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Monday,
July 21, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Stuart MacGill hastens Bangladesh collapse
Coach Dav Whatmore unfazed by defeat SA on top against India ‘A’ Injured Sehwag
may be released
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Thorpe achieves historic treble in swimming
Swimmer Poncha
finishes 50th FOOTBALL Crucial match for
East Bengal Beckham faces kidnap threat JUNIOR
CHESS Top golfers for
Kashmir Open Bowlers’ coaching camp concludes
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Stuart
MacGill hastens Bangladesh collapse
Darwin (Australia), July 20 Australia claimed their 16th win from their last 19 Tests midway through the third day of the scheduled five-day Test. Bangladesh, given Test status in late 2000, have yet to win any of their 20 Test matches and have lost 19 by an innings. Man-of-the-match Steve Waugh became the most successful captain in Test cricket history with his 37th win in his 50th Test as Australian skipper for a 74 per cent success rate. Waugh passed Clive Lloyd’s 36 wins in 74 Tests as West Indies captain. Leg-spinner Stuart MacGill finished with 5 for 65 off 13.1 overs in Bangladesh’s second innings of 178. Resuming at 70 for one and needing 241 more runs to avoid the innings defeat, Bangladesh hit the skids in the hour before lunch with three wickets tumbling in eight balls. The Asian Test minnows scored 97 in the first innings, but reached 112 for two in the second innings before the flurry of wickets. The top-ranked Australians led by 310 runs on the first innings after declaring at 407 for seven with Darren Lehmann (110) and Waugh (100no) scoring centuries. Opening batsman Hannan Sarkar scored 35 before a Jason Gillespie out-swinger found an edge which was snapped in a diving one-glove catch by Adam Gilchrist. Mohammad Ashraful got a brutish rearing delivery chin-high from Brett Lee and was caught by Gilchrist for seven triggering the collapse of three wickets in eight balls. In MacGill’s next over Habibul Bashar was deceived by a wrong’un and was bowled for 54, his 12th in Tests, and Alok Kapali went four balls later leg before for a duck. All three wickets fell at 112. Khaled Mashud was out for six to a MacGill leg-break offering Gilchrist his third catch of the innings. Skipper Khaled Mahmud went in the over after lunch, bowled leg-stump by Gillespie for five and Tapash Baishya became MacGill’s fourth wicket of the innings, lbw for 4. Glenn McGrath made a hash of an attempt to take a skied catch off fast bowler Mashrafe Mortaza, denying MacGill another wicket shortly afterwards. Mortaza then hoicked the wrist-spinner for a huge six into the stands and then cracked him for a straight-driven four Mortaza’s adventurous knock came to an end when he just caught short of completing a quick single by a direct throw by Darren Lehmann at backward leg for 15. Al Sahariar, who smacked MacGill for six just before lunch, was the last wicket to fall giving the leg-spinner his fifth wicket of the innings, caught and bowled for 36. The second and final Test of the Top End series takes place in Cairns, north Queensland, on Friday.
Scoreboard Bangladesh 1st innings: 97 Australia 1st innings: 407 for 7 decl Bangladesh 2nd innings:
(70 for 1 overnight) Sarkar c Gilchrist b Gillespie 35 Omar lbw b McGrath 5 Bashar b MacGill 54 Ashraful c Gilchrist b Lee 7 Sahariar c and b MacGill 36 Kapali lbw b MacGill 0 Mashud c Gilchrist b MacGill 6 Mahmud b Gillespie 5 Baishya lbw b MacGill 4 Mortaza run out (Lehmann) 15 Islam not out 0 Extras:
(lb-6, w-2, nb-3) 11 Total: (all out, 51.1 overs) 178 Fall of wickets:
1-8, 2-89, 3-112, 4-112, 5-112, 6-122, 7-143, 8-152, 9-171, 10-178 Bowling:
McGrath 10-0-25-1, Gillespie 16-3-48-2, Lee 12-5-34-1, MacGill 13.1-1-65-5.
