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England defeat Canada India, Pak united — in protest
India’s loss claims fan’s life We misread pitch: Dravid
Jolted India gear up for Bermuda
Pak fined for slow over rate Heads must roll
West Indies eye Super Eight slot
When drunk Freddie almost drowned
Anand loses to Morozevich
Himachal skiers win three titles
Sasikiran held by Zuniga
Ghei finishes tied 25th
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Aussies overwhelm Dutch
Basseterre, March 18 The margin was better than the 203-run win for Australia against Scotland in their opening match. The victory meant the three-time champions are the first team to advance to the second stage of the World Cup where they will play the top two teams from the other three groups. Before that, however, Ricky Ponting's men will take on world number one South Africa in their last group engagement on March 25. That result will not only decide who will top the group but also say which team takes the points into the next phase. Australia have now four points after two wins from as many matches while South Africa have two points from the one match they have played so far, also against the Netherlands. The Proteas take on Scotland, the fourth side in the group, on Tuesday. Middle order batsman Hodge led the Aussie onslaught with a hurricane 123 off 89 balls and was well supported by Michael Clarke who carved out a stylish yet aggressive 93 not out. Thirty-two-year-old Hodge smashed eight fours and seven sixes during his massive 184-run partnership with Clarke. Scoreboard Australia Gilchrist c van Troost Hayden c Borren Ponting c & b Clarke not out 93 Hodge b Borren 123 Hussey c sub Watson not out 12 Extras (lb-9, w-8, nb-2) 19 Total
(5 wkts, 50 overs) 358 Fall of wickets: 1-73, 2-116, 3-116, 4-320, 5-325. Bowling:
Jonkman 6.1-1-35-0, Reekers 6-1-48-0, de Leede 10-1-40-2, ten Doeschate 10-0-76-2, Raja 7.5-0-61-0, Borren 10-0-89-1. Netherlands Zuiderent run out 9 Reekers c Clarke Kervezee lbw Bracken 0 Ten Doeschate lbw Tait 1 Van Troost lbw McGrath 0 Van Bunge lbw McGrath 33 De Leede c Hayden Borren c Hussey b Hogg 24 Smits lbw Hogg 3 Raja not out 8 Jonkman st Gilchrist b Hogg 0 Extras
(b-4, lb-3, w-5) 12 Total (all out, 26.5 overs) 129 Fall of wickets:
1-36, 2-36, 3-38, 4-40, 5-46, 6-87, 7-97, 8-106, 9-129. Bowling:
Bracken 7-1-33-2, Tait 7-0-29-1, McGrath 8-0-33-2, Hogg 4.5-0-27-4.
— PTI
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England defeat Canada
Gros Islet, March 18 Ed Joyce hit 66 and Paul Collingwood an unbeaten 62 to help England to 279 for six and put their World Cup campaign back on track. England all-rounder Flintoff was omitted and stripped of the World Cup vice-captaincy after a late night drinking binge following Friday's defeat by New Zealand. Scoreboard England Joyce b Dhaniram 66 Vaughan c Davison Bell c
Codrington Pietersen c & b Dhaniram 5 Collingwood not out 62
Bopara b Codrington 29 Dalrymple c Bagai Nixon not out 23 Extras (b-4, lb-2, w-8, Total (6
wkts, 50 overs) 279 Fall of wickets: 1-101, 2-153, 3-160, 4-161, 5-242, 6-245. Bowling:
Cummins 7-0-58-1, Bhatti 7.5-0-41-0, Davison 10-1-32-0, Samad 5.1-0 -31-1, Codrington 10-0-70-1, Dhaniram 10-0-41-3. Canada Davison c Bell b Anderson 21 Barnett b Plunkett 7
Bagai c Pietersen Billcliff b Bopara 20 Samad lbw Panesar 34
Mulla st Nixon b Bopara 59 Chumney not out 27 Dhaniram run out 30
Codrington not out 7 Extras (lb-2, w-11, nb-3) 16 Total
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wkts, 50 overs) 227 Fall of wickets:1-8, 2-22, 3-51, 4-65, 5-160, 6-160, 7-216. Bowling:
Anderson 10-1-40-1, Plunkett 9-0-46-2, Panesar 10-1-34-1, Bopara 9-0-43-2, Collingwood 9-0-41-0, Dalrymple 3-0-21-0.
