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Wednesday,
January 30, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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KPS Gill re-elected IHF
chief India in semis of
U-19 World Cup Bevan’s rescue act fans Aussie hopes
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Gough dreams of drawing
series
Chhatwinder, Saurabh win Paes, Bhupathi
win The Derby and the romance of racing Boost for Punjab school
sports Mahilpur, Banga lads
triumph SGPS, govt school in final JCT go down to Tollygunge Police Medal for ex-volleyball star Punjab Blues win in basketball
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KPS Gill re-elected IHF chief Guwahati, January 29 In the annual general meeting here, the IHF saw unanimous election of the entire executive, which later sat for the first time to chart out the course of Indian hockey for the next four years. There had been no opposition, whatsoever, to Mr Gill’s candidature. Once he was elected, the rest of the executive was also chosen unanimously. Mr Chandra Sekhar, IPS, Chandigarh and Mr N.K. Batra (J&K) were the two senior vice-presidents. “There has been complete unanimity in the whole election procedure and Indian Olympic Association (IOA) observer Gurdeep Singh has expressed satisfaction over it,” said Mr Gill while talking to newsmen after his third successive election. Setting out his agenda, he said the first target was to improve at the international level and then expand hockey in India. The new executive has eight vice-presidents, while Mr K. Jothikumaran (Tamil Nadu) will be the secretary general. The meeting also saw formal entry of four more state units into the IHF. They are Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal and Chhattisgarh taking the total number of units to 35. Despite some initial reservation over holding the meeting at Guwahati, all the state units were represented at the meeting, said Mr Gill. It was he who had insisted on the meeting venue despite some opposition. Mr Gill was an Assam cadre IPS officer, who served a major part of his life in Assam, before going to Punjab to take on militancy there. He told mediapersons that besides doing well at the international level, the other aim of the new executive was to take hockey into non-traditional areas and revive the tradition, where the game was dying. He, however, said corporate sponsorship had remained a major hurdle for the development of Indian hockey. “We need Rs 10 crore to run the Indian hockey, but we get about Rs 3 crore,” he said. He was hopeful that after the end of the financial year, he would get some big names in the corporate sector to sponsor the Indian hockey big way. “Talks are on critical stage and I would not like to name the corporate sectors. But I can assure that they are big names and have assured that after the closure of accounts on March 31, they would come up in a big way.” The following are the members of the new executive committee of the IHF: President — Mr K.P.S. Gill, IPS (HP), senior vice-presidents — Mr Chandra Sekhar, IPS (Chandigarh), Mr N.K. Batra (J and K), vice-presidents — Prof Gursewak Singh (Patiala), Mr M.S. Malik, IPS (Haryana), Mr Unni, IPS (MP), Mr Dinesh Vajpayee, IPS (Bengal), Mr Keshab Mahanta, ex-MP (Assam), Mr Bakshi Dalbir Singh (Bombay), Mr Kashyab (IA), Mr Ejaz Hussain (Bihar); secretary-general — Mr K. Jothikumaran (Tamil Nadu); treasurer — Mr J.N. Tyagi (UP), joint secretary — Mr S.P. Das (HP), Mr K. Krishnamurthy (Karnataka), Mr Pratap Satpathy
(Orissa); Mr Ramachandra Rao (Hyderabad), Mr Gurdeep Singh (Universities).
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Hockey team to train at Epoh Guwahati, January 29 This was announced today by the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) president Mr K.P.S. Gill here. “Epoh has the same kind of Astro-Turf, to be used in the Kuala Lumpur World Cup. We do not have that much of facility, and so we have decided to send the team there,” he said. Regarding progress of the just concluded training camp of the World Cup at Chennai, Mr Gill had expressed satisfaction over its progress.
