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December 21, 2002, Chandigarh, India  
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India’s
batting woes continue Ganguly, Laxman threw wickets away BCCI may
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Inspired England crush Lanka
Vineet, Uniyal put Punjab on top Andhra Pradesh set modest target for
Delhi JCT have edge on Tollygunge Agragami in
NFL Mohun
Bagan, Dempo post
wins Punjab, Maharashtra in final
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Hamilton, December 20 Sachin Tendulkar and other big names in India’s batting were unable to cope with a spiteful green-top wicket on which the ball swung wildly to leave India, who were humbled in the first Test, staring at another possible defeat although more than one-and-a-half-day’s play has been lost in this match due to rain. Only V.V.S. Laxman, who made 23, and Harbhajan Singh, who hit five boundaries in his breezy nine-ball 20, managed to get into the double figures as the Indians succumbed meekly. After the Indians had been put into bat, opening bowler Darryl Tuffey, who took four wickets for 12 runs, led the New Zealand onslaught against the much-touted visitors batting line-up which has now failed miserably in three successive innings in unfavourable conditions in this country. The New Zealanders captured eight wickets in only 37.1 overs after a late start to the match on the second day. After a complete washout on the opening day yesterday, the second day’s play was affected by overnight rains and wet ground conditions, preventing any play in the first two sessions. When play finally did begin in the afternoon, India lost opener Sanjay Bangar in the very second over, being caught in the gully by Jacob Oram while trying to force a shot against Tuffey on the onside. That was just the beginning of India’s nightmare as some of the most reputed batsmen returned to the pavilion one after another without making any impression. Virender Sehwag, Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid became the victims of a combination of accurate bowling by the New Zealanders and the highly unpredictable behaviour of the pitch. Sehwag, who had failed in both the innings in the first Test like his partner Bangar, was rendered helpless against an awkwardly rising delivery by Shane Bond which the batsman only managed to scoop to Mark Richardson at forward short leg. Tendulkar and Dravid, who hit a half-century each in the Wellington Test, were also dismissed cheaply, both being claimed by Tuffey. Both were out for nine runs leaving India tottering at 40 for five in the 21st over. In between, skipper Sourav Ganguly got out in a familiar fashion, giving a regulation catch in the slips after remaining undecided whether to leave a Tuffey delivery or go for his shot. With their top five batsmen back in the pavilion, it seemed India be bowled out within 81 runs, their lowest score against New Zealand registered in 1976 at Wellington. Patel remained unbeaten on eight, having braved the conditions for 44 balls. The Indians left out Ajit Agarkar in this match and replaced him with Tinu Yohannan. New Zealand retained their team which had won the first Test by ten wickets. India (1st Innings): Bangar c Oram b Tuffey 1 Sehwag c Richardson b Bond 1 Dravid c Hart b Tuffey 9 Tendulkar c Styris b Tuffey 9 Ganguly c Fleming b Tuffey 5 Laxman b Bond 23 Patel batting 8 Harbhajan b Bond 20 Zaheer b Oram 0 Extras (lb-12, nb-4) 16 Total (for 8 wkts, 37.1 overs) 92 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-11, 3-26, 4-34, 5-40, 6-70, 7-91, 8-92. Bowling: Bond 14-7-33-3, Tuffey 9-6-12-4, Oram 9.1-1-21-1, Styris 2-0-10-0, Astle 3-2-4-0.
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Partial groundsmen upset India Hamilton: The Indian team is learnt to be very upset at the apparent preferential treatment to the home side by the groundsmen at Westpac Park here when they attempted to dry up the pitch in a bid to make it “suitable” for batting tomorrow. The Indians complained that the ground staff delayed putting on covers on the pitch for a good 40 minutes after the day’s play had ended with the visitors placed at a pathetic 92 for eight in their first innings. They felt it was done to allow the pitch get as much sunshine as possible for it to dry out and become a better batting track when the New Zealand team comes out to bat tomorrow. It upset the Indians to the extent that skipper Saurav Ganguly, coach John Wright and manager N.P. Choudhary walked to the middle and drew the attention of ground staff, before calling upon match referee Mike Proctor to intervene. Arrival of Proctor on to the centre did the trick and the track was covered. It, however, did not please the Indians or the match referee himself who was heard describing the incident as “shameful”.
