Monday, November 11, 2002, Chandigarh, India






National Capital Region--Delhi

THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS
50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS
S P O R T S

England crash to big defeat
Brisbane, November 10
Australia crushed England by 384 runs to win the opening Ashes Test inside four days today after a humiliating batting collapse by the tourists. Set 464 to win after Australia declared their second innings at 296 for five, England crumbled to 79 all out in a little over of two hours.
Australia's Damien Martyn jumps to get out of the way of England's Ashley Giles (R) as he lunges for a ball during the fourth day's play in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in Brisbane, on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Innings victory for S Africa
Johannesburg, November 10
South Africa steamrollered to their third successive innings win this season as their fast bowlers overwhelmed Sri Lanka on the third day of the first Test at the Wanderers Stadium today, winning by an innings and 64 runs.




Sri Lanka's Chaminda Vaas hooks a boundary on the third day of their Test against South Africa, played at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Bowlers bring Punjab back in contention
Chandigarh, November 10
The day belonged to Punjab bowlers. After the hosts were forced into a situation due to some lacklustre batting performance from where they looked like losing the initiative on the day one against Baroda yesterday their bowlers stuck to their task in an admirable manner during an engrossing day’s play today.

6-wkt haul by Sodhi
Rohtak, November 10
Lack of penetration in Haryana attack and an unbeaten knock of 84 by opener Mudassar Pasha allowed Madhya Pradesh to raise 206 for six in reply to hosts’ first innings score of 333 on second day of the Plate Division (Group B) Ranji Trophy cricket match at Maharaja Aggarsain Stadium here today.


South African bowler Makhaya Ntini celebrates taking the wicket of Sri Lankan batsman Russel Arnold for a duck, on the third day of the first Test
South African bowler Makhaya Ntini celebrates taking the wicket of Sri Lankan batsman Russel Arnold for a duck on the third day of the first Test played at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, on Sunday. — Reuters

EARLIER STORIES
 

The USA's Tiffeny Milbrett (C) celebrates with teammates, including Joy Fawcett (L) and Aly Wagner (R), after scoring in the first half against Canada during the Women's Gold Cup Soccer championship game on Saturday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. 


World number two Andre Agassi (R) from the USA autographs the shirt of Chinese junior tennis player Yu Nai Zheng after an exhibition match in Shanghai, on Sunday. Agassi will meet world number one Lleyton Hewitt for the end-of-year number one spot in the exclusive eight-man Tennis Masters Cup in China's financial capital Shanghai. — Reuters photos

Delhi in command
New Delhi, November 10
Opener Gautam Gambhir and Mithun Manhas put on 170 runs for the unfinished third wicket to guide Delhi to a commanding position on the second day of the group A Ranji Trophy match against defending champions Railways here today.

Unbeaten ton by Amit
Visakhapatnam, November 10
A scintillating knock by Nischal Gaur (155) and Amit Sharma (107 batting) enabled Himachal Pradesh to pile up 320 for eight against Andhra on the second day of the four-day Ranji Trophy match at Ukku Stadium, here today.

  • J&K pile up big total

NZ pay row turns ugly

Punjab Police win boxing, judo titles
Bhiwani, November, 10
Punjab Police clinched the title in Boxing with six gold medals and total 24 points in the 51st All India Police Games which concluded here at Bhim Stadium. BSF finished second with three gold medals and total 13 points while Assam Rifles finished at third  place with two gold medals and 13 points. 

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Churchill Bros meet Salgaocar in opener
New Delhi, November 10
Churchill Brothers will take on Salgaocar in an all-Goa clash in the opening match of the 7th National Football League at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, (Goa) on November 15. The Vice-president of India Mr Bhairon Singh Shekawat will inaugurate the match.

AIFF suspends Malhotra
New Delhi, November 10
The All-India Football Federation (AIFF) Disciplinary Committee, taking a serious note of Asian Games probable Arun Malhotra of East Bengal club testing positive for a banned substance before the team left for Busan, has slapped a 60-day ban on the player, which will, however, rule him out of contention for the National Football League, commencing on November 15, only for eight days.

Air-India, BP triumph
Jalandhar, November 10
Indian Oil lost 2-3 to Bharat Petroleum while Border Security Force lost 2-3 to Air India on the fourth day of 19th Indian Oil Surjit Hockey Tournament underway at  the Surjit Hockey Stadium here today.