— Agencies
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India, Pak united — in protest
New Delhi, March 18 In Ranchi, wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s hometown , over 20 persons gathered near a house being built on a plot of land given to him by the Jharkhand Government and burnt an effigy to which the player’s poster was pasted. They also demolished a portion of the under-construction house. The jeering people raised slogans and asked the government to take back the plot allotted to Dhoni, who was out for a duck in yesterday’s game in the West Indies. Following the protest, the police stepped up vigil at the site as well as at Dhoni’s house at Mecon in Ranchi. In Kanpur, cricket lovers assembled in Lal Bungalow and torched effigies of the out-of-form Virender Sehwag, Dhoni and others, while disappointed fans in Jalandhar held a protest march and burnt posters of several players, including local boy Harbhajan Singh, Sehwag, skipper Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar. India suffered a shocking five-wicket loss to the minnows and Dravid’s decision to bat first drew flak from protesters in many places. “Such a poor performance by the team in its first match, that too against a weak team like Bangladesh, has broken our hearts as we organised havans for the success of the team in the World Cup,” said a fan in Jalandhar. Protesters in Allahabad called for the re-inclusion of Mohammad Kaif in the team in place of Sehwag. Fans held protests in several parts of the city, lambasting the team for its “shameful defeat” at the hands of Bangladesh. They also burnt effigies and posters of Dravid and Sehwag. The protesters said Kaif’s absence had badly affected the team and sought his immediate recall. Devesh Mishra, who coached Kaif in his youth, echoed these sentiments and urged the BCCI to reconsider the case of the Uttar Pradesh player “who can play well in moments of crisis”. The Indian team’s dismal show also sparked protests in Patna, where cricket enthusiasts burnt posters of Harbhajan, Sehwag, Dravid and Tendulkar. In the temple city of Varanasi, irate fans burnt effigies of Dravid and Sehwag at several places. They questioned the team’s decision to persist with the woefully out-of-form Sehwag after he failed again last night. Students of Harishchandra Degree College burnt effigies of Sehwag and other players and alleged the players spent more time appearing in advertisements than preparing for the World Cup. Irate fans in Indore beat posters of the players with shoes and chappals. The fans, led by local Congress leader Anup Shukla, also set afire photographs of the players. Expressing displeasure at the protests, former Bihar Ranji Trophy skipper KVP Rao said cricket was after all a game. “Real fans should support the team now, as it was only the first match and Team India has a good chance to advance in the World Cup,” he said. In Bangalore, the city police provided security to the residences of Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble and Robin Uthappa following the team’s defeat. The police said security was provided as a precautionary measure, fearing trouble from cricket fans. The bandobast would continue till the end of the World Cup matches. Besides Dravid’s residence at Indiranagar and Uthappa’s house at RT Nagar, security cover had been thrown around Kumble’s house at Banashankari too, even though he was not part of the team which lost dismally to Bangladesh yesterday. KARACHI: Angry Pakistani cricket fans took to the streets in protest and burned effigies of players today, hours after the side’s shock defeat to Ireland that put the 1992 champions out of the World Cup. Protesters held a mock burial of the team and the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in Hyderabad, while posters and effigies of captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and coach Bob Woolmer were burnt in the central city of Multan. Private television channels were flooded with e-mails and calls from angry fans, who wanted the team and the PCB to be held accountable for bringing shame on the country. Many of them pleaded emotionally for the government to withdraw all awards given to the players and management and freeze their bank accounts. “That is the least they can do for the shame and disgrace they have brought upon us. They must be made to pay for their spineless performance,” one protester, Yasir Ali, said in Multan.
