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SL Tour of India
1st Test: Day 2
Ranji Trophy
WFI sacks 3 coaches
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National Shooting Championship
SAF Games from Jan 24
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SL Tour of India
1st Test: Day 2
Ahmedabad, November 17
Dilshan notched up his 10th Test century -- and the fifth this year -- to lay the foundation for a strong Lankan reply in excellent batting conditions at the Motera stadium which again saw more than 300 runs being scored. Mahela Jayawardene (36) and Thilan Samaraweera (45) were at the crease at stumps with the visitors still trailing the hosts by 151 runs. Earlier, resuming at the score of 385-6, India lost their last four wickets for 41 runs and were all out soon after the first drinks break to allow the visitors to claw their way back into the game. The Lankan batsmen then ensured that they kept the team in the hunt for their maiden Test win on Indian soil by batting sensibly right through the day. Captain Kumar Sangakkara (31) and young opener Tharanga Paranavitana (35) got the starts but could not translate those into big knocks, falling to injudicious shots. Injured Thushara sent back, Fernando to join
Sri Lankan left-arm pacer Thilan Thushara was today ruled out of the ongoing Test series against India due to a shoulder injury and will be replaced by Dilhara Fernando in the visitors' 15-member squad. Thushara has been declared unfit for around four weeks and would be sent home to undergo treatment. Kirsten defends spinners
India coach Gary Kirsten today sprang to the defence of his spinners after both Harbhajan Singh and Amit Mishra went wicketless on the second day of the first cricket Test against Sri Lanka here today. "I thought Harbhajan bowled really well with as good a rhythm as I have seen him bowl for a while. I think he was happy with his performance," Kirsten said after the second day's play. Kirsten blamed it on the docile nature of the pitch.
— PTI Scoreboard India (1st innings): (overnight 385/6 in 90 overs) Dravid b Welegedara 177 Harbhajan b Muralitharan 22 Zaheer lbw b Herath 12 Mishra not out 7 Ishant st P Jayawardene b Murali 0 Extras (b 2, lb 2, w 1, nb 4) 9 Total (all out, 104.5 overs) 426 Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-27, 3-31, 4-32, 5-157, 6-381, 7-389, 8-414, 9-426. Bowling: Welegedara 22-4-87-4, Prasad 22-1-106-2, Mathews 12-1-50-0, Murali 25.5-4-97-3, Herath 22-2-79-1, Dilshan 1-0-3-0. Sri Lanka (1st innings): Dilshan c Dravid b Zaheer 112 Paranavitana c Dhoni b Ishant 35 Sangakkara c Tendulkar b Zaheer 31 Jayawardene batting 36 Samaraweera batting 45 Extras (lb-5, w-2, nb-9) 16 Total (For 3 wkts, 70 overs) 275 Fall of wickets: 1-74, 2-189, 3-194. Bowling: Zaheer 15-2-45-2, Ishant 14-0-53-1, Harbhajan 20-2-72-0, Mishra 18-0-89-0, Yuvraj 3-0-11-0. |
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Dharmani guides Punjab to 212 for 7
Neeraj Bagga Tribune News Service
Amritsar, November 17 At the close of play, Dharmani was playing on 74 while debutant Bharat Loomba was on just two runs. Punjab’s pace spearhead Manpreet Goni could not play the match for injury. The listless batting performace barring one showed that Punjab batsmen were yet to find their form as they had shown mediocre batting display against Mumbai and Hyderabad. The home team failed to take advantage of local conditions and could not offer a sustain batting in front of tight line and length bowling by medium pacers from Tamil Nadu spearheaded by Test discard L, Balaji. Punjab lost three key batsmen