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July 18, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Injured Trescothick
set to miss series Need to
improve bowling: Kapil Windies ‘A’ gain 13-run lead World Cup
ticket sales perk up Becker
to visit India again C’wealth
Games: stage set for exciting athletics show Chautala
appointed AICS vice-president |
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Kahlon’s
team wins pro-am title Top
boxer fails to report at camp SGFI to
celebrate golden jubilee Haryana judokas
score 4-0 win Haryana
hikes Olympians’ pension
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Injured Trescothick
set to miss series
London, July 17 Trescothick left the field clutching his hand when he stopped a fierce cover drive from former England batsman Graeme Hick. “Hick should be charged with treason for damaging one of England’s finest (batsmen)!” joked Somerset chief executive Peter Anderson on Sky Sports. “He is having the bone pinned at the moment and we expect him to be out for between six to 10 weeks. “He’s pretty distressed as one can imagine but that sadly is part and parcel of professional sport,” he added. Likely candidates to replace the cavalier batsman are veterans Mark Ramprakash and John Crawley, the latter having played in the opening series against Sri Lanka. Pace bowler Andrew Caddick is also on the sidelines for the July 25-29 Lord’s Test Caddick injured his ribs during the third Test victory over Sri Lanka and Old Trafford last month and failed a fitness test to play for Somerset today. “He had a fitness test and didn’t come through it too well,” Somerset coach Kevin Shine said. “He has not set himself back but be will have rehab to do. We hope it will take a couple of weeks. I would be amazed if he was fit for the first Test and I have spoken to Duncan Fletcher and told him the situation. “The thing with Caddy is that he is a quick healer. He is desperate to get back and play and he was desperately disappointed when this happened,” Shine said. England name their squad for the Test that begins on July 25 tomorrow. The second Test of the four-match series starts on August 8 at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. Caddick missed the triangular one-day series with Sri Lanka and India due to the injury. England batsman Mark Butcher is recovering from knee surgery last month though he is expected to be available for selection.
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Need to improve bowling: Kapil Kolkata, July 17 “Saurav is good as a captain. Though he is not one of the best fielders, he is so charged up. And that’s a good policy for a captain,” the India World Cup-winning captain, who was in the city as brand ambassador for the World Cup network of Max and Sony Entertainment Television, said. The former cricketer pointed out: “As a captain Saurav is always trying his best. He is giving 100 per cent. Now, everyone has one or two things that go against them and that should not be highlighted. “He does not only think about himself but about the 10 other boys in the side. He is bound to come up short somewhere,” Kapil said backing Saurav. Indian World Cup winning captain Kapil Dev feels the present team needs to tighten its bowling and fielding to come out on the winning side in the World Cup 2003 in South Africa. Talking to reporters at a press meet here today, the former cricketer said: “Our bowlers have a lot to improve. They are very immature and need more exposure to hone their skills.” He felt sad that he could not have a sitting with the younger boys at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) because of their tight international schedule. “I could have given them some advice. Not that it would have changed the side but it could have helped them in the long run,” he said. Kapil felt that batting was Indian team’s forte and all six top batters were match winners by themselves. Cricketing legend took exception to skipper Sourav Ganguly’s act of stripping off his shirt after the incredible victory against England in the NatWest series final, saying captains should learn to keep their emotions under control. “A captain getting carried away is quite normal, but then he should also know how to show his emotions,” Kapil told a press conference here. “I was taken aback when he took off his shirt, though I know it was an emotional outburst,” he said. Kapil, who led India to the World Cup title at the same venue in 1983, said his reaction had nothing to do with the ‘sanctity’ of Lord’s. “Had such an act been done by a youngster, I wouldn’t have minded. But Ganguly is after all the skipper”. Kapil, however, hastened to add that cricket had changed a lot since his playing days. “May be, 20 years from now nobody would bother about such things”. Ganguly’s act of taking off his shirt and waving it to the crowd from the balcony of the dressing room after the two-wicket win last Saturday has come in for criticism from some quarters. However, cricket board President Jagmohan Dalmiya yesterday strongly defended Ganguly’s action, saying it was only an emotional outpouring after an unbelievable victory.
