knows that he cannot always ride on that fatalistic Indian thought — ‘kismet’. He also knows that he will have to prove himself if he has to survive in international cricket. Surely, the stint at the NCA will help him iron out some of the flaws in his technique for Garry is a good learner.
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