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India in semis of U-19 World Cup Wellington, January 29 India, led by man-of-the-match Maninder Bisla, who scored 49 from 56 balls, took only 34.4 overs to surpass Sri Lanka’s total of 195. The win made India the first team to book a place in the semifinals from the tournament’s super league competition involving the top eight teams from pool-play — India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, the West Indies, England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The West Indies beat Pakistan by six wickets in other super league match to revive their semifinal chances after an earlier defeat. Now Pakistan must beat rivals India on Thursday to qualify for the semis. In the India-Sri Lanka match, the latter were dismissed with two balls remaining in their 50 overs and India achieved that total with 92 balls to spare. Abshishek sharma took three wickets for 46 for India and Rahesh Mohanty, the 16-year-old off spinner, took two for 38. Bisla’s 49 set up India for a convincing win. Parthiv Patel made 24 in a useful opening stand with Bisla while Deepak Chougule scored 47 from 80 balls and Y. Gnanaswera Rao made 30 from 31 balls. In the other match, Khaqan Arsal scored 47 and Kamran Sajid 44 as Pakistan made 162 in 47.2 overs, batting first against the West Indies. Their innings was damaged in its later stages by left-arm spinner Lorenzo Ingram who took 4 for 14 from seven overs. Pakistan were 111-3 in the 30th over and heading for a reasonable score but the last eight wickets fell for 51 runs in 112 balls.
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Bevan’s rescue act fans Aussie hopes Melbourne, January 29 Bevan hit 102 from 93 balls, rescuing the home country from a seemingly hopeless 82 for six wickets in the 22nd over. Australia scraped home by two wickets - with just three balls to spare - in front of a near-delirious crowd of 40,008, making 248 for eight wickets after New Zealand had hit 245 for eight wickets. The result means Australia are still well in the hunt for next week’s best-of-three finals of the series, which also features South Africa. Australia’s win, their first against New Zealand in this tournament after being beaten three times in a row by the Kiwis, pushes them to second equal place in the ladder with South Africa, with each country sitting on 13 points after three wins. New Zealand are still top of the ladder on 17 points, but are not certainties to appear in the final. The two sides for the showdown will be decided in Perth this weekend when New Zealand play South Africa on Friday and Australia and South Africa clash on Sunday. In a desperately tight finish, New Zealand could still fail to make the final if they lose to South Africa and Australia beat South Africa. New Zealand: Vincent c Gilchrist b McGrath 5 Astle c Warne b Lee 11 Fleming run out 50 McMillan c Ponting b Harvey 34 Cairns c Bevan b Warne 55 Harris run out 41 Nash run out 24 Parore lbw b McGrath 1 Adams not out 13 Vettori not out 0 Extras (lb-4 nb-3 w-4) 11 Total (8 wkts, 50 overs) 245 Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-19, 3-73, 4-143, 5-178, 6-226, 7-228, 8-235. Bowling: McGrath 10-0-41-2, Lee 8-0-32-1, Bichel 6-0-20-0, Warne 10-0-56-1, Harvey 10-0-59-1, S. Waugh 6-0-33-0. Australia: Gilchrist b Bond 14 Waugh c Adams b Nash 21 Ponting c Astle b Bond 8 Martyn c Harris b Adams 6 S. Waugh c Parore b Nash 7 Bevan not out 102 Harvey c Parore b Bond 12 Warne c Bond b Adams 29 Lee c Astle b Bond 27 Bichel not out 13 Extras (nb-6, w-3) 9 Total (8 wkts, 49.3 overs) 248 Fall of wickets: 1-24, 2-40, 3-51, 4-53, 5-65, 6-82, 7-143, 8-224. Bowling:
Nash 9-0-50-2, Bond 9.3-2-38-4, Adams 10-0-52-2, Vettori 10-0-36-0, Harris 8-0-50-0, Astle 3-0-22-0.