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Coach Dav Whatmore unfazed by defeat
Darwin, Australia, July 20 Bangladesh have not won a match since being admitted to Test-status three years ago and were given no real hope of ending their losing streak against the world champions. Their defeat by an innings and 132 runs in two-and-a-half days was no real surprise but Whatmore said there were some encouraging signs in the defeat. “There’s a couple of positives but really there’s a fair bit of distance between the two teams,” Whatmore said. “It’s a reasonably good learning curve and we’ll go back, talk about some of the things that have happened, and hopefully do a bit better next time.” A former Australia Test batsman, Whatmore pulled off one of cricket’s biggest upsets when he coached Sri Lanka to victory at the 1996 World Cup, beating Australia in the final. He was sacked a few months ago despite steering Sri Lanka to the semi-finals of this year’s World Cup but was immediately offered the job of coaching Bangladesh. This test against Australia was his first in charge and Whatmore said he was reluctant to make judgments about his players because of their opposition. “I don’t want to jump to any conclusions given the class of opposition that we’ve faced...but I think the team is really competing hard and that’s a nice little springboard going into the next game,” he said. “To me, the game was never really about winning or losing, it was about seeing what we can do under pressure. “There were times when we had them under pressure and against any other team I reckon we would have picked up a few more wickets but they are very good opposition.” Bangladesh captain Khaled Mahmud said he was confident his team would benefit from the experience of playing Australia and would be more competitive against weaker Test-playing nations. “This is a learning experience for us. We batted better in the second innings but we have a lot of things we need to improve and slowly we will do it,” he said. — Reuters
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SA on top against India ‘A’ Arundel (England), July 20 Replying to India’s first innings score of 319, South Africa reached 342 for five, a lead of 23 runs, at stumps with Jacques Rudolph top scoring with 83. Boeta Dippenaar was batting on 4 along with Shaun Pollock on nought. Bowling to some of the world’s top batsmen, India ‘A’ bowlers struggled to make an impact for most part of the day before pace bowler Avishkar Salvi came up with two quick wickets of Rudolph and Boucher just before close of the day’s play. Gibbs, who was struggling to make runs after landing in England, and skipper Graeme Smith (79) added 150 runs before Gibbs was dismissed by left-arm spinner Murali Kartik caught brilliantly down the leg side by wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel. It was a sweet revenge for Kartik after the explosive batsman, who hit nine fours and two sixes in his 123-ball knock, carted him twice over the ropes in one over. Soon pacer left-arm quickie Irfan Pathan trapped Smith plumb in front with the total on 164. Scoreboard India ‘A’ 1st Innings: Das c Boucher b Pollock 33, Gambhir c Kirsten b Peterson 64, Jaffer c Smith b Pretorious 90, Badani c Boucher b Zondeki 23, Rayudu lbw b Pretorius 32, Patel b Pretorius 8, Mishra b Pollock 25, Kartik c Rudolph b Ntini 16, Pathan c Smith b Pollock 6, Bhandari not out 1, Salvi b Pollock 0, Extras (w-5, nb-16) 21, Total (all out, 89 overs) 319 Fall of wickets:
1-93, 2-144, 3-195, 4-251, 5-261, 6-272, 7-304, 8-318, 9-318. Bowling:
Pollock 15-2-46-4, Ntini 19-5-70-1, Pretorious 16-3-41-3, Zondeki 14-2-58-1, Peterson 20-2-87-1, Rudolph 5-1-17-0. South Africa (1st Inngs): Smith lbw b Pathan 79, Gibbs c Patel b Kartik 79, Kirsten run out 75, Rudolph c Patel b Salvi 83, Dippenaar batting 4, Boucher b Salvi 0, Pollock batting 0. Extras:
(b-1, lb-10, nb-11) 22, Total: (for 5wkts, 90 overs) 342. Fall of wickets:
1-150, 2-164, 3-335, 4-341, 5-341. Bowling: Salvi 18-3-55-2, Bhandari 12-2-43-0, Kartik 25-5-87-1, Pathan 18-1-55-1, Mishra 16-0-88-0, Rayudu 1-0-3-0.
