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Korea stun Holland
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Gwalior to host Twenty20 cricket
New Delhi, August 18 After Bangalore, it is the turn of Gwalior to host Twenty20 cricket. Beginning on August 30, three teams — India Tigers, Pakistan Panthers and Sri Lanka Lions — will compete, in day-night matches, for the title in a double-leg format.
Advani maintains winning spree
Delhi seeks Rs 1,314 cr for Commonwealth Games
BSF edge out Punjab Police
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India go down 1-3 to Pakistan
Amstelveen, August 18 India came to the match already out of the medal race, but nevertheless were desperate for a win against the traditional-rivals which could have salvaged some pride for the beleagured team. First-half goals by Muhammed Saqlain (15th minute) and Imran Muhammed (30th) followed by Shakeel Abbasi’s strike (68th) earned the Pakistanis full three points, while India’s lone goal came through Didar Singh’s effort in the 56th minute. India finished their league engagement without opening their account, while Pakistan took their points tally to four with one match against Germany still to go. The side had drawn their opening match against Champions Trophy winners Spain. India had a very impressive beginning, when they dominated their rivals with some fine moves early on and in the process created some good chances. In the first eight minutes, they earned two penalty corners, but could not take advantage with Kanwalpreet Singh and captain Dilip Tirkey failing to convert them. But that was all they could do in the first half as Pakistan regrouped themselves quickly and made some effective counter attacks which saw them winning three set pieces in quick duration. The Pakistanis wasted the first two penalty corners but struck from third one when captain Saqlain Muhammed scored off the rebound much to the delight of the team’s supporters in the stand. Pakistan, appearing a completely changed side after drawing the first blood, doubled the lead when Imran Muhammed scored in the 30th minute. India, on the otherhand, struggled in almost all the aspect of the game with the forwards, in particular, cutting a sorry picture yet again. Gagan Ajit Singh, playing his first tournament since the Athens Olympics, had a fine chance to score for India when he got a free ball inside the Pakistani circle but failed to trap it properly. Both Prabhjot Singh and Deepak Thakur also played far below their potential, doing no good to India’s cause. India improved their game in the second half, but failed to beat the Pakistani goalkeeper Salman Akbar more than once despite earning three penalty corners during the period. Earlier, Hosts Holland crashed out for a podium finish as an enterprising South Korea upset them 2-1 in the Rabo trophy here today. The Busan Asian Games champions, who led 1-0 at the break, played at a furious pace coupled with courage and conviction to book their place for the bronze medal playoff on Sunday. Korea scored through Lee Jong Soon from their fourth penalty corner and striker Yoon Sung Hoon (46th minute) while Roderick Weusthof found the mark for the Dutch in the 36th minute. It was virtually a transformed Korean side after their 7-1 whitewash by Australia yesterday. They not only played with speed and skill, but exhibited top- class fluency both in their onslaughts and defence. They began on an electric note forcing three corners in the first 15 minutes, but all of them were well saved by Dutch custodian Guus Vogels. In addition two attempts from strikers Seo Jong Ho and You Ho Sik went wide. The Koreans, however, shot into the lead when Lee Jong Soon flicked past Vogels, thus silencing the vociferous local crowd.— PTI, UNI
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Korea stun Holland
Amsterdam, August 18 Korea scored through Lee Jong Soon from their fourth penalty corner and striker Yoon Sung Hoon (46th minute) while Roderick Weusthof found the mark for the Dutch in the 36th minute. It was virtually a transformed Korean side after their 7-1 whitewash by Australia yesterday. They not only played with speed and skill, but exhibited top- class fluency both in their onslaughts and defence. They began on an electric note forcing three corners in the first 15 minutes, but all of them were well saved by Dutch custodian Guus Vogels. In addition two attempts from strikers Seo Jong Ho and You Ho Sik went wide. The Koreans, however, shot into the lead when Lee Jong Soon flicked past Vogels, thus silencing the vociferous local crowd. The Dutch were quite disjointed in the first half and the only near chance to score came midway, but Mathijs Brouwer missed the mark. Holland picked up their game in the second session and made an immediate foray into the rival circle, thereby earning a penalty corner. Weusthof made no mistake as he beat Ko Dong Sik with a low flick to the left (1-1). Holland, who needed to get full points, after drawing with England yesterday, for a medal game, were unable to cope with the tenacious Korean defence despite numerous raids from both flanks. However, the Koreans were in no mood to oblige and in the 45th minute found the match winner from a superb reverse hit from the top of the circle by Yoon Song Hoon and thus register the upset. In a Pool B match earlier, Olympic champions Australia continued their superb form thrashing England 6-2. It was Australia’s second consecutive victory that gave them six points and virtually set them up for a place in the final. Australia had beaten Asian Games champions South Korea 7-1 on Tuesday. England, trying to make a comeback into the top fold of international hockey, held the Aussies in the first half allowing them only a 1-0 lead but could not keep up the momentum as defence errors gave the breaks to Australia to run away with a 6-2 score line. Australia struggled initially and it was only in the 33rd minute that they took the lead when Matthew Wells scored from a penalty corner. England struck back in the 38th minute when Richard Alexander scored with a field effort. Australia then scored thrice in the 44th, 50th and 55th minutes through Jamie Dwyer, Grant Schubert and Ben Bishop, all goals coming off field efforts. In the 60th minute, England cut back the deficit when Rob Moore scored from the top of the circle with a fiery shot that flew past the Australian goalkeeper Stephen Lambert. Australia scored twice in the last four minutes. Luke Doerner hammering in a penalty corner in the 66th minute and then Matthew Naylor clipping in a goal in the 70th minute. England have played all their three matches in Pool B and have one point from a draw with hosts Holland.