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Gough dreams of drawing series New Delhi, January 29 “We are not far behind. We could easily have been 2-2 in this series,” Gough told reporters here. “I saw in the papers this morning that they (India) are such a superior team (compared to England). I feel it’s a lot of rubbish. I think we are two very close teams,” he said. “We have got two more games and we have got to go and win both... try something else, something different and win. This can easily be a drawn series,” he said. Expressing satisfaction with his performance so far in the series, Gough said bowling in the Indian conditions was extremely difficult especially for a seamer. “Anybody who comes to this part of the world and bowls to some of the world’s best batsmen wouldn’t find it easy. No seamer has stood out in this series. I think (Javagal) Srinath bowled brilliantly yesterday. “But every seam bowler in this competition will go for runs... especially against guys who believe in getting going early on in their innings,” Gough said in an obvious reference to Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, who fashioned India’s eight-wicket win yesterday with explosive knocks. Asked whether Sehwag was another Tendulkar in the making, Gough said, “I hope not”. “I mean, some of the shots he played yesterday were unbelievable... the flicks off his toes. And yes, some of his shots are similar to those of Tendulkar but I wouldn’t compare him to Sachin after just one innings,” Gough said. “As a bowler, the balls you bowl to Sachin, you won’t to Sehwag. “But we have got to stop both of them if we have to win the next two matches.” Gough, who has opened the bowling for England in this series, said he had no problems coming in as a first change bowler, if the need arose. “I am probably the best England bowler during the later stages of the innings when the requirement is to bowl wicket to wicket and straight. I have done it before and I have no problems.” He was also not bothered about the possibility of being left out of the team for the next two matches in keeping with the rotation policy.
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Chhatwinder, Saurabh win Chandigarh, January 29 However, the day was marked by a few upsets in both the boys and girls sections. Second seed Isha Lakhani of India went down fighting to Chinese Chong Chen Yan in straight sets while in the boys singles, fourth seed Al Imran of Indonesia was shown the door by unseeded Indian Nihal Advani, who won in three gruelling sets 7-6 (7), 6-7 (7), 6-2. In other upsets, W. Dor of Israel defeated fifth seed Kokurin Ivan of Uzbekistan while seventh seed Divij Sharan lost to unseeded A Prakash of India. Other Indians making to the last eight were Saurabh Kohli, Somdev K. Verman, second seed Jaco T. Mathew and Abhay Prakash. In the girls section, the top seeds — Megha Vakharia, Maya Rosa of Indonesia and Sanna Bhambri entered the quarterfinals. Sixth seed Krushmi Chheda of India lost to unseeded Elina Arutynona of Uzbekistan in straight sets. The first round doubles matches also began here today with local boys Amanjot Singh and Saurabh Singh moving in the second round. Others in boys section who entered the second round of this event are, Saurabh and Parantap (Ind), Al Amor (Ina) and Natapong (Tha), Inbar Amit and Cohen (Isr), Chhatwinder and Vikram (Ind), Harris and Edward (Uzb), Prakaso and Probobo (Ina). Results: (all pre-quarterfinals): Boys: Chhatwinder Singh (Ind) b Lior Barbash (Isr) 6-0, 6-4; Saurabh Singh (Ind) b N. Kiran Kumar (Ind) 6-2, 6-0; Saurabh Kohli (Ind) b Imanuel Provowo (Ina) 7-6 (1),7-6 (4); Somdev K. Verman (Ind) b I. Prakoso (Ina) 6-1, 6-1; A. Prakash (Ind) b Sharan Divij (Ind) 6-4, 7-6 (1); Nihal Advani (Ind) b Al Imran (Ina) 7-6 (7), 6-7 (7), 6-2; Jaco T. Mathew (Ind) b Amit Inbar (Isr) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; W. Dor (Isr) b Kokurin Ivan (Uzb) 6-1, 6-4. Girls: Chong Chen Yan (Chi) b Isha Lakhani (Ind) 6-3, 6-1; Megha Vakharia (Ind) b Asha Nandkumar (Ind) 6-2, 6-0; Elina Arutynova (Uzb) b Krushmi Chheda (Ind) 6-4, 6-2; Sun Shengnan (Chi) b Sasidharan S. (Ind) 7-6 (6),6-1; Parul Goswami (Ind) b Kovazeva Maria (Kaz) 6-1, 6-3; Sanna Bhambri (Ind) b Rui Du (Chi) 6-2, 6-1; Wen Shin (Tpe) b Nidhi Shah (Ind) 6-1, 6-1; Maya Rosa (Ina) b Dina Senkina (Rus) 6-1, 6-3. |
