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Tuesday,
June 10, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Chandana helps Lanka clinch series
I wanted to return to SA: Le Roux
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‘AIFF grooming junior players’ PCA appoints coach Chatwinder upsets Punna; Ghouse wins Punjab cagers enter knock-out stage Mandi football Patiala golfer bags title
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Chandana
helps Lanka clinch series
Bridgetown (Barbados), June 9 Lara hit an explosive 116 to help his team post 312 for 4, but the Chandana-led Sri Lanka achieved the imposing target with three balls to spare in a match of fluctuating fortunes at the Kensington Oval. Chandana, 31, turned the match upside-down with his career-best knock as Sri Lanka successfully chased the sixth-highest total in the history of the game. He gave an awesome exhibition of clean and powerful hitting during his 71-ball knock, smashing four sixes and six fours to eventually upstage Lara. "He (Chandana) played a great knock," said Sri Lankan captain Marvan Atapattu. "We knew he had a lot of potential, but he had not lived up to it. He has now shown he can play a really good innings. Sri Lanka won the opening game at the same venue on Saturday as they defended their modest total of 201 by bowling the hosts out for 146. Sri Lanka were off to a flying start as Sanath Jayasuriya (41) and Romesh Kaluwitharana (34) shared a brisk 71-run stand before Chandana completed a sensational win. Chandana put on 101 for the fifth wicket with Mahela Jayawardene (32). Lara was disappointed, saying his young team would have to learn a lot from the match. "I was pleased with our total, but they batted very well," said Lara, who also completed 1,000 runs against Sri Lanka in one-dayers batting at his regular number-three position. "We put down a couple of chances in the closing overs and that cost us the match. We’ve to learn from our mistakes. We’ve to make sure we win the third game (at St Vincent on Wednesday)." The West Indies batting flourished as Lara, Chris Gayle (94) and Marlon Samuels (56 not out) dominated the Sri Lankan attack. Lara was on song as he led the run riot to help his team reach the highest total at this venue before being overshadowed by Chandana. He paced his innings well after surviving a confident caught-behind appeal on nought, smashing two sixes and eight fours in his 106-ball knock for his 17th century. Gayle struck two sixes and 12 fours to put his team on course for a big total with a 137-run stand with Lara. The stand equalled the West Indies’ best for the second wicket against Sri Lanka. Samuels also made merry during his unbeaten 36-ball innings, including 21 runs in an over from leg-spinner Chandana. He put on 109 off just 55 balls with Lara for the fourth wicket. AFP SCOREBOARD West Indies: Gayle run out 94 Hinds lbw b Vaas 10 Lara c Jayasuriya
b Nissanka 116 Sarwan run out 3 Samuels not out 56 Powell not out 9 Extras
(lb-3, nb-6, w-15): 24 Total (4 wkts, 50
overs): 312 Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-167, 3-174, 4-283. Bowling:
Vaas 10-4-33-1, Nissanka 10-0-67-1, Dharmasena 8-0-54-0, Muralitharan 10-1-53-0, Jayasuriya 6-0-51-0, Chandana 4-0-40-0, Dilshan 2-0-11-0. Sri Lanka: Kaluwitharana run out 34 Jayasuriya c Drakes
b Samuels 41 Atapattu run out 47 Sangakkara c Hinds b Drakes 31 Chandana c Powell
b Collymore 89 Jayawardene c Lara b Drakes 32 Dilshan not out 13 Dharmasena not out 3 Extras
(lb-5, nb-6, w-12): 23 Total (6 wkts, 49.3
overs): 313 Fall of wickets: 1-71, 2-78, 3-153, 4-192, 5-293, 6-300. Bowling:
Dillon 10-0-66-0, Collymore 9.3-0-51-1, Samuels 10-0-50-1, Hurley 5-0-29-0, Gayle 5-0-40-0, Drakes 7-1-49-2, Sarwan 1-0-5-0, Hinds 2-0-18-0. |
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I wanted to return to SA: Le Roux Durban, June 9 "I wanted to come back to South Africa and also I wanted to be a part of my home country’s team," said Le Roux who took up the trainer’s position with the South African team yesterday after being with the Indian team for one year. Le Roux had a very successful stint with the Indian team, during which he significantly raised the fitness levels of the cricketers, thereby improving their performance on the field. Impressed with his work, the Indian board had extended his contract by one year after the completion of the World Cup. But Le Roux was last week offered a similar position by the United Cricket Board of South Africa and he decided to go for it. "I had the greatest of relationships with the BCCI and the players. I will cherish my stay in India for the year," Le Roux stressed, lest his move be construed a result of any strain in his relationship with the Indian Board. "I was very, very happy with India and had worked very well with a wonderful bunch of players and officials," he said. "It (the move) is purely a personal decision. It has nothing to do with the Indian Board or the cricket team." NEW DELHI: Though taken completely by surprise by the sudden resignation of Adrian Le