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India to sign anti-doping code
Bhatia WFI gen secy Haryana eves start favourites Faridkot eves triumph
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TN seamers restrict Mumbai Mumbai, May 4 Mumbai skipper Paras Mhambrey won the toss and elected to bat first on a seamer friendly wicket but the decision backfired as the team’s innings stuttered in the post-lunch session. Gokhulakrishnan, who was one of the two replacements for Tamil Nadu along with batsman S. Badrinath, gave the visitors the much-needed breakthrough after Mumbai openers Vinayak Mane (13) and Wasim Jaffer (83) put on 37 runs. Mane, while trying to fend a rising delivery from Gokhulakrishnan gave an easy catch to wicketkeeper Raaju. Jaffer along with Nishit Shetty, who was dropped twice even before he had reached 20, brought up the best partnership of the innings when they added 63 runs off 120 balls for the second wicket before left hander Shetty (21) chased an outswinger from Gokhulakrishnan and snicked it to Raaju. Shetty was earlier dropped by Badrinath at silly point off offie D. Dandapani when on 18 and then after adding just a single to his individual score Dandapani dropped him at gully off Srinivas. Meanwhile, Jaffer was gaining in confidence with every shot. He played some pleasing cover drives off both pace and spin bowlers and looked in fine nick. He flicked L. Balaji and straight drove Srinivas to the boundary effortlessly. Jaffer also swept offie Dandapani twice to the fence and hit left arm spinner S. Sriram through the covers for couple of boundaries and brought up his fifty with a flick off Suresh. From the other end, Amol Mazumdar, who has had a very poor season with the bat, was lucky to be let off on the very first ball he faced. He was dropped by Gokhulakrishnan in the gully off a Suresh outswinger. Jaffer, who was completely set and looked good for a hundred, played a very poor shot to be caught in the second slip by Sadagopan Ramesh off Srinivas after adding 42 runs with Mazumdar. Bhavin Thakkar, who scored a crucial 76 in the semi-final against Baroda last week, lasted just a single ball and Srinivas was on a hat-trick after trapping Thakkar leg before wicket. Left-hander Sairaj Bahutule denied Srinivas the hat-trick and looked like bailing out Mumbai once again especially after Mazumdar offered a simple catch to Gokhulakrishnan at gully to become skipper Suresh’s first of the three victims for 30 off 64 balls with five fours. Bahutule (34, 86b, 4x4), in the company of Ajit Agarkar, (26, 75b, 4x4) tried to retrieve the situation with a 53-run stand for the sixth wicket off 21.4 overs but once he lost his partner Agarkar to Suresh, caught behind the wicket by Raaju, he too fell to the same combination. The Mumbai lower order, which has come to its aid time and again in the past, failed with Tamil Nadu bowlers threatening to run through the innings. Skipper Mhambrey was caught in the slips by Ramesh off left arm spinner S. Sriram for two and hard hitting batsman Ramesh Powar became Balaji’s first victim, being caught by Suresh at wide covers. SCOREBOARD Mumbai (1st innings): Mane c (wk) Raju b Gokulakrishnan 13 Jaffer c Ramesh b Sriniwas 83 Shetty c Raju b Gokulakrishnan 21 Muzumdar c Gokulakrishnan b Suresh 30 Thakkar lbw Sriniwas 0 Bahutule c Raju b Suresh 34 Agarkar c Raju b Suresh 26 Mhambrey c Ramesh b Sriram 2 Powar c Suresh b Balaji 18 Samant not out 16 Salvi not out 0 Extras (7lb, 9 nb): 16 Total (for nine wickets): 259 FoW: 1-37, 2-100, 3-142, 4-142, 5-160, 6-213, 7-222, 8-229, 9-250. Bowling:
L Balaji: 17-3-36-1; M.R. Sriniwas: 14-4-44-2; J. Gokulakrishnan: 19-3-46-2; S. Suresh: 18-2-51-3; D. Dhandapani: 12-3-44-0; S. Sriram 10-1-31-1.
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West Indies forced to follow on Bridgetown, May 4 West Indies, already 2-0 down in the series, fell 277 runs short of Australia’s huge first innings score of 605 for nine as Stuart MacGill polished off their first innings by taking the last two wickets.
