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Saturday,
November 23, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Tendulkar,
Zaheer fit for NZ tour
Sanjay Bangar has been a revelation Aussies in control as England collapse
Argentina challenge Aussie domination |
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BSF, Punjab Police
enter semifinals Markfed to maintain shooting range
All-India rural meet from Sunday
Kinshuk, Taskeen
win titles Delhi rout Haryana
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Tendulkar, Zaheer fit for NZ tour Mumbai, November 22 Nair told PTI that Tendulkar, who had a hamstring injury and Zaheer Khan (shin injury), had completely recovered and were available for the New Zealand tour. “They have been declared fit by Dr Anant Joshi and will be available for New Zealand tour where the Indians will play two Test matches and seven one-dayers apart from a three-day side game,” Nair said. India, Windies arrive VIJAYAWADA: Both the Indian and the West Indies teams arrived by a Jet Airways flight here this afternoon for the series-deciding one-dayer for the TVS Cup slated for Sunday. The Caribbeans led by Carl Hooper and the home team under stand-in captain Rahul Dravid, who was largely instrumental in the levelling series with a three-wicket win at Jodhpur yesterday, were given a traditional welcome on their arrival. India trailed 0-2 losing the Jamshedpur and Nagpur one-dayers but levelled 2-2 winning the next two games at Rajkot and Ahmedabad. However, the Caribbeans went up 3-2 clinching the Vadodra match. Once again India levelled 3-3 with the win at Jodhpur. The West Indies, under the watchful eyes of legendery cricketer Vivian Richards, will have a practice session tomorrow morning. The home team under the stewardship of Dravid, under whose captaincy India had an all-win record in the one-day matches, will go to the nets later in the day for preparing for the do-or-die battle at the Indira Gandhi Municipal Stadium in the city which is hosting an official international match for the first time.
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Sanjay Bangar has been a revelation Sanjay Bangar has surprised us immensely. He certainly looks to be the allrounder India has been praying for all this while. If he played a blinder of an innings in the fourth one-day match between us and India, he worked up a fair bit of pace in Jodhpur. It was a bowlers’ day for a change in Jodhpur on Thursday. In a one-day series where top batters haven’t allowed much look-in at the lower half, not only we were dismissed completely in the 47th over but even the Indians were not left with much batting by the end. The bowlers have come to their own at last. It was not a bad one-day wicket. Certainly not the type where you could explain away a total of 201 runs. We couldn’t bat as well as we should have considering we went into the game with seven specialist batsmen. If one takes into account the potential of stumper Ridley Jacobs and Vasbert Drakes, our batting actually extended till number nine. Still we could not last our overs and missed out on critical 20-30 runs. It was also a game where our openers failed. Chris Gayle and Wavell Hinds have been such a force in this one-day series that it is easy to blame our batting debacle on their failure. But a batting line-up cannot run on a couple of batsmen alone. Gayle and Hinds have set the pace of our batting but they can’t succeed always. I was hopeful of a positive outcome till the very end. Even with 10-15 runs left to defend our meagre total, anything could have happened had we broken through. India were only left with Javagal Srinath and Murali Kartik on the bench. We were left to rue the missed chance of Sanjay Bangar when Powell put him down at midwicket. We missed a couple of chances in the field but honestly I was pleased with our bowling effort. We bowled more straight and were more consistent than in previous games. Bangar certainly is a cricketer who can adapt his game to situations. We only saw him hold his end up in Tests but he is a man transformed in one-dayers. He has thrown his name in the hat for selection in India’s World Cup team. It just makes me ponder of India’s chances in the coming World Cup. Their batting surely looks good enough but to win a competition of this magnitude, a team must wear a well-rounded look. At present Australia seems to be a side to beat. They keep coming at you from all directions and squeeze you dry whether in the field or at the crease. Rahul Dravid bore his responsibility well which included the extra burden of leading the side in a do-or-die game. His batting was absolutely crucial for India as was the flamboyance of left-hander Yuvraj Singh. The youngster edged me through the vacant slips on more than a couple of occasions but I couldn’ post an attacking field because of the modest total we were defending. Yuvraj’s was a timely knock for India and he and Dravid showed this wicket could suit a batsman if one was willing to get his eye in and adjust to its somewhat inconsistent pace and bounce. We arrived in the capital at midnight the same day the match finished in th evening in Jodhpur. The travelling in this one-day series has been tiring. On occasions, we have travelled for 11 hours between two venues. In a series as long as this which involves seven one-dayers, back-to-back matches at one venue would have been a help. Still, the only thought which occupies my mind now is to finish the series the same way we began in Jamshedpur — on a winning note.
