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September 13, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Lanka crush Pak by 8
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Chetan Sharma writes Hooper worried about limited warm-up Pre-match comments: Mervyn Dillon
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JP Atray cricket from Sept 28 India pip Korea FIDE confers
GM norm on
Humpy Taniya sets record
in swimming AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE Haryana handball
from September 15 Ambala win overall trophy HP Red beaten Farid hockey from September 19
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Lanka crush Pak by 8
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Colombo, September 12 Chasing a target of 201 for victory, the hosts lost two wickets in quick succession but the seasoned duo of Jayasuriya and Aravinda De Silva (66 not out) steered the team to victory with 13.5 overs to spare in what turned out to be a lop-sided floodlit group-D encounter. Jayasuriya, who was uncertain of playing till the morning of the match because of a shoulder injury, showed no signs of discomfort as he sent the Pakistanis on a leather hunt with some cracking shots on both sides of the wicket. The third wicket pair of Jayasuriya and De Silva stitched an unbroken 156 run partnership to take the game away from the hapless Pakistanis who raised hopes of a spirited fightback by sending back Marvan Atapattu (8) and Kumar Sangakarra (0) early to reduce the hosts to 45 for two at one stage. With this resounding victory, Sri Lanka have virtually assured themselves of a semifinal slot with minnows Holland being the third team in the group. They will play Holland on September 16. Earlier, electing to bat, Pakistan never really recovered from early jolts and were bundled out for 200 in 49.4 overs with veteran Saeed Anwar (52) and newcomer Misbah Ul-Haq (47) being the notable scorers. It was yet another abject batting display by the Pakistanis and it was thanks to a gutsy effort by veteran Saeed Anwar that the team could reach the 200 mark after having slumped to 17 for three at one stage. The Sri Lankan run chase began on a sedate note as Jayasurya looked a trifle shaky in the initial stages with the seasoned Wasim Akram, who worked up a tidy spell, troubling him on a few ocassions. But the flamboyant opener gradually grew in confidence and unleashed a few delightful strokes on both sides of the wicket, defying a shoulder injury which had kept him out of action for some time. The opening pair of Jayasuriya and Marvan Atapattu, who was quite content in giving as much strike to his partner, put on 44 runs for the first wicket before Atapattu returned to the pavillion trying to steal a suicidal run. Atapattu pushed the ball behind the bowler and set out for a run but failed to reach the safety of his crease as Abdur Razzak smartly picked the ball and dislogded the stumps at the non-striker’s end with a direct hit.
PTI Scoreboard Pakistan: Anwar c Chandana b Afridi c Sangakkara b Malik lbw b Vaas 1 Youhana run out 0 Khan b Muralitharan 35 Latif c Fernando b Misbah-ul-Haq b Fernando 47 Razzaq c de Silva b Akram b Muralitharan 0 Younis c De Silva b Fernando 4 Akhtar not out 0 Extras: 19 Total: (all out, 49.4 overs) 200 Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-17, 3-17, 4-87, 5-120, 6-141, 7-171, 8-175, 9-198. Bowling: Vaas 10-3-27-1, Gunaratne 10-1-49-2, Fernando 9.4-0-30-3, Chandana 7-0-37-0, Muralitharan 10-0-29-3, Jayasuriya 3-0-15-0. Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya not out 102 Atapattu run out 8 Sangakkara lbw b Akram 0 A De Silva not out 66 Extras: 25 Total: (2 wkts, 36.1 overs) 201 Fall of wickets: 1-44, 2-45. Bowling: Akram 8-0-42-1, Waqar Younis 5-0-37-0, Akhtar 8-0-36-0, Afridi 7.1-0-39-0, Razzaq 3-0-14-0, Malik 5-0-24-0.