— Agencies
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India’s loss claims fan’s life Jamnagar, March 18
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Port of Spain, March 18 “I looked at the wicket in the morning and felt it was a lot drier than we had come to expect in the Caribbean. We thought it would get progressively slower and useful to spinners which it did actually. “I don’t think other members of the team felt differently about the pitch either. We all felt that it could be difficult in the first 40-50 minutes of batting but would then help the batsmen. But it was a lot damper.” India put on a spineless batting display and witnessed a top- and lower-order collapse to be bundled out for 191 in 49.3 overs which Bangladesh overhauled with five wickets in hand in the Group B match. Indians were outclassed by Bangladesh in every department of the game and found their World Cup ambitions in tatters at Queen’s Park Oval, ironically the venue where India’s best moments in the Caribbean have happened over the years. Dravid was scathing in the criticism of his batsmen, faulting them with irresponsible shots played in the middle overs and the clump of wickets which were lost towards the end. “Our batting was bad throughout. It is not as if we haven’t recovered from poor start in the past. Still the way Sourav and Yuvraj had set about repairing the middle, we could have ended up with 30-40 extra runs. The worst part of the batting came when India slipped from 157-4 to 159-9 in the space of 15 balls. “Those two wickets falling in quick succession set us back badly,” Dravid said. He was all praise for the manner in which Bangladesh performed, specially for man-of-match Mashrafee Mortaza as well as their daring 17-year-old opener Tamim Iqbal who razed the Indian attack to score a bold 51 off 53 balls that set the run chase. Dravid admitted it was a shock for all other members of the side but refused to believe that the performance was due to lack of effort. — PTI
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Jolted India gear up for Bermuda
Port of Spain, March 18 The stunning five-wicket loss has pushed the Indians, who were regarded as one of the front-runners by some former cricketers, on the brink of an early exit and is bound to put Rahul Dravid and his men under enormous pressure. After weeks of preparations and claims of having acclimatised to the Caribbean conditions, it turned out to be an agonising start to India’s World Cup campaign with a pathetic performance against a team which is largely comprising youngsters with very little experience in one-day internationals. But unlike another Asian giant, Pakistan, who have crashed out of the tournament with a stunning defeat against minnows Ireland, the Indians hopes are hanging by a thin thread. The Indians not only have to win both their matches against Bermuda and Sri Lanka comprehensively but also hope that results of other matches in Group B go in their favour. The Indians had themselves to blame for the debacle against Bangladesh as they not only misread the pitch, but came up with a horrendous batting and bowling performance to slump to a new low which has thrown their campaign in disarray. The persistent failures of Virender Sehwag can no longer be accepted and the team management has no option but to confine him to the dressing room. Sehwag opened the innings with Ganguly against Bangladesh but perished for just two, playing an atrocious shot which has now become a routine feature for the Delhi opener. Instead of trying to repay the faith shown on him by skipper Dravid, a cavalier Sehwag does not seem inclined to learn from his mistakes. The Indians badly need a good start to the innings to lay the foundation for the middle order batsmen but the continued form slump of Sehwag has not allowed that to happen. The team management may also toy with the idea of going in with two specialist spinners in Harbhajan Singh and Anil Kumble, an option which appears quite possible considering the performance of the three Bangladeshi spinners. Bermuda, the smallest country ever to qualify for the World Cup, have the only professional cricketer in David Hemp, the Glamorgan county captain. They were out for a paltry 78 against Sri Lanka in their opening match. Coach Gus Logie said: “We’ve have set ourselves little goals. If we can bat out 50 overs against these teams, then that's a plus for us.” Teams (from): India: Rahul Dravid (capt), Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Dinesh Karthik, Mahendra Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Ajit Agarkar, Anil Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, S. Sreesanth and Munaf Patel. Bermuda: Irving Romaine (capt), Dean Minors, Delyone Borden, Lionel Cann, David Hemp, Kevin Hurdle, Malachi Jones, Stefan Kelly, Dwayne Leverock, Saleem Mukuddem, Stephen Outerbridge, Oliver Pitcher, Clay Smith, Janeiro Tucker and Kwame Tucker.
