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January 9, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Ganguly determined to win series PCA selects 25 for Ranji camp Indian eves humble England |
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Windies, Pak agree to play at Sharjah Pak happy to return to Test cricket
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Easy victory for Nepal Ludhiana, January 8 Nepal humbled Singapore by nine wickets to register their maiden victory in the first International School Boys (U-19) Cricket Tournament at the Punjab Agricultural University ground here today. Singapore have lost their both matches and are out of contention. Ravinder Sandhu is in-charge, Sports
We will try our best: D’ Souza
Haryana win karate title Assam defeat
Punjab ITI to clash with Salgaocar today Bihar rally to beat Chandigarh
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Ganguly determined to win series Kolkata, January 8 “I will favour a sporting pitch where there will be something for everyone,’’ Saurav said here today, but felt that it was a very important toss to win. The groundsmen also felt that the pitch is usually dry in the afternoon helping batsmen score at ease, but with evening dew the ball tends to stop and hold its line making it extremely difficult to open the arms and go for the shots. Chasing a target had traditionally been difficult at the Eden Gardens and it was here that India’s hopes for a second final berth in the World Cup was crushed in 1996 against Sri Lanka, even after holding them to a modest total. Ground curator Prabir Bandhopadhyay said that Azhar had opted to field even after winning the toss against Sri Lanka in that match and had to pay the dividends. According to the ground officials here, Eden Gardens would have a sporting pitch with plenty of runs for the batsmen. However, they also hinted at a possible risk of the pitch’s slowing down in the second innings following the evening dew. That could put the team batting second on the backfoot, officials said. Saurav, leaving tomorrow for the Challenger Trophy meet in Bangalore prior to the Indo-England one-day series, said he would be playing in all the matches there in front of the selectors. Asked about the forthcoming one-day series, the Indian skipper today did not want to comment on the outcome of the meet though he admitted that the current England team would be quite a strong one. Saurav felt that if India can perform up to its potential there was no reason why it would not clinch the one-day series like the Test ones. As part of preparation for the limited over series and to keep himself in good shape Saurav is now undergoing regular workouts at the Eden Gardens nets. Besides batting, the skipper was also taking part in bowling during the practice. Saurav, who could not perform well at the last Test series, appeared very serious about his practice sesssion to perform well in the coming
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PCA selects 25 for Ranji camp Chandigarh, January 8 Punjab, who finished runners-up in the North Zone Ranji Trophy league, are scheduled to play Assam, who finished third in the east zone league, in their first match in the knockout draw of the National Cricket Championship at the PCA Stadium from January 23 to 27, Mr Pandove added. He announced that Bhupinder Singh had been appointed coach of the team while Sushil Kapoor would be the administrative manager of the team. Tej Kaul will be the physical trainer of the squad. Seven of the selected players are from Jalandhar, five from Amritsar, four from Patiala, two from Ludhiana, four from Chandigarh, two from Mohali while one player is from Bathinda. The following are the players selected for the camp: Vikram Rathore, Harbhajan Singh, Amit Behal, Vivek Mahajan, Ishan Malhotra, Ankur Sodhi and Rajesh Sharma (Jalandhar), Ravneet Ricky, Munish Sharma, Harish Puri, Vineet Sharma and Sandeep Sanwal (Amritsar), Pankaj Dharmani, Reetinder Sodhi, Babloo Binwant and Gaginder Garry (Patiala), Gagandeep Singh and Ankur Kakkar (Ludhiana), Sanjay Dhull, Amit Uniyal, Dinesh Mongia and Yuvraj Singh (Chandigarh), Navdeep Singh and Kailash Sanwal (Mohali) and Harkrishan Kali (Bathinda). |
