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ICC: Murali has agreed not to bowl ‘doosra’
Innings victory for Lanka India face UAE in Asia Cup opener Windies triumph in rain-hit match
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Imran: no plan to adopt love child
Korea beat Japan, meet
India in final Successful weekend for Chandhok Mauresmo eyeing French Open
Olympic torch in Delhi on
June 10 China beat Denmark, lift Thomas Cup
Basketball trials School organises cross-country race
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ICC: Murali has agreed not to bowl ‘doosra’
New Delhi, May 17 “The Sri Lankan board has asked Murali not to bowl the doosra and the ICC endorses it. Murali has agreed to comply,” ICC President Ehsan Mani said, seeking to put to rest the confusion created by contradictory remarks from various quarters, including Sri Lanka Cricket and the player himself. Mani said certain tolerance level was allowed for spinners but in Murali’s case, it exceeded by about three times. “Although it has now come down to double, it still does not conform to ICC regulations. But doosra is not banned. It is a perfectly normal bowling action, some do it very well,” Mani told reporters in a tele-conference held to announce the launch of the ICC Champions Trophy 2004. “The ICC regulations regarding illegal bowling action is very simple. If a particular delivery does not conform to our regulations, it cannot be bowled,” he said. Mani also slammed politicians for sticking their necks into cricketing issues and asked them to refrain from making comments in the public domain. “The Murali issue has been blown out of proportion by various remarks by various politicians,” Mani said, referring to recent comments by the Australian and Sri Lankan Prime Ministers. Meanwhile, keen to avoid a repeat of the contract controversy, the International Cricket Council said it had put in place a set of guidelines which had been endorsed by all the boards, including the BCCI. Mani said it has had “intensive” discussions with all the cricket boards and come up with a set of a guidelines “which have been fully endorsed by the BCCI as well.” “All the cricket boards are obliged to deliver to the ICC and its commercial partners, the GCC (Global Cricket Corporation),” he said while announcing the launch of the fourth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy. Asked whether the ICC had reduced the ambush marketing clause to five days from 15, Mani said, “there are two things - use of players images and ambush marketing. In some cases, players might be refrained from endorsing a product (whose interests are in direct clash with that of the official sponsors) for five days before, during and after the ICC tournament and in some instances it is 15.” The contract controversy had jeopardised participation of top Indian cricketers in the World Cup 2003 and it was only after the ICC amended its contracts suitably that they agreed to play in the mega event. — PTI
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Innings victory for Lanka Harare, May 17 Zimbabwe resumed on 44 for two and lost three wickets for 18 runs in seven overs before lunch. They lost another three wickets for no runs in the space of 11balls after lunch as they crashed from 125 for two to 173 for eight in 12 overs. Opener Brendan Taylor top-scored with 61, his maiden Test half-century. Scoreboard Zimbabwe (Ist innings): 228 Sri Lanka (Ist innings): 713-3 dec Zimbabwe (2nd innings): (overnight 44-2) Taylor c Jayawardene
Matsikenyere c Jayawardene
Vermeulen c Murali b Zoysa 6 Ebrahim c Atapattu
Taibu c Dilshan b Murali 0 Maragwede lbw b Vaas 28 Chigumbura lbw b Murali 12 Nkala c Dilshan b Vaas 0 Panyangara not out 40 Mpariwa c Vaas b Jayasuriya 14 Hondo c Atapattu b Murali 3 Extras:
(lb-7, w-1, nb-3) 11 Total: (all out, 75.1 overs) 231 Fall of wickets:
1-22, 2-40, 3-125, 4-127, 5-143, 6-173, 7-173, 8-173, 9-204. Bowling:
Chaminda Vaas 18-6-53-2, Nuwan Zoysa 13-4-27-2, Muralitharan 28.1-6-79-4, Farveez Maharoof 6-0-32-0, Sanath Jayasuriya 10-0-33-2.