— PTI
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Kingston, March 18 Boyd Rankin, a 6’-7” tall pace bowler, claimed three for 32, while Andre Botha took 2-5 and Kyle McCallan claimed 2-12 to restrict Pakistan to a modest 132 in 46 overs. Ireland captain Trent Johnston clinched the win with a six, lifting Ireland to 133-7 chasing a rain-revised target of 128 with 5.2 overs to spare. Niall O’Brien scored 72 to get Ireland within reach of victory, but his dismissal sparked a mini-collapse and another tense finish. O’Brien went in with Ireland at 15 for two and took them within 20 runs of victory with a giant six off Shoaib Malik before he was stumped on the next ball. Rao Iftikhar Anjum took wickets on consecutive balls to end the next over as Ireland slid to 113 for seven, but he missed a hat-trick on the first ball of his subsequent over with a wide down legside. Kevin O’Brien (15 not out) and Johnston (9 not out) guided the Irish to victory. It was the second thrilling finish in three days for Ireland, after the Zimbabwe match was tied with a wicket on the last ball on their World Cup debut. Pakistan lost the tournament’s opening match to the West Indies by 54 runs and two losses makes it virtually impossible to make the Super Eight round, another blow after the doping controversy involving Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif and the injury to key all-rounder Abdul Razzaq. It was the batting, however, and not the depleted bowling attack that let Pakistan down again. A total of 29 extras made it the most significant contributor for Pakistan as Ireland delivered 23 wides and three no balls. Pakistan wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal hit 27 but only Imran Nazir (24), Mohammad Yousuf (15) and Mohammad Sami (12) followed him to double figures. David Langford-Smith took a wicket in the first over and Pakistan never fully recovered. Mohammad Hafeez edged to wicketkeeper Niall O’Brien to enliven the Irish effort. Rankin, extracting steep bounce, also began nicely as he claimed Younis Khan for a duck as the Pakistan vice-captain edged to first slip. Nazir and Yousuf mounted a mini-recovery by adding 41 for the third wicket before captain Johnston made a crucial breakthrough. Yousuf slapped a wide delivery straight to backward point. And the Pakistanis soon slumped to 72 for six as skipper Inzamam-ul-Haq, Nazir and Malik fell soon afterwards. Akmal led a seventh-wicket stand of 31 with Azhar Mahmood but both fell in Rankin’s second spell. Scoreboard Pakistan Hafeez c Niall O’Brien
b Langford-Smith 4 Nazir c Morgan b Botha 24
Younis c Botha b Rankin 0 Yousuf c Porterfield b Johnston 15
Inzamam c Morgan b Botha 1 Malik c N O’Brien b K O’Brien 9
Akmal c Johnston b Rankin 27 Mahmood c Johnston b Rankin 2 Sami c Bray b McCallan 12
Anjum not out 8 Gul c sub b McCallan 1 Extras (lb-3, w-23, nb-3) 29 Total
(all out, 45.4 overs) 132 Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-15, 3-56, 4-58, 5-66, 6-72, 7-103, 8-105, 9-130. Bowling:
Langford-Smith 10-1-31-1, Rankin 9-1-32-3, Botha 8-4-5-2, Johnston 7-1-20-1, Kevin O’Brien 6-0-29-1, McCallan 5.4-1-12-2. Ireland Jeremy Bray lbw Sami 3
Porterfield b Hafeez 13 Morgan lbw Sami 2 Niall O’Brien st Akmal b Malik 72
Botha c Hafeez b Sami 0 Kevin O’Brien not out 16 White c Hafeez b Anjum 4
McCallan c Younis b Anjum 0 Johnston not out 9 Extras (lb-2, w-11, nb-1) 14 Total
(7 wickets, 41.4 overs) 133 Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-15, 3-62, 4-70, 5-108, 6-113, 7-113. Bowling:
Gul 9-0-24-0, Sami 10-0-29-3, Anjum 10-0-29-2, Mahmood 7.4-1-25-0, Hafeez 4-0-15-1, Malik
1-0-9-1.— PTI
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Pak fined for slow over rate
Kingston, March 18 Pakistan were found four overs short while defending a paltry total of 132 during its humiliating three-wicket loss to Ireland. “ICC match referee Chris Broad imposed the fines after Inzamam’s side was ruled to be four overs short of its target at the end of the match when time allowances were taken into consideration,” the ICC said in a release today. The other players were each fined five per cent of their match fees for every over they fell short. — PTI
