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November 1, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Spirited reply by West Indies
Chetan Sharma writes “Well done boy, keep it up” Tailenders rescue Rlys |
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Irina tightens grip on title Mankad brushes aside Bopanna in semis
Judicial panel to probe doping scandal
Ranjit, Amardeep best athletes Nidhi wins archery title Overall trophy for Sirsa school ‘IHF to hire foreign coach’ Amritsar beat Jalandhar
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Spirited
reply by West Indies
Kolkata, October 31 Hinds and Gayle put on 172 runs for the opening wicket in nearly four hours of dogged batting but off-spinner Harbhajan Singh had brought the smiles back on Indian faces by the end of day’s play with three quick wickets which saw West Indies slip to 189 for three. Harbhajan Singh had Hinds caught by skipper Sourav Ganguly for exactly 100 runs before dismissing Ramnaresh Sarwan and night-watchman Mervyn Dillon in the same over to neutralise the West Indian advantage. But Gayle remained unbeaten on a well-compiled 80 runs in the company of Shivnarine Chanderpaul who was on one. Earlier, the Indian first innings folded on 358 after being well-served by useful contributions from young wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel and veteran speedster Javagal Srinath. The two put on 73 runs for the eighth wicket after India resumed at their overnight 275 for six. Patel missed his maiden Test half-century by just three runs, making a career-best 47 while Srinath scored a whirlwind 46 off 40 balls with seven fours and the only six of the Indian innings.
However, the day belonged to Hinds and Gayle who lifted the spirits of their team, playing for pride after having already lost the series, with their fine batting performance. The duo batted positively and were quite impressive against the spinners who have tormented their team on this series. Though both Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble had their moments and did cause a few problems to the batsmen but a breakthrough eluded them until the last half an hour of play. Gayle was the more aggressive of the two and easily outscored his partner. He played some fine drives against Kumble and pounced upon any loose delivery on offer. The Indians relied mostly on spin and Javagal Srinath and Ashish Nehra bowled only three and six overs respectively in their first spells. Having started about half an hour before lunch, the two batsmen took the West Indian score to 109 by tea with Hinds having already posted his tenth half-century. Hinds scored quickly in the last session and raised his hundred with a single off a sweep shot against Harbhajan Singh. He faced 190 deliveries for his third century in 27th Test which was studded with 16 boundaries. But Hinds, who started attempting big hits immediately after reaching the milestone, could not stay long after that. Trying to sweep Harbhajan Singh to the mid-wicket fence, Hinds hit straight into the hands of Sourav Ganguly who had placed himself at square leg only a couple of balls earlier. The fall of Hinds was a big psychological boost to the Indians and they stepped up the pressure. The West Indian batsmen also seemed bogged down a bit and scoring virtually stopped for sometime as Harbhajan Singh and Nehra squeezed in a few tight overs. In a bid to break the shackles, Gayle came dancing down the pitch to loft Harbhajan Singh for a spectacular six over long on and followed it with a hit to the mid-wicket fence for a four in the next ball. But Harbhajan Singh came back strongly in the next over to dismiss both Sarwan and Dillon within a space of three balls. Sarwan was the victim of a smart stumping by Patel following a beautiful delivery that spun the other way, leaving him stranded out of his crease. Sarwan made just two runs from 22 balls which reflected the difficulty the West Indians faced after the fall of Hinds. Just two balls later, Harbhajan Singh produced a yorker to uproot the off-stump of Dillon who had absolutely no clue to the delivery. Dillon failed to score. SECOREBOARD India (1st innings): Bangar C Hinds b Cuffy 77 Sehwag lbw b Dillon 35 Dravid lbw b Powell 14 Tendulkar c Gayle b Lawson 36 Ganguly c Jacobs b Hooper 29 Laxman c Gayle b Dillon 48 Patel c Chanderpaul
Harbhajan Singh b Cuffy 6 Srinath c Hooper b Dillon 46 Kumble lbw b Powell 4 Nehra not out 0 Extras: (lb-7, nb-8, w-1) 16 Total
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Fall of wickets: 1-49, 2-72, 3-116, 4-165, 5-242, 6-271, 7-280, 8-353, 9-358. Bowling: Dillon 22-3-82-3, Cuffy 25-4-84-2, Lawson 20-3-76-2, Powell 16.2-4-62-2, Hooper 15-5-36-1, Gayle 2-0-6-0, Sarwan 1-0-5-0. West Indies (1st innings): Gayle batting 80 W Hinds c Ganguly
Sarwan st Patel
Dillon b Harbhajan 0 Chanderpaul batting 1 Extras
(lb-1, nb-5) 6 Total (for 3 wkts,
Fall of wickets: 1-172, 2-186, 3-186. Bowling: Srinath 6-2-26-0, Nehra 13-8-24-0, Harbhajan Singh 24-9-43-3, Kumble 19-1-73-0, Bangar 6-3-14-0, Tendulkar 3-0-8-0.
