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October 25, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Gayle
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Ponting’s
warning to Aussies Pak
board considering separate teams COOCH BEHAR CRICKET Kannan, Sheetal bow out Tennis
meet from tomorrow Santosh
Trophy: Assam in last 8 Ludhiana
boys triumph
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Gayle slams century
Pune, October 24 When stumps were drawn for the day, Darren Ganga was batting on a solid 66 while Marlon Samuels was yet to open his account. Railways bowlers were virtually sent on a leather hunt as Gayle (154) and Ganga added 225 runs for the second wicket to take the West Indies’ total from 71 for one to 296 when a tired looking Gayle was bowled by pace bowler Harvinder Singh towards the fag end of the day. Earlier the visitors, who took the field resting skipper Carl Hooper, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Mervyn Dillon and Pedro Collins, won the toss and stand-in captain Ridley Jacobs elected to bat. The Caribbean openers straightaway went into overdrive and were propelled by a quickfire half-century by opener Wavell Hinds who scored an exact 50. Though off-spinner Kulamani Parida tasted success early dismissing Hinds caught by Jacob Martin in the slips, Railways hopes to further dent the confidence of visiting batsmen vanished as Gayle and Ganga returned after lunch and batted fluently. The duo tackled the three main spinners - Parida, Murali Kartik and Tejinderpal Singh with ease and scored at will. They used their feet well and often played the sweep shot to maximum effect. Gayle, who was playing second fiddle when Hinds was on fire, took charge after the dismissal of his partner and played some glorious shots all round the wicket. The stylish West Indian hit 23 fours and two huge sixes, one each off Parida and Kartik, in his marathon 294-ball knock that lasted almost six hours. Gayle was particularly severe on Harvinder whom he drove through extra covers for two boundaries in one over before flicking the off-spinner Parida to the square leg fence. Scoreboard West Indies: Hinds c Martin b Parida 50 Gayle b Harvinder 154 Ganga batting 66 Samuels batting 0 Extras: (b-9, lb-1, nb-17) 27 Total: (for 2 wkts, 92 overs) 297 Fall of wickets: 1-71, 2-296. Bowling: Harvinder Singh 11-2-37-1, Zakir Hussain 10-1-41-0, J.P. Yadav 15-3-35-0, M Kartik 29-7-79-0, K. Parida 19-6-61-1, Tejinderpal Singh 6-1-25-0, S. Khanolkar 2-0-9-0.
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SPG cover for Kolkata Test Kolkata, October 24 The police chief said they would not take any chances under the prevailing circumstances. At least seven union ministers, three governors, six Chief Ministers, including two former CMs, and foreign dignitaries will be present at Eden Gardens during the match. Mr Chakraborty said the Union Home Ministry had been already approached for least two battalions of SPG commandos for deployment. Meanwhile, the dispute between the CAB and Kolkata
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Patel has bright future: Taylor Mumbai, October 24 “Add concentration to skill and ability to move along with the ball, and nobody can stop a wicketkeeper from succeeding,” Taylor said in an informal chat with reporters here last evening after the conclusion of a three-day wicketkeeping clinic organised by the Cricket Club of India. Taylor said Patel, who had attended the camp, had a bright future ahead as his “concentration level is very high at the young age of 17”.
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Becker gets 2-year suspended term
Munich, Germany, October 24 Becker, one of Germany’s top post-war celebrities for his heroics on the tennis court, admitted yesterday he made a mistake by failing to pay taxes worth some $ 3 million. The three-time Wimbledon champion had sought clemency with his courtroom admission at the start of his trial and by paying the tax he owed the state last week. The court demanded he pay a fine of $ 293,000. State prosecutors had demanded Becker be jailed for three years and six months for dodging German taxes and lying about where he lived, claiming residence in the tax haven of Monaco while actually staying in Munich between 1991 and 1993. Becker’s lawyers had said his crimes did not warrant jail. They had argued that he had paid 45 million marks ($ 22 million) in German tax since moving his residence back to Germany in 1994 as well as the tax for 1991 to 1993.
