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Kumble writes Pakistan
maul B’desh, equal record of centuries Kuerten,
Rafter, Hingis battle nerves, foes
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Consistent
Kiwis emerge champs Anjali,
Jaspal bag gold Kalmadi
to inform IOA members AAGOC
signs MoU with ITDC Wrestling
squads announced Mohun
Bagan lift Federation Cup Punjab
lads thrash Maharashtra
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Colombo, August 30 Each of the top five batsmen received at least one ‘life’ as Sri Lanka reached 323 for five in reply to India’s first innings score of 234. Two of those batsmen went on to make big scores with Marvan Atapattu scoring a century (108) and Mahela Jayawardene just five runs short of the three-figure mark, one when play resumes tomorrow morning. Both of them should actually have been back in the pavillion early in their innings. It was a frustrating day for India though in the end they had two quick wickets of Russel Arnold and night watchman Duleep Liyanage to console themselves. The Sri Lankan batsmen thrived against a wayward bowling attack with only Venkatesh Prasad sticking to a consistent tight line and length. Two of India’s main strike bowlers Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan came in for maximum punishment conceding 93 and 105 runs, respectively. Harbhajan had two wickets to show at the end of the day but Zaheer had none. Prasad was rewarded with three wickets for his tireless effort.
Sri Lanka resumed at their overnight 13 without loss with captain Sanath Jayasuriya in his usual belligerent mood. Jayasuriya and Atapattu scored freely during the initial overs with Zaheer Khan in particular deviating from the line and punished. Jayasuriya was lucky when he played a Harbhajan Singh delivery on to his boots with the ball ricochetting off to Mohammad Kaif at silly point. However, umpire David Orchard of South Africa gave the benefit of doubt to the batsman. Jayasuriya (30) did not last long though and was out after making five more runs. He snicked a Prasad delivery on to his wicket to be dismissed in this fashion for the second time in this series. Jayasuriya’s dismissal put the brakes on the scoring for some time with Atapattu and Kumar Sangakkara playing cautiously. It was during this period that Atapattu survived an easy run-out chance that cost India very dearly. Sangakkara called for a run but backed out leaving non-striker Atapattu stranded in the middle. All Dinesh Mongia, substituting for Hemang Badani at point, had to do was to throw the ball straight to Harbhajan Singh at the bowler’s end. However, the throw was wide and though Harbhajan managed to take the throw and hit the stumps, it was already too late. Atapattu was in his twenties then. In the penultimate over before lunch, leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule succeeded in inviting Sangakkara out of his crease to go for the drive. The batsman missed the ball completely but wicket-keeper Sameer Dighe failed to gather the ball and another chance went abegging. Sri Lanka took lunch at 93 for one. Atapattu raced to his half-century, and added 71 runs for the second wicket with Sangakkara before the wicket-keeper batsman became the second victim of Prasad. Sangakkara was surprised by the bounce and edged to the second slip where Badani took a good catch. Sangakkara made 47 off 100 balls. Then followed the most productive partnership of the Sri Lankan innings between Atapattu and Jayawardene. Jayawardene started slowly contributing only 13 in the first 50 runs of the stand but accelerated thereafter. Atapattu, in the meanwhile, reached his 12th Test hundred, second against India, with a four off Bahutule. With the bowler going round the wicket, Atapattu came dancing down the track, made room for himself and hit exquisitely through the covers and the ball raced to the boundary. However, Atapattu became victim of yet another poor decision by umpire Orchard. The umpire adjudged him caught by Shiv Sunder Das at forward shot leg off Harbhajan Singh when TV replays showed the ball ly the pads with the bat being quite far. The Indians could hardly complain about the decision, having got rid of the man who had been giving the headache for over five hours. However, their miseries were far from over. With Sri Lanka placed comfortably at 252 for three, Russel Arnold, who has had an indifferent Test series so far, chose the occasion to hit his way back to form. Arnold showed his aggressive instincts right from the start and went for his shots. One particular shot off Prasad, landed straight in the