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Tuesday,
May 6, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Ramesh
puts Tamil Nadu on top Australia register 9-wicket win
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Gavaskar’s
confession Resume
Indo-Pak hockey ties: Pillay Restore
bilateral ties first: PCB Govt to
decide: Dalmiya Manchester
United win premier league
Athens
passes security test Ludhiana
boys are basketball champs Amritsar
score 328 against Ludhiana Hamirpur
beat Chamba
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Ramesh puts Tamil Nadu on top
Mumbai, May 5 After bowling out former champions Mumbai for 260 off the last ball of the very first over of the morning, Tamil Nadu themselves were in some sort of a bother losing their skipper S Suresh with just four runs on the board. However, the other opening batsman Ramesh, who was lucky to be dropped twice — first when on 15 by Mumbai skipper Paras Mhambrey off his own bowling and then by Ramesh Powar when on 28 off Mhambrey - bailed his team out with three fruitful partnerships. Initially, he added 68 runs for the second wicket with another southpaw S Sriram (26 off 82 balls) off 23 overs, then added 59 runs for the third wicket with S Badrinath (42 off 117 balls) and finally he added another 71 runs for the fourth wicket off 19.4 overs with Badani. Earlier, in the morning Tamil Nadu paceman L Balaji picked up the last wicket — that of Avishkar Salvi — for no score when he had the Indian pacer edging a catch to wicketkeeper Raaju while Vinayak Samant remained unbeaten on 17 as the hosts were all out for 260 off 91 overs. At stumps on the second day, Tamil Nadu’s most experienced batsman S Sharath (batting on ten) was giving company to Badani after Ajit Agarkar and Sairaj Bahutule had shared the four wickets to fall so far. In fact, the visitors could have placed themselves in a much better situation but they were hampered at times by their defensive approach. Tamil Nadu, who were 84 for two at lunch off 30 overs after S Sriram was snapped up by wicketkeeper Vinayak Samant off Indian paceman Ajit Agarkar, managed to add just 52 runs from the next 30 overs between lunch and tea. Both Ramesh and the new man S Badrinath were too cautious against some predictable Mumbai bowling and pathetic fielding. Ramesh, who faced 202 balls in his 335-minutes stay at the wicket hitting ten fours, reached his 50 with a push to mid-off for a single off Mhambrey. The second session witnessed not a single boundary from either of the batsmen for 95 minutes before Ramesh broke the deadlock with lofted drive off offie Ramesh Powar. For Mumbai, Agarkar bowled his heart out but could not get the much needed support from the other end with both Salvi and Mhambrey lacking in penetration. Scoreboard Mumbai (1st innings): Mane c Raaju b Gokhulakrishnan 13 Jaffer c Ramesh b Srinivas 83 Shetty c Raaju
b Gokhulakrishnan 21 Mazumdar c Gokhulakrishnan b Suresh 30 Thakkar lbw b Srinivas 0 Bahutule c Raaju b Suresh 34 Agarkar c Raaju b Suresh 26 Mhambrey c Ramesh
b Sriram 2 Powar c Suresh b Balaji 18 Sawant not out 17 Salvi c Raaju b Balaji 0 Extras:
(lb-7, nb-9) 16 Total: (all out in 91 overs) 260 Fall of wickets:
1-37, 2-100, 3-142, 4-142, 5-160, 6-213, 7-222, 8-229, 9-250. Bowling:
L. Balaji 18-3-37-2, M.R. Srinivas 14-4-44-2, J. Gokhulkrishnan 19-3-46-2, S. Suresh 18-2-51-3, D Dandapani 12-3-44-0, S Sriram 10-1-31-1. Tamil Nadu (1st innings): Suresh c Samant b Agarkar 3 Ramesh c Mazumdar
b Bahutule 85 Sriram c Samant b Agarkar 26 Badrinath c Mane b Bahutule 42 Badani batting 45 Sharath batting 10 Extras:
(b-2, lb-3, nb-7) 12 Total: (for 4 wkts off 87
overs) 223 Fall of wickets:
1-4, 2-72, 3-131, 4-202. Bowling: A Agarkar 18-3-40-2, A Salvi 17-7-35-0, P Mhambrey 10-0-29-0, R Powar 24-5-60-0, S Bahutule 18-3-54-2.