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Windies ‘A’ gain 13-run lead
Arundel (England), July 17 Paceman Ajit Agarkar and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed 4 wickets each as West Indies ‘A’ were bowled out for 266 chasing Indias Ist innings score of 253 for 7 declared. In their second innings India were 67 for 2. A rollicking century stand for the fifth wicket between Ryan Hinds and Dwayne Bravo lifted West Indies ‘A’. Rescuing West Indies from 109 for 4, on a wicket that offered swing to the Indian medium pacers, Hinds (62) and Bravo (55) completely transformed the innings with some savage batting which produced 148 runs in the post lunch session. The duo added 101 runs in quick time. Bravo was particularly severe on off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, introduced into the attack in the 33rd over with the total reading 123 for four, who conceded 62 runs from his 10 overs. In the end the bowler had his revenge, trapping Bravo leg before wicket for 55. Opener Devon Smith (69) was run out, at the start of the second session in comical style, ending an entertaining innings. Smith cut Sanjay Bangar hard to gully where Wasim Jaffer spilled the uppish chance but flicked the ball to Harbhajan Singh at point who missed a throw at the non-striker’s end. Agarkar backing up from mid-on still managed to run out Smith with an accurate throw. Agarkar, who rocked the West Indies ‘A’ in the morning with a two wicket burst, picked up his third wicket when he won a leg before shout against Chris Gayle (0). Hinds became Agarkar’s fourth victim when on 62 edging the ball to wicket-keeper Ajay Ratra. India (1st innings) decl: 253-7 West Indies A (1st innings): Ganga c Ratra b Agarkar 4 Smith run out 69 Pagan lbw b Agarkar 0 Simmons c Ratra b Yohannan 4 R Hinds c Ratra b Agarkar 62 Bravo lbw b Harbhajan 55 Gayle lbw b Agarkar 0 Hibbert b Harbhajan 17 Black c Bangar b Harbhajan 9 Lawson b Harbhajan 14 King not out 2 Extras (b-7, lb-9, w-9, nb-5) 30 Total (all out, 59.4 overs): 266 FoW: 1-22, 2-25, 3-64, 4-109, 5-210, 6-211, 7-236, 8-237, 9-257. Bowling: Agarkar 16-3-55-4, Yohannan 13-2-63-1, Bangar 16-2-46-0, Harbhajan 13.4-2-79-4, D Mongia 1-0-7-0. India (2nd innings): Das c Hibbert b King 0 Jaffer not out 30 Bangar lbw Lawson 27 Ratra not out 4 Extras: (b-1, w-2, lb-3): 6 Total (2 wckts, 21.1 overs): 67 FoW: 1-0, 2-63. Bowling: King 8-1-28-1, Black 5-1-13-0, Lawson 6-2-21-1, Hinds 2.1-0-4-0.
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World Cup ticket sales perk up
Johannesburg, July 17 World Cup organisers were breathing more easily following a chaotic first day on which thousands of frustrated fans could not buy tickets because of technological and logistical problems. Wanderers in Johannesburg, Newlands in Cape Town and Kingsmead in Durban are now sold out and the three other major centres have been left with between 800 and just over 5,000 ‘’stadium package’’ tickets. St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth, which will stage a semifinal, still has 1,464 stadium packages for sale, Supersport Park in Centurion 800 and Goodyear Park in Bloemfontein 5,122. A stadium package includes all matches at the venue throughout the tournament. “Follow the team” packages have been sold out for England, India, Pakistan, South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Australia and New Zealand. Approximately 129,000 tickets of the 233,000 available to the public had been sold by the end of Tuesday.
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Becker to visit India again Chennai, July 17 Former Indian tennis ace and captain Vijay Amritraj, who is presently the United Nation’s Goodwill Ambassador, is working on a series of exhibition matches in Bangalore and another venue, apart from his home town Chennai, according to Vijay’s father. Karnataka Chief Minister and President of the state’s tennis association S M Krishna is keen that Bangalore be a venue, he said. Mr Amritraj said Vijay had originally planned to organise the event in support of a cause, details of which are being worked out, in June or July itself with Mumbai as one of the venues. But, the monsoon in that city had come in the way and forced Vijay to postpone the schedule, he said. The exact dates and other details of the event are in the process of being finalised.
