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Tri-Series MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina take a single against New Zealand in Colombo on Friday. — AFP
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ICC open to split innings in ODIs
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Paes-Black lose in final
Vinod Kumar leads on Day One
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India win, enter final
Beat New Zealand by six wickets
Colombo, September 11 Skipper Daniel Vettori topscored with 25, while Jacob Oram contributed 24. This win keeps alive India’s hopes of becoming the number one ODI side in the world by clean sweeping the tri-nation tournament and renders their tomorrow’s match against Sri Lanka inconsequential. For India, the target was not intimidating but the conditions did not ideal for the stroke-makers and runs were not easy to come by. Depleted by the absence of regular openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, India sent Dinesh Karthik to open the innings with Tendulkar but the ploy did not click. Kyle Mills trapped Karthik (4) in the third over even though the ball seemed missing the leg stump. Tendulkar and comeback man Rahul Dravid added 60 runs to calm the nerves but the run rate was nothing home to write about. Dravid’s ODI return did not prove memorable as he fell to Jacob Oram after a 45-ball 14. Tendulkar, however, looked at ease and inching towards a well-deserved half-century when he chipped a Daniel Vettori delivery to the cover field and fell four-run shy of the mark.
— PTI Scoreboard
New Zealand McCullum lbw b Nehra 3(9) Ryder lbw b Nehra 0 (2) Guptill c Dravid b Yuvraj 22 (42) Taylor c Dhoni b RP Singh 11 (15) Elliott c Dhoni b Yuvraj 22 (39) Oram c and b Ishant 24 (45) Broom c Raina b Yuvraj 21 (28) Vettori b Ishant 25 (36) Mills b RP Singh 6 (20) Butler c Harbhajan b Nehra 6 (31) Bond not out 10 (12) Extras
(lb-4, w-1) 5 Total (all out in 46.3 overs) 155 Fall of wickets:
1-1, 2-4, 3-19, 4-51, 5-66, 6-101, 7- 116, 8-134, 9-142. Bowling:
Nehra 8.3-0-24-3, RP Singh 8-2-22-2, Ishant 10-2-26-2, Yuvraj 10-0-31-3, Harbhajan 8-0-39-0, Raina 1-0-4-0, Pathan 1-0-5-0. India Karthik lbw b Mills 4 (11) Tendulkar c Guptill b Vettori 46 (55) Dravid lbw b Oram 14 (45) Yuvraj c Guptill b Vettori 8 (13) Dhoni not out 35 (65) Raina not out 45(54) Extras
(lb 3, w 1) 4 Total: (4 wickets; 40.3 overs) 156 Fall of wickets:
1-7, 2-67, 3-71, 4-84. Bowling: Mills 5.3-1-25-1, Bond 10-3-30-0, Butler 4-0-25-0, Vettori 10-0-33-2, Oram 7-1-19-1, Elliott 2-0-9-0, Guptill 2-0-12-0. |
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ICC open to split innings in ODIs
India’s leading batsman Sachin Tendulkar said last week that two 25 overs innigns each would lend more balance to 50-overs games. Former South Africa test player Richardson said the concept of two 25-overs innings had come up at the ICC’s cricket committee’s annual meeting in May. “The bottom line is if we can come up with a product that is better than the existing one, then everyone would like to look at it,” he said. “If it has been trialled successfully at domestic level, it may (get) the go-ahead at international level. The ICC has been proactive with ideas and innovations, like the powerplays. The idea of the ‘super-sub’ wasn’t as successful and got rid of quite quickly. One of the criticisms was that we trialled things at international as opposed to domestic level.” “Our tactics going forward are member countries trial changes first domestically and if they are successful, then we can take them on board at the international level.”
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World Boxing Championship Chandigarh, September 11 Vijender, bronze medallist at the Beijing Olympics also, made a steady start and led 1-0 after the first round. Atoev, who had earlier lost to Vijender in the Asian Boxing Championship, hit back in the second round, which saw the Indian trailing by 3 points at 4-1. Finally, despite a late fightback by Vijender the bout went in the Uzbek’s favour by 7-3. National boxing coach, GS Sandhu while speaking to The Tribune from Milan said, “He fought bravely and he fought well. Yes, it is a loss, but he still has made a billion people proud. He wanted gold, but the loss is not to be taken to heart. The important part is to fight, and fight hard at that. And I am proud to say we did that all through.” He added, “Vijender is disappointed, for he knows all of us here and people back home were expecting more, but he just has to realize, that it is a big step and by being dedicated, which he really is, he can always improve.”