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Indian eves humble England Hyderabad, January 8 While England scored 71 for seven in the stipulated 23 overs, the home side surpassed the total losing the wicket of opener Anju Jain (10). India now lead the series 2-0. They had won the first match at Chennai on Sunday. Today’s encounter was reduced to a 23-over-a-side affair due to overnight showers. The match began only at 2.10 pm after umpires Chandra Kumar and Jadhav inspected the pitch. Indian skipper Anjum won the toss and asked the visitors to bat. The decision proved wise as the English women fell like a pack of cards. The damage was largely done by medium-pacer Jhulan Goswami, who picked three wickets for eight runs in five overs. She was declared Woman of the Match. Dawn Holden top-scored for the English side with an unbeaten 13. Laura Mewtom scored 10, with two boundaries. For India, Anjum Chopra kept the scoreboard ticking, piling up an unbeaten 36 with three hits to the fence. She and Anju Jain put up 39 runs for the first wicket before the latter was run out. England bowlers conceded 15 wides. The third one-dayer will be played here tomorrow. SCOREBOARD England: L. Spragg b Jhulan 0 K. Lowe c Anju b Jhulan 1 L. Newton c Anju b Jhulan 10 C. onnor c Arundhati b Maben 7 C. Atkins st Anju b Nausheen 11 J. Casser roun out 10 A. Thompson lbw b Neetu 7 D. Holden not out 13 C. Taylor not out 3 Extras (b-1, lb-3, w-5) 9 Total (for 7 wkts, 23 overs) 71 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-11, 3-14, 4-25, 5-47, 6-47, 7-62 Bowling: Jhulan Goswami 5-1-8-3, Nausheen Khadeer 5-0-13-1, Neetu David 5-0-12-1, Mamta Maben 3-0-12-1, Deepa Kulkarni 5-0-22-0. India: A. Jain run out 10 Chopra not out 36 M. Raj not out 11 Extras (w-15) 15 Total (for 1 wkt, 20.2 overs) 72 Fall of wicket 1-39 Bowling: Lucy Pearson 5-1-7-0, Clare Taylor 3-0-10-0, Dawn Holden 3-0-13-0, Clare Connor 2-0-10-0, Laura Newton 4.2-1-14-0, Helen Wardlaw 3-0-18-0.
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Windies, Pak agree to play at Sharjah Karachi, January 8 “Both boards have mutually decided to shift the series to Sharjah and there will be two Tests instead of three and three one-day games,” Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Lt-Gen Tauqir Zia said. This will be the first time that Sharjah, which has held a record 181 one-day internationals, will host a Test. The West Indies were due to play three Tests and three one-day internationals in Pakistan from January 25. “There will be no side game and the West Indies are expected to reach Sharjah by January 25,” Zia said adding that the PCB was working out the itinerary for the series. Pakistan’s home series was thrown into doubts after the West Indies said they have security concerns in the wake of tension between the rival South Asian neighbours and the on-going war in Afghanistan. Cricket in Pakistan was badly hit after the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington followed by the retaliatory US military action on Afghanistan. New Zealand recalled its players from the country in September and cancelled their three match series in Pakistan last year. Pakistan also failed to attract Sri Lanka for a short one-day series as replacement. The International Cricket Zouncil (ICC) at a meeting in Kuala Lumpur in October approved any series, hit by international unrest, being played at a neutral venue. The West Indies last toured Pakistan in 1997 when they lost all the three Tests. The series between Pakistan and the West Indies will be only the third to be played at a neutral venue in Test cricket’s 126-year history. South Africa and Australia played in England in 1911 while Pakistan and Sri Lanka played the final of the aAsian Test Championship in 1999.