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India face UAE in
Asia Cup opener
New Delhi, May 17 The other teams taking part in the tournament are former World Champions Pakistan and Sri Lanka along with Bangladesh and Hong Kong. Pakistan will play their first match against Bangladesh on July 17 when the other Asian giant and hosts Sri Lanka kick off their campaign with a match against UAE. Of the 13 matches scheduled to be played in the 17-day long tournament, nine will be played under floodlights. India’s opener against UAE on July 16 will be played under floodlight at the Dambulla while another match on the same day between Bangladesh and Hong Kong will be a day affair at the
SSC, Colombo. Itinerary (Phase-one): July 16: India vs UAE at Dambulla (D/N); Bangladesh vs Hong Kong at
SSC, Colombo. July 17: Pakistan vs Bangladesh at SSC Colombo, Sri Lanka vs UAE at Dambulla (D/N). July 18:
Sri Lanka vs India at Dambulla (D/N), Pakistan vs Hong Kong at SSC Colombo. Phase-two: July 21: A2 vs B2 at SSC Colombo, A1 vs B1 at Premadasa Stadium, Colmbo (D/N) July 23: A2 vs B1 at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (D/N) July 25: A1 vs B2 at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (D/N) July 27:
B1 vs B2 at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (D/N) July 29: A1 vs A2 at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (D/N) Aug 1: Final at Premadasa Stadium, Colombo (D/N) Aug 2:
Reserve Day. — UNI |
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Windies triumph in rain-hit match
Kingstown, May 17 Chasing 125 to win, Bangladesh were restricted to 101 for eight from their allotment of overs, after overnight and persistent morning showers forced a late start and reduced the match to 25 overs-a-side yesterday. West Indies now take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-match series with the last one-day international scheduled for the Queen’s Park Stadium in St. George’s, Grenada, on Wednesday. Chasing 145 to win, West Indies scrambled to a one-wicket victory with 20 balls to spare in the opening ODI on Saturday. “I think our bowlers bowled pretty well for us and there is no one individual that I could pinpoint, it was a total team effort,” acting West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan told reporters. “I thought we were brilliant in the field, especially Dwayne Smith, and this is an area of our game that we are trying to improve on,” he added. “We have set ourselves some goals for this series and, hopefully, we can go to Grenada and continue the hard work and win there too.” Smith, named Man-of-the-Match, curbed his natural instincts to collect his highest one-day international score, as West Indies were restricted to 124 for seven from their allotment of 25 overs. Smith hit two fours and two sixes in a run-a-ball, undefeated 62 and was given a reprieve on 25 when Manjural Islam Rana dropped a head-high return chance. Tapash Baisya snatched four late wickets for 16 runs from five overs to be the pick of the Bangladesh bowlers and claim the best bowling figures by a bowler from his country in ODI cricket “In the matches I have played previously, I have gotten a few starts without carrying on, but I had the opportunity to bat at three this time, grabbed it with both hands, and I am happy,” Smith said. “I still have to work hard because cricket is not an easy game. Next match, I start with zero, so I have to keep working on the weaknesses I have and improve on my scores in the future.”
Scoreboard West Indies (25 overs max.) Gayle c Bashar
Powell c Bashar
Smith not out 62 Chanderpaul c Baisya
Sarwan c Kapali b Baisya 18 Bravo c Mahmud b Baisya 0 Jacobs b Baisya 3 Joseph c Sarkar b Baisya 0 Extras:
(lb-4) 4 Total: (7 wkts, 25 overs) 124 FoW: 1-17, 2-47, 3-77, 4-109, 5-110, 6-124, 7-124. Bowling:
Baisya 5-1-16-4, Rahman 5-0-24-1, Mahmud 5-0-31-1, Rafique 5-1-21-0, Rana 5-0-28-1. Bangladesh: Sarkar c Smith
Ashraful c Smith
Bashar c wkpr Jacobs
Saleh c Gayle b Bradshaw 1 Kapali c wkpr Jacobs
Rahman c Sarwan
Islam Rana not out 33 Mahmud c Best
Mashud b Bravo 9 Rafique not out 4 Extras: (lb-3, w-3) 6 Total: (8 wkts, 25 overs) 101 FoW: 1-8, 2-10, 3-20, 4-21, 5-39, 6-71, 7-78, 8-95. Bowling:
Edwards 5-0-19-2, Best 5-0-15-1, Bradshaw 5-1-15-3, Bravo 5-0-23-2, Gayle 5-0-26-0.