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Hewitt ousted in 2nd round
Stockholm, October 24 Just a week after illness forced him to miss the Masters event in Madrid, the 21-year-old Australian put in a poor performance which would not have improved his mood as he tries to resist Andre Agassi’s assault on his world top spot. Agassi, a winner yesterday at St Petersburg, went into the Russian event trailing the Australian by just 43 points after claiming the Madrid title at the weekend. Hewitt went down an early break in the opening set yesterday and could never recover as Sluiter recovered from 0-30 in the final game to win the opener 6-3. The underdog began with a break in the second, lost it in the fourth, but recovered quickly as Hewitt double-faulted to give it back, 3-4. Sluiter went into a 5-3 lead with a love game and waited patiently as the desperate Hewitt saved three match points with serve winners before double-faulting on a fourth to lose. Hewitt refused to be drawn out on his looming struggle with the on-form Agassi who has a simmering desire to end the year as number one at age 32. Thailand’s Paradorn Srichaphan, who beat Hewitt in Japan recently, thrashed Swedish teenager Robin Soderling 6-2 6-1 to reach the second round. The Asian ace broke twice in the opening set, finishing the job with an untouchable serve. In the second, he broke the young Swede for 2-1 and never relaxed his grip on the one-way match. Paradorn finished it up on his second match point with a backhand winner. Swede Magnus Norman’s season-long come-back attempt sputtered as he crashed out in his opening match, a 6-2 6-2 victim of Hicham Arazi. Arazi now moves into a second-round clash with American Taylor Dent, who put out second-seeded and defending champion Sjeng Schalken 7-6 (7/3) 6-4. Dangerous Frenchman Fabrice Santoro, a semi-finalist last weekend at the Madrid Masters, eliminated Argentine fifth seed Juan Chela 6-1 6-3. Number four seed Thomas Johansson was also knocked out yesterday. The Swede’s 6-3 3-6 2-6 loss to Spain’s Tommy Robredo all but knocks him out of the race for the November 11 to 17 Shanghai Masters Cup, limited to the top eight points finishers of the season. MOSCOW: Top seed Andre Agassi eased into the second round of the $ one-million Saint Petersburg Open with a 6-3 6-4 win over unseeded Czech Radek Stepanek here yesterday.
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Ponting’s warning to Aussies
Sydney, October 24 England were beaten in the traditional tour opener at Lilac Hill, near Perth, and with a squad ravaged by injuries, there are fears that skipper Nasser Hussain’s bid to reclaim the Ashes is already off the rails. But Ponting, the national one-day skipper, refused to write off the tourists who, under the leadership of Hussain and coach Duncan Fletcher, have enjoyed four consecutive series victories in 2000-01 and have lost just two of their last 10 Tests. Ponting, who hit two centuries and averaged 85.5 in the 3-0 series whitewash of Pakistan in Colombo and Sharjah, warned Australia must remain on top of its game to avoid being ambushed by a side he feels will be ready come the opening Test at Brisbane’s Gabba on November 7. “I think they are a very good squad. I think they proved that the last couple of years, they have beaten some very good sides,” Ponting said on his arrival home today. “They are a lot more settled than they once were. They are a lot more together and have a settled batting line-up. Their fast bowlers have done a good job for them in the last couple of years. “I wouldn’t read too much into their performance (against the Chairman’s XI). I think they’ll be cherry-ripe for the first Test and we will have to play well to beat them.” Ponting is confident Australia’s preparations for February’s World Cup in South Africa and Zimbabwe are on course despite falling at the semi-finals stage of the recent ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka. “We can always improve,” he said. “We played some really good one-day cricket while we were away. We played some good cricket in Kenya and at the start in Sri Lanka. “We let ourselves down in the semi-final (of the ICC Trophy) but other than that I am pretty happy with the way things are going for us. I think all the signs are positive.”
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Pak board considering separate teams
Islamabad, October 24 At the Test level, the PCB was likely to retain Waqar Younis as captain for the forthcoming tours of Zimbabawe and South Africa and shortlisted the names of Wasim Akram, Moin Khan and Shoaib Akhtar to lead the one-day side. The PCB had earlier considered Akram’s name for the captaincy but it shelved the idea following a warning from Justice Malik Mohammad Qayyum, the one-man judicial commission which probed into the match-fixing allegations against some members of the Pakistan team. Qayyum had recommended that the PCB should avoid appointing Akram as captain in future in view of allegations against him. But the PCB argued that it was more concerned about building a strong team to avoid disasters like the one witnessed in the recent series against Australia. Reports in the local media, quoting top cricket officials, said the PCB toyed with the idea of forming separate teams for Tests and one-dayers after a meeting between PCB Chief, Lt Gen Tauqir Zia, captain Waqar Younis and coach Richard Pybus. Younis and Pybus, who returned after the team’s 0-3 Test series loss to Australia, met Gen Zia in Lahore yesterday and reviewed the causes that led to the downfall of the team. “Australia had seven batsmen averaging in the 40s while two of their four bowlers shared nearly 870 wickets between them ,” Pybus informed the PCB chief, local daily Dawn said. “In contrast, Pakistan cricketers are young and still in the learning stages. The boys have the talent and potential but it is their inexperience to handle the pressure that let them down,” Pybus said. Gen Zia conveyed to both Younis and Pybus that the team needed to improve its performance drastically on the forthcoming tours before Pakistan heads for South Africa and Zimbabwe for the World Cup starting in late January. He also discussed the composition of the squad with the captain and coach and sought their views on its final make-up before forwarding their recommendations to the national selectors, who will announce the final 16 for the upcoming tours on Saturday. To assess form and fitness of some senior and junior players before selecting the team, the PCB is organising a one-day match in Lahore tomorrow. If Akram and Moin, who will be playing the match, prove their fitness, they would be in contention for captaincy of the one-day squad. Shoaib Akhtar will be another alternative for the PCB, the board officials said.
