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Aussies down and out
Chetan Sharma writes All-rounder Watson relishes new role Tendulkar keen to open again Srinath to replace Nehra |
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Akram opted out due to ‘over-exertion’
ONGC, Hyderabad start with wins 14th Asian Games: Busan 2002 Pugilists ready for spirited display MVP award for best performance Thailand pin hopes on sepak takraw In Graphic: How India fared In Asian Games GURMIT HOCKEY
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Aussies
down and out
Colombo, September 27 In a match that never rose to expected heights, Australia were bundled out for a paltry 162 in 48.4 overs with the Sri Lankan spinners doing the trick. Sri Lanka then scored at a relaxed pace to notch up the required runs in 40 overs. Marvan Atapattu top-scored with 51 from 113 balls while Kumara Sangakkara and captain Sanath Jayasuriya made 48 and 42, respectively. In a match billed as the battle between Sri Lankan spin and Australian pace, the former clearly walked away with the honours. Australia elected to bat and started with customary flourish from Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden. However, the good times lasted just six overs for the Aussies, by which time they had raced to 48 runs. Sri Lanka went in with three specialist spinners but it was Aravinda De Silva who emerged as the unlikely hero for the hosts. De Silva got rid of dangerman Hayden in the seventh over after the batsman had scored only 13 runs. That started a totally unexpected collapse of the formidable Aussie batting line-up with wickets falling at regular intervals. Australia slumped to 57 for four, then 96 for six and were finally bowled out for 162. Shane Warne was the top scorer with 36 runs, adding 46 runs for the eighth wicket with Brett Lee, who made 18. De Silva went on to bowl a superb spell, conceding just nine runs off his first nine overs, before being taken for seven runs in his last over. Kumar Dharmasena, who dismissed Adam Gilchrist as the second wicket in the eighth over, also bowled brilliantly and returned figures of two for 30 from his 10 oBy the time Muttiah Muralitharan came into action in the 18th over, Australia were already four wickets down for 64. Apart from sending back Shane Watson for seven, the champion off-spinner also claimed the wicket of Warne, who was stumped by Sangakkara.
Australia: Gilchrist c Attapattu b Hayden b A de Silva 13 Ponting lbw Vaas 3 Martyn (run out) 28 Lehmann (run out) 0 Bevan c Arnold b Watson c Jayasuriya b Murali 7 Warne st Sangakkara b Murali 36 Lee b Jayasuriya 18 Gillespie (not out) 2 McGrath b Muralitharan 0 Extras: (b-10, lb-1, w-1) 12 Total: 162 all out in 48.4 overs. FoW: 1-49, 2-49, 3-56, 4-57, 5-96, 6-97, 7-107, 8-153, 9-162, 10-162. Bowling: Vaas 7-2-31-1, Gunaratne 2-0-15-0, Dharmasena 10-1-30-2, De Silva 10-2-16-1,Muralitharan 9.4-0-26-3, Chandana 7-0-22-0, Jayasuriya 3-0-11-1. Sri Lanka Jayasuriya b Warne 42 Atapattu lbw b McGrath 51 Sangakkara c Gilchrist De Silva not out 2 Jayawardene not out 1 Extras: (b-4, lb-2, w-7, nb-6) 19 Total: (for 3 wkts, 40 overs) 163 FoW: 1-67, 2-142, 3-160. Bowling: McGrath 10-1-41-2, Gillespie 8-1-28-0, Warne 10-2-25-1, Lee 7-1-39-0, Lehmann 5-0-24-0.
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Chetan Sharma writes If India’s semifinal win over South Africa was a thriller, today’s match between Australia and Sri Lanka was very one-sided. It was a shame the way the world champions played. Losing a match by seven wickets was not the problem but it was the manner in which the Australians played today. I, for one, was shocked to see their approach, I wonder whether they did the right thing by dropping Steve and Mark Waugh from their one-day sides. If South Africans need to do some thinking after their defeat to India, so do Australia. The big question is whether they will recall the Waugh twins in time for their World Cup preparations. Their batting looked quite vulnerable without the Waughs and if teams play excellent cricket like Sri Lankans played today, I don’t think the Australians can handle the pressure every time. One match can oust you from any tournament and you can imagine if it happens to be the World Cup or the Champions Trophy, it will come as a huge blow. The lesson they have to learn from today’s defeat is not to put too much pressure on themselves if the going becomes difficult. Lankans played amazing cricket today. I think asking Aravinda de Silva to come on and bowl so early caught the Australians by surprise and they didn’t quite know how to handle his gentle spin. Once the opening pair was dislodged, the remaining batsmen did not apply themselves while in the middle. The result was that it required Shane Warne’s sensible approach to help Australia make a fighting total. In the end, their total was too little. Australia needed early wickets but Sanath Jayasuriya and Marvan Atapattu were in no mood to let their supporters down about showing the door to Australia. Now all eyes are on the final, which will be between India and Sri Lanka. It is a very exciting prospect as India have the team but Sri Lanka have home conditions with them. At least, one of the two best teams will become the champion.
