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Friday,
November 8, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Hayden,
Ponting flay England ICC to
probe crowd trouble Mixed day
for Indians in chess Jaco T
Mathew continues dream run Bisla to
lead NZ |
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Haryana
Ranji squad Big wins
for Chandigarh, Jalandhar lads Asian
Games medal winners honoured Chandigarh
golf results Signals,
PSB Academy win Punjab
shooting Amritsar
register victory
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Hayden, Ponting flay England
Brisbane, November 7 Hayden made 186 not out and Ponting was dismissed for 123 as the Australians amassed a daunting 364 for two that exposed the enormous gulf between the teams. England ruined any chance they had of restricting the Australians with an inept fielding display that featured three dropped catches, a missed run-out, overthrows and dozens of misfields. But their biggest blow came just after lunch when their promising young fast bowler Simon Jones slipped and badly injured his knee in an attempt to save a four. He was later ruled out of the entire tour. The 23-year-old was stretchered off in agony and taken to hospital where scans later revealed the worst. “He has been diagnosed with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament,” an England team spokesman said. “It will require a complete reconstruction and will rule him out of cricket for at least six months.” England, given little hope of winning the series before a ball had been bowled, were soon living up to those low expectations. Michael Vaughan missed a golden opportunity to run out Hayden when he was on 15, then dropped him on 136 with a straightforward catch. Matthew Hoggard also dropped Hayden when he was on 102 and 12th man Robert Key spilt a difficult chance when the big left-handed opener was on 149. The unlucky Jones did hold a catch from Hayden when he was on 40 but the batsman was reprieved after the Welshman fell over the boundary rope in the process. Jones threw the ball back in the field before tumbling over the line and appealed for the catch but the television umpire, Simon Taufel, ruled that he did not have complete control. Hayden (31) made the most of his let-offs to post his 10th test century and his first against England. Scoring freely to every part of the ground, he reached his hundred before tea when he drove a full toss from left-arm spinner Ashley Giles for four. Despite showing signs of tiredness, he managed to survive to bat through the day, facing 255 balls and hitting 23 fours and two sixes. He and Ponting came together after Hayden’s opening partner Justin Langer departed for 32 with the total on 67, caught by wicketkeeper Alec Stewart off Jones, who was England’s most threatening bowler.
They had given Australia a flying start after Nasser Hussain had won the toss and strangely sent the home side in on a perfect batting wicket. Scoreboard Australia (Ist innings) Langer c Stewart b Jones 32 Hayden not out 186 Ponting b Giles 123 Martyn not out 9 Extras: (b-1 lb-8 nb-4 w-1) 14 Total: (for two wickets) 364 Fall of wickets: 1-67 2-339 Bowling: Caddick 19-3-71-0 (nb-1), Hoggard 22-5-86-0 (w-1), Jones 7-0-32-1, White 16-3-67-0 (nb-3), Giles 24-3-87-1, Butcher 2-0-12-0.
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Jones
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BRISBANE: England fast bowler Simon Jones faces six months out of cricket after severely injuring his right knee while fielding on the opening day of the first Ashes cricket Test against Australia here on Thursday. A team spokesman said the 23-year-old Welshman had ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and required reconstructive surgery in England.
“He will be out for a minimum six months and won’t be able to fly home for two weeks to enable the swelling to subside,” spokesman Andrew Walpole said. “He will go to the English Academy in Adelaide to help in his recovery before he leaves for home.” It is yet another hammer blow for the beleaguered tourists, who went into the opening Test minus strike bowler Darren Gough (knee) and all-rounder Andy Flintoff.
