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Chance to reverse record in Lanka, says Dravid
Sachin not yet fit as fielder: Greg
Dalmiya gets a breather
TP Singh’s consistent show rewarded
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Riley elected Windies cricket board chief
Colts clinch cricket
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2010 Commonwealth Games
Negi on song
Pugilist Sunil ensures medal
BSF thrash Bassi FC
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Chance to reverse record in Lanka, says Dravid
Bangalore, August 10 Dravid said his team-mates had worked hard on some of the problem areas which should stand them in good stead for the series beginning on Monday. “It’s a great opportunity for us to go to a place where we have not done well. We have worked hard and we would like to get better there,” he told a pre-departure press conference here today. The Bangalore-based player said the series would be challenging for them as they would take on two other good teams in their title hunt. “This is an important series as we will play against two good teams,” he said. Dravid said hosts Sri Lanka would be a big threat for them in the series considering their current form. “Sri Lanka is playing well. They even play better at home. So we have to play well there,” he added. However, he refused to divulge the details of the strategy they would adopt during the tri-series. “I cannot tell you the strategies before the tri-series. The strategy will be known on the match day. But, it is important to play to our potential,” he said. Meanwhile, Dravid said today it was going to be a challenge to integrate the Twenty20 format in domestic cricket in the country. “A Twenty20 match at the international level is always going to be a success. ‘Fifty50’ (one-day internationals) was a success. That’s not the challenge. The challenge is to see that it is a success in domestic
cricket. how it’s going to be done. what's the way forward. I think it’s going to be trial and error (method),” Dravid said here. “Twenty20 cricket is ideally suited for England, where it is played in the evening (between 5 pm and 9 pm), because of the nature of the game. It’s a brilliant game for England.” “In India one has to learn and experience as one goes along to see how it works in domestic cricket. At this stage, one can’t say for sure this is the way it will work. One has to wait for a few years to see how it works and learn from experience,” he said. “In three or four years, one might come up with a formula or format (for Twenty20) that would be suitable for sponsors and players,” said Dravid at a press conference to announce the second edition of Twenty20 cricket tournament for the Bradman Cup that gets under way here tomorrow. Dravid said despite the popularity of one-dayers and Twenty20 cricket, Test cricket would retain its glory for the players. “In terms of players, I don’t think so. Test cricket will always be very important for players. I don’t think players will ever take Test cricket lightly,” he said.
— PTI No comments on Ganguly
Rahul Dravid and Greg Chappell today evaded persistent questions on former captain Sourav Ganguly’s inclusion in the list of 30 probables for the ICC Champions Trophy. They refused to answer any query relating to Ganguly saying that the Chairman of Selectors Kiran More had already talked about the issue yesterday. Dravid said the media had its chance of talking to More on this issue. “Yesterday, More had addressed the issue. We are going on the Sri Lanka tour and discussing only that,” he said.
— PTI Sourav to play in Super Sixes meet Karachi: Sourav Ganguly will feature in the first Asian Super Sixes tournament in Pakistan next month, an organiser said today. “Four teams — Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh — have confirmed their participation in the event to be held on September 15 and 16 at the National Stadium here,” coordinator Rashid Khan said. The tournament is being held with the permission of the Pakistan Cricket Board by former Test captain Moin Khan. Reuters
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Sachin not yet fit as fielder: Greg
Bangalore, August 10 Two days after physiotherapist John Gloster had given a clean chit to Tendulkar, Chappell gave a new twist to the fitness controversy barely a few hours before the team’s departure for Sri Lanka for the tri-series. Responding to a question on Tendulkar’s fitness during a press conference here, Chappell said the Mumbai batsman was improving day by day. “We have not pushed him more in fielding. He is fit for batting and bowling. He is fit to perform to his potential,” he said. “If he is not fit, at least his fitness is satisfactory for everybody,” he added. Chappell had earlier said that Tendulkar was not cent per cent fit and could not throw from the deep while fielding. This created a flutter over the star batsman’s fitness, compelling Team India physio John Gloster as well as BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah to declare Tendulkar fit to play international cricket. “Sachin has passed the fitness test to play in Sri Lanka. I can only say this much. He was flamboyant in his batting today (during the practice match),” Gloster had said.
