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a complete player, says Dravid Mutare, May 30 He is one of the select few with a Test batting average of over 50 but Rahul Dravid insists that he is not a complete batsman. BCCI
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Hong
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countdown to soccer World Cup SAFF Cup
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Indian
challenge ends in singles Abhinav moves into finals
Sodhi, Dharmani slam centuries
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Kuerten, Ferrero cruise
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Paris, May 30 Top seed and defending champion Kuerten hammered Argentine Agustin Calleri 6-4 6-4 6-4, while Ferrero outclassed Marcos Ondruska 6-2 6-2
6-0. The claycourt specialists were joined in the third round by 11th-seeded Briton Tim Henman, who crushed Dutchman Sjeng Schalken 6-4 6-2 6-2, and seventh-seeded Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov. The 1996 French Open champion struggled past American lucky loser Cecil Mamiit 7-6 3-6 6-3. In the women’s draw, 12th and 14th seeds Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin of Belgium booked their third-round places with victories over Argentine opponents. Henin lit up the sun-drenched Roland Garros Centre Court with some sparkling tennis as she beat Paola Suarez 6-3 6-4, while Clijsters defeated Mariana Diaz-Oliva 7-5 6-1. Kuerten hit with his customary power to rack up his second straight-sets win of the tournament. The Brazilian suffered one mini-crisis when he was broken when serving for the second set at 5-2, with Calleri holding confidently in his next service game to hint at a possible comeback. Kuerten’s poise returned in the next game, though, as he held for the set and he also kept his nerve when the Argentine forced a break point early in the third. Kuerten, French Open champion in 1997 as well as last year, will face Karim Alami of Morocco or Israel’s Harel Levy in the third round. “I think the experience I have gained here in the past has helped me,” Kuerten said. “It was special out there today. Paris is like my second home.” Fourth seed Ferrero wasted no time in booking his third-round place on Court Suzanne Lenglen, producing a ruthless display to crush South African doubles specialist Ondruska in only 99 minutes. Ferrero, like Kuerten a winner of three claycourt titles this year, dispelled any fitness worries with a powerful performance. “This was a very good start,” he said. “I believe that I was very strong throughout this match. I played a complete game without any mistakes.” Henin’s full repertoire of strokes was on show as she overcame a stuttering start to entertain the day three crowd in the French capital. With her blonde pony-tail hanging from the back of a pristine white cap, the 18-year-old danced tirelessly across the Philippe Chatrier court to oust the 28th-ranked Argentine. Clijsters followed her compatriot into the third round with a comfortable win, though the 17-year-old struggled initially on a sun-scorched Court One before overcoming her gutsy opponent. The 25-year-old Diaz-Oliva had won the pair’s only previous clash earlier this year in the Croatian Open, and she looked in good shape in the early rallies. Fifteenth seed Jelena Dokic, making her debut as a Grand Slam seed, beat American’s Marissa Irvin 6-1 6-2, while 18-year-old Virginie Razzano gave the French fans something to cheer about with her 6-0 4-6 6-1 victory over Germany’s Anke Huber. In the other men’s action, two-time champion Sergi Bruguera was forced to retire with suspected sinusitis. The Spaniard, winner at Roland Garros in 1993 and 1994, was leading American Michael Russell 6-4 7-5 3-6 when illness forced him to concede the match. Jiri Navak of the Czech Republic beat local favourite Cedric Pioline 2-6 6-4 602 7-5, and Olivier Rochus continued a good day for Belgium by knocking out 1999. French Open semifinalist Dominik Hrbaty in four sets. Eighth-seeded Australian Pat Rafter threw away a two-set lead yesterday as he was beaten in the first round of the French Open by compatriot Wayne Arthurs 4-6 2-6 6-3 7-6 6-1. Sixth seed Serena Williams has done what sister Venus couldn’t 24 hours earlier and reached the second round. The fashion-conscious teen, with hair streaks to match her hot pink outfit, overcame Sarah Pitkowski of France 6-2 6-7 (4/7) 6-1 on the Philippe-Chatrier centre court yesterday.