in quick succession when the score board was only 62. All rounder Vishwas Bhalla was the first to be clean bowled by R. Sathish on trivial six runs. Ravi Inder Singh was sent back to the pavillion in the same fashion by medium pacer Yo Mahesh. Dharmani and Chndan Madaan doggedly fought back the intial setbacks with a 58-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Off spinner R Ashwin earned the wicket of Punjab captian Ankur Kakkar on 14 runs. Mahesh achieved second success for his team when he bowled Gourav Gambhir on 28. Balaji had its only success in Love Abilish who was out on duck. Brief Score: Punjab 212 for 7 ( Chandan 36, Dharmani 74*; Yo Mahesh 2 fopr 60, R Ashwin 1 for 23.) Vikramjit rocks Mumbai
Himachal Pradesh’s opening bowler Vikramjit Malik picked up six wickets for just 33 runs as defending champions Mumbai folded up for 162 in their first innings. Brief Scores: Mumbai (1st innings) 162 (Agarkar 45, Kulkarni 28; Vikramjeet 6 for 33, Sarandeep 2 for 29) Himachal (1st innings): 100 for 3 (Thakkar 48*, Sangram 28; Harmeet 2 for 17m Abdulla 1 for 10.) Kerala skittle J&K
Sony Cheruvathur produced a fiery bowling spell to help Kerala skittle out Jammu and Kashmir for a paltry 164. Cheruvathur picked up six wickets giving away only 31 runs. Brief Scores J& K (1st innings): 164 (ID Singh 33, Nabi 27*; Gomez 3 for 33, Cheruvathur 6 for 31). Kerala (1st innings) 59 for 3 (Nair 24*, Sachin Baby 21*; Nabi 2 for 17, Beigh 1 for 28). |
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WFI sacks 3 coaches
Bhatinda, November 17 The meeting is to decide the quantum of ban to be imposed on the Indian federation because six of its lifters have tested positive for dope in the last one year. Rules state that if four or more lifters of a particular nation test positive in one year, that country will have to face sanctions from the International Federation. The coaches who have been sacked include Arjuna awardee Karunakaran, R.K Malhotra and Shyamala Shetty. Interestingly, all three of these coaches were associated with the Indian team’s preparations which took part in the Commonwealth weightlifting championship held in Malaysia. The Indians ended up winning a rich haul of 27 medals in the championship. A top Indian Olympic Association (IOA) disclosed, “by sacking three top coaches of the country the WFI is trying to send a message to the international body that it is serious of nabbing dope offenders. However, these coaches have nothing to do with doping and all of them have been regarded as ‘clean’ coaches. Their dismissal is nothing but an attempt at pulling wool over the eyes of the international body.” Both the SAI and the Sports Ministry mandarins are not too happy with the sacking of the coaches. Once word went around about the coaches dismissal, SAI reacted by asking all three of them to rejoin the National camp currently underway at the Army Sports Institute at Pune. However, the WFI counter reacted by asking the camp in charge at Pune not to allow the coaches to join. “ The ghost of doping haunting Indian weightlifting refuses to go away. Recently, the Indian team was abruptly withdrawn from the Goyang World Championship because of the fact that blood testing was to be introduced there. In blood testing any lifter who has used International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned drugs in the past two years can be caught. It is known fact that top Indian lifters regularly use IOC banned drugs and that is the reason why the WFI did not feel it prudent to field the team at Goyang,” remarked a former International lifter.