Roux, the cricket board today said it “respected “the decision of the South African trainer and would look for a “suitable replacement”. BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya said he had received a letter from Le Roux today asking to be relieved from his position as fitness trainer of the Indian team due to “personal reasons”. Dalmiya said the board had no objection to it even though Le Roux had agreed for a one-year extension offered by the BCCI after the World Cup. “We have received a communication from Le Roux resigning from the position of fitness trainer,” Dalmiya told PTI from Kolkata. “Adrian did a wonderful job with the team and this was reflected in the results. The BCCI, however, respects his national sentiments and therefore a suitable replacement is being explored,” he said. “This decision came due to personal reasons. This decision was not an easy one as I have an excellent working relationship with the BCCI and the Indian cricket team. MUMBAI: Sachin Tendulkar today said the Indian cricket team would miss the services of South African fitness trainer Adrian Le Roux as he had a positive influence on the team which reflected in its overall performance. Le Roux quit his post to take up a similar job with his national team yesterday. Tendulkar told PTI here that the team’s overall fitness level had improved, that too in short time, and Le Roux should be given the credit for it. "He had different set of excercises for each player and within a short span of time the players’ fitness improved by leaps and bounds which reflected in the overall performance of the team. Obviously we will miss him," he said. "Infact, he personally saw to it that each and every member of the team goes through the excercies scheduled for him and all of us felt the fitness level increase to a great extent," Tendulkar said. "I am sure the cricket board will find a replacement soon," the little master said. On his finger operation in a Baltimore hospital in the USA recently, Tendulkar said he would be totally fit by the time the home series against New Zealand starts in October. "There is no pain now and the operation on my ring finger was a success. However, I will have to go through the rehabilitation process - pressing tennis balls and other finger exercises - for the next three months", he added. "The time spent with my family after the operation has also helped me relax and the past five weeks was quality time spent with my family," Tendulkar said.
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Zimbabwe kick out Vermeulen Durham (England), June 9 The decision to send the 24-year-old home in disgrace was confirmed by team manager Babu Meman following a disciplinary hearing held at the team hotel here where Zimbabwe were coming to terms with their innings defeat to England in the second Test on Saturday. “Mark has been warned about his conduct on a number of separate occasions during the tour but unfortunately has not heeded that advice,” said Meman. “The final straw concerned an incident that took place at the end of play on the Friday of the second Test. Mark ignored a management instruction to travel with the rest of the squad on the coach, which is a practice followed at all games to promote team morale and adhere to the security advice we have been given for the tour. “Instead he left the ground on his own, deliberately ignoring a perfectly reasonable request,” said Mr Meman. The incident is the latest blow for a team who have lost both Tests by an innings and have been dogged by criticism that the squad has been politically vetted by the regime of President Robert Mugabe. It is also another setback for Vermeulen who suffered a fractured skull at the World Cup in South Africa earlier this year when he was hit during a net session. “Mark is a talented player but he has to learn that the team comes before personal considerations,” said the team’s Australian coach Geoff Marsh.
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Ferrero was too good: Verkerk Paris, June 9 He never noticed her. “Something good about today, and I don’t see it,” Verkerk said. Not much went right yesterday for the Dutchman, who lost to Juan Carlos Ferrero 6-1, 6-3, 6-2 in the most lopsided men’s final at Roland Garros since 1978. “My serve was not good enough, my strokes were not good enough, my depth was not good enough, my volleys were not good enough,” he said. “But it all had to do with Ferrero.” Although it ended in defeat, the tournament was still the best of Verkerk’s career. When he arrived to play at Roland Garros for the first time, he had never won a Grand Slam match. He departed with a check for $ 491,000, more than doubling his career earnings in seven years as a pro. “It has been an amazing week for me,” Verkerk said. “It’s more than a dream. To be in the final of a Grand Slam, there are no words for that.” Verkerk was ranked No. 170 at the start of last year. He’ll be a career-best No. 15 this week, and with a 125-mph serve he’ll be a threat at Wimbledon, even though he has never played on grass.