— PTI
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Injured Sehwag may be released
London, July 20 "A genuine back injury is expected to be used as the reason for releasing Sehwag for the remainder of the season and signing an Australian fast bowler, Matt Nicholson, is believed to head their wanted list," The Sunday Telegraph said. Leicestershire had rested Sehwag in their recent match against Sussex though in the Twenty20 Cup semi-final at Trent Bridge yesterday, Sehwag could contribute only 5 in his side's score of 162 for 7 wkts in 20 overs against Warwickshire, who romped home victorious with seven wickets. For Leicestershire it was not the red-letter day and redemption of their season, which they had hoped. — PTI
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Thorpe
achieves historic treble in swimming Barcelona July 20 The world record holder came in ahead of compatriot Grant Hackett, who won his third straight world silver, with the bronze going to Dragos Coman of Romania. The 20-year-old Thorpe clocked 3min 42.58sec, way outside his world record of 3:40:08 set at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Manchester, but enough to ease past Hackett, with whom he had been neck and neck for the first half of the race. Hackett clocked 3:45.17, with Coman in 3:46.87. Earlier, Thorpe, chasing a record third consecutive world title in the 400 metres freestyle, posted the fastest heat time and led the way into the evening’s finals today. The Australian, aiming to become the first swimmer to win the same event at three World Championships, clocked three minutes 47.44 seconds in a comfortable swim to win the final heat from promising young Russian Yuri Prilukov (3:48.49). Thorpe became the youngest men’s world champion ever when he won the 400m freestyle in Perth in 1998. He retained the title in 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan, where he won six gold medals, a record at a single world championships. Team mate Grant Hackett, silver medallist behind Thorpe in Perth and Fukuoka, won the preceding heat in the second-fastest overall time of 3:48.35 from Massimiliano Rosolino of Italy, silver medallist behind Thorpe at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Rosolino clocked 3:49.59, finishing just ahead of Britain’s Graeme Smith (3:49.92) as both made the final. But fellow Italian Emiliano Brembilla, bronze medallist in 2001, failed to qualify, touching a distant sixth in his heat in 3:53.43. American Jenny Thompson, the 1998 world champion, set a championship record 58.14 seconds to lead semifinal qualifiers in the women’s 100m butterfly.
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Swimmer Poncha finishes 50th
New Delhi, July 20 Sixteen-year old Poncha, who had created quite a splash in the pool in the junior nationals held here last month by winning four gold medals and setting new records, clocked 4 min 14.22 sec today to finish ahead of just eight swimmers in a field of 60, according to information received here. He finished almost 30 seconds behind Australian champion swimmer Ian Thorpe who was first in the qualifiers with a timing of 3:47.44. Richa Mishra fared no better in the women’s 100m butterfly event, though she did come close to the Olympic qualifying mark. Richa finished 40th in the 100m butterfly qualifiers with a time of 1:06.08 which was about two seconds off the Olympic qualifying mark. Karnataka girl Ambica finished seven places behind Richa with a time of 1:09.63 in the same event. In the 4x100m freestyle relay for men, India finished 17th. — PTI
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FOOTBALL
Foxboro, July 20 The Americans met Brazil’s full team in last month’s Confederations Cup in France, absorbing a 1-0 loss. “Brazil is outstanding even if it is their under-23 (Olympic) team,” US coach Bruce Arena said. “We need to look at our team tomorrow and replace people if we have to.” In the second match of yesterday’s doubleheader at Foxboro, Walter Ceteno scored three goals - two on penalty kicks - to lead Costa Rica into the semifinals with a 5-2 victory over El Salvador. Costa Rica face the winner of today’s Mexico-Jamaica quarter-final next Thursday in Mexico City. One of America’s brightest young stars, Donovan became just the fourth player in US soccer history to record four goals in one game. The others were Archie Stark in 1925 against Canada, legendary former Colombia football coach Aldo “Buff” Donelli in a 1934 World Cup match against Mexico at Rome and Joe-Max Moore in 1993 against El Salvador in Los Angeles. — AFP
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Crucial
match for East Bengal
Jakarta, July 20 Bhutia, a former English second division player called the Indian version of Michael Owen, is in wonderful form after netting five goals, including a hat-trick, against Army Football Club, Philippines, which took the Kolkatans to the last eight from Group D after going down to Thai champions BEC Tero Sasano in their opening fixture. But East Bengal, a guest side in this inaugural South-East Asian inter-club tournament, will have to play at their best to beat Persita who topped group C winning both their matches against HAGL, Vietnam (2-1) and Telecom and Transportation, Laos (5-1). Other than Bhutia, East Bengal will hope that the trio of Brazilian star Douglas Da Silva, Ghanian skipper Suley Musah and Malswam Tulunga will also come good tomorrow.
