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December 6, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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Chance for
Yohannan,
Nehra to prove worth Gibbs hits ton as SA clinch
series Why delay in team for cricket World Cup? Bonanza awaits Pak
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Haryana clash with
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Argentina battle injuries Aizawl school record win
Michael Greene best hockey player Haryana girls win table tennis
title Jeev off to a
flying start Chatwinder bows out; Sanam in final Bhiwani boxers
dominate JCT’s home matches at
Ludhiana Athletics
trials
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Chance for Yohannan, Nehra to prove worth Napier, December 5 Paceman Zaheer Khan is nursing a knee injury, which he suffered during yesterday’s Super Max International match and has been advised two days rest, while off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is yet to recover from viral fever. “Harbhajan is recovering. But Zaheer will need treatment for the next two days,” Indian team manager N.R. Choudhary said, as the visitors arrived here this afternoon for the three-day match. Even though the Indian think tank wants to field its best team for the game, the only one before the start of the first Test at Wellington next Thursday, it seems unlikely that it would rush its two spearheads into the match considering that they have to play two Tests and seven one-dayers on the tour. Harbhajan (139 wickets from 31 Tests) and Zaheer (62 from 22) will have to shoulder the bowling responsibility which lacks experience in the absence of veterans Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath. While Kumble opted out of the Test series due to personal reasons, selectors had decided to rest Srinath. Meanwhile, the Indian team had to put on hold its practice session since their kit could not reach in time. The baggage of the players is to arrive by road from Wellington, a five hours drive from here. The Indians, who have not won a Test series in New Zealand for over three decades, are determined to reverse the trend this time around, having been quite consistent in alien conditions this year. Coach John Wright believes that seaming pitches and past history would not be a problem for his side, which boasts of a strong batting line-up. “The best feature about our tour of England this year is we batted well at Headingley and Nottingham which were green wickets,” Wright said. Wright is confident that his formidable batting line up will live upto its reputation but said “the biggest challenge for us has always been to take 20 wickets. We know we bat pretty well.” The Indian batting line-up is in good form and Sachin Tendulkar himself proved it when he scored a blistering 72 in the Max game after coming back from a month-long break due to hamstring injury. In the absence of Zaheer and Harbhajan, the Indian bowling attack for the warm up game is likely to comprise three medium pacers, Ashish Nehra, Tinu Yohannan and Ajit Agarkar, and Murali Kartik as the lone spinner. The Indians do not have happy memories of their last match with Central Districts which they had lost by seven wickets despite a century by Tendulkar. The Indian batsmen may find the going much easier this time with the with their opponents not really having a menacing bowling line-up. Captain Jacob Oram is the only bowler to have played for the national side in one-dayers. But the 6’6’’ paceman, who is known for accuracy rather than penetration, is yet to play a Test for the Kiwis. The Central Districts, which won the domestic Shell Cup two seasons ago, have had a torrid time since then. The team had to face a humiliating 10 wicket defeat against Wellington in their only match this season after the pay dispute was solved. Opening batsman Matthew Sinclair, off-spinner Glen Sulzberger and Oram are among the 20 cricketers contracted by the New Zealand Cricket Board. But none of three seem to be in contention for the Test spot. Sinclair, who has scored 1079 runs from 18 Tests with a healthy average of 43.80, has been out of form for the last two seasons, while Sulzberger has only three wickets in his kitty from the three one day internationals he had played. Teams (from): Central Districts: Jacob Oram (captain), Bevan Griggs, Lance Hamilton, Brent Hefford, Jamie How, Peter Ingram, Michael Mason, Andrew Schwass, Martyn Singley, Matthew Sinclair, Craig Spearman and Glen Sulzberger. India: Sourav Ganguly (capt), Sanjay Bangar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Parthiv Patel, Ajit Agarkar, Tinu Yohannan, Murali Kartik, Ashish Nehra and Ajay Ratra.