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Paes, Bhupathi win
Bangalore, January 29 The Indian pair needed just 53 minutes to thrash the South Africans, who made it to the Challenge Cup following withdrawal of Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett. Earlier in another match, fifth-seeded Mark Knowles (Bah) and Brian MacPhie (USA) surprised fourth-seeded Petr Pala and Pavel Vizner of the Czech Republic 6-1, 3-6, 7-5. In the opening encounter of the tournament, third seed Bryan twins — Bob and Mark, made a fine start with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 win over seasoned Rick Leach (USA) and Ellis Ferriera (RSA). In a minor upset, fifth seeds Mark Knowles and Brian MacPhie prevailed over dark horses Petr Pala and Pavel Vezne. Knowles, who won the Australian Open doubles title this year with Daniel Nester, and MacPhie dazzled with their fine court craft. The US pair won the first set breaking Pala and Pavel in the second and fourth games, respectively, and gain a 5-0 lead. Knowles held the serve and won the set. In the second set, the Czech pair played superbly to take the match to the decider. Pala and Vizner went up 3-1 in the second set, when Knowles dropped his serve with a double fault on the third break point, and later shot to a 5-1 lead against breaking
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The Derby and the romance of racing Eight million rupees in prize money 45,000 people at the venue — a direct captive audience of one hundred thousand enthusiasts ! Am I talking cricket ? No. Am I talking soccer ? Far from it. A sport that’s all about explosive action and an event that is the biggest success story in the history of national sport. I’m talking about the McDowell Indian Derby- run on the first Sunday of February each year. Now here is a sport and an event that is confined to the national level. There is no element of International competition attached to it and electronic media coverage is restricted to a coded signal that can only be viewed at race clubs around the country. And yet, here is an event that has no equal whatsoever in prize money. McDowell’s have certainly backed a winner when they took over the Indian Derby and it seems to get better with each passing year. So what’s going to win the McDowell Indian Derby this year. In the last decade and a half, it’s been the horses owned by four individuals that have come out on top. Dr Vijay Mallya since 1988 has led in five Derby winners. Three of them individually and two of them jointly with the Poonawalla Brothers - Cyrus and Zavaray. The two brothers in that same period of time have jointly owned four Indian Derby winners. Dr M.A.M. Ramaswamy has seen his colours coast to victory no less than three times and on one occasion he was part of the winning partnership. And finally Mr Deepak Khaitan basked in Indian Derby glory in his own right in 1993 and 1995 and in 1992 he was part of the Astonish victory team. The only colours that broke this sort of domination was in 1997, when Indictment gave his sporting owners Mr and Mrs Khushru Dhunjibhoy their greatest moment on the turf. Are we going to see anything different this year ? In fact, if a horse named Wild Eagle comes out and triumphs on Derby Day, the last bastion of male domination in this Blue Riband of the Indian turf will have been broken. Wild Eagle is trained by a young lady named Ms Aarti Doctor and a victory here, makes her the first woman ever in the history of the sport to train an Indian Derby winner. Wild Eagle has won seven of his eight career starts and of that lot he has remained unbeaten in his last five. Ms Doctor has done a remarkable job on this gelding and we wait to see if women’s lib can keep its date with destiny on the first Sunday of February 2002 — McDowell Indian Derby day. So if you are a woman, make sure you are there to see if Aarti Doctor can get Wild Eagle rewrite the record books. Or, are you going to allow the chauvinists walk all over you ?