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Beckham faces kidnap threat
London, July 20 According to the report, Mr Cendal has already vetoed their plan to buy a dream house in Madrid. He said it was too easy for kidnappers to target. Security has been heightened because the father of Argentinian defender Gabriel Milito — himself a new signing to the club — was held for three days after being bundled into the back of a car. Milito, 22, called it "the worst day of my life" after he negotiated a 250,000 pounds ransom to get his dad Jorge freed. Now the club has arranged for police checks on the South American three times a day but have admitted that the security for the Beckhams would have to be double that. The club is also taking steps to provide enough security to Beckham's family. — PTI
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JUNIOR
CHESS
Negombo (Sri Lanka), July 20 Harika was involved in an interesting queen, rook and bishop ending with H Nilavoli and came out with a stunning exchange sacrifice that did her Indian opponent in. After the win, Harika said: “it was a good compensation, as I had double bishops and the position was winning after the sacrifice”. In the boys section, Magesh Chandran outwitted compatriot Abhijit Gupta while the pocket dynamite from Vietnam Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son continued to impress with an excellent endgame victory over Indian junior Arun Prasad. Besides Magesh, other Indians who registered wins included Deepan Chakravarthy, P. Mokal, Poobesh Anand, Akshay Raj Kore and G. Rohit. Deep Sengupta suffered a shocking loss against Iranian Akrania Seyed Arash. The most impressive
performance
of the day came from 13-year old Nguyen as he eked out a win from a seemingly drawish ending. In the girls’ section, Y. Prathiba, Krutika Nadig and Tania Sachdev were the other Indians besides Harika to record wins on the day. J.E. Kavitha, N. Vinuthna and Saheli Nath lost their respective matches while J. Rajasuriya held Mary Ann Gomes to a draw.
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Top golfers for Kashmir Open Srinagar, July 20 The five-day event has attracted as many as 110 top pros of the country and each one of them would be keen to give themselves a winning start to the season, Jammu and Kashmir Tourism Secretary Najam-us-Saqib told reporters at the resort situated on the banks of the ethereal Dal Lake here. “Top players like Asia’s number 1 in the Order Of Merit Jyoti Randhawa, two-time PGA India champion Mukesh Kumar, defending champion Digvijay Singh, Gaurav Ghei, Harmeet Kahlon and Sher Ali will take part in the event,” Saqib said. — PTI
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Bowlers’ coaching camp concludes Patiala, July 20 The highlight of the concluding session was a speech delivered by cricketerturned commentator Navjot Sidhu who not only extolled the virtues of the sport but also asked the youngsters to imbibe the proper values of the game. The young cricketers listened to words of wisdom delivered by Sidhu in his half-hour long speech. Sidhu, said “Race, colour and religion have no place in the game of cricket. Instead it is courage and skill, wisdom and character, speed and muscle that will be the virtues under scrutiny when you step on the field. Frailty will have few friends, heroism will be widely embraced.” Warning the cricketers against complacency, Sidhu added: “Fickleness is the very defination of this game and overcoming the odds is the very nature of this sport.” Yet another feature of the final day’s proceedings was an intense interaction between the parents of the cricketers and the coaches. Cricketer Reetinder Sodhi and a host of former Ranji trophy players were also present on the occasion.
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