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Australia register 9-wicket win
Bridgetown, May 5 The series win sent Australia back to the world test rankings, above South Africa, while West Indies lost three home tests in a row for the first time. Australia can complete the misery for Brian Lara’s young team by winning the final test in Antigua starting on Friday. Leg-spinner Stuart MacGill, following up on his 4 for 107 in the first innings, finished with 5 for 75 as West Indies, following on in their second innings and needing 277 to make Australia bat again, were all out for 284. Australia, set eight to win, lost a wicket in the process as Jermaine Lawson completed a split hat-trick. Lawson, who took the last two wickets with successive balls in the Australian first innings, had Justin Langer lbw for a golden duck on the first ball of the innings. Australia reached their target in 2.3 overs, Darren Lehmann making four and Matthew Hayden two with two extras. Number three Ricky Ponting had a viral infection and did not play on Monday. West Indies began the day needing Ramnaresh Sarwan and Brian Lara to bat for as long as possible to give them any chance of avoiding defeat, but they lost both batsmen almost immediately. Omari Banks and Shivnarine Chanderpaul then offered stubborn resistance as they added 61 runs for the sixth wicket before both falling within four balls of each other shortly after lunch before the habitual collapse of the West Indies tail. West Indies, who made 328 in their first innings, resumed on 187 for three, 90 runs behind Australia’s first innings of 605 for nine declared, but with hope of forcing a draw if Sarwan and Lara could hold on. Instead, Sarwan departed for 58 off the first ball of the day when he was hit on the toe by a full-pitched delivery from leg-spinner Stuart MacGill. Sarwan had struck nine fours in 135 balls. The left-handed Lara was then dismissed for 42 when he attempted to flick a full-length Andy Bichel delivery through midwicket, missed and was rapped on the pad. SCOREBOARD Australia ( 1st innings): 605-9 West Indies (1st innings):
328 West Indies (IInd innings): Gayle st Gilchrist b MacGill 56 Smith lbw b Lee 5 Ganga lbw b Lee 6 Sarwan lbw b MacGill 58 Lara lbw b Bichel 42 Chanderpaul c Gilchrist
b Gillespie 21 Banks c Hayden b MacGill 32 Baugh run out 18 Drakes b MacGill 0 Best c Bichel b MacGill 0 Lawson not out 5 Extras
(b-13, lb-25, w-1, nb-2): 41 Total
(all out): 284 FoW: 1-14, 2-31, 3-94, 4-187, 5-195, 6-256, 7-256, 8-261, 9-265 Bowling:
McGrath 18-4-39-0, Gillespie 28-11-37-1, MacGill 36-11-75-5 (nb-1, w-1), Lee 15-6-44-2, Bichel 12-2-35-1 (nb-1),
Ponting 2-0-6-0, Waugh 4-1-6-0, Lehmann 1-0-4-0 Australia (IInd innings): Langer lbw b Lawson 0 Hayden not out 2 Lehmann not out 4 Extras (b-2):
2 Total (one wicket, 2.3 overs): 8 FoW: 1-0 Bowling:
Lawson 1-0-2-1, Banks 1-0-2-0, Gayle 0.3-0-2-0. Reuters
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Oram, Vettori lead Kiwi revival Kandy, May 5 At the close, Sri Lanka were 94 for two in reply to New Zealand’s 305 all out. Vettori was the last man out for the visitors when he was run out for 55 by an underarm flick from Atapattu, who was hurtling in from mid off. Both players collided and were carried from the field in separate stretchers before being rushed to hospital for X-rays and treatment. The X-rays revealed no serious damage but doctors have advised Vettori to rest an injured ankle and have fitted a precautionary neck brace on Atapattu, who was concussed. Both players have been advised to rest and may not be able to take part in the fourth day’s play. New Zealand, who had started the day at a precarious 75 for four after a delayed start to the match, frustrated a Sri Lanka side looking to wrap up the innings quickly. They then grabbed the wickets of stand-in opener Kumar Sangakkara (10) batting in place of Atapattu, and Mahela Jayawardena (15) before the close. Sanath Jayasuriya cracked 10 boundaries in an unbeaten 53, his 24th test half century while skipper Hashan Tillakaratne was 10 not out at the close. New Zealand chiseled out 230 runs in the day thanks to a patient 55 from opener Mark Richardson, a career-best 74 from all rounder Jacob Oram and an entertaining boundary-studded innings from Vettori before his collision with Atapattu. The incident revived memories of