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ICC to probe crowd trouble
London, November 7 ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said in a statement here: “It is disappointing that a game has been interrupted and Mike’s report will help us understand why this has taken place.” “Player safety is critical and incidents of this type should not happen.” Speed said the ICC would not comment further on the Jamshedpur incidents until Proctor’s report had been received. Play had to be stopped for about 15 minutes when the crowd, sensing an imminent defeat for the hosts, began to throw bottles on to the field towards the end of the tie. West Indies went on to win by four wickets in the first of a seven-match series on the last ball after play resumed. However, Speed reiterated the ICC’s commitment to security in match venues. “I know that all (cricket) boards work hard to try and ensure that (trouble) does not occur and it will be important for us to understand why it has happened on this occasion,” he said. “The ICC and representatives of boards and the players are working together to ensure that every country has in place effective safety and security plans at all venues.” Jamshedpur had successfully hosted one-day internationals in 1999 and
2000. KOLKATA: The cricket board today strongly condemned the unruly crowd behaviour during the opening one-day international cricket match between India and West Indies at Jamshedpur and promised to “think hard” before alloting international matches to such venues. “Crowd disturbances on cricket ground anywhere in the world is certainly condemnable. It is against the very spirit of the game. What happened at the Keenan Stadium yesterday was no exception,” BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said. The board, he said, would have to “think hard” before alloting international matches to venues that were “disturbance-prone” “We have to understand that safety and security (of the players) are primary pre-requisites for staging international cricket matches.” The board chief said that the only silver lining was that better sense prevailed finally and the game could be resumed leading to such a fantastic finish. The spectators at the Keenan Stadium at Jamshedpur began throwing missiles including water bottles on the ground when the West Indies needed 13 runs from the last three overs to overtake India’s 283 for six, holding up the game for quite some time.
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‘Any Kiwi team
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Mixed day for Indians in chess
Bled, Slovenia, November 7 As a result of Vijalakshmi’s victory over WGM Natasa Bojkovic, the Indian women obtained a creditable 1.5-1.5 draw against their higher rated rivals, Yugoslavia. The Indian men had a disappointing day after only managing a 2-2 draw against the 33rd seeded FYR (former Republic of Yugoslavia) Macedonia. Meanwhile, the top seeded and leaders Russia increased their lead over the next placed Hungarians to two points after a huge 3.5-0.5 victory over Germany. Hungary, however, stayed in line for the silver after defeating England 2.5-1.5. There was a dramatic change of scenario in the women’s section with the leaders Georgia suffering a shock 0.5-2.5 defeat against Poland. This gave China the opportunity to nudge just half a point behind after their 2.5-0.5 victory over Romania. On the top board, GM Harikrishna took the place of Sasikiran who was rested for today’s game and faced GM Kiril Georgiev with the white pieces. The game began with the bogo-Indian defence but soon transposed to the Tarrasch defence. Today too, Harikrishna went in for risky play and moved his pieces to the Kingside for attack. This enabled Black’s weak ‘d’ pawn to advance forward and turn into a deadly passer. With no attack on the way, Harikrishna also lost a pawn on the 32th move after which white swapped Queens to win comfortably in the endgame. IM Surya Sekhar Ganguly who has so far scored five points from seven games said he played for a possible GM norm after his 59 move draw with GM Vladimir Georgiev with the Black pieces. Ganguly employed the Queen’s Gambit accepted defence and obtained easy equality. On the 16th move, white traded Queens to land his rook on the seventh rank. However in view of white’ undeveloped Queenside pieces, Ganguly obtained an edge in the endgame. But after the exchange of both the pair of Rooks, it was dance of Knights leading to a just draw. GM Abhijit Kunte appeared to have some winning chances in his game against Nikola Mitkov. Playing the English opening, Kunte who obtained pawn majority on the Kingside rightly exchanged pieces to head for a Rook and Pawn ending where he obtained an extra pawn. But in spite of his tenacious spirit, he could manage a draw after a long battle lasting 87 moves. IM RB Ramesh playing on the fourth board won over Trajce Nedev when the later blundered a Knight in a Rook and Piece ending. Behind the Black pieces, Ramesh obtained comfortable play in the Moscow variation of the Sicilian defence and won a pawn. However, the Macedonian won back the pawn and started to bring together his pieces when he in explicably threw away his Knight on the 38th move. Vijayalakshmi continued her terrific run with a crucial victory over WGM Natasa in India’s draw against the seventh seed Yugoslavia today. Vijayalakshmi playing with Black pieces not only had no problems equalising but boldly went in for a winning attempt by opening a blocked position. This helped her to penetrate white’s position Rook and create a passed pawn. In an attempt to create counter white went in for a wrong Knight sacrifice and lost in 42 moves. Vijayalakshmi now has seven points after her hat-trick of wins. Aarthie who had a poor tournament so far went in for a early draw offer with the white pieces against her higher rated rival Svetlana Prudnikova. Facing the Sicilian defence, Arthie could not make much progress out of the opening and proposed a draw on her 17th turn which was gladly accepted by her opponent.