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Kalmadi: WFI to hold fresh polls
New Delhi, November 17 Kalmadi said the IOA, in its executive council meeting held on October 14 in Delhi, had formed a Fact Finding Committee, under the chairmanship of Brig K.P.Singh Deo, to probe into the doping violation by six lifters, and it had submitted its report. The IOA president said further to the findings of the committee, International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) president Dr. Tamas Ajan, who is also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), wrote a letter to him about the serious doping violation committed by the Indian lifters, as it was not the first doping offence by the Indians under the WFI, and asked him to "withdraw the leadership of the WFI" and call for fresh elections. |
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National Shooting Championship Register wins in individual and team events Kusum Arora Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, November 17 Results: 50 Metres Rifle Prone Men Individual: Sushil Ghale, Army (gold, 700.5), Joydeep Karmakar, Railway (silver, 700.4) and Hari Om Singh, Army (bronze, 699.3). 50 Metres Rifle Prone Men team: Army (gold): Surendra Rathod (590), Sushil Ghale (596), Hari Om Singh (596), Railways (silver): Pankaj Poddar (590), Vishwajit Shinde (586) and Joydeep Karmakar (596), Navy (bronze): Manoj Kumar (587), Sanjeev Rajput (596) and G. Purushottam (582). 50 Metres Rifle Prone Junior Men individual: Chain Singh, Army (gold, 592.0), Ashish Tiwari, Uttarakhand (silver, 588.0) and Bibaswan Ganguli, West Bengal (bronze, 587.0). 50 Metres Rifle Prone Junior men team: Army (gold): Chain Singh (592), Aliyas Ali Khan (586) and Ramesh J (580), NCC (silver): Talwinder Singh (580), Laxman P Purohit (575) and Patel Ravi (572), Madhya Pradesh (bronze): Vaibhav Sharma (578), Navdeep Singh Rathod (587) and Parth Aggarwal (560). 10 Metres Air Pistol women individual: Shweta Chaudhary, ONGC (gold, 481.7), Anuraj Singh, Air India (silver, 475.5) and Heena Sidhu, Punjab (bronze, 474.5). 10 Metres Air Pistol Women team: Maharastra (gold): Sunali Muralidhar Parerao (373), Aparna Hemant Jadhav (379), Upasana Parasrampuria (363), Air India (silver): Anuraj Singh (378), Ruchi Singh (376) and Bhawna Sharma (358), Uttar Pradesh (bronze): Sonal Ramendra (360), Deepika Patel (371) and Kunti Malik (369). 10 Metres Air Pistol Junior Women individual: Juhi Talwar, Delhi (gold, 379.0), Ruchi Singh, Air India (silver, 376.0) and Heena Sidhu, Punjab (bronze, 375.0). 10 Metres Air Pistol Junior Women team: Delhi (gold): Juhi Talwar (379), Lovleen Kaur (370) and Lipika Bhatia (371), Maharastra (silver): Shreya Sanjay Gawande (371), Sonali Muralidhar Parerao (373) and Rahi Jeevan Sarnobat (360), Uttar Pradesh (bronze): Deepika Patel (371), Diksha Rajput (374) and Saloni Sachdeva (346). Air Pistol Women 40 shots: Dilraj Kaur, Uttarakhand (gold, 330.0) Peep sight Rifle Prone Men 60 shots: Rajiv Malik, Haryana (gold, 582.0), Arijit Roy, Uttarakhand (silver, 574.0) and Sidharth Babu, Kerala (bronze, 557.0).
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SAF Games from Jan 24
Patiala, November 17 Randhir also revealed that infrastructure required for holding the games including Ice Skating Rink in Dehradun and Skiing Slopes in Auli is almost ready and team of organizing committee would soon be visiting Uttarakhand for the final inspection. He added that letter has been sent to the union government that everything is ready for holding the games. The main participants for SAF Winter Games include Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Maldives and Bhutan. Notably, after the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, the Indo-Pak impasse had taken its toll on the SAF Winter Games. The games were scheduled to be held in month of February-March 2009 but were postponed. Though at that time, officials had cited some other reasons for the postponement of the games but sources said that participation of Pakistan in the games was doubtful, following which the decision to postpone the games was taken. Notably, funds amounting to about Rs 102 crores have been spent on setting up sports infrastructure for the games. While a new slope for Skiing, snow gun, artificial lake has been set up in Auli, Ice Skating Rink and international standard swimming pool have come up in Dehradun.
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After polishing off the remaining four wickets in quick time to restrict India to 426 in the first innings, the in-form Dilshan (112) took centrestage with a fine exhibition of strokeplay to steer the islanders to a comfortable 275 for three at close on the second day.
