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Lawson rocks Lanka before
Bangladesh tour postponed
Pietersen in, Thorpe out
Australian under-19 team to tour India
Former cop challenges Dalmiya
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Coaches adopt defiant stand against transfers
Doordarshan to deliberate on content sharing
Harikrishna stretches lead
Koneru Humpy clinches title
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Lawson rocks Lanka before Vaas fightback
Colombo, July 14 Lawson, 23, returning to the side after a back injury, bowled with pace and hostility on a generally docile pitch. Sri Lanka were dismissed for 227 in reply to West Indies’ 285. Chaminda Vaas struck back for the hosts with the new ball, however, trapping Xavier Marshall (two) and Runako Morton (0) lbw with late-swinging dippers. Muttiah Muralitharan followed up with the wicket of Sylvester Joseph for two, caught minutes before bad light stopped play, reducing West Indies to a precarious 17 for three in their second innings. Sri Lanka grabbed the initiative early in the day, needing just 6.4 overs to take West Indies’ last four wickets. But West Indies, the underdogs before the start after a contracts dispute meant 10 leading players missed the tour, fought back. Marvan Atapattu (one) chopped a short delivery from Darren Powell on to his leg stump and Sanath Jayasuriya (three) was caught at short leg after edging a Lawson delivery on to his pad. Powell broke through again in his first seven-over new ball burst when Jayawardene, who stayed 52 minutes at the crease for his three runs, edged a full-length ball to slip. Sangakkara counter-attacked at the other end, scoring a brisk 34 from 48 balls with four fours, before off-spinner Tillakaratne Dilshan cracked an aggressive 32 from 31 balls, hitting seven boundaries, adding 44 for the fifth wicket with Thilan Samaraweera (11). But Banks triggered another collapse when Dilshan prodded a catch to short leg and Samaraweera fell in the next over after top-edging a hook off Lawson. Lawson returned just before tea to dismiss Rangana Herath (24) courtesy of an acrobatic diving catch from 19-year-old wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin. Earlier in the day, West Indies added only 14 runs to their overnight 271 for six. Vaas started the collapse by trapping Shivnarine Chanderpaul lbw for 69 with a swinging delivery. Lasith Malinga snapped up Powell and Omari Banks and Vaas polished off the innings by bowling Tino Best. Scoreboard
West Indies first innings Joseph lbw Wijekoon 28 Marshall lbw Vaas 10 Morton b Muralitharan 43 Deonarine c Sangakkara
b Malinga 12 Chanderpaul lbw Vaas 69 Smith lbw Malinga 4 Ramdin b Wijekoon 56 Banks b Malinga 32 Powell c Jayawardene
b Malinga 3 Best b Vaas 4 Lawson not out 4 Extras: (lb-7, nb-13) 20 Total:
(all out, 88.4 overs) 285 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-72, 3-95, 4-109, 5-113, 6-192, 7-273, 8-276, 9-281. Bowling: Vaas 16.4-4-35-3, Malinga 14-1-71-4, Wijekoon 10-1-49-2, Muralitharan 29-8-56-1, Herath 14-1-52-0, Jayasuriya 5-1-15-0. Sri Lanka first innings Atapattu b Powell 1 Jayasuriya c Smith
b Lawson 3 Sangakkara c Ramdin b Banks 34 Jayawardene c Morton b Powell 3 Samaraweera c and
b Lawson 11 Dilshan c Smith b Banks 32 Vaas b Smith 49 Wijekoon c Joseph
b Best 12 Herath c Ramdin b Lawson 24 Muralitharan b Lawson 36 Malinga not out 5 Extras:
(lb-6, nb-11) 17 Total: (all out, 57.3 overs) 227 Fall of wickets:
1-4, 2-7, 3-32, 4-47, 5-91, 6-93, 7-113, 8-149, 9-215. Bowling:
Powell 13-4-31-2, Lawson 14.3-3-59-4, Best 11-1-47-1, Banks 16-3-70-2, Deonarine 1-0-9-0, Smith 2-0-5-1. West Indies second innings: Joseph c Jayawardene
b Muralitharan 2 Marshall lbw Vaas 2 Morton lbw Vaas 0 Deonarine not out 5 Chanderpaul not out 0 Extras:
(b-8) 8 Total: (for 3 wickets, 10.2 overs) 17 Fall of wickets:
1-3, 2-3, 3-15. Bowling: Vaas 5-1-4-2, Malinga 3-2-1-0, Muralitharan 2-1-2-1, Jayasuriya 0.2-0-2-0.