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England crash to big defeat


England's Mark Butcher dives to stop a four on the fourth day of the first Ashes Test at the Gabba in Brisbane on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Brisbane, November 10
Australia crushed England by 384 runs to win the opening Ashes Test inside four days today after a humiliating batting collapse by the tourists. Set 464 to win after Australia declared their second innings at 296 for five, England crumbled to 79 all out in a little over of two hours.

Mark Butcher scored a defiant 40, more than half his team’s score, but just two others made it to double figures as the tourists recorded their lowest ever total in a Test match at the Gabba.

Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath captured four second innings wickets to finish with eight for the game but lost out on the man-of-the-match honours to Matthew Hayden, who scored twin centuries to become just the seventh player to score hundreds in each innings of an Ashes Test.


Australia's Jason Gillespie (C) celebrates after dismissing England's Marcus Treswcothick for one run on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Damien Martyn and Adam Gilchrist also completed half-centuries in Australia’s second innings, allowing Steve Waugh to declare after lunch with a massive lead of 463.Needing to bat through more than four sessions to force a draw, England could not have made a worse start in their battle for survival when openers Michael Vaughan and Marcus Trescothick were both dismissed in the first two overs.

Vaughan went for a duck, trapped leg before wicket by McGrath from the third ball of the innings, and Trescothick was caught for one by wicketkeeper Gilchrist off Jason Gillespie with the total on three.

England captain Hussain and Butcher survived to tea but the wickets began tumbling immediately after the re-start including three inside eight balls .

Hussain went for 11 with the total on 33, followed by John Crawley and Alec Stewart for ducks. Crawley was run out when Gilchrist threw down the stumps from the opposite end of the pitch while Stewart made a golden duck after a second-ball duck in the first innings.

Butcher’s resistance finally ended on 40 when Shane Warne found the edge and the leg spinner then mopped up the final wicket of Andy Caddick as England’s innings ended abruptly in the 29th over.

England’s number 11, Welsh paceman Simon Jones, did not bat after rupturing his knee ligaments while fielding on Thursday.

SCOREBOARD

Australia (first innings) 492

England (first innings) 325

Australia (second innings) (overnight 111-2)

Langer c Stewart b Caddick 22

Hayden c & b Giles 103

Ponting c Trescothick b Caddick 3

Martyn c Hussain b Giles 64

Gilchrist not out 60

Waugh c Trescothick b Caddick 12

Lehmann not out 20

Extras (b-3 lb-5 nb-4) 12

Total (for five wickets declared) 296

Fall of wickets: 1-30 2-39 3-192 4-213 5-242

Bowling: Caddick 23-2-95-3 (nb-3), Hoggard 13-2-42-0, White 11-0-61-0 (nb-1), Giles 24-2-90-2.

England (second innings:)

Trescothick c Gilchrist b Gillespie 1

Vaughan lbw b McGrath 0

Butcher c Ponting b Warne 40

Hussain c Ponting b McGrath 11

Crawley run out 0

Stewart c Hayden b Warne 0

White c Hayden b McGrath 13

Giles c Gilchrist b McGrath 4

Caddick c Lehmann b Warne 4

Hoggard not out 1

Extras (lb-1 nb-4) 5

Total (all out, 28.2 overs) 79

Fall of wickets: 1-1 2-3 3-33 4-34 5-35 6-66 7-74 8-74 9-79.

Bowling: McGrath 12-3-36-4 (nb-2), Gillespie 6-1-13-1, Warne 10.2-3-29-3 (nb-2). Reuters

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Innings victory for S Africa


South African bowler Steve Elworthy celebrates with teammate Gary Kirsten after taking the wicket of Sri Lanka batsman Marven Atapattu for 43 on Sunday. — Reuters photo

Johannesburg, November 10
South Africa steamrollered to their third successive innings win this season as their fast bowlers overwhelmed Sri Lanka on the third day of the first Test at the Wanderers Stadium today, winning by an innings and 64 runs.

It was their fifth win in six Test matches played between the two countries in South Africa. Makhaya Ntini and South African captain Shaun Pollock prised open the Sri Lankan batting, taking two wickets each in their opening spells as Sri Lanka, trailing by 194 in the first innings, crashed to 25 for four.

Ntini went on to finish with three for 22. Steve Elworthy took two wickets and Andrew Hall wrapped up the match by taking three for one, the last wicket falling as rain was falling at the start of a thunderstorm which would have driven the players off the field within minutes. South Africa were earlier bowled out for 386 in their first innings.

