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Sachin becomes most capped ODI player
Film artistes’ body boycotts match
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SC turns down BCCI plea on observer’s ruling
England to play Tests at proposed venues
Ganguly hits ton,
Bengal take lead
Team-mates may quit like Taibu
Delhi fighting to avoid follow-on
Irina
Brar retains title
Gurpreet first in 110m hurdles
Jyoti jumps to tied sixth
Haryana boys shine in archery
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India suffer huge defeat Kolkata, November 25 After skittling out the hosts for a paltry 188 in 45.5 overs on a green-tinged track, captain Smith unleashed his batting artistry to notch up his fifth ODI century and steer his team home for an unassailable 2-1 lead in the five-match series. The hosts were thoroughly outplayed in all departments of the game as the Proteas first produced a clinical bowling display and then overhauled the target with 14.1 overs to spare, turning the crucial floodlit encounter at the Eden Gardens into a totally lop-sided affair. Smith gave a fine exhibition of strokeplay as he seemed to be in trouble at all during his 124-ball knock to put on 189 runs with Andrew Hall (48 not out) for the opening partnership. The Indians were a pale shadow of themselves as the famed batting line-up failed to last out the 50 overs after Shaun Pollock (3-25) had caused the early jolts. Andrew Hall also chipped in with three wickets, including the prized scalps of Virender Sehwag and M.S. Dhoni. It was only the fourth time India had lost a one-dayer by 10 wickets, and the first time at home. The home team could have been in a far more embarrassing position had it not been for a defiant 81-run sixth wicket partnership between Yuvraj Singh (53) and Mohammad Kaif (46) which provided a semblance of respectability to the total. The two teams will now travel to Mumbai for the fifth and last one-dayer to be held under floodlights on November 28, a game which India have to win to level the series. It turned out to be a poor day for the Indians who failed to live up to expectations of a near-capacity crowd at the Eden Gardens which at times showed that it had still not come to terms with the sacking of local hero Sourav Ganguly from the one-day outfit. A section of the crowd chanted slogans against coach Greg Chappell and held aloft posters and banners calling for the recall of Ganguly. Put into bat on a track which favoured the pace bowlers, the Indians never really recovered from the early blows as wickets kept tumbling at regular intervals. Pollock wrecked the top order to reduce the hosts to a precarious 71 for five before Yuvraj and Kaif salvaged the innings to some extent with a face-saving partnership. After Yuvraj’s 78-ball knock was brought to an end by spinner Botha, the Indians suffered another dramatic collapse. Scoreboard India Gambhir c Smith b Pollock 11 Pathan b Pollock 0 Tendulkar c Boucher b Pollock 2 Sehwag c Boucher b Hall 30 Dravid b Langeveldt 6 Yuvraj lbw Botha 53 Kaif c Smith b Nel 46 Dhoni c Botha b Hall 14 Agarkar b Kallis 11 Harbhajan lbw Hall 0 RP Singh not out 1 Extras
(lb-5, nb-1, w-8) 14 Total (all out, 45.5 overs) 188 Fall of wickets:
1-2, 2-14, 3-23, 4-49, 5-71, 6-152, 7-167, 8-187, 9-187. Bowling:
Pollock 10-4-25-3, Nel 10-1-35-1, Hall 6.5-0-36-3, Langeveldt 8-1-33-1, Kallis 4-0-20-1, Botha 5-0-21-1, Morkel 2-0-13-0. South Africa Smith not out 134 Hall not out 48 Extras
(w-4, nb-3) 7 Total (no loss, 35.5 overs) 189 Bowling:
Agarkar 5-0-41-0, Pathan 6-0-28-0, RP Singh 4-0-18-0, Harbhajan 10-0-37-0, Kartik 8-1-52-0, Sehwag 2.5-0-13-0.
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Sachin becomes most capped ODI player
Kolkata, November 25 Tendulkar, who made his debut against Pakistan at Gujranwala in 1989, played his 357th ODI match today, surpassing former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram. The master batsman, the first to score over 50 hundreds in international cricket, was cheered by the 70,000-strong Eden crowd after India were put in to bat in the day-night match. Tendulkar could have achieved the milestone at Chennai, but the match was washed out.