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Hamilton A couple of inside edges brought his first two boundaries, but the other three were cleanly blasted through the covers and mid-wicket.
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Ganguly, Laxman threw wickets away Not many teams are comfortable while playing outside of their own country, but the way the Indians have shaped up in this series, it seems none of them are willing battle. Three innings in a row we have watched the aura of invincibility around the Indian batting being dismissed. If you want to be the world’s best, you cannot run away from responsibility but that’s exactly the way the ‘star’ Indian players have approached the job here. The way they succumb to fast bowlers it seems they haven’t done any homework. Till we play our domestic cricket on seeming pitches, our batsmen will never be able to adapt while playing abroad. I think even our selection today sent out negative signals. It doesn’t require a genius to know that it was due to batting that India lost the first Test so there should have been a couple of changes in the batting. Ideally, I would have wanted Shiv Sundar Das to open the innings and ask Virender Sehwag to bat in the middle-order. Seeing the pitch, which was not very conductive to batting, India should have played an extra batsman. But, like it has always happened in the past, no batman was punished for his shortcoming. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid got unplayable deliveries but what can we say about Saurav Ganguly and VVS Laxman? They simply threw away their wickets, while Sanjay Bangar and Virender Sehwag looked intimidated at the thought of batting on such a pitch. Once again, Parthiv Patel showed his senior colleagues how guts and courage can sometimes help you do better. He played at the wicket for some time, something which even his illustrious team-mates wouldn’t. So far in the series, India have lost 28 wickets in less than 140 overs and I am sure it can not get any more. But for Harbhajan Singh’s cameo, India would not have even got near to 100 in this innings. It is left to the bowlers to left India out of the mess they have landed themselves in. But I wonder if we have a quality seamer like Shane Bond in our ranks. |
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BCCI may not accept ICC’s final offer Kolkata, December 20 The board’s office-bearers met for a marathon six-hour discussion on yesterday’s ultimatum by the ICC and decided to refer the offer to an emergent special general body meeting to be held here on December 25 as the members felt the issue was too crucial to be decided either by them or the working committee. Board President Jagmohan Dalmiya, who has been negotiating with the ICC on the issue for more than two months now, accused the ICC of breaking an understanding of confidentiality by going public on their discussions. He also issued a veiled threat of taking the ICC to court, saying “inducement for breaking pre-existing contracts would not survive in the eyes of law because it entailed a serious deprivation to players”. Maintaining that the restrictive clauses were introduced in the players’ contracts without the BCCI’s knowledge, Dalmiya said that the board had made it clear that Indian cricketers would accept restrictions on endorsements only during the World Cup, and not before and after it. It would also allow imaging of players by official sponsors for only two months after the event as against six months envisaged in the clauses. No imaging of players with pre-existing conflicing contracts would be allowed, Dalmiya said. Dalmiya said board office-bearers felt during the meeting that ICC was “pushing the BCCI to a position of impossiblity” and expressed shock at the ICC’s “outburst” before media in London last evening. The ICC had yesterday made its ‘final offer’ to resolve the issue and asked the BCCI to accept it failing which, it said, the BCCI faced the prospect of large compensation claims being made against it.