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C’wealth Games: stage set for exciting athletics show
Manchester, July 17 Boldon’s sole senior title at the distance came in Kuala Lumpur in 1998 when he produced one of his finest performances to see off a great field including Namibia’s Frankie Fredericks and Obadele Thompson of Barbados. However, instead of that launching Boldon on a glorious patch of titles, the Trinidadian has regressed and given the noises emanating from the 1997 world 200m champion it looks as if he may not turn up at all because of a back problem. Whether he does or not Chambers’ greatest challenge will come from English teenage sensation Mark Lewis-Francis. While Chambers rested after beating Greene in the Oslo Golden League event and then in Sheffield, 19-year-old Lewis-Francis ran a fine third in Paris behind the Kansas Comet and ran a personal best of 10.04 second. However to say he was disappointed was an understatement. “I am not pleased to say the least but I have this nagging quadriceps problem which I hope will go away by the time of the games.” While Greene and Boldon have made an art of
trash talking Lewis-Francis looks as if he is also starting down that route upping the ante with Chambers after the latter begged out of the 100m European championships trial preferring to run the 200m instead. “It sounds to me as if he (Chambers) is running scared,” he said. “There will be many more times to come, with the Commonwealths just down the road. “I will beat him where it counts. I think it’s people playing cynical mind games.” Chambers, (24), for his part preferred to keep his own counsel and while Lewis-Francis became the youngest ever British 100m champion at the European trials his rival trailed in last in the 200m suffering from a calf problem. Both, though, should turn up fit for Manchester and the stage is set for quite a show in the strongest athletics event at the games between two of the in-form sprinters at the moment. England will also be looking towards capturing the 400 m flat and 400m hurdles with Daniel Caines and Chris Rawlinson, respectively. Caines is another of the young bloods that have emerged over the past couple of years and his world indoor silver last year signalled that he was a real talent. He should have a lipsmacking duel with Bahamas outdoor world champion Avard Moncur, which should indicate whether he is ready to step up in the major outdoor championships. Rawlinson has been in the best form of his career racking up a great win in Lausanne and then running second in Paris behind world champion Felix Sanchez with Olympic champion Angelo Taylor well behind him again. The 30-year-old has also pasted both of his major rivals for the Commonwealth crown South African duo Llewellyn Herbert and Allen Myburgh but Rawlinson, only fifth in the world final last year, sees no-one not even Sanchez, as being invincible. “I’ve lost the fear factor and am no longer scared of them,” he said. “They’re now afraid of me.” Herbert is another athlete who has seen his brilliant form desert him in the past couple of years thanks mainly to a succession of injuries but the 2000 Olympic bronze medallist did hold the fastest time this year until Sanchez blitzed it in Paris. The men’s middle distance races should reside with the Kenyans, who without the challenge of the Ethiopians and Moroccans have virtual carte blanche - certainly it is the opinion of 10,000m runner John
Korir. “We are going to sweep all the medals in the middle distance races,” he said. However, veteran South African Hezekiel Sepeng may beg to differ as the man who has been to the 800m title races what Boldon has been to sprinting attempts to turn two successive Commonwealth silvers into gold. “I’ve had enough of seeing silver lying around my house .. gold would go nicely and make a change,” said the 28-year-old, who also has an Olympic silver from 1996 and a world outdoor one from 1999. The women’s events by contrast look to be lacking in such star quality though Bahamas duo Debbie Ferguson and Sevatheda Fynes should have a fascinating battle over 100m with Jamaica’s surprise 2000 100m Olympic bronze medallist Tayna Lawrence. Lawrence (26) showed after a year out last season that she had lost little of her pace when she ran second behind Marion Jones at the Paris Golden League meeting.
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Chautala
appointed AICS vice-president New Delhi, July 17 The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has set up the AICS “to advise the Ministry on policy issues regarding promotion and development of sports in the country.” “The aims and objectives of the council include advising the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports on implementation of policies for promotion of sports and games, including indigenous games in the country; steps to implement plan of action of the National Sports Policy; ways and means to maximise medal prospects of the Indian contingent in Olympic Games and other major international events and issues/matters pertaining to functions of National Sports Federations and prevention of drug abuse and match-fixing etc.”, a Ministry spokesperson said. Mr Adityan is the president of the Volleyball Federation of India as well as the Swimming Federation of India. Abhay Singh
Chautala, who is a senior vice-president of the IOA, like Mr Vijay Kumar
Malhotra, is also the president of the Indian Amateur Boxing Federation. Four members of the Lok Sabha and two from Rajya Sabha will also be members of the
AICS. The other members include secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, director-general, Sports Authority of India, joint secretary (expenditure), Ministry of Finance, joint secretary (co-ordination), Ministry of External Affairs and joint secretary (sports), Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Three ex-international sportspersons, one representative of Indian industry and five eminent sportspersons would also be members of the committee. Sports divisional head in charge of the National Sports Policy will be the member-secretary of the
AICS. The tenure of the non-official members will be three years. |
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Badshami
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Kahlon’s team wins pro-am title Srinagar, July 17 Kahlon, playing his first event after his sensational victory at the Hero Honda Masters in
February, was a bit off colour on the back nine where he went three-over to aggregate two- over 74. However, his partners Tikoo, B.R. Singh and M. Ashfaq contributed enough to tally 120 stableford points. Mukesh Kumar, winner of Sher-e-Kashmir Open here last year, sounded a warning bell for rest of the field with a bogey free five -under 67, but saw his team tie with Kahlon’s at 120 stableford points. However, on the countback over nine holes, Mukesh and his team of Khurshid Ahmed, Sanjay Wahi and Vikrant Chopra scored 61 points as compared to 60 by Kahlon’s team. Mukesh was joined at five-under 67 by Rahil Ganjee. Fresh from coaching stint at UAE with his coach Ajay Gupta, Ganjee shared the best pro prize of Rs 3000 with Mukesh. The 3rd placed pro-am team was of Jyoti Randhawa’s, comprising of K.B.S.
