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January 21, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Aussies beat South Africa Gavaskar comments Over 1,00,000 shared joy
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Top juniors for ITF meet K.P.S. Gill set to win third term as IHF chief Pathetic run of
JCT, Punjab Police continues HAL shock E.Bengal National school
gymnastics meet Ekta winner in SBoP meet
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Aussies beat South Africa
Brisbane, January 20 After batting first and making 241 for four wickets, Australia dismissed South Africa for 214 with 14 balls left. The win at the Gabba ground puts the World Cup limited-overs champions firmly back in the race for the title in the $ 95,000 tournament. After each country has played four matches, New Zealand lead with three wins, followed by South Africa (two) and Australia (one). Each country plays four more qualifying matches before the best-of-three finals in early February. It was South Africa’s second successive defeat after they had lost to New Zealand yesterday. South Africa made a bright start to their chase as Herschelle Gibbs and Gary Kirsten collected 34 runs in the opening seven overs. But the dismissal of Gibbs (18 from 22 balls) and Kirsten (22 from 40) in quick succession by pace champion Glenn McGrath left the Proteas at a shaky 49 for two in 13th over. Neil McKenzie and Jacques Kallis then revived their fortunes with an enterprising stand of 77 from 94 balls before speedster Jason Gillespie trapped Kallis for 37 from 55 balls. Jonty Rhodes (two) had his first failure of the series and Mark Boucher was sent packing for 10 as Andrew Symonds struck twice, sending the Proteas to a troubled 153 for five in the 35th over. Neil McKenzie, who had held together the middle order, was brilliantly caught by wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist off Gillespie, leaving South Africa a precarious 175 for six in the 41st over. With the help of a mighty six and five fours, McKenzie crafted an excellent 68 from 85 balls. South Africa lost their last five wickets for 39 runs, with paceman Glenn McGrath taking 4 for 30. The feature of the Australian innings was a masterly third-wicket stand by Martyn and Ricky Ponting. Coming together with the side a tentative 29 for two wickets in the 12th over, they thrashed 171 runs from 187 balls in just under two hours. AFP Scoreboard Australia M Waugh c Boucher b 15 Hayden c Kirsten b Elworthy 10 Ponting c Gibbs b Klusener 80 Martyn not out 104 Symonds c Rhodes b Boje 3 Waugh not out 22 Extras: (w-2, nb-5) 7 Total: ( for 4 wickets) 241 Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-29, 3-200, 4-205 Bowling: S. pollock 10-1-28-0, S. Elworthy 10-1-53-2, C. Langeveldt 5-0-31-0, J. Kallis 7-0-38-0, L. Klusener 8-0-48-1, N. Boje 10-0-43-1. South
Africa Gibbs c Bichel b McGrath 18 Kirsten c Gilchrist b McGrath 22 Kallis lbw b Gillespie 37 McKenzie c Gilchrist b Rhodes c Gilchrist b Symonds 2 Boucher c and b Symonds 10 Pollock c Hayden b Symonds 18 Klusener b Bichel 16 Boje b McGrath 1 Elworthy not out 11 Langeveldt b McGrath 3 Extras: (lb-1, w-6, nb-1) 8 Total: (all out, 48.4 overs) 214 Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-49, 3-126, 4-135, 5-153, 6-175, 7-191, 8-199, 9-204. Bowling: McGrath 9.4-0-30-4, Gillespie 10-1-60-2, Bichel 9-1-27-1, Warne 10-1-48-0, Symonds 10-0-48-3.