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Inspired England crush Lanka Perth, December 20 It was England’s second win over Sri Lanka in three days, giving Nasser Hussain’s men new heart after their humiliation by Australia in the Ashes series, in which Australia are leading 3-0. A rejuvenated England hammered 258 for nine wickets at the WACA ground before skittling the 1996 World Cup one-day champions for 163 in 43.4 overs. After Paul Collingwood starred for England with the bat, Andy Caddick gave the side a wonderful start when they hit the field, claiming three for 14 in his opening six overs. He finished with three for 30 from 10 beautifully-directed overs. Pacemen James Anderson and Steve Harmison and spinner Ian Blackwell picked up two wickets apiece. England’s win — plus the bonus point they snatched — gave them six points from the match, pushing them to an aggregate of 12, one more than Australia, who won their two opening matches. “We knew we could beat Sri Lanka because we had worked hard and, if we played to our best, we had a good chance,” Hussain said. England Hussain c Sangakkara
b Nissanka 25 Trescothick c Gunaratne bVaas 11 Knight c Fernando b Vaas 15 Irani lbw b Vaas 4 Collingwood c Atapatu
b Fernando 100 Stewart c Jayawaredene b Nissanka 4 Blackwell c Jayawaredene
b Fernando 19 White b Fernando 48 Caddick c Arnold b Fernando 9 Anderson not out 1 Extras: 22 Total (9 wkts, 50 overs) 258 Fall of wickets: 1-26, 2-26, 3-39, 4-89, 5-93, 6-122, 7-232, 8-250, 9-258. Bowling:
Vaas 10-0-36-3, Gunaratne 8-0-45-0, Fernando 10-0-48-4, Nissanka 10-0-59-2, Jayasuriya 10-0-49-0, Samaraweera 2-0-11-0. Sri Lanka: Jayasuriya c and b Caddick 10 Atapattu c Knight b Caddick 3 Mubarak c Hussain b Caddick 14 Sangakkara c Stewart
b Anderson 7 Jayawardene c Knight b White 30 Arnold c Stewart b Harmison 44 Samaraweera c Stewart
b Blackwell 27 Vaas c Collingwood b Blackwell 3 Nissanka not out 7 Fernando c Harmison
b Anderson 1 Gunaratne b Harmison 0 Extras (lb-10 nb-1 w-6) 17 Total (all out, 43.4 overs) 163 FoW:
1-14, 2-19, 3-42, 4-46, 5-91, 6-144, 7-149, 8-162, 9-163. Bowling: Caddick 10-3-30-3, Anderson 8-2-23-2, Harmison 9.4-0-45-2, White 8-1-25-1, Irani 5-1-16-0, Blackwell 3-0-14-2.
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Vineet, Uniyal put Punjab on top Chandigarh, December 20 Seamer Vineet Sharma emerged the most successful bowler finishing with a haul of five wickets, while left-arm seamer Amit Uniyal took three wickets as Uttar Pradesh, starting from their overnight score of 39 without loss, were bundled out for 111 runs giving the hosts a 97-run lead. Skipper Dinesh Mongia then made amends for his early dismissal yesterday, notching up a fluent 87-ball 86 to put the hosts in a commanding position. Punjab seamers were a transformed lot and looked charged up as the proceedings started for the day. Making early inroads into the Uttar Pradesh batting line-up they took firm control of the proceedings. Uniyal started the slide having Rohit Prakash caught behind Pankaj Dharmani when the batsman had yet to add to his overnight score of 28 runs. Other overnight not out batsman Jyoti Yadav cut a Gagandeep delivery to Ankur Kakkar at gully soon thereafter. Gagandeep struck again in the same over sending back Rizwan Shamshad trapping him lbw as visitors were reduced to 69 for three. Vineet claimed his first wicket when he got rid of a subdued Parvinder Singh after the batsman had scored 10. Uniyal then dismissed Pandey and Nikhil Chopra in quick succession, while Vineet run through the innings as the visitors were bowled out for a