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Pak happy to return to Test cricket Dhaka, January 8 “We have been starved of cricket for so long, it is nice to be playing Test matches again,” captain Waqar Younis said today ahead of the first Test at the Bangabandhu national stadium here. Pakistan have been deprived of tours by international teams because of the USA-led strikes in neighbouring Afghanistan, with India and New Zealand refusing to play Test series. Since their tour of England ended in June, Pakistan have played just one Test — the Asian Test Championship game against Bangladesh at Multan in August which Pakistan won by a whopping innings and 264 runs. Waqar said he would not take Bangladesh lightly even though they had lost eight of their nine Tests so far. “We want to win all our matches, so I will treat Bangladesh like any other international team,” he said of the tour, which includes two Tests and three one-dayers. Waqar was enthusiastic about the return of speedster Shoaib Akhtar, whose bowling action is under scrutiny by the International Cricket Council (ICC). “Shoaib is in very good rhythm and will play tomorrow, the Pakistan captain said. The 26-year-old Shoaib faces a one-year ban from ICC if he is reported again by the umpires. Teams (from): Pakistan: Waqar Younis (capt), Inzamam-ul Haq, Taufiq Umer, Shadab Kabir, Faisal Iqbal, Younis Khan, Yousuf Youhana, Rashid Latif, Abdur Razzaq, Naveed Latif, Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Akhtar, Danish Kaneria. Bangladesh: Khaled Masud (capt), Javed Omar, Al-Shariar, Aminul Islam, Habibul Basher, Mohammed Ashraful, Sanwar Hossain, Khaled Mahmud, Enamul Haque, Mehrab Hossain, Fahim Muntasir, Monjurul Islam, Mohammed Sharif, Hasibul Hossain.
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Pak to wind up probe by month-end Karachi, January 8 The commission, headed by the Lahore High Court’s Justice Karamat Bhandari, has taken a one-month extension to complete its inquiry into allegations that Pakistan fixed World Cup matches against Bangladesh and India. Pakistan lost both games before progressing to the final where they lost to Australia. Former South African cricket head Ali Bacher, who raised suspicions of foul play in the two matches, has been asked by the commission to present evidence. “We are going to wind up our inquiry and prepare our report by January 31, even if Dr Bacher cooperates with or declines our request for a statement,’’ Kazim Ali Malik, registrar of the commission told Reuters from Lahore. Malik said the commission would write to Bacher one more time to ask for a statement. “The Justice will prepare his report on the basis of witnesses examined so far by the commission. We will not be calling any more witnesses to record their statements,’’ malik said. “But we are keen that Dr Bacher give us a statement or share any more information he might have on the two matches with us.’’
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Easy victory for Nepal Ludhiana, January 8 Singapore won the toss and decided to bat first. They squandered away the advantage as half of their batsmen were back in the pavillion with just 61 runs on the board after 21 overs. Their innings folded at 97 runs in 34 overs. Opener Zeng Renchun top scored with 34 runs off 65 balls with the help of three boundaries. Tomorrow is the rest day. On January 10 India will take on Nepal. Scoreboard Singapore: Glenn Meyer c Manoj Bhandari b Meraj Ansari 0, Zeng Renchun lbw b Krishna Kunwar 34, Riaz Altaf Hussain c Manoj Bhandari b Niraj Bhatrai 4, Eric Leong Jaili c Manoj Bhandari b Niraj Bhatrai 14, Peter Muruthi run out Sagar Pant & Manoj 0, Rajesh Lekhwar b Imran Khan 7, Iftekar Haider b Narayan Patel 5, Senthil Dayalan run out Sanjay 10, Maxmillan b Krishna Kunwar 1, Tham Shu-Chua lbw Narayan Patel 2, Maxim Mok not out 0. Extras: 20 ( lb-2, w-18). Total: 97 all out in 34 overs. Fow: 1-0, 2-9, 3-46, 4-47, 5-61, 6-76, 7-85, 8-95, 9-95. Bowling: Meraj Ansari 7-1-11-1, Niraj Bhatrai 8-1-30-2, Imran Khan 7-0-20-1, Narayan Patel 8-0-29-2, Krishna Kunwar 4-2-5-2. Nepal: Sarfraz Ansari b Iftekhar Haider 3, Mahesh Chetri not out 18, Sagar Pant not out 58. Extras: 19 ( w-19). Total: 98 for 1 in 14.3 overs. Fow: 1-15. Bowling: Iftekhar Haider 3-0-46-1, Maxim Mok 5-0-25-0, Peter Muruthi 5-0-22-0, Riaz Altaf 1.3-0-5-0. |
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Ravinder Sandhu is in-charge, Sports Chandigarh, January 8 In a report published last month by The Tribune it was stated that under the administrative restructuring process initiated by the Punjab Government, various departments with lesser load will be merged with other related departments. In a first step towards this exercise, the education department was merged with sports. Mr Sandhu, an ardent sport lover and a keen golfer, when contacted said he would strive his best for better co-ordination between education and sports so that latter could flourish in the state. On the question of reported confusion regarding the appointment of former wrestler Kartar Singh, as Director, Sports, after Col Raminder Singh retirement on December 31, Mr Sandhu said, ‘Let me go through the whole case tomorrow, only then I will comment’. It may be recalled that earlier, Sports Department was a part of the Education Department. The Punjab Sports Department was formed in 1970’s when Olympian Balbir Singh, became its first Director, Sports. The Punjab Education Department had been taking care of sports in schools and the hosting of school sports meets at various levels, apart from organising international and national school sports meets. |