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Aussies
in control as England collapse
Adelaide, November 22 England began the day in a strong position at 295-4 after their humiliating first-Test defeat but ended it in trouble with Australia just 95 runs behind with eight first-innings wickets in hand. When stumps were drawn, Australia were cruising at 247 for two with Ricky Ponting not out 83, Damien Martyn unbeaten on 48 and another big total on the horizon. England had collapsed to 342 all out before lunch with fast bowler Jason Gillespie and leg spinner Shane Warne capturing four wickets each. Michael Vaughan’s heroic 177 from the first day counted for little as the last seven wickets fell for just 47 runs, mirroring the team’s collapse in the Brisbane Test. Typically, the Australians were quick to make them pay for their missed opportunity. Openers Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer gave Australia a flying start with a century partnership in 18.1 overs before Ponting and Martyn took over. England again let themselves down with their poor fielding, dropping Hayden and Martyn twice each. Hayden was dropped twice in the space of five balls, first by Mark Butcher then by Andy Caddick, while England wicketkeeper Alec Stewart missed two relatively simple chances off Martyn, the first when he was on 18 off spinner Richard Dawson, the second on 37 off paceman Steve Harmison. Hayden, man of the match in the first test after making twin centuries, helped give Australia the start they needed only to throw his wicket away on 46 when he skyed a ball from allrounder Craig White and Caddick safely held the catch in the outfield. Langer followed soon after for 48 and the total on 106 when he was adjudged to be out caught by Stewart off Dawson although television replays suggested he was unlucky. Any hope England might have had of bowling the Australians out cheaply on an Adelaide Oval pitch still perfectly suited to batting, ended quickly as Ponting and Martyn continued the run-spree with an unbroken stand of 133. Ponting reached his half-century off 94 balls when he drove Dawson through the covers for four and finished the day 17 runs shy of a fifth hundred from his last seven tests. Martyn was less convincing and lucky to survive after Stewart’s missed chances but still managed to hit four boundaries and reach the close two runs from a second successive half-century. Australia had dropped five catches to allow the English to steal the honours on the opening day but they were quick to regain the initiative on Friday morning with Gillespie and Warne mopping up the middle and lower order in less than two hours. Gillespie triggered the all-too-familiar collapse when he removed Butcher in the third over of the day. The Surrey left-hander, who failed to add to his overnight 22, edged a catch to wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist and the rest just followed. Gillespie, who took 4-10 on the second day, captured his second wicket when White hooked a catch to Andy Bichel at fine leg for one as England’s batsmen began to show signs of panic. Reuters SCOREBOARD England (Ist innings) Trescothick b McGrath 35 Vaughan c Warne b Bichel 177 Key c Ponting b Warne 1 Hussain c Gilchrist b Warne 47 Butcher c Gilchrist Stewart lbw b Gillespie 29 White c Bichel b Gillespie 1 Dawson lbw b Warne 6 Caddick b Warne 0 Hoggard c Gilchrist Harmison not out 3 Extras:
(lb-7 nb-8) 15 Total: (all out, 115.5 overs) 342 FoW:
1-88 2-106 3-246 4-295 5-295 6-308 7-325 8-325 9-337 Bowling: McGrath 30-11-77-1 (nb-2), Gillespie 26.5-8-78-4, Bichel 20-2-78-1 (nb-4), Warne 34-10-93-4 (nb-2), Waugh 5-1-9-0 Australia (Ist innings): Langer c Stewart b Dawson 48 Hayden c Caddick b White 46 Ponting not out 83 Martyn not out 48 Extras: (lb-6 nb-10 w-6) 22 Total: (for two wickets) 247 FoW: 1-101 2-114 Bowling:
Caddick 10-0-61-0 (nb-4 w-6), Hoggard 11-1-34-0, Harmison 13-3-45-0 (nb-3), White 10-1-38-1 (nb-3), Dawson 20-2-63-1. |
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Argentina challenge Aussie domination Perth, November 22 While Australia have lost many of the stars who enabled them to dominate world hockey for six years until 2000, Argentina retain most of the players who carried them to the silver medal at the Sydney Olympics two years ago. After strong performances in the past two Champions’ Trophy tournaments — including the silver medal in the 2002 event — the Argentineans are considered the new benchmark in women’s hockey, and many have installed them as favourites for the Perth shoot-out. But Argentina’s coach, Sergio Vigil, has played down expectations that his side may dominate the 16-nation, 72-game contest at the Perth Hockey Stadium. “I don’t know whether we are favourites — but for me it is more important that we try to play better during every outing and improve in every tournament,” he said yesterday. “The teams all start equal this weekend and there are a number who have an even chance of winning — Australia, Holland, Spain, China, South Korea and Germany. “Then you have teams like New Zealand, England, South Africa, Japan and the USA who can cause an upset on a given day.” Australian coach David Bell has no doubt Argentina are the team to beat here. “They are a skilful, fast-breaking team,” he said. “Their players have the ability to score field or penalty corner goals. “And one of their biggest pluses is that they have only one key player missing from the Sydney Olympics.” Because they are in different pools, Argentina and Australia will not locks horns until, at the earliest, the semi-finals on December 6. Argentina will again be looking for a star performance from resolute defender Cecelia Rognoni, the 2002 Champions’ Trophy Player of the Tournament, who controls both the attack and defensive areas of the team’s game. Another of their key players will be midfielder Luciana Aymar, who won the International Hockey Federation Player of the Year award last year. Argentina open their pool A campaign on Sunday with a clash against New Zealand, sixth in the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 Olympics and fifth in the recent Champions’ Trophy. They also come up against Ukraine, Germany, China, Scotland, South Korea and Russia in pool games. China, fifth in the Sydney Olympics and winners of the recent Champions’ Trophy in Macau, promise to provide especially tough opposition. Much interest will focus on China’s giant goalkeeper Nie Ya Li, who almost single-handedly earned her team the gold medal at the Champions’ Trophy contest. AFP