paltry 111. Vineet bowled a miserly spell snapping up five wickets conceding 22 runs in his 10.1 overs. Punjab skipper Dinesh Mongia then maintained the momentum after the early loss of opener Ravneet Ricky’s wickets. Unleashing a flurry of shots, Mongia showed his class and added 119 runs for the second-wicket stand with Samrat Sharma before a momentary loss concentration saw him miss out on a well-deserved century. Mongia edged a Mritunjay Tripathi delivery to be caught behind by Javed Anwar. Uttar Pradesh had the consolation of getting the key scalp of Pankaj Dharmani. Punjab (1st innings): 208 Uttar Pradesh (1st innings): Rohit Parkash c Dharmani b Uniyal 28, Jyoti Yadav c Kakkar b Gagandeep 15, Parvinder Singh c Dharmani b Vineet 10, Rizwan Shamshad lbw Gagandeep 4, Gyanender Pandey c Dharmani b Uniyal 16, Mohd Saif c Dharmani b Vineet 12, Nikhil Chopra c Dharmani b Uniyal 0, Javed Anwar lbw Vineet 4, M Tripthi c Mongia b Vineet 3, Zaidi b Vineet 2, R Mishra not out 0. Extras : 17. Total (all out in 45.1 overs): 111. FoW: 1-41, 2-65, 3-69, 4-75, 5-90, 6-90, 7-100, 8-107, 9-109. Bowling: Gagandeep 16-6-30-2, Uniyal 18-4-43-3, Rajesh 1-0-9-0, Vineet 10.1-3-22-5. Punjab (2nd innings): Ricky lbw Mishra 5, Samrat not out 37, Mongia c Anwar b Tripathi 86, Dharmani c Shamshad b Tripthi 2, Kakkar lbw Tripathi 4, Sodhi not out 14. Extras : 10. Total ( 4 wkts, 45.2 overs): 158. FoW: 1-11, 2-130, 3-132, 4-138. Bowling: Zaidi 13-2-45-0, Mishra 16-4-48-1, Tripathi 14.2-4-47-3, N Chopra 1-0-10-0, G Pandey 1-1-0-0. |
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Andhra Pradesh set modest target for Delhi New Delhi, December 20 Delhi were 57 for one at stumps, requiring 128 more to win from the remaining two days. Opener Akash Chopra (35) and Sohail Raul (6) were at the crease, when the umpires called it a day due to bad light with 14 more overs left to be bowled. On a pitch, which had no devil in it, the Andhra Pradesh batsmen indulged in disastrous shot selection after their bowlers had done a good job in skittling out Delhi for 111 runs in their first innings. The Delhi bowlers showed tremendous discipline and did not give any easy runs to their opponents. Medium-pacer Amit Bhandari capped off his first innings six wicket-haul with another four scalps, while off-spinner Sarandeep Singh also took four wickets for 24 runs. Debutant Sanjay Gill accounted for the reamaining two Andhra batsmen. Scoreboard AP (Ist innings) 198 Delhi (Ist innings) A Chopra lbw Shahabuddin 4, G Gambhir c MSK Prasad b Shahbuddin 11, P Chawla b Shahabuddin 4, M Minhas c Pathak b Shahbuddin 35, S Rauf c MSK Prasad b Shahbuddin 0, V Dahiya c Venugopal b RCH Prasad 12, A Sharma no 20, S Singh c MSK b Shahbuddin 0, R Sanghvi lbw Shahbuddin 0, A Bhandari c MSK b RVCH Prasad 7, S Gill c YV Rao b Kalyan 16, Extras 6 (4 lb, 2n) Total : 111 (all out in 37.5 overs) Fall of wickets: 0/1, 2/8, 3/23, 4/23, 5/50, 6/68, 7/68, 8/72, 9/87. Bowling: Shahabuddin 15-2-35-7, D Kalyan Kumar 7.5-0-31-1, RVCH Prasad 13-3-32-2, VVV Apparao 2-0-9-0, Andhra Pradesh (2nd innings) A Pathak c Rauf b S Gill 6, D Suresh c Dahiya b Bhandari 38, F Ahmed lbw Bhandari 0, YV Rao c Chawla b Sarandeep 4, MSK Prasad c Minhas b Sarandeep 2, RVCH Prasad c Gill b Bhandari 1, ASK Verma c Chopra b Gill 9, Shahabuddin c Dahiya b Bhandari 21, H Watekar c Chawla b Sarandeep 10, D Kalyankumar c Pradeep b Sarandeep 0, VVV Apparao n.o. 0. Extras 5 (1 lb,1 n, 3b) Total: 97 ( all out in 42.4 overs) Fall of wickets: 1/11, 2/12, 3/31, 4/35, 5/36, 6/46, 7/76, 8/96, 9/96. Bowling: A Bhandari 13.4-3-34-4, S Gill 11-3-30-2, S