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Chetan Sharma writes Sri Lanka gained revenge from Pakistan in the best possible manner when they drubbed them in the opening match of the Champions Trophy. In the last editon of the tournament, at Nairobi, it was Pakistan who had beaten Sri Lanka in an almost similar manner. I was shocked with the Pakistani performance today. Their batsmen had been batting as if they were new to international cricket. They were 17 for three at one stage and if they could get to the respectability of a total of 200, it was only due to the newcomer Misbah-ul-Haq who held the latter part of the innings together. Pakistan may have scored a few runs more had Saeed Anwar and Younis Khan stayed on for a little longer after they were well set but like in the case of earlier batsmen, they also threw away their wickets when the situation demanded them to consolidate. In contrast, the Sri Lankans were off to a flying start with their supporters beating drums and playing music. Their captain Sanath Jayasuriya batted as if he had not been injured recently and treated the Pakistani bowling with utter disdain. His hundred was batsmanship at its very best, with powerful shots all around the wicket. In fact, I was amazed at the ease with which the Lankans got to their target. It makes me think that even a target of 300 would have been achievable with the kind of form Jayasruiya and master batsman Aravinda de Silva were in. Being a fast bowler myself, I was looking forward to the battle between the Pakistani pacers and Lankan batsmen but in the end it was a no-contest as the Pakistani pacers hardly got an over right in testing conditions. Akram produced two deliveries which got him the wickets of Atapattu and Sangakarra but it wasn’t just enough. Jayasuriya was the dangerman and he will be the pick of the batsmen vying for top honours in the tournament. On the sub-continent pitches Jayasuriya can win matches almost single-handedly and the other teams have to watch out for him. Pakistan have not been doing well recently and today’s result will throw them out of the tournament. They are a fine team but they have not been performing to their potential. If they are to have a go at the World Cup next year, they need to pick up the threads and become a cohesive unit once again. Another thing I would like to add is the strange ICC experiment of referring the LBW decisions to the third umpire. That is not cricket, I must tell you. This is the job of the on-field umpire and let him handle all this.
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Hooper worried about limited warm-up
Colombo, September 12 While Shaun Pollock’s team played in the recent triangular series against Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Morocco, the West Indies players had to make do with a limited warm-up in their domestic one-day competition. “I’ve been following the progress of the other teams and their preparation seems ideal,’’ Hooper told reporters today. “Our problem is that we are coming off a one-day tournament in the Caribbean, but forever and a day I’ve been saying our wickets are not conducive to good cricket. “We were wanting to use that tournament as a build-up for this tournament but we were sat in St Lucia and the only chance for practice was when you were out in the middle — otherwise practice was just batting on concrete strips in the stadium. “It was not ideal preparation and I’d have loved to be able to practise more. I wouldn’t say we are underdone but I would say we could have prepared a little better,’’ he added. With lowly Kenya the other side in pool 3, Hooper knows that Friday’s showdown with South Africa is shaping up as an effective quarter-final clash in the 12-team competition. “It looks that way,’’ he said. “The Kenyans are not to be underestimated and they have beaten us before in the World Cup, but you would have thought that whoever wins tomorrow stands a very good chance of going through to the next phase.’’ South Africa’s recent record against the West Indies is impressive, having triumphed 5-2 in a one-day series in the Caribbean in early 2001. “They are very disciplined, a good side and we know it won’t be easy,’’ said Hooper. “But on two occasions in the Caribbean we had convincing wins and that is what we will be looking at. “If we’ve had one fault over the years, it’s that we’ve not been consistent but, if we play good cricket, we are capable of beating them. We’ve just got to make sure we put it together.’’