Steve Waugh’s bloody collision with fellow-Australian Jason Gillespie in 1999 at the same venue. Atapattu was also involved in a collision with Brian Lara during a one-day match in 2001. He escaped injury on that occasion but Lara dislocated an elbow. Muttiah Muralitharan, bowling in front of his home town crowd, was Sri Lanka’s most successful bowler, claiming three for 90 from 34 overs. The fielding collision forced changes in the Sri Lanka top order as Jayasuriya opened the innings with Sangakkara. Sangakkara picked up two early boundaries before being caught behind as he tried to hook a short delivery from Daryl Tuffey. Scoreboard New Zealand (Ist innings): Richardson c Sangakkara
b Lokuarachchi 55 Horne c Kaluwitharana b Vaas 1 Fleming lbw b Nissanka 0 Sinclair lbw b Vaas 3 Styris c Tillakaratne
b Muralitharan 32 Oram c Kaluwitharana b Lokuarachchi 74 Hart lbw b Muralitharan 31 Vettori run out 55 Wiseman b Muralitharan 7 Tuffey c Jayawardene
b Nissanka 15 Bond not out 10 Extras (b-3, lb-7, nb-7, w-5):
22 Total
(all out, 111.5 overs): 305 Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-7, 3-11, 4-71, 5-109, 6-189, 7-222, 8-237, 9-271, 10-305 Bowling:
Vaas 22-8-48-2 (2-nb), Nissanka 16.5-5-41-2, Muralitharan 34-10-90-3 (5-nb), Jayasuriya 8-0-24-0, Dharmasena 15-5-40-0, Lokuarachchi 16-5-52-2. Sri Lanka (Ist innings): Sangakkara c Hart b Tuffey 10 Jayasuriya not out 53 Jayawardene c Hart b Oram 15 Tillakaratne not out 10 Extras
(lb-5 nb-1) 6 Total (for two wickets, 28 overs) 94 Fall of wickets:
1-30, 2-69 Bowling: Tuffey 8-4-16-1, Bond 9-2-32-0 (1-nb), Oram 5-0-11-1, Wiseman 6-0-30-0.
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Vettori, Atapattu hurt in collision Kandy, May 5 Vettori suffered an ankle injury and Atapattu had bruises on the right side of the face after the Sri Lankan collided with batsman Vettori while trying to run him out. Atapattu’s face hit Vettori’s helmet and both players were sprawled on the field for several minutes before an ambulance came on to the field and rushed them to hospital. Vettori injured his left ankle when he slumped to the ground, while Atapattu suffered concussions and bruises on the face, according to the medical staff who attended the players. “Both players are under observation in hospital,” said Sri Lankan team manager Ajit Jayasekera. “I can’t say yet how serious the injuries are.” Initial reports suggest the injuries may keep both players out of the limited-overs tri-series between New Zealand, Pakistan and the hosts starting on May 10. This is the third incident of its kind at the Asgiriya Stadium here in the last four years — and the second involving Atapattu. In 1999, Australian captain Steve Waugh suffered a broken nose and fast bowler Jason Gillespie dislocated a shoulder after colliding in the outfield during a Test match here. Two years later, Atapattu banged into West Indian Brian Lara attempting a similar run-out to today’s. While Atapattu bruised his arm, Lara dislocated his shoulder.
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Gavaskar’s confession
New Delhi, May 5 The incident is related to the infamous innings of Gavaskar when he remained not out on 36 after as many as 60 overs. In his foreword to the just published book, “Portraits of the Game” by Shyam A Bhatia, a Dubai based industrialist, Gavaskar confesses that he had “nicked” a rising delivery from Geoff Arnold to which no one appealed. “How I wish I had walked to only the second ball of our innings when I tried to cut over slips a short rising delivery and got a nick. But apart from a muffled “ow” from Alan Knott (the wicketkeeper), there was no appeal, not even from the crusty Geoff Arnold. “So I carried on and lived to regret it,” writes the prolific batsman candidly. “To be sure, I have never been able to forget that pathetic effort of mine though, of course, I contest vehemently when anyone, especially my good friend Ian Chappell ribs me about 36 in 60 overs and correct them by saying it is not in 60 overs but in a 60 overs match,” he writes. The book also carries memorable pieces written by Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara and former greats Kapil Dev, Imran Khan, Ian Botham, Clive Lloyd, Allan Border, Ian Chappell, Arvinda de Silva and Andy Flower. Besides, there is also a piece by the current Indian captain Saurav Ganguly.