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Film artistes’ body boycotts match
Kolkata, November 25 Some minister of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s Cabinet, who were also protesting against the “injustice” done to Ganguly, were also missing. However, Mr Bhattacharjee and the Sports Minister, Subhas
Chakraborty, were present in the President’s Box along with the Governor and several other dignitaries. *******
Jonty Rhodes and Makhaya Ntini silently drove out from the hotel last night without any police escort, despite the restrictions imposed by the police. But soon a police jeep followed their cars and spotted them in the Chowringhee area, following which they returned to the hotel. However, none had disclosed to the police where they were
going. Irfan Pathan and Mohammad Kaif also violated the security restrictions and went out of the hotel. Both were reprimanded by the team manager and the coach. |
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SC turns down BCCI plea on observer’s ruling
New Delhi, November 25 The BCCI also questioned the observer issuing notices to four state cricket bodies asking them to prove their eligibility to vote in the election, scheduled to be held on November 29 in the annual general meeting (AGM) of the board. A Bench of Mr Justice B.P. Singh and Mr Justice R.V. Raveendran refused to entertain the petition of the BCCI, saying the election would go on as scheduled and if any dispute arises out of it, any aggrieved party will be free to move the court, thus clearing the way for uninterrupted proceedings of AGM on November 29. BCCI counsel made a special mention of the petition before the apex court, calling for its interference alleging that the action of the observer was “arbitrary”. Former Election Commissioner T.S. Krishnamurthy, appointed as observer by the BCCI to oversee the election of its president and office bearers with the approval of the Supreme Court, had yesterday ruled that board chief Ranbir Singh Mahindra could not cast a regular vote as per rules but only has a right of his “casting vote”. Krishnamurthy, who was allowed by the Court to evolve his own procedure to conduct the elections, scheduled to be held on November 29 in the board’s AGM, had also issued notices to the cricket associations of Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and the National Cricket Club (NCC) of Kolkata to prove their eligibility to vote. While eligibility of Delhi District Cricket Association and the NCC was questioned by the observer on the ground that they had not held the AGMs of their respective bodies in recent years, cricket associations of HP and UP were questioned due to dispute over the control of the bodies between rival factions. The AGM was adjourned on September 29 after a bitter legal fight among rival factions represented by BCCI president Mahindra and Union Minister Sharad Pawar, who lost last time to him but considered to be in advantageous position this time. Observers keeping close watch on BCCI politics, feel that if the four cricket bodies were debarred from voting, Mahindra’s chances of re-election would be further weakened. The Court, while approving the appointment of Krishnamurthy as observer on October 25, had empowered him to decide any question relating to the validity of the votes of state associations, disqualification and eligibility of any candidate to contest as per the BCCI rules. While ordering audio and video recording of the entire proceedings of the AGM, the Court had directed the observer to submit his report along with the tapes before December 12. The Court had also directed the observer that if there was any dispute over the disqualification of any candidate or vote, such votes should be kept in separate envelop to be submitted to the Court, which would give its final verdict on it. |
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Lara set to break Border’s record
Adelaide, November 25 Lara toyed with the Australian attack, scoring 202 not out and registering
his 31st Test hundred to take his career tally to 11,163 runs, just 11 behind
Border’s record of 11,174.
His brilliant innings helped the tourists, already 2-0 down and facing
the prospect of a series whitewash, reach stumps in the healthy position
of 352 for seven after slumping to 53-3 before lunch. All rounder Dwayne Bravo made 34, wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin 27 and West Indian captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul chipped in with 25 although there was little argument about who had led the fightback. Lara, playing possibly his final Test on Australian soil, came into the match on the back of a string of modest scores but was clearly in the mood for something special on a hot and humid day at Adelaide Oval. He joined Border as the only players to score 11,000 Test runs when he eased his way to 39 then raised his half-century off 92 balls. The left-hander raced to his century off 144 deliveries when he dispatched Australia’s fastest bowler Brett Lee to the boundary twice in one over. He got to 200 off 261 balls when he again hooked Lee to the fence then ended the day on 202 from 266 balls in six hours, featuring 20 fours and poised for another world record. The 36-year-old from Trinidad already holds the world record for the highest individual Test (400 not out) and first-class (501 not out) scores. Scoreboard West Indies (1st innings) Hinds c Hayden b Lee 10 Smith c Hayden b Lee 7 Sarwan c Symonds b Lee 16 Lara not out 202 Chanderpaul c Gilchrist Bravo c Ponting b MacGill 34 Smith c Symonds b MacGill 14 Ramdin lbw McGrath 27 Powell not out 7 Extras
(b-1 lb-3 nb-5 w-1) 10 Total (7 wkts, 90 overs) 352 Fall of wickets:
1-16 2-19 3-53 4-121 5-237 6-263 7-333. Bowling: McGrath 22-2-80-1, Lee 20-1-96-3, Symonds 16-5-44-1, Warne 17-1-73-0, MacGill 15-2-55-2.
