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August 4, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Ntini leads S.
Africa to big victory
Aussies cruise to 9-wicket win
Jaffer’s double ton ensures draw
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Anand suffers second defeat Sunita, Tarik in fray for Dronacharya Award
POA felicitates
MS Bhullar Gong loses world badminton crown
Motor rally in HP Kunwar Raina a promising batsman
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Ntini leads S.
Africa to big victory
London, August 3 Ntini kissed the ground after his second five-wicket haul of the game as England, needing 509 to make the touring side bat a second time, were dismissed for 417 to go 1-0 down in the five-match series. England’s only consolation, following half-centuries for Mark Butcher and Nasser Hussain, came from an extraordinary century in a losing cause from Andrew Flintoff. With the score on 208 for six and left with nothing but tail-enders for company, Flintoff threw his bat in a typically theatrical display as he made 142 off 146 balls, including 18 fours and five sixes, for his second Test century and his first on home soil. He was last man out, stumped off wrist spinner Paul Adams. Ntini, hostile but erratic, hit Flintoff in the helmet but was also clattered for two sixes and a four off four balls, Flintoff splitting his bat in two in the process. Later, Shaun Pollock was blitzed for a six and three fours in four balls. Ntini ended with five for 145 off 31 mercurial overs to go with his five for 75 in the first innings. It was Graeme Smith, however, who was left with the broadest smile at the end. The 22-year-old captain had made 259 — the highest score ever made at Lord’s by an overseas player and his second double century in consecutive Tests — out of a national record score of 682 for six declared as South Africa dominated throughout. Fast bowler Dewald Pretorius, off the field yesterday with a right thigh strain, returned but, because of his absence, was not allowed to bowl until 1305 GMT. Scoreboard England (1st innings): 173 South Africa (1st innings): 682-6 dec England 2nd
innings Trescothick c Adams b Ntini 23 Vaughan c Pollock b Hall 29 Butcher c Kirsten b Hall 70 Hussain c Boucher b Ntini 61 McGrath c Boucher b Stewart c Hall b Ntini 0 Flintoff st Boucher b Giles c Pollock b Ntini 23 Gough c Adams b Pollock 14 Harmison c Hall b Ntini 7 Anderson not out 4 Extras:
31 Total: (all out
in 107.1 overs) 417 Fall of wickets: 1-52, 2-60, 3-186, 4-208, 5-208, 6-208, 7-297, 8-344, 9-371. Bowling:
Pollock 29-7-105-2, Ntini 31-5-145-5, Hall 24-6-66-2, Adams 20.1-1-74-1, Pretorius 3-0-16-0.
— Reuters
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Aussies
cruise to 9-wicket win
Cairns, (Australia), August 3 Martyn, who made 88 not out in Australia’s World Cup final win over India in March despite a broken finger, showed he was back to full fitness and form. The 31-year-old stroked the ball effortlessly through the infield on both sides of the wicket, amassing 15 boundaries and one six as Australia cruised to victory with 29.4 overs to spare. Bangladesh captain Khaled Mahmud won the toss and elected to bat but, after a promising start, the tourists were all out for 147 in 45.1 overs. Australia in reply lost opener Andrew Symonds for seven to make the score 17 for one before Martyn dominated a 131-run stand for the second wicket with opener Michael Bevan who made 40 not out in 20.2 overs. Scoreboard Bangladesh: Sarkar c Gilchrist b Harvey 19 Omar c Gilchrist b Bichel 11 Bashar c & b Symonds 31 Hossain c Ponting b Hogg 3 Sahariar c Martyn b Hogg 8 Imran c Bichel b Hogg 2 Kopali c Martyn b Lehmann 34 Mahmud run out 11 Baisya c Bevan b Lehmann 2 Rafique c Bevan b Lehmann 6 Hossain not out 0 Extras:
(lb-2, w-16, nb-2) 20 Total: (all out, 45.1 overs) 147 FoW:
1-37 2-46 3-52 4-84 5-86 6-101 7-121 8-133 9-144 Bowling: Lee 9-2-24-0, Bichel 10-0-29-1, Harvey 7-1-21-1, Hogg 10-0-31-3, Symonds 5-0-24-1, Lehmann 4.1-0-16-3. Australia: Symonds c S Hossain b
Bevan not out 40 Martyn not out 92 Extras:
(w-4, nb-5) 9 Total: (1 wkt, 20.2 overs 148 Fall of wicket:
1-17 Bowling: Tapash Baisya 5-0-31-0, Hasibul Hossain 6-0-37-1, Khaled Mahmud 3-0-34-0, Mohammad Rafique 4-0-29-0, Sanwar Hossain 2.2-0-17-0.