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Gibbs hits ton as SA clinch series Kimberley, December 5 Gibbs finished with 108 not out as South Africa overhauled a Sri Lankan total of 184 all out with 19.1 overs to spare as the home nation took a winning 3-1 lead in the five-match series. Gibbs shared an unbeaten South African record third-wicket stand of 172 with Jacques Kallis, who made 64 not out. Sri Lanka earlier collapsed on a good batting pitch following the freak dismissal of Marvan Atapattu after they had raced to 58 for no wicket in the first 10 overs. Atapattu, who made a match-winning 123 not out in the third match of the series in Benoni Sunday, was in magnificent form before he was run out for 39. The batsman turned Kallis to fine leg and trotted through for what seemed an easy second run. Wicketkeeper Mark Boucher took the ball about two metres in front of the stumps and, without looking back, flicked the ball behind him to break the wicket. Atapattu had crossed the line but had not grounded either his foot or his bat and was given out by television umpire Brian Jerling. Kumar Sangakkara was dismissed in the same over and he was followed quickly by Aravinda de Silva and Sanath Jayasuriya, with Jayasuriya falling for 27 to a sensational, one-handed leaping catch by Neil McKenzie off Allan Donald at midwicket. Donald took three for 18 as the Sri Lankans lost their momentum after being sent in with only Russel Arnold (50) making a worthwhile contribution. Arnold, playing in his 100th one-day international, made his runs off 88 balls with three fours. Lanka skipper Jayasuriya said he was disappointed with his team’s batting. SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka: Atappattu run out 39 Jayasuriya c McKenzie b Donald 27 Sangakkara c McKenzie b Kallis 1 Ade Silva c Ntini b Kallis 0 Jayawardene lbw b Donald 9 Tillakaratne b Pollock 18 Arnold c McKenzie b Pollock 50 Vaas lbw b Pollock 4 Nissanka c Boucher b Klusener 1 Fernando c Boucher b Donald 2 Gunaratne not out 13 Extras: (b-4 lb-8 nb-2 w-6) 20 Total: (all out, 47.3 overs) 184 Fall of wickets: 1-58 2-61 3-64 4-78 5-97 6-131 7-146 8-152 9-155 Bowling: Pollock 9.3-0-40-3, Ntini 9-0-35-0, Kallis 5-0-25-2, Donald 10-4-18-3, Klusener 9-0-29-1, Peterson 5-0-25-0. South Africa: Gibbs not out 108 Hall lbw b Vaas 2 McKenzie c Sangakkara b Gunaratne 7 Kallis not out 64 Extras: (b-4 w-5) 9 Total: (for two wickets, 30.5 overs) 190 Fall: 1-7 2-18 Bowling: Vaas 9-2-42-1, Gunaratne 6-0-46-1, Nissanka 5-0-29-0 D. Fernando 5-0-30-0, Jayasuriya 4.5-0-29-0, Jayawardene 1-0-10-0 (w-1).