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New Delhi, July 14 The Indian cricket board has written to its Bangladesh counterpart for postponing the Test series because of the ICC engagement and it appears unlikely that the series will be accommodated, given India’s cramped schedule this year. The postponement, the second time in six months, means that the tour faces the risk of being called off, although the BCCI has maintained that it will try to reschedule it. “The Bangladesh tour of India has been postponed. We have written to the Bangladesh board that it will be difficult to stage the series because of the ICC Super Series,” BCCI Secretary S.K. Nair said from Thiruvananthapuram. “It is being postponed by a few weeks, we will work out new dates after having a look at the slots available during the year,” he said. India’s new cricket season kicks off with the tri-series in Sri Lanka from July 30, followed by a three-match series beween an Asian XI and an African XI, in which some Indians are likely to feature. The Indians will travel to Zimbabwe in late August for a month-long tour before hosting South Africa for a five-match one-day series in November. Bangladesh Cricket Board chief Ali Asghar is likely to meet top
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London, July 14 The South African-born Hampshire batsman averages 87 in one-day internationals and on Tuesday scored a dashing 74 against the world champions in Australia’s eight-wicket win at The Oval. Pietersen, an unorthodox batsman, came in for Surrey left-hander Graham Thorpe, at 35, 10 years Pietersen’s senior, and a veteran of 100 Tests. Thorpe has said he intends to coach in New South Wales during the next Australian season prompting speculation that he would be retiring from Test cricket at the end of the current campaign. He has also been struggling with a back injury. “Ultimately, we have opted for Kevin because of the form he showed against Australia in the NatWest Series and the NatWest Challenge, his excellent first-class career record and the energy and enthusiasm he brings to the England dressing room,” said David Graveney, England’s chairman of selectors. However, he added: “The selectors do not view this decision as marking the end of Graham Thorpe’s international career ... Subject to form and fitness he will continue to come under consideration for the remainder of the series.” Thorpe’s average against Australia - 45.74 - is better than his career Test average of 44.66. Pietersen’s county captain Shane Warne, the legendary Australia leg-spinner, has been a huge advocate of his team-mate’s inclusion in the Test side although he has nicknamed him “KP 600” as he hopes the unorthodox right-hander will be his 600th Test victim. And the man himself had not been shy of pressing his claim. “I just think I’ve ticked enough boxes in terms of what I had to do. I knew that this was a massive game at The Oval. I’ll be very disappointed if I’m not selected,” he said after the Oval match. Pietersen also smashed 91 against world champions Australia in a one-day international earlier in the season. “He is the most destructive player in England, him and (all rounder) Andrew Flintoff,” Warne said Wednesday. Pietersen’s Hampshire team-mate Chris Tremlett, a pace bowler, was also called up into a Test squad for the first time in the only other change to the squad that beat Bangladesh by an innings in England’s last Test in June. Australia have won the last eight successive Ashes series. England team: Michael Vaughan, Marcus Trescothick, Andrew Strauss, Ian Bell, Kevin
Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff, Geraint Jones, Ashley Giles, Mathew Hoggard, Simon Jones, Steven Harmison and Chris
Tremlett.
— AFP, AP
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Australian under-19 team to tour India
Sydney, July 14 The squad for the tour, involving five one-day matches against the India U-19, was announced today by Cricket Australia. U-19 Coach Brian McFadyen said the tour would provide players with some valuable experience in subcontinent conditions as well as give selectors an opportunity to view those in contention for a place in Australia’s Youth World Cup squad. “We are really looking forward to the tour and have selected a squad of players that we think is well-balanced and capable of success,” said McFadyen.
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Former cop challenges Dalmiya
Kolkata, July 14 Dinesh Bajpai, also a former Kolkata police Commissioner, said he would throw his hat into the ring for the top job in CAB at its annual general meeting on July 27. “Yes, I have decided to contest,” said Bajpai who is also the president of the Bengal Hockey Association. The retired IPS officer alleged that Dalmiya, heading the CAB for almost a decade on the trot, had little time for Bengal cricket, as he was “too busy” with cricket politics at the national and international levels.