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‘AIFF grooming junior players’ Kolkata, June 9 Talking to UNI here, Mr Colaco said, “The main reason why the national side could not keep the momentum of the last edition of LG Cup was because it did not have a strong reserve bench. There was a difference in the level of performance between the first eleven and the reserve players. This is something we would like to erase as soon as possible.’’ “Indian coach Stephen Constantine is already working with a junior team in Goa and going by his words it’s laden with talents. They will shape up really well,’’ he said. Mr Colaco admitted it was futile holding a Junior NFL until the juniors were nursed by the bigger clubs. “Youngsters like Satish Bharati and Arun Malhotra who are graduating from the junior side to the national team are showing they have the potential to fill the gaps and this was not present before and hence we can see a silver lining,’’ he added. Talking about the junior programme, he said Goa already had a series of junior leagues from 1981. “We have under-19, u-17, u-15 and u-13 leagues in Goa. Now we are trying to implement this in Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai. The IFA is in the process of reviving a junior league. But the onus is on the clubs and they must show interest in grooming junior players,’’ he said. The reason Goa has made more progress in recent times in soccer than the other states as is reflected in their having five teams in NFL compared to Bengals’s four, Colaco said, “We did not have the burden of tradition thrust upon us. We have accepted the changes in world soccer and tried to equip us with time and so we see that we have made decent progress when others have fallen behind.’’ Mr Colaco was here to attend the opening of the three-day medical and fitness camp organised by the AIFF with 61 players attending under the observation of AIFF Medical Council Director Dr Vece Paes and coach Stephen Constantine. Talking about the camp, Mr Colaco said it was a pivotal chapter in the history of Indian football. “The camp is a dream we have realised due to the zeal and perseverance of Dr Paes and Constantine. Now we can have a medical data bank of all the players in the NFL and every time any of the players sustain any injury their medical history could be referred to before undertaking their recovery procedure.’’ “Our next move is to make regional medical councils at Goa, Kolkata, Mumbai and Bangalore and
slowly cover all the players for different clubs,’’ the burly AIFF secretary said.
“FIFA and the AFC recommend 50 to 55 matches in a year for a player. But our official
calendar has only 40 games so there should be no injury problem,’’ he said.
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appoints coach New Delhi, June 9 Mr Bhatnagar will supervise the "total cricketing activities" of the PCA, including holding of cricket camps for different age groups of Punjab, training courses for PCA’s district-level coaches, supervise the maintenance of the ground and pitches, etc. |
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Chatwinder upsets Punna; Ghouse wins Chandigarh, June 9 Chatwinder, the No 23 seed, finally won in three tough sets 7-5, 6-1, 7-5. In another match Mustafa Ghouse also won a tough three-setter against higher-ranked Japanese Katsushi Fukuda 6-4, 4-6, 7-5. In the morning matches the Indians had mixed luck with Kamal Kannan and Kedar Tembe winning their matches and Saurabh Kohli, Jaco Mathew and Arjun Goutham losing to foreign opponents. Facing a daunting task at 1-5 down in the first set, Chatwinder finally found his rhythm, cutting down on unforced errors, to hold serve and then break Punna. First he levelled at 5-5 and then took the set 7-5, winning six consecutive games. Punna held serve in the opening game of the second set and held three breakpoints on Chatwinder’s serve. The Chandigarh boy managed to bring the game to deuce but eventually could not hold serve. Chatwinder managed to hold serve in the fourth game to trail 1-3. He was broken again in the sixth game and Punna served out the set, winning 6-1. The final set witnessed a lot of frayed tempers, racquet-throwing and serves being broken. Serving strongly, Chatwinder quickly built up a 3-0 lead but Punna came back strongly to level at 5-5. Chatwinder held serve and Punna served a double fault to end the match. Ghouse easily won the first set 6-4 but committed some errors as the Japanese took the second set 6-4 with a single break of serve. At 3-4 down, Ghouse had three break points, which Fukuda saved to level at one-set all. Ghouse and Fukuda traded service breaks in the seventh and eighth games to be at 4-4. At 5-6 and facing a break point, Fukuda double-faulted to hand Ghouse the match. In other matches Kamala Kannan easily won against Aditya