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COOCH BEHAR CRICKET Rohtak, October 24 The Haryana innings finally folded at 165. Overnight not out batsman and skipper Manvinder Bisla scored 43 whereas Vikram Dhaliwal contributed 36. V. Rajvir Singh, who struck thrice in four balls yesterday, got another two wickets today to return with an analysis of 21.1 - 5 - 49 - 5. Rajesh Sharma took 3 for 64 and Vipul got two wickets. In the remaining 160 minutes Punjab lost five second innings wickets to score 86 runs. Score board Haryana (first innings): 302 Punjab (first innings): 202 Haryana (second innings) : Mayank lbw V. Rajvir Singh 7, Manvinder Bisla lbw Rajesh Sharma 43, Sunny b. V. Rajvir Singh 0, Pradeep Sahu b. Rajvir Singh 0, Vikram Dhaliwal c&b Bipul Sharma 36, Sachin Rana c Udai Kaul b Bipul Sharma 22, Sabi Kukreja c. Udai Kaul b. Rajesh Sharma 9, Mandeep Singh lbw V.Rajvir Singh 10, Sandeep Singh lbw Rajesh Sharma 13, Aparajit Singh not out 0, Sanjay Badhwar b. V. Rajvir Singh 1, Extras 24 Total: 165 Fall of wickets: 1/26, 2/26, 3/26, 4/95, 5/103, 6/130, 7/134, 8/164, 9/164. Bowling: V.Rajvir Singh 21.1-5-49-5, Amardeep Sonkar 4-2-7-0, Rajesh Sharma 28-6-64-3, Vishwas Bhalla 1-0-11-0, Vipul Sharma 12-3-22-2 Punjab (second innings): Manik Kohli c.Manvinder Bisla b Aprajit Singh 23, Amardeep Sonkar run out 0, Vishwas Bhalla lbw Sachin Rana 1, Varun Gupta b. Manvinder Bisla 5, Gaurav Gupta lbw M. Bisla 19, Ankur Jund not out 17, Ankur Jund not out 3, Extras 18. Total for 5 wickets 86. Fall of wickets 1/7, 2/13, 3/20, 4/44, 5/71 Bowling: Sachin Rana 9-2-26-1, Sanjay Badhwar 3-2-2-0, M.Bisla 9-1-10-2, Aparajit Singh 10-3-19-1, Pradeep Sahu 4-0-9-0, Mandeep Singh 3-3-0-0-, Vikram Dhaliwal 1-0-5-0, Sabi Kukreja 1-0-1-0, Mayank Sharma 1-0-4-0. |
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Kannan, Sheetal bow out New Delhi, October 24 The women’s singles also witnessed a major upset when top seeded Sheetal Goutham of Karnataka was ousted by Chandigarh girl Shruti Dhawan at 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. Shruti Dhawan, the lanky girl from City Beautiful, roared back after losing the first set, to show the exit door to Sheetal, who was the runner-up last year when Rushmi Chakravarthi beat her in the title clash. Shruti Dhawan, making the best use of her height and reach, blasted winners down both the flanks to unsettle Sheetal, as the Karnataka lass failed to consolidate her position after winning the first set. Shruti was all pumped up in the second and third sets, firing on all cylinders, and pulled off a nice victory as a weary Sheetal lost grip of the contest. Vijay Kannan, who was seeded third, seemed to struggle with his game, which, he later clarified, was due to a thumb injury he suffered one and a half months back. And he has not fully recovered from the injury. But the fact remains that Vinod Sridhar mounted pressure on Vijay from the word go, and gained in strength as the match wore on to wrap up a surprisingly easy victory. But second-seeded Nitin Kirtane played a cool and calculated game to put paid to the hopes of the young Kedar Tembe, whose game plan came unstuck in front of the consistent
display of the left-handed Nitin. Nitin’s powerful backhands and down the line winners got him many good points to coast home coasted to a 6-4, 6-1 victory to book his berth in the semifinal. Fourth-seeded Mustafa Ghouse played steady tennis to upset the rhythm of Ajay Ramaswamy to record a 6-3, 6-3 victory. Ramaswamy’s on-court tantrums only helped unsettle his poise and game, rather than causing any problems to Ghouse. Ghouse thundered down winners from the back court, and on occasions, ventured towards the net to put away some cheeky winners. Wild card Somdev Verman continued to create ripples as he took the experienced