MacGill had Vasbert Drakes caught in the covers by Brett Lee for 11 attempting to drive and Jermaine Lawson stumped for one by Adam Gilchrist. Debutant tail-ender Tino Best put up some resistance after West Indies resumed on 291 for eight overnight. He survived 50 balls, including some hostile Lee bouncers, and hit two fours in making an unbeaten 20. Lara left his sick bed and came in at number eight to try and get the West Indies past the follow-on, but he was out controversially five overs from stumps for 14. Young wicketkeeper Carlton Baugh was caught at bat-pad four balls from the end yesterday to leave the West Indies 291 for eight. The Australian bowlers toiled all day to break down the West Indies resistance on the unresponsive wicket, while Lara stayed in his hotel room resting from a high temperature and reports of suspected chicken pox. His arrival at the wicket was greeted by a huge roar from the home crowd and he resisted the Australian attack for almost 80 minutes and 55 balls before he fell to a dubious leg before decision given quickly by umpire Srinivas Venkataraghaven. Andy Bichel’s low skidding delivery appeared on television replays to take an inside edge off his bat on to his backpad, but to his astonishment Lara was given out. Lara had a life on nine when Ponting put down a hot two-handed chance at second slip off Jason Gillespie. The home team then suffered another body blow when Baugh prodded forward to Stuart MacGill and popped a catch to Ricky Ponting close in at bat-pad to be out for 24 in 104 minutes. Gillespie was Australia’s bowling star with the impressive figures of 3-31 off 21 overs with nine maidens, while MacGill, getting prodigious turn off the dead track, claimed 4 for 107 off 39.5 overs. Glenn McGrath, the 422-Test wicket campaigner and who has snared Lara’s wicket 13 times in 18 previous Tests, went wicketless throughout yesterday, but was economical all the same with 0-25 off 18 overs. Australia have already retained the Frank Worrell Trophy after wins in the opening two Tests and a victory here. SCOREBOARD Australia (1st Innings): 605 for 9 declared. West Indies (1st innings): Gayle b Gillespie 71 Smith c Gilchrist b Gillespie 59 Ganga c Bichel b Lehmann 26 Sarwan c Gilchrist b Lee 40 Chanderpaul c Lee b MacGill 0 Banks c Ponting b Gillespie 24 Baugh c Ponting b MacGill 24 Lara lbw b Bichel 14 Drakes c Lee b MacGill 11 Best not out 20 Lawson st Gilchrist b MacGill 1 Extras (b-11, lb-16, nb-11): 38 Total (all out, 128.5 overs ): 328 FoW: 1-139, 2-142, 3-205, 4-206, 5-245, 6-245, 7-281, 8-291, 9-324 Bowling:
McGrath 18-7-25-0, Gillespie 21-9-31-3 (nb-1), Lee 25-8-77-1 (nb-8), MacGill 39.5-8-107-4 (nb-2), Lehmann 9-2-26-1, Bichel 16-3-35-1.
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Bridgetown (Barbados), May 4 Lara left his sick bed on the third day yesterday and came in down the batting order at number eight to try and get the West Indies past the follow-on, but was out controversially five overs from stumps for 14. Australia, ahead in the series 2-0, were in control of the third Test and had the West Indies 291 for eight and still 314 runs behind Australia’s mammoth first innings declaration of 605 for nine with two days remaining. Lara laboured during his 80 minutes at the crease, but he and Windies team officials would not say what was wrong. Team officials would not say whether the premier batsman might have contracted chicken pox, which kept teammate Jermaine Lawson out of the second Test. Lara, who celebrated his 34th birthday on Friday, arrived at Kensington Oval after tea and left without explanation about his condition. “You’ve got to go to the team manager. I batted today and I will bat in the second innings,” Lara said. But team manager Ricky Skerritt added to the general confusion when he said: ”I’m not the team doctor. I’m not going to talk about Lara.” A team spokesman said Lara’s health would be assessed again on the fourth day. The latest setback continues Lara’s recent health problems. He contracted hepatitis late last year, which forced him out of the tour to India last October and out of international cricket for four months. Lara was hospitalised after scoring a century during the Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka last September and he did not play for the Windies again until February’s World Cup. Lara’s situation is critical to the West Indies’ attempts to prevent a first-ever series whitewash in 73 years’ cricket in the Caribbean. He will have only a few days to recover before Friday’s fourth and final Test in Antigua. Lara has been the Caribbean’s great batting hope with centuries in the opening two Tests of the series against the powerful Australian bowling attack in Guyana and Trinidad.