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Jaco T Mathew continues dream run New Delhi, November 7 Jaco Mathew, who entered the main draw through the qualifying route, had stunned Yew Ming Si of Malaysia in the quarter-final yesterday. The victory over Rishi Sridhar has made Jaco mature as a player and his entry into the Futures semis is his best-ever performance at the senior level. Jaco’s cool confidence helped him surmount the experience and consistency of Rishi Sridhar, who is yet to get into his normal stride, after skipping tennis for over a year due to a wrist injury. Sridhar returned to competitive tennis in the Futures at Chandigarh last week, and he had no regrets losing to the younger Jaco. Jaco Mathew was not at his flowing best today. But even when the tides seemed to turn against him, this 18-year-old product of the Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy, kept a calm countenance to play a
psychological game on Sridhar, whose game finally cracked in the face of the consistency exhibited by his much younger opponent. No quarters were asked and none given in the first set when Sridhar served well to win his games, and take the issue into tie-breaker for a final arbitration. But in the tie-breaker, Mathew came up with some stunning winners to turn the tables on Sridhar. The second set was comparatively smooth-sailing for Jaco Mathew. Mathew said Sridhar missed some crucial volleys, and that helped him a lot. He said “though I did chip and charge a few times, I also missed a few lobs. But I was tight on the backhand, and I was also confident of winning”. Mathew will run into Ajay Ramaswamy in the semifinal. The two have never met before, but going by the current form, an interesting battle can be expected as Ramaswamy is also in fine fettle. Ramaswamy outslugged qualifier Kedar Tembe 6-3,6-4 to enter the semifinal. In a baseline duel, Ramaswamy won the
argument against Tembe due to his consistency in serves- second serves in fact—and solid ground strokes. Tembe, a promising lad himself, tried to make a match of it, but Ramaswamy got the breaks when he needed them most, and coasted home without much of a bother. Vinod Sridhar, who recently pocketed his career-best title when he lifted the DSCL Open Trophy at the DLTA court, survived a second set slumb, to outgun Pavel Lobanov of Russia at 6-4,2-6,6-1 in one hour and 40 minutes. He will take on second-seeded Juraj Hasko of Slovakia in the semi-final. Hasko, the temperamental genius, was his own enemy as he squandered many an easy return, yet came up with the big winners, to come up triumphs against eighth-seeded Manoj Mahadevan 6-4, 7-6 (8-6). The tall players slugged it out from the baseline, but Hasko blasted down such powerful winners that often, it passed the tall Mahadevan without affording him an opportunity to stop them. Top-seeded Vijay Kannan and Vishal Uppal will take on Nitin Kirtane and Saurav Panja in the men’s doubles final. In the semifinal matches, Kannan and Uppal beat Yasser Arafat Mohammed and Amod Wakalkar 4-6,6-4,6-2 while Kirtane and Panja beat Anton Kokurin and Pavel Lobanov 6-1,6-4. |
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Bisla to lead NZ New Delhi, November 7 The manager will be appointed by the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association. The team was selected by the North Zone selection committee, chaired by Anurag Thakur of Himachal Pradesh, and comprising Ashwani Kumar (Haryana), Umesh Kumar (Punjab) and Sunil Dev of the Delhi and District Cricket Association (convener), at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium premises. The team: Manvinder Bisla (captain, Haryana), Kuldeep Rawat (vice-captain, Delhi), Shikhar Dhawan (Delhi), Salil Oberoi (Delhi), Vikram Dhaliwal (Haryana), Vishwas Bhalla (Punjab), Sachin Rana (Haryana), Deepak Sharma (Delhi), Pankaj Thakur (Himachal), Abhishek Sharma (Delhi), Aprajit Singh (Haryana), Rajesh Sharma (Punjab), VRB Singh (Punjab), Mohinder Sharma (Himachal) and Sandeep Singh (Haryana). Stand-byes: Amardeep Sankar and Vipul Sharma (Punjab), Pardeep Sahu (Haryana), Vivek Khurana and Kunal Lal (Delhi). |
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Haryana