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Sachin has 2nd practice session
Mumbai, August 18 Tendulkar, who started having light practice sessions with a special ball (midway in hardness between a tennis and cricket ball) on Tuesday, faced balls thrown at him at a gentle pace, sources said. Also present at the session was Zimbabwe-bound Ajit Agarkar, who has made the squad for the triangular series to be held from August 24. The practice session was held this afternoon when there was some respite from the intermittent rains in Mumbai. Tendulkar has not played since undergoing surgery for his tennis elbow injury on May 27 in London and missed India’s tour of Sri Lanka for a triangular limited over event that ended on August 9. The master batsman is to miss the tri-series in Zimbabwe, for which the Sourav Ganguly-led squad is slated to depart on August 22, but has been provisionally named in the 15-strong Indian squad for the two-Test series to follow from September 1,3 subject to getting fit. At an interaction with mediapersons here yesterday, Tendulkar said it was too early for him to confirm whether he would be able to regain fitness for the Test rubber as he had just started practising with a soft ball. — PTI |
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Workshops for umpires
New Delhi, August 18 The seminar for North and Central Zones will be held in Delhi on August 20 and 21, for South Zone in Hyderabad on August 23 and 24 and for West and East Zones at Pune on August 26 and 27. BCCI Umpires’ Committee chairman CK Khanna said here today that the seminars would be conducted by former Test umpire Prof RS Rathore, current International Cricket Council (ICC) umpires AV Jayaprakash, K Hariharan and I Sivaram (TV umpire), physiotherapist Dr Kinjal Suratwala and psychologist BP Bam at all three centres. Mr Khanna said it would be for the first time that the umpires would do physical fitness training on the field under the supervision of Dr Suratwala. He said this system had been introduced to enable the umpires to cope with the exacting demands of the modern game by being fit and agile on the field. Mr Khanna said the umpires would also be familiarised with the ICC rules to be implemented in domestic cricket from the coming season. The BCCI umpires will also be taught the use of the light meters for applying the technology in domestic cricket. He said as per the recommendations of the technical committee of the BCCI, headed by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, V Jayadevan would make a representation in the umpires’ seminar about his method of calculating the target
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Gwalior to host Twenty20 cricket
New Delhi, August 18 The five-day championship, organised by the Jawaharlal Nehru Sports Trust and Sai Baba Foundation would see many aspiring players of the subcontinent together with former stars. The Indian team would have Rohan Gavaskar and former stars Vinod
Kambli, Ajay Jadeja and Venkatesh Prasad. The challenge of Pakistanis would be headed by opener Imran
Farhat, Akram Raza and Manzoor Akhtar while the Lankan side would feature the likes of Buddika Fernando and Chamara Silva.
