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ICC awards lack credibility: Majola
JP Atray Tournament
2010 shooting WC cancelled
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Johannesburg, September 18 Earlier, India's No.1 Somdev Devvarman beat Izak van der Merwe 7-6(5), 6-3, 6-4 in the first singles match. Coming into the tie after his breakthrough performance at the US Open, Somdev took two hours and 10 minutes to dispatch his opponent at the Ellis park indoor arena. Somdev faced just one breakpoint and mostly played from the baseline. Merwe displayed an excellent serve and volley game but unforced errors dented his chances. Somdev took little time to settle as he struggled with his first serve and sprayed a lot of forehands long. Merwe, ranked 289 in the ATP chart, on the other hand was confident in the start, played some big strokes and won brilliant points at net. No player got the break opportunity until eighth game of the opening set. Merwe set up the breakpoint with an overhead volley but Somdev came back well with strong serve to save. India got a break point in the next game but Somdev was unlucky as he fired a backhand, eyeing a cross court winner, but the ball landed on the net and jumped out of the court. Without seeing a break, the first set stretched to the tie- breaker, which the Indian won to go 1-0 up. Merwe, who looked better player initially because of his exploits at the net, backed by a solid serve, succumbed to unforced errors in the tie-breaker. The South Afircan hit a forehand to net to give Somdev a 3-1 lead, which he later reduced to 4-6 and saved a set point too but his double fault at 5-6 sealed the set for India. Getting back his rhythm, Somdev curbed his unforced errors in the second set and broke Merwe in the sixth game to be in advantageous position. A furious backhand earned Somdev his second breakpoint and with equally forceful double handed backhand he got that break for a 4-2 lead. Merwe started to wilt under pressure and handed two set points in the eighth game, thanks to some unforced errors. He saved both but could not stop Somdev from serving out the set. Already shaken in confidence, Merwe was facing two breakpoints in the very first game of the third set but managed to save both. However, pressure got to Merwe and he was broken at love in the fifth game. From there it was just a cakewalk for Somdev. — Agencies
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Paine KIller
Nottingham, September 18 Paine’s 111 was the cornerstone of Australia’s 296 for eight as the holders continued to warm-up in style for next week’s start of the Champions Trophy tournament in South Africa. England, chasing 299 to win, collapsed to 60 for four inside 15 overs. They were eventually dismissed for 185, with nine overs to spare as they suffered their 11th heaviest defeat, in terms of runs, in 517 one-day internationals (ODIs). No England batsman made more than number eight Tim Bresnan’s 31 not out. Wicketkeeper Paine, an opener in the one-day format, reached three figures in only his seventh match at this level. Together with Michael Hussey, Paine - who only made his one-day international debut against Scotland in Edinburgh last month - put on 163 for the third wicket after the duo came together with Australia 40 for two. — AFP Scoreboard Watson b Anderson 4 (9) Paine c Prior b Mascarenhas 111 (148) Ponting c Sidebottom b Anderson 6 (14) Hussey c Denly b Swann 65 (69) Ferguson b Anderson 6 (9) White c Denly b Anderson 35 (23) Hopes c Strauss b Sidebottom 38 (22) Lee run out 0 (1) Hauritz not out 1 (2) Siddle not out 8 (3) Extras: (b 1, lb 7, w 14) 22 Total (8 wickets; 50 overs) 296 Fall of wickets: 1-19, 2-40, 3-203, 4-206, 5-220, 6-273, 7-281, 8-288. Bowling: Anderson 10-0-55-4, Sidebottom 9-0-65-1, Mascarenhas 10-0-49-1, Bresnan 9-0-60-0, Swann 10-0-48-1, Bopara 2-0-11-0 England Strauss c Paine b Lee 0 (2) Denly c Lee b Hopes 25 (43) Bopara run out 24 (33) Prior run out 6 (8) Shah c Watson b Hopes 23 (39) Morgan c Hussey b Bracken 23 (28) Mascarenhas b Hopes 11 (20) Bresnan not out 31 (38) Swann b Bracken 12 (15) Sidebottom b Siddle 15 (16) Anderson b Lee 1 (7) Extras: (lb 3, w 8, nb 3) 14 Total (all out; 41 overs) 185 Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-45, 3-59, 4-60, 5-100, 6-114, 7-125, 8-159, 9-182. Bowling: Lee 8-0-48-2, Bracken 10-0-42-2 , Siddle 8-1-22-1, Hopes 9-0-32-3, Hauritz 6-0-38-0.