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Chetan Sharma writes India just about managed to stay afloat in the third Test match against West Indies. The West Indies may have surprised everyone with their determined opening stand between Wavell Hinds and Chris Gayle but the Eden Gardens had its favourite hero doing another trick. The West Indians were 172 for no loss as Hinds completed a remarkable century when Harbhajan Singh struck. That wicket gave relief to the Indian team but within the space of 14 runs, Harbhajan had picked up two more wickets, those of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Mervyn Dillon to save India from a disaster. Thanks to Harbhajan, India haven’t given up hope of winning this Test. However, during the day it seemed the West Indies had finally found the right technique to counter the Indian bowling. Their openers had scored about half the runs the Indian team had scored in their first innings and the West Indians were on the top before Harbhajan brought back memories of his spell against Australia at Eden Gardens last year. Despite the fact that I wanted India to win 3-0 in the series, I was very impressed with the manner in which Hinds and Gayle batted. For most time, they had rendered the Indian spin attack toothless, especially Anil Kumble who clearly wasn’t at his best today. Harbhajan was better than him as he at least kept a tight line and length. No doubt he had to wait for the wickets but his patience paid in the end otherwise it was slipping away from India’s hands. Hinds was the more attacking of the two. Most of his boundaries were powerful shots as he used his feet well to the spinners. I guess had Zaheer Khan been there, India may have picked up early wickets but in his absence Javagal Srinath and Ashish Nehra were not as effective. One must also add that there was absolutely nothing in this pitch for the fast bowlers and as someone who has bowled for years on such lifeless pitches in India, I would like to tell the board that the country will never produce world class fast bowlers if the standard of pitches is not improved. I would also like to congratulate Parthiv Patel for the way he has improved with every game. His wicket-keeping is confident and the small lad has shown that he takes his batting seriously. Once again it was Patel who along with Srinath helped India to a respectable total of 358 after Harbhajan was dismissed straightway in the morning. They hit a few bold shots and upset the rhythm of the West Indies bowlers. So, after two days of play it still is evenly balanced. That’s good for the game.
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“Well
done boy, keep it up” Kolkata, October 31 *** For the Caribbean captain, Carl Hooper, it was a day to rejoice which restored his faith and confidence in the team which was shattered after two successive defeats in Mumbai and Chennai in this Test series. *** India’s former captain, the Nawab of Patwadi was in the VIP enclosure of the pavilion in the company of another former skipper, Bishen Singh Bedi to watch the team play at the Eden- the place where under his captainship in 1974-75, Indian team scored its outstanding victory against West Indies. Patwadi was not very keen to come to the city. But it was a personal request from the captain Sourav Ganguly and the India’s another superstar, Sachin Tendulkar that forced another superstar of yesteryears to fly to Kolkata to take part in the Player’s Auction – the funds the proceeds from which would go to ‘poor and hapless’ cricketers. |
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Bangar in one-day squad Kolkata, October 31 The team for the first three of the seven-match series beginning on November 6, was announced by cricket board secretary S.K. Nair, following a meeting of the five-member selection committee which was also attended by skipper Saurav Ganguly and coach John Wright. The team for the last four one-dayers of the series would be selected in Rajkot after the third one-day match. The team: Saurav Ganguly (capt), Virendra Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mohammad Kaif, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Ashish Nehra, Ajit Agarkar, J.P. Yadav and Sanjay Bangar.