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All-rounder Watson relishes new role
Colombo, September 27 Watson has established himself in the one-day line-up by batting in the lower middle order with the brief to push on in the final overs. With the ball he is being asked to keep things tight after Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie’s opening spells. It is a far cry from Watson’s roles for Tasmania where he bats in the top order and is viewed as one of the state’s prime strike bowlers but he said the change of emphasis was helping to improve his all-round game. “It’s not frustrating, in fact it’s really enjoyable,” Watson told Reuters as Australia prepared for today’s Champions Trophy semi-final with Sri Lanka. “It’s great to be able to develop different parts of my game, not just batting at four and bowling first change as I do for Tassie (Tasmania).” “I’ve batted at three or four all my junior career so from that point of view it’s been a blessing in disguise to work on another aspect of my game,” he added. With the bat, the 21-year-old watson has rarely had the chance to build an innings for Australia. Usually batting inside the final 10 overs, his mission is to hit fours and sixes and rotate the strike, something that has been hard work technically and mentally. “It’s not so much the hitting, it’s the mental thing of hitting the ball in the air,” he said. “Ever since I was a little fella the idea was not to hit the ball in the air as it gives you a higher chance of getting out so that is something I’ve had to develop. “It’s a question of having the confidence to hit over the top and knowing where you want to hit the ball. The idea is that 90 per cent of the time you hit in the air it’s going where you want it to go,” Watson said. Watson’s main strength has always been his batting, the result of three sets of stress fractures in his back that restricted his bowling as a teenager. But it was his bowling that brought him to national attention last season when he claimed 11 wickets in a day against his native state Queensland, under the watchful eye of chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns, to help secure a place on the tour of South Africa. His aggressive style with the ball is suited to first-class cricket but he has fared less well at domestic one-day level where he proved extremely expensive. But when he came into the Australian one-day side in South Africa in March his role was to close down the middle overs of the innings with disciplined line and length bowling. “With my bowling I’ve just been trying to bowl really smart,” he said. “I have to get my runs per over down and my role is simply to tie it up and let the others guys get the wickets.” “If I can bowl six balls in a row where I want them, well, that’s what I’m working towards and to go at three or four an over and no more is my big goal.” Watson’s impressive temperament was quickly on show at senior level when he reached three figures in his debut innings for Australia with a six, against South Africa A in Port Elizabeth in March. Quiet progress in the one-day series followed before he responded to the chance of time in the middle during a recent match against Kenya with an unbeaten 77 to win the game. In the Champions Trophy he has been chipping in almost unseen with quiet, useful contributions and captain Ricky Ponting singled him out for praise on the eve of the semi-final with Sri Lanka, as he looked ahead to the World Cup in Southern Africa. “Our only concern has been the all-rounder position and we’ve rotated several players but Shane has come in and I’ve been really happy with his progress over the last few weeks,” said
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Tendulkar
keen to open again
Colombo, September 27 “Personally speaking, I would like to open if I was given a chance. It’s more comfortable (for me) as I have scored many runs batting in that position,” Tendulkar told reporters here. “If I open, the ball is new and the bowlers are new, and I will dictate terms, but now the terms are dictated to me,” he said but added that he would
continue to bat down the order to honour a team decision and was adapting to the new situation. Asked whether he provided more balance to the team by coming in the middle-order, Tendulkar said other batsmen should also be given the credit for playing well. “If I bat lower down the order, it does not make someone else play better. He has to play well himself,” he said. Tendulkar also refused to be dragged into persistent debates about his form. “I have nothing to prove. I don’t want to prove anything to anyone about my game. I have never tried that,” he said. “I am doing my job, which any cricketer wants to do.” But he admitted that he had restrained himself a bit while batting and avoided the lofted shots. “I have cut them down a bit, may be because of experience. I am finding more options for scoring by cutting down the risk factor. I have to study the situation and adapt to it... see the behaviour of the wicket and bat accordingly,” he