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England to play Tests at proposed venues
Lahore, November 25 “The venues for the two practice matches are not acceptable to us and the team,” the official told PTI on the condition of anonymity. The BCCI has slotted the two practice matches at Jamshedpur (February 25-27) and at Agartala (March 2-4) while the Tests have been scheduled at Ahmedabad, Nagpur and Mumbai.
— PTI |
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Ganguly hits
ton, Bengal take lead
Pune, November 25 In a stay of 384 minutes at the crease, the Bengal southpaw, who was involved in a partnership of 160 runs with Rohan Gavaskar for the sixth wicket, made 159 runs from 227 balls with 17 hits to the boundary. Ganguly was involved in another small partnership of 44 runs for the seventh wicket with all-rounder Laxmi R Shukla, who made 42 runs. His partnerships with Rohan and Shukla in the middle order helped Bengal reach a total of 378 all out. Maharashtra were 101 for three at close of play. New Delhi: Mumbai spinner Ramesh Powar (4 for 65) scythed through the Delhi top order and despite the heroics of Mithun Manhas (77 not out), the hosts were struggling to avoid the follow-on on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Group A match at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium here today. In reply to Mumbai’s first innings score of 551, Delhi were 241 for six at stumps with Manhas and Sarandeep Singh (0) at the crease. Nagpur: Ashok Thakur and Vikram Malik engineered a collpase as Himachal Pradesh defeated Vidarbha by 14 runs on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Plate Group match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground on Friday. The home team, needing 181 for a win, were dismissed for 166 just after lunch.
— PTI
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Team-mates may quit like Taibu
Harare, November 25 Several players, including some with national team experience, met last night with players representative Clive Field to discuss the void that will be left behind by Taibu when he goes to England in a few weeks’ time. “They are very concerned about the situation as it stands, and in particular the growing danger to Zimbabwe’s Test status through the loss of our best players,” Field told The Associated Press. “We are all having a meeting on Monday to review our responses to what has happened. “This has all been a great shock to them and they are worried about their own futures. For many of them cricket is all they have,” he said.
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Dharmani stars in Punjab win
Mohali, November 25 With this win, Punjab earned four points. Chasing a target of 216, Punjab lost the wicket of Munish Sharma (8) when the score was 10. The other opener, Ravneet Ricky, played a mature knock of 42 to consolidate the team’s position. But it was Dharmani who steadied the ship with his superb knock. He hammered 15 boundaries and one six in his 208-minutes innings. Gaurav Gupta was the other batsman who remained not out on 24. Mongia scored 16 runs before he was bowled by Fazil. Services’ Fazil claimed two wickets, whereas Mohanty and Arun took one wicket each. Earlier, Mohanty of Services scored 61 to help his team reach a respectable total of 291. Tailender Arun also made 31 valuable runs. Punjab’s coach Intikhab Alam was satisfied with the win but cautioned his batsmen against playing loose shots and losing their wickets cheaply. Punjab would play the next match against Haryana from December 1 at the same venue. Scoreboard: Services (Ist innings): 147; Punjab (Ist innings): 223; Services (2nd innings):
Narendera Singh c Rajesh b Malhotra 14, PMS Reddy lbw Rajesh 55, Jasvir Singh c Sodhi b Malhotra 11, Yash Pal Singh b Mongia 49, Sumit Singh Tomar c Uniyal b Mongia 28, Sarabjit Singh c Munish b Malhotra 4, AK Mohanty b Vineet 61, Fazil Muhammed b Uniyal 18, Pankaj Kumar c Gourav b Malhotra 1, J Arun Sharma b Vineet 31, SV Ghag not out 1;
Extras (nb- 4, w-6, b-1, lb-7) 18; Total (all out, 85.5 overs) 291;
Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-77, 3-92, 4-158, 5-172, 6-172, 7-214, 8-215, 9-290;
Bowling: Vineet 9.5-2-30-2, Amit Uniyal 15.5-3-39-1, Rajesh 19-4-83-1, Ishan Malhotra 23-4-79-4, Reetinder Sodhi 5-1-14-0, Dinesh Mongia 15-4-38-2; |
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Delhi fighting to avoid follow-on
New Delhi, November 25 In reply to Mumbai’s first innings score of 551, Delhi were 241 for six at stumps with Manhas and Sarandeep Singh (0) at the crease. Resuming their innings on 40 for no loss, Delhi cruised to 72 before Ramesh Powar lured Test discard Aakash Chopra (33) out of the crease and Vinayak Samant did a smart work whipping off the bails to send the opener back. The burly left-arm spinner struck two more blows in quick succession. He first removed Rajan Gupta (3) who offered a bad-pad catch at silly point in the 39th over and in his next over, Powar unleashed a vicious delivery that kissed Varun Kumar’s (19) blade before finding Wasim Jaffer’s safe hands in the first slip. Delhi still need 161 runs to avoid the follow-on with four wickets in hand. HP beat Vidarbha
Nagpur: Ashok Thakur and Vikram Malik engineered a collpase as Himachal Pradesh defeated Vidarbha by 14 runs on the third day of the Ranji Trophy Plate Group match at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground on Friday. The home team, needing 181 for a win, were dismissed for 166 just after lunch.