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Jaffer’s double ton ensures draw
London, August 3 Following-on and still 286 run in arrears when they went to bat on the final morning, India ‘A’ ended up with 449 for the loss of two wickets before declaring their second innings. Sriram on 108 and his state teammate Hemang Badani on 14 were the not out batsman. The draw, in their final engagement, meant the visitors remained unconquered on their 40-day tour. Resuming at 70 for no loss, the Indians were given a solid platform by their opening pair, captain Shiv Sunder Das and Jaffer, who put on 151 runs for the first wicket. Das eventually fell to Kenyan leg spinner Collins Obuya after having spent 150 minutes for his 65. But Jaffer (218) continued with his counter-attack. His first hundred came off 146 balls and the second century came in even quicker time.
Scoreboard Warwickshire (1st innings): 537 India (1st innings):
181 India A (2nd innings): Das c & b Obuya 65 Jaffer lbw b Sheikh 218 Sriram not out 104 Badani not out 14 Extras: 48 Total:
(2 wkts decl, 95 overs) 449 FoW: 1-151, 2-398. Bowling:
Betts 15-3-51-0, Sheikh 180-2-69-1, Carter 12-3-43-0, Obuya 18-0-96-1, Trott 12-1-47-0, Bell 9-1-49-0, Westwood 8-0-57-0, Powell 3-0-14-0.
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Was Cronje murdered?
London, August 3 While the report by Daniel Murt from South Africa recounts the graphic details of Hansie Cronjes life after he was caught talking on the telephone to an Indian bookmaker in the infamous match-fixing scandal, it goes on to perpetuate the myth of the much-revered former South African captain having made only one simple mistake in his life. Although Cronje died more than a year ago in a cargo plane crash while on a flight to his exclusive home in the Western Cape, his memory has lived on and had even returned to haunt the South African campaign in the World Cup. Colleagues of his still seemed to swear allegiance to their departed captain, a fact that did not go down well either with his successor Shaun Pollock nor with the cricket establishment. Quoting a pilot about the crash of the cargo plane in which Cronje was the only passenger, the report goes on to state — “There are a lot of unknowns about what happened. I think it will be a long time before the Civil Aviation Authority report comes out. I have a million questions that I haven’t even started asking yet. We’d been flying that route daily and in far worse weather without experiencing even a hint of trouble.’’ The report goes on to list any number of doubts about the crash with some in the know even speculating whether the landing system in the George Airport had been tampered with by people who may not have wished the whole truth to come out of the Cronje affair and the huge betting scandal he was involved in. But Cronje was not even scheduled to take the flight and there is speculation that the parsimonious captain who was to aver that the Devil had taken over his life briefly did so only to save the ticket money for the commercial flight from Johannesburg to Cape Town. Cronje had a standing arrangement with the small charter airline AirQuarius which would allow him to travel as sole passenger on one of its cargo planes (a Hawker Siddely 748) in the jump seat but the plane he was on that fateful date of 31 May 2002 crashed in bad weather in the hills in the Western Cape. Does Cronje’s malign influence extend beyond the grave? Or could it be that his death was not an accident, asks the writer, of the player who with 27 wins from 53 Tests was one of crickets most successful captains. Many senior police officers believe he may have been murdered - and they are working covertly to prove it, the report goes on to add. “A lot of people wanted Cronje dead,’’ an investigator close to the case is quoted as saying. “They feared that he would one day tell the full truth, and then many more would be implicated. I know people who have looked closely into what happened but who were warned off by threatening phone calls. |
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Anand suffers second defeat
Dortmund, August 3 The Indian Grandmaster, who finished at the bottom of the table during his previous outing at the event in 2001, looked out of form in this edition also as he had lost his second round tie against GM Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan yesterday. After this match, Anand, who only has a draw against GM Peter Leko in the first round to his credit, is placed at the bottom with 0.5 points while Bologan has emerged as the sole leader with 2.5 points. In other third round ties, Leko shared points with Radjabov while world number two Vladimir Kramnik was held to a draw by GM Arkadi Naiditsch of Germany. Kramanik is now half a point adrift of Bologan and ahead of third placed Leko and Radjabov. Naiditsch holds the fifth spot with one point. Anand, who had defeated the Moldovian in their earlier meeting at the 2000 World Championship in New Delhi, started the game with a Caro Kann opening and was evenly placed till he committed a tactical error in the middle game to losing two pawns and eventually the tie in 41 moves. A distracting move of the bishop by Bologan on the 27th move had the Indian in trouble slowing down his progress on the queenside. Anand then lost a pawn to a simple tactic on the 38th move before resigning on move 41. — PTI