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Resume Indo-Pak hockey ties: Pillay Bhopal, May 5 “If both these countries resume hockey ties it will be a big boost for traditional hockey in the world,” Pillai who was here to attend a felicitation programme told reporters last night. “Both India and Pakistan have a distinct place in the world of hockey and if both resume playing each other it will help in improving the standard of game,” he said. Blaming the media especially the electronic media for poor coverage of hockey matches, Pillai said: “Focus on cricket is so much in this country that other games and their players go unnoticed.”
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Restore bilateral ties first: PCB
New Delhi, May 5 Pakistan Cricket Board chief Lt-Gen Tauqir Zia said there was “no point in playing in multi-lateral tournaments if the two countries cannot play in each other countries”. “A cricket match between Pakistan and India in any multi-lateral tournament would be subject to the revival of bilateral cricket ties,” Zia said in a telephonic interview to PTI from Lahore. Accordingly, Pakistan would not participate in the Asia Cup, originally scheduled in August this year but now put off to April next year, if India did not tour Pakistan next year. Zia said PCB will request the International Cricket Council to make the necessary changes in its international calendar to accommodate India’s tour to Pakistan and reschedule his own country’s trip to India from next year to 2005. “We will not participate in Asia Cup if India does not come here next year, unless, of course our government decides otherwise,” Zia said. He said the cordial relations that the cricket boards of the two countries enjoyed earlier had been spoiled “to a very great extent” and there was an urgent need for resumption of bilateral ties. |
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Govt to decide: Dalmiya Kolkata: The Indian cricket board today said the decision to resume bilateral cricket ties between India and Pakistan entirely depended on the Indian government and that the matter has been taken up appropriately. “As far as bilateral cricket ties are concerned it depends on the government and we are talking to them,” cricket board president Jagmohan Dalmiya said here. Briefly answering questions by newsmen at his arrival here from the Asian Cricket Foundation meeting in Dubai, Dalmiya said the two teams would face each other in the Asia Cup cricket on which a consensus was reached at Dubai. “There was a consensus on the participation at the Asian Cup during the Dubai meeting and six nations will play the tournament,” he said.
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Manchester United win premier league
Manchester, May 5 Alex Ferguson’s team moved eight points clear at the top by beating Charlton Athletic 4-1 on Saturday, and Arsenal needed to win their last three matches to have a chance of retaining their title. United, eight points behind Arsenal two months ago, have taken 45 points from a possible 51 since losing at Middlesbrough on December 26, winning 14 games and drawing three. “It’s fantastic, a great achievement by the team,” Ferguson told Sky Sports. “We showed the perseverance and determination allied to the great ability we have, and that’s what gave us the title.” Written off by many after an inconsistent start to the season partly caused by a crippling injury list, United hit rock bottom in November when they slumped to a 3-1 defeat at local rivals Manchester City. “I’m surprised that people had doubts about Manchester United,” said Ferguson who did not watch Arsenal’s match against Leeds as he was attending his grandson’s birthday party. “We decided to take the poison and get the injuries sorted,” he said, referring to the seven major operations undergone by his players in the early part of the season. Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy was United’s spearhead, his hat-trick against Charlton taking his tally to 43 goals in his second season at the club. While Ryan Giggs will collect his eight premier league winners’ medal and captain Roy Keane his seventh, it will be the first silverware as United players for Van Nistelrooy, Juan Sebastian Veron and Rio Ferdinand, signed for a combined cost of nearly 80 million pounds. It was the fifth time that United had clinched the premier league title without playing. Only once, in 1999, have they won it in front of their own fans at Old Trafford, where Arsenal sealed the championship last season with a 1-0 win over their bitter rivals. United’s final match of the campaign is next Sunday at Everton, but Ferguson is already thinking about another tilt at the Champions League, in which they were knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Real Madrid last month. “We’ve got to get the big one again,” he said. “Twice is not enough for a club of Manchester United’s size.” Ferguson led United to victory in the 1999 Champions League, 31 years after the club’s only previous success in European soccer’s top competition.