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Heads must roll Pakistan’s insipid performance against Ireland is, in many ways, a culmination of all that has happened on and off the field over the past few months. The team is in a mess, and that is putting it mildly. Matters have reached a stage wherein you feel like requesting every player to play for himself, given that he is obviously finding it difficult to play for the side. But so poor have the players been in recent times that it seems that they are incapable of even playing for themselves. This has been going on for far too long. The nation had waited for this competition for four years. Several changes had been made, a new coach requisitioned, and a lot of money spent. The Pakistani public has every right to feel cheated and demand an explanation. The only problem is that there is nobody around who has the inclination to give one. Overconfidence wasn’t the reason for Pakistan’s defeat and ouster from the tournament. The team flopped because not many of its members deserved to be there in the first place. Both Pakistan and India have been guilty of favouring reputation over merit. Would teams like Australia, South Africa and New Zealand have persisted with players who were failing repeatedly? I think we all know the answer. The Pakistani selectors have no option but to start from scratch. The deadwood needs to be discarded. They should at least try to learn from their mistakes. The team was selected on the assumption that most of the players would “strike form” when needed. This isn’t exactly the best or safest course of action to adopt on the eve of a World Cup. Once the team was picked, it might well have helped had the coach of the Pakistani side devoted his energies to improving it, instead of making innumerable statements about “proving the critics wrong”. Several former cricketers had pointed out chinks in the Pakistani armour in the past few months. These individuals have represented the country at the highest level and care deeply about cricket in the land. But even their constructive criticism wasn’t taken note of. The team management appeared to have forgotten that cricket was a game played on the field and not in the media. You can talk and speculate about “processes” and “wanting to prove people wrong” in newspaper or TV interviews, but ultimately your worth is judged by how you perform in the middle. Ireland’s remarkable comeback against Zimbabwe should have set the alarm bells ringing in the Pakistani camp. The so-called “minnows” haven’t exactly applied for participation in the World Cup; they are there because they registered impressive wins in the qualifying tournament. It is easy to say that Pakistan should have taken into account the fact that Ireland had some wins under its belt, but then, you will consider such factors only when you sit down to plan and
strategise. But as results indicate,“planning” is something the Pakistani team refuses to believe in. The lack of a stable opening pair and an out-of-sorts middle order, the leading lights of which have continued to push themselves back, cost Pakistan the game and their self-respect. The openers had little or no patience, and they looked clueless on a pitch that was doing a bit. The Indians were as badly hit as the Pakistanis. But India are not out of it as yet. I have a feeling they will come back strongly.
— PMG
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West Indies eye Super Eight slot
Kingston, March 18 Events over the last few days, however, will make the West Indies aware that they cannot take the Zimbabweans too lightly, or else they may be embarrassed in much the same way Ireland shamed Pakistan on Saturday. “Everyone is trying to make a name for themselves so we cannot underestimate anyone,” opener and former captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul said. “We have to go out and play it hard and take it to the end. We’ve been doing a lot of work, we’re well prepared. We don't know what is going to happen in that game, but hopefully we can go out and get the win.” Ireland’s win against Pakistan provisionally puts them in the lead of Group D with three points — one more than West Indies and two ahead of Zimbabwe (both with a match in hand) — leaving Pakistan at the bottom of the table with no points. — AFP
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When drunk Freddie almost drowned
London, March 18 According to the News of the World, the former skipper grabbed a pedalo from a beach near the team’s five-star Caribbean hotel at 4 am after an eight-hour bender with team-mates. He dragged it out to sea and was seen rocking it from side to side before it capsized. The hotel staff promptly moved into action and saved the England cricket poster boy, who was out for duck against New Zealand earlier in the day. Freddie and four of his team-mates were disciplined following the bender at the Rumours club in St Lucia’s Rodney Bay area for breaking a midnight curfew. While the former captain and fellow Ashes hero Ian Bell were fined, fast bowlers Liam Plunkett, James Anderson and Jon Lewis were docked part of their match fee by head coach Duncan Fletcher at a meeting of the team’s players and management. According to an eyewitness, Flintoff was boozing at the club like there was no tomorrow. “Freddie was drinking beer as if it was going out of fashion. It was just like the scenes when they won the Ashes in 2005.”
