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It’s cricket for rising sons Constantine AFC’s
coach of month Salgaocar return to
warm welcome
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victories for Punjab cagers Unbeaten NR top the table Punjabi varsity win gold
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India falter again, fall short of target
Bangalore, November 12 After Australia posted a mammoth 347 for two riding on blistering centuries by Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar led a spirited Indian fightback with a classy 89 before the hosts lost steam to be stopped at 286 for eight in their allotted 50 overs in an absorbing floodlit encounter at the M Chinnaswamy stadium. The Indians, who desperately needed a victory to bolster their chances of making it to the November 18 final in Kolkata, were outplayed in all departments of the game by the formidable Aussies who recorded their fifth consecutive victory in the series. The only consolation from the defeat was the bonus point the hosts got which has tied them on points with New Zealand, both teams having ten points from five matches. The Australians, who have already qualified to the final, widened their lead atop the points table having garnered 28 points from six outings. India have no option but to defeat New Zealand in their last match in Hyderabad on Saturday to make it to the majestic Eden Gardens in Kolkata for the summit showdown. Earlier, electing to bat, Australia piled up 347 for two, the highest-ever score at the venue, with Gilchrist (111) and Ponting (108 not out) tearing the Indian bowling to shreds. Only Tendulkar could hang around for long as Sehwag (39), Sourav Ganguly (37) and Rahul Dravid (34) got the starts but could not build the innings which compounded India’s misery. The Indian run chase began in right earnest with Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag stitching 103 runs for the opening wicket to provide a solid foundation. Sehwag, who had not played the last match against new Zealand due to an injury, struggled to find his rhythm in the initial stages being beaten repeatedly by the two Australian new ball operators Brad Williams and Michael Kasprowicz. Tendulkar, who has been in very good nick, set the tempo by slamming Kasprowicz for two boundaries in his very first over but the Indians could not really pick up the runrate with Sehwag struggling to get the runs at the other end. The Delhi player was lucky to get a longer tenure at the crease as Mathew Hayden dropped a rather simple catch at first slip when he was on six, Kasprowicz being the unlucky bowler. In the same over, Sehwag got another life when Damien Martin spilled a difficult chance at the cover region much to the delight of a capacity crowd. After scratching around for a while, Sehwag unleashed a flurry of strokes, picking up Andrew Bichel for some special treatment by cloberring him for 16 runs in the 15th over of the innings. SCOREBOARD Australia: Gilchrist c Zaheer b Kumble 111 Hayden run out 44 Ponting not out 108 Martyn not out 61 Extras: (b-1, lb-9, w-12, nb-1) 23 Total: (2 wkts in 50 overs) 347 Fall of wickets: 1-119, 2-198. Bowling: Nehra 10-0-80-0, Zaheer 10-0-67-0, Kumble 9-0-60-1, Sehwag 5-0-36-0, Kartik 10-0-51-0, Ganguly 2-0-10-0, Yuvraj 4-0-33-0. India: Sehwag b Harvey 39 Tendulkar b Harvey 89 Laxman c Symonds b Clarke 18 Ganguly c Bichel b Symonds 37 Dravid c&b Kasprowicz 34 Singh lbw Symonds 20 Kaif B Symonds 8 Z. Khan run out 2 A. Kumble not out 12 M. Kartik not out 4 Extras: (b-5, lb-6, w-11, n-1) 23 Total: (8 wkts, 50 overs) 286 Fall of wickets: 1/103, 2/148, 3/172, 4/217, 5/254, 6/254, 7/259, 8-277 Bowling:
B. Williams 8-0-43-0, M. Kasprowicz 10-0-37-1, A Bichel 9-0-46-0, A. Symonds 9-0-42-3, I. Harvey 10-0-71-2, M. Clarke 4-0-36-1.
