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July 19, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Bangladesh bundled out for 97 Els battles towards cut
Mexico hold Honduras in football |
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Dola Banerjee
books berth for Athens in archery Indian juniors post wins in world snooker Railways in final of Murugappa hockey Yoga team for Portugal meet
2 Patiala cricketers for national academy
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Bangladesh
bundled out for 97
Darwin (Australia), July 18 Cricket’s leading team dismissed the Test minnows in 42.2 overs in just under three hours and by the close were 24 runs in front at 121 for two. The Australians lost the wickets of opener Matthew Hayden (11) and vice-captain Ricky Ponting (10) along the way, but Justin Langer (40) and Darren Lehmann (51) batted the home team into the lead in a match which is not expected to last anywhere near the full five days. The signs looked ominous for Bangladesh, who have not won any of their 19 matches since debuting as a Test nation in 2000, when they were blasted out for under 100. Skipper Steve Waugh won the toss and sent Bangladesh into bat on an easy-paced drop-in pitch and by lunch the tourists were reeling at 63 for six against Australia’s formidable attack. A combination of spot-on relentless Australian bowling and some injudicious shot-selection proved to be Bangladesh’s downfall. It was all over for Bangladesh 50 minutes after lunch with Mohammad Ashraful topscoring with 23 off 52 balls and skipper Khaled Mahmud making 21 from 39 deliveries. There were expectations that Australia would establish a sizeable innings by stumps, but Bangladesh’s bowlers gamely stuck to line and length and restricted the Australians from their customary jaunty four-an-over run-rate to a more circumspect 2.5 an over. Along the way Bangladesh had some successes with the wickets of Hayden and Ponting. Hayden attempted an extravagant pull shot and was bowled by 19-year-old paceman Mashrafe Mortaza in the eighth over of the innings, while Javed Omar took a super diving catch in the covers to dismiss Ponting off seamer Tapash Baishya in the 19th over. Scoreboard Bangladesh (Ist innings): Sarkar lbw b McGrath 0 Omar c Gilchrist b
Bashar b Lee 16 Ashraful c Gillespie b
Sahariar b Lee 0 Kapali lbw b MacGill 0 Mashud lbw b McGrath 11 Mahmud c Gilchrist b
Mortaza c Gilchrist b
Tapash Baisya not out 2 Islam c Langer b Lee 1 Extras: (b-1 lb-5 nb-3 w-6) 15 Total:
(all out, 42.2 overs) 97 FoW: 1-4, 2-26, 3-36, 4-39, 5-40, 6-60, 7-87, 8-91, 9-94. Bowling: McGrath 13-6-20-3, Gillespie 8-1-27-2 (w-6), Lee 8.2-2-23-3 (nb-3), MacGill 13-4-21-2. Australia (Ist innings): Langer not out 40 Hayden b Mashrafe
Ponting c Bashar b Baisya 10 Lehmann not out 51 Extras:
(lb-4 w-2 nb-3) 9 Total: (2 wkts, 45 overs) 121 FoW:
1-13, 2-43. Bowling: Manjural Islam 11-3-30-0, Mashrafe Mortaza 10-3-19-1, Tapash Baisya 6-2-8-1, Khaled Mahmud 7-0-25-0, Alok Kapali 8-1-25-0, Mohammad Ashraful 2-0-9-0, Habibul Bashar 1-0-1-0.
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Els battles towards cut
Sandwich (England), July 18 The 33-year-old would be the first holder since Paul Lawrie in 2000 at St. Andrews to fail to beat the halfway cut. Els, who won last year’s championship at Muirfield after a four-man playoff, began impressively with a birdie three at the second thanks to a 12-footer. He should have added another at the short next but failed to steer in a birdie chance from five feet. The relatively short par five fourth was providing strong birdie opportunities for all the 156-strong field and Els duly picked up his second shot of the day there, two-putting from 20 ft. Two 20-ft misses at the next two holes followed by a par five at the seventh where he bunkered a straightforward wedged approach kept him at five over par, two under for the day. He then parred the next two, needing to chip and putt from just off the green for a four at the ninth, to turn in 34 but at five over was still eight strokes behind Hennie Otto’s overnight lead. Tiger Woods had the wind to thank for keeping his British Open challenge on track after his worst ever start to a major championship yesterday. A lost ball on the first resulted in a triple bogey seven and ensured it was uphill all the way for the world number one as he scrambled his way round the wind and rain-swept royal St George’s links for a two-over par 73. At the time, it looked like a score that could prove potentially fatal to Woods’ bid to add a second Open title to the one he won at St Andrews in 2000. But by the end of a day which saw the wind steadily strengthen and inflict even greater damage on the likes of Ernie Els (78), Woods was anything but out of it. Only 17 players in the 156-strong field managed to better his score and few people will expect the surprise first round leader, South African Hennie Otto, to maintain his lead into the weekend. — Agencies
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Mexico hold Honduras in football