Sri Lanka made a disastrous start to their second innings when Ntini dismissed Russel Arnold for his second nought of the match in the second over. Arnold was out to the first ball he faced, caught by Jacques Kallis at second slip.

Scoreboard

Sri Lanka Ist innings: 192

South Africa Ist innings: (overnight 378-7)

Smith c Tillakaratne b H. Fernando 73

Kirsten c Muralitharan b Fernando 55

M.van Jaarsveld b H.Fernando 3

Kallis c Sangakkara b Vaas 75

Prince c Perera b Vaas 3

McKenzie lbw b Vaas 0

Boucher c Sangakkara b Muralitharan 38

Pollock c Sangakkara b Fernando 38

Hall lbw Muralitharan 31

Elworthy lbw b Muralitharan 6

Ntini not out 2

Extras (b-16 lb-10 nb-31 w-5) 62

Total (all out, 104.4 overs) 386

Fall of wickets: 1-133 2-148 3-175 4-179 5-180 6-249 7-329 8-378 9-378 10-386.

Bowling: Vaas 22-2-79-3 (nb-7 w-1), Perera 10.2-2-40-0, D.Fernando 20-2-95-1 (nb-21 w-2), Muralitharan 31.2-8-83-3, H.Fernando 21-2-63-3 (nb-3 w-2).

Sri Lanka IInd innings:

Atapattu c Smith b Elworthy 43

Arnold c Kallis b Ntini 0

Sangakkara c Boucher b Ntini 7

Jayawardene c Kirsten b Pollock 1

Jayasuriya b Pollock 0

Tillakaratne c Elworthy Hall 27

D. Fernando lbw b Elworthy 0

Vaas c Kirsten b Ntini 32

Fernando not out 4

Muralitharan b Hall 0

Perera b Hall 4

Extras (b-4 lb-7 w-1) 12

Total (all out, 41 overs) 130

Fall of wickets: 1-2 2-16 3-21 4-25 5-77 6-81 7-122 8-122 9-122 10-130.

Bowling: Pollock 8-3-17-2, Ntini 10-4-22-3, Kallis 11-3-40-0 (w-1) Elworthy 10-3-39-2, Hall 2-1-1-3. Reuters

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Bowlers bring Punjab back in contention
Gopal Sharma
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10
The day belonged to Punjab bowlers. After the hosts were forced into a situation due to some lacklustre batting performance from where they looked like losing the initiative on the day one against Baroda yesterday their bowlers stuck to their task in an admirable manner during an engrossing day’s play today. Bowling their hearts out the trio of Gagandeep Singh, Amit Uniyal, both seamers and debutant off-spinner Rajesh Sharma brought the team back into the Ranji Trophy division “A” match despite a brilliant century by Baroda’s opener Connor Williams at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium at SAS Nagar, near here, today.

After the hosts were bundled out for 220 early in the morning the visitors had a chance to force Punjab on the back foot. But the Punjab bowling trio kept their nerves and though Williams struck a superb 104 bowled their rivals out for 191 runs, giving a 29-run first innings lead for the team. Punjab, in their second essay, were 17 without loss as the day’s play ended six overs early due to fading light.

Amit Uniyal, who chipped in with crucial 37 runs yesterday, gave the hosts exactly the type of start they wanted, sending back opener Satyajit Parab and former India wicketkeeper Nayan Mongia in the same over when just 11 runs were there on the board. Both were caught behind the stumps by wicketkeeper-batsman Pankaj Dharmani who had an impressive day behind the stumps being responsible for as many four dismissals.

When Baroda had yet to get over the loss of these wickets Rajesh, who bowled an impressive spell on his debut match, trapped Rakesh Solanki lbw. Seamer Gagandeep struck twin blows soon thereafter, claiming the key wickets of Tushar Arothe and hard-hitting and former international Atul Badede as half the team was back in the pavilion with not even hundred runs on the board.

Williams, however, was a picture of concentration and application. Keeping one end in tact he scored at a fairly fast clip. He played an unblemished knock of 104 runs off 167 deliveries before he fell to left-arm seamer Uniyal having been caught by Dharmani behind the stumps. Without his contribution the visitors’ innings would have been in a complete mess. Ajit Bohite also played a valuable 40-run knock but the efforts were good enough only to take the total in sight of 200-run mark. But the visitors lost last three wickets at the same score of 191 as the team was all out 29 runs short of Punjab’s first innings score.