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BSF, Punjab Police
enter semifinals New Delhi, November 22 BSF trounced Tamil Nadu XI 4-0, after leading 2-0 at half time, while Punjab Police rolled over Railways 7-3. In another match, Indian Airlines whipped Bharat Petroleum, also to make the semifinal grade. BSF opened their account in the 19th minute through
forward S Khajur, who hit home again in the 31st minute, to complete his brace. Habil Topno slotted in the third goal on resumption while Marious Lakra completed the tally in the 53rd minute. All the four goals were field goals. Punjab Police, on the other hand, were jolted out of their wits when Jagmohan Singh smashed in a brilliant field goal to put Railways in the lead in the sixth minute. Punjab Police had to work hard to get the equaliser when Gabbar Singh found the mark in the 20th minute. India star Gagan Ajit Singh put the cops in the lead with a thundering field goal 10 minutes later and just before the half time hooter, he enhanced the lead to 3-1. After changing ends, Baljit Singh Dhillon, another India star, scored the fourth goal for Punjab Police in the 42nd minute. And then in a sudden turn around, Railways roared back like wounded lions to power in their second goal through S Barla and Raghu narrowed the scoreline to 3-4. But the Punjab cops packed too many guns to be easily cowed down as Baljit Singh Dhillon scored two more goals in the 62nd and 67th minutes and Jugraj Singh accounted for one goal to complete the rout of Railways. Indian Airlines toyed with Bharat Petroleum, with India stars Sameer Dad, Dilip Tirkey, Bimla Lakra and Y S Rawat accounting for the goals. Karnataka will take on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the last league match tomorrow. |
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Markfed
to maintain shooting range Chandigarh, November 22 Mr Gurbir Singh, Arjuna Awardee and president, Punjab Shooting Association, took up this matter with the Punjab Government and the Chief Minister, Capt Amarinder Singh, had the matter examined. The government has decided to associate Markfed with shooting to maintain this international-level shooting range. In return the range will be named as Markfed shooting range and all the top shooters of Punjab will wear the logo of Markfed. This initiative of Mr Gurbir Singh resulted in finalisation of the decision to associate a public sector undertaking with the maintenance of a sports stadium. This innovative step would promote the sport. People of India have high expectations from shooters due to the outstanding results in the August, 2002 Commonwealth Games. Two young Punjab shooters, Abhinav Bindra and Manavjeet Singh, have performed well recently and high hopes are pinned on them for the Olympic Games. Capt Amarinder Singh, who is himself a national-level shooter, visited and fired at the skeet range. He appreciated the layout of the range and assured the shooting fraternity of Punjab that the Punjab Government would fully support their needs. |
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All-India rural meet from Sunday Chandigarh, November 22 Addressing a press conference here last night, Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang, Minister for Sports, said 2000 players were expected to participate in the competitions being organised in archery, kho-kho, volleyball, football and weightlifting. The states which have confirmed their participation include Delhi, Karnataka, Goa, Lakshwadweep, Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar. Orissa, Tripura, Chandigarh,
Jammu and Kashmir, UP, Assam, Kerala, MP, Rajasthan, TN, Maharashtra, Gujarat and hosts Punjab. While the kho-kho and volleyball competitions will be held at the grounds of Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib, the Guru Gobind Singh Academy of Martial Arts will host the archery and weightlifting competitions. The football competitions will be held at the grounds of Sri Dashmesh Academy. Mr Kang also released the mascot and logo of the games. He said since the games were being held at the birthplace of the Khalsa the photograph of a hawk, the favourite bird of Guru Gobind Singh, with a background of Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib, was being depicted in the mascot. In the logo, a horse carrying a torch is shown. Among those present were the Principal Secretary, Information and Public Relations, Mr D.S. Jaspal, Secretary Sports, Mr Arun Goyal, and the Ropar Deputy Commissioner, Ms Seema Jain, who is also chairperson of the organising committee. |
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Kinshuk, Taskeen
win titles Amritsar, November 22 However, Taskeen Bains who was playing in both the age group lost her finals in the U-16 match to Daksha Mulley 4-6, 3-6. In the U-14 section Taskeen outslugged Anukriti Prasad in straight sets 6-1, 6-1. Second-seeded Rohan Gide of Maharashtra edged out top-seeded Vivek Shokeen of Delhi in the U-16 boys 6-3, 6-2 while in the U-14 boys Kinshuk Sharma of Chandigarh lost the first set but came to beat VS Siri Hari of Andhra Pradesh 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.
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Delhi rout Haryana Chamba, November 22 The highlight of the match was a hat-trick by Subroto Dev of Delhi. Satish Kumar, Sandeep and Vishwajit contributed one goal each. For Haryana, Sandeep scored one goal. Tomorrow, Himachal will play Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh will face Uttar Pradesh. |
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