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Gavaskar comments England were robbed. Marcus Trescothick was playing the innings of a lifetime and taking his team to a famous victory when he was stopped in his tracks by a decision that turned the match in India’s favour. Leg-before wicket decisions are never the easiest to give nor are they unanimously accepted by the fielding side or the batting side but the speed at which they were given made them look worse. Trescothick was batting superbly and packing the innings so well that the Indians seemed to have no clue how to stop him. Cricket sure is a funny game. On this ground, about a year ago, V.V.S. Laxman played a stupendous innings and along with Rahul Dravid turned the match around for India for Harbhajan Singh to finish it with his off-spinners. Here Laxman was the one who was sweating buckets as he had dropped Trescothick when he was only two and the sturdy left-hander was taking the game away from India. Harbhajan who had claimed a hat-trick along with his other scalps in that game found this game entirely different as Trescothick used his feet to smash him repeatedly over the infield and played a variety of sweepshots from midwicket to fine-leg to make a mockery of the field placing. Eden Gardens is also the ground where Anil Kumble has his best one-day figures but he too came in for a mauling from Trescothick. Not many people would have given England even a sniff of a chance once India put up a formidable total of 281 runs on the board and when England were penalised one over for a slow over-rate it looked even more difficult. England also did not help their cause by some unthinking cricket. Collingwood and Vaughan, who were looking set and batting well, went for big shots when they were not required and there was no pressure on them to play them. Then Flintoff turned blind and paid the penalty for forgetting the basics of running between with wickets. England’s tail did not wag and once the top order was consumed the inexperience of the youngsters showed as they crumbled in front of the vociferous Eden Gardens crowd which went berserk as the last English wicket fell. India got off to a quick start from their trusted pair of Gaungly and Tendulkar. Just about every one of their batsmen got off to good starts but did not convert them into innings of substance. Ganguly who has been short of runs wasted a great opportunity by playing a horrible shot after doing all the hard work. Mongia batted well but one needs to question the wisdom of him coming in ahead of V.V.S. Laxman who had scored India’s highest Test score on his previous appearance at the Eden. Not only that it meant that instead of a left and right hand combination there were two left-handers at the crease. India will also have to look closely at their fielding and the way their fielders seem to stand a little too deep where they are not able to stop the singles nor are in a position to catch. In contrast, England were magnificent with Snape and Collingwood outstanding and saving many a run with their athleticism and agility. India does not have even one fielder who comes close to them. But they do have luck and maybe against this side that’s all that they need! PMG
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Over 1,00,000 shared joy Kolkata, January 20 And yesterday again the Eden was an attractive venue when India and England were locked in a battle in the first match of the six ODI series that brought Eden Gardens once again in the world cricket scenario. Over 100,000 spectators were present at the stadium to watch the match, which shared the joys and excitement of the winning team. * * * Darren Gough is no Gary Sobers, nor Ian Bothem or Richard Hadlee or a Kapil Dev or Imran Khan, who all had been very successful all-rounders. Still the captain Nasser Hussain depended so much on Darren both as batsman and bowler as if he alone would fight out Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly and bring victory for his home team. As bowler he did no better than Flintoff, who had taken two most important wickets, that of Tendulkar and Sourav. He, however, did not disappoint his skipper as a bowler after claiming V.V.S. Laxman. * * * “It’s just the beginning, keep it up again and again”, extolled the excited spectators to Dinesh Mongia after his outstanding batting performances, who alone added 71 runs to the Indian team. Mongia came as third batsman after Sachin was bowled by Flintoff. He soon had to face the spinner J. Snape who had replaced Collingwood. Mongia played with the skipper Sourav as subsequently with Laxman and Sehwag in partnerships and made a brilliant score of 71 runs before he was bowled by Snape. * * * They have their differences in politics, but sitting in the president’s box on the same row closed to each other, these politicians looked like strange bed-partners. They were the Marxist supremo Jyoti Basu, hardcore BJP minister Pramod Mahajan, Arun Jetley and Governor, Biren J. Shah. They all witnessed and enjoyed the cricket match from sitting atop the clubhouse in the president’s box. But the young Marxist Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhatacharyya missed the opportunity to have their company since he was busy in the official tour in north Bengal. * * * Marcus Trescothick did not miss the opportunity to take part in the match at the Eden as it was feared viral fever confined him to the bed only 24 hours before the actual showdown and docs advised him full rest. But Marcus did not listen to their advice. |
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Henman chickens out
Melbourne, January 20 The unseeded Swede did a John Cleese funny walk after a stunning straight sets win that opened up a straight line to the Australian Open final in the weakest half of the draw. “It’s a strange Grand Slam with so many seeds going out but it’s good for the players left in. There’s a chance to take,” Koubek said after overcoming Chilean qualifier Fernando Gonzalez in four sets today to line up a quarter-final against Jiri Novak of the Czeck Republic. The unseeded Koubek held his nerve to win 7-5 6-1 6-7 (3/7) 6-2 in two hours 19 minutes. It prevented Gonzalez from becoming the first qualifier to reach the last eight here since Goran Ivanisevic in 1989. Novak, seeded 26, beat unseeded Dominik Hrbaty of the Slovak Republic 6-4 6-2 5-7 6-2 in two hours 11 minutes to reach the last eight in his best performance in 23 Grand Slams. His previous best at the Australian Open was the third round in 1999. He broke Hrbaty eight times and raced through the first two sets, but encountered tougher resistance in the third set with the Slovakian breaking back to level. Novak rallied to clinch the fourth set under the hot Melbourne sun. Sampras needed seven match points to beat Nicolas Escude and the Frenchman said he could not see the 30-year-old American beating Marat Safin of Russia in tomorrow’s fourth round. In the women’s draw, second seed Venus Williams showed no sign of the knee injury that troubled her in her first two matches when she beat Magdalena Maleeva 6-0 6-3 in just 48 minutes. Monica Seles was given an unexpectedly easy passage into the last eight when her Spanish opponent Anabel Medina Garrigues sprained her knee. She has now reached the Australian Open quarter-finals for a seventh consecutive time. AFP
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Paes, Bhupathi win Melbourne, January 20 Paes combined with Miriam Oremans of the Netherlands to beat the pair of Donald Johnson of the USA and Els Callens of Belarus 7-6 (7/5) 6-4 and advance into the second round. The second seeded pair of Bhupathi and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia had a relatively easier time against American team of Brian Macphie and Lori McNeil, carving out a 6-4 6-4 win.