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Innings win for South Africa Dhaka, May 4 Bangladesh, needing 24 more runs to make South Africa bat again, could add just six runs on the fourth day as seamer Shaun Pollock took both the remaining wickets. Overnight 204-8 after conceding a 228-run first innings lead, the home side could not deny South Africa its fourth straight innings victory over Bangladesh, consuming just three overs this morning. Bangladesh lost the first Test by an innings and 60 runs at Chittagong and had lost both matches of a two-Test series by similar margins in South Africa last year. Tapas Baishya remained unbeaten even as Mohammad Salim was caught in the close-cordon and last-man Mashrafi bin Murtaza was bowled. South Africa skipper Graeme Smith thus had the satisfaction of scoring convincing wins in his first two Tests at the helm. “It is easy to say that we just beat Bangladesh but all of us had to adapt to the conditions here. Our bowlers bowled well, we had some good partnerships and so did well overall,” said 22-year-old Smith, the youngest South African captain. “It has been a wonderful experience playing in the sub-continent and we know it will help us in the future,” said Smith, looking forward to an upcoming tour of England. “We will be off to England in some weeks and hope to carry our form from here. We are due to play both Tests and one-dayers there and we are looking forward to them,” he said. South Africa came here with a new-look side with Smith replacing Shaun Pollock as captain after the allrounder failed to take South Africa beyond the first round of the World Cup. SCOREBOARD South Africa (1st innings): 330 Bangladesh (1st innings): 102 Bangladesh (2nd innings): Omar c Pollock b Adams 27 Mehrab run out 14 Habibul c Boucher b Peterson 33 Ashraful c Pollock b Peterson 23 Akram c Rudolph b Ntini 23 Kapali c Ntini b Dawson 23 Mahmud c sub b Peterson 0 Salim c Smith b Pollock 26 Rafique c Boucher b Adams 18 Baishya not out 8 Murtaza b Pollock 4 Extras (b-5, nb-5, w-1): 11 Total (all out, 83 overs): 210 FoW: 1-46, 2-46, 3-93, 4-119, 5-131, 6-139, 7-163, 8-190, 9-206. Bowling:
Pollock 8-1-21-2, Ntini 12-2-37-1, Peterson 27-13-46-3, Dawson 10-5-12-1, Adams 19-3-70-2, Smith 7-0-19-0.
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Lanka strike early blows
Kandy (Sri Lanka), May 4 Left-arm seamer Chaminda Vaas grabbed two wickets and new ball partner Prabath Nissanka one as the Kiwis slumped to 11 for 3 after electing to take first strike when the match started after tea on the second day. But the brief spell of play lasted only 34 overs as bad light drove the players off the Asgiriya Stadium and dark clouds overhead threatened to curtail play further over the next three days. There was, however, enough time for Mark Richardson and Scott Styris to launch a rescue act as the Kiwis closed the day at 75 for 4. The pair defied the ball that skidded low after pitching to add 60 valuable runs for the fourth wicket. Styris hit five boundaries in an aggressive 32 before he was unlucky to be given out caught at silly point off Muttiah Muralitharan. Television replays showed the ball miss the bat. Left-handed opener Richardson saw off the day with 32 not out, while Jacob Oram had yet to score. The entire first day’s play was lost yesterday while a slushy outfield caused by heavy seasonal rains wiped away the first two sessions of the second day. But there was plenty of excitement for home fans when play began. Vaas struck with the first ball of his second over when he had Matthew Horne edging a low catch to wicket-keeper Romesh Kaluwitharana. New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, who returned unconquered with a career-best 274 and 69 in the drawn first Test in Colombo last week, failed to score when he was trapped leg-before by Nissanka in the next over. Mathew Sinclair padded up to a swinging delivery from Vaas and was declared leg-before as the Kiwis found their batting strength decimated by the seventh over. SCOREBOARD New Zealand (1st innings): Richardson batting 32 Horne c Kaluwitharana b Vaas 1 Fleming lbw b Nissanka 0 Sinclair lbw b Vaas 3 Styris c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan 32 Oram batting 0 Extras (b-2, lb-2, nb-3): 7 Total (for 4 wickets, 34 overs): 75 FoW: 1-6, 2-7, 3-11, 4-71 Bowling: Vaas 10-5-19-2, Nissanka 7-2-16-1, Muralitharan 9-2-18-1, Jayasuriya 3-0-7-0, Dharmasena 4-1-11-0, Lokuarachchi 1-1-0-0.