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Pre-match comments: Mervyn Dillon It’s good to be part of the ICC Champions Trophy once again. Of course it was called the Mini World Cup earlier, but in essence it still is the most important cricket tournament after the World Cup. The tournament has always been unique in that it is the only time players from all the Test-playing countries assemble together in one city and stay in one hotel for a reasonable length of time. This is an experience in itself because you can meet players from other countries and it’s always great to bump into your contemporaries from other parts of the world and have a chat. While one tours other countries one gets to know players in the opposition well, and I’m looking forward to catch up with some of them. We arrived in Sri Lanka a couple of days ago, and while the weather has been pretty hot, the facilities for practice have been top-class. The team is looking and feeling good at the moment and we are very positive as we ready ourselves for our first match against the South Africans. The latter are a very good team and we have to have a good game plan against them. There are many ways of approaching a tournament, and while some may say that playing a weaker team in the opening games is a good warm-up, there are some virtues in meeting a strong opponent at the outset. It gives your team morale a huge boost if you overcome a higher-rated side, and that often sees a side through the tournament. Speaking from the point of view of the West Indian team, it’s great that the tournament is being held in this part of the world since we have a tour of India coming up. This will help the team acclimatise before the crucial series, and by the time we get to India we would be pretty used to the conditions. Moreover, all of us remember the splendid batting performance of Brian Lara when we were in Sri Lanka last time. It was a performance that certainly motivates us for the challenges ahead. I’m glad that all countries have sent their best teams because I think the tournament as well as the players and spectators deserve that. As a bowler I like bowling against a team that is playing to their full strength because you tend to get a little pumped up and that adds to our performance. I would not like to comment on the team composition since we will be having a team meeting late this evening. However, I am confident that we will acquit ourselves well tomorrow. The West Indies have a very good one-day side, and all of us in the team are out to prove just that. (Gameplan)
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Sahara changed logo for
national pride Bhopal, September 12 Talking to newsmen here tonight, Sahara India’s Deputy Managing Worker, the company’s second-in-command, O.P. Srivastava said “We have all options, including legel, open. However, we will consider these only after September 29, following the completion of the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka.”
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JP Atray cricket from Sept 28 Chandigarh, September 12 Prominent players likely to be seen in action are Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Dinesh Mongia, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Vinod Kambli, Sarandeep Singh, Reetinder Sodhi, Vikram Rathore, Wasim Jaffar and SS Das. Top teams, among them Mumbai Cricket Association, Bishnoi Cricket Club, Hyerabad Cricket Association, Punjab Cricket Club, ONGC, Delhi, India Piston, Chennai, Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association, Air-India and PCA colts, have confirmed their entries in the tournament. According to the organising secretary of the tournament, eight teams will be finaly taken and drawn into two pools of four teams each. Each team will play the remaining three teams in the pool. The top two teams from each pool will qualify for the semifinals. All the matches will be of 50 overs each innings. The tournament will be played according to the ICC rules and Duckworth and Lewis system will be adopted in the shortened/curtailed matches and a bonus point will also be awarded in the league phase. The winning team will get four points, the losing team none, and in case of tie or an abandoned match two points each will be given. The winners will get cash prize of Rs 75,000 and runners-up Rs 45,000. The two losing semifinalists will get Rs 15,000 each. The tournament will played with the SG balls. International umpires, including Jasbir Singh, HS Sekhon, Dr MS Mahal and Umesh Kumar and BCCI panel scorer Rakesh Sanghi and Rajesh Arora will officiate. |
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India pip Korea
New Delhi, September 12 India, who had beaten highly fancied Germany 2-1 on Tuesday, made heavy weather of their win against Korea in the group III last night. According to the information received here, Russia, Czech Republic, China and Belarus have made it the last four stage. India finished second in their group behind Russia. Ankita Bhambri, who spearheaded India’s win against Germany, failed to give her side the lead as she went down to Jae-Hee Joung 4-6, 5-7. However, it was Hyderabad-based Sania Mirza who kept India’s hopes alive, as she drew parity for her side, routing So-Jung Kim 6-2, 6-2. In the crucial doubles, Sania and Ankita proved too superior for their rivals Joung and Kim and chalked out a facile 6-1, 6-4 win. India had beaten Korea 3-0 in the Asian zone qualifier earlier this year. India will now fight for the 5-8 positions with Argentina, Uruguay and Hungary — second placed teams from other groups. UNI
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FIDE confers
GM norm on
Humpy
Hyderabad, September 12 “The presidential board meeting of FIDE, which met on September 8 at Kremlin, Moscow, found her claim for the title as genuine and conferred the GM norm on her,” FIDE vice-president
P.T. Ummer Koya told reporters here today. The governing body examined the ratings and category of the tournaments she had played to log the required three GM norms to get the men’s Grandmaster and found that they were right and genuine, Mr Koya said. However, he was non-committal about the claim that Humpy was the youngest ever woman in the world to get men’s GM norm surpassing the record of her idol Judith Polgar of Hungary. “What I can only say at this stage is that Humpy is the youngest Grandmaster of the country. Regarding world record, I have no comments to offer”, he said.