— PTI
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Dalmiya gets a breather
Kolkata, August 10 City Civil Court Chief Judge P.K. Sarkar issued the directive after Dalmiya moved the court challenging the BCCI’s summons to him for appearing before its disciplinary committee on August 15. The matter is due to come up for hearing on August 22. During the hearing, Dalmiya’s counsel Gitanath Ganguly submitted that the BCCI’s summons to his client to the August 15 meeting was against the principle of natural justice. Earlier, Dalmiya challenged the BCCI’s notice to appear before the committee claiming that the Board’s previous summons to appear on July 26 were challenged by him before the court and during pendancy of the petition the BCCI could not issue fresh summons. The BCCI had earlier asked Dalmiya to appear before its disciplinary committee on July 26 in connection with the PILCOM accounts issue, but as Dalmiya had moved court challenging the summons, it deferred the notice. Sarkar had on July 26 refused to stay the summons issued to Dalmiya by the BCCI disciplinary committee to appear before it following his alleged failure to reply to a show-cause notice. The board had then asked Dalmiya to appear before the committee at Chennai on August 15. In the suit of July 26, Dalmiya prayed for an order to the BCCI management not to give effect to his suspension on April 19 from attending BCCI meetings as CAB president and the notice dated July 17, vide which he was asked to appear before the disciplinary committee. Board president Sharad Pawar heads the disciplinary committee and it includes Shashank Manohar and Chirayu Amin. The BCCI had issued show-cause notice to Dalmiya, asking him to furnish details of transfer of Rs 40 crore from an Indian Overseas Bank account in Bhawanipur to Cricket Association of Bengal, of which he was the president, between 1996 to 2005. After Dalmiya failed to reply to the notice, the BCCI debited the amount to CAB and decided to withhold all subsidies to it. The board had alleged misappropriation of 1996 World Cup funds by Dalmiya and filed an FIR at a Mumbai police station a few months ago.
— PTI
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TP Singh’s consistent show rewarded
Amritsar, August 10 Though Tejinder started playing in the Ranji Trophy for Punjab in 1999, he made his first-class debut a year later for Railways. In first-class cricket, he has compiled 3,500 runs. As a left-arm leg spinner, he has taken 68 wickets. Incidentally, his highest score (186) was against Punjab. He has scored five centuries so far. Tejinder honed his skills at Hindu Sabha School and played for DAV College and Khalsa College. He also played for the Guru Nanak Dev University team for four years. Presently, he is working with Railways as head TT. His father, Sujan Singh, Manager, Punjab and Sind Bank, expressed happiness at his son’s inclusion among the probables. Tejinder recently played for India A in the four-nation Top-End tournament in Australia. The other teams were New Zealand A, Australia A and Pakistan A. He scored 90 and 49 against New Zealand A. He took three wickets against Australia A, including the scalps of Brad Hogg and Brad Haddin, who have both played for the senior Australian team. He also scored a century against Chief Minister’s XI there. If selected in the Indian team, Tejinder would become the fifth cricketer from the city to play for the country. Earlier, Bishan Singh Bedi, Madan Lal, Harvinder Singh and Sharanjit Singh have played for India.
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Riley elected Windies cricket board chief
Port-of-Spain, August 10 Riley, a BCA board member since 1996, surprised some observers with his election. Besides Riley and Haynes, who were last year elected as the BCA first vice-president and a WICB director, respectively, other candidates were Joel Garner (47), Orson Simpson (34) and Hartley Reid (13).
— PTI
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Colts clinch cricket
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London, August 10 Sixteen-year-old Nadeem from Bokaro claimed five for 41 as England, set an improbable target of 447, were wrapped up early
for 197 in 105.5 overs yesterday. A defiant half-century by Michael O’Shea kept England’s hopes of snatching a draw alive as the hosts had managed to avoid defeats in the first two drawn matches. But it was not to be this time around as their innings came to an end soon after the dismissal of the 18-year-old right-handed Glamorgan bat. O’Shea, who struck a valuable 39 in the first knock, top scored with 56 and kept the Indians at bay as he stretched the hosts’ total from 159 for eight
to 197. Leg-spinner Karan Singh (3-26) from Chandigarh delivered the killer punch by having O’Shea caught by a substitute and then the number 11 Steven Finn for a duck in the space of three balls. Earlier, Punjab teenager Sumit Sharma fell one short of a century to set up the stage for Indian colts’ victory on the third day on Tuesday. Sharma was unlucky to be dismissed on 99 but his stellar knock helped his team declared their second innings at 293 for seven in 75.3 over. The Amritsar-born cracked 10 fours and two sixes, facing 142 balls during his three hour-plus stay at the crease. Indian colts had clean sweeped the three match one-day series in
the beginning of the tour. — PTI
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Too many panels, too little work: Malhotra
Our Sports Reporter