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Indian batsmen disappoint
Mutare (Zimbabwe), May 30 After skittling out the hosts for 175 runs to take a 161-run first-innings lead on the third and final day today, the Indian batsmen fared poorly in the second innings scoring 150 for seven in 46 overs when the match ended. Like in the first innings, the bulk of the scoring was done by two batsmen, this time by Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman who made 33 each, with the rest of the team caving in to the home side pace attack. First innings centurion Rahul Dravid preferred not to bat while Sameer Dighe, who had added 227 runs with the Indian vice-captain in making 87, was out for 10. The bowlers had better practice with Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra and Harbhajan Singh claiming three wickets each as the hosts collapsed from 134 for two to 175 all out. However, captain Saurav Ganguly and coach John Wright expressed satisfaction over the team’s showing. “I would have loved to have one more day,” Ganguly said. “But I think we made the best use of the facility available.” The entire second day’s play yesterday was washed out by rain. Scoreboard
India (1st innings): 336-9 decl Zimbabwe (1st innings): Ebrahim c Tendulkar b Khan 46 Rennie c Dighe b Mohanty 1 Masakadza c Dravid b Nehra 8 Wishart c Dighe b Khan 68 Evans b Khan 0 Viljoen lbw b Singh 5 Taibu c Das b Singh 1 Friend b Singh 4 Murphy not out 9 B.Strang c Tendulkar b Nehra 0 Mutendera c Tendulkar b Nehra 13 Extras: (lb-6 nb-14) 20 Total
(all out, 54.4 overs) 175 Fall of wickets: 1-10 2-37 3-134 4-134 5-139 6-139 7-143 8-149 9-153 10-175. Bowling:
Khan 15-3-41-3, Mohanty 12-3-34-1 (nb-3), Nehra 12.4-1-41-3 (nb-11), Singh 11-3-25-3, Ganguly 4-0-26-0. India (2nd innings): Das lbw b Strang 12 Ramesh c Ebrahim b Friend 6 Laxman c Wishart b Mutendera 33 Tendulkar c Rennie b Mutendera 33 Ganguly lbw b Friend 17 Dighe b Friend 10 Khan run out 1 Singh not out 25 Nehra not out 5 Extras:
(nb-8) 8 Total: (seven wickets, 45 overs) 150 Fall of wickets: 1-20 2-22 3-77 4-91 5-117 6-118 7-118. Bowling:
B.Strang 6-2-20-1 (nb-2), T.Friend 12-4-30-3, D.Mutendera 9-2-31-2, B.Murphy 15-3-58-0 (nb-4), C.Evans 3-1-8-0 (nb-2), C.Wishart 1-0-3-0.