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Taniya sets record in swimming Thrissur, September 12 Taniya, a junior clerk working with the Railways at Kolkata, retained her title by accumulating 354.95 points, erasing the previous record of 344.65 points held by Ishani Ghosh of Railways set at Mumbai in 1999. Momoni Mondal (also of Railways) with 345.35 and Aswini A Mohite of Karnataka with 344.85 points clinched the silver and bronze medals respectively. “I was confident of winning the medal here, but was not aiming for the record,” said Taniya, who was participating in her third nationals here. Long distance specialist Kailash Nath won the 1500m freestyle gold, his third individual gold medal, with a timing of 16:56.61s while his team-mate Mandhar Divase claimed the silver with a time of 17:16.37s. Nilenda Jena of services settled for the bronze at 17:39.39s. Ambica Iyengar continued her good form to clinch the 800m freestyle gold clocking 9:47.80s. This was Ambica’s fourth gold medal of the competition. She had earlier won gold in the 400m freestyle, 400m individual medley and 4x200m freestyle relay. Awani Sawant of police took the silver by clocking 10:00.94s and hosts Kerala’s V Remya the bronze at 10:16.62s. PTI
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AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Colombo, September 12 Star striker Baichung Bhutia fired the first salvo in the early stage of the proceedings while George Ekka struck after the breather to seal the fate of their opponents in a fast paced encounter. Boosted by the availability of four Asiad probables, including Indian captain Bhutia, Mohun Bagan took the lead in the 19th minute. Bhutia, who returns to Indian club football after a three-year hiatus during which he did duty for English second division club Bury FC, was the pick of the Bagan players as he not only put the team in the lead but looked dangerous whenever he managed to penetrate the rival defence. Mohun Bagan’s commendable performance was possible due to the presence of goalkeeper Rajat Ghosh Dastidar, defender Satish Bharti and medio Rennedy Singh who were released from the national camp before the match. Putting up a solid defence, Bagan thwarted all moves by the Saunders forwards to go to the breather with the 1-0 lead. George Ekka made it 2-0 in the 54th minute to consolidate the position and the Kolkata outfit managed to latch on to the lead till the final whistle. PTI
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Haryana
handball from September 15 Chandigarh, September 12 Stating this here today, Mr Ashok Arora, president, Haryana Handball Association and Transport Minister Haryana said that Mr Ajay Singh Chautala, member of Parliament and president, Tennis Federation of India, would inaugurate the championship on September 15 at 10 a.m. while Khel Ratan, Abhay Singh Chautala, president, Boxing Federation of India, would give away the prizes to the winner teams on September 17 at 3 p.m. Mr Sunder Singh Dhull, secretary Haryana Handball Association, said the match would be played on the grounds of Senior Secondary School and Govt. College of Bondh. The championship would be conducted on league-cum-knockout system. The semifinals of both the groups are scheduled on the morning and final matches would be held in the afternoon of the concluding day. The state teams for the coming national championships would be selected during this meet. The best eight teams of the state would participate in the 18th Haryana State Games being held from October 20 to 23 at Hisar.