hands of Harbhajan Singh at mid-off but the fielder was unable to hold on to it. India took the new ball after 82 overs but Zaheer Khan, who usually is very effective with his yorkers, could not capitalise this time too. But Prasad got his third wicket with a faster delivery that went through the bat and pad of Arnold after the batsman had made 31. Sri Lanka sent in night-watchman Duleep Liyanage but he could not see the end of day. Dighe finally got one right when he caught an edge off Harbhajan. Jayawardene spent quite some time in the eighties, continued to trouble the Indians and smashed a couple of fours to reach the nineties. However, he was unable to reach his century today and played out the day. PTI Scoreboard India (Ist innings): 234 Sri Lanka (Ist innings): Atapattu c Das b Harbhajan 108 Jayasuriya b Prasad 30 Sangakkara c Badani b Prasad 47 Jayawardene not out 95 Arnold b Prasad 31 Liyanage c Dighe b Harbhajan 3 Tillekaratne not out 0 Extras (lb-3 nb-3 w-3) 9 Total (five wickets, 96 overs) 323 Fall of wickets: 1-48, 2-119, 3-252, 4-310, 5-321. Bowling: Khan 21-3-105-0 (nb-1 w-1), Prasad 20-6-54-3 (w-2), Harbhajan Singh 30-4-93-2, Ganguly 7-3-12-0 (nb-1), Bahutule 14-3-54-0 (nb-1), Badani 4-2-2-0. |
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Sachin’s treatment successful Durban Fergusson, an arthroscopic surgeon who has earlier succesfully treated Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath, said the boots which are manufactured in South Africa, have been approved by Tendulkar’s doctors in Mumbai. “With the changes to his boots he will have no problems. The right toe will not be troubled,” he said. Tendulkar should be able to practice and play some matches in a couple of days and would be able to participate in a charity match in London scheduled for September 18, Fergusson said. “By the time the tour to South Africa starts, he would be ready to play in all Tests,” he said.
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Kumble writes The third and final Test match in this series got underway with honours even. Both India and Sri Lanka are looking for a win to take the series, but after two days the hosts are in the driver’s seat. They have lost three wickets in the last session, but are almost 100 runs ahead, with Mahela Jayawardene looking good. The Indians have only themselves to blame really. They will be ruing the fact that they missed a golden opportunity of taking the game away from the Lankans in the first innings on the first day itself. The openers had played superbly until lunch without losing a wicket after winning the toss and deciding to bat first. Both Das and Ramesh came out with the right intentions and looked really good until the former had a rush of blood and Murali got into the act. I am really disappointed at the way Ramesh has been getting himself out after getting good starts to his innings in this series. From India’s point of view, it was important for one of the openers to carry on and get a big score after the start they got. Murali is a great bowler and it was a tremendous exhibition of off-spin bowling, considering it was only the first day of the match. Once he gets going, he never stops. If cricketing rules permitted, Murali is the sort who will put his hand up to bowl from both ends. While Sourav’s dismisasal was highly debatable to say the least, the rest of our batsmen fell to Murali’s guile. Murali got admirable support from Chaminda Vaas, who picked up two wickets. Both Rahul Dravid and Hemang Badani will be disappointed in not getting big scores, but the credit should go to Murali and the Sri Lankan skipper for some innovative field placements. Zaheer didn’t look his usual self, but once again Venky bowled well. However, the onus was on our spinners Harbhajan and Sairaj. The latter was unlucky to have a catch dropped and a stumping missed of his bowling. Attapattu and Jayawardane looking determined, and have taken the game away from the Indians. It will be up to the bowlers to restrict the Lankans, if India need to claw their way back in this game. One thing India cannot afford to miss any more opportunities on the field. Away from the field, last week saw the BCCI approving on the introduction of the graded payment system and enhancement in match fees and an incentive scheme for domestic cricket. I was honoured to make the presentation on behalf of the players and would like to thank the officials of the BCCI for their support. The players would certainly feel a lot more secure after the introduction of this system. Also, the players in domestic cricket will have a lot more to play for.