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I’m not a complete player, says Dravid Mutare, May 30 In 43 Test matches, he has hit a double century and eight other hundreds in scoring 3660 runs at an average of 53.82. In one-day internationals he averages 36.76 with seven hundreds. Yet, the Indian vice-captain today said he was far from being perfect and was constantly evaluating his performances and bringing changes in his techniques. “I know I am not a complete player. I know that for a fact... you keep learning along the way. You learn every day. You try to grasp and may be try to put a few of those things in your game,” Dravid said in an interview to PTI here. And because, he was not a perfect batsman, Dravid said, he welcomed healthy criticism. “I am willing to listen to the criticism, look at it. If I feel it works for me... It makes sense for me, I would do something about it. If I feel it doesn’t make any sense, and somebody is criticising just for the sake of criticising, I can forget about it. I have the ability not to think about it,” he said. But Dravid, who is known to keep his cool under duress and who tries “to remain as controversy-free as possible” admitted that sometimes things go beyond his control and he has reacted to criticism or sledging by opposition teams. “There have been moments (when I have lost my cool)... but generally I can keep things under control on a cricket field.” And though he did not mention it, the whole world saw his outburst after completing his century against Australia in that memorable Test at Kolkata where he waved his bat in anger towards the Press box seeking to dispel their doubts over his ability to score at a brisk pace. Slow scoring is a charge that has been associated with Dravid many a time, but the stylish Karnataka batsman countered this saying his pace of scoring really depended on the requirement of the team and his own form. “Cricket is all about confidence and form. Batsmen in good form will tend to play a lot of shots. I think it (scoring at a slow pace) is just an illusion. When I am out of form and not getting runs people must have felt so. But it happens to any batsmen.” “It also depends on the kind of role you are playing and the situation you are in. When the situation calls for domination, I would like to do that but if it calls for staying in the middle, I must go for it. “I have played a lot at the number three position. There your job is to hold your end and ensure that you don’t lose too many early wickets to the new ball. Now that I am batting lower down the order, it may give me a little more opportunity to play a bit more shots.” He rubbished the suggestion that he would have been more aggressive had he been playing for a side stronger than India. “I personally feel we have got a good side. The fact that I play in the same side as (Sachin) Tendulkar, (Saurav) Ganguly and (V.V.S) Laxman gives me a lot of confidence. It takes a lot of pressure off me.” “Instead of being a deterrent, I think it (playing for India) has helped me and inspired me to play better,” he said. Dravid said playing with a straight bat was one of his biggest strengths and he was taught at a very young age to do so by none other than the great Gundappa Viswanath. “While playing Ranji Trophy, he (Viswanath) told me never to use my pads to play against spinners. All good players of spin actually use their bats.” “You would never see a Sachin Tendulkar use his pads. Or Brian Lara... I have never seen him pad up enough.” The ability to concentrate for a long time was another of his strong points which again he learnt at a very young age. “I have enjoyed being at the wicket for long periods of time. This is something I have developed over the years. I concentrate well and not throw away my wicket when things are going good. If I get set I try to make it a big one.” Dravid, who has a fantastic record against Zimbabwe with three centuries in as many Tests, had an explanation for India’s relatively poor performance on foreign soil. “I think we find the conditions on and off the field not to our liking. May be we don’t adjust to it. But then there are not many teams who win abroad.” Dravid has taken some outstanding catches at forward short leg but said he was not a natural fielder at that position and had worked very hard to improve. “Once I knew I would be doing that position for some time, I worked at it, took a lot of catches and sort of improved as I went along.” “I have enjoyed fielding close-in. You tend to concentrate harder. Concentrating and being a part of the game for long periods are my strengths.” On his duel with leg-spinner Shane Warne, Dravid said it had always been very interesting and he enjoyed the see-saw battle with the Aussie. “I have played 10 Tests against him. He has got me out a few times but I also have had a success against him. I scored a lot of runs against him playing for Kent on a real turner of a wicket. It was very satisfying”. Perfect or not, Dravid is happy and satisfied with his performance and not unaware of his worth in the team. “I have done quite well in the 43 Test matches. I have got a very good record home and away and I have always done my best. I know in my heart that I have always given my best. “I work very hard. I focus very hard. It is very satisfying to know what I am giving to this team. And then my record at the end of the day.... I mean that is the most important thing.”