Scoreboard

Punjab (1st innings): 220

Baroda (1st innings): Williams c Dharmani b Uniyal 104, Parab c Dharmani b Uniyal 3, Mongia c Dharmani b Uniyal 0, Solanki lbw Rajesh 11, Arothe c Dharmani b Gagandeep 7, Badede c sub b Gagandeep 1, Bohite c & b Rajesh 40, Patel c Ricky b Gagandeep 12, Pathan b Rajesh 0, Buch c Mahajan b Gagandeep 0, Joshi not out 5.

Extras: ( b-3, lb-5, nb-4, w-1): 13.

Total: (all out in 67.3 overs): 191

Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-11, 3-58, 4-93, 5-95, 6-156, 7-189, 8-191, 9-191

Bowling: Gagandeep 18-4-35-4, Uniyal 17-2-52-3, Sodhi 8-1-24-0, Rajesh 14.3-2-35-3, Navdeep 10-2-37-0

Punjab (IInd innings): Ricky not out 9, Samrat not out 8.

Total: (without loss): 17

Bowling: Patel 3-1-11-0, Ifran 3-0-6-0

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6-wkt haul by Sodhi
Our Sports Reporter

Rohtak, November 10
Lack of penetration in Haryana attack and an unbeaten knock of 84 by opener Mudassar Pasha allowed Madhya Pradesh to raise 206 for six in reply to hosts’ first innings score of 333 on second day of the Plate Division (Group B) Ranji Trophy cricket match at Maharaja Aggarsain Stadium here today. Despite variety in bowling and presence of Amit Mishra, who had been a member of Indian squad in the recently concluded Test series against West Indies, Haryana bowlers did not succeed in getting opponents’ wickets though they were given an early breakthrough by debutant Joginder Sharma who dismissed opener Harwinder Sodhi for a duck today.

Haryana (first innings) : Jitender c Abbas b Sodhi 35, Manvinder c Abbas b Hirwani 23, Chetan run out 2, Ganda lbw Sodhi 13, Shafiq c Abbas b. Hirwani 1, Ratra c Abbas b Hirwani 33, Amit Mishra c Naman b Sodhi 84, Joginder b Sodhi 81, Gaurav b Sodhi 11, Suman not out 7, Aparajit lbw Sodhi 8. Extras: 35. Total: (all out in 110 overs) 333.

FoW: 1/62, 2/67, 3/89, 4/90, 5/100, 6/175, 7/292, 8/312, 9/324. Bowling : Harvinder Sodhi 28-6-72-6, Sanjay Pandey 24-3-100-0, Devender Bundela 4-1-6-0, Narender Hirwani 35-9-82-3, Jitender Likhar 5-1-13-0, Yogesh Golvalkar 11-1-46-0, Abbas Ali 3-1-8-0.

MP (first innings) : Mudassar Pasha batting 84, Harvinder Sodhi lbw Joginder Sharma 0, Naman Ozha b Joginder Sharma 16, Amay Khurasia b Amit Mishra 23, Devender Bundela lbw Joginder Sharma 27, Abbas Ali c Ratra b Amit Suman 30.

Extras: 26. Total for 5 wickets:206. Fall of wickets 1/0, 2/51, 3/82, 4/150, 5/206. Bowling : Amit Suman 13.2-6-20-1, Joginder Sharma 19-5-54-3, Amit Mishra 11-3-57-1, Gaurav Vashishta 13-4-33-0, M. Bisla 4-3-8-0, Aparajit Singh 5-1-15-0, Ishan Ganda 2-0-5-0.

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Delhi in command

New Delhi, November 10
Opener Gautam Gambhir and Mithun Manhas put on 170 runs for the unfinished third wicket to guide Delhi to a commanding position on the second day of the group A Ranji Trophy match against defending champions Railways here today.

Replying to Railways’ first innings score of 205, Delhi finished the day on 219 for two, taking a 14-run lead and with eight wickets still standing, they are all set to post a huge total.

Coming together at the fall of Pradeep Chawla in the 29th over, Gambhir and Manhas frustrated the Railways bowlers for the rest of the day to remain unbeaten on 82 and 86 respectively at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground.