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Why delay in team for cricket World Cup? Chandigarh, December 5 Australia, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka — teams which will definitely leave a mark in the tournament — have already announced their provisional sides (and they did it much before the November 30 deadline). But then why has India lagged behind? And the final team, as per the ICC deadline, is to be announced by December 31, another deadline which India might find hard to meet since by then only two of the seven one-dayers against New Zealand will have been played by then. The national selectors have recently announced a 16-member squad which is currently touring New Zealand. This squad, however, does not include any specialist one-day player as the team has been selected only for the two Tests the visitors will play against New Zealand. However, the core players are already in the touring party. Therefore, all that the selectors had to do was to add names like Javagal Srinath, Anil Kumble and Yuvraj Singh, to name a few players who are certain to be in the team, and forward a list of 30 players to the ICC. The base of the Indian cricket team is not big and naming the 30 for the World Cup should not pose any problem for the selectors. A couple of fringe players should find themselves in the list of 30 but there is a big question mark over their going for the World Cup. Certain observers are of the view that the national selectors have been informally told that the list of 30 should not be announced till such time the ICC and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) are able to thrash out the contentious issue of commercial rights of the players. In fact, this issue had nearly seen India fielding a second-string team in this year’s ICC Cup held in Sri Lanka earlier this year. In Sri Lanka, in spite of long consultations between the BCCI and the ICC, India played without the logo of the team sponsor, with, of course, the tacit approval of the sponsor, but it is doubtful whether the sponsor will agree to this ‘‘condition’’ at the time of the World Cup. In fact, the sponsors were gracious enough to pay the players even though they did not sport the logo in Sri Lanka. The commercial viability of Indian cricket as well as Indian cricketers cannot be understated. The ICC knows it too well as a large number of sponsors of the World Cup are from India. So can they take punitive action against India for delay in announcing the team for the tournament? The answer is there for anybody to answer. |
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ICC-BCCI meeting on Monday Kolkata, December 5 Giving this information BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said ICC would be represented by Justice Ahmed Ebrahim of Zimbabwe and its General Manager (Cricket) Dave Richardson. Justice Ebrahim and Richardson are expected to reach here early on Monday. The BCCI would be represented by Mr Dalmiya and senior cricketer Anil Kumble who opted out of India’s two-Test series against New Zealand.
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Bonanza awaits Pak cricketers Karachi, December 5 “It is basically an incentive programme designed to provide motivation to players,’’ PCB spokesman Samiul Hasan told Reuters. “The PCB chairman believes that the players deserve such cash rewards if they can win a title which is so dear to the cricket-loving people of Pakistan.” He added that every player in the 15-man squad would receive Rs 5 million if the team won the title for the first time since 1992.
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Haryana clash with
Delhi Rohtak, December 5 Both the teams will be meeting on this venue for the second time. The previous encounter at this venue had ended in a tie four years ago. Delhi is considered a strong team in North Zone. Being led by wicket keeper batsman Vijay Dahiya, Delhi have the services of many senior cricketers like Amit Bhandari, Sarandeep Singh, Mithun Minhas and Gautam Gambhir whereas Haryana have a young squad but capable of doing well. The same grassless pitch on which Haryana versus Jammu & Kashmir tie was held, has been prepared for this match too. Haryana team will be depending largely on the experience of skipper Jitender Singh, middle order batsman Shafiq Khan, former skipper Parinder Sharma and left-arm spinner Sonu Sharma. The performance of local lad Joginder Sharma will also be keenly watched. The final eleven of both the teams will be announced tomorrow morning. The teams (from): Haryana: Jitender Singh (Captain), Chetan Sharma, Shafiq Khan, Parinder Sharma, Naveen Negi (wk), Joginder Sharma, Amit Mishra, Amit Suman, Gaurav Vashishta, Sonu Sharma, Sumeet Sharma, Ajay Sikka, Sandeep Mor, Sumeet Narwal, Sandeep Kharab. Delhi: Vijay Dahiya (Captain), Akash Chopra, Gautam Gambir, Mithun Minhas, Pradeep Chawla, Amit Bhandari, Arun Singh, Sarandeep Singh, Abhishek Sharma, Rajiv Rathore, Sonu Vaid, Radhey Sham Gupta, Varun Kumar, Sanjay Gill, Saket Bhatia. Umpires: T.R. Kashiyappan and Ramesh Jadhav. |
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Argentina battle injuries Perth, December 5 The Argentinians are likely to field some walking wounded against the Hockeyroos, in a match which pits arguably the strongest two teams of the tournament against each other. Argentina’s woes started 10 minutes into the first match of the tournament when star striker Vanina Oneto broke a bone in her right hand and she has not played since. For the past week, Argentina’s team management has refused to rule out the possibility of Oneto playing in the semi-final aided by a pain killing injection, or in the final Sunday if they win through. Oneto has 171 caps for Argentina and 125 goals — 75 more than any team-mate — making her one of the most prolific scorers in international hockey. Oneto’s absence from Argentina’s front line was reflected in the low scoring victories against South Korea (2-1), Germany, New Zealand and Russia (all 1-0) and China (2-0). Argentina’s injury problems go further than Oneto. Defenders Mercedes Margalot and Cecilia Rognoni and captain Karina Masotta are also playing injured.