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Pakistan maul B’desh, equal record of centuries Multan, August 30 The novice visitors, facing an innings thrashing, closed their second innings on 55 for three needing another 357 runs to avoid humiliation. Pakistan declared on 546 for three to take a huge 412-run lead as debutant Taufiq Umar, Inzamam ul Haq, Abdur Razzaq and Yousuf Youhana made triple figures. With Saeed Anwar’s century on the first day, Pakistan equalled Australia’s haul of five centuries in an innings against the West Indies at Kingston in 1954-55. Bangladesh were skittled out for a paltry 134 in their first innings and looked like they would be lucky to better it in their second. Pakistan captain Waqar Younis sent back opener Javed Omer in the fourth over, then forced an edge off Mehrab Hossain to Rashid Latif behind the wicket. Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, who took six for 42 in the first innings, dismissed Aminul Islam for 18 to leave Bangladesh at 52 for three. Earlier in the day the agony piled on for the visitors as Pakistan’s batsmen joined the run feast against a hapless attack which had no clue how to respond. All-rounder Razzaq reached his second hundred off just 92 balls in 112 minutes. It was Pakistan’s second fastest century both in terms of balls and minutes. Former captain Majid Khan holds the record of fastest Test century for Pakistan, needing just 74 balls in Karachi against New Zealand in 1976-77. Resuming at 219 for two, Pakistan added 105 runs in the first session as Haq and Umar grabbed the Bangladeshi bowlers by the throat. Umer became the eighth Pakistani batsman to score a hundred in his first Test when he took a couple off left-arm spinner Enamul Haque. His knock took 221 minutes and was studded with 14 fours. He was out with an edge to wicketkeeper Khaled Masud off pace bowler Hasibul Hossain for 104. “I am delighted that I have joined an elite band of players who made debut centuries and I will work hard to maintain this so I don’t become a one-day wonder only,” said Umar (20). AFP SCOREBOARD Bangladesh (1st innings): 219 Pakistan (1st innings): (overnight 219-2) Anwar c H. Hussain b Sharif 101 Umar c Mashud b H.Hussain 104 Iqbal b Sharif 9 Haq retired hurt 105 Youhana not out 102 Razzaq not out 110 Extras (1-b 3-lb 8-nb 3-w) 15 Total (3 wkts decl, 114.5 overs) 546 Fall of wickets: 1-168, 2-178, 3-258. Bowling: Islam 19-2-103-0, Sharif 24.5-4-110-2, Hussain 31-5-145-1, Rahman 19-1-77-0, Haque 16-1-78-0, Islam 4-0-17-0, Omar 1-0-12-0 Bangladesh (2nd innings): Omar c Razzaq b Waqar 4 Hossain c Latif b
Waqar 9 Bashar not out 19 Islam c sub (Khan) b Kanaria 18 A. Khan not out 1 Extras (3-lb 1-nb) 4 Total (for 3 wkts, 19 overs) 55 Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-22, 3-52. Bowling: Akram 5-1-11-0, Younis 5-0-15-2, Razzaq 3-0-11-0,Kanaria 4-2-7-1, Malik 2-0-8-0. |
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Kuerten, Rafter, Hingis battle nerves,
foes
New York, August 30 The third day of the $15 million hardcourt tournament at Flushing Meadows also brought advancements into the third round for Monica Seles, Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport and Wimbledon runner-up Justine Henin. Kuerten, who won his third French Open title in June, bounced Czech veteran Daniel Vacek 6-4 6-4 3-6 7-5. The Brazilian, known for clay success, was worried after a first-round exit here last year. “I was a little extra nervous for losing in the beginning round last year,” Kuerten said. “It was a little bit of a doubt, the way I lost. I was a little bit scared. I came to the match a little bit afraid. “But now I’m much more relieved.” Kuerten, who turns 25 the day after the men’s final, won on his first match point when Vacek sent a backhand long after two hours and 20 minutes. He