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BCCI slapped with legal notice Mumbai, May 30 Gayatri Arts was one of the four companies, which responded to a newspaper advertisement by the BCCI in April calling for tenders for sponsorship rights of the Indian team. The notice, dated May 25, sent to the board through the company’s solicitors claimed that the BCCI secretary Jayawant Lele, through a letter dated May 3, 2001, asked Gayatri Arts to confirm its total financial commitment, amounting to Rs 90 crore for three years towards sponsorship of the Indian cricket team. The company had committed it through a letter addressed to the BCCI dated May 5, 2001. The said contract for the team sponsorship was pursuant to the said letters duly concluded between the board and our client, the firm, has contended. The notice claims that despite the conclusion of the contract, the board delayed in executing the necessary documents. With reports appearing in the press that the board was negotiating with other parties, Gayatri Arts proprietor Sham Dhumatkar wrote a letter on May 16 to the BCCI requesting the latter to execute the necessary documents. Saying that several letters addressed to the board by Gayatri Arts evoked no response, the firm’s solicitors have claimed that the board’s subsequent move to announce TWI-IMG as sponsors “is entirely illegal and in breach of the conclusion of the contract between the board and our clients.” The notice also alleges that the board was acting in an entirely non-transparent manner on the issue and that the marketing and finance committee meeting was reconvened on May 22, after the meeting to review the tenders was held on April 24, only to consider the new open offers received for sponsorship.
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Pak look to put up better show Manchester (England), May 30 The Pakistan great first played here in 1987 and a year later became Lancashire’s overseas player, starting an enduring relationship that lasted a decade. Although his county career ended in 1998, the all-rounder still has a house in Manchester and is desperate to give the crowd something to remember him by, especially after Pakistan’s lacklustre effort in losing the first Test at the Lord’s by an innings and nine runs. “I regard this as my home ground — I love the smell, the atmosphere and the surroundings of it and I know it so well know that I regard it as my home just as much as Pakistan.” “I’m honoured to be playing my last Test in England at Lancashire — I couldn’t have asked for anything more,” Akram said. “I learned a lot from my time here and I want to have a memorable finish for myself and the Pakistan team.” Akram, 35 on Sunday, has already said he would not be on Pakistan’s next tour of England in 2006. “To play my last Test match in England at this ground is perfect for me. I’m hoping my knowledge of the ground will help us as a team because we want to put up a much better fight of things than we did at the Lord’s, when we were a little under-prepared.” That was putting it diplomatically. A ludicrous schedule has reduced Pakistan to the status of Ashes appetizer. Even so, they did not help themselves at the Lord’s by playing neither off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq nor leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed. One of them, most probably Saqlain, whose ability to turn the ball on almost any surface is well-respected in England thanks to his championship-winning efforts with Surrey, is likely to play this time. Old Trafford pitches usually have something in them for most bowlers and with Manchester having experienced one of its wettest starts to the season, there should be some moisture present for the quicks to exploit. But their bowlers’ performance will count for nothing if the batsmen fail to improve on their Lord’s efforts. Then they failed to adjust to top-class seam bowling from Andrew Caddick and Darren Gough on a responsive surface. In particular star batsmen Saeed Anwar and Inzamam-ul Haq both failed. How the tourists could do with one of them coming good now. Anwar’s opening partner Salim Elahi, should he be chosen, will be happy just to get a run: the luckless right-hander bagged a pair at the Lord’s. England will be without captain Nasser Hussain, his finger fractured by Shoaib Akhtar, in the Rawalpindi Express’ most significant act of the first Test. Pace bowler Matthew Hoggard, whose back trouble ruled him out of the Lord’s, replaces Yorksire colleague and left-arm seamer Ryan Sidebottom in the squad. His ability to move the ball at a lively place should see better support for Caddick and Gough if the selectors decide on a straight swop.
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Pak team requests for police escort
London, May 30 The five-day Test match follows three nights of race riots elsewhere in Greater Manchester. Hundreds of policemen have been deployed on the streets of Oldham during disturbances in the town which began on Saturday. Deborah Simpson, Lancashire Cricket Club press officer, said: “The Pakistan team have asked for a police escort. Our stadium manager is working closely with Greater Manchester Police.” The request for a police escort has not been officially linked to racial tension. The chief executive of Lancashire County Cricket Club, Jim
Cumbes, said: “At the moment we are not treating the match any differently, but police intelligence may determine that we have to do so. I would expect the police to have their ears to the ground.”
