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Friday,
August 22, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Pak rout Germany 5-2
Indians not learning from
mistakes Indian juniors
drub Germany Kirsten’s ton lifts SA Debutant Hameed
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Missing women cricketers paid Rs 2 lakh each for British visa Leander Paes’ condition stable Gopichand, Popat taste defeat
Haryana athletics squad announced Punjab boxing from Aug 24
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Pak rout Germany 5-2 Amstelveen, August 21 Playing well within themselves, Pakistan, who won the title back in 1994 in Lahore, proved a handful for a second-string German team. For the winners, Kashif Jawad (5’, 24’), Rehan Butt (15’), Sohail Abbas (65’), Salim Khalid (67’) did all the damage. For Germany, Benedikt Sperling (43’) and Benjamin Kopp (46’) led a late charge. With this win Pakistan top the points tally with eight points from four matches and play their last league match against arch-rivals India tomorrow. As expected the Pakistani forwards went on the rampage. Mercurial Rehan Butt’s persistence paid off in the fifth minute as he dribbled past a couple of defenders and passed to an unmarked Kashif Jawwad, who slotted in to open the account. The second-string German team had their only penalty corner in the first half (9’) but rock solid Ahmed Alam padded off a powerful drive from Alexander Sahmel. Pakistan didn’t have to wait long for their second as Rehan Butt put himself on the scorer’s list this time. After showing some lovely stick work inside the circle by Mudassar Ali passed it to right-out Rehan, who had charged to the middle. A first time strike by Rehan gave the three time champions a 2-0 lead. Sameer Hussain substituting for Mudassar gave a brilliant through ball to Kashif Jawad (24’), who shot in his second goal of the match as the teams changed end with Pakistan leading 3-0. The German team took to the field with new-found resolve in the second half. Benedikt Sperling scored the first goal for Germany eight minutes into the second half following an accurate pass from Benjamin Kopp in the right flank. Kopp, one of the few who was part of the main German team that played in the Hamburg four-nation tournament, showed his class as he narrowed the margin to 2-3 in the 43rd minute. Stung by the reverse Pakistan forward-line pressed hard and off the second penalty corner Sohail Abbas scored his sixth goal of the tournament. The irrepressible Rehan was again in action as he set up substitute Salim Khalid beautifully for Pakistan’s fifth goal. It proved to be the final nail in the coffin for the Germans, who have suffered defeats at the hands of all the teams they have played so far. Holland trounce Agrentina
Continuing its fine run in the 25th Champions Trophy hockey tournament, Holland trounced Argentina 6-3 today to top the six-team table. At half time both the sides were level at 3-3. For Holland, Ronald Brouwer (15’, 48’) scored a brace. Taeke Taekema (19’) Matthijs Brouwer (30’), Karel Klaver (45’) and Rob Reckers (60’) were the others who found the net for the winners. For Argentina while Jorge Lombi scored twice (27’, 33’), Matias Paredes netted the third
goal.— UNI
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Indians
not learning from mistakes The reluctance of the Indian hockey team to learn from their mistakes surprises me. The team can have one bad day, but to keep committing the same mistakes in all the matches so far is unthinkable. I have never seen the Indian team perform so badly against Argentina and the 2-4 defeat has demolished India’s hopes of winning even a bronze medal in the Champions Trophy. It is a real tragedy. I am not at all happy with the way the midfielders have performed while the defenders have also been unimpressive. The poor quality of display in defending, tackling and controlling the midfield was noticeable. None of the midfielders could raise their game to be effective at this level. It is a mystery how even in the fourth game of the tournament, the Indians did not understand the importance of linking the forwardline on attack and also linking the deep defenders when defending the opponents. It is pathetic that Viren Rasquinha and Bimal Lakra failed to do anything worthwhile on these aspects. I felt that the team was missing quality players like Tirumal Valvan and Arjun Halappa. Lifting the game in these situations is the responsibility of the midfielders. When this fails to happen, the pressure keeps building on the entire team. I fail to understand why a player like Vikram Pillay is cooling his heels on the benches. In the deep defence, Jugraj Singh and Kanwalpreet Singh