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Serena scrapes past Kournikova Sydney, January 8 Williams, who stayed at home last week while sister Venus won the event on the Gold Coast in Queensland, needed a break in the eighth game of the final set to finally set up her route to victory. The winner of 11 career singles titles, including the 1999 US Open, earned two match points a game later. Though Kournikova saved the first on a Williams error, the American came through into the quarter-finals on her next chance. “It was a tough start to the year,” said Williams. “I’m very disappointed, I couldn’t do anything right.” So deep was the Williams despair that she resorted on changeovers to reading notes made during her last tournament in the autumn in hopes of gaining some strategic inspiration. “I trained much better than this,’’ she said of her long off-season in Florida. “I’ve got to do better in my next match.” In another second-round encounter, two-time champion and former world number 1 Martina Hingis crushed American Lisa Raymond, 6-1, 6-1. In the first round, Wimbledon finalist Justine Henin, the number 5 seed, stopped Austrian Barbara Schett, 7-6 (7-3) 6-3. Seventh seeded Frenchwoman Sandrine Testud defeated Tina Pisnik with the loss of just two games. Henrietta Nagyova upset former champion Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, fresh from a Hopman Cup title for Spain, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3. On the men’s side, Thai Paradorn Srichaphan, a finalist last week in India, sprang an unwelcome surprise on top seed Sebastien Grosjean just six weeks after the French Davis Cup triumph over Australia in Melbourne. The top Asian scored a 6-3, 6-4 win in 67 minutes, committing just 16 unforced errors to 27 for the erratic French player. Srichaphan never dropped serve and had no double-faults in a near-faultless performance. In Thai fashion, he dropped to his knees, put his fingertips together and bowed to the appreciative crowd at Homebush Bay. “I only arrived last night from India and hit for about half an hour today,” he said. “I’m very happy today, this is one of the best wins of my career.” A meeting of big-hitters Srichaphan next plays Max Mirnyi of Belarus, whom he beat in the first round last week in Chennai. Fabrice Santoro joined Grosjean on the casualty list, losing 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to Karol Kucera. But Julien Boutter and Nicolas Escude saved face for France. Boutter upset sixth-seeded Swede Thomas Johansson, 7-6 (7-4), 7-5, while Escude ousted Spain’s Alberto Martin, 6-1, 6-4.
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We will try our best: D’ Souza Chennai, January 8 The camp, which began on January 5 with the 26 probables assembling here was formally inaugurated along with the announcement of a new sponsor in Castrol India Limited. Cedric said the team was continuing with the objective of ironing out the shortcomings noticed from the time the Indian team started participating in various international tournaments and Test matches, after the Sydney Olympics. “At the Champions Challenge Cup tournament, we noticed new shortcomings and we are utilising this camp to correct them,” he added. “As a team, we can assure you that we will try our very best and achieve the objective,” he said. About the most noticeable shortcoming in the team, Cedric who first shot back “you tell me”, later on said they were small things like dribbling the ball into the rival area but failing to find the target. “We are not converting even half the chances we create sometimes in a match,” he lamented. And sounding rather didactic, Cedric said, “We cannot realise the task of regaining the World Cup unless we work very hard”. Meanwhile, stricken by illness, Baljit Singh Saini had to return home for a fortnight. But IHF secretary K. Jyothikumaran said Baljit would be back after he got well. After the selection of an 18-member squad and four reserves at the conclusion of the camp on January 25, the team will attend a final camp from February 1 to 13 in
Chennai. Mr Jyothikumaran said while the triumph of the Indian hockey team, which is training hard in the Chennai camp, in the Champions Challenge Cup has put the team back in the elite group, he hoped that the venue of the World Cup, Kuala Lumpur, where the team had triumphed in 1975, would prove to be lucky this time too. He also announced that the IHF was trying to rope in a sponsor for the junior team and for setting up a national academy for hockey as there was only one at present, that of
Air-India. D’Souza said the coming in of a sponsor would change the outlook of the team, ushering in professionalism. “This will make us accountable and we will become more focussed”, Cedric added.