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ICC awards lack credibility: Majola
Johannesburg, September 18 “Unfortunately, our players don’t play for England or Australia. That seems to be the criteria to select these awards. I don’t know what the criteria are for these nominations but I simply can’t believe that this has happened to South African players,” the CSA chief said. “My personal opinion is that this doesn’t lend credibility to this year’s awards, for sure. To rub salt to our wounds, the awards ceremony is being held in our country,” he added. None of the South African cricketers were picked for the final nominations, dominated by Indians, Englishmen and Sri Lankans. The awards would be given out at here on October 1. Majola said the selection panel for the awards’ nominees seems to have completely ignored the Proteas’ excellent Test and one-day performance last year, during which they also became the world’s number one side in both forms of the game. “I am totally dismayed and disappointed. The last season was one of the best ever for South Africa and there were a lot of outstanding performances by our players,” Majola said. “In my personal opinion, there were at least three South African players who should have figured on the shortlist. But I am not going to name them because I don’t want to drag our players into this issue when they are preparing for the Champions Trophy. I haven’t spoken to them about this either,” he added. Former pacer Allan Donald, who was a part of the selection panel, said he had nominated a couple of Proteas players and was surprised to see none making the final list. “I am surprised to see that there is no one from South Africa in the final list,” he said. The nominations for the individual awards were voted by a five-member ICC panel headed by Clive Lloyd, the ICC’s cricket committee chairman. The panel included Anil Kumble, Mudassar Nazar, Bob Taylor and Stephen Fleming. — PTI
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JP Atray Tournament
Chandigarh, September 18 The other notable contribution came from Jaskaran Malhotra who remained unbeaten on 44 off 31 balls. For ITC, Ishan took 3 for 65 and Sumit Dhiman claimed 2 wickets for 27. ITC scored the winning runs in the 42nd over only at the loss of three wicktes. There opener Vivek Srivastav (66 off 92 balls) and Sumit Dhiman (86 off 78 balls) stitched a opening partnership of 163 runs before Vivek was caught by Dhawan off the bowling of Jurnail for 68. Vipan Chauhan then joined the fray and remained unbeaten on 73 off 50 balls. Ajay Saklant took1 for 42 and Jarnail 1 for 40 for HPCA. ITC Won by 7 wickets and secured 4 points. Rishi Dhawan of HPCA was declared man of the match. In the 2 nd match played at Sector 3 Panchkula, JLPL CM-XI defeated MPCA by 2 wickets in a close finish which went upto the last over and got 4 points for this win. Batting first, MPCA were all out for 217 in 49.1 overs. They were helped in their cause by Monish Mishra (33) , Murtaza Ali (38), Jalaj Saxena (26). Replying JLPL were in for a rude shock when former test player Akash Chopra was caught by Saxena of the bowling of Pitre for a duck on the first ball. Gaurav Gupta (74), Yashpal Singh (25), Gurkirat Mann (39) were the main contributors for JLPL CM XI.
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2010 shooting WC cancelled
New Delhi, September 18 The NRAI said the cancellation was not “because of lack of preparedness of the venue”. “In fact, the NRAI will host the Commonwealth Shooting Championship at the same venue in February, 2010”, the NRAI communication said. The Karni Singh Shooting Range near the Haryana border in Delhi is undergoing extensive renovation for the Commonwealth Games, and the non-availability of the venue might have been one of the reasons for the cancellation of the World Cup. But NRAI secretary-general Baljit Singh Sethi said the World Cup was cancelled due to the withdrawal of the “quota place” from the World Cups by the IOC. The World Cup was allotted to India by the International Shooting Sport Federation in rifle/pistol events. “At the time of the allotment of the World Cup, we were given to understand that the gold medal winners of this World Cup will be granted ‘quota places’, which will enable them to get a berth for the 2012 Olympic Games in London”, Sethi explained. The first quota qualification competition will be the 50th World Shooting Championship, to be held in Munich in July-August, 2010. |
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Somdev Devvarman overwhelmed Izak Van der Merwe 7-6 (5), 6-3 6-4 in the first singles to give India a 1-0-lead in the crucial Davis Cup World Group play-off tie against South Africa here today.
Coming into the tie after his breakthrough performance at the US Open, the 133rd
ranked Somdev played with maturity and took two hours and 10 minutes to dispatch
his opponent at the Ellis park indoor arena.
Johannesburg, September 18
Chandigarh, September 18
Indian team leaves for CT