Singh 17-7-24-4, R Sangvi 1-0-5-0, Delhi (2nd innings): A Chopra batting 35, G Gambhir c Shahbuddin b Kalyan 13, S Rauf batting 06. Extras 3 (1b,1 lb,1n) Total 57 (for 1 in 23 overs) Fall of wickets: 38/1 Bowling : Shahbuddin 6-2-6-0, Kalyan 9-1-28-1, RVCH Prasad 3-0-16-0, Watekar 3-1-6-0, Apparao 2-2-0-0. Mumbai tail wags NEW DELHI: Mumbai’s lower order batsmen effected a fine fightback, enabling the side to reach 248 in their first innings against Railways in the group ‘A’ match at the Karnail Singh stadium here. Reduced to 101 for seven on a truncated opening day yesterday, Mumbai did well to reach a respectable total, thanks to 87-run stand for the eighth wicket between off-spinner Romesh Powar and leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule. Mumbai innings came to a close half an hour after tea. At stumps, the hosts were 15 for no loss in their reply with J P Yadav on 7 and Amit Pagnis on 8. Scoreboard: Mumbai (1st Innings): (overnight score 101-7): Ramesh Pawar c S. Wankhede b J.P. Yadav 71, Sairaj Bahutule lbw J.P. Yadav 67, Paras Mhambrey b T.P. Singh 15, Nilesh Kulkarni not out 1. Extras 22. Fall of Wickets: 8/180, 9/222. Total 234 all out. Bowling: Harvinder Singh: 29 -7-57-1, Santosh Saxena : 21-7-39-2. J.P. Yadav: 25.3-13-31-2, Kulamani Pardida: 45-10-93-4, S. Khanolkar : 2-0 -3-0, Tejinder Pal Singh : 4-1-11-1. Railways (1st innings):
J.P. Yadav not out 7, Amit Pagnis not out 8. Total: 15 for no loss (4 overs, 20 min). Bowling: Paras Mhambrey : 2-1-1-0, Robbin Morris : 2-0-14-0.
Haryana take lead Gurgaon: Hosts Haryana piled up 291 for the loss of seven wickets in their first innings at the draw of stumps on the second day of four- day plate group league encounter against Bihar at the Nehru Stadium here, taking a lead of 66 runs with three wickets in hand. Joginder Sharma’s chanceless 80 and skipper Jatinder Sharma’s 73 were highlight of the Haryana’s innings. Summit Sharma (34) and Sumit Narwal(five) were at the crease at the draw of stumps. Scoreboard: Bihar (1st innings): 225 Haryana (1st innings): Jatinder Singh c Dhoni b Chausey 73, Chetan Sharma c Dhoni b Mihir 30, Parinder Sharma b Chausey 21 Rajesh Puri b Panda 23, Shafiq Khan c Dhoni b Chausey 15, Sumit Sharma not out 34, Joginder Sharma b Khan 80, Amit Mishra lbw b Panda 03, Sumit Narwal not out 05. Extras (b-1.lb-3,nb-3) 07. Total (for 7 wkts, 101 overs,406 min) 291. FOW: 1-58, 2-124, 3-141, 4-161, 5-175, 6-279, 7-282. Bowling: Mihir Diwakar 13.5-4-50-1; Sumit Panda 23.1-3-77-2; Shahid Khan 33-7-77-1; Nikhilesh Ranjan 05-1-13-0; S B Chausey 26-10-70-3.
Rajasthan on top JAIPUR: A brilliant knock of 84 by Gagan Khoda and his 167 run third wicket partnership with Nikhil Doru (64) helped the hosts Rajasthan score 245 for seven at the close on the second day of their league tie at the Mansarover Stadium here today. Sanjeev Sharma and Mohd. Aslam were batting with 29 and 5 runs, respectively at the draw of stumps. Scoreboard HP (Ist innings): 166 Rajasthan Ist inning: Vineet Saxena c Vikram b Ashok 0, Gagan Khoda c & b Sandeep 84, Afroz Khan c Vikram b Ashok 0, Nikhil Doru b Sangram 64, P. Krishna Kumar c Ashok b Sandeep 16, Rahul Kanwat run out 10, Rohit Jhalani c Vikram b Sandeep 0, Sanjeev Sharma batting 29, Mohd. Aslam batting 5. Extras: (bye 13,lb 11, nb 12, w 1) 37. Total: (for 7 wickets in 93 overs) 245. Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-5, 3-172, 4-175, 5-186, 6-196, 7-225. Bowling: Shakti Singh:19-8-31-0, Ashok Thakur:25-7-70-2, Sandeep Sharma:18-2-51-3, Aashish Kapoor: 12-3-31-0, Vishal Bhatia: 7-1-14-0, Sangram Singh. 12-1-24-1.