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Tailenders rescue Rlys
New Delhi, October 31 Mired in deep trouble at 209 for eight in reply to Rest of India’s first innings score of 266, Ranji champions Railways were brought on the tracks by a cheeky 59 by Harvinder Singh and cameos by Shreyas Khanolkar (36) and Zakir Hussain (35 not out) which saw the team score 316 before being bowled out 20 minutes before tea. Rest of India (1st innings): 266 Railways (1st innings): J.P. Yadav c Kale b Lahiri 104 A. Pagnis lbw b Pathan 6 A. Sharma c Jaffer
b Sarandeep 20 Y. Goud b Pathan 1 J. Martin b Yohannan 26 Raja Ali c Dahiya
Khanolkar c Yohannan
Kartik c and b Lahiri 1 Hussain not out 35 Harvinder b Sarandeep 59 K. Parida lbw b Lahiri 5 Extras: (b-7, lb-5, nb-11) 23 Total
(all out 109.2 overs) 316 FoW: 1-8, 2-33, 3-39, 4-136, 5-136, 6-204, 7-207, 8-209, 9-295. Bowling: Yohannan 19-4-33-2, Pathan 26-2-61-2, Sarandeep 35-7-79-3, T Patel 11-1-59-0, Lahiri 10.2-1-55-3, Yuvraj 7-3-16-0, Gavaskar 1-0-1-0. Rest of India (2nd innings): A. Chopra batting 41 W. Jaffer batting 38 Extras
(b-4, w-1) 5 Total (for no loss, 29 overs) 84 Bowling: Harvinder Singh 7-0-28-0, Zakir Hussain 4-2-7-0, J.P. Yadav 5-1-12-0, M Kartik 8-3-12-0, K Parida 5-0-21-0.
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Irina tightens grip on title Chandigarh, October 31 Starting out with a brilliant birdie Irina was going great guns, birdying the sixth as well to turn at two under par. An unfortunately long drive near the trees caused her to drop a shot on the 10th, which she made up with a birdie on the 14th. Playing aggressive golf on the relatively easier 16th and 17th holes in an effort to make birdies and break her 2 under mark, she dropped shots instead, and finished with a commendable level par round. Anjali Chopra, India’s No. 2, is hanging on to her spot. Playing steady golf again today, she was level par
outbound. Coming home a terrific birdie on the 11th brought her to one under. With a real chance to make up some lost ground against the leader, Anjali also fell prey to the easy 13th and 17th holes making bogeys where birdies were the need of the hour. But for her lackadaisical opening round Anjali would have been in real contention with Irina going into the final round tomorrow. Shalini Malik also playing in the leader group is five shots behind Anjali despite her excellent one over 73, (7 below her handicap) today. The youngest participant in the tournament 11-year-old Vaishavi Sinha did herself proud today with an exceptional gross 79 card containing 9 pars and a birdie. The future of Indian ladies golf is obviously bright with such promising subjuniors who are producing scores of the level of seasoned golfers. The day’s best
net score went to Binny Bath who produced a stupendous card of 6 under handicap. The scores for the various divisions are as under: Championship Bowl (Gross): Irina Brar (212), Anjali Chopra (223), Shalini Malik (228). Silver Salver (Nett): Shalini Malik (204), Irina Brar (209), Vaishavi Sinha (210). Challenge Bowl: Gross — Rana Alam (261), Kanika Minocha (274), Srishti Dhawan (279); Nett — Binny Bath (214), Navina Punj (219), Rana Alam (219). Bronze Plate: Gross — Neelu Chopra (310), Shruti Naik (320), Dr Rashmi (323); Nett — Shruti Naik (215), Neelu Chopra 235), Kiran BM Singh (237). Junior Shield: Gross — Mayali Talwar (238), Vaishavi Sinha (245), Neha Majithia (254); Nett — Vaishavi Sinha (210), Shruti Naik (215), Neha Majithia (221). Subjunior Shield: Gross — Vaishavi Sinha (246), Meghna Bal (268), Shruti Naik (320); Nett — Vaishavi Sinha (210), Shruti Naik (215), Neha Majithia (221). Subjunior Shield: Gross — Vaishavi Sinha (246), Meghna Bal (268), Shruti Naik (320); Nett — Vaishavi Sinha (210), Shruti Naik (215), Meghna Bal (232). Senior Challenge: Gross — Binny Bath (280), S. Ratia (286), Dalbir Sahi (286); Nett — Binny Bath (214), Dalbir Sahi (223), Vijay Wadhawan (232). |
