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August 18, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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India draw match against Essex Sign contract, says BCCI Lanka beat Pak Mithali makes history Punjab open Ranji campaign against HP Brahim Boulami smashes steeplechase record |
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IM Vijayan, Joe Paul Ancheri join JCT Vishwanathan Anand loses third game Punjab Police, Ropar swimmers dominate CGA unrolls red carpet for Donato Jeev fails to make cut Kartar claims
gold in wrestling Punjab cops win
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India draw match against Essex
Chelmsford, August 17 Faced with a near impossible target of 565 in 60 possible overs, Essex were helped by opener Richard Clinton (53) in their effort to save the match. At the break, Andy Flower was batting on 23 with Ravinder Bopara on 3 after Indians declared their second innings at 327 for six at lunch. Essex had made 279 in their first innings replying to Indians’ 516. Clinton batted sensibly and faced 104 balls hitting six fours before he was the second batsman out with the total on 97, caught off the bowling of part-time spinner Virender Sehwag. Harbhajan Singh, who had mesmerised the Essex batsmen to bag seven wickets in the first innings, added one more scalp when he had James Middlebrook (24) caught at forward short leg. Earlier, resuming at their overnight score of 231 for 2, the Indians batted comfortably in the morning session to extend their lead to 564 runs. India (Ist innings): 516 Essex (Ist innings): 279 India (2nd innings): (overnight 231-2) Bangar lbw b Ilott 74 Patel c Phillips b Ilott 1 Sehwag c and b Bopara 142 Laxman c and b Phillips 42 Jaffer lbw b Ilott 4 Ratra not out 17 Ganguly c and b Ilott 6 Singh not out 29 Extras: (lb-7 w-3 nb-2) 12 Total: (for 6 wickets, decl) 327. Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-217, 3-237, 4-241, 5-280, 6-296. Bowling: Grant 20-8-46-0, Ilott 17-3-67-4, Dakin 16-3-54-0, Bopara 8-0-43, Phillips 18-3-62-1, Middlebrook 9-1-48-0. Essex (2nd Innings): Clinton c Jaffer b Sehwag 53 Middlebrook c Das b Harbhajan 24 Flower retd hurt 23 Bopara batting 47 Dakin c Ratra b Sehwag 6 Hyam not out 16 Extras: (b-1, lb-1, nb-3) 17 Total: (3 wkts, 56 overs) 186 FoW: 1-46, 2-97, 3-137. Bowling: Yohannan 12-3-41-0, Bangar 9-3-27-0, Harbhajan 8-2-23-1, Sehwag 18-6-52-2, Jaffer 4-0-16-0, Das 2-0-8-0, Patel 3-0-9-0.
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Caddick recalled London, August 17 The 33-year-old Somerset player has recovered from a side injury which kept him out of the one-day triangular series and the first two Tests. |
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Sign contract, says BCCI
New Delhi, August 17 BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya had written a letter to the team, saying that the situation could go beyond control if the players did not sign the contract now for the Champions trophy to be held in Sri Lanka, board sources said. In a desperate move to ensure participation of top cricketers including Sachin, Saurav and Dravid in next month’s event, the BCCI has asked the players to sign the “players’ Terms form”. The board said it would inform the ICC that assurances and agreements were extended only for the Champions Trophy and it would take up the matter with the apex body by October 31. The contractual obligation to send its best team to Sri Lanka has put the BCCI in a corner. All the affiliated boards have signed the agreement which lasts till 2007. The Indain players have sought more time to reconsider their decision, sources said, after initially rejecting the BCCI’s request. MUMBAI: The “BCCI is hopeful that all the players will sign the contract. The players should realise that if they play in big tournaments then only they will get more sponsors,” BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah said in an interview to the BBC Hindi service. Mr Shah, rejecting the proposal of compensation for individual players, said it was very difficult to ascertain the exact losses incurred by them. UNI
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Lanka beat Pak Tangiers, August 17 Earlier, Sanath Jayasuriya fought an almost lone battle against Pakistan’s bowlers making a brilliant 97 as his team limped to a disappointing 242 all out. Jayasuriya’s typically explosive innings ended in the 35th over when Wasim Akram trapped him lbw with his second delivery after being recalled to the attack and it immediately ended Sri Lanka’s hopes of a commanding total on a good pitch. Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya lbw b Akram 97 Atapattu run out 16 Sangakkara b Waqar 1 De Silva c Latif b Waqar 5 Jayawardene run out 43 Arnold c and b Waqar 34 Chandana lbw b Razzaq 6 Vaas c Khan b Sami 6 Fernando b Razzaq 8 Muralitharan c Waqar b Akram 7 Gunaratne not out 2 Extras: (lb-7 nb-5 w-5) 17 Total: (all out, 49.5 overs) 242 FoW: 1-42, 2-47, 3-53, 4-164, 5-174, 6-190, 7-208, 8-223, 9-238. Bowling: Akram 9.5-2-29-2, Younis 9-2-43-3, Razzaq 10-1-37-2, Sami 10-0-68-1, Afridi 10-0-48-0, Khan 1-0-10-0. Pakistan: Anwar c Jayawardene Nazir b Gunaratne 10 Youhana c Sangakkara Inzamam c Jayawardene b Vaas 5 Younis c Vaas b Chandana 15 Razzaq lbw b Murali 25 Akram c Jayawardene b Vaas 19 Latif c Sangakkara b Vaas 3 Afridi c Chandana b Gunaratne 26 Waqar lbw Fernando 5 Sami not out 0 Extras: 12 Total
(all out 43.4 overs) 203 FoW: 1-3, 2-18, 3-29, 4-57, 5-127, 6-157, 7-168, 8-168, 9-179. Bowling: Vaas 9-2-30-3, Gunaratene 9.4-0-44-4, Fernando 8-0-41-1, Chandana 7-0-35-1, Murali 8-1-30-1, Jayasuriya 2-0-20-00.