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George Best dead
London, November 25 Best, who had been in hospital since the beginning of October, underwent a liver transplant in 2002 after years of heavy drinking. He was admitted to hospital after suffering a reaction to the treatment he was receiving for his new liver and then developed an infection and internal bleeding. “After a long and very valiant fight, Best died this afternoon in the intensive care unit at Cromwell Hospital,” a spokesman for the hospital said. Best played 37 times for Northern Ireland, who were never able to qualify for the World Cup during his international career which spanned 13 years from 1964 to 1977. Despite the lack of international success, he was the first footballer to attract a worldwide following because of his good looks, his mercurial talent and the fact he played for a glamorous Manchester United team that was an integral part of the Swinging Sixties. Regarded by many as the greatest player to come from the British Isles, he was a member of Manchester United’s European Cup winning team in 1968, the year he was named European Footballer of the Year.
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Irina Brar retains title
New Delhi, November 25 The Chandigarh-based golfer aggregated 12-over-par 300 for four days. Her nearest rivals, 14-year-old Vaishavi Sinha and Anjali Chopra were tied at 308. But Vaishavi finished runner-up, thanks to a six-over-par 78 on the final day, with Anjali on 79. Another Chandigarh golfer, Parnita Garewal, finished fourth at 313, two strokes ahead of Shriddhanjali Singh (Jamshedpur), who in turn was one stroke ahead of former national champion Vandana Aggarwal. Starting the day four strokes ahead of Vaishavi on the first tee, Irina, again teeing off with Vaishavi and Anjali, played the most consistent game of the whole field. — UNI
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Gurpreet first in 110m hurdles
New Delhi, November 25 Harwinder Singh of Border Security Force (BSF) and Dharam Pal of Central Reserve Police Force (CRFP) finished second and third. In the marathon race, Hoshiar Singh of BSF breasted the tape first in a time of 2:24.01.4m, while Bala Ram of CRPF came second. Anisha Vijayan of CRPF created a new meet record in women’s triple jump when she cleared 13.31 metres to better her own record of 12.84 metres set in 2004. Earlier, she had created a record in long jump with a leap of 6.13 metres. In pole vault, Deepa Chaudhary of CRPF soared over 3.40 metres to better the existing meet record. Karamjit Kaur of Punjab Police and Barnali Rai of CRPF took the second and third positions, respectively. CRPF led the points table at the end of third day, followed by Punjab Police and BSF. |
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Jyoti jumps to tied sixth
Shenzhen, November 25 However, the Chandigarh duo of Amandeep Johl (145) and Harmeet Kahlon (145) failed to make the cut while Thailand’s Chawalit Plaphol fired a five-under 67 to grab the lead with his total of 12-under 132 in the halfway stage. Meanwhile, here on sponsor’s invite, Shiv Kapur had another satisfying round as the Indian carded two-under 70 to total 139 for the tied eighth place. After his level-par first round, Gaurav Ghei put up a better show today and carded two-under 70 to aggregate 142 for tied 25th place. Rahil Gangjee had his second successive level-par round and the Kolkata golfer lies at the tied 41st place with an aggregate of 143. Jeev tied 19th
Kochi (Japan): A second successive round of one-under 71 saw Jeev Milkha Singh lying tied 19th at the halfway stage in 140 million Yen Casio World Open at the Kochi Kuroshio Country Club. The field was led by four players with Toshimitsu Izawa, T. Suzuki, T. Teshima and M. Osani all placed at six-under after two rounds. Jeev began well with birdies on the 10th and 13th, but a bogey on 16th set him back. However, a birdie on the par-five 18th saw him make the turn at two-under. Michelle Wie, making her first appearance in Japan, failed to make the cut by one stroke after carding a second round of 75 to go with a 73 yesterday. Wie was playing in a men’s tournament for the first time after turning professional.
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Haryana boys shine in archery Jalandhar, November 25 In kabaddi, Punjab boys beat Andaman and Nicobar 49-22, while the girls beat Tripura 46-15. In kho-kho (girls) Punjab beat J and K 17-0. In kho-kho (boys) J and K beat Punjab by 4 points.
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