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Mankad brushes aside Bopanna in semis Chandigarh, October 31 The doubles will be an all-Indian affair as Chandigarh lad Sunil Kumar and Ajay Ramaswami crushed Russians Pavel Ivanov and Evgueni Smirnov 6-2, 6-2. They will take on the top-seeded pair of Rohan Bopanna and Vijay Kannan, who easily got past qualifiers Somdev K. Dev Varman and Jaco T Mathew 6-1, 6-4. Mankad did not really have to stretch too much as Bopanna struggled through the match with an injury. Mankad broke him in the opening game itself and did not look back after that. Bopanna saved two break points in the opening game but could not save the game going Mankad’s way. Leading 3-1, Mankad again attacked Bopanna’s serve and took the fifth game to go 4-1 up. But Bopanna was in no mood to gift easy points. Down 2-5, he brought the game to deuce, then won two consecutive points breaking Mankad’s serve. Stung by the break, Mankad hit back, winning the game at love to take the first set 6-3. Taking advantage of Bopanna’s weakened serve, Mankad broke him in the fourth game to go 3-1 up in second set. At 5-3 and serving for the set, Mankad fell back and Bopanna hit a few down the line shots to salvage some prestige but Mankad quickly closed the match on Bopanna’s serve to ensure passage into his third ITF Futures final of the year. Mankad had earlier made the final in China and Canada, where he was the eventual winner. Expressing surprise at the easy victory he said: “I knew something was wrong as his serve was not the same but I was surprised at the way he threw in the towel.” On his chances in the final he says. “I have to find the rhythm on my groundstrokes and keep more balls in play. I will also have to finish off so as not to gift him easy points.” It has been a tiring year for Mankad and he says he is happy not playing doubles. This is Ivanov’s first final of the year as his powerful groundstrokes found no answer from Hasko. He broke the Slovak in the second and sixth games to take the set 6-1. Hasko again lost serve in the opening game of the second set to hand the initiative to Ivanov, who had no trouble taking the set 6-2. In the doubles Smirnov proved to be the weaker link as Sunil Kumar and Ramaswami repeatedly attacked his serve to run away with the match. Smirnov failed to hold serve even once, gifting easy points to the Indians. Serving in the last game of the match, he began with a double fault and very aptly ended with a double fault for an easy victory for the Indians. In the second doubles, qualifiers Jaco T Mathew and Somdev K Dev Varman were crushed in the first set 1-6 but put up a better fight in the second to go 2-0 up. The top seeds looked in no mood to relent and broke back to level at 2-2. They broke the qualifiers in the ninth game to go 5-4 up and then Bopanna held serve to take the set and the match. Bopanna decided to play the doubles but has pulled out of the next two tournaments to rest his injury. Friday’s matches: Singles: Harsh Mankad ( Ind) vs Pavel Ivanov (Rus) , doubles: Sunil Kumar Sipaeya/ Ajay Ramaswami vs Rohan Bopanna/Vijay Kannan. |
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Judicial
panel to probe doping scandal New Delhi, October 31 He said the enquiry commission, under an High Court judge, will investigate the specific cases of doping involving Indian sportspersons. Mr Malhotra said the dope scandal had brought disrepute to the country “and if need be, we may even go for a CBI inquiry”. Athlete Sunita Rani, who won the gold in the 1500m and bronze in the 5000m, was tested positive for anabolic steroid nandrolone. She was subsequently stripped of her medals by the Olympic Council of Asia, and the Amateur Athletic Federation of India (AAFI) has appointed a one-man Sushil Salwan commission to probe into the matter. Weightlifters Krishnan Madaswamy and Sateesha Rai had also tested positive for banned drugs at the Commonwealth Games, and were stripped of their medals. Mr Malhotra, asserted that “we will not allow the issue to be swept under the carpet. Hence, we are ordering the constitution of an impartial and high-powered probe, to bring out the truth.” The AICS chief said if the judicial commission felt that a CBI enquiry was necessary, that too would be ordered. Mr Malhotra also indicated that the government was thinking of
constituting an anti-doping body, which will be an independent, autonomous organisation “outside the jurisdiction and purview of the Sports Authority of India”. |
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Ranjit, Amardeep best athletes Amritsar, October 31 In weightlifting (girls) in 48 kg section Sarabjit Kaur was first, in 53 kg Gurinder Kaur, in 58 kg Shelly, in 63 kg Rajwant Kaur, in 69 kg Manjot Kaur and in 75 kg Prabhjot Kaur secured the first positions. In weightlifting (boys) in 56 kg Manjinder Singh was the winner, in 62 kg Rajwinder Singh, in 69 kg Vijay Kumar, in 77 kg Gurpreet Singh, in 85 kg Kanwal Inder, in 94 kg Gurjit Singh and in 105 kg Manpreet Singh were declared the winners. In athletics Amardeep Singh won in 1500m, Amarjit Singh in 100m, Amarjit Singh in 400m, Kanwaljit Singh in 3000m, and Amarjit Singh in 200m secured first positions. In shotput Prabhjot Singh, Balwant Singh in discus, Ranjit Singh in long jump, Ramanjit Singh in javelin and Kulwinder Singh in high jump were the winners. In the girls section Navneet Kaur won in 800m while Ranjit Kaur in 100m, 400m and 200m, Navneet Kaur in 3000m were declared the winners. Teena (shot put and javelin), Gagandeep (long jump) and Aneeta (high jump) were also declared the winners. |