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Mithali makes history
London, August 17 Mithali, playing in only her third Test innings, dominated the proceedings throughout the day with her unbeaten 210 and helped the team take a 112-run first innings lead over the home side. At stumps, Jhalan Goswami was accompanying her on 54. During the marathon 10-hour knock, which was notable for the purity of technique and tremendous stamina, Mithali faced 400 balls and hit 19 boundaries. Mithali’s monumental score was only the fifth double century in the history of women’s Test cricket and it bettered Australian K.L. Rolton’s unbeaten 209 scored against England at Leeds last year. Incidentally all the five double centuries have been scored against England. Mithali also became the first Indian to score a Test double century. Former player Sandhya Agarwal had missed the mark by 10 runs at Worcester during the 1986-87 series against England. Mithali also shared two century partnerships — first a 144-run stand for the fourth wicket with Hemalata Kala (62) and then an unbroken seventh wicket stand of 148 with Jhalan Goswami — to help India to a huge total. Mithali was helped by some poor fielding by English eves who missed on three chances, although all of them came after she had passed the 150-mark. England’s woes were compounded as their poor overrate extended play 40 minutes beyond scheduled close. Brief Scores: England 333. India 445 for six (H. Kala 62, A. Chopra 52, M. Raj 210 batting, J. Goswami 54 batting; Connor 2-64). PTI
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Punjab open Ranji campaign against HP New Delhi, August 17 Haryana will play their other matches against J and K (Dec. 4), DDCA (Dec. 6), Services (Dec. 8) and Himachal (Dec 10). Himachal Pradesh’s other matches will be against J and K (Dec. 6) and DDCA (Dec. 8). In the Polly Umrigar Trophy (Under-15) Tournament, Punjab will meet J and K in Punjab from October 12 to 14, Haryana in Haryana from October 22 to 24, Himachal Pradesh in Punjab from October 27 to 29 and DDCA from October 17 to 19 in Delhi. Haryana play their other matches against J and K (Oct. 12 to 14) in Haryana, DDCA (Oct. 27 to 29) in Delhi and Himachal (Oct. 31 to Nov. 2) in Delhi. Himachal play their other two matches against Delhi from October 12 to 14 and against Jammu and Kashmir from October 22 to 24. The Cooch-Behar Trophy under-19 matches will be played from October 12 to November 2. Punjab play their first match against J and K in Punjab from October 12 to 14 in Punjab, take on Himachal in Punjab from October 17 to 19, meet Haryana in Haryana from October 22 to 24 and clash against DDCA in Delhi from October 31 to November 2. The Cooch-Behar Trophy knock out matches will be held at Una, Bilaspur, Una, Patiala, Bilaspur, Punjab, Patiala, and Delhi. The M A Chidambaram Trophy Under-19 matches will be held from January 29 to February 4. The Vijay Merchant Trophy will be played from November 22 to December 12 and the Under-25 tournament from January 2, 2003 to January 22 in Jammu, Himachal, Jammu, DDCA, Haryana, Punjab, Haryana, DDCA, Punjab and Himachal. The north zone representatives met at the Delhi and District Cricket Association premises at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here today to finalise the north zone calendar. The meeting was attended by Chetan Chauhan (DDCA, convener), Wg. Cdr Ajay Jha (Services), Sham Saroop Kalsotra (J and K), M P Pandov (Punjab), Aman Kumar (Haryana) and Prof R R Rohi (Himachal Pradesh). |
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Brahim Boulami smashes steeplechase record
Zurich, August 16 Boulami took control of the race from the gun and led throughout, finishing strongly to slice more than two seconds off the mark of 7:55.28 he set in Brussels last year. Kenya’s Stephen Cherono and Paul Keoch trailed in second and third. “I came here to break the world record,” said Boulami. “I wanted to do better than last year. I am in good shape and I was prepared for this moment. “The pace was slow at one stage, but I told the pacemakers to ‘go, go, go’ and they did. It’s fantastic. “The Kenyans are not dominating at the moment but I’m sure they will try to come back and get the record again,” he added. When he first broke the record last year Boulami became the first non-Kenyan to hold the steeplechase record since 1976. The 30-year-old Moroccan has made swift progress since finishing a