Katoch, Ravish Trehan and Naurath. Randhawa shot a two-under 70.
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Top boxer fails to
report at camp Patiala, July 17 National Games champion in the 51 kg weight class, Srinivas Rao, took part in the camp when it was held at the Sports Authority of India’s (SAI) high altitude centre at Shillaru. However, while the other pugilists returned to the NIS to resume training Srinivas Rao failed to show up. Srinivas Rao, who was a sure medal contender in his weight category seems to be a perennial truant player whenever a big event is around the corner. During the 1998 edition of the games held at Kuala Lumpur, the Railways boxer, failed to attend the camp at the NIS. The IABF has now replaced Srinivas Rao with the rusty Dalbir Singh, who was not even among the reserves when the team was selected at Shillaru on June 6. When Srinivas Rao failed to report the top brass of the IABF sounded the Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB). However, till now coaches G.S Sandhu and Peter Stoyanov, and other officials of the IABF are clueless about the whereabout of the boxer. The boxer had a sure chance to have a shot at a medal since boxers of other countries taking part in the Commonwealth Games are not strong in the 51 kg weight class, in which Srinivas was to take part. Srinivas’s colleagues attending the camp at the NIS here say that Srinivas had recently lost his uncle and had rushed to Vizag. |
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SGFI to celebrate golden jubilee Chandigarh, July 17 Mr Chhabra said the SGFI was able to broadbase sports activities in schools throughout India. For example, earlier there used to be only one age group (below 18) with few disciplines. Now competitions were being held in three age groups (below-14, 17 and 19) in more than 25 disciplines. The SGFI was a big body. The annual participation of the school students in all the National School Games in 69 events touches a few lakh. Earlier the Indian school students played in Asian school tournaments in a few select disciplines. But now, to give wide exposure to these players, the International School Sports Federation (ISF) recognised tournaments will have Indian school students’ participation, subject to Government of India’s clearance. The only hitch is that the ISF charges heavily for participation. Hence, respective states would be approached to fund the selected players, Mr Chhabra said. The Indian school boys team will be sent for the Asian School Football Championship to be held in Singapore from August 15 to 26. Trials for the boys will be held on July 20 and 21 at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. Letters had been sent last month for the trials and the affiliated units were told about the same in the annual general meeting of SGFI on June 29. The Asian School Basketball Championships will be held in Ching-du city, Sichuan province (China) from October 20-27. The probables were selected early this year in February during the National School Games. The coaching camps for these boys would be held in the last week of September till the departure of the team. The SGFI will also host the International School Swimming Tournament either in Gujarat or Punjab. Mr Chhabra said the ISF-organised tournaments would be held next year as per the following schedule: swimming- boys and girls at Caen (France) in April 2003; basketball (boys and girls) at Brasilia (Brazil) in May 2003, football (boys and girls) at Shanghai (China) in May, gymnastics (boys and girls) at Lanester (France) in May, athletics for boys and girls at Istanbul, Turkey, in June 2003 and tennis for boys and girls at Hefordshire, England, also in June 2003. The National School Games
calendar has also been finalised. Yoga, badminton and lawn tennis (all age groups) would be held in Gujarat; athletics, basketball, table tennis (all age groups) in Karnataka; handball (U-19); swimming (all age groups), netball, boxing and tennis ball (all below 19) Punjab ; cricket (U-14, 19), handball (U-19) in Andhra Pradesh, archery, gymnastics (all age groups), kho-kho (U-14), chess (U-19) in West Bengal while football (U-14) and kabaddi (U-17) would be held in Jammu and Kashmir. The SGFI meeting also decided to appoint Dr J.P.S. Walia as its medical adviser. |
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Haryana judokas
score 4-0 win
New Delhi, July 17 In a one-sided first match in the men section, Haryana judokas were far too superior to their rivals and won their bouts with utmost ease. In the women section national champion Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) had to wage a grim battle before overpowering host Delhi 2-1. However, the second match in this section turned out to be a totally one-sided affair with between Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) routing Madhya Pradesh 5-0. All the 10 teams in men section were present during the opening ceremony but only seven women teams showed up with Himachal Pradesh and Maharashtra failing to put up an appearance. The championship was
inaugurated by Judo Federation of India(JFI) president Jagdish Tytler.
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Haryana
hikes Olympians’ pension Chandigarh, July 17 Earlier, the state government gave pensions of Rs 700 per month to Olympians who were 60 years and above. The Finance Department yesterday sanctioned the proposal of the Department of Sports on the condition that pension should only be paid to the unemployed Olympians. It also asked that the pension should not be funded by the state government alone through budgetary mechanism. Rather a fund should be created on the pattern of Union Government’s scheme for giving pensions to sportspersons, stated the Finance Department. |
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Tarlochan
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