smashed 18 aces and 64 winners past vacek, improving to 56-9 for the year and reaching a second-round match with Denmark’s Kristian Pless. Despite suffering from a cold and sore throat, Swiss star Hingis took only 37 minutes to beat Russia’s 35th-ranked Lina Krasnoroutskaya 6-0 6-2. The second-round affair was the fastest match yet at the hardcourt event. Goran Ivanisevic’s verbal outbursts could be a thing of the past, the Croat said. After beating American Hugo Armando 6-4 6-4 6-3 in his first round match at the U.S. Open, Ivanisevic apologised for some colourful language he directed at a Wimbledon linesman earlier this year. “I can apologise to him but I didn’t mean anything bad with that,’’ he said yesterday. The 29-year-old Wimbledon champion said he was trying to be more careful with his words. Patrick Rafter insisted that his excellent reputation with the fans, his fellow players and the media could not last forever. Seventh seed Seles beat qualifier Evgenia Koulikovskaya 6-1 6-4 in 47 minutes. The 227th-ranked Russian switches the racquet to both hands so she is always hitting forehands, which threw off Seles for a while. “It was very tough to read which way she was going to go. I just tried to stay in the point as long as I could, force her to be more aggressive,” said Seles, who will next face Greek qualifier Eleni Daniilidou.
Henin and 1999 US Open champion Williams moved closer to a fourth-round showdown. Sixth seed Henin rallied to beat Swiss former No.8 Patty Schnyder 6-7 (7/9) 6-1 6-4 while 10th seed Williams routed 43rd-rated Czech Denisa Chladkova 6-1 6-1 in 44 minutes. Henin, the 19-year-old Belgian star who lost to Venus Williams in the Wimbledon final, was tested but denied Schnyder’s seven break-point chances over the final two sets. Third seed Davenport’s 6-0 6-2 victory over Emilie Loit was so lopsided that the French woman wanted to pay for the schooling she received. “At the end I almost went to ask her how much it was,” Loit said. “The lesson was so beautiful I thought it was going to cost me a lot.” Davenport fired 10 aces past 86th-rated Loit with only one double fault to win in 42 minutes, never allowing a break-point chance. Davenport, last year’s US Open runner-up to Venus Williams, will play for a berth in the round of 16 against Spanish 27th seed Angeles Montolio, who eliminated Dutch rival Miriam Oremans 6-2 6-1. Spain’s Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario had an easy time upending Japan’s Ai Sugiyama 6-3 6-2 in a second round match at the U.S. Open with a masterful display of baseline play.
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Paes-Bhupathi duo makes early exit New York, August 30 The French Open champions, who were seeded fifth here, lost to Sergio Roitman of Argentina and Italian Andres Schneiter 6-7 (4), 1-6. The Indians could not capitalise on their early lead as they missed on two crucial set points in the first set. After Paes had taken the seventh game to make it 5-2 in India’s favour, the duo could not clinch two vital set points on Schneiter’s serve but were rather broken in the ninth with Bhupathi not managing to hold on to his serve. In the tie-breaker too, the Indians could not regain their early vigour and lost it 4-7 to give the first set to their opponents. In the second set, the Indians again missed an early opportunity as they missed an early breakpoint on Schneiter’s serve. Later, it became even more difficult for them to hold their serve and Paes was broken in the fourth while Bhupathi in the sixth. With no fresh vigour and challenge coming from the Indian side, Roitman and Schneiter easily took the second set 6-1 to move to round two. The Indians also figure in the mixed doubles category with Paes playing with Lisa Raymond of the USA while Bhupathi with Jelena Dokic of Yugoslavia.