have lost their momentum and appears that they are too exhausted due to the failure of the midfielder and forwards. Even the normally unflappable Dilip Tirkey is committing mistakes. The team has not been following a game plan or may be they could not do so because of the intense pressure of winning the outing against Argentina. As a coach for seven years, I have also experienced similar situations when the team cannot implement the plans. But never has the team played so badly match after match. Very soon, there will be a post-mortem as to what went wrong in Amstelveen particularly after all the hype that was created before the elite tournament. There may even be a high level probe which is quite common in Indian sports. It is imperative for coach Rajinder Singh to regain his self-confidence and take complete charge of the team. He has to involve the players in his strategy sessions because their inputs can be vital. When the team performs badly, the team management has to come into command and get the message across to the players. The match against Argentina was crucial for India to keep their medal hopes alive and it is this ‘must win’ situation which took a heavy toll on the players. In such a situation, attacking hockey was the need of the hour but the Indians failed miserably. But it is not that they did not try. They succeeded in the first 10 minutes of the first half. There were some good attacks by the forwards but the quality of shooting inside the ‘D’ was not good enough to beat the Argentinians. The forwards — captain Dhanraj Pillay, Gagan Ajit Singh and Prabhjot Singh — were guilty of squandering whatever opportunities that came their way. The frontline kept committing too many errors — losing the ball and indulging in unimaginative passes. This gave the Argentinians, who play the game on soccer pattern both in attack and defence, the advantage that they were looking for. Their three mid-field players did some good over turn with the ball and started rolling the passes to an unmarked forwardline.
— PTI
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Indian
juniors drub Germany
New Delhi, August 21 India, who whipped France 10-0 in their opening encounter, settled the issue in the first half itself scoring all the three goals before the break yesterday. Sandeep Singh put India ahead in the 10th minute with a superb drag flick off a penalty corner and skipper Prabodh Tirkey made it 2-0 in the very next minute. Then, four minutes before the break, Girish Pimpale sounded the board from another penalty corner to give India a commanding 3-0 lead, according to a press release by the Indian Hockey Federation. Their second win in this six-nation round-robin tournament enhanced India’s chances as it came after the big win against France. — PTI
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Kirsten’s ton lifts SA
Leeds, August 21 South Africa (first innings): Smith c Stewart b Kirtley 2 Gibbs c Stewart b Bicknell 0 Kirsten not out 109 Kallis c Vaughan b Bicknell 6 McKenzie c Stewart b Rudolph lbw b Kabir Ali 55 Boucher c Vaughan b Flintoff 16 Hall c Smith b Flintoff 0 Zondeki not out 50 Extras: (lb-10, w-1, nb-7) 18 Total:
(7 wkts, 90 overs) 260 Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-2, 3-16, 4-21, 5-116, 6-142, 7-142. Bowling:
Kirtley 24-9-64-1, Bicknell 20-10-32-2, Ali 18-3-60-2, Anderson 11-5-39-0, Flintoff 17-4-55-2.
— AP
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Debutant
Hameed blasts century
Karachi, August 21 The 25-year-old, who became the ninth Pakistani to score a century on debut, however, was unable to see his side through to stumps, when he was dismissed with 4.2 overs remaining. Hameed produced the highest score by a Pakistani batsmen on his Test debut, surpassing the 166 scored by Khalid ‘Billy’ Ibadulla 38 years ago at the same venue against Australia. But it was a different story for recalled batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq, who was caught by Rajin Saleh at midwicket for a five-ball duck. Inzamam was dropped after the World Cup, where he scored just 19 runs in six innings. In contrast Hameed, batting on a ground where he scored 207 in a domestic match in February, was ruthless against a Bangladesh attack lacking bite on a slow pitch. Bangladesh (1st innings): 288 Pakistan (first innings): Hafeez c Javed Omar
b Mashrafe 2 Taufiq Umar c Javed Omar b Rafique 38 Hameed c Rafique
b Mashrafe 170 Inzamam-ul-Haq c Saleh b Baisya 0 Youhana c & b Rajin Saleh 46 Misbah-ul-Haq not out 12 Rashid Latif not out 27 Extras:
(lb-2 nb-4) 6 Total: (5 wkts, 94 overs) 301 Fall of wickets:
1-5 2-102 3-103 4-234 5-270. Bowling: Mashrafe Mortaza 12-1-61-2 (nb-3), Tapash Baisya 12-3-40-1 Khaled Mahmud 15-2-66-0, Mohammad Rafique 25-8-61-1, Sanwar Hossain 9-0-23-0, Alok Kapali 16-3-39-0, Rajin Saleh 5-0-9-1