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India to sign anti-doping code Raipur, May 4 Stating the government was committed to take stringent action against doping, Verma said the doping scandal in the last National Games was not a worrying factor. “Out of 480 participants whose samples were tested, only 20 were found positive which is a very small number and not a worrying factor,” he said. The minister said it was the second time that doping tests were carried out in the National Games in Hyderabad, where around two dozen athletes, including several medal winners, tested positive.
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AAFI’s lenient stance to blame for doping Patiala, May 4 Even as the senior national athletics camp is underway at the NIS here, nobody is willing to talk about the dope phenomenon. However, there are some ‘off-the record’ athletes and coaches who are ready to speak. A senior coach attached to the ongoing national camp confided, “A couple of years ago, 27 junior athletes had tested positive for IOC banned substances. However, instead of acting promptly, the Amatuer Athletic Federation of India
(AAFI) took a lenient stance. Had the federation bosses immediately banned these guilty athletes, things would not have come to such a pass today”. Some experts opine that the dreaded dope disease may never die as the air is thick with the rumour that a team of Ukrainian doctors, led by Dr Yuri
Boyko, is landing at the NIS shortly to train athletes attending the ongoing national camp. Interestingly, doping scandals had started surfacing just prior to the 1998 Bangkok Asiad when Dr Yuri Boyko was attached to the Indian athletic contingent. Many say that Dr Yuri was the man responsible for bringing drugs into Indian sport in the guise of ‘herbal medicines’. The NIS authorities have been fast to react to the
Hyderabad fiasco and have set up a two member panel to educate athletes attending national camps at the NIS about the ill effects of doping. The panel members are Dr Ashok
Ahuja, Senior Scientific Officer (Sports Medicine) and Dr Pardeep Gupta, Scientific Officer, who was earlier working in the New Delhi-based SAI
laboratory. SAI has also initiated other measures to check the menace
by announcing checking of rooms at the JUNE Stadium at New Delhi where sportspersons reside when they are attending camps in the Capital. It has also been announced that stringent action will be taken against athletes in whose rooms banned substances, vials or injections are found. Indications are that the NIS authorities may soon follow suit as a huge cache of banned drugs was found in rooms of hostels last year. A former thrower who took part in the Bangkok Asiad said: “All these are cosmetic changes. Doping has been flourishing and will continue to do so among Indian athletes, come what may.” Many coaches and experts opine that it is high time that the SAI lab is accreditated to the IOC. Since now the lab has no legal sanctity testing at the lab is more of a deterrent than a fool proof method of enforcing sanctions on erring sportspersons. Meanwhile it has been learnt that the SAI lab, which started testing in 1991, is in the process of seeking the mandatory ISO 17025 certification. Once this is done, the lab will undergo the World Anti-Doping Authority (WADA) proficiency testing programme for a minimum period of one year. Till then, experts opine that ‘dopers’ will be enjoying a free run and with the Ukrainian doctors scheduled to come to the NIS shortly, things will only go from bad to worse. |
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Joon pips Johl for title Seoul, May 4 The 31-year-old Chung shot five birdies and two bogeys today, finishing the tournament with a 13-under 275 at the Nam Seoul Country Club, just south of Seoul. “It’s my first victory on the Asian PGA Tour and the first since winning a local circuit tournament in 1996,” said Chung, who took home the $ 81,037 first prize. “It has been a long seven years and I’ll be aiming for another victory in the next seventh months.” Johl, who shot an eagle on the par-5 fourth hole and two birdies on par-4 holes, tied for the lead twice, but at the 18th hole, his approach hit a camera tripod and landed at the front of the green which led to a bogey. Thongchai Jaidee of Thailand, the Asian PGA Order of Merit winner in 2001, shot a five-under 67 finishing in third place. The Asian PGA Tour visited South Korea for the first time this year where the Maekyung LG Fashion Open was the eighth leg of the season.