New Delhi, August 10 Senior vice-president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) Prof Vijay Kumar Malhotra has once again taken the lead to blow the whistle about the tardy progress in the preparation of the Commonwealth Games when he asserted here today that very little progress had been made on the Commonwealth Games front, other than forming a series of committees. He has brought this disturbing scenario into the notice of Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh through two letters dated June 10 and August 5, and has sought his intervention to get things on board. Prof Malhotra, who is also the president of the Archery Association of India, has drawn the attention of Dr Manmohan Singh that though six committees were already in existence, “to add more confusion to the already chaotic situation one more Department of International Sports Co-Ordination is being created under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports only to accommodate a few more officers, apparently to coordinate with all participating countries in the Commonwealth Games 2010.” He said the constitution of several committees with overlapping powers would be counter-productive, instead of helping straighten out things. The committees already in existence are: Commonwealth Games organising committee and executive board of Commonwealth Games headed by IOA president Suresh Kalmadi; Group of Ministers coordinating committee of Commonwealth Games under the chairmanship of Union Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh; coordinating committee under the chairmanship of the Lt. Governor of Delhi; coordinating committee under the chairmanship of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit; high-powered apex committee under the chairmanship of Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Mani Shankar Aiyer; and various other committees of the Finance Ministry, the Human Resource Development Ministry, Sports Ministry, Delhi Development Authority, New Delhi Municipal Committee, Municipal Corporation of Delhi and other local bodies. Prof Malhotra said, “Since the Commonwealth Games are allotted to the National Olympic Committee of the host country, it is hence the prerogative of the NOC (read IOA) to form the organising committee”. He regretted that the whole emphasis, both of the Central Government and the Delhi Government, was in the creation of more and more infrastructure. “It is amazing to know that the Government of NCT has planned to spend Rs 26,808 crore for the preparation of Delhi for hosting the Commonwealth Games 2010 for which Rs 770 crore will be given as Central Assistance”, he wondered. He said this colossal expenditure would be in addition to the Rs 1082 crore to be spent by the DDA on infrastructure near the Akshardam Temple on the Yamuna river bank, out of which Rs 446 would be Central Government assistance. “Over emphasis on infrastructure development has sidelined the much-needed attention on preparation of the Indian teams for the prestigious event,” he pointed out in his letter to the PM. The veteran sports official said it was shocking that there was “no provision” in the Central budget for the Sports Ministry to nurture sports talent and prepare the Indian teams for the Commonwealth Games. He said it was imperative that India, being the host country, should strive to garner more medals than in the previous games, but nothing was being done to realise this dream. He said instead of improving the medal tally, India were sliding down in the overall ranking. Prof Malhotra has sought the intervention of the Prime Minister in enhancing the allocation to Rs 1000 crore per annum to the Sports Ministry with modification in the guidelines to increase the number of days for national camps, increase in the number of international exposures, provision to send talented seniors and juniors abroad for training-cum-competition, improvement in the training facilities, etc.
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Negi on song
Vlissingen, August 10 The victory helped the 13-year-old Indian to remain in joint lead on 5.5 points in the nine-round tournament being played in Swiss format. The Delhi-based now shares the lead with second seed GM Michael Krasenkow of Poland, GM Vyacheslav Ikonnikov of Russia and GM Friso Nijboer of Holland. Mixed results was the order of the day for his other compatriots as GM Dibyendu Barua drew with GM Erwin L’Ami of Holland while International Master Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and Saptarshi Roy ended on the losing side. Another Indian in the fray, IM Roktim Bandyopadhyay was held to a draw by Weersel Arlette of Holland. With four players sharing the lead and only three more rounds to come, the GM norm hopes of Saptarshi Roy Chowdhury and his Kolkata namesake have suffered a huge setback already. Barua is now sharing the fourth spot on five points along with eight others. It was a Caro Kann Advance variation that Negi opted for with white pieces and Landa went for a complicated system and sacrificed two pawns to get some attacking prospects against a slightly under developed Negi’s pieces. However, as the game progressed, Negi took control with routine deployment of forces. Soon after, Negi completed his development after which there was no hope in store for the Russian. The game lasted just 24 moves and the finale was a spectacular finish wherein Negi sacrificed a piece to rip open the centre.
— PTI
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Pugilist Sunil ensures medal
New Delhi, August 10 Sunil defeated Abdulla on points 27:18 in the quarterfinal last night to end the country cadets’ medal drought at world level since past three years. The Indian was confidence personified throughout the bout after he took a slender 7:5 lead at the end of the first round. In the second round, he consolidated the advantage by throwing accurate straight left and right punches to increase the gap to 15:9 points. Sunil was 20:14 ahead in the third round, according to information received from Indian Amateur Boxing Federation today. Earlier, he had accounted for the hard-hitting Sherstoboyev Ruslan of Kazakhstan on points 24:21.
— PTI
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BSF thrash Bassi FC
6-0
Chandigarh, August 10 In the second half, BSF were in complete comand. Surjit made it 3-0 in the 50th minute while Sarabjit struck in the 73rd minute to make it 4-0. P.B. Ekka and Santosh Kumar (76th, 81st) struck in quick succession towards the fag end to complete the rout.
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