Ranji
squad Rohtak, November 7 Left-arm spinner Aparajit Singh and batsman Vikram Dhariwal have got a place in the team purely on the basis of their performance in junior cricket. Another junior cricketer Manvinder Bisla has also been able to get selectors’ nod. The team: Ajay Ratra (Captain), Amit
Mishra, Jitender Singh Siwach, Ishan Ganda, Shafiq Khan, Gurpreet Singh, Vikram
Dhariwal, Aparajit Singh, Sumit Narwal, Sumit Sharma, Amit Sharma, Jitender Singh, Sameer
Prashant, Joginder Sharma, Manvinder Bisla, Chetan Sharma, Gaurav
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Big wins for Chandigarh, Jalandhar lads New Delhi, November 7 Delair Singh slammed five goals including a hat-trick as the Jalandhar school trounced Government School Jashpur Nagar, Chhatisgarh 15-0. The other goal scorers in this one sided tie were Satinderpal Singh (4), Karamjit Singh (3), Gurpreet Singh, Harsharan Singh and Pradeep Kumar (one each). Earlier Mohd Riyazuddin scored seven goals, including a hat-trick to enable the Danapur school to rout C.R.Z. School, Sonepat (Haryana) 12-0. Baba Farid Public School, Faridkot and Government High School, Chandigarh recorded contrasting victories to qualify for the super league. Faridkot school scored two goals in each half to beat Colonel Ganj Inter College
(Allahabad) 4-1. Sharnbir Singh (2), Lakhwinder Singh, Pramod Dhir (one each) scored for the winners. Mohd Khalid reduced the margin for the losers. Six goals by Baljinder Singh, which included a hat-trick, saw Chandigarh School outplay a Sri Lankan school team 10-0. For the winners, who led 4-0 at the breather, other scorers were Deepak Kumar and Ranjodh Singh (two each).
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Asian Games medal winners honoured Bhiwani, November 7 Mr M.S. Malik, Chairman of the Organising Committee while giving the detailed programmes of different games schedules for the next day said medical examination for 90 kg., 81 kg. and 73 kg weight categories would be done before the bouts start at 10 a.m. tomorrow. The results: (preliminary round): Wrestling: 55 kg: Ravinder (Punjab Police) Devinder (MP Police) 3-1 Boxing: Fly wt. 51 kg Kukia (Nagaland Police) b Sunil Chandrakar (Goa Police), D. Kalyan Sagar (AP Police) b P.K. Nair (Assam Rifle), B. Singh (BSF) b Brijinder Sharma (Uttaranchal), B. Singh (Pb. Police) b. Mahesh Bandra (MP Police), Dalbir Singh (CISF) b. P.W. Sapra (Sikkim Police). Bantam wt: Dalip Beest (CISF) b. Smauel (Nagaland Police). Bhajan Chauhan (HP Police) b. V. Patel (Maharashtra). Meanwhile, 14 Busan Asian Games medallists hailing from Haryana were today presented cash awards on behalf of the Haryana Government by the Deputy Prime Minister Mr L.K. Advani. They included seven gold medallists. Six of them were members of the Indian Kabaddi team which won gold. They are: Shamsher Singh (Sonepat), Ramesh Kumar (Hisar), Jagdish (Sonepat), Ram Mehar (Bhiwani) Sunder Singh (Rohtak) and Nir Gulia (Sonepat). Neelam J. Singh (Jind) who won the gold for discus was the only woman among them. All of them were presented with cash awards of Rs 10 lakh each. Bhpender Singh (Faridabad) and Satbir Singh (Rewari) both members of the team which won the silver for 4x400M relay race received Rs 7 lakh each. The bronze medallists — Shakti Singh (Bhiwani), Anil Kumar (Bhiwani) and Inderpal Singh (Yamunanagar) who won their medal for shot put, discus and rowing, respectively, received Rs 5 lakh each. I.S. Lamba (Mahendragarh and Maj Deep Chand Ahlawat (Jhajjar) won bronze for equestrian events were also presented cash awards of the similar amount. Speaking on the occasion Mr Advani said India’s medal hunt had ended after the Tokyo Olympiad and the country failed to do well in sports for decades. However, things were looking up now and the Busan Asiad had proved that Indian sportspersons were coming of age. He hoped that their performances would improve further and India would soon romp home with several medals in international meets. He lauded the new Haryana sports policy saying it was showing results as was evident from the rich haul of medals at Busan by sportspersons hailing from the state. |