said. Tendulkar did not agree with West Indian great Viv Richards who had reportedly said without him the Indian team would be weaker by 150 per cent. “Cricket is a team sport, though at times, individuals do matter,” he said. On India’s prospects in the next year’s World Cup, Tendulkar said the team will have to be prepared with different strategies as he expected the tournament to be full of surprises. “This World Cup may be full of surprises and we have to be prepared for everything,” he said. “No team wants to be predictable and allow other sides to work out their strategies. There should be different plans and we should choose horses for courses,” he said. In an earlier interview to BBC Hindi, the master batsman said India was playing well enough to win the Champions Trophy and go on to lift the World Cup next year. “Every team feels that (way) and if you don’t feel that way then you should not play,” he said. “It doesn’t happen overnight so we have been trying and we have been working out a few things. We have been very determined and focussed and that is our target,” he said. “We have been playing good cricket and that’s what we want to do. We just want to go out and stick to our basics and do the same things we have been doing for some time,” he said. India are in a midst of one of their best winning sequences ever and have won 12 of their last 16 one-day matches, some of them in thrilling nail-biting finishes. “I think this is one of the best sides I have been part of,” Tendulkar said. “It’s a very good combination. Everybody is doing a good job.”
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Srinath to replace Nehra
Mumbai, September 27 Hours after ruling Srinath out, newly-elected BCCI secretary S.K. Nair said in a statement that the board had received a request from the team management to replace Nehra with Srinath, who is playing county cricket in England, and it has been agreed to. Curiously, Nair had earlier claimed that team manager K.M. Ramprasad had informed the board that no replacement for Nehra was needed. In the statement, however, Nair said after getting the approval of the selection committee, which met here earlier in the day for the first time after being revamped at the BCCI annual general meeting recently, the Board sought the necessary permission from the ICC, which gave its consent. Nair then spoke to Srinath, who also agreed to play in the final. Nehra suffered the injury on his bowling hand during the semifinal against South Africa on Wednesday when he attempted to run out Jacques Kallis off his own bowling. He split the webbing between the index finger and middle finger on his left hand and it required five stitches. PTI
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Mongia, Bangar in
Board President’s XI Mumbai, September 27 The recently revamped Selection Committee met for the first time under the chairmanship of Brijesh Patel and also picked the Board President’s XI team for the tour-opening three-day game against the West Indians. Mohammad Kaif was named captain of the Board President’s XI for the October 4-6 match at Bangalore, BCCI secretary and convenor of the Selection Committee, S.K. Nair told reporters here. Nair said the selectors will meet again on October 5 during the three-day match to pick the team for the first Test starting in Mumbai on October 9. The 14-member Board President’s XI picked at the two-hour long meeting of the Selection Committee includes Sanjay Bangar, Dinesh Mongia and wicketkeepers Parthiv Patel and Ajay Ratra. Board President’s XI: Mohammad Kaif (captain), Gautam Gambhir, Sanjay Bangar, Hemang Badani, Dinesh Mongia, Parthiv Patel, Amit Mishra, Murali Kartik, L Balaji, Tinu Yohannan, Ajay Ratra, Sarandeep Singh, Irfan Pathan (Jr), Aakash Chopra.
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Akram opted out due to ‘over-exertion’
Karachi, September 27 “I have opted out of the Test series against Australia due to over-exertion. My body needs a rest and there is no rift behind me missing the series,” Wasim told AFP. Wasim, along with Inzamam-ul Haq, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Anwar and sacked manager Yawar Saeed returned from Sri Lanka last night. Opener Saeed Anwar has also opted out of the series while vice-captain Inzamam and Yousuf Youhana had to pull out due to injuries. “I am disappointed to miss an important series but it’s no use playing when your body doesn’t allow. It badly needs a rest and I had conveyed that I would not play the series long beforehand,” said the 36-year-old seamer. Wasim, one of the world’s great pacemen, has the unique record of having taken more than 400 wickets in both forms of the game — 414 in 104 Tests and 479 in a record 343 one-day games — since starting his career in 1984-85. “This will give youngsters a chance to establish themselves and I will not be there always. Somebody has to take it from me some day,” he said. “My main target is to play more and more one-day games and the World Cup will definitely be my last event,” said Wasim, who suffers from diabetes.