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Boost for Punjab school
sports Chandigarh, January 29 In the 1980’s, there was only one age group for the school games, and all events were conducted at one venue. With the introduction of three age groups — under-14, 17 and 19 — in both the boys and girls section in more than 25 disciplines, things have changed, feels a former sportsman. Now the games are organised by various state departments. Patiala is hosting the games after other sports departments backed out of hosting the events at the last minute. With more than 7,000 sportspersons expected it is going to be a herculean task to make arrangements for their boarding and lodging. Many school employees will also perform election duties, making the task more difficult. The events will be held at NIS, Polo Ground, Government Mohindra College and Government College for Women. Last year, Punjab had hosted the Asian school hockey meet, the four-nation international school cricket meet, besides the National Games. The SGFI should try to complete the competitions by December and also take note of the state departments who refuse to host the events at the 11th hour. A heavy penalty should be imposed on such departments so that withdrawing at the last moment does not become a norm. During the past few years many new sports have been added to the schedule. This year chess will make its debut at these games. |
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Mahilpur, Banga lads
triumph Chandigarh, January 29 Football Academy dominated the proceedings and the first goal was scored by Kulwinder Singh in the eighth minute. In the second half, the Mahilpur team scored the second goal through Surinder Singh. In the second match, Guru Nanak College, Narur Panshat, beat ASSM College, Mukandpur, 4-1. Sikh National College, Banga, got the better of Khalsa College, Domli, 2-0 today. In another match witnessed by a large crowd, Sri Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College, Mahilpur, edged out a fighting Football Academy, Mahilpur, 1-0. The all-important goal was scored by Gurdeep Singh. The third match of the day was played between Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, and GN Khalsa College, Narur Panshat. In this match, Khalsa College dominated throughout before emerging victorious by a 3-0 margin. The victory also assured them of a berth in the semifinals in the college category. The scorers for Khalsa College were Harpreet Singh and Mandeep Singh. |
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SGPS, govt school in final New Delhi, January 29 Aided by three brilliant goals by Gurdarshan Singh, SGPS recorded a facile 6-1 win over Army Boys Sports Coy, BRC Danapur, while the model school had to sweat it out to beat Birsamunda Vidyapitha, Rourkela, 3-2 to reach the final. In the day’s first semifinal, despite leading 3-0, Jalandhar’s model school survived some anxious moments at the fag end when they found the Rourkela school scoring two consecutive goals in 62nd and 65th minutes but the model managed to hang on to the slender lead till the final whistle. The scorers for model school were Parladh Singh, Yadwinder Singh and Baltej Singh. In the other one-sided semifinal, the SGPS livewire Gurdarshan struck a field goal in the very first minute of play, another through a penalty corner in 29th minute and the third one, also a field goal in the 44th minute of the match. PTI |
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JCT go down to Tollygunge Kolkata, January 29 The talented Biswas produced the match-winning goal just at the stroke of the long whistle to seal the fate of the spirited mill men after both teams were locked 1-1 till the dying minutes of the game. The hard-working Akim fetched the equaliser for the home team midway through the opening session after Hardeep Gill had put the Punjab outfit in the lead as early as the 10th minute of the contest. Tollygunge, who won their last match against F.C. Kochin by a solitary goal, enjoyed territorial advantage for most part of the contest and were unlucky not to emerge victorious by a bigger margin. JCT began with a flourish and managed to forge ahead in the 10th minute.
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Police Medal for ex-volleyball star Patiala, January 29 Boparai was a member of the Punjab state team that won the gold in the National Volleyball Championship at Calicut in 1979. He also has the distinction of playing for Punjab police as a spiker for eight successive years in the All-India Inter-Police Games. A philanthropist, Boparai has taken up a lot of social work like organising blood donation and drug de-addiction camps during his tenure as a police officer. He joined the Punjab police in 1980 and has received 17 commendation letters in 21-year tenure. |
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Punjab Blues win in basketball Kotkapura, January 29 Punjab Blues, who played an attacking game, scored point after point while the Andhra Pradesh players, could not put in their best. Harminder Singh and Pawandip of Punjab Blues contributed 28 and 22 points, respectively, in the emphatic victory of their team. In another match, Punjab Whites defeated Madhya Pradesh 72-52. The contest remained one-sided from the beginning though the Madhya Pradesh players attacked the camp of the opponents many time by breaching their defence. In another match, the Canada team comprising reputed players defeated the Andhra Pradesh 105-74. For Canada XI, Aman scored 36 points and Navi 22 points. In the last match, the Army team defeated Madhya Pradesh 88-67. In the women’s section, Chandigarh defeated Kotkapura 49-31 and tasted defeat at the hands of Madhya Pradesh in the evening session by 31-49. Mr Darshan Singh, organising secretary, said in the four-day championship, eight mens teams and five womens teams were participating. |
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