Kamala Kannan in his stride while scoring a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 victory. In the women’s singles quarter-finals, fourth-seeded Ankita Bhambri ousted sixth-seeded Geeta Manohar of Andhra Pradesh 6-3, 6-0, third-seeded Sonal Phadke beat Liza Perreira 6-3, 6-3 while Isha Lakhani packed off second seeded Radhika Tulpule after a long drawn out battle at 6-3, 6-7 (3-7), 6-1. The aggressive Isha was all fire and brimstone as she smashed her way past the seeded Tulpule. Chandigarh boys had a field day in the under-18 singles matches, though third-seeded Tushar Liberhan made his exit when he lost to Arun Prakash of Tamil Nadu 2-6, 2-6. But second-seeded Chatwinder Singh beat Divij Sharan, the sixth seed from Delhi, 6-4, 1-6, 6-0 while the fourth-seeded Amanjot Singh got rid of Wrik Ganguly of Delhi 6-1, 6-3 to keep the Chandigarh hopes alive. Parantap Chaturvedi battled back from a set down to whip Roy Rupesh at 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. In the girls under-18 singles matches, top-seeded Isha Lakhani beat Jiciri Rai of Karnataka 6-0, 6-2, second-seeded Poonam Reddy of Maharashtra beat Ranganathan M of Tamil Nadu 6-1, 6-4, fourth-seeded Lata Assudani beat Priyanka Parekh 6-1, 6-0 and fifth-seeded Sasha Abraham ousted M. Kamini 7-5, 6-0. |
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Tennis
meet from tomorrow Chandigarh, October 24 The higher ranked player in this tournament will Rohan Bopana (353). The other well known Indian players participating in this tournament will be Mustafa Ghouse, Sunil Kumar Sipaeya, Vijay Kannan, Nitin Kirtane, Ajay Ramaswami, Manoj Mahadevan and Vishal Uppal. |
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Santosh
Trophy: Assam in last 8 Imphal, October 24 Leading 1-0 at the breather, Assam added two more in the later session to carve out their second successive win and top cluster five. The outing at the Imphal polo ground saw Assam open up an early lead through Utpal Biswamitra in the sixth minute, before Padumrabha and Sanjiba Rongpi found the target in the 58th and 79th minutes, respectively, to propel their team to the quarters. Assam will lock horns with Kerala and Bengal in group one of the quarter-final league beginning on October 25.
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Ludhiana
boys triumph Ludhiana, October 24 In other matches, Patiala demolished Ropar 28-17 and Amritsar scraped past Jalandhar 26-24. In the girls section (under-17) Nawanshahr toyed with Fatehgarh Sahib whom they beat 10-1 while Ropar got the better of Hoshiarpur 11-6. In tug-of-war, Ludhiana had mixed luck as their boy’s team went down fighting to Ferozepore while the girls’ team won both matches. They beat Ferozepore and Muktsar. Results:- Handball (girls u-19)- Muktsar b Mansa 7-1; Bathinda b Nawanshahr 12-7; Faridkot w/o Ferozepore; Sangrur b Fatehgarh Sahib 18-0; Hoshiarpur b Jalandhar 21-3; and Ropar b Muktsar 19-4. Boys (u-19): Ludhiana b Muktsar 19-10; Patiala b Ropar 28-17; Moga b Fatehgarh Sahib 15-6; Amritsar b Jalandhar 26-24; Bathinda b Hoshiarpur 29-20; Ludhiana b Gurdaspur 16-4. Handball (girls u-17): Mansa b Ferozepore 4-2; Faridkot b Fatehgarh Sahib 10-3; Ludhiana w/o Kapurthala; Ropar b
Hoshiarpur 11-6; Sangrur b Gurdaspur 13-3; Muktsar b Gurdaspur 1-0; Ludhiana b Ferozepore 5-3; Nawanshahr b Fatehgarh Sahib 10-1. Boys (u-17): Jalandhar b Gurdaspur 19-12; Nawanshahr b Hoshiarpur 18-10; Patiala b Ferozepore 23-14; Bathinda b Moga 13-10; Faridkot b Nawanshahr 20-4 and Amritsar b Jalandhar 16-2. Tug-of war (boys u-19): Fatehgarh Sahib b Moga; Ferozepore b Ludhiana; Jalandhar b Gurdaspur; and Sangrur b Muktsar. Girls (u-19): Ludhiana b Ferozepur; Ropar b Sangrur; Jalandhar b Faridkot and Ludhiana b Muktsar. |
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