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Japan, Saudi Arabia win
Bangkok, August 18 Japan ended qualifying atop Group B with 15 points, two ahead of Iran, while Saudi Arabia claimed Group A with 14 points, ahead of South Korea on 10 here yesterday. Uzbekistan will next play Bahrain, third in Group B, for the right to playoff against the fourth-placed CONCACAF nation and a spot at Germany 2006. Bahrain, upset 3-2 by North Korea in Manama yesterday, travel to Tashkent for the first leg on September 3 and hosts Uzbekistan on September 7. Substitute Anvarjon Soliev scored the Uzbekistan’s winner in the 76th minute yesterday, pouncing on Dynamo Kiev striker Maxim Shatskih’s heel pass off a cross from Mirdjalal Kasymov. At Yokohama’s Nissan Stadium, Akira Kaji opened the scoring for Japan in the 28th minute. An unmarked Kaji picked up Keiji Tamada’s centering pass and fired into the open goal to give Japan the lead. The Japanese went ahead 2-0 in the 76th minute on an own-goal from Iran. Veteran striker Ali Daei pulled one back for the visitors three minutes later when he was hauled down in the area by Japan defender Yuji Nakazawa and then beat goalkeeper Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi from the penalty spot. “Iran is a very good team and we had to fight to the end,” said Japan coach Zico. “This was a good win for us because we wrapped up first place.” At Seoul’s World Cup Stadium, Mohammed Al Anbar found the net with a header just four minutes into the match. South Korea had several scoring opportunities, but were unable to beat Saudi goalkeeper Zaid Mabrouk. The hosts played a man down in the final stages of the match after midfielder Kim Dong-jin was awarded a red card in the 73rd minute for committing a rough foul while contesting the ball. Danes humble England
LONDON: Zinedine Zidane marked his return from retirement with a goal for France, while England suffered their worst loss in 25 years in a 4-1 defeat by
Denmark. Teenage star Lionel Messi was also sent off within a minute of making his debut for Argentina in a 2-1 victory at Hungary. Brazil were held 1-1 by Croatia, France beat the Ivory Coast 3-0 and Italy posted a 2-1 victory over Ireland yesterday. All the powerhouse teams were in action in friendlies ahead of World Cup qualifying matches, with Spain downing Uruguay 2-0, Portugal beating Egypt 2-0 and Germany hitting back from 2-0 down to draw 2-2 with the Netherlands. Ronaldinho was the only big name missing from Brazil’s lineup in Split, where Ricardinho’s free kick canceled out a goal from Niko Kranjcar. The biggest shock of the night was in Copenhagen. Three goals in seven second-half minutes by Dennis Rommedahl, Jon Dahl Tomasson and Michael Gravgaard put the Danes up 3-0. Though Wayne Rooney replied two minutes from the end, there was time for Soeren Larsen to add a fourth. Gravgaard and Larsen were making their debuts. “I am very sorry and angry about the second half. That was a disaster,” England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson said. “We were all over the place, not defending well, losing the ball. We did nothing right for 30-35 minutes. We came out in the second half and it seems like it’s a holiday. “I am very sorry for the fans. I told (the players) that if we are going to play football like this we can forget the World Cup.”
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Advani maintains winning spree
New Delhi, August 18 Advani asserted his superiority by thrashing Obaidly, the seventh seed in Group UD, by posting two century marks in the initial frames and blanking him in the last one with the scores 111-8, 108-16, 73-16, 87-0, leaving him no room to bounce back. The 20-year-old Indian also registered breaks of 63, 79, 86 in the four frames, according to information received here today. The former world champion will face Paul Wilcock of Isle of Man at Juffair Dome in his fourth match in the league-cum-knockout tournament being played among contestants from 24 nations. Advani’s unfancied compatriot Aditya Mehta also managed to keep his slate clean by getting the better of Michael Lupton of Australia 4-3. Mehta scored a decent break of 51 during the match which he won 51-75, 64-14, 46-54, 62-50, 72-58, 45-67, 54-30. In the seniors’ category, India’s Geet Sethi reigned supreme with a 3-0 win against Peter Bertens of the Netherlands in Group SB. Sethi, the former world billiards champion, displayed his skills and finesse in his 56-25, 90-8, 58-22 win which was laced with a break of 47. His next match is against Mustafa Ali Atta of Egypt.
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Delhi seeks Rs 1,314 cr for Commonwealth
Games
New Delhi, August 18 The Finance Sub-Committee of the Group of Ministers (GoM) of the Union Government considered Delhi’s proposal and felt that the Delhi Government’s demand for additional funds could be determined by the Planning Commission while allocating funds. Most of the new facilities coming up, including the games village, would be constructed by the Delhi Development Authority (DDA), which is not under the control of the Delhi Government. The DDA already has the built-in Siri Fort Complex, where some of the events would be held. |
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BSF edge out Punjab Police
Chandigarh, August 18 Thereafter, the two teams had an equal share of exchanges and BSF goalie Machinder Singh was clearly in the limelight, making several good saves. Despite mounting pressure in the dying minutes, Punjab Police could not find the equaliser and the security men romped home with full points. |
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