Midyear 6-3, 6-1 while Kedar Tembe came back strongly after losing the first set against Ashutosh Singh to win 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. Among the losers Gurmehar Singh gave a tough fight to Sanchai Ratiwatana of Indonesia before going down 7-6, 3-6, 3-6 while Saurabh Kohli lost tamely to Yew Ming Sl 3-6, 2-6. Arjun Goutham was defeated 0-6, 2-6 by a much-stronger Hiu-Tung Yu of Hong Kong while Janesch Blaha of Germany was too strong for Jaco Mathew, who lost 4-6, 6-7 (2/7). |
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Punjab cagers enter knock-out stage Ludhiana, June 9 Hosts Punjab lads, who had toiled hard in their first two outings, faced little
resistance today form Pondicherry. Punjab coach tried the second string of players and the boys did not disappoint him as the reigning champions proved their supremacy in all departments of the game. Punjab were leading by 24 points (37-13) points at the end of the second quarter. Their skipper Snehpal Singh gave another fine performance to score 13 points. Other notable scorers for the winners were Gurpreet Singh (13) and Talwinder Singh (10). For Pondicherry, Arumugam netted 9 points. In the girl's section, Punjab dominated the proceedings throughout and came out winners quite easily at 47-13. With this victory, Punjab girls, from group 'A', have assured themselves a berth in the knock-out stage. Their last league
fixture tomorrow against the current champions, Kerala would decide the toppers of the
group. The architects of the win were Taranjit Kaur (9), Ashima (8) and Paramjit (7). In another group 'A' match, Haryana boys drubbed Uttaranchal 68-37. However, in their second match, Uttaranchal defeated Pondicherry 25-07. With this loss, Pondicherry have made their exit from the
tournament. In a crucial group 'B', Uttar Pradesh boys lived up to the expectations and outclassed Maharashtra and maintained their chances to qualify for the knock-out phase. Santokh Singh and Amitesh Singh scored 18 and 10 points, respectively for the winners while Sidharsth and Rahul with 18 and 9 points fought well for Maharashtra. In the girl's section defending champions Kerala beat Delhi 58-21 to register their second victory. Madhya Pradesh outplayed Gujarat 54-26 and Jharkhand pipped Himachal Pradesh 24-12. |
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Mandi football New Delhi, June 9 Co-coordinator of the tournament and former national referee Bachi Ram said here today that top teams like Punjab Police, Border Security Force, Punjab State Electricity Board, Sporting Club of Goa, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (Dehra Dun), Jammu and Kashmir Bank, JCT Academy, Himachal Police, Rail Coach Factory (Kapurthala), Union Club (Ambala Cantt) and Jamshedpur Football Association will take part in the tournament. |
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Patiala golfer bags title Patiala, June 9 Twice runner-up in the first two junio2r tournaments this season, the Patiala youngster finally managed to break the jinx to carve out a thrilling win.
Jaskirat, according to IGA rankings, was the country's top most golfer in the junior category and now after three IGA tourney's, the Patiala youngster is leading the pack. According to information received here today, in an absorbing final, Dullet kept his cool with a series of putts to close out the match by a two-stroke lead. Dullet ended up with 282 (70,70,70,72) as compared to his nearest rival Aditya Singh who scored 284 (66, 73, 72,73). Ajeetesh Sandhu with 287 (71,72,70,74) bagged the third spot. On the penultimate day of the tournament from the third hole onwards, the Patiala youngster found himself in a position to close in on the contest. On the eighth hole, Jaskirat managed to take a one stroke lead even as Aditya bogeyed. By the end of the 12th hole, Jaskirat had gone two strokes ahead and the 13th saw him leading by three
strokes. Dullet's shocking bogey on the 16th hole, when he missed a sitter, was good news for
Aditya, as both the golfers went into the final day evenly placed. However, on the final day, the 14th hole proved to be decisive for
Dullet. A brilliant second shot on par five enabled Jaskirat to win the tourney by a two-stroke lead against his nearest rival, Aditya
Singh. Jaskirat Dullet, who is developing into a versatile golfer, has just cleared his Class XII examination from the presitigious Yadvindra Public School
(YPS). He is sponsored by a Japan-based golf equipment manufacturing firm 'Mizuno'. |
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