Scoreboard

Railways (1st innings):

Khanolkar c Sharma b Sarandeep 68

Pagnis c Dahiya b Arun Singh 1

A Sharma not out 1

TP Singh b Rawat 6

Goud c and b Sanghvi 15

Martin c Bhandari b Arun Singh 56

Raja Ali c Manhas b Sharma 25

Zakir Hussain b Bhandari 9

Harvinder b Arun Singh 12

S Saxena c Chawla b Bhandari 0

K Parida c Sanghvi b Bhandari 0

Extras: (b-1, lb-5, nb-6) 12

Total: (all out) 205

FoW: 1-4, 2-20, 3-57, 4-121, 5-172, 6-183, 7-200, 8-201, 9-201.

Bowling: Bhandari 16-4-20-3, Arun Singh 15.3-4-41-3, Rawat 15-5-40-1, Sanghvi 16-2-43-1, Sarandeep Singh 15-3-38-1, Sharma 8-1-17-1.

Delhi (1st innings):

Chopra lbw b Saxena 28

Gambhir batting 82

Chawla c Martin b Harvinder 1

Manhas batting 86

Extras: (b-9, lb-6, w-5, nb-2) 22

Total: (for 2 wkts) 219

Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-49.

Bowling: Harvinder Singh 20-7-52-1, Hussain 13-8-18-0, Saxena 10.3-2-40-1, Parida 25-10-52-0, T P Singh 10-3-33-0, Y Goud 4-0-9-0. PTI

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Unbeaten ton by Amit

Visakhapatnam, November 10
A scintillating knock by Nischal Gaur (155) and Amit Sharma (107 batting) enabled Himachal Pradesh to pile up 320 for eight against Andhra on the second day of the four-day Ranji Trophy match at Ukku Stadium, here today.

Resuming the overnight score of 177 for four, the visitors reached 320 in 155.1 overs when the second day’s play was stopped after tea break due to bad light.

Andhra had struggled to break the partnership of Gaur and Sharma till lunch and both added 191 runs for the fifth wicket. However, an hour after lunch, Gaur gave a catch to Andhra’s captain M S K Prasad off B Venugopala Rao when his individual score was 155 (24 fours).

J&K pile up big total

Jamshedpur: Brilliant centuries by debutant Shami Salaria and experienced Ashwini Gupta helped Jammu and Kashmir pile up a mammoth 512 for eight in their first innings against hosts Bihar on the second day of the four-day Ranji trophy match today.

Salaria cracked 115 while Gupta remained unbeaten on 188 after Jammu and Kashmir resumed at their overnight score of 194 for two. Overnight batsmen Gupta and Kanwaljit Singh batted with ease before left-arm spinner Sahid Khan dismissed Singh when the batsman mistimed a shot to be caught by M Sengupta. Singh scored 55 and J&K went to lunch at 307 for three. PTI, UNI

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NZ pay row turns ugly

Auckland, November 10
Top New Zealand cricketers are bullying young players into strike action as the bitter pay dispute showed no sign of ending, it was reported here yesterday.

Canterbury wicket-keeper Russell Hock — the only first class player so far to break ranks with the players’ union over the pay issue — told the New Zealand Herald he was sickened by the cash wrangle. AFP

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Punjab Police win boxing, judo titles
Our Correspondent

Bhiwani, November, 10
Punjab Police clinched the title in Boxing with six gold medals and total 24 points in the 51st All India Police Games which concluded here at Bhim Stadium. BSF finished second with three gold medals and total 13 points while Assam Rifles finished at third  place with two gold medals and 13 points. Punjab Police also won the top position in judo with maximum 29 points with three gold medals, BSF got second place with 25 points and two gold medals while CISF remained third with nine points and one gold medal.

Punjab Police also emerged champions in men’s section weight lifting competition bagging maximum 208 points with five gold medals. CRPF got second place with 194 points and two gold medals while BSF remained at second spot with 186 points and one gold medal. In women section weight lifting title was won by CRPF with maximum 191 points, CISF finished second with 147 points and M.P. Police got third place with 65 points.

CISF won the Greeco Roman wrestling title with 23 points while Punjab got second place with 17 points and Haryana remained third with 16 points. Palwinder Cheema of Punjab Police won the free style +96 kg category bout defeating Sohan Singh of Haryana Police. The defending champions of gymnastic BSF retained title.

Mr K.P. Singh Director, Intelligence Bureau and Chairman All India Police Sports Control  Board, handed over the flag of All India Police Sports control Board to Mr. M.S. Malik, Director General of Haryana Police for keeping it in safe custody till the commencement of next edition of the games. Khel Rattan Abhey Singh Chautala, and  President, HOA, presided over the function.