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Aizawl school record win New Delhi, December 5 In a one-sided match, the Aizawl boys pumped in goals at their will to keep the Rohtak boys at bay. But the first goal came only in the 27th minute when Vanlal Ruata found the mark. He added the third goal too in the 34th minute with a powerful shot. The second and fifth goals were netted by Vansang Kama while Jerry Soram Sanga got the fourth goal in the 46th minute and Jonathan Lal Sang struck home the sixth goal in the 60th minute. Mamta Modern School of Delhi edged past St Joseph’s High School, Dumka, 3-2, in a keenly-contested match. Jharkhand took the lead through Elias Kisku while Lung Thaongam scored the equaliser for the Delhi school (1-1). Ganeshwar Singh put Delhi in the lead while Mannu Marmu pulled off the equaliser for Jharkhand (2-2). Manish Negi then slammed home the match-winner for Mamta Modern in the 55th minute to settle the issue. In the third match, Vivekanand High School, Bustar, (Chattisgarh) defeated Sainik School, Vizayanagaram, 3-0. Kamal Singh scored a brace while Siya Ram accounted for the third goal. Mamta Modern, Vivekanand, Carnicobar and Aizawl have moved into the quarter-finals. |
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Michael Greene best hockey player New Delhi, December 5 The young player of the year award was taken by Australia’s Jamie Dwyer for the men’s while Argentina’s Augustina Garcia for the young women’s. India’s Dhanraj Pillay was also a contender for the FIH player of the year award. Gagan Ajit Singh and Prabhjot Singh were the contenders for FIH young player’s award but all of them missed out on the awards. The declaration of the award was made at the Federation of International Hockey (FIH) in Perth by a jury
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Haryana girls win table tennis
title Sirsa, December 5 Another interesting final was played between Maharashtra A and Bengal for the sub-junior boys title. This final was won by Maharashtra boys as they defeated Bengal 3-1. In the cadet boys category the championship was won by the Bengal cadets after they defeated Tamil Nadu 3-1. The sub-junior girls championship was retained by Bengal. They defeated Tamil Nadu 3-0 in a straight fight. In the finals, Suman of Haryana cadet team displayed good placing and smashes in her games with Bengal’s M. Mukherji and S. Ghosh. The final game of the final match was won by Rashu of Haryana 3-0. Sunil Shetti of Maharashtra A showed exemplary skills in his control at the table and defeated Bengal’s S. P. Rai and T. Sinha to win the title for his team. Earlier Maharashtra A boys defeated the defending champions PSPB in a closely fought semifinal 3-2. |
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Jeev off to a
flying start New Delhi, December 5 According to information reaching here from PGA west course in La Quinta, California, Jeev shot a three-under 69, which tied him for the 19th place after the first of the stipulated six rounds. He was three shots off the leaders, Steve Gangluff and Aaron Barber, who shot a 6-under-par 66 each yesterday. The final stage of the PGA Tour q-school, considered one of the most gruelling events in golf, is being played at TPC Stadium Course and the Jack Nicklaus Tournament Course.