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Haryana win karate title Panipat, January 8 The gold medal winners of Haryana were Bhavana (sub-junior), Punam (Indo-Kata), Bhavana (senior-Kata), Neha (junior-Kata), Manan (sub-junior Indo-Kata), Sunil (junior-Kata), Pradeep (senior-Kata), Ankit (sub-junior U-30 kg), Randeep Kaur (sub-junior U-40 kg) Vishal (junior U-40 kg), Rahul (U-50 kg) Rupinder (junior girls U-48 kg), Ashok (boys U-50 kg) and Ravinder Tomar (men’s open). |
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Assam defeat
Punjab Shillong, January 8 Sidharta Thapa scored the first goal for Assam in the 48th minute while Gautam Daimary headed in the second in the 62nd minute after a barren first half. Punjab got a number of easy chances in the first half, but their forwards seemed to run out of both ideas and steam after entering the penalty box area. The second half saw Assam taking the upper hand and, in a planned attack, Thapa placed the ball into the goal with the Punjab custodian failing to react timely. Daimary headed in the second goal from a free-kick.
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ITI to clash with Salgaocar today Margao, January 8 ITI are currently placed third with 10 points from six matches, while Salgaocar are placed sixth with nine points from as many matches. Having drawn with fancied teams like Mahindra United, Churchill Brothers, Mohun Bagan and later beating East Bengal in their own yard, the telephonemen are likely to pose stiff challenge to the home team who have no option but to pull up their socks and play to their potential if they are to win . ITI, playing well as a unit, will pin their hopes on the three foreigners Mohammed Salisu, Kenneth Onu and George Ekeh. Particularly, Ekeh has immense skill and quick body movements and will certainly pose problems to the rival defence.
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Bihar rally to beat Chandigarh New Delhi, January 8 Chandigarh had lost to Haryana in a women’s match yesterday. Punjab men collected full points the easy way when their opponents Assam failed to turn up. Punjab had recorded a comfortable victory against Jharkhand yesterday. Jammu and Kashmir put up a tough fight before losing to Kerala. Kerala won 20-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-15. In the women’s section, Haryana pounded Goa 25-4, 25-4, 25-4 in 40 minutes while Andhra Pradesh crushed Himachal Pradesh 25-8, 25-11, 25-12. Delhi gave a tough fight to Karnataka before losing 27-25, 23-25, 16-25, 32-30, 15-5. Other results: Men: Karnataka b Gujarat 25-14, 25-12, 25-17; Andhra Pradesh b Maharashtra 25-12, 25-17, 25-11; Madhya Pradesh b Pondicherry 25-6, 25-12, 25-20. Women: Maharashtra b Madhya Pradesh 25/13, 25-10, 25-10; Tamil Nadu b Jharkhand 25-4, 25-4, 25-6; Kerala b Bihar 25-6, 25-4, 25-1; Andhra Pradesh b Himachal Pradesh 25-8, 25-16, 25-12. |
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National cycle polo Rohtak, January 8 Haryana junior boys and senior girls teams have been announced. Junior boys: Rahul, Sagar, Vijay, Puneet, Sahil, Vikrant, Anil and Vikas. Senior girls: Kusum, Suman, Renu, Navit, Sudesh, Sushil, and Ashu and Neelam. |
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