Mr Malik said that Haryana Police had bettered its achievements in sports by winning 14 medals in 51st All India Police Games. It had won only five medals during 2001 and nine medals during 1997. A culture programme presented by the artists of fame enthralled the public.

The results: Judo- 56 Kg.- 1 Kuldeep Saini (BSF), 2 Navjot Chana (PP), 3 Akhil Ahmed (CISF) and Vishal Kalia (PP). Open Wt.-1 Satish Yadav (CISF), 2 Ashwani Kumar (PP), 3 Bahadur Singh (PP) and Raj Kumar (RAJ.)

Boxing: Light fly: Arun Singh (PP) b Ravi Kumar (BSF). Fly Wt.- Bhim Singh (PP) b Vikas Yadav (MAH). Bantam Wt. - Amandeep Singh (PP) b Rajnish (HAR). Feather Wt.- Mohar Singh (Assam Rifles) b Parmod Singh (PP). Light Wt.- Parveen Kumar (CISF) b Ram Jagtap (MAH). Light Welter- Shashi Kant (BSF) b Sanjeet Singh (Assam Rifles). Welter- K. Nitya Nand ((AR) b Rajesh Kumar (CISF). Light Middle Wt.- Yogesh Kumar (PP) b Surender Singh (AR). Middle Wt. - Joginder Singh (BSF) b S.K. Thappa (AR). Light heavy Wt.- Raj Kumar (BSF) b Joginder Singh (PP). Heavy Wt.- Balkar Singh (PP) b Sanjay Kumar (HAR). Super Heavy Wt. Harpal Singh (PP) b Vikram Gautam (CISF).

Weight lifting- Men-90 Kg. -1 Sukhjinder Singh (CRPF), 2 Santosh Kumar (CRPF), 3 Gupreet Singh (BSF). 150 Kg.-1 Gurmeet Singh (CRPF), 2 Gurminder Singh (CRPF), 3 Manjeet Singh (PP). +105 Kg.- 1 Balbir Singh (PP), 2 Surinder Singh (CRPF), 3 Kamaljeet Singh (BSF) Women-75 Kg.- 1 Sunita Devi (CRPF), 2 Sonia Prabha (CRPF), 3 K. Narsama (CISF). +75 Kg. 1 Geeta Rani (CRPF), 2 Romi Devi (CRPF), 3 Monika Banerjee (CISF).

Wrestling-Greeco Roman- 55 Kg.- 1 Mukesh Khatri (CISF), 2 Jatinder Singh (HAR), 3 Aditya Rai (MP). 60 Kg.- 1 Anand (CISF), 2 Bhupinder Thakur (PP), 3 Rakesh Kumar (BSF). 66 Kg.- 1 Dilbag Singh (HAR), 2 Joginder Singh (BSF), 3 Jatinder Singh (CISF). 74 Kg- 1 Karamvir (PP), 2 Bajinder Singh (HAR), 3 Rambir (PP). 84 Kg.- 1 Jagbir Singh (HAR), 2 Surinder Singh (CISF), 3 Mukesh Kumar CISF). 96 Kg.- Satish Kumar (CISF), 2 Harender (PP), 3 Naresh (CRPF). +96 Kg.- 1 Kirpal Singh (PP), 2 Anil Kumar (CISF), 3 Ved Pal (CRPF). Wrestling Free Style-55 Kg-1 Sandeep (CRPF) 2 Rakesh (BSF), 3 Rakesh (PP). 60 Kg- Krishan Kumar (BSF), 2 Raj Kumar(UP), 3 Vijay Tond (MP)   .66 Kg-1 Jai Bhagwan (CRPF), 2 Ombir singh (PP), 3 Jagbir Singh (CISF). 74-Kg. 1 Ashok Kumar (BSF), 2 Karambir (BSF), 3 Bijender (Hr. Police).-84 Kg. 1 Anuj Chaudhary (U.P.), 2 Narinder (CRPF), 3 Amandeep Sondhi (PP). 96 Kg-1 Sarver (PP), 2 Sanjay (BSF), 3 Rakesh Patil (CRPF). +96 Kg-1 Palwinder Cheema (PP), 2 Sohan Singh (Hr. Police), 3 Parveen (CRPF).

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NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Churchill Bros meet Salgaocar in opener
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, November 10
Churchill Brothers will take on Salgaocar in an all-Goa clash in the opening match of the 7th National Football League at the Nehru Stadium, Fatorda, (Goa) on November 15. The Vice-president of India Mr Bhairon Singh Shekawat will inaugurate the match.