— Reuters
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Missing
women cricketers paid Rs 2 lakh each Jalandhar, August 21 Ironically, the family members of these missing players appeared relaxed after the sudden disappearance of their wards in London. They were in constant touch with them over the telephone even as the British police was still clueless about the whereabouts of the missing girls and reportedly maintained that the girls might have gone off on a pre-planned adventure. Five members of Lynex Cricket Club — Baljeet Kaur of Begowal in Kapurthala, Rajwant of New Sudarshan Park locality here, Ekta of Gazi Barwan village in Pathankot, Parvesh of Ambala Cantt and Mandeep Virk of Ferozepore — had suddenly disappeared from Hunslow in West London on August 12 after participating in two matches, thus, exposing the chain of human trafficking in Doaba. “We paid a sum of Rs 2 lakh to Ravi Shama for getting a six-month British visa for Baljeet Kaur. It was promised that she would be allowed to do some temporary job in London after participating in a 20 day cricket tournament there, which never happened to be the case,” admitted Mr Wazir Kaur, mother of Baljeet Kaur, who did not appear to be worried over the disappearance of her daughter. A relaxed Mr Wazir Kaur said “Ravi Sharma is the main culprit as he broke the promise to secure a six-month British visa for my daughter. As Baljeet was ready to board the plane at Amritsar airport, Ravi came with the passport, which had a valid British visa for 21 days, which was really shocking for all the girls and their family members, who paid Rs 2 lakh each for the purpose.” When asked whether Baljeet had made any contact with them, she said, “We are anxiously waiting for her call. I want my daughter back.” When this correspondent visited the New Sudarshan Park residence of Rajwant, her sister Paramjit Kaur opened the main gate and was initially reluctant to discuss the issue. When she opened up after a lot of persuasion, it was altogether a different story. “Rajwant is fine and in constant touch with us over the telephone although she has not disclosed the place where she is putting up in London. In fact, Rajwant told me that the girls left the contingent following a brawl with Rashmi, daughter of Ravi Sharma, over some issue. Ravi Sharma had taken the passports and the money from these girls,” Paramjit disclosed alleging that Rohit, son of Ravi Sharma, who was handling the affairs of the club here in the absence of his father, was issuing threats to them. Primarily, it was established that the whole tour was planned to ensure immigration of the cricket players to England using legal means. Interestingly, none of the players had ever been interviewed by the British Embassy officials and visas were issued simply on the basis of documents submitted by the Lynex Cricket Club. Interestingly, the British High Commission had not taken any notice of the letter written by the general secretary of the PWCA, Mr Lavtesh Bhasin on July 23 asking the former not to issue visa to the members of this fake club and went ahead to grant a 21-day visa to visit the UK. Meanwhile, the Principal of Hans Raj Mahila MahaVidyalya, Ms P.P. Sharma maintained that none of the missing players were students of their college as mentioned in some sections of the media. “We had been approached by the organisers of Lynex Cricket Club on July 21 to issue a no-objection certificate (NOC) to ensure participation of Baljeet Kaur, Ekta and Rajwant Kaur in a cricket tournament in London, which was simply denied since all of them were not on the rolls of the college during the current academic session. All of them are former students, who had left the college a long time back,” she said, adding that the Punjab Women’s Cricket Association had been informed accordingly. |
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Leander Paes’ condition stable Orlando, August 21 Paes, a winner of six Grand Slam doubles titles, pulled out of the doubles competition at this week’s tournament on Long Island and will not play in the upcoming US Open. The cause of Paes’ illness is not known, Brown said, and possibilities include a brain abscess or a brain tumor. Test results could be available today. “We are inclined to believe it is a small abscess caused by an infectious agent yet to be identified,” Brown said. If it is an infection, a treatment of antibiotics could have Paes back on the court within weeks. “If this proves to be a tumor, the treatment will be entirely different and an estimate for full recovery cannot be stated at this time,” Brown said. The news of Paes having been detected with the ‘space occupying lesion’ was broken yesterday. His father Dr Vece Paes, a doctor in sports medicine, told reporters in India that “the situation is quite acute but there is no cause for alarm. At this stage we are not looking at tumours.” The prospect of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi reuniting after a period of 15 months for the ATP Tour event in Long Island was quashed with Paes’s diagnosis. He has also pulled out of the forthcoming US Open tournament and his participation in India’s campaign in the Davis Cup Wrold Group qaulifying tie against Holland next month is also uncertain. — AP