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Chandigarh
golf results Chandigarh, November 7 The championship, being organised by the Chandigarh Golf Association, has five categories of competitors. A total of 67 entries were received and all of them finished the curse practically playing to their handicaps in the stipulated time. The youngest participant in category ‘D’ was Dhruv Neil Benerji, who is eight years old. The open category had 26 participants and the cut-off was applied at 15 with a gross score of 86. Prominent leaders in various categories include category ‘O’ Harinder Gupta gross score of 71, one under par. In category ‘A’ Sagar Bhatia had a gross score of 74. In category ‘B Ajitesh Sandhu led with a gross score of 81. In category ‘C’ Fatehbir Dhaliwal had a gross of 82. In category ‘D; Rabhav Bhandari had a gross score of 98. The following are the gross scores for first day for first three positions. Category ‘O’: Harinder
Gupta 71, Sujjan Singh 75, Alamgir Grewal, Girish Virk and Dinesh Kumar all 76. Category ‘A’: Sagar
Bhatia 74, Harinder singh 80, Ajeetesh Sandhu and Navjosh Singh 81. Category ‘B’: Ajeetesh Sandhu 81, Ms Kanika Minocha 85, Anshdeep Singh Tiwana 89. Category ‘C’: Fatehbir S. dhaliwal 82, Rahul Bakshi 93, Dilsher
Sijhija 94. Category ‘D’: Rabhav Bhandari 98, Zubin Nijhawan 108, Dhruv Neil Benerjee
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Signals, PSB Academy win Jalandhar, November 7 In a keenly contested first knockout game, Corps of Signals upstaged RCF 1-0. Though RCF got nine penalty corners they failed to convert any. In the second half, Signals entered the field with full determination as G. Dass scored a field goal in the 48th minute to sound the board 1-0. The match between PSB Academy and Namdhari Academy started on a fast note. It was in the 10th minute that Rajwinder Singh of PSB Academy scored a goal from the left flank after getting a pass from Harpreet Singh. The match between CISF and SAIL was finally settled through the tie-breaker and CISF won 5-4. CISF dominated the proceedings in the first half as G.V. Khakha opened the account in the 14th minute through a field goal. Satwinder Singh converted a penalty corner to equalise in the 51st minute. In the tie-breaker G.V. Ghakha, Sushil Kiro, Bharat Kumar and Cyril Ekka succeeded in converting the strokes for CISF while Mahavir Singh, Gurpreet Singh (Sr) and Satwinder Singh (A) scored for SAIL breaker round. In another match, EME were defeated by Punjab Police Academy through the tie-breaker 8-9. |
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Punjab
shooting Chandigarh, November 7 This competition is also the qualifying competition for the 12th All-India G.V. Mavlankar Shooting Championships in shotgun events (national rules) to be held at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Ranges, New Delhi. Shooter achieving minimum qualifying scores will represent Punjab in the championship. Prominent international shooters, including silver medallist at the 2002 Asian Games Manavjit Sandhu, silver medallist at the 1998 Asian Games Zorawar Sandhu and Ranjan Sodhi, who took part in the Busan Asian Games, 2002, will be seen in
action in the competition. The championship will be inaugurated by Mr Randhir Singh, secretary-general, Indian Olympic Association, while Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang, Sports Minister, Punjab, will preside over the concluding function and distribute the prizes on November 11. |
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Amritsar register victory Amritsar In reply to Amritsar’s 311, the opening pair of Ludhiana resumed its innings through the overnight score of 17 without loss. They were all out on 257 in 89 overs. The major scorer from the side are Dushyant Kohli (74) and Karan Goyal.
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Jatinder
of ITBP clinched judo gold medal in 100-kg category proving his
supremacy on the inaugural day of 51st All India Police Games being
held here at Bhim Stadium here today. He outplayed Sanjay of Haryana
Police. Sanjay had to contend with silver while Ravinder of BSF got
third place defeating his opponent Dinesh Kumar of the CRPF.