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ACC members to sign agreement
Kolkata, May 30 The agreement is likely to be finalised within two months by the four cricket boards, Jagmohan
Dalmiya, chairman of the Asian Cricket Foundation (ACF), which implements ACC’s
programmes, told a press conference here today. Dalmiya said the decision to sign an agreement was mainly aimed at avoiding any embarrassment or losses to ACC in the event of a country pulling out of a tournament. The strained cricketing ties between India and Pakistan, who have not featured in a bilaterial series for some time now, may have prompted ACC to take such a decision ahead of the Asian Test Championship . Dalmiya said participation in any tournament was an internal matter between the country’s board and its government but pulling out of the tournament entailed heavy financial losses for the tournament
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Hong Kong too strong for India Seville (Spain), May 30 India’s best bet Pullela Gopichand won his singles rubber 15-10 15-5 in style against Tam Kai Chuen but Hong Kong proved their supremacy in the remaining matches. India will now play against Russia tomorrow to decide the 17th-18th positions in the 53-nation event. The team management had gambled with the strategy of fielding Gopichand in the men’s doubles encounter in place of the off-colour Jaseel Ismail and it was hoped that he would deliver two points in the men’s singles as well as the doubles while a third would come from the mixed doubles. But in the end, Hong Kong, consisting entirely of players imported from badminton strongholds of China and Indonesia, proved too strong for India. As expected, India began on a losing note, 105th-ranked B.R.Meenakshi proving to be no match for the graceful Chen Wang, a former Chinese, ranked 11th in the world. Wang won 11-7 11-0 to make it 1-0 for Hong Kong. Wang was just too fast and too strong for the Indian girl, who seemed out of her depth against an opponent of such quality. The Hong Kong girl’s sharp, attacking strokes frequently caught Meenakshi off-guard and she took a quick 5-0 lead. The Indian, though, fought back well to reduce the gap to 6-8, raising the level of her game and retrieving well to put Wang in a bit of bother. But that was about all as after taking the opening game, Wang was simply unstoppable, racing to an 11-0 scoreline for an emphatic victory for her side. The Hong Kong team management decided to field left-handed Tam Kai-Chuen against Gopichand in the men’s singles, instead of its top player Heryanto Agus, whom Gopi had beaten easily at the Ipoh Masters last year. Kai-Chuen, another former Chinese, plays much like his mainland compatriots — fast, attacking and sharp. But this is just the sort of game the All-England champion prefers to play against and he thrived on the speed that the Hong Kong lad was offering him, dominating the net en route to victory. This was the best match Gopichand has played in the tournament so far and it looks as if he is settling down well to the heat and humidity of the San Pablo arena. As usual, his mastery over the net proved too much for the world number 32 to counter and once he got the length in his tosses right, there was no stopping the Indian. For a brief while, Kai-chuen did manage to soak up the pressure, but then class told and the Indian, ranked sixth in the world, strode to victory in just over half an hour. The crucial match of the day was the mixed doubles where India was hoping that the crack combination of Chetan Anand and Manjusha Kanwar would work a miracle and get India the much-needed second point against Njoto Albertus Susanto and Koon Wai Chee.