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Gopichand, Popat
taste defeat
New Delhi, August 21 Gopichand, who was making a comeback following a niggling knee-injury, lost to 7th seed Niels Kaldau of Denmark 5-15 15-3 13-15 in the second round late last night, according to information received here today. Kanetkar went down against Yohan Wiratana of Hong Kong 7-15 15-12 6-15 while top woman shuttler Popat was thrashed by 8th seed Frenchwoman Hongyan Pi 1-11 0-11 in just 16 minutes. Gopichand, who made a promising start to the championship by comfortably winning his qualifying round matches and then defeating Yousuke Nakanishi of Japan 9-15, 15-2, 15-8 in the first round, failed to start well against Kaldau as he lost the first game 5-15. But the Hyderabad-based shuttler bounced back to take the next 15-3. In the decider, Gopichand failed to hold his nerves and lost the game and the match 13-15 in 57 minutes. In another tie, south-paw Kanetkar played his heart out against Wiratana, who had earlier defeated 13th seed Przemyslaw Wacha of Poland 15-12 15-6 to cause the first upset of the tournament, but went down after a 72-minute encounter. National champion Abhinn Shyam Gupta and Chetan Anand had crashed out in the first round itself while Arvind Bhat and J.B.S. Vidyadhar were sent packing in the qualifiers.
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Kartar Singh corners glory Chandigarh, August 21 The manager of the veterans team which participated in the championship, Mr Rakesh Minhas, informed that Kartar Singh contested in the 97 kg category. In the earlier rounds he defeated Sayed Awas of Germany in 90 seconds and, Berry Maiyan of Holland in 50 seconds before qualifying for the final. He faced Pitsman Franz of Austria in the finals. Pitsman is a famous wrestler who put up brave fight but ultimately it was Kartar Singh who won in three and a half minutes by technical fall. According to Mr Minhas, a large number of NRIs from adjoining countries were present to cheer the Indian wrestlers. Kartar Singh is the only wrestler in Asia who is winning laurels for the past 29 years. During this period he represented India in the Olympic Games thrice while in the 1978 and 1985 Asian Games he won the gold medal. He has also won many international competitions. Keeping in view his sports achievements, the Punjab Government appointed him Director Sports. |
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Cheema to miss
world meet Patiala, August 21 Palwinder Cheema does not figure in the list of the selected members. Cheema could not attend the trials due to a shoulder injury. Cheema’s place in the 120kg plus weight category has been taken by Jagdeesh Kaliraman, son of famed grappler of yesteryear master Chandgi Ram. |
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Haryana
athletics squad announced Chandigarh, August 21 Men:
Surender Singh, Vinay Kumar (100, 200 m), Sunil Kumar, Dharambir Yadav (1500, 3000 m), Satbir Singh (400 m), Ombir Singh (high jump), Shamsher Singh, Parveen Kumar(pole vault), Shakti Singh, Malkhan
Singh(shotput), Anil Kumar (discus throw), Manbir Singh, Gurdev Singh, Anil Kumar, Sandeep (20 km walk), Jora Singh, Kulwinder Singh (decathlon) and Maha Singh (long jump). Women:
Sunita Dahiya (800, 1500 m), Seema Antil (shot put, discus throw), Neelam J Singh, Krishna Punia (discus throw), Suman (pole vault), Gurpreet Kaur (javelin throw), and Ravina Antil (20 km walk). |
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Punjab
boxing from Aug 24 Sangrur, August 21 According to Mr Harpreet Singh Sidhu, SSP, Jalandhar, and president, District Boxing Association, Punjab teams for participation in the Senior National Boxing Championship being held at Bangalore from September 9 to14 will be selected on the basis of the performance in this championship. A clinic for coaches and officials will be held in the office of District Sports Officer, Jalandhar, at 6 p.m. on August 23. Entries can be sent to Dr Narinder Singh, organising secretary.
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