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Athens passes security test
Athens, May 5 But organisers of next year’s Athens Olympics are holding their heads high after a series of high-profile European Union meetings in Greece, including a summit, went off without a hitch. A two-day gathering of more than 40 European leaders in mid-April was the biggest event Athens has ever hosted and the verdict of most delegates and observers was that the Greek capital rose to the occasion. “On the day before we were a bit worried, there was still a lot of work going on but then everything went quite smoothly,’’ one Brussels-based delegate said after the EU summit. Athens vice-mayor Theodore Skylakakis, in charge of the city’s preparations for next year’s Games, conceded that in Greece most work tended to get done when deadlines got tight. “This is our disadvantage and advantage, we are very good towards the finish, we can do a lot when time is pressing,’’ he told Reuters. The “It will be alright on the night’’ attitude regularly has international Olympic officials tearing out their hair. Mr Jacques Rogge, the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), has compared the preparations to Greece’s traditional syrtaki folk dance with its slow start and furious finale. IOC inspectors regularly issue warnings about the pace of preparations and say tight timetables do not allow them to relax and take at face value assurances that everything will be ready on time. But the EU meetings — a kind of Olympic logistics test event for the city — has boosted Athens officials’ confidence that come mid-August 2004, the city will be ready for the Games. The EU summit was a logistics nightmare with venues for meetings scattered around the choked city centre and leaders and their aides staying at a number of locations. Security concerns in the wake of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq and anti-war protests during the EU leaders’ gathering piled more pressure on the city. “We believe that the city coped very well,’’ Skylakakis said. Greece mobilised 20,000 security forces for the summit in the country’s biggest ever deployment that will be repeated for the Olympics on an even larger scale. “The only thing we have to look at again is better support for our people who had to work for long hours and who will have to do it again for the Olympic Games,’’ police spokesman Lefteris Oikonomou told Reuters. Officials are well aware that the 18-day games will be a far bigger test. “The Olympic games are a different ball game. We will need to step up our efforts tenfold, 100 times to handle it as smoothly as those events in April,’’ said Skylakakis. “But as time goes on the Olympic spirit catches on. We’ve already done much and we are very optimistic.’’ But the success had a price and it was Athenians who paid, as they will during the Olympics. Aware of Athens’s notorious traffic chaos, Greece took no chances and virtually shut down the city centre for two days as well as giving civil servants a day off for the main meeting.
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Ludhiana
boys are basketball champs Amritsar, May 5 The girls’ final was won by Faridkot who trounced Jalandhar 66-51. Jalandhar were sitting pretty against Faridkot at 22-13. However, Faridkot girls emphatically came back in the second quarter as they scored 25 points. In the next quarter again the winners got 22 points and in the last quarter both the teams scored six points each. For Faridkot Nampreet Kaur (18) Mehak Dhillon (16) and Paramjeet Kaur (13) were the main scorers. In the boys final Ludhiana slugged it out against Gurdaspur before winning 71-47. In the first quarter Ludhiana scored 12 points while Gurdaspur were leading by scoring 23 points. However, Ludhiana made a comeback in the second quarter and basketed 23 times whereas Gurdaspur scored a meagre nine points. Though Gurdaspur scored 14 points in the third quarter against the nine points of Ludhiana but in the last quarter the winners scored 11 against the loser’s nine. Earlier in the morning Kapurthala girls beat Gurdaspur by 43-35. In the boys section Kapurthala defeated Amritsar by 80-58. |
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Amritsar
score 328 against Ludhiana Amritsar, May 5 Earlier, Amritsar won the toss and elected to bat first. Hosts Amritsar were all out at 328 in 88 overs. The top scorers were Hitesh Anand 86 and Harman Singh Bajwa 74. For Ludhiana Ratan Bricher was the top grabber with three wickets in his kitty while Shivam Mani and Mukul Gupta managed to scalp two wickets each. Till the end of the today’s play Ludhiana were at 19 for one in five overs. |
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Hamirpur
beat Chamba Chamba, May 5 Chamba won the toss and elected to bat. The openers gave them good start and at one state Chamba were 52 for no loss. Sober and Himanshu played well. After that Kapoor Singh occupied the crease for some time as Chamba were all out for 142. In reply, Hamirpur overhauled the target losing 9 wickets. Scores: Chamba:
142 all out (Sober 29, Kapoor Singh 24, Deepak 26, Sonath 2 for 28, Neeraj Chauhan 2 for 25, Pankaj 2 for 30). Hamirpur: 143 for 9 (Neeraj 48, Vikas 19, Karan 2 for 16, Kapoor 2 for 13, Umesh 4 for 30). |
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BERLIN: World No. 3 Venus Williams has officially withdrawn from the German Open. Williams, who was forced to quit during the third set of the J&S Cup final on Sunday with an abdominal strain, was seeded second at the WTA clay-court event. “The decision not to come to Berlin was very difficult for me, because I have always loved to play in Germany and the fans know and appreciate tennis very much,” Williams said. “I will take it easy in the next few weeks and hope to be fit again soon.”
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