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Consistent Kiwis emerge champs Chennai, August 30 The Bengal tigers, resuming their innings at the overnight score of 74 for five, were all out for 214, 14 minutes before lunch on the third and final day of the match. They fell short of the big New Zealand score of 486 for seven declared, by 214 runs. The Bengal innings could hold together for some time with good knocks from Sanjib Sanyal (73, 110 minutes 77 balls, 13 fours) and Laxmi Ratan Shukla (29, eight balls, four sixes and a four). The pair put on 100 runs off 18.1 overs and 110 balls for the sixth wicket. Overnight batsman Soumen Singh chipped in with a useful 34 off 63 balls with four fours. The Kiwi leg spinner Brute Walker bowled impressively on a flat wicket to bag four wickets for 50 runs in 7.5 overs while medium pacer Jacob Oram claimed three wickets for 21 runs to contain Bengal. Brief scores: New Zealand 486-7 and 90-3 (Mathew Bell 20, Mathew Horne 46). Cab 214 in 55.5 overs (Soumen Singh 34, Sanjib Sanyal 73, Laxmi Ratan Shukla 29; Brute Walker 4-50, Jacob Oram 3-21).
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Anjali, Jaspal bag gold New Delhi, August 30 Rana, who had won two gold medals in the team events earlier in the competition, won the standard pistol event while Anjali set a new championship record on way to her second individual gold. India today won two gold, one silver and three bronze medals taking their tally to 12 gold, five silver and six bronze medals. India are at the top of the medal tally, national coach Prof Sunny Thomas informed PTI from Bisley. Anjali, who had won the air rifle event yesterday, shot a personal best score of 582 in the qualification rounds to march into the final of the rifle 3 position today. She fired 94.2 in the final to take the gold with a combined tally of 676.2 points. Kuheli Ganguly won the bronze in the event with 665 (573+92) points while Anuja Tere tallied 663.8 (568+95.8) for the fourth spot. The silver medal in the event was taken by S. McCready of Australia with 670.6 (575+95.6) points. In the men’s standard pistol event, Jaspal Rana fired a 568 out of 600 to take the top spot. Naresh Kumar won the bronze with a score of 562 while Vivek Singh stood fourth with 560 points. The silver medal went to Linda Ryan, an Australian woman shooter participating in the men’s event, who shot 564. Jaspal and Naresh had earlier combined in the centrefire pistol and standard pistol team events to win gold medals. In the rapidfire pistol event, Poonam Kumar won the silver with 666.5 points. Poonam was in joint lead with 574 points in the qualification rounds but his 92.5 was not enough to win the gold which was taken by M.Icorov of Canada. Icorov followed up his 574 in qualification round with 96 in the final. Mukesh Kumar, who had combined with Poonam to win the team event of rapidfire pistol, won a bronze with 660.3 (569+91.3).
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Kalmadi
to inform IOA members New Delhi, August 30 The meeting had specifically been summoned to ‘chalk out further course of action’ as there were problems galore between the IOA and the government. But as dispute between the Sports Minister Uma Bharti and Kalmadi has been amicably settled, there will be no further discussion on the subject, according to the IOA. Some experienced IOA members are likely to be inducted in the games secretariat, which is in the process of being set-up. Many members, who have already arrived for the meeting, are considerably pained at the developments in the crucial area of ‘drugs and doping’. They feel that weightlifting in the country and weightlifting are being ‘targetted’ because of on-going war of attrition between two factions. “We will prevail upon Kalmadi and Secretary-General Randhir Singh that the weightlifting as hoc committee should be broad-based instead of leaving affairs to a two-member panel”, emphasised three members. The IOA has decided to impress upon representatives that there would be no more postponement of the National Games. “We will ask the delegates that they should adjust their calender and select their teams well in time for the National Games from November 18”, said a senior IOA official. |