— PTI |
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Coaches adopt defiant stand against transfers
Patiala, July 14 A total of 741 coaches had been transferred all over the country, a decision which now was threatening to snowball into a major controversy. The transfer orders were issued on June 30, July 1 and July 5, in which it was clearly mentioned that the coaches should join their new places of posting within 24 hours. It was also ordered that the salary of the coaches for July would be released at their new places of posting. This had put the 80-odd Punjab-based SAI coaches in a quandary as the Punjab Sports Department had a made it clear that it would not be relieving the coaches who were on deputation with it. The Chief Parliamentary Secretary (Sports), Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi, was at present camping in Delhi in an attempt to get the transfer orders stalled. Sodhi said he would contact Sports Ministry officials and senior SAI officials in Delhi. The Himachal Pradesh Sports Minister, Mr Ram Lal Thakur, whose brother Nand Lal Thakur was a SAI kabaddi and kho-kho coach based at Bilaspur, too had been camping in New Delhi for the past few days to revoke the transfer orders. SAI sources revealed that a solution was not in sight as both the SAI and the Punjab Sports Department seemed on a collision course on the issue of relieving coaches. The SAI Director-General, R.P. Wattal, on whose approval the orders had been issued, was out of the country and would return on July 18. The SAI Secretary, B.K. Sinha, remained incommunicado for the past one week. Meanwhile, the SAI, on its part, had started getting tough with the coaches who were not joining their new places of posting. An order strangely marked ‘confidential’ and signed by Mr Sanjeev Sharma, Deputy Director, Devi Lal Northern Centre, Sonepat, had been served to several coaches in which the coaches transferred had been ordered to join at their new places of posting, otherwise disciplinary action would be initiated against them. The orders, copies of which had been sent to the Director (Sports), Punjab, and the District Sports Officers, had also sought an explanation from the coaches within a week from the receipt of the order. The urgency shown by the SAI was evident from the fact that at Patiala, one such order, meant for four SAI coaches who had been transferred locally, were brought personally today at the
District Sports Officer’s office by Mr Satish Kumar Sirhadi, an Assistant
Director (Administration), allegedly on the orders of Suresh Harmilapi, Director, Northern Centre, Sonepat. Despite repeated attempts, Mr Harmilapi could not be contacted. Meanwhile, Mr Ananta Ghosh, President of the All-India SAI Coaches Association, when contacted in Kolkata, said the SAI had no right to effect transfers in July as its policy said
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Doordarshan to deliberate on content sharing
New Delhi, July 14 Speaking at the CII Broadcast Media Discussion Series here today, Mr Kumar said Prasar Bharati was willing to negotiate with Ten Sports for the triangular series between India, Sri Lanka and West Indies in Colombo from July 30, but Ten Sports had not responded so far. Ten Sports own the telecast right for the series. Private broadcasters say since they have invested heavily in sports properties, a mandatory clause would severely impact the viability of acquired sports. They are of the view that there are a variety of issues that are inter-linked which needs to be discussed before any final decision is taken. They feel that the "value of rights would be devalued if the rights are not fixed, as the investments would be affected". Representing the private broadcasters, R C Venkateish of ESPN Star Sports and Gary Lovejoy of Zee Sports argued that the government should first define what was a national event, which could be made available, and favoured consultations before a regulation was put in place. They said there was no need for a one-sided legislation as the private and public broadcaster could sit down and come to a solution which would suit both. They felt that clarity was required on how the telecast fee or revenue sharing between the private broadcaster and public service broadcaster would be determined. They also expressed reservations on telecast fee or the basis of revenue sharing determined by a government appointed arbitrator. Former Test player Arun Lal, who is the vice-president of the Indian Cricket Players' Association, feared that the present uncertainty about cricket broadcast would lead to a downward trend of money flow to the federations. However, the Doordarshan DG allayed the fear, saying that the revenue flow would remain unaffected. The session was chaired by director of School of Convergence Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.
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Harikrishna stretches lead
Taiyuan (China), July 14 Scoring his fifth straight victory, Harikrishna maintained his clean slate and was now followed by Tigran Petrosian of Armenia and Bu Xiangzhi of China, who both had 3.5 points each. Following them another half point behind were Alexander Motylev of Russia and Wang Yue of China on 3 points, with the former having an extra game in hand, while a pack of four, including world’s youngest ever GM Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine, was a distant sixth on just 2 points.
— PTI
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Koneru Humpy clinches title
Krasonoturinsk (Russia), July 14 The game tilted towards Queen’s gambit, but the
Indian played safely and did not give any chance to her rival. Playing white, Humpy preferred to settle for a draw to bag the required half a point. World Cup champion Xu Yuhua, who was trailing Humpy by half a point, also drew her game against Antoneta Stefanova and with 5.5 points came second. European champion Alexandra Kostenuik defeated Ekaterina Kovalevaskaya to bag one point to get third place. The
lowest in the leaderboard were world champion Antoneta Stefanova and
Nataila Zhukova, who finished with three prints each.
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