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Imran: no plan to adopt love child
Islamabad, May 17 The former all-rounder denied reports emanating from England that his wife Jemima Khan and he had decided to take custody of the 12-year-old girl who was born out of wedlock. “This is absolutely untrue,” said Imran who is wedded to another British Jemima Goldsmith. Imran said Tyrian was in London alongwith her grandmother and aunt and it was upto them to decide what needed to be done. “Right now everyone is in shock,” he said. Imran also told the ‘Daily Times’ newspaper from New York that Tyrian had been made to believe that he was her father, but did not elaborate. Yesterday, quoting Sita’s friends, London tabloid ‘The Mail on Sunday’ reported that Imran would take custody of Tyrian following the sudden death of her mother. The 51-year-old cricketer-turned-politician refused to acknowledge Tyrian, born in 1992, as his child until Sita won a paternity suit in 1997. Sita’s will stipulated that Imran got “full and complete parental rights over Tyrian if anything happened”, her friend was quoted as saying by the paper. — PTI
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Korea beat
Japan, meet India in final New Delhi, May 17 According to information received here, the mighty South Korea, in their last league match today, beat hosts Japan 5-2 to clear the deck for a Korea-India clash in the final of the four-nation tournament. By beating Japan, South Korea maintained a clean slate while making their way to the final of the tournament. The experimental Indian squad had beaten Japan 2-1 in the opener while they went down to South Korea 2-3 before bouncing back and trouncing China 4-0 in their last league assignment yesterday.
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Successful weekend for Chandhok Knockhill, Scotland, May 17 Things started brilliantly for Karun during the Friday practice sessions when he ended the first session of the morning fastest overall. He ultimately ended the day second fastest but just .04s slower than Australian Will Power. This was indeed a shock to much of the pitlanes who weren’t used to seeing the 20-year-old so far up the order. The qualifying sessions were extremely eventful affairs. In the first session, Karun laid down the gauntlet with a spectacular time of 47.8 seconds which put him on provisional position by almost half a second at the half way stage when the session was stopped to clear out a crashed car. When the session re-started, Karun improved his time straight away to a 47.7s despite passing another car on that lap, but then on the very next flying lap, he made a small mistake at the chicane, which sent him into the tyre barrier ending his session. As the track conditions and consequently laptimes improved, the Indian dropped down the order to an eventual eighth. The second qualifying session was even more exciting with finally the top six drivers being covered by just over one tenth of a second and the top 15 by just over half a second. — UNI
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Mauresmo eyeing
French Open Rome, May 17 “I hope, we’ll see. Of course it gives you a lot of confidence to win these kind of matches, especially in the final,” she said. Added to her confidence, Mauresmo will have a partisan crowd cheering her on at Roland
Garros. The only other women to win the German and Italian Opens back-to-back were Steffi Graf (1987) and Monica Seles (1990), both of whom went on to win the
French. Mauresmo had been denied in the Rome final in three of the past four years, and was clearly relieved to have finally won the title, having remained outwardly calm during most of the play yesterday, she sank to her knees with fists clenched in the air after winning her second match point. After two days of rest, Mauresmo will begin her training for Roland
Garros. Before winning in Berlin, her season had been interrupted by a back injury that forced her to retire from the Australian Open. But now she looks to be on top form, while many of the other stars are sidelined. Defending French Open champion Justine Henin-Hardenne has been out for five weeks with a virus, while fellow Belgian Kim
Clijsters, a two-time runner-up in Paris, has already ruled herself out of this year’s tournament with an injured left wrist.
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Alexander Popov conjures up old magic Madrid, May 17 World champion Popov came within a whisker of a semifinal exit but conjured up the old magic in yesterday’s final to win the 50 freestyle for the fifth time at the European championships.