— UNI
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Kimi races to victory
Melbourne, March 18 The deadpan Flying Finn had few worries in his first race for Ferrari as he dictated the 58-lap race off the pole to hold off world champion Fernando Alonso by a comfortable seven seconds, with Alonso’s rookie McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton finishing an encouraging third. It was the 27-year-old Finn’s first Australian triumph after three podium finishes with his previous McLaren team in 2002-03 and last year. But despite Ferrari’s dominance, a resurgent McLaren took an early advantage in the constructors’ title with 14 points to Ferrari’s 13 after the second Ferrari driver, Felipe Massa, fought his way from the eighth row on the grid to finish sixth. “It’s always nice to win the first race straight away, I have never done that before,” said Raikkonen, who was brought into Ferrari this year from McLaren to replace retired seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher. “I’ve had good races here before but I’ve never been able to win and with the new team it's an ideal way of starting the season. “The car was perfect all day and it was just a matter of bringing it home.” Unflappable Raikkonen’s only irritant was a malfunctioning radio which forced him to keep in contact with the team via pit boards. “The car is very strong and the team is making my life very good and easy. I’m enjoying it and hopefully we can keep it up.” It was obvious from the start that Raikkonen had the fastest car here this weekend, building up a 15-second lead before the first of his two pit stops on the 19th lap, regaining the race lead four laps later and holding a massive 19-second lead by his last stop on lap 42. Raikkonen’s fastest lap of 1:25.235 came on the lap before his second pit stop and he was able to ease down over the final 12 laps to greet the chequered flag.
— AFP
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Anand loses to Morozevich
Monaco, March 18 The five-time champion lost the first blindfold game against last year’s joint winner Morozevich and then could not recover enough in the return rapid game to finally sign peace. Anand lost to Morozevich from a seemingly innocuous opening. The Russian, who has done well in the past editions of the blindfold section, was in excellent form yet again catching Anand unawares in the late middle-game stages. The Reti opening gave Anand an easy game but Morozevich tightened the noose in the middle game. The Indian ace made the final mistake on the 41st move while in a difficult position and the Russian left no chance to clinch the issue seven moves later. In the return rapid game, Anand tried to make amends against Morozevich’s French defence but the Russian showed good defensive moves to keep the Indian at bay. After regulation exchanges, the players arrived at a level minor piece endgame where peace was signed after 36 moves. Vassily Ivanchuk of Ukraine and Levon Aronian of Armenia emerged as early leaders in the 12-player event. Anand stands joint ninth after the first round on half a point along with Teimour Radjabov of Azerbaijan, while Vallejo Pons and Van Wely are at the bottom, yet to open the account.
— PTI
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Himachal skiers win three titles
Mandi, March 18 Talking to The Tribune after the Himachal Winter Games Association team reached here today from Auli, coach Chuni Lal said Santosh Thakur, a skier from Manali, won the slalom title, while Tara Chand bagged the first position in the giant slalom event. Santosh was adjudged the best all-rounder in alpine skiing. Several teams, including ITBP, Army, J&K, Himachal Winter Games Association, Manali, Uttarakhand, Ice-skating Rink, Shimla, Western Himalayan Institute Mountaineering and Adventure, Manali, UP and SASE, participated in the games.
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Sasikiran held by Zuniga
Zafra (Spain), March 18 On a day when all higher-ranked players scored victories in the category-15 eight-player round-robin tournament, Sasikiran’s was the lone draw. Former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov of Ukraine outwitted Dutchman Ivan Sokolov.
— PTI
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Ghei finishes tied 25th
Sanya (China), March 18 The lone Indian left in the fray, Ghei failed to capitalise on his four-under 68 performance in the penultimate round yesterday to end up with an aggregate of 10-under 278, a huge 12 strokes behind Nirat.
— UNI
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It was a mixed day for Asia and a disastrous one for Pakistan. While all of Bangladesh would have celebrated all night, all of Pakistan and India would have struggled to sleep. The fact that one former World Cup winner is out of the competition and another has to do something extraordinary to stay in the race is simply unbelievable.