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Munaf sends England crashing to defeat
Sahara One to telecast series
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New Zealand clinch series
Smith guides SA to victory
South Zone win by three wickets
Sania bows out in doubles
Resurgent India eye another win
Milkha, Jeev felicitated
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Munaf sends England crashing to defeat
Vadodara, February 25 Patel picked five for 32 for a match haul of 10-91 to spark a middle order collapse and bundle out the tourists for a meagre 158 in their second innings on the third and final day of the tour match. The hosts then chased down the modest fourth innings target of 55 comfortably in 17 overs. England, besides the humiliation on the field, were dealt with severe blows off it as well. Even as they tried to make a contest of it, England had to come to terms with the development that stand-in captain Marcus Trescothick would fly back home immediately. While skipper Michael Vaughan was already a doubtful starter for the first Test with a sore knee and missed the match. Simon Jones, Paul Collingwood, Shaun Udal were other players to sit out with various fitness problems and Kevin Pietersen hurt his back during the first innings and did not bat in the second essay. To deal with the crisis, England Board has decided to send 21-year-old batsman Alastair Cook and fast bowler James Anderson as cover and the two were to join the team in Nagpur ahead of the first Test from Wednesday. There were little signs of the batting disarray to come when Matthew Hoggard went beyond his nightwatchman duties and blunted the home team attack in the morning. Hoggard (42) combined with Trescothick (32) to add 64 runs for the second wicket from 131 balls before Shib Shankar Paul broke the association by sending the latter's off stump cart-wheeling half an hour before lunch. Hoggard, who had stitched a winning partnership with last wicket Ashley Giles before leading England to a 2-1 Ashes triumph at Trent Bridge last summer, remained as calm as he was against the Australian attack. His 158 minutes of dour defence, in which he faced 108 balls and hit four fours, came to an end when he went for a big shot against offie Ramesh Powar and was caught brilliantly by Suresh Raina at deep midwicket. It was the sixth over after lunch, and the next over Andrew Flintoff fell to Patel caught behind. The complexion of the match changed half an hour later when Ian Bell played inside the line and snicked it to the wicketkeeper off VRV Singh. Scoreboard England (1st innings) 238 Board President’s XI (1st innings) 342 for 8 dec England (2nd innings) Trescothick b Paul 32 Strauss c Raina b Patel 2 Hoggard c Raina b Powar 42 Bell c Kaarthick b VRV 29 Flintoff c Kaarthick b Patel 2 Jones lbw Powar 12 Blackwell b Patel 11 Plunkett b Patel 15 Harmison not out 2 Panesar lbw Patel 0 Pietersen absent hurt 0 Extras (lb-4, nb-6, w-1) 11 Total (all out, 65 overs) 158 Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-67, 3-95, 4-99, 5-123, 6-129, 7-155, 8-158, 9-158. Bowling: Patel 16-6-32-5, VRV 13-1-45-1, Ramesh Powar 21-6-51-2, Paul 14-4-26-1, Rao 1-1-0-0. Board President’s XI (2nd innings)Jaffer c Strauss b Hoggard 4 Gambhir not out 22 Jadhav c Prior b Panesar 18 Raina not out 6 Extras (b-2, w-6) 8 Total (2 wkts, 17 overs) 58 Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-46. Bowling: Hoggard 4-0-10-1, Harmison 4-0-16-0, Panesar 5-1-20-1, Flintoff 2-1-2-0, Blackwell 2-0-8-0. — PTI