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Chatwinder bows out; Sanam in final New Delhi, December 5 In a surprisingly one-sided match, Saurabh Kohli rushed through the match even before Chatwinder Singh could get a proper feel of the contest. In another upset match, Parantap Chaturvedi of Delhi shocked third-seeded Rupesh Roy 6-1, 6-2 to set up the title clash against Saurabh. However, top seed Sanam K. Singh kept the Chandigarh hopes alive when he beat fourth-seeded K.H. Praveen of Andhra Pradesh after a hard-fought match at 6-4, 7-5 to sail into the final. He will meet third seeded Sumit Prakash Gupta of Uttar Pradesh in the title clash. Sumit stunned second seeded M. Jeevan of Tamil Nadu 6-2, 6-1. In the girls under-18 semifinal matches, seventh seeded Madura Ranganathan of Tamil Nadu disposed of third-seeded Sandri Gangotri of Andhra Pradesh 6-1, 6-2 while sixth-seeded Sandhya Nagraj got the better of second-seeded Marutha Devi of Tamil Nadu 2-6, 6-2, 6-2. In the girls under-14 title clash, top-seeded G.K. Shwetha of Karnataka will take on third-seeded E. Ashmitha of Tamil Nadu. In the semifinals, Shwetha beat Akshita B. Raj of Karnataka 6-1, 6-1 while Ashmitha downed Vishaka Sheoran of Delhi 6-0, 6-2. After the Junior Masters, the DLTA will host the Asian Closed Junior Tennis Championship from December 9 to 14. This event is an International Tennis Federation (ITF) grade B2 tournament. |
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Bhiwani boxers
dominate Bhiwani, December 5 The following are the results of the final day : Light weight:
Sonu (Bhiwani) gold, Narender (Gurgaon) silver, Satyavan and Rajesh (both Jind) bronze. Fly weight: Rajesh (Kaithal) gold, Manoj (Ambala) silver, Pradeep (Y’nagar) and Jai Prakash (Bhiwani) bronze. Bentam weight: Vijender (Bhiwani) gold; Satish (HAU) silver, Lokesh and Balbir bronze. Feather wt: Sunil (Rohtak) gold, Sandeep (Gurgaon) silver, Dinesh (Jhajjar) and Yadvender (Ambala) bronze. Light wt: Vijender (Bhiwani) gold, Bhupender (Rohtak) silver, Sumer (Jhajjar) and Sham Lal (Kaithal) bronze. Welter wt: Surender (Bhiwani) gold, Naveen (Jhajjar) silver, Ravinder (Y’nagar) and Hitesh (Rohtak) bronze. Light middle wt:
Sanjay (Bhiwani) gold, Vivek (Hisar) silver, Vinod (Sirsa) and Balbir (Jhajjar) bronze. Middle wt:
Naveen (Bhiwani) gold, Sandeep (HAU) silver, Gitesh (Jhajjar) and Jai Pal (Kaithal) bronze. Light heavy wt:
Manoj (Bhiwani) gold, Lokesh (Gurgaon) silver, Ajay Soni and Anil (HAU) bronze. Heavy weight:
Jogender (Bhiwani) gold, Rahul (Rewari) silver, Mehar (Panipat) and Surender (Hisar) bronze. Super Heavy: Punit (Bhiwani) gold, Jitender (Narnaul) silver, Gitesh (Jind) and Kshitiz bronze. |
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JCT’s home matches at
Ludhiana Chandigarh, December 5 According to the draw released by the All-India Football
Federaiton, JCT will play their first home match against Indian Bank on December 11 followed by the second home tie against Tollygunge
Agragami, Kolkata, on December 21. The matches to be played at Guru Nanak Stadium will kick off at 2 pm, according to Arjuna awardee Inder Singh, secretary, Punjab Football Association. The seventh National Football League which kicked off at Margao last month, features 12 top national outfits. As per the norms laid down by the federation, the league is played on home and away basis. The All-India Football Federation had released the draws for the first eight rounds while the schedule for the remaining 16 rounds are expected to be released on the conclusion of the eighth round. In the preceding years, JCT also opted for Ludhiana as the venue for all their home ties in the national Football League. |
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Athletics
trials Ludhiana, December 5 The players born on or after January 1, 1987, and who had secured first, second and third positions, respectively, in the recent All-India Rural Sports Championship at Anandpur Sahib will be eligible for the trials. The selected athletes will represent Punjab in the forthcoming National Rural Meet (group II) slated to be held at Devnagri (Karnataka). |
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