disappointing 10th in last year’s world championships in Edmonton. There was a shock for world and Olympic champion Maurice Greene as he was beaten into fifth place in the 100m final, won by a back-in-form Tim Montgomery in 9.98 seconds. Fellow American Coby Miller was second in 10.00 and European champion Dwain Chambers took third in 10.05 seconds with the added bonus of beating Commonwealth champion Kim Collins, who was fourth. Greene clocked 10.10 seconds. In fact the heats of the 100 m, helped by following winds, had produced faster times, Montgomery winning the second in a blistering 9.93 seconds, the second-fastest time in the world this year. Behind him, Chambers ran the fastest race of his life, 9.94 seconds. Aside from Boulami’s majestic performance, the Weltklasse — the biggest budget meeting of the season — as normal produced a host of fastest times of the year on a warm night in the packed Letzigrund Stadium. One came in the 400m hurdles when Felix Sanchez proved again he is the class act this year with a smooth victory in 47.35 seconds ahead of James Carter of the USA. Newly crowned European champion Stephane Diagana of France was a tired fourth. Sanchez, the world champion from the Dominican Republic, also kept alive his hopes of a share of the 50 kg of gold to athletes who win at all seven Golden League meetings. Marion Jones is another with her eyes on the jackpot after she remained unbeaten this year with a 10.89 seconds clocking to win the 100 m. But her real challenge will come next Friday in London when she faces Zhanna Pintusevich-Block, her conqueror at the world championships last year, for the first time this season. World champion Gabriela Szabo put defeat at the European championships behind her by producing a decisive sprint finish to beat American Suzy Favor-Hamilton in the 1,500 metres. The Romanian won in a time of 3 minutes 58.78 seconds, fastest in the world this year, to the American’s 3:59.10. Olga Yegorova, who caused such controversy last year when she was banned then reinstated after testing positive for the endurance-boosting drug EPO, trailed in a listless 10th. AFP
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IM Vijayan, Joe Paul Ancheri join JCT Chandigarh, August 17 While Vijayan is already at Phagwara and is assisting the mill men in the 16th Punjab State Super League currently in progress, Ancheri is enjoying a short break after playing a stellar role in India’s title win in the LG Cup in Vietnam. According to JCT’s chief coach Sukhwinder Singh, who is also the technical director for the camp scheduled to be held in preparation for the England tour, Ancheri is expected to arrive at Phagwara in a few days and thereafter he will proceed to Delhi to join the national camp under the watchful eyes of national coach Stephen Constantine. The Indian team will leave for England on August 25 and will play matches against a Jamaican outfit on August 29 and September 1. Ancheri is also likely to don national colours during the forthcoming Asian Games at Busan. It may be recalled that the two players, arguably among the best in the national circuit, were earlier with JCT when the mill men won the inaugural edition of the National Football League in 1996. Vijayan also helped JCT clinch the Federation Cup during his stint in Punjab at that time. Before joining East Bengal last season, both Ancheri and Vijayan were with FC Kochin. It has often been said that the two make an inseparable pair and also like to play for the same club. Last season Joe Paul Ancheri had a lean spell after he was saddled by an injury sustained during a fracas in the IFA Shield at Kolkata when players of the visiting Brazilian side Palmeiras were engaged in a free-for-all. The club was later disqualified but Ancheri remained bed-ridden for quite sometime. Vijayan, who also had a short stint in films, has been among the top strikers. He is again back to what he enjoys doing best — scoring goals. In the ongoing Punjab State Super League, he was one of the scorers for JCT in the match against Punjab State Electricity Board at Hoshiarpur on August 14. JCT won the match 4-2. JCT’s assistant coach and former footballer of the decade Parminder Singh asserted that with the induction of new faces, the club would make an impact at the state and national level. JCT have won all their matches in the super league so far. |
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Vishwanathan Anand loses third game
