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Khanna Club enter quarter-final New Delhi, May 29 Due to heavy rains in the morning, the match started late and was reduced to 17 overs each side. Chand Khanna won the toss and opted to field on a damp ground. It was a good decision as the Chand Khanna bowlers exploited the wet conditions to have the
K. N. Colts batsmen in knotts. K. N. Colts crawled to 132 for 9 wickets in 17 overs. Tara Chand scored an unbeaten 28 with three sixes and two fours off just 10 balls to emerge as the top scorer. Ravinder Bhandari made 20 with one six. Left-arm spinner Vaibhav Dua inflicted the maximum damage on
K. N. Colts by claiming three wickets for 18 runs. Raja Sharma and Sumit Dogra captured two wickets each. In reply, Chand Khanna scored 133 for 7 wickets in 16.4 overs. Varun Kumar blasted 29 runs off 14 balls with three fours and two sixes to bag the man of the match award. Dr Vivek Rajpal, vice-president of the Parent Teacher Association of Modern School, presented the Reebok man of the match award to Varun Kumar. Scores:
K. N. Colts: 132 for 9 wickets in 17 overs (Tara Chand 28 n.o., 3x6, 2x4, 10b; Ravinder Bhandari 20, 1x6; Vaibhav Dua 3 for 18; Raja Sharma 2 for 16, Sumit Dogra 2 for 28). Chand Khanna Club: 133 for 7 wickets in 16.4 overs (Varun Kumar 29, 3x4, 2x6, 14b; Sandip Rana 29, 2x6, 22b; Sumit Dogra 23, 2x4, 24b; Dev Ashish 2 for 27; Vijay Bahadur 2 for 21). Wednesday’s fixture: ONGC vs Madras Club; 7.30am—Modern School ground.. |
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Karun Chandhok maintains
fourth position New Delhi, May 29 Though heavy rains played a spoilsport and one race had to be cancelled, Karun finished a credible sixth and retained his overall fourth position in the championship, competing with Team T Sport. The organisers of the championship wrote in their souvenir about Karun’s fine performance: “Ranged against the sweeney cars of Carroll and Asaro is Clivio Piccione for the new team T-Sport, the man from Monaco having been very impressive in his first year in F3, as his team-mate Karun Chandhok, one of the nicest and most disarmingly honest chaps you will ever find in a motor racing paddock. The reigning Formula Asia Champion is till learning about the tracks in the UK, but went well in race 2 at Knockhill, as he had gone at Silverstone, to earn a podium finish. The JK Tyre-supported driver will go well here as it his sort of circuit, and one podium should be on the cards”. Testing went well for Karun and though during the first qualifying session he was only ninth, he put in a storming lap right at the end of the second qualifying to jump upto the fifth on the grid. The gap separating third place to ninth was under three tenths of a second. All through Friday testing and Saturday qualifying, the rain clouds were looking hovering over with scattered showers and it looked more and more likely that there would be a wet race in prospect. The first race of the weekend was held on Saturday evening. At the start, it was dry with clouds getting darker and darker and by lap two, it was raining heavily and the track was flooded. The race was stopped and all the cars were called into the pits to change to rain tyres, but by the time the race was about to re-start, the rain had stopped and it appeared that the track was going to dry up. With tyre choice virtually a gamble in these notorious weather conditions, Karun and his engineer Alan Woodhead
decided to play a game of follow the leader and made a choice based on what the championship front runners, Adam
Carroll and Clivio Piccione, were doing—dry tyres. Unfortunately, the track was too wet and carnage prevailed—Carroll and more than half the field failed to finish. Karun survived some scary moments and brief spins to finish a creditable sixth in his first F3 race in the rain and retain his fourth place in the championship. |
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Special
events to mark World Cup in Asia New Delhi, May 29 In the first stage, the DVFC will hold the book release function of the sixth edition of the `Soccer Diary’, containing detailed information about the World Cup football tournament. The function will be held on Thursday, May 30 at the Deputy Speaker Hall, Constitution Club here. The diary will be a ready reckoner for the public. A galaxy of sports personalities of the Capital will grace the occasion of the `Soccer Mela’. The DVFC will also hold the second `Five-a-Side’ “Ambuja Cup Football Tournament” at the Ambedkar Stadium from June 3 for DSA affiliated clubs and institutional teams. The DVFC will also conduct tourneys for sports journalists, public sector organisations, multinational companies, corporate houses, foreign embassies and soccer veterans. School and college teams can also participate during soccer mela. Every winning team from the Quarter-final stage will get attractive prizes. According to the organisers, the event has been organised considering the great interest that the people have in football in general and the World Cup in particular. |
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ESPN Star Sports
World Cup contest New Delhi, May 29 What the viewers have to do is to log on to espnstar.com’s World Cup Game Zone and predict who will score the first goal in the France vs Senegal match on May 31. The correct entry will win a trip to a World Cup match. Another contest, the World Cup Pundit, encourages people to predict which team will win on which match-day and those who answer correctly stand a chance to win World Cup PDAs and World Cup shirts. |
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Junior Wrestling at Bahadurgarh New Delhi, May 29 Chairman of the organising committee Prof
P. K. Chandla said wrestlers from all over the country will participate in the championships. The preliminary bouts will start on Wednesday after the weighing-in on Tuesday. Union Minister for Rural-based Industries Shiv Karia Munda will inaugurate the championships. |
DCs told to check grain storage centres Rohtak, May 29 Meanwhile, the untimely rain that lashed the town and its surrounding areas today morning has reportedly played havoc with the wheat stocked by the procuring agencies in the open. Huge stocks of wheat lying in the open on the Indergarh road at Chandi village have been badly damaged in the rain that lashed today and on Tuesday. The city has recorded 25 mm rain till 8 am today against 16 mm rain on Tuesday. The district administration was caught on the wrong foot, as rainwater entered many houses on the Jhajjar road and in certain low-lying localities. The normal life was totally disrupted following the un-seasonal rainfall. The rain has also exposed the ignorance of the municipal authorities about the requirement of civic amenities needed to meet the monsoon season. The sewers in most parts of the town, including on the highly busy Civil Lines road, were found to be clogged. The Civil Lines road, passing through the heart of the city, looked like a lake in front of the Nraina Complex that houses the offices of important national newspapers and a branch of a nationalised bank. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Anil Malik, has to intervene to get the rainwater drained out from the civil Lines road opposite the Nraina Complex. It was on his intervention that the public health authorities, who manage the drains and drinking water supply to the town, deployed at least six diesel-run generator sets to drain out the water from the low-lying areas of the Jhajjar road and Civil Lines. |
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200 houses razed by Huda Faridabad, May 29 The Huda administrator, Mr Vijayendra Kumar, said that the unauthorised colony known as `Shramik Vihar’ had come up several years ago and the encroachers had occupied about 40 plots of Huda illegally. About 15 acres were recovered in today’s drive. The SDM, Mr Jitender Dahiya, officials of the Huda and a team of police personnel was present there. He said while the colony had several pucca houses, there were a large number of jhuggis and dairies built on the green belt of the sector. He said an announcement was made in the colony about a week ago in this connection. The residents of the colony could register only a mild protest. They said that the colony was more than 10 years old and they had invested their hard-earned money in building their houses. Blaming the district authorities, they said the officials should have stopped construction in the beginning. It was a shock that was difficult to bear now, as most of them had been from poor background. |
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