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Top juniors for ITF meet New Delhi, January 20 Jaco T Mathew of India, ranked 113 in the ITF junior list, heads the boys’ seedings with four other Indians also getting pride of place among the seeds. Rishi Behl is seeded second, while Saurav Singh has been given the third place. The fourth seed is Ivan Kokurin of Uzbekistan while Prabowo Imanuel of Indonesia has been seeded fifth followed by Somdev and Nihal Advani of India and Ivan Kovalev of Kazkhastan. There are 19 boys in the main draw of 32, out of which two are qualifiers and four wild cards. The wild cards are Viraj Bhargava, M V Abhayprakash, Vikram Aditya Menon and Parantap Chaturvedi. The two luckey-loser slots have also been filled by Indian juniors. In the girls section, Isha Lakhani of India, who has 159 ITF junior points, heads the seedings, followed by Sanaa Bhambri, Krushmi Chedda and Nidhi Shah (all from India), I-Husan Hwang of Taipei, Elina Arutyunova of Uzbekistan, Nivedita Venkatesh and Sandra Sashidharan of India. There are 20 Indian girls in the main draw of 32 players. The singles winners in both the boys and girls section will earn 60 ITF points each while the doubles titlists will collect 50 points each.
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K.P.S. Gill set to win third term as IHF chief New Delhi, January 20 Though the IHF elections are due only in May, Mr Gill has advanced these by a few months and they will now be held at Hotel Belle View, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Guwahati (Assam) on January 28 and 29. On January 28, the IHF executive committee will meet to transact the “confirmation of the minutes of the last meeting held at Bangalore on April 16, 2001, report of the secretary, audited accounts and any other business with the permission of the chair”. And on January 29, the “annual general meeting” will be held in which new office-bearers of the IHF will be elected. According to well-placed sources, there is no strong candidate, as yet, to
challenge Mr Gill for the presidentship, while incumbent secretary-general K Jyoti Kumaran will find the going tough, as even the Gill camp seemed to have deserted him. The grouse
against Mr Jyoti Kumaran is that he has been a “liability to the federation. And it was due to his ineptitude that India failed to gain a firm foothold in the International Hockey Federation (FIH)”. The names of former Indian captain M P Ganesh and incumbent treasurer J N Tyagi are making the rounds for the post of the secretary-general. If Ganesh decides to throw his hat into the ring, he will emerge as an easy winner, but his candidature needs the sanction of the government, as Ganesh is the Executive Director (Team’s Wing) of the Sports Authority of India. If Ganesh gets the go-ahead from the Government, he may likely to be a top contender for the secretary’s post, though the Gill camp is learnt to be backing the candidature of Tyagi. Some former Olympians and hockey officials are likely to get key positions if Mr Gill is elected as the president. The names doing the rounds are those of former secretary-general Gur sewak Singh of Punjab, Aslam Khan of Uttar Pradesh, former Olympian Gurbux Singh and Indian Olympic Association secretary-general Raja Randhir Singh. The last IHF elections were held in Hyderabad on May 10, in 1998. The detractors of Mr Gill had then tried to pit Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal against Mr Gill. But Mr Sukhbir Singh Badal pulled out of the fray, and a top cop from Chandigarh, Mr Chandrasekhar, was expected to challenge Mr Gill. In the end, Mr Chandrasekhar ended up proposing the name of Mr Gill, who then sailed through smoothly. It’s not that Mr Gill will not face any challenge this time either. There are some former Indian players, including two Olympic captains, with the support of a sports goods manufacturing firm in Punjab, are learnt to be working behind the scene to put up a “strong” candidate against Mr Gill. But so far, no such candidate has emerged on the scene. Moreover, Mr Gill is learnt to be enjoying the backing of the Indian Olympic Association, and even the Sports Ministry, though if the political element is brought into play, the equations may change at the last moment. But Mr Gill has been riding on a wave of success during his second term, as during this period, India won the coveted Asian Games title, the sub-junior and junior World Cup titles, and the inaugural Champions Challenge Trophy in Kuala Lumpur at the fag end of 2001. The timing of the coming election is crucial as its comes barely a couple of weeks before the World Cup to be held in Kuala Lumpur in February. Meanwhile, IHF senior vice-president T Jesudanam, who is also the president of the Andhra Pradesh Hockey Association, in a detailed letter addressed to Mr Gill, has termed the proposed “general body” meeting as “illegal”.