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Wavell Hinds rues missed century Bulawayo, November 12 The opener roared to 81 off 109 balls, smashing 12 fours and two sixes, before coming down the pitch to a delivery from left-arm spinner Ray Price and being easily stumped by wicketkeeper Tatenda Taibu. “I was set for a hundred but then I got myself out,” Hinds told Reuters. “I’ll have to work on that very hard next time around.” West Indies scored 282 for three on an easy paced pitch before a thunderstorm washed out the last 27 overs of the day’s play. Brian Lara looked set for a big innings on 77 not out, with Ramnaresh Sarwan on 46. “It’s a batsman’s wicket, but you still need to apply yourself irrespective of the surface you play on,” Hinds said. “Zimbabwe bowled pretty decently to start with, but once you got stuck in it was pretty easy to score freely on that wicket.” Hinds said his side were would look to press home their advantage. “Anywhere close to 500 would be a good shout and then we need to rustle up 20 Zimbabwean wickets, perhaps with spin on what could become a rough surface,” he said. The mood was less buoyant in the Zimbabwe camp after a day of bowling and fielding in stifling heat. “It was a disappointing day for us,” Zimbabwe coach Geoff Marsh told Reuters. “We just didn’t get the right line and length, and we allowed them to hit too many fours. “When you’ve got a player like Brian Lara out there you can’t afford to bowl badly. “They also ran very well between the wickets and picked up some singles we should have stopped.” Marsh agreed with Hinds’s assessment of the pitch. “It’s a flat track, that’s for sure, with a bit of turn in it and it looks as though it might break up,” Marsh said. “Batting later in the game is going to be difficult.” SCOREBOARD West Indies (Ist innings): Gayle c Taibu b Blignaut 47 Hinds s Taibu b Price 81 Ganga c Matsikenyere b Price 23 Lara batting 77 Sarwan batting 46 Extras: (b-1, lb-2, w-1, n-4) 8 Total: (for 3 wkts, 63 overs) 282 Fall of wickets: 1-73, 2-146, 3-161. Bowling: Andy Blignaut 11-2-50-1, Heath Streak 16-3-55-0, Blessing Mahwire 10-3-52-0, Ray Price 23-0-108-2, Trevor Gripper 3-0-14-0.
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Flintoff stars in England’s win Dhaka, November 12 The 25-year-old all-rounder hammered four fours and four sixes in his 39 ball 52 to knock off the winning runs with more than 10 overs to spare after England had bowled out Bangladesh for a paltry 182. Flintoff, who has five man-of-the-match awards in his last six matches, shared in an unbroken 83-run stand with Paul Collingwood (46 not out) after Marcus Trescothick had put the visitors on the road to victory with a 70-ball 50. Flintoff had earlier taken two wickets as all of England’s bowlers chipped in to bundle out Bangladesh in 49.1 overs. It was still the highest total of the series for the hosts, who had crumbled for 143 and 134 in the first two matches, losing both by seven-wicket margins. Bangladesh have not won their last 47 one-day matches, their last victory coming against Pakistan in the 1999 World Cup. SCOREBOARD Bangladesh: Sarkar run out 21 Moniruzzaman c and b Anderson 1 Bashar lbw b Clarke 21 Saleh c Read b Batty 19 Rahman lbw b Flintoff 36 Kapali b Clarke 2 Mahmud run out 11 Mashud b Flintoff 16 Rana not out 20 Rafique b Kirtley 13 Baisya c Collingwood b Kirtley 7 Extras: (lb-2, nb-2, w-11) 15 Total: (all out, 49.1 overs) 182 FoW: 1-6, 2035, 3-66, 4-75, 5-83, 6-103, 7-139, 8-152, 9-172. Bowling: Anderson 10-2-36-1, Kirtley 9.1-33-2, Flintoff 10-3-32-2, Blackwell 4-0-16-0, Batty 10-0-35-1, Clarke 6-0-28-2. England: Trescothick b Khaled Mahmud 50 Solanki c Khaled Mashud b Mushfiqur Rahman 1 Vaughan lbw b Mushfiqur Rahman 29 Collingwood not out 46 Flintoff not out 52 Extras: (lb-3 nb-1 w-3) 7 Total: (3 wickets, 39.3 overs) 185 FoW: 1-5 2-66 3-102 Bowling:
Tapash Baisya 8-0-41-0 Mushfiqur Rahman 10-0-29-2, Khaled Mahmud 10-2-32-1, Manjural Islam 5-0-33-0, Mohammad Rafique 6-0-34-0 Hannan Sarkar 0.3-0-13-0.
