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SL Tour of India
Brasa dismisses ‘revolt’ reports, rules out quitting
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Satinder Sharma brings honour to country
Ranji Trophy
France, Portugal through to World Cup finals
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SL Tour of India
Ahmedabad, November 19 After being buried by a massive 334-run first innings lead mainly built around a world record sixth wicket partnership between Mahela Jayawardene (275) and Prasanna Jayawardene (154 not out), the Indians reached 190 for two in their second innings at stumps on the penultimate day, still trailing by 144 runs. The hosts still have a daunting task to prevent the Lankans from recording their first Test triumph on Indian soil as they have to bat out the entire last day on a Motera track which was expected to deteriorate and assist the spinners. But Indians have an experienced batting line up and should fancy their chances of saving the match which has turned out to be a nightmare for the bowlers. Gautam Gambhir and night watchman Amit Mishra were at the crease at stumps on a day which saw Mahela and Prasanna breaking the 72-year-old world record for the highest sixth-wicket partnership in Tests by putting on a 351-run stand. The home team first lost Virender Sehwag and then Rahul Dravid was distinctly unlucky to get a dubious leg before decision at the fag end of the day. The hosts started off confidently with Sehwag and Gambhir putting on 81 runs before spinner Rangana Harath provided the breakthrough for the visitors. Sehwag perished to a rather injudicious stroke and offered a