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Pathetic run of JCT, Punjab Police continues Chandigarh, January 20 The poor showing can be attributed to several factors. Among these are absence of foreigners in their ranks. Barring Nigerian Stephan Abarowei, who returned to assist JCT after the league had already
commenced, there is no other foreigner in the two Punjab outfits. Moreover, both the teams do not have of high-ranking players unlike teams like East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Mahindras, Churchill Brothers etc. Another reason perhaps may be the short break for the players, many of whom did duty in the 31st National Games and won the gold for Punjab. While most of the states chose to send second string teams for the National Games, Punjab being hosts, fielded a strong team with at least seven players drawn from JCT and some from Punjab Police. The National Games took a heavy toll, with some of the key players sustaining injures. JCT’s star forward Jaswinder, who has proved to be the livewire of their attack, sustained a knee injury in the National Games semifinal at Jalandhar and was thus ruled out for the NFL. With a prize money of over Rs 1 crore, the NFL today is serious business. Every participating team is spending lakhs on the players and every effort is made to rope in the best talent. However, financial constraints and hurdles like service rules which do not allow the recruitment of foreigners in departments like Punjab Police are hindering their progress. Meanwhile, Goa’s Churchill Brothers with 15 points today climbed to the top spot, routing Tollygunge 4-0 at Kolkata. Three other teams, Mahindra United, Mohun Bagan, and Vasco also have 15 points. Debutants HAL are in hot pursuit with 14 points followed by ITI with 13 points. Defending champions East Bengal, who crashed to their fourth defeat today against HAL, are placed eighth. The ninth round will commence on January 23.
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HAL shock E.Bengal
Bangalore, January 20 The lone goal came in the 14th minute when captain Sunil’s precision header off a lob from Mulisa Jimmy, zoomed into the net. HAL keeper transformed himself into an impregnable fortress between the goalmouth and giants East Bengal, which mounted a fierce attack on the rival citadel, failed to find an equaliser. KOLKATA: Ghana import Yusuf Yakubu struck a hat-trick as Churchill Brothers, Goa, trounced local outfit Tollygunge Agragami 4-0 in a completely one-sided National Football League encounter here today. Yakubu displayed fine opportunism to draw first blood in the 28th minute of the opening half, before putting in two more after the breather at the Salt Lake Stadium match to score the maiden hat-trick in the current edition of the tournament. Midfield dynamo Somatai Shaiza made the scoreline 4-0 on the stroke of the final whistle. PTI
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National school
gymnastics meet Ambala, January 20 According to president of the District Olympic Association, Mr D.D. Gautam, 730 gymnasts, including 319 women gymnasts, from 17 states are participating in the championship. Mr Rasal Singh, while addressing the gymnasts on this occasion, said Haryana Government had been offering many incentives to the players to encourage the games in the state. He said 10 sports nursery had been functioning in the state to provide better sports training to the player. Football championship Sonepat defeated Gurgaon by one goal in the Haryana State Senior Football Championship which concluded here today. The Speaker, Haryana Assembly, Mr Satbir Singh Kadian, who is also president of the Haryana Football Association, presented the shield to the winning team. Vikas of Sonepat team scored the goal in the 65th minute of the game. The Gurgaon team could not draw the match. Sonepat won the championship by 1-0. One player of the Sonepat team and two of the Gurgaon team were shown yellow card by the referee during the match. Mr Sandeep Khirwar, chairman, organising committee, and state secretary of the association, Mr Paramjit Singh, were also present on the occasion.
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Ekta winner in SBoP meet Patiala, January 20 The other results: Girls-100m: (10-12 years): Aditi Sharma-2, Harry Devgun-3. 200m: (10-12 years): Aditi Sharma-1, Harry Devgun-2, Seema Sharma -3. Boys- 100m (10-12 years): Vibhat-1, Avinash-2, Sanjiv-3. 200m (10-12 years): Sanjiv-1, Vibhat Sharma-2, Jiwan Sharma-3. Girls-200m (15-18 years)-Karamjit Kaur-1, Sonia Thakur-2, Yamini and Simarjit- joint 3rd. Boys-200m (15-18 years): Hansdeep Singh-1, Mohit Mishra-2, Jagjit Singh-3. Earlier, the two-day meet was inaugurated by Mr Amitabha Guha, Chief General Manager of the bank, who also hoisted the bank flag.
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