All-India Football Federation (AIFF) secretary Alberto Colaco released the draw here, which is only for the first to eighth round. He said the draw for the other rounds would be released after the third round matches of the Asian Champions League featuring Mohun Bagan and Churchill Brothers.

JCT of Punjab play their first match against Salgaocar in Goa on December 23. They play their home matches at Ludhiana against Indian Bank and MTA on December 11 and December 21 respectively at 2 p m.

The following is the schedule of matches to be held from November 15 to December 27:

Churchill Brothers vs Salgaocar in Goa (Nov. 15), Vasco vs Dempo in Goa (Nov. 16), Mahindra United vs HAL in Mumbai (Nov. 17), East Bengal vs MTA in Kolkata (Nov 17), Vasco vs Mohun Bagan in Goa (Nov. 19), ITI vs Indian Bank at Bangalore (Nov. 19), Dempo vs Salgaocar in Goa (Nov. 20), MTA vs Mohun Bagan in Kolkata (Nov. 21), Churchill Brothers vs Mohun Bagan in Goa (Nov. 22), HAL vs ITI in Bangalore (Nov. 23), Salgaocar vs JCT in Goa (Nov. 23), East Bengal vs Mohun Bagan in Kolkata (Nov. 24), Indian Bank vs Dempo in Chennai (Nov. 25), HAL vs Vasco in Bangalore (Nov. 26), East Bengal vs JCT in Kolkata (Nov. 27), ITI vs Dempo in Bangalore (Nov. 28), Indian Bank vs Churchill Brothers in Chennai (Nov. 30), Mohun Bagan vs JCT in Kolkata (Nov. 30), Salgaocar vs ITI in Goa (Dec. 2), Mahindra United vs Mohun Bagan in Mumbai (Dec. 3), HAL vs JCT in Bangalore (Dec. 4), Vasco vs Indian Bank in Goa (Dec. 4), Salgaocar s Vasco in Goa (Dec. 17), ITI vs JCT in Bangalore (Dec. 7), Mohun Bagan vs East Bengal in Kolkata (Dec. 8), Dempo vs Mahindra United in Goa (Dec. 8), MTA vs Churchill Brothers in Kolkata (Dec. 9), Vasco vs Mahindra United in Goa (Dec. 11), East Bengal vs Churchill Brothers in Kolkata (Dec. 12), East Bengal vs Salgaocar in Kolkata (Dec. 15), HAL vs Mohun Bagan in Bangalore (Dec. 16), Churchill Brothers vs ITI in Goa (Dec. 17), Vasco vs East Bengal in Goa (Dec. 19), Indian Bank vs Salgaocar in Chennai (Dec. 19), Mahindra United vs Churchill Brothers in Mumbai (Dec. 20), ITI vs Mohun Bagan in Bangalore (Dec. 20), Dempo vs HAL in Goa (Dec. 20), JCT vs MTA in Ludhiana (Dec. 21), Indian Bank vs East Bengal in Chennai (Dec. 23), ITI vs Vasco in Bangalore (Dec. 23), Mahindra United vs Salgaocar in Mumbai (Dec. 23), Churchill Brothers vs HAL in Goa (Dec. 24), Mohun Bagan vs MTA in Kolkata (Dec. 26), Dempo vs JCT in Goa (Dec. 27), HAL vs MTA in Bangalore (date to be decided) and Indian Bank vs MTA in Chennai (date to be decided).

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AIFF suspends Malhotra
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, November 10
The All-India Football Federation (AIFF) Disciplinary Committee, taking a serious note of Asian Games probable Arun Malhotra of East Bengal club testing positive for a banned substance before the team left for Busan, has slapped a 60-day ban on the player, which will, however, rule him out of contention for the National Football League, commencing on November 15, only for eight days.

Effectively, he will miss only one National Football League match for East Bengal, as the disciplinary committee, for some strange reasons, has decided to enforce the ban with restrospective effect.

Arun Malhotra had been tested positive for a banned substance at the Sports Authority of India lab in Delhi, and subsequently he was pulled out of the Indian soccer team for the Asian Games. AIFF secretary Alberto Colaco said the ban on Malhotra would be effective from September 24 to 23.