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Vijender inks multi-crore deal
Vijender, who ensured India’s maiden World Championships medal in Milan by reaching the middle-weight semifinals on Wednesday, may do TV shows as part of the agreement with Percept. “If Shah Rukh Khan can do ground events, TV shows, Vijender can also do. We will create shows for him. Who knows he could be the next Akshay Kumar of (reality show) Fear Factor. After all, he is the real hero,” Singh said. The details of the deal are, however, not known. The 23-year-old world number two pugilist has been on a high ever since breaking India’s medal jinx in the Beijing Olympics. He collected bronze medals at the European Grand Prix event in Czech Republic in May and the Asian Championships in China the next month. Outside the ring, the strapping six-footer from Haryana has become the face of Indian boxing. Seeded number one in Milan, he was last month conferred the country’s highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award. — PTI
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Paes-Black lose in final
She failed to make any impact as not even once she held her serve in the final match, which lasted just 66 minutes. Paes and Cara struggled to find their touch as numerous unforced errors flew from their racquets while their rivals played a fascinating game, especially at the net. Thanks to brilliance of Paes, the second seeds saved a match point in the eighth game of the second set and also got their first and only break in the match. Carly was serving for the match but Paes played an amazing cross court winner to earn that break. The Indian then held his serve in the game to narrow the lead to 4-5 but by then it was too late as Travis served out the match in the 10th game. Paes still can return with a title from the US Open if he and Czech Lukas Dlouhy win their men’s doubles final against Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles. The match did not start the way Paes and Cara would have liked as they struggled with serve and shot-making due to windy conditions and were facing two break points in the opening game. The second seeds managed to save both the chances but Cara dropped her serve twice - third and seventh games - which handed their rivals a cushion of 5-2 lead. The local wild cards wrapped up the first set in just 27 minutes. - PTI Potro enters semis
Juan Martin del Potro reached the US Open semifinals and then sat back and watched as the Rafael Nadal-Fernando Gonzalez match was suspended in the third set due to rain. The sixth-seeded Argentinian converted eight out of eight break points to reach the last four with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 win over Marin Cilic of Croatia. In a battle between two giant 20-year-olds, sixth-seeded Del Potro started slowly before wresting control of the match away from Cilic midway through the second set last night. He finished with a flourish to reach his second Grand Slam semifinal of the year after his five-set loss to Roger Federer in he French Open in June. Del Potro, though, will have to wait to find out his semifinal opponent after the first rain of fortnight forced the suspension of the day’s second semifinal with Nadal leading 7-6, 6-6 and 3-2 in the tie-break, Gonzalez serving. The Spaniard, though, was in some difficulty with an abdominal strain that had him wincing at times on court and calling for a medical timeout. Nadal had the same injury problem in his bruising fourth-round match against Frenchman Gael Monfils.
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Vinod Kumar leads on Day One
Chandigarh, September 11 Asian Tour star Gaurav Ghei, Naman Dawar and M. Dharma were tied second at two under 66 on a day when wet conditions delayed the start till 12.30 in the afternoon. Because of the delayed start only 60 of the 123 golfers could complete the first round.The par for the course has been fixed at 68 as each round now comprises 17 holes with the water-logged par-4 fifth hole declared not part of the tournament. The tournament carries a prize money of Rs 30 lakh. The 17th ranked Vinod bogeyed the third hole, but returned to par with a birdie on the seventh. He missed another birdie putt on the 18th to be even par at the turn. On the back nine he missed two birdie putts on the ninth and 10th, but sank a brace of birdies on the 12th and 13th. And as if that was not enough, he fired two more birdies on the 16th and 18th to be four under 64 at the close. Ghei fired five birdies against two bogeys in his round of 66. Ashok Kumar, Mandeo Singh Pathania, Navtez Singh and Kunal Bhasin are tied fifth at one under 67. K.P.S. Sekhon of Chandigarh is another stroke behind at par 68 along with Shamim Khan. The golfers who could not complete round one on Friday, will now resume the first round at 7 am on Saturday. Round two will get under soon after the first round is completed on Saturday.
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For them, Sachin Tendulkar, Suresh Raina and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni came up with useful knocks as they cruised to 156 for four in 40.3 overs, sending the Kiwis out of the tournament after their second successive defeat. Opting to bat first in the must-win game, New Zealand had earlier folded for 155 in 46.3 overs with Ashish Nehra and Yuvraj Singh mowing down the top and middle order.
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