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ONGC, Hyderabad start with wins Chandigarh, September 27 Batting first, ONGC were off to a shaky start. They lost the key wickets of Gagan Khoda, Sandeep Sharma, Mithun Minhas, wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra and Rizwan Shamshad in quick succession and were tottering at 61 for five at one stage. But Amit and left-handed batsman Rajeev Rathod steadied the innings with a valuable 93-run stand for the seventh wicket before Rathod was sent back by medium pacer Sunil Dholpure. Amit, the highest scorer of the side, was unlucky to miss a half century when he was consumed by Devender Bundela. His 117-ball knock had four hits to the fence. Mohammed Saif played a breezy knock of 34 runs off 29 deliveries, while Sarandeep Singh provided the late impetus with 13-ball 22, which included four fours as ONGC innings folded at 232. Medium pacer Sanjay Pandey took three wickets while Sunil Dholpure claimed two wickets. Chasing the target, the MPCA were off to a disastrous start as opener Mudussar Pasha and hard-hitting batsman and former international Amay Khurasia were back in the pavilion with just six on the board. Khurasia went for an injudious pull shot on the very first ball he faced and was caught by Gagan Khoda at square leg off medium pacer Sanjay Gill. Devender Bundela and Abbas Ali contributed 32 and 31, respectively. No other could make any worthwhile contribution as the MPCA were all out for 146 runs. Sanjay Gill was the most successful bowler and took three wickets while Amit Bhandari, Amit Sharma and Rajiv Rathod scalped two victims each. ONGC claimed one bonus point and now have five points after this victory. In the second match played at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad upset Mumbai by 29 runs. Batting first, Hyderabad were put 192 for the loss of eight wickets on the board in 50 overs as leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule bowled an excellent spell. Anirudh Singh, the highest scorer of the innings, scored 56, while Vinay Kumar and Arjun Yadav contributed 36 and 26. Leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule was richly awarded for his efforts finishing with a haul of four wickets. Barring Onkar Khanvilkar who scored 60, no other Mumbai batsman could stay at the wicket as they fell short of the target by 29 runs having been bowled out for 163 runs. New ball bowler Vishnu Vardhan was the wrecker in chief with a bag of three wickets in a miserly spell of bowling. |
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14th Asian Games: Busan 2002 Ulsan, September 27 After a goal-less opening session, the Indians turned on the heat in the second session slamming in three goals in quick succession to completely change the complexion of the game which seldom rose to great heights. Star striker Bhutia fired in the first two goals while Renedy Singh produced a brilliant long ranger to compound Bangladesh’s misery on the opening day of football competitions which began two days ahead of the official opening ceremony. In other matches, hosts South Korea defeated minnows Maldives 4-0 in a group A while Oman blanked Malaysia 1-0. In group B, Thailand beat Yemen 3-0 while Vietman and the UAE played out a goal-less draw. Grouped along with India in group C, China defeated Turkmenistan 4-0. The Indians, who have shown a marked improvement under new coach Stephen Constantine in recent international tournaments, appeared a trifle tentative in the opening half but managed to find their rhythm after the lemon break to keep their quarterfinal hopes alive in the 24-team championship being held at five different venues near Busan. Bhutia fired the first salvo in the 47th minute of the contest with a header and then struck another goal with a neat placement from close to the goalmouth 18 minutes later to leave the hapless Bangladeshis in a daze. The hard-working Renedy Singh then struck just one minute later in the 66th minute finding the target with a curling long ranger eluding the reach of a diving custodian Biplab Bhattacharjee. The Bangladeshis never really recovered from the brief goal-scoring assault although they did manage to come dangerously close to the Indian goalmouth on a