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JCT have edge on Tollygunge Agragami in
NFL With five points from a victory and two draws, JCT are currently placed ninth while Tollygunge with four points from one victory and a draw are trailing at the 10th spot in the 12-team league. It was in the sixth round that JCT registered their first win, beating Indian Bank 2-1. New Ghanian recruit Kwabena Yeboah along with Hardip Gill and Harvinder (Junior) are displaying good understanding with medios Hardip Saini and Joe Paul Ancheri providing back-up support. The role of dashing winger Jaswinder is vital as his incisive runs have thrown well known outfits into disarray. Tollygunge Agragami, on the other hand, have played only four matches thus far out of which they have lost two. Having lost to East Bengal 0-2 in their lung opener, Tollygunge went on to beat Mahindra United 3-2 in their second home match at Kolkata on November 21. On December 9, Tollygunge held Goa's Churchill Brothers to a 1-1 draw at Kolkata but their last outing against Dempo SC proved disastrous as they lost 1-4 in their first away match. Tollygunge, over the years, have emerged as the third major Kolkata outfit after East Bengal and Mohun Bagan pushing Mohammedan Sporting into the shadows. In the sixth NFL, they finished ninth with 23 points. Coached by Aloke
Mukherjee, Tollygunge Agragami have several promising players, including Nigerian stopper back Awoyemi Isiaka and striker Akeem Abolanle while another Nigerian, Josuah was expected to join the line-up. Among local stars, the name of Ashim Biswas is the most prominent as he has accounted for two of Tollygunge's five goals, including the equaliser against Churchill Brothers at Kolkata. Among the other old faces are Srikanta
Dutta, Amitava Chanda while the newcomers include Dipayan Majumdar and Manas Das, who switched over from Tata Football Academy this year. On the whole, JCT enjoy a slight edge over the rivals given their recent performances, especially the 3-3 draw against Mohun Bagan and the 2-1 win over Indian Bank. Nevertheless, JCT coach Sukhwinder Singh and his deputy Parminder Singh, are keeping their fingers crossed and prefer to view every match separately. The kick off is at 2 pm. |
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Mohun Bagan, Dempo post wins Bangalore, December 20 Bagan, with consumate ease, put it across the local challengers with Jose Barreto accounting for the all-important goal in the 42nd minute. MARGAO: Favourites Dempo Sports Club maintained their lead outplaying HAL Bangalore, 3-0 in the match being played here at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda. All the goals for the winners came in the first half through Francis Silveira in the 14th minute, Andrey Sergei in the 19th minute and M Bollaji in the 22nd minute. MUMBAI: Striker Yakubu Uisof’s 25th minute goal helped Churchill Brothers, Goa pip Mahindra United, Mumbai, 1-0 the Cooperage here.
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Punjab, Maharashtra in final Hyderabad, December 20 In the other semifinal, Punjab beat Karnataka by a solitary goal to reach the final. Earlier, in the morning Maharashtra eves helped by two second half goals from Papki Devi and Nishi Chauhan, downed Chandigarh to win the bronze medal for their team. Ryan Sequeira carried the day for his team after both the teams failed to break the deadlock even after 15 minutes of extra time. In the penalty shoot-out Ryan saved the first two shots taken by Lokande and Cyprian Aind diving to his right. In the other semifinal, a 36th minute penalty corner goal by Kanwalpreet Singh was enough for Punjab to down last year’s silver medallists Karnataka to enter the final. Immediately after change of ends, Punjab struck when a carpet shot by Kanwalpreet off Punjab’s third penalty corner sounded the boards with the Karnataka defence having no clue.
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