The disciplinary committee also took a serious note of the abandoned Santosh Trophy semifinal match between Goa and Manipur on November 2 due to crowd unrest, and has fined the All-Manipur Football Association Rs 1 lakh. It has also been decided not to allot any national championship match to Manipur.

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Air-India, BP triumph
Our Correspondent

Jalandhar, November 10
Indian Oil lost 2-3 to Bharat Petroleum while Border Security Force lost 2-3 to Air India on the fourth day of 19th Indian Oil Surjit Hockey Tournament underway at  the Surjit Hockey Stadium here today.

The first goal came in the seventh minute when captain Deepak Thakur of IOC scored a beautiful field goal. The equaliser came in the 27th minute when Bipin Fernandes converted a penalty corner to make it 1-1.

In the second half, Kamlesh Kumar of BP scored a field goal in the 41st minute followed by Viren Resqiunha who converted a penalty corner in 42nd minute to make it 3-1. In an effort to increase the score, Rajpal Singhof IOC converted a penalty stroke in the 44th minute to make it 2-3. IOC earned six penalty corners.

In another stiff competition between the Air-India and BSF, the first goal was scored by BSF’s S. Harang in the 15th minute. AI opened their account in the 25th minute when Sandeep Michel came out to prove his mettle and scored a field goal.

During the second half,  S Harang of BSF was visibly aggressive and he utilised a diagonal hit to score a field goal in the 46th minute. Vikram Pillay of the AI added another goal in the 56th minute. Taking the team towards victory Sandeep Micheal again slammed another field goal in the 65th minute to make it 3-2. During the match Dewinder Singh of BSF got a yellow and two green. 

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 SPORTS BRIEFS

RONALDO’S WIFE SCORES
MONZA:
Milene Domingues, wife of Brazilian superstar Ronaldo and a soccer player herself, scored one goal on her season debut with FiammaMonza in the Italian first-division women’s soccer league on Saturday. Domingues, who is commuting weekly between Madrid and Monza, near Milan, to play with FiammaMonza, was fielded as second-half replacement and scored her team’s third goal converting a penalty kick in injury time. FiammaMonza eventually defeated Bergamo 3-0 in the opening round of the new campaign. AP

INDIA’s CHANCES
LONDON:
Notwithstanding the two losses suffered by India in the first two one-dayers of the seven-match series against the West Indies, former Indian wicketkeeper-batsman Farokh Engineer rated the team’s chances of winning the next year’s World Cup as “very high.” “I am not a gambler. But I am prepared to bet on the Indian team. If they can get to combine together, they can win the World Cup,” the 64-year old Engineer, who played in 56 Tests for India scoring over 3,000 runs and claiming over 100 dismissals in Test cricket, told PTI here last night. PTI

HUSSAIN’S ADMISSION
LONDON:
Nasser Hussain said the first day of the Ashes series was his worst as England captain and admits he was wrong to send Australia into bat on Thursday after winning the toss. Australia destroyed England’s bowling attack in a ferocious display to close at 364 for two after 90 overs on Thursday. “It’s obvious, blatantly obvious, that the decision I made to send Australia in to bat in the first Test was wrong,’’ Hussain wrote in his Sunday Telegraph column. Reuters

JEEV IN RACE
NEW DELHI:
Ace golfer Jeev Milkha Singh made it to the final stage of the US PGA Tour Qualifying School. According to information received here on Sunday from the Black Horse Course in Seaside, California, the Chandigarh-based pro shot a one-under 71 on the rain-delayed final round on Saturday to aggregate seven-under 281. UNI

VIJAY SINGH WINS
NEW DELHI:
Taking to the greens wearing the confidence of a champion golfer, world number seven Vijay Singh showcased his skills winning the BILT Skins Golf Tournament at the DLF Golf Course here today. After claiming a $ 21,500 Skins purse, Vijay Singh told newspersons: “The Skin game is great to watch because it is a lot like a one-day cricket. That is why on the last hole a lot of the players were going for it and hit the water. It is a true test of golf and the nerves.” “It’s a matter of time before Jyoti and Harmeet make their mark as both are good players. UNI
World number seven golfer Vijay Singh and former Indian cricket captain-turned-golfer Kapil Dev being presented with the mementos before the start of the Bilt Skins Golf Tournament at the DLF Course
World number seven golfer Vijay Singh (left) and former Indian cricket captain-turned-golfer Kapil Dev being presented with the mementos before the start of the BILT Skins Golf Tournament at the DLF Course in Gurgaon on Sunday. — PTI 

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