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Ambala
win overall trophy Faridabad, September 12 Rohtak and Sonepat girls were second and third, respectively in the three-day games which included athletics, hockey, wrestling, boxing, volleball, gymnastics and table tennis. While Ambala got a total of 134.35 points, the second and third position holders managed 123.5 and 95.15 points, respectively. In hockey Gurgaon won the gold medal while Yamunanagar and Sirsa remained second and third, respectively. The results: Kabaddi: Panipat-1, Faridabad-2 and Mahendergarh-3; basketball: Bhiwani, Sirsa, Karnal; volleyball: Hisar, Rewari, Gurgaon; wrestling: 45kg: Suresh (Jind), Geeta (Bhiwani), Kiran (Karnal); 48kg: Reeta (Jind), Neetu (Hisar) Meena (Bhiwani); 51kg: Neha (Faridabad), Poonam (Bhiwani), Sunita (Jind); 59kg: Santosh (Faridabad), Pooja (Hisar), Anita (Bhiwani); 63kg: Pravin (Hisar), Meenakshi (Jind), Poonam (Bhiwani); 68kg: Pravin (Hisar) Neeru (Bhiwani). Boxing: 42kg: Naresh Chahel (Hisar), Rekha (Ambala), Jasbir (Faridabad) 45kg: Reena (Rohtak), Gagan (Fatehabad), Sharu (Hisar); 51kg: Sharmila (Rewari), Jaspal (Fatehabad), Poonam (Hisar), Sheela (Rohtak); 54kg: Preeti (Hisar), Sunita (Rohtak), Purnima (Ambala), Monika (Rewari). Gymnastics: Unieven bars: Jyoti Kaushal (Ambala), 6.70 pts; Renu Arya (Bhiwani), 6.65; Chetna (Ambala), vaull horse: Chetna (Ambala), Jyoti (Ambala), Baljeet Kaur (Faridabad); Ambala were overall first and second while Faridabad were third. Athletics: 100m: Mamlesh (Ambala), Promila (Rohtak), Saroj Saini (Yamunanagar), 200m: Manlesh (Ambala), Promila (Rohtak), Sangeeta (Sonepat), 400m: Aswinder (Ambala), Renu Malik (Sonepat), Suman (Hisar); 800m: Renu Joon (Jhajjar), Sunita (Hisar), Renu Malik (Sonepat); 1500m: Savita (Rohtak), Renu Joon (Jhajjar), Manisha (Jhajjar); 3000m: Savita (Rohtak), Renu (Jhajjar), Munish (Jhajjar). Javelin throw: Gurpreet (Sirsa), Aplesh (Bhiwani), Nisha (Bhiwani); discuss throw: Babli (Hisar), Priyanka (Sirsa), Renu (Sonepat);
shotput: Aplesh (Bhiwani), Priyanka (Sirsa), Neelam (Jhajjar); high jump: Neelam (Sirsa), Sharda
(Kuruk shetra), Neelam (Kurukshetra); long jump: Pooja (Hisar), Poonam (Jhajjar), Anu (Sonepat); Sirsa team got first position in table tennis, while Sirsa and Bhiwani got silver and bronze in the team event.
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HP Red beaten Mandi, September 12 After the breather the H.P. boys displayed immense confidence and ultimately in the 36th minute Sunil Sen netted the ball. In the 53rd minute, Uttaranchal boys moved into the striking circle and Kirpal Singh sounded the boards making it 3-1. Earlier, Forest Minister Thakur Roop Singh inaugurated the tournament. Eight teams from all over India are participating . |
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Farid hockey from September 19 Faridkot, September 12 As many as 13 national-level teams, including BSF, Jalandhar, Indian Air Force, Delhi,
EME, Jalandhar, Western Railway, Eastern Railway, Northern Railway, Corps of Signals, Jalandhar, Ropar Hawks, PSEB, BEG,
Roorkee, and Punjab and Sind Bank, will participate in the competition, according to Mr Tejinder Singh, president of the club. |
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Rohtas, Ashok, Mukesh in joint lead Chennai, September 12 |
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