Mainz (Germany), August 17 Having drawn the first two games, the 32-year-old Indian, a former world champion himself, is down 1-2 and would have to work really hard to make a comeback in the remaining five games of the contest. For Anand the brighter side in the remaining games is the fact that he has three whites that might help him to crack Ponomariov’s defences and salvage his reputation as the world’s finest player in the rapid chess. Ponomariov opened with the king pawn in the third game and, quite surprisingly, Anand opted for the sharp sicilian sveshnikov defence that is in vogue these days. The game progressed along established theoretical manoeuvres and Anand maintained a dynamic balance as the game entered the middle- game phase. Ponomariov gained the upper hand after Anand went for a dubious strategic plan that allowed the Ukrainian’s knight to make a foray to the sixth rank, well aided by a central pawn. By the 26th move itself, the players arrived at a queen and minor pieces endgame where Ponomariov’s superior deployment of forces enabled him to exert pressure against Anand’s weak queenside pawn. In a desperate bid to wriggle out of this mess, Anand sacrificed a pawn on the kingside to open up the position but it only worked to Ponomariov’s advantage. Going for the kill, Ponomariov pocketed another pawn with excellent piece play and then caught Anand’s king in a mating net to romp home in 44 moves. Earlier in the first game of the match, Anand was lucky to get a draw from a seemingly lost position. The players on this occasion fought out the duel in a Caro Kann defence game where Anand, playing black, went for castling on the queenside and had to defend for long as Ponomariov, quite nonchalantly, launched an offence against the king. Anand went for the exchange of pieces to ease the pressure but could not really match Ponomariov’s persistence for an attack. With a precisely worked out plan, Ponomariov ripped open Anand’s queenside and was cruising to a victory when suddenly an oversight caused him dearly on the 34th move. PTI
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Punjab Police, Ropar swimmers dominate Ludhiana, August 17 Swimmers from Ropar continued their dominance and created three new records while the fourth record was established by Punjab Police team in the 4x100 metres medley relay. Punjab Police and Ropar annexed five and four gold medals, respectively, out of a total of 14 which were at stake today. In the 50 metres freestyle (women), Sukhman Ghuman of Ropar (0.31.04 seconds) improved upon her own record of 0.31.07 seconds set here earlier during the heats. Ropar team clocked 5.03.07 seconds to rewrite the 4x100 metres freestyle relay (women) record of 5.16.40 seconds established by Ludhiana in 1999. Later in the day, Ropar’s women team went on to create another meet record. In the 4x200 metres freestyle, the team with the timings of 11.19.37 seconds put to eclipse the previous record of 11.37.63 seconds set by Ludhiana in 1999. The results: Women: 1500m freestyle: 1 Rupinderjit Kaur (Sangrur) 23.31.56, 2 Lajdeep Kaur (Patiala ) 25.17.87, 3 Mridhumai Bhatia (Jalandhar ) 26.10.44. 50m freestyle: 1 Sukhman Ghuman (Ropar) 0.31.04, 2 Vibha Babbar (Ludhiana ) 0.31.14, 3 Bhavneet Kaur (Ropar) 0.33.15. 4x100m freestyle relay: 1Ropar 5.03.07, 2 Ludhiana 5.24.36, 3 Patiala 5.39.34. 100m backstroke: 1 Gurbinder Kaur (Hoshiarpur ) 1.24.95, 2 Prabhjot Kaur (Ropar) 1.26.15, 3 Himani Puri (Patiala ) 1.29.06. 4x200m freestyle: 1 Ropar 11.19.37, 2 Patiala 12.19.54, 3 Ludhiana 12.30.32. 400m individual medley: 1 Mridhumai Bhatia (Jalandhar) 7.16.08, 2 Neha Bector (Patiala) 7.33.59, 3 Isha Sood (Ludhiana ) 7.44.32. 50m backstroke: 1 Gurbinder Kaur (Hoshiarpur ) 0.38.78, 2 Bavneet Kaur (Ropar ) 0.39.22, 3 Monika Vaid (Ludhiana) 0.39.72. Men 800m freestyle: 1 Manraj Singh (Punjab police) 10.51.85, 2 Gagan Matta (Ferozepore) 10.59.24, 3 Dinesh Rajoria (Patiala) 11.16.12. 50m freestyle: 1 Puneet Rana (Ropar) 0.26.94, 2 Jaspreet Singh (Sangrur) 0.27.23, 3 Navpreet Singh (Patiala) 0.27.47. 4x100m medley relay: 1 Punjab Police 4.44.90, 2 Ropar 4.53.91, 3 Jalandhar 4.59.85. 100m backstroke: 1 Rajesh Poonia (Punjab Police) 1.09.22, 2 Madhav Sund (Ludhiana) 1.10.72, 3 Abhimanyu Tiwari (Patiala) 1.11.09. 4x200m freestyle: 1 Punjab Police 9.42.97, 2 Patiala 9.48.71, 3 Ferozepore 10.13.27. 400m individual medley 1Harpreet Bhullar (Ferozepur) 5.30.62, 2 Kuldip Singh (Punjab Police) 5.59.21, 3 Sham Singh (Punjab Police) 6.07.87. 50m backstroke: 1 Rajesh Poonia (Punjab Police) 0.30.83, 2 Madhav Sund (Ludhiana) 0.31.53, 3 Abhimanyu Tiwari (Patiala) 0.32.35. |