couple of occasions. The Indians looked a pale shadow of themselves in the opening session as they failed to play as a cohesive unit and build up the moves despite enjoying territorial advantage for most part of the session. Locked goal-less at the inteval, the Indians turned on the heat in the second minute of the second half with Bhutia finding the target, much to the delight of his teammates. The goal was the result of a fast counter attack which saw forward Samir Naik break through the defence from the right flank before crossing to an unmarked Bhutia, who headed home from inside the box. The goal served as a tonic for the Indians, who looked far more determined after the break as they broke through the Bangladeshi defence time and again with a series of raids from both the flanks. Relying on a combination of short and long passes to unsettle their rivals, the Indians looked in control in the second session with the forwardline spearheaded by Bhutia looking far more aggressive. Bhutia was again in the thick of action as he placed the ball in from close to the goalmouth after substitute Tomba Singh had done all the spadework by piercing through the defence. But it was Renedy Singh’s brilliant long ranger a minute later which turned out to be the best goal of the match as the ball swung visciously to beat the Bangladeshi custodian. The Indians could have added one more goal to their account in the 10th minute of the second session but Samir Naik failed to control his header from inside the box following a measured cross from Bhutia from the left flank. The Indians were reduced to 10 players just one minute before the long whistle when Dipak Mondal was given marching order by referee Al Harrassi Rashid of Oman for a dangerous tackle. The Indians, however, looked annoyed by the referee’s decision. PTI
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Pugilists
ready for spirited display Busan, September 27 The eight-member Indian team prepared in the right earnest at the training camp in Patiala, but will have to face world class boxers, especially from Korea, Uzbekistan and
Kazakhstan. The ratio of mes won by Korea in the Asian Games - 53 gold, 17 silver and 19 bronze so far - is an indication that they are keen to repeat their 1986 performance when they set a record by sweeping all the 12 titles in the event. It is this sweep of medals that gives Koreans an aura and being the hosts this year, they will go all out to establish their supremacy in all the weight categories. However, Indian pugilists too are going with a positive frame of mind and are ready for the
kill. Dingko Singh, the toast of the Indian contingent with his tnareilevels, would have a tough time too. The Indian Navy boxer, Dingko who sustained an injury during the Bangkok Games, seems to have recovered fully and is rated as the best boxer in the 54-kg category in the Asian region. Other team member, Mohammad Ali Qamar who won the gold in the light fly weight category at the Manchester Commonwealth Games, too has his task cut out. Likewise, feather weight (57 kg) boxer Som Bahadur Pun and veteran middle weight (75 kg) pugilist Jitender Kumar too are expected to figure in the medals tally, specially the latter, who fought brilliantly in Manchester on way to the Commonwealth bronze. Twenty-seven-year-old Harpal Singh, a higher weight category boxer too has shown improvement by lasting the full distance of five rounds against world class opponents, which is creditable enough to expect a silver or a bronze from him. On all counts, Indian pugilists face an uphill task of handling the swiftness in the ring from Thai, Japanese, Filipino and North Korean boxers, besides the undisputably strong hosts. India stands seventh in the overall boxing medals tally for the last 13 Asian Games, with Korea leading the list (53 gold - 17 silver - 19 bronze), followed by Thailand (16-17-20), Japan (15-12-27) and behind sixth-placed Pakistan (5-15-33). Considering their tally from Hiroshima and Seoul Games, pugilists from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan would also be a force to reckon with. Having entered the Games only in 1994, the Uzbeks have already claimed five golds, four silver and five bronze, while the Kazakh tally reads 5-2-2.