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New Delhi, February 25 Sahara One will telecast live all the three Tests and seven one-day internationals during England’s tour of India which begins with the first Test in Nagpur from March 1. The agreement was signed late last night, Sahara spokesman Abhijeet Sarkar told PTI. Sarkar said Sahara was continuing talks with Nimbus to acquire the rights for a four-year period. He refused to disclose the financial details of the deal, saying they were busy making arrangements for the telecast of the matches. Nimbus had acquired the global media rights for cricket matches to be played in India till March 2010 for a whopping $ 612 million (approx. Rs 2,755 crore). In addition to the live telecast, Nimbus shall produce wrap-around programmes during breaks to enhance the viewers’ experience on Sahara One. Nimbus Sports, the BCCI’s appointed producer, shall supply the world feed to Sahara One. Shailendra Singh, the Head of Sahara One Media and Entertainment Ltd, said “we are delighted to partner with Nimbus and Indian cricket in this new strategic initiative to take Indian cricket to the next level”. Given that Sahara One is free-to-air, it also ensures that there are no cable blackouts as it happens with other sports channels trying to extract pay TV revenues. — PTI
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Christchurch, February 25 Astle held together New Zealand’s innings of 276 for six, compiled after winning the toss, and Shane Bond and Jeetan Patel shared six wickets as the West Indies were dismissed for 255 in 49 overs in reply. A record-breaking late-order partnership of 77 between Ramnaresh Sarwan, who made 65 from 78 balls, and Ian Bradshaw, whose 37 included three sixes, almost turned the match and saved the series. The pair carried the tourists to 250 for eight in the 48th over, within sight of an unlikely victory, to set a ninth-wicket record for the West Indies against all countries. Michael Mason broke the stand when he dismissed Bradshaw with the last ball of his 10th over and Shane Bond removed Sarwan with his last ball an over later to end the innings. The West Indies’ dismissal was hastened by Astle’s boundary-riding catch to dismiss Dwayne Smith from the bowling of off-spinner and super sub Patel. New Zealand’s win at Jade Stadium clinches the one-day series after it won the first match at Wellington by 81 runs and the second at Queenstown by three wickets. Astle came to the wicket with the fall of New Zealand’s first wicket at 34 in the seventh over and carried his bat for the remainder of the innings, reaching his 16th one-day international century from 123 balls with seven fours. He added icing to the cake by striking the last three balls of the innings, from Chris Gayle, for sixes to reach 118 and to establish himself as the second New Zealander after Stephen Fleming to score a century against the West Indies in limited overs play. Astle restored the New Zealand innings after it had slumped to 87-4 in the 21st over with a partnership of 99 for the fifth wicket with Hamish Marshall who made 43. Scoreboard New Zealand Vincent c Chanderpaul b Bradshaw 25Fleming c Morton b Bradshaw 15 Astle not out 118 Styris c Ramdin b Bradshaw 1 Fulton c Gayle b Smith 21 Marshall c Ganga b Gayle 43 McCullum run out Ramdin 13 Franklin not out 17 Extras (lb-12, w-8, nb-3) 23 Total (for 6 wkts, 50 overs) 276 Fall of wickets: 1-34, 2-61, 3-64, 4-87, 5-186, 6-211 Bowling: Bradshaw 8-0-41-3, Edwards 10-2-49-0, Butler 10-0-37-0, Smith 7-0-33-1, Hinds 6-0-34-0, Gayle 9-0-70-1. West Indies Gayle c Vettori b Mason 38 Ganga b Bond 1 Morton c Franklin b Vettori 58 Ramdin lbw b Vettori 28 Sarwan c Vincent b Bond 65 Chanderpaul lbw b Bond 4 Hinds std McCullum b Patel 4 Smith c Astle b Patel 2 Lewis c McCullum b Patel 10 Bradshaw c Vincent b Mason 37 Butler not out 3 Extras (lb-1, w-4) 5 Total (all out in 49 overs) 255 Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-58, 3-127, 4-128, 5-141, 6-147, 7-153, 8-173, 9-250. Bowling: Franklin 6-0-47-0, Bond 10-0-47-3, Mason 10-1-63-2, Vettori 10-2-40-2, Styris 5-0-15-0, Patel 8-0-42-3. — AP
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Smith guides SA to victory
Johannesburg, February 25 Smith had a highest score of 39 in 10 innings against Australia on the away tour as his team were beaten 2-0 in a Test series and failed to reach the final of a triangular one-day tournament. But Smith rode his luck as well as hitting some stunning shots as South Africa raced to 201 for four. Australia made 199 for seven in reply. The tourists looked doomed at 124 for six but some powerful hitting by Brad Hogg (41) and Brett Lee (43 not out) enabled them to get to within three runs of victory.