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AAGOC signs MoU with
ITDC New Delhi, August 30 AAGOC Secretary-General Randhir Singh and Chairman and Managing Director of ITDC Ashwani Lohani signed the MoU in the presence of Uma Bharati and Tourism and Culture Minister Ananth Kumar. According to the agreement, the ITDC shall be the nodal agency for making the necessary arrangements for
accommodating and hospitality for the participating sports persons and officials during the games. The ITDC will provide around 1200 rooms in its various hotels. It will also undertake the catering services in various stadia, besides providing food to the athletes and officials. The AAGOC has given an advance of Rs 3 crore to the ITDC to be utilised for carrying out renovation at its various hotels. |
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Wrestling
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announced Patiala, August 30 The WFI has also announced an eight-member squad that will take part in the SAF games scheduled to be held at Islamabad from October 6 to 15. Both the teams were selected after trials held at the NIS yesterday evening. Team for world championships: Kirpa Shanker Patel (54 kg), Sushil Kumar (58 kg), Shokinder Tomar (63 kg), Sujit Mann (76 Kgs), Amandeep Sondhi (85 kg), Shamsher Singh (97 kg) and Palwinder Cheema (130 kg). Team for SAF games : Krishan Kumar (54 kg), Rajkumar (58 kg), Pawan Kumar (63 kg), Jai Bhagwan (69 kg), Narinder Singh (76 kg), Sajjan Pal (85 kg), Parveen Kumar (97 kg) and Jagdish Kumar (130 kg) |
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Mohun Bagan lift Federation Cup
Chennai, August 30 Jose Barreto Ramires put Mohun Bagan in the lead in the 13th minute and Abdul Lateef Seriki made it 2-0 in a match in which Dempo did everything but score. Mohun Bagan is winning the Federation Cup for the 11th time. The Kolkata outfit almost scored in the fifth minute but R.C. Prakash messed up the chance. In another eight minutes, Brazilian Ramires Barretto made a difficult goal look easy. Barretto latched on to a sharp cross by James Singh from the right and shot home past defender Vincent Colaso and keeper Francis Fernandes. Then on, Bagan slowed down the pace, content in defending their lead. But Dempo quickly took control of proceedings and swarmed the rival area. They had four chances in eight minutes but failed to convert any of them. After Lolendra Singh made a goal-line save from a Levy Coelho’s slice between two defenders, Mario Soares’s free kick just outside the box was punched away by Bivash Ghosh. Mohun Bagan’s dependable defender Hussain Mustafi, out with two yellow cards, was replaced by Jayanta Sen who played in the mid-field and Debjit Ghosh a mid-fielder moved back into the defence. But Ghosh could not coordinate with Dulal Biswas and it affected the Bagan defence.
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Punjab
lads thrash Maharashtra Sangrur, August 30 In another league match Punjab defeated Goa 23-15 in a well fought match. Punjab were leading 12-8 at half time. Jaswinder Singh scored 14 goals for Punjab while Rinjo was top scorer for Goa. He scored eight goals. In the mini girls section Punjab ousted Jharkhand 9-6 in a league match. Punjab were leading by 9-6 at interval. Jyoti and Geeta scored 10 and 4 goals, respectively, for Punjab. Haryana teams also entered the last eight of all four events. In the league matches played today in boys mini section Haryana defeated Maharashtra 21-16. In the second match they just managed to beat spirited Goa 20-18 in a well-fought match. Goa were leading 11-9 at half time. For Haryana Bharat Yadav scored 13 goals while Fredy was top scorer for losers with 8 goals. Results: Mini girls: Punjab beat Jharkhand 14-8, J&K draw Delhi 11-11. Mini boys: Haryana beat Goa 20-18, Punjab beat Maharashtra 22-9, HP beat Karnataka 22-20, Rajasthan beat Kerala 21-10, Punjab beat Goa 23-15, Haryana beat Maharashtra 21-16, UP beat Kerala 26-13. Sub junior boys: Orissa beat Kerala 24-7, Rajasthan beat Bihar 42-2. Sub junior girls: Goa beat Gujarat 11-1, Jharkhand beat Rajasthan 13-4, Haryana beat Karnataka 15-3, UP beat HP 11-3. |
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