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MVP award for best performance New Delhi, September 27 The MVP award will be given to the athlete “who through his/her performance matches the criteria laid out by the company, which are: the player creates a world record and/or an Asian Games record; displays consistency in performance in relation to his/her performance in the previous Asian Games; wins multiple gold medals and for his/her fighting spirit”. This was announced here at a send-off function for the Indian sportspersons by Samsung India vice-president (sales) Ravinder Zutshi. He said the winner’s award will be Rs 2.5 lakh worth of Samsung products. He said the award winner will be selected by a panel of five journalists covering the Asian Games. Indian Olympic Association president Suresh Kalmadi declared that the Indian contingent would match their performance in the Commonwealth Games at Manchester, and bring home double the number of medals than what they had collected in the 1998 Asian Games at Bangkok. (India had won 35 medals at Bangkok). Mr Kalmadi has pinned hopes on the athletic contingent to bring home the maximum number of medals, particularly gold. Kalmadi is also the president of the Amateur Athletic Federation of India. Kalmadi said the football team and the swimming squad had been cleared at IOA’s cost following the Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports’ refusal to clear these disciplines due to their bleak chances of winning a medal. Kalmadi reasoned that since India would be hosting the Afro-Asian Games next year and both these disciplines would be part of the games “we (IOA) could not afford not to send them for the Asian Games”. India do not stand any chance of winning a medal neither in
football nor in swimming, though national swimming coach K.V. Sharma claimed that the swimmers (hopefully two men and two women are likely to be cleared by the IOA) “would put a decent performance”. Chairman of the All-India Council of Sports (AICS) Vijay Kumar Malhotra had indicated here yesterday that the government would be advised against sending teams abroad without proper clearance as such foreign jaunts would be a sheer drain on the resources, without achieving any tangible results. |
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Thailand pin hopes on sepak takraw
Bangkok, September 27 Thailand hope to win 13 gold medals in Busan, with four of those coming from sepak takraw, a game involving teams of players keeping a small wicker ball off the ground. The Thais won five of the six sepak takraw golds at the last Asian Games they hosted in Bangkok four years ago. “We are very confident we will win gold medals from takraw, although pressure will be enormous when we play hosts South Korea, Malaysia or Myanmar,” Santiprab Tejavanija, head of the Sports Authority of Thailand, told Reuters. Various versions of sepak takraw, which is played over a net by two teams of three or in circles by teams of five, have been recorded in Southeast Asia from as early as the 11th century. According to the Thai website takrawworld.Com, Marco Polo brought back to Europe from China a similar game which involved kicking an object in the air and counting the number of kicks.
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GURMIT HOCKEY Chandigarh, September 27 While
CRPF rallied to down Faridkot XI 3-1 after conceding an early goal, Signals faced stiff resistance from local favourites Chandigarh XI before winning 4-2 via the tie breaker. It was indeed an unlucky day for Chandigarh XI, who fought tooth and nail till the end and matched their rivals move for move. Having succumbed to sustained pressure at the stroke of half time, Chandigarh XI came back strongly in the second session to restore parity. But in the tie breaker that ensued, Signals kept their nerves to carry the day while Chandigarh XI rued the missed strokes after having put up a splendid fight. The fast-paced encounter saw an early Signals domination and Chandigarh XI remained under pressure for long spells. However, a commendable performance by the Chandigarh goalkeeper denied the defending champions a chance to forge ahead early. On one occasion a rasping hit by Paramjeet of Signals off a short corner was blocked by an alert Baljeet under the Chandigarh bar in the nick of time after full back Avtar Singh left a dummy. Jatinder Kumar of Chandigarh also made some good saves to thwart the rivals' designs. However, the sustained pressure by the Army men bore fruit a few seconds before half time. A slight loss of concentration on the part of the Chandigarh defence was all that Signals were looking for and Paramjeet was quick to latch on to the ball deep inside the Chandigarh territory. The ball came to DN Kushwaha, who pushed it into the net to make it 1-0. On changing ends, Chandigarh XI mounted pressure through internationals Inderjeet Chadha and Sukhbir Singh Gill. A move initiated by Gill down the centre saw Chadha making the most of it and he in turn passed the ball to an onrushing Gurtej, who made no mistake (1-1). Thereafter, both teams had some good chances but failed to score. In the tie breaker that followed, Chandigarh X could convert only one stroke through Inderjeet Chadha while Signals converted three through Paramjeet, Prem Singh, and G.Dass to dash the hopes of the local team. Earlier, in another quarterfinal tie ex-champions CRPF stamped out mediocre resistance from Faridkot XI to romp into the semifinals with a 3-1 verdict. Faridkot XI initially provided the first shock as Paramjeet Singh beat the CRPF defence to sound the boards (1-0). However, that was all the Faridkot lads could achieve. Thereafter, CRPF took complete control and the equaliser followed only two minutes later when 'man of the match' Jolen Topno scored a field goal. Ten minutes before the lemon break, Topher Kujur made it 2-1 with another field goal. On changing ends, CRPF once again started calling the shots and managed to consolidate the lead further in the 45th minute when off a penalty corner, Tanveer Jamal shot home to make it a comfortable 3-1 in favour of CRPF. Saturday's fixtures (quarterfinals): Punjab Police v Northern Railway -- 2.30 pm; RCF v Punjab and Sind Bank -- 4 pm. |
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Dehra Dun, September 27 The Uttaranchal girls yesterday scored an easy victory, which included a hat-trick by Rambala. C Poonam, Kirti Negi and Taruna scored one goal each. UNI
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