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Sunita, Tarik in fray for Dronacharya Award New Delhi, August 3 Sunita Sharma’s name was not considered last year as the Sports Authority of India (SAI) reportedly forwarded her case “very late”. (Sunita is a senior cricket coach of the SAI posted at the National Stadium in New Delhi). Sunita is trying her luck yet again, but this time she has to compete with present coach of the Indian women’s cricket team Tarik Sinha. The Dronacharya Award selection panel will be headed by the highly respected tennis ace Ramesh Krishnan, the non-playing captain of the Indian Davis Cup team, with some outstanding former Indian internationals like hockey Olympian Ajit Pal Singh, Asian Games wrestling gold medallist Kartar Singh, former Indian badminton star Madhumita Bisht, cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar and table tennis veteran Kamlesh Mehta as members. Madhumita Bisht is the lone woman member in the panel, and many former sportspersons felt that the government should have given representation to more women so that they could have had a decisive say in the selection of the award winners, particularly women coaches. They cited the example of Sunita Sharma whose claim was overlooked last year on some flimsy technical groud. She had all the credentials to merit the award as she was the first woman cricket coach to pass out of the National Institute of Sports in Patiala, and was the coach of the Indian women’s cricket team for several years. Her name was recommended for the Dronacharya Award by the Women’s Cricket Association of India as many of the players in the senior women’s cricket team were her trainees — like captain Anjum Chopra, Anju Jain, Sashi Gupta, Mani Mala and Amita Sharma. Amita Sharma, who played in the mini World Cup in England in 2000 and was a member of the Indian team for the New Zealand tour, is Sunita’s latest contribution to the national squad. But Sunita’s most famous trainee is Indian wicket-keeper Deep Das Gupta who learnt the basics of cricket at her coaching centre at the National Stadium. |
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POA felicitates
MS Bhullar Chandigarh, August 3 The president of the Punjab Olympic Association, Mr Sukhdev Singh Dhindsa, and president of the Punjab Amateur Athletic Association, Mr Umrao Singh, said because of the singular contribution of Mr Bhullar both Punjab Police and Punjab were doing exceedingly well in sports. They held that after Mr Ashwani Kumar, it was Mr Bhullar who not only encouraged budding sportsmen and women by giving them suitable employment in Punjab Police but also created ultra-modern infrastructure for their training and practice. Earlier, Mr Raja Sidhu, secretary, Punjab Olympic Association, in his address of welcome stressed the need for coordinated effort of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh in producing good results in the field of sports. Others who attended the function included the Punjab Sports Minister, Mr Jagmohan Singh Kang, Mr D.S. Bains, Secretary, Sports, Punjab, besides Mr Abhay Chautala, Mr M.S. Malik, Mr Inderjit Singh Sandhu, Mr Ravinder Talwar, Mr Rajdeep Singh Gill, Mr T.C. Gupta, Mr S.S. Channi and Mr T.S. Dhaliwal. |
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Gong loses world badminton crown Birmingham, August 3 Gong led 4-0 in the first game but once Zhang found her stride she was generally in control, rounding off a fine week during which her other scalps have included the 1999 world champion Camilla Martin of Denmark.
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Motor rally in HP Chandigarh, August 3 According to a spokesperson of the organisers, the rally will be flagged off from Chandigarh and will run in the lower hills of Himachal Pradesh. A World Rally Championship style ‘‘Spectator Super Special’’ will be held in Chandigarh in which two cars will race together on a specially designed dirt race track where spectators can witness all the action and thrill of high speed racing. The rally will have the best rally drivers in the country like three-time national champion Naren Kumar, who finished fourth in the class at FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship 2002 and won the FIA Asian Zone Championship in 2001, seven-time national champion N. Leelakrishnan, local hero and national champion in 2000 Karandip Singh and not to forget the stiff competition from the drivers in the Rally Star Cup, a specially created amateurs cup to encourage young talent. The sponsors of the rally, HPCL, have agreed to sponsor the best performance by a local team to a free drive at the India Rally, a round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship, to be held in December this year. Only Motorsports Association of India homologated cars (Maruti Baleno, Esteem, Gypsy, Zen, Maruti 800, Honda City, Mitsubishi Lancer) conforming to the FIA Group N (unmodified) up to 1600cc specifications will be allowed to participate at this event, the spokesperson of the rally added. |
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Kunwar
Raina a promising batsman Patiala, August 3 Playing for his team the NICS Cricket Academy — the opening batsman ended the tournament with scores of 34, 51, 14, 42 and 32. He garnered eight wickets in five matches with his gentle off-spinners. He gives the ball a lot of flight and also varies his line and length much to the discomfiture of the batsman. The experience, and more significantly the confidence, Kunwar gained from this tournament stood him in good stead when his academy team toured Dehra Dun recently to play in a local tournament. Once again the vivacious youngster made an impact by scoring 34, 32, 29, 45 in the four innings he played. In one of the matches, while his senior colleagues struggled against an accurate attack, Kunwar timed the ball beautifully and his well placed drives flashed to the boundary while deflections eluded the fielders standing near the ropes. Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) selectors took no time in identifying Kunwar as talented youngster. He has now been selected among the 24 probables who will attend a training-cum-preparatory camp at SAS Nagar in September.
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