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CGA unrolls red carpet for Donato Chandigarh, August 17 Donato told the select gathering that “Golf is like music. It has the power to make people happy” . He said, finally a dream had come true. Five years back, he had interacted with CGA officials on how to develop the golf range. And today they deserved a pat on their back for doing “this wonderful job.” Donato also underlined his aim — to uplift the standard of golf by helping the country in using its own abilities. Donato stressed that the academies gave one the opportunity to do something big. He felt grateful to Amandeep Johl for making all this happen. Donato said, he wanted to be a friend “and once an Italian becomes a friend, it is forever”. Later talking to this reporter, Donato said, compared to European standards, the Indian golfers were quite good at the individual level. He took the names of Chiranjeev Milkha Singh, Amandeep Johl, Harmeet Kahlon and said they and many more were leading names. But he felt that golf was not organised professionally in India. He said: “Talent is here, the will is here, and the need of the hour is to develop academies as the one here. Only then can we reach our goal”. Andrea, the golf professional at Arzaga Golf Academy, Brecia, Italy, who assists Donato, said this kind of golf training, was being done for the first time in Asia. Donato had earlier trained golfers in Australia, Europe and other parts of the world. Earlier after reaching the CGA range at around 5.45 pm, Donato accompanied by his aide and professional golfer Andrea Zanardelli took a round of the golf academy along with CGA officials led by Mr Desh Prem Azad, its president. The International golfer from Chandigarh, Amandeep Johl with whose preliminary initiative the visit of Donato could be made possible said: “Chandigarh is lucky to have a person of the stature of Donato.” Earlier Mr Azad said the CGA today felt proud to have Donato with whose ideas this CGA Driving Range could take the present shape. |
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Jeev fails to make cut
New Delhi, August 17 Chopra, who followed up his opening round 69 with a flawless three-under 67 today, is just one stroke behind the leader at four-under 136. According to reports received here, Tyler Williamson led the tournament at five-under 135, with the trio of Chopra, Bob Friend and Jeff Klauk tied-second at 136 apiece. The cut was applied at two-over 142 with 67 golfers making it to the week-end rounds. Jeev, who started on the tenth tee today, played his front-nine to level-par with a bogey on the 13th and a birdie on the following hole. However, a disastrous back-nine showing followed, including bogeys on the first, fourth and ninth and a double bogey on the seventh. PTI
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Kartar
claims gold in wrestling Chandigarh, August 17 Kartar Singh outclassed Mohammad Quadri of the host country by 4-0 in the final bout of FILA World Veteran Wrestling Championship organsied at Azadi Sports Complex, Tehran, from August 14 to 16. Earlier, Kartar Singh defeated Lobjanidze in the quarterfinal and outclassed Sodboe Victor of Russia in the semi-final bout. Kartar is the only wrestler of the world who is competing continuously for the past 24 years. He has represented the country three times in Olympics. He has been two-time Asian Games gold medallist, one-time silver medallist, two time Commonwealth Games champion and three-time gold medallist in Asian Wrestling Championship. He bagged silver medal in 1980 in the World Wrestling Championship and bronze in World Veteran Wrestling Tournament in 1980. An IPS officer Kartar Singh is working as Director Sports, Punjab.
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Punjab
cops win Chandigarh, August 17 Punjab Police struck in the 72nd minute when Harjinder Kumar scored the first goal. Thereafter, on a cross from Shiraz Hassan, striker Sher Singh made it 2-0 in the 80th minute. The Punjab cops added two more goals through Harish Kumar (85th) and Gurpreet Singh (89th) to log full points. Tomorrow BSF will meet JCT at Guru Gobind Singh Stadium, Jalandhar. |
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