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Nidhi wins archery title Fazilka, October 31 The results: In the under-19 modern archery boys section Aarju, Surinder Singh and Punit Bansal (all of Patiala) were first, second and third, respectively. In the under-14 boys events Kamaldeep Singh and Sanjay (both of Abohar) were first and second while in the girls under-14 section Jyoti Malhotra of Patiala and Samrita of Abohar were first and second, respectively. In the traditional archery under-19 girls section Phulbagh Kaur (Fazilka) was first followed by Sukhjit (Abohar) and Navjot Kaur (Fazilka). In the boys under-19 section Arun Kumar, Asheem Kohli, Amandeep Singh (all of Patiala) were first, second and third, respectively. In the under-17 girls section Amarjeet Kaur, Varinder Kaur (both Fazilka) and Mandeep Kaur took the first three positions. In the boys under-17 Sandeep Kamboj, Gurpreet Singh (both of Abohar) and Inderpreet (Patiala) were first, second and third, respectively. In the girls under-14 Kavleen Kaur, Karnika Yadav and Mamta Nagi (all of Patiala) bagged the first three positions. In the boys under-14 Navdeep Singh Brar, Sanit Watts, Anurag Kamal (all of Abohar) were first, second and third, respectively. The winners were awarded prizes by Sunil Jakhar and Parkash Singh Bhatti, MLAs of Abohar and Balluana, respectively. Mr Din Dyal Chauhan of Abohar, who takes an active interest in boosting archery was honoured on the occasion.
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Overall
trophy for Sirsa school Chandigarh, October 31 Results: all finals: Girls — under16: below 57 kg: Pratibha Jakhar (DRKAVM Charkhi Dadri, Haryana) 1, Mamta Verma (Agarsain Girls, Sirsa) 2, Yakshi Bhatia (HPS, Panchkula) 3. Monika (Sharda Sarvhitkari-Chd) 3. Below 40 kg: Pooja Jalan (IS Dev Samaj,
Chd) 1, Krishan (MAG Senior Sec School,Sirsa) 2, Sonia (Shah Satnam Girls school, Sirsa) 3. Swati Singh
(DRKAVM, Charkhi Dadri, Haryana) 3. Under14: below 44 kg: Poonamdeep Kaur (Police Public, Amritsar) 1, Varada
(Vidyalya Kochi) 2. Amrinder Kaur (Sacred Heart school, Chd) 3. Priyanka (Amar Jyoti Public
School,Chd) 3. Under19: Gurjeet Kaur (Shah Satnam, Sirsa) 1, Kiwi (IS Dev Samaj,
Chd) 2, Sakshi (Sacred Heart School,Chd) 3. Ishani Sood (DAV Public School,
Surajpur) 3. Boys — Under16: above 73 kg: Saurabh Sehdev (DAV Pushpanjali, Delhi) 1, Bhagender (DRKAVNM,CharkhiDadri) 2, Gulsher (Vivek High School, Chd) 3. Ghanshyam (Sanjay Public School-44) 3. under 14: below 45 kg: Rupinder Rishi (Shah Satnam Ji boys School, Sirsa) 1, Vishaldeep (Police Lines, DAV, Jalandhar) 2, Sudhir Boora (Charkhidadri, Har) 3. Monis Ahmedi (Bal Bhavan Public School, Delhi) 3. Under 19: below 60 kg: Naresh Kumar
(Chiranjiv Bharti School, Gurgaon) 1, Badal Ratra (DAV School, Delhi) 2, Aman Bhalla (Little Angles school,
Gwalior) 3. Ravish Ohri (DAV Public School, Amritsar) 3. above 73 kg: Vishal Dahiya
(Chiranjiv Bharti, Gurgaon) 1, Harpreet Singh (Spring Dale Public School, Amritsar) 2. Mohan Prakash (New Yashoda School, Hisar) 3. Kunal Gulati (AG DAV School, Delhi) 3. |
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‘IHF
to hire foreign coach’ Mumbai, October 31 IHF president KPS Gill told reporters here last night that the federation had shortlisted a couple of European coaches to do the job but declined to name them. “We have shortlisted two European coaches but I cannot reveal their names as nothing has been finalised.” He, however, made it clear that the move was not intended at removing the Indian coach from the post and the foreign coach would be appointed for a temporary period. “The foreign coach would supplement his Indian counterpart and not replace him.”
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Amritsar
beat Jalandhar Amritsar, October 31 After winning the toss, Jalandhar decided to bat and were all out for 242 in 86.3 overs. Sarbjit Singh top scored with 60 runs. Sunit Sharma was the most successful bowler as he claimed six wickets and Sunny Khosla claimed four scalps. |
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