Mexico City, July 18 Both sides looked sluggish throughout the contest — passes weren’t crisp, ball-control was unimpressive and the defence was sloppy. Neither team managed a shot on-goal in the first 30 minutes and the level of play remained far-from thrilling as the night wore on. Mexico’s best-chance to get on the scoreboard came just seconds into injury time when Salvador Carmona used his head to redirect a free-kick from the right side by Pavel Pardo. But Honduran goalkeeper Victor Coello had little trouble getting both hands around the shot. A restless crowd of 15,000 filled mostly the cheaper, upper-bowl seats at the Mexican capital’s 105,000-capacity Azteca Stadium. Many fans spent most of the night chanting “Hugo! Hugo!” for Hugo Sanchez, the coach of the Mexican league’s Pumas, who many believe should have been chosen to coach of the national team instead of Ricardo Lavolpe, who was hired after last year’s World Cup. Mexico outlasted their other first-round opponent in group A, Brazil 1-0 on Sunday, but the Brazilians finished second in the group and qualified for round two by beating Honduras 2-1 on Tuesday. Jamaica travel to Mexico to meet the host country at Azteca on Sunday. Brazil will head to Miami for a match against Colombia, tomorrow. Yesterday night’s match ensured Honduras remained winless at Azteca. The Hondurans’ best scoring opportunity came off a corner kick by Julio Cesar “Rambo” Leon in the 50th minute, when Jaime Rosales out-jumped two defenders to head a centering pass to Milton Palacios. But Mexican goalkeeper Oswaldo Sanchez scampered out of the goal to meet the ball and got both the hands around Polacios’ close-range blast from the right side. — AP
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Dola Banerjee
books berth for Athens in archery New Delhi, July 18 Dola along with two other men archers — Satyadev Prasad and Tarundeep Rai — booked their berth for the next year’s Athens Olympics on the basis of their superb showing in the 42nd World Outdoor Target Archery Championship in New York. According to information received here, the four-member Indian men's team finished 13th, with a score of 3898, in the field of 37 teams while the four-member women's team earned 3838 points to finish fifth among the 32 teams. Apart from Prasad and Rai other members of the men’s team are veteran Limba Ram and Ved Kumar, while the Women’s team comprises Dola
Banerjee, Chakravolu Sworu, Reena Kumari, and Bagyabati Chanu. In the individual women’s section, Reena Kumari, Dola and Swuro secured 14th, 22nd and 23rd positions, respectively with a score of 1318,1311 and 1309 out of 1440 points, respectively. In the olympic round, Dola won her 1/32 and 1/16 matches that enabled her to qualify for Athens games. Sworu and Reena Kumari failed in Olympic round.
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Indian juniors post wins in world snooker Taupo (New Zealand), July 18 Aditya (17) came up with a brilliant fightback after trailing 2-3 to defeat 15-year old Jamie Jones of Wales 4-3 in a tight group D match. The Indian saw off a break of 55 by Jones to clinch his third straight win and move a step closer to qualifying for the knock-out stage where the top four from each of the eight groups of eight players contest. Aditya, who had earlier beaten Sascha Lippe of Germany and Australia’s Adam Gabrish without dropping a frame, pipped Jones 64-41, 24-58, 73-35, 23-87, 37-78, 75-41, 74-10. The 18-year old Sourav maintained his good form to post his second win in three group E matches with a 4-0 drubbing of Jason Todd of New Zealand. Sourav had lost his opening league match 1-4 to China’s Li Yinxi, but shrugged off that loss to beat Majid Saeed Dhaif (Bahrain) 4-1 in his next outing. He defeated Todd 65-12, 60-27, 48-30, 70-56 yesterday.
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Railways in final of Murugappa hockey
Chennai, July 18 Railways, who opened their account in the ninth minute through a splendid left-flank strike by Vinod Kumar, dominated the exchanges right through. Off one of the swift counters, Karnataka forced a second penalty corner which Amar Aiyamma converted off the second attempt. Karnataka levelled 1-1. Railways chugging along relentlessly increased their lead in the 17th minute through captain Chanderpal, who deflected the ball in the second attempt(2-1). They struck again in the first session when Shiva on the right flank caught the Karnataka goalkeeper off guard with a stinging shot, fed by Brezhnev Singh. Down 3-1 at half-time, Karnataka raised hopes of a fight back. With Anup Anthony continuing to worry the Railways defence with his dazzling feeders, Cyprian Aind seized an opportunity in the 40th minute and beat the Railways goalkeeper Sandep Kumar with a rasping drive (2-3). Earlier, IHF Juniors and Air-India, exhibiting strong defence, thwarted each other, with the former attacking through schemer Arumugham, Hari Prasad and captain Vivek Gupta. Air-India could have gone into the lead early but in the sixth minute captain Davinder Kumar’s shot failed to find the target, the ball hitting the goal post and coming back into play. IHF Juniors too, missed a couple of sure chances they forced in the field with Hariprasad and Vikas Toppo being thwarted by the defence. — UNI
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Yoga team for Portugal meet Chandigarh, July 18 Mr Dharam Vir, President, Indian Yoga Federation, said the former world champion (2000) Deepak Bhardwaj is the captain of the team. The championship is being organised by Yoga Federation of Portugal. The selected by the Indian Yoga Federation are: Deepak Bhardwaj, Rajeev Maken, Pawan (all Haryana), Ganesh Dev Rupkhar and Tushar Gitaye (both Maharashtra), Mrs Shashi Rana (yoga coach) and Mr Mahesh Atale, manager. |
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2 Patiala cricketers for national academy Patiala, July 18 The cricketers are middle-order batsman and off-spinner Rupeetinder Singh and medium-pacer Hardavinder Singh. Both the players have been performing consistently for Patiala and Punjab in various age limit tournaments organised by the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) and the BCCI. The Director of the NCA, Mr Brijesh Patel, has intimated the selection of these players to Mr M.P. Pandove, secretary, (PCA). The NCA has also sent instructions pertaining to the physical fitness programme to be undergone by the youngsters in Bangalore. The camp commences from August 2. |
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