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Chittagong, February 25 The vice-captain’s solid 109 helped bury the home side under an avalanche of runs and they succumbed under the pressure of a huge target of 310. Debutant seamer Dammika Prasad and spinners Kaushal Lokuarachchi and Tillekaratne Dilshan bagged two wickets each as Bangladesh managed 231-9 in reply, with Mohammad Ashraful (64) waging a lone battle. Lanka’s total of 309-7 was largely thanks to Sangakkara, who struck 11 fours in his fifth one-day ton. Scoreboard Sri Lanka Tharanga c Nafees b Mortaza 0 Jayasuriya c Baisya b Mortaza 4 Sangakkara b Rafique 109 Jayawardene c and b Rafique 51 Lokuarachchi b Rafique 69 Dilshan c Ashraful b Rasel 22 Kapugedera c Bashar b Rasel 16 Maharoof not out 27 Bandara not out 3 Extras (lb-1, w-6, nb-1) 8 Total (7 wkts, 50 overs) 309 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-17, 3-92, 4-196, 5-258, 6-263, 7-282. Bowling: Mortaza 10-2-71-2, Rasel 10-1-46-2, Baisya 5-0-43-0, Rafique 10-0-61-3, Kapali 10-1-50-0, Rana 2-0-15-0, Ahmed 3-0-22-0. Bangladesh Omar c Sangakkara b Perera 24 Nafees c Dilshan b Prasad 13 Ahmed c Jayawardene b Prasad 0 Ashraful c Bandara b Dilshan 64 Bashar c Jayawardene b Jayasuriya 30 Kapali lbw Dilshan 5 Rafique c Tharanga b Lokuarachchi 22 Rana lbw Lokuarachchi 23 Mashud not out 19 Mortaza c Mubarak b Bandara 19 Rasel not out 2 Extras (b-4, lb-3, w-3) 10 Total (9 wkts, 50 overs) 231 Fall of wickets: 1-29, 2-29, 3-44, 4-130, 5-144, 6-146, 7-185, 8-195, 9-219. Bowling: Perera 7-1-23-1, Maharoof 7-0-23-0, Prasad 6-1-29-2, Jayasuriya 7-0-31-1, Bandara 10-0-52-1, Lokuarachchi 8-0-52-2, Dilshan 5-1-14-2. — AFP
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South Zone win by three wickets Indore, February 25 In reply to East Zone’s 183 for 9, South Zone scored 186 with three wickets to spare. Electing to bat first, East Zone suffered an early jolt when they lost their opener, Sourashish Lahiri (1), who was trapped lbw by Vijaykumar Yomahesh in the second over. Later, Ranganath Vinaykumar with his fine bowling spell (10-1-38-4) put East Zone in trouble. Rohan Gavaskar (34), Laxmi Ratan Shukla (43) and Sib Sagar Gupta (28) were the major contributors for East Zone. A 91-run stand between captain Hemang Badani (45) and Chandrasekhar Raghu (60) for the fifth wicket ensured victory for South Zone in 40.4 overs. West Zone triumph
Gwalior: A scintillating 46 by skipper Parthiv Patel and impressive bowling by Yusuf Pathan crafted West Zone’s three-wicket victory over Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy here on Saturday. Electing to field after after winning the toss, West Zone restricted Central Zone to 181 before reaching the target in 46 overs with three wickets in hand at the Roop Singh Stadium.
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Dubai, February 25 The Indo-Venezuelan pair went down 3-6, 2-6 to their opponents, who will now take on the Russian pair of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova. Struggling with an elbow injury which will keep her out of Qatar Open in Doha, the Hyderabadi girl and her Venezualan partner were outplayed by their rivals, ending the Indian ace’s challenge at the one million dollar tournament. Sania has already made her exit from the singles event losing her first round game to Swiss Martina Hingis. Mahesh-Moodie knocked out
India’s Mahesh Bhupathi and Wesley Moodie of South Africa faltered after a keenly contested battle in the doubles second round of the ATP 782,250 euro ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament. Bhupathi-Moodie, who had got a walkover in the first round, lost to Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram of Israel 5-7, 6-7 (4-7) at Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The Indo-South African pair had got a walkover after Novak Djokovic of Serbia and Andreas Seppi of Italy did not turn up for their opening round tie. — UNI, PTI |
Resurgent India eye another win
Rawalpindi, February 25 India, who have already lost the series 3-1, would take heart from the win yesterday and try to restore some pride by beating their tradition rivals on their home turf. Notwithstanding the fact that the Indians messed up a number of scoring chances — both off penalty corners and good moves — in yesterday’s match, the best thing about their performance was better control over the game which clicked for them in the end. The absence of an unfit Harpal Singh was felt in the Faisalabad match as the Pak strikers battered a fragile Sandeep Singh at the deep defence. If Harpal does not play tomorrow’s match, then there lies a problem for Indian coach Rajinder Singh Junior because, he has to strike a balance between fielding a better defender in William Xalco and an able drag-flicker in Sandeep. The effectiveness of the Indian strikers, however, is the biggest worry as they have spoilt several chances in every match. So Rajinder has to dish out some confidence-boosting tips to make them click. — PTI
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Milkha, Jeev felicitated
New Delhi, February 25 Milkha and Jeev were presented mementoes by Jyotir Aditya Scindia, MP. In the Madhavrao Scindia Golf Tournament, Robert Wadhra and Amrit Mathur strung together impressive rounds of golf to return a tally of 82 stableford points and win the title. Rohit Relhan and Anuj Sood finished second scoring 76 points. Former India No. 1 lady player Shruti Khanna emerged the best ladies’ individual stableford (nett) winner with 35 points, while three-time Sri Lankan amateur champion Simarjeet Singh tallied 38 points to win the best individual stableford gross category title. |
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