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Nervous countdown to soccer World Cup Seoul May 30 The tournament kicks off in Seoul on May 31, 2002 and the final countdown started with the opening of the Confederations Cup Tournament here today. World Cup holders France and Brazil are the star attractions in an eight-nation tournament that is being seen as a test of the two countries readiness to host the biggest sporting event on the planet. After watching regular wrangling between the neighbours, football’s international governing body, FIFA, is anxiously monitoring the tournament to make sure Japan and South Korea live up to promises to work together and iron out technical and transport problems. “Even the weather is a concern, the rainy season could ruin everything,” admitted one top Japanese organiser. “We will be on tenterhooks until it is all over.” With the World Cup now an industry worth an estimated five billion dollars — more than 1.2 billion dollars from licensed souvenirs alone — no one can take a chance on anything going wrong, least of all FIFA as it reels from the bankruptcy of its marketing agent. FIFA and the host nations insist the first World Cup finals to be staged in Asia and the first to be held in two countries will be a unique experience. “I can proudly say that our stadiums are much better than those in the 1998 France World Cup,” said Mr Chung Mong-Joon, chairman of the Korean World Cup Organising Committee (KOWOC) and a vice-president of FIFA. But the two nations are paying a high cost to convince the world that the 1995 decision to give them the World Cup was the right one. FIFA voted a dual-hosted event for first time in a bid to end bitter wrangling over their rival bids. South Korea is spending more than $ 2 billion on new stadiums in 10 cities. Those in Taegu, Suwon and Ulsan were opened for the Confederations Cup. Stadiums in Chonju, Pusan, Taejon, Inchon and Kwangju will be ready in the next few months. But the authorities have set a tight December deadline to finish the last two: the main Seoul World Cup stadium and the most exotic venue on the resort island of Cheju, where there is no professional football team. Japan has decided to mainly renovate stadiums in its 10 cities — Yokohama, where the World Cup final will be played on June 30 next year, Osaka, Saitama, Kashima, Shizuoka, Sapporo, Kobe, Miyagi, Niigata and Oita. The 70,000 seater Yokohama Stadium will be the smallest used for a World Cup final. Most of Japan’s stadiums will be loss-making after the tournament. Co-hosting was hailed as an opportunity to overcome the antagonism that has existed since Japan’s brutal occupation of the Korean peninsula ended in 1945. But so far there has been little sign of World Cup-inspired reconciliation. The two organising committees got embroiled in a public spat over which country’s name should appear first in the title and Korean groups recently called for a boycott of Japanese products in protest at the way Japanese school books describe the country’s war role. “Japan started planning to host the World Cup long before we did. That is the reason that Japan tried so hard to stage the final match,” Mr Chung told South Korea’s national news agency, Yonhap. “The Japanese tend to consider their country more prosperous and influential in the global community than Korea. Some of the people felt uncomfortable about being considered an equal to Korea, therefore all these talks about the official name. But the problem has been solved now.” For World Cup year, Mr Chung would like Emperor Akihito to become the first Japanese imperial leader to visit South Korea since 1945. But Korean groups have threatened demonstrations and officials in Tokyo are hesitant. Mr Chung said he would also like to see North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il at the opening ceremony. The chances are considered minimal. FIFA has said it will only decide after 2002 whether it will allow another co-hosting experiment. But South Korea and Japan are already a landmark in the campaign of the governing body’s president Joseph Blatter to share the most watched television sports event around the world. “The World Cup will be played in a new continent with different cultures and civilisationsn to other World Cups,” Mr Blatter said in Seoul yesterday. “Teams from the Americas and Europe who have won every World Cup will have no home games. Every game will be away, now it is totally different. We feel that something is different. There is also something new between South Korea and Japan,” he said.