That hoisted his haul of individual European titles to a joint record 10. The first was won in 1991 — in Athens, where an Olympic adventure which brought him a unique “double double” of 50m and 100m freestyle gold medals in 1992 and 1996 will end. “I am not 100 per cent but at least I know what I have to do. It is a very busy time for me, with the Russian nationals next week followed by more races and then the Olympics,” Popov said. The 32-year-old Russian competed only in the 50m freestyle in Madrid and thus missed the 100m freestyle in which his great Dutch rival Van den Hoogenband, who deposed him as Olympic champion in 2000, was comprehensively beaten by Italian Filippo Magnini. “I couldn’t be better today but in three months it will be a different affair,” said Van den Hoogenband, who arrived from a two-week training camp in Ireland and has been building up for Athens all year. The Dutchman reasserted himself in the 200m freestyle to scoop the seventh individual European title of his career in a noteworthy effort, considering he had not tapered his training. Italy’s Massimiliano Rosolino, Olympic 200m individual medley champion, is in similar shape. He took bronze in the 200m medley and the 200m freestyle after finishing fifth in the 400m freestyle on the opening night. “We didn’t taper at all. I swam 70 km the week before the championships,’’ he said. Yana Klochkova, (21), retained her 200m and 400m individual medley titles to take her tally of European individual gold medals to 10, a record subsequently equalled by Popov. But the Ukrainian lost her 400m freestyle crown to 17-year-old Laure Manaudou. Manaudou, who also won the 100m backstroke, featured in a useful French team alongside Malia Metella, who won the women’s 100m freestyle and anchored two victorious relays. Otylia Jedrzejczak, Poland’s women’s 200m butterfly world record holder and world champion, left no doubt that she would be a strong contender for Olympic gold in Athens with a convincing win yesterday. The championships were also notable for the absentees. They included the likes of Olympic champion Inge de Bruijn, German 200 freestyle world record holder Franziska van Almsick and the whole British squad for Athens, who have world champions Katy Sexton and James Gibson among their number.— Reuters
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Olympic torch in Delhi on June 10
Mumbai, May 17 Two decorated elephants, with three baby elephants in tow, are to carry the Olympic torch bearers across Vijay Chowk in the capital when the flame reaches Delhi. Then it will be taken across other monuments like the Qutub Minar, Humayun’s Tomb and Red Fort, according to a release by the organisers here today. The Olympic Games torch relay will see the sacred flame pass through 34 cities in 26 countries in 35 days before returning to Greece on July 9 in time for the commencement of the 2004 Games on August 13 at Athens. The entire relay event is to last for 83 days. The first city on the torch relay route is Sydney, which hosted the last edition of the Games in 2000,, followed by Melbourne, which was the other city in Australia in which the Games had been held in 1956. By the time the torch returns to Athens after the relay it would have travelled more than 78,000 kms by air atop bicycles and via boats. —PTI
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China beat Denmark, lift Thomas Cup Jakarta (Indonesia), May 17 Playing at Jakarta’s Bung Karno Senayan Sports Palace, the world’s top shuttler Lin Dan opened the contest by overcoming Peter Gade in a 75-minute match 15-8, 15-13. The fifth-ranked Gade took the lead in the second set 13-9 before Lin took control with the help of a series of unforced errors. The left-handed Lin scored five points in a row for match point, winning after Gade’s smash hit the net. However, the world’s top pair of Lars Paaske and Jonas Rasmussen levelled the score by defeating the Chinese duo of Fu Haifeng and Cai Yun 17-16, 15-6 in the second match. Fourth-ranked Bao Chunlai put China ahead, fighting back from one-set down to beat 12th-ranked Kenneth Jonassen 12-15, 17-15, 15-12. Then, the world’s sixth ranked pair of Sang Yang and Zheng Bo won the decisive match for China, crushing the fifth-ranked Danish duo of Jens Eriksen and Martin Lundgaard Hansen 15-13, 15-8. The loss for Denmark, which advanced to the finals by beating defending champion Indonesia, marked the seventh time it failed to lift the coveted trophy. It was beaten twice in the finals by Malaysia and four times by Indonesia since 1949.
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Basketball trials Ludhiana, May 17 Trials for the boys will be held on May 20 while for girl cagers on May 21 at 9 am. Interested players should report to honorary general secretary,
PBA, with age-proof certificates at the venue. The selected players will represent Punjab in the 21st Youth National Basketball Championship scheduled to be held from June 20 to 26 at Gotan (Rajasthan). On the basis of performance during the national meet, players will be shortlisted for the Children Games of Asia to be held in Yakutia (Russia) from June 23 to 30. |
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School
organises cross-country race Fatehgarh Sahib, May 17 Addressing the students, Mr Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Principal, said
merely studying text books was not going to help a child in the future
but equal importance needed to be given to co-curricular activities
which helped in developing the spirit of sportsmanship. The results:
Sub junior girls: Gurpreet Kaur, 1, Harsimran Kaur, 2, and Avneet
Kaur, 3; boys group: Harjot Singh, 1, Gurpal Singh, 2, and Harsimran
Singh, 3. Junior boys: Satinder Singh, 1, Dalbir Singh, 2 and Manpreet
Singh, 3; Girls: Jaskirtan Kaur, 1, Manpreet Kaur, 2 and Navjot Kaur,
3. Senior boys: Gurpreet Singh, 1, Satinder Singh, 2 and Amandeep
Singh, 3, Girls: Navdeep Kaur, 1, Inderpreet Kaur, 2 and Yashmeen
Kaur, 3.
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