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It’s cricket for rising sons Patiala, November 12 Both right arm off spinner Tejaswi Prasad Yadav and medium pacer Somay Azad have ensured that the Polly Umrigar trophy cricket match for under-15 boys between Delhi and Punjab, being played at the Dhruv Pandove stadium here, has enough star value attached to it. In the exalted company of both these players are a couple of other “celebrity” cricketers who form an integral part of the Delhi team. One of them is Maman Sharma, son of Ajay Sharma, who was caught in the match-fixing controversy. The other “star” player is Rishal Bhasker, son of Bhasker Pillay, who represented India in just one limited-overs match against the John Wright-led New Zealand squad at Jammu in 1989. Unfortunately, rain played spoilsport and ensured that not a single ball was bowled in the contest. Bhasker never got a look in in the Indian team after the Jammu episode. Interestingly, the suave and sophisticated, yet nervous fathers reach the stadium in their swanky cars bearing single digit registration numbers much before their wards arrive. Once they make themselves comfortable in their chairs, it’s time for the high-pitched shouting and screaming to start. The sons are all too obliging in nature. They may or or may not listen to the sagely advise of the Delhi coach but all instructions from their fathers are religiously adhered to. As per his own admission, Tejaswi Yadav, a class VII student of Delhi Public School, speaks twice on his cell phone to mother Rabri and at least once to his father. For security cover this high profile guest has two Bihar policemen and an equal number of cops from the Patiala police. The Bihar cops are his permanent companions and the moment Tejaswi enters the ground the policemen heave a sigh of relief and retreat to a quiet corner of the stadium. Interestingly, like Tejaswi’s celebrated father, Somay Azad’s grandfather Bhagwat Jha Azad also remained the Bihar Chief Minister in the late 70s. Today, Ajay Sharma could be seen sporting a wide smile as his son picked up three wickets in Punjab’s first essay at the crease. Once the Delhi batsmen started their innings in the pre-lunch session, it was the turn of Bhasker Pillay to do all the shouting. The reason: His son Rishal was opening the Delhi batting. |
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Constantine
AFC’s coach of month
New Delhi, November 12 Iran’s Ali Karimi was named October’s AFC Player of the Month while Oman won the AFC Team of the Month award, according to information received here today. The 41-year-old British national, who took charge in June 2002, guided the Indian team to a historic win in the LG Cup in Vietnam last year and also coached the India under-18 team which won the Ian Rush Trophy in Wales in August this year. At the Busan Asian Games last year, India ended with a creditable performance after missing a quarterfinal berth on goal difference. At the Afro-Asian Games in Hyderabad from October 24 to November 1, India beat Rwanda 3-1, Malaysia 2-0 and Zimbabwe 5-3 enroute to the final before losing to Uzbekistan, conceding a last-minute goal. Constantine, who has earlier trained the national teams of Cyprus and Nepal, is one of the youngest members of the FIFA instructors panel. This was second time that an Indian coach had bagged the honour in recent years. Sukhwinder Singh won the award in April 2001 after India upset UAE in the pre-World Cup qualifiers.
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Salgaocar
return to warm welcome Margao, November 12 The team was greeted by club patron Shivanand Salgaocar, team officials Henry Britto, Sanjiv Nagvenkar, AIFF secretary Alberto Colaco and club supporters who later took out a victory procession from the station to the club’s headquarters at Vasco. Coach Savio Medeira, for whom the victory was the first major title outside Goa after taking over the reins two years back, said “the loss to Cabral Sports Club in the Goa Governor’s Cup prior to Durand Cup brought us back to our senses and helped us concentrate much harder for the Durand Cup”. “We played with commitment in all the four matches which helped us win the title, beating formidable East Bengal in the final through a penalty shoot-out,” he said. |
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Irina
takes 4-stroke lead The lush course of the Chandigarh Golf Club saw the Chandigarh golf icon, Irina, play a one-under card till the 16th hole. But bogeys in the last two holes saw her finish the day with a one-over card. Irina seems to have overcome the nagging lower back injury which forced her into hibernation for 11 months. Bogeys in the first and third holes did not deter the defending champion. She rallied with birdies in the fourth, sixth and 11th holes, leaving her rivals far behind. But the last two holes saw her losing a stroke each. “My performance in the last two holes was sheer stupidity”, said Irina. For Vandana Aggarwal, her birthday did not prove lucky . She started with four bogeys in the first nine and ended up returning a card of five over. She finished with a two-day aggregate of 151, trailing Irina by four strokes. Close on the heels of Vandana were the Delhi girls Shruti Khanna, Anjali Chopra and Shalini Malik Shruti Khanna who carded a very casual 7 over in a first half pulled out the stops in the back nine firing inspired birdies on the 12th, 14th and 16th holes to salvage her card, bringing her a shot closer to Vandana. In the Silver Division two youngsters Shruti Naik and Sharmila (both juniors) burnt the course with performances well under their handicaps both playing identical rounds of 