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SAFF Cup in Dhaka from January
26 New Delhi, May 30 The SAFF Cup originally scheduled to be held in October/November this year was postponed as it clashed with the inaugural Afro-Asian Games to be held in Delhi. The cup won by India on the past two occasions (1999 and 1997) will expand to seven nations with the addition of Bhutan, who will be playing for the first time, an Asian Football Confederation (AFC) release here said. They along with the holders India, hosts Bangladesh Nepal, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, will be drawn into two groups. The top two from each group will enter the semifinals. For Bhutan, who entered the first AFC tournament in 1999, when they took part in the qualifying round for the Asian Cup, the SAFF Cup will be vital experience. In the latest world rankings, Bhutan rank 202 ahead of only Montserrat. |
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Indian challenge ends in
singles Chandigarh, May 30 However, India had some consolation when Indian pair Nitin Kirtane and Rohan Bopanna sailing into the finals of the doubles event they will clash with James Auckland and David Sherwood of GBR in the final. Other quarter-final singles matches played today saw Daniel Lesske of Germany, John Doran of Ireland, James Auckland of Great Britain reaching the last four of the singles event. The match between Indian Syed Fazaluddin and Daniel Lesske of GBR saw the latter taking 3-1 lead. But it was shortlived as Fazaluddin made a come back by taking three games in a row to make it 4-3. Lesske showed resilience, wrapped up the three games and won at 6-4 in 50 minutes. In second set Fazaluddin was always seen making variation in the game when after lagging behind at 1-3, he raced to a 5-3 lead. It was sure that Syed will win the set, but the day belonged to Lesske who surprised by gaining four games in a row to won the crucial tie at 7-5 and the match in 49
minutes. Nitin Kirtane was another player from India who gave a harrowing fight to fourth seed John Doran of Ireland before losing in three sets. Second seed James Auckland of Great Britain proved to be too good for Mustafa Ghouse of India and won in straight sets. Results: singles: Doubles: semifinal: James Auckland(
GBR) and David Sherwood (GBR) b Rishi Sridhar and syed (Ind) 6-4,6-1; Nitin and Rohan
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Abhinav moves into finals Chandigarh, May 30 The other finalists
are: Goenci Jozef Svk 598, Majchacheeap Tevarit Tha 596, Boschman Dick Ned 596 Lim Young Sueb Kob
595 Aivazian Artur Ukr 595 Bindra Abhinav Ind 594 Ettner Norbert Ger
594 Sauveplane Valerian Fra 594 Anjali Ved Pathak & other shooters of the Indian team failed to secure a birth in the finals,
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Sodhi, Dharmani slam centuries Patiala, May 30 Earlier fine bowling by Reetinder Sodhi (3 for 15) and Rajiv Sirhindi ( 3 for 17) enabled the hosts to bowl out Sangrur for a meagre 52. Brief scores : Sangrur :Ist Innings- 52 (Jasbir Singh 16, Sonpreet 14, R.Sodhi 3 for 17, R.Sirhindi 3 for 15, Babloo Kumar 2 for 3) Patiala:
Ist Innings- 317 for 1 (Reetinder Sodhi 174 n.o Pankaj Dharmani 129) Under-16 cricket This was the third successive century in the ongoing tournament by Shiv Karan widely perceived to be one of the most promising young batsman to have emerged in recent years for Patiala. Brief scores :
Patiala: 274 all out ( Shiv Karan 127, Navjot Matharu 28, Shiv Kumar 26, Nirmal 13, V.Rattan 4 for 46, Sushyant 3 for 32) Ludhiana: 44 for 4 ( Chetan 28
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Gurdaspur 111 for 7 Amritsar, May 30 Brief scores: Amritsar: 160 all out (Munish Sharma 50, Varinder Sharma 35, Harvinder Singh 25; Gurmit 3 for 45, Harpinder 3 for 33, Satwinder 2, 47, Manu 2 for 7), Gurdaspur: 111/7 (Harvinder Singh 3 for 32, Varinder Kumar 3 for 35). |
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Solan beat Chamba Bilaspur, May 30 After winning the toss Solan put Chamba in to bat. Chamba innings ended, quickly as they were sent back to the pavilion for 24 runs. Solan, in turn scored 59 in their first inning. Chamba scored quick runs in the second innings but even then they were all out for 107 in 32.2 overs. Chamba’s Parashant scored 26 and Ashok 25 runs. Rajiv bagged three wickets for 21 runs and Sunny took four wickets for 19 runs for Solan. Chasing the target of 72 runs in 34 overs, Solan’s opening batsmen Chetan and Munish were out at 1 and 6 runs, respectively, but skipper Pankaj took charge to score 28 not out and Sunny made 30 not out in the third wicket partnership of 66 runs to guide Solan to victory. |
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