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Bhatia WFI gen secy Hyderabad, May 4 After Dora, a member of the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), became the unanimous choice to head the WFI, he held consultations with various groups and brought about a consensus among the various factions and the general body approved the name of Bhatia as general secretary along with 17 other office bearers for a three-year term. The presence of two Indian Olympic Association (IOA) observers legitimised the election, held a day after reports that Bhatia had been declared persona non grata by the Sports Ministry allegedly for “abetting doping”. Bhatia refused to comment on the reports. The federation would start preparations for the inaugural Afro-Asian Games here in October-November and next year’s Olympics, Dora told reporters after the General Body meeting. Bhatia said he would try to give the best equipment and exposure to the lifters to improve their performance. The members elected in the general body are: President — H.J. Dora; Vice-Presidents: Harbhajan Singh, N.R. Choudhry, R.N. Chatterjee, B. Venkatramaiah, S.K. Sinha, Mahesh Lohar, B.R. Gulati, T.D. Roy; Associate Vice-President: A. Gunsekharan, K.S. Bansal. General
Secretary: Balbir Singh Bhatia; Secretary: H.V.
Satyanarayana; Joint Secretaries: M. Tamilselvan (South), H.S. Bansal (North), Narayan Sahu (East) Sunil Elenghan (N. East); treasurer: J.S. Jagga.
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Haryana eves start favourites Pune, May 4 Overcoming all odds and in the absence of any major sponsorships, the WHAM is honouring the commitment to host the important championship in the sport city and keep women’s hockey alive. The championship was billed from February 8. So far, 12 teams are already in the city, while the rest will be arriving late tonight or early tomorrow morning, the WHAM Honorary secretary S.R. Bhat said. The teams who are in the city are of Haryana, Chattisgarh, Bundelkhand, Pepsu, West Bengal, Mumbai, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Uttaranchal and Maharashtra. The championship assumes importance in view of the 2004 Athens Olympics. The IWHF will be selecting the talented probables in a bid to refurbish the senior team before finalising the squad for the ensuing Olympics.
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Faridkot eves triumph Amritsar, May 4 A keen tussle was witnessed between Faridkot and Kapurthala girls. Though Mala of Kapurthala played well individually and remained the highest scorer from the either sides with 24 points the team efforts of Faridkot players saw them winning by a margin of 63-55. Top scorers for the winners were Navdeep Kaur (20), Mehak Dhillon (18) and Paramjit Kaur (9). In other matches of the girls category, Jalandhar vanquished Kapurthala by 54-44 and Faridkot outclassed Gurdaspur 53-44. In the boys section Ludhiana defeated Amritsar by 77-60 and in the other match Gurdaspur beat Kapurthala 78-68. |
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Sachin fashions Kangra win Chamba, May 4 Hamirpur won the toss and elected to bat first. But they were in trouble right from the beginning and lost three quick wickets. However, Neeraj Chauhan and Sahil Kumar saved the team from collapse. Neeraj scored 30 and Sahil scored 35. Paras Dogra got three wickets for 17 runs on Hamirpur scored 160. In reply, Kangra overhauled the target by losing 5 wickets. The highlights of the match were 90 by Sachin. Brief scores: Hamirpur:
160 all out (Neeraj 30, Sahil 35, Ajay Mohan 25, Ashwani 20, Paras Dogra 3 for 17, Amit 3 for 32). Kangra: 162 for 5 (Sachin 90, Saurabh 26, Rajeev 16. Amit 2 for 25, Neeraj 2 for 27, Sonath 1 for 58. |
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