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Dempo beat Mumbai FCMumbai, October 3 Former champions Dempo Sports Club of Goa started their I-League campaign in impressive style with a thumping 3-1 victory over a new-look Mumbai FC at the Cooperage football ground here today. The visitors, winners of the league crown on three occasions in the last five years, were too strong for the local outfit and took a 2-0 lead at half-time.
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Johannesburg, October 3 New Zelaand will now face Australia in the final on Monday. But this win will mean that the Aussies would do well not to underestimate their traditional rivals. Earlier, Umar Akmal and Mohammad Yousuf starred in a brief bail-out act and Mohammed Aamer played a crucial cameo down the order as Pakistan managed a modest 233 for nine. Pakistan’s dysfunctional top order had left them precariously poised at 86 for four inside 21 overs before Yousuf’s (45) experience and Akmal’s (55) aggression put them back on track with an 80-run stand for the fifth wicket. But once the duo departed, Pakistan lower order crumbled and it was Aamer’s (19 off 20 balls) unbeaten 35-run stand off 34 balls with Saeed Ajmal (14) for the last wicket that lent some respectability to Pakistan’s score. Ian Butler (4/44) was the most successful Kiwi bowler, while Daniel Vettori claimed three for 43. It did not exactly rain fours and sixes right from the word go but the 46 runs put together by Imran Nazir (28) and Kamran Akmal (24) in nine-odd overs meant Pakistan were off to sedate, if not spectacular, start without early setbacks. — PTI Pakistan’s dysfunctional top order had left them precariously poised at 86 for four inside 21 overs before Yousuf’s (45) experience and Akmal’s (55) aggression put them back on track with an 80-run stand for the fifth wicket. But once the duo departed, Pakistan lower order crumbled and it was Aamer’s (19 off 20 balls) unbeaten 35-run stand off 34 balls with Saeed Ajmal (14) for the last wicket that lent some respectability to Pakistan’s score. Ian Butler (4/44) was the most successful Kiwi bowler, while Daniel Vettori claimed three for 43. It did not exactly rain fours and sixes right from the word go but the 46 runs put together by Imran Nazir (28) and Kamran Akmal (24) in nine-odd overs meant Pakistan were off to sedate, if not spectacular, start without early setbacks. — PTI Scoreboard Pakistan Nazir c Taylor b Bond 28 (40) Akmal c Redmond b Butler 24 (35) Malik c Taylor b Butler 2 (7) Younus c Taylor b Vettori 15 (23) Yousuf b Mills 45 (78) Umar lbw b Vettori 55 (62) Afridi c McCullum b Butler 4 (4) Naved c Guptill b Vettori 8 (8) Gul c Broom b Butler 6 (8) Aamer not out 19 (20) Ajmal not out 14 (17) Extras (lb 6, w 5, nb 2) 13 Total (9 wickets; 50 overs) 233 Fall of wickets: 1-46, 2-61, 3-69, 4-86, 5-166, 6-181, 7-183, 8-192, 9-198. Bowling: Mills 10-0-46-1, Bond 10-1-54-1, Butler 10-0-44-4, Franklin 8-0-33-0, Vettori 10-2-43-3, Elliott 2-0-7-0. New Zealand: B McCullum c Afridi b Aamer 17 (16) Redmond c & b Ajmal 31 (55) Guptill c Naved b Gul 11 (10) Taylor b Afridi 38 (61) Elliott not out 75 (103) Vettori st Akmal b Ajmal 41 (42) Broomnot out 3 (4) Extras (b 2, lb 6, w 6, nb 4) 18 Total (5 wickets; 47.5 overs) 230 Fall of wickets: 1-22, 2-43, 3-71, 4-126,5-230. Bowling: Aamer 10-2-32-1, Naved 8-0-57-0, Gul 8.5-0-48-1, Ajmal 8-0-39-2, Afridi 10-0-41-1, Malik 3-0-9-0.
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Nagpur, October 3 Mukund and Vijay batted together for 55 overs after Rest of India bowlers polished off Mumbai tailenders in quick time, needing just 6.5 overs to bowl the opposition out for 230 in the morning. Resuming at 200 for six, Mumbai could add just 30 runs while losing four wickets to hand a 30-run first innings lead to Rest of India. Munaf Patel added two more wickets today to his three yesterday to complete his fiver for 70 runs, while S Sreesanth dismissed two more Mumbai batsmen to end at 3/46. Mukund, sent in to open instead of skipper Virender Sehwag, and Vijay did not allow to go waste their bowlers’ fine effort by playing sensibly and carrying their bats through the day. Vijay was more aggressive of the two openers and his 146-ball 77 included 10 hits to the fence. Mukund had six fours in his 184-ball innings of 86. It will now be a huge task for Mumbai to avoid a defeat as Rest of India have still all the wickets intact and two days remaining in the tie. With the likes of explosive Sehwag, S Badrinath, Ravindra Jadeja and Manoj Tiwary to come to bat, Rest of India would look to pile a huge lead before asking Mumbai to bat again. Sreesanth removed overnight wicket-keeper batsman Vinayak Samant in the fourth ball of his first over and the day’s second for 19, which also broke the 42-run stand for the seventh wicket with Powar. Next over, Patel bowled Powar. Dhawal Kulkarni made a last-ditch effort to erase his side’s first innings deficit with some lusty blows. — PTI Scoreboard Rest of India (1st innings ) 260 Mumbai (1st innings) Kukreja b Sreesanth 16 Jaffer b Patel 68 Rahane c Saha b Patel 44 Sharma c Saha b Tyagi 12 Naik c Saha b Patel 1 Agarkar c Tiwary b Tyagi 5 Samant b Sreesanth 19 Powar b Patel 27 Abdulla c Saha b Sreesanth 5 Kulkarni c Ojha b Patel 23 Shaikh not out 0 Extras (w-2, nb-8) 10 Total (all out in 86.5 overs) 230 Fall of wickets: 1-51, 2-132, 3-143 4-147, 5-147, 6-160, 7-202, 8-204, 9-226. Bowling: Sreesanth 20-6-46-3, Patel 22.5-4-70-5, Tyagi 12-2-56-2, Ojha 20-6-38-0, Jadeja 12-2-20-0. Rest of India (2nd innings) Mukund batting 86 Vijay batting 77 Extras (b-4, lb-3, w-1) 8 Total (for 0 wkts in 55 overs) 171 Bowling: Agarkar 10-2-25-0, Kulkarni 13-2-39-0, Shaikh 7-1-21-0, Powar 15-2-42-0, Iqbal Abdulla 10-2-37-0.
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Mumbai, October 3 Dempo’s Brazilian midfielder Roberto D’Silva put them in front with a close-range effort in the 22nd minute before star India forward Sunil Chetri made it 2-0 three minutes later with an angular shot from the left. —
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New Delhi, October 3 Those familiar with the Indian way of doing things are confident that come October 2010, India will stage one of the best-ever Commonwealth Games. CGF chief Michael Fennell had expressed his apprehensions on New Delhi’s “chaotic preparations and management problems”, but the Organising Committee has promised to address all the issues raised by him. They cite the example of the 1982 Asian Games, which India hosted with distinction, though the works on the games started barely two years before the scheduled opening, after the Congress Party returned to power, with Indira Gandhi at the helm, at the Centre.
And the proponents of the Commonwealth Games fervently hope that everything will fall in place by April-May, 2010, to maintain the Indian tradition of giving unfettered hospitality to the visitors. But security will be one of the biggest concerns of the hosts and around 1 lakh police, paramilitary and other security personnell are expected to be deployed for an incident-free games. The Commonwealth Games will be staged in Asia for the second time, after Malaysia hosted the event in 1998. In fact, India will be only the third developing country to host the games, the other being Jamaica, who played hosts in 1966. The Commonwealth Games will be the fourth big-time sports event to be held in the country after the inaugural Asiad in 1951 and the 1982 Asiad (both in Delhi) and the 2003 Afro-Asian Games (Hyderabad). If Indian sportspersons in multi-sports events have done well over the years, it was due to 82’ Asiad spin-off.
New Delhi is sparing no effort - money and resources-wise - as the roughly-budgeted cost for the games is around $1.6 billion, which excludes non-sports related infrastructure development like roads, airports, metro etc. Manchester spent $420 million (2002) and Melbourne poured in $ 1.1 billion (1996). But the 2010 New Delhi edition will, definitely, be the costliest Commonwealth Games ever, though the money will be spent by various agencies. There are five key stake holders in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. These are the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF), the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), Organising Committee CWG 2010 Delhi, the Government of India and the National Capital Territory of Delhi. The revised budget for the Organising Committee alone, approved by the Committee on Non-Plan Expenditure, held on July 28, 2009 was a whopping Rs 1,621 crore. The Government of India, headed by Manmohan Singh, has assured the organising committee that “there will be no cash crunch in the planning and executivion of activities of OC CWG Delhi 2010”. With Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Dr M.S. Gill taking a pro-active role in monitoring the progress of the construction work on the stadia, things have fallen in place, slowly but surely. The late start of construction work on various stadia, the tardy functioning of the Organising Committee till recently, and mishaps in certain segments of the new metro lines under construction put a spoke in the progress of the works. But with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh giving the full backing of the Goverment for the Games, there is no apparent cause for worry. India hopes to give a big push to its sports development through the Commonwealth Games by bagging the maxiumum number of medals in the 17-discipline multi-sports event. The country will play host to aquatics, archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, cycling, gymnatics, hockey, lawn bowls, netball, rugby sevens, shooting, squash, table tennis, tennis, weightlifting and wrestling. Kabaddi will be a demonstration game. The games will be conducted in about 12 venues, with the showpiece Nehru Stadium hosting the opening and closing ceremonies. The Indira Gandhi indoor stadium complex, the Talkatora Swimming Pool and indoor stadium complex, the Siri Fort Games complex, National Stadium, Shivaji Stadium, the Thyagraj Nagar Sports Complex and the Delhi University are some of the prominent venues for the Games. Out of the 12 stadiums under construction, nine are under the direct control of the Sports Authority of India, though most of the stadiums were constructed for the 82' Asiad, and they were now being given a modern makeover. The bugle will sound for the 2010 Commonwealth Games with the start of the Queen’s Baton Relay on October 29 from the Buckingam Palace where President Pratibha Patil will be present while Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra will receive the baton from Queen Elizabeth. The baton will travel around the Commonwealth countries for 340 days before reaching Delhi before the opening ceremony. Commonwealth Games have come a long way after its modest beginning in 1930 in London as the British Empire Games. It later became the British Commonwealth Games before taking the present avtar in 1978. And New Delhi is expected to change the way Commonwealth Games are played hitherto.
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Johannesburg, October 3
This will be the day, a year from now, when the action at the 19th edition of the Commonwealth Games will begin. Amid the talk of delays, The Tribune looks at the ‘ground reality’