82. The winner amongst them for the day’s best nett prize had to be decided in favour of Shruti by a count of the last 6 holes. The juniors produced some very good golf today with Mysore’s Bhavna Shetty carding a 6 over 78 which has her snapping at the heels of the senior players lying just 7 strokes wide of a third position in the open. Meghna Bal, her rival from Delhi, also matched her card of 6 over. Vaishavi Sinha did the subjunior division proud by matching the best score of the juniors today with a brilliant card of 76 that included an unbroken string of 8 pars from the 11th to 18th holes. The Super Senior competition came to a close today with Mrs Dalbir Sahi laying claim to the title and Mrs Saroj Joti getting the nett prize. The results after the second day’s play: Championship Trophy (Gross): Irina Brar 147, Vandana Agarwal 151 Silver Salver (Nett):
Shrishti Dhaon 136, Dimple Minocha 140. Challenge Bowl (13-24): Gross
— Sharmila 171, Rohini Majithia 178. Nett: Shruti Naik 132, Sharmila N 140. Bronze Plate (25-36): Gross
— Neelu Chopra 190, Bubbles Singh 213. Nett — Neelu Chopra 133, Bubbles Singh 136. Junior Shield: Gross
— Bhavna Shetty 159, Vaishavi Sihna 163. Nett — Bhavna Shetty 141, Sharmila N 145. Subjunior Shield: Gross
— Vaishavi Sihna 163, Shruti Naik 170. Nett — Shruti Naik 138, Vaishavi Sinha 140. Senior Challenge: Gross
— Renuka Phillips 161, S. Ratia 183. Nett — Renuka Phillips 143, Kiran BM Singh 149. Super Senior Special: Gross
— Dalbir Sahi. Nett — Saroj Joti. |
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victories for Punjab cagers Chandigarh, November 12 Punjab men defeated Rest of India (Red) 78-52. Punjab, with seven junior international players in their team, took an early lead of nine points (23-14) at the end of the first quarter. By half time they consolidated the lead by 21 points (50-29). After the break, Rest of India changed their tactics and tried to reduce the margin and could succeed to some extent. In the fourth quarter, with repeated counter-attacks, Punjab further increased the lead by 26 points and won the match. For Punjab, Amit Prashar (13) Snehpal (7) and Lakhwinder (8) were the main scorers. In the second match, Punjab women defeated Chandigarh 72-31. By the end of first half, Punjab were leading by 30 points at 48-18. For Punjab Nampreet (13), Taranjit (18), Rajwinder (20) and for Chandigarh, Mandeep (11) Harjeet (7) were main the scorers. In other matches, Chhattisgarh women defeated Rest of India 68-43 while Rest of India (Blue) men thrashed Delhi 61-35. |
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Unbeaten NR top the table Jalandhar, November 12 Meanwhile, Bharat Petroleum defeated Indian Oil 2-1 in the men’s section to secure a place in the semifinals. Earlier, Northern Railway gained an early lead in the 6th minute through a penalty corner conversion by Suman Bala (1-0). Dhanoa Punjab Club took two penalty corners in the 22nd and 23rd minutes but failed to capitalise on the opportunities. In the 31st minute Gurpreet Kaur struck for Railways off a penalty corner (2-0). At half time, Northern Railway were leading 2-0. In the second half, Railway eves dominated the proceedings. They scored the third goal in the 36th minute through Pritam Siwach (3-0). In the 48th and 59th minutes. Pritam Siwach scored two goals (5-0). Simranjeet Kaur of Railways completed the remaining formalities in 68th minute through a field goal (6-0). Northern Railway earned nine penalty corners and Dhanoa Punjab Club earned only two. With today’s victory, Northern Railway bagged nine points from three matches. The second match between Air-India, Mumbai and Chandigarh XI ended in a draw. For Chandigarh Parkash Choudhary struck in the 25th minute through a penalty corner to open the account. The eqauliser for the Air-India came shortly thereafter in 26th minute, when Agnesia Lugun easily converted a penalty stroke. In the second half, Air-India consolidated the lead in the 37th minute, when Smilay P scored an impressive goal from the left flank (1-2). The Chandigarh eves, however, settled for a draw in the 41st minute, when Parkash Choudhary struck for the second time off a penalty corner. Meanwhile, in the last match of the super league of men’s section, Bharat Petroleum defeated Indian Oil 2-1 to secure a place in the semifinals. |
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Punjabi varsity win gold Patiala, November 12 The hosts team comprising Narinderjit Singh, Abhishek Rana, Gurmeet Singh and Gurinder Singh, clocked 1.54:85 seconds to win the first place. The Panjab University squad comprising Melvin Mathew, Amandeep Singh, Jarmal Singh and Jashandeep Singh, stood second while the Manipur University foursome of T.Medhajit, K. Somen Singh, Gunachandran and N. Devdatta were placed fourth. Other results: 1 km massed start (preliminary
round, men) Gunachandran (Manipur) -1, K.Somen Singh (Manipur) -2, Gurinder Singh (Punjabi) -3, Abhishek Rana (Punjabi) -4, Gaekwad Prashad (Pune) -5, Shiv Narayan (Osmania) -6. (preliminary round, women): H.Dinita Devi (Manipur) -1, Vidya G.K (Karnataka) -2, Manpreet Kaur (Punjabi) -3, Manjot Kaur (Punjabi) -4, Nirmal Jit Kaur (GND varsity) -5, Lekshmi S.L (Kerala)-6. Earlier, Mr S.S. Boparai, Vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, inaugurated the meet. |
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Delhi
172 for 3 in U-15 cricket Patiala, November 12 Brief scores: Punjab (1st innings): 399 all out. Delhi: (1st innings): 172 for 3 (Varun Sood 69, Karan Roy 55
n.o, Rishal Bhasker 23, Rahul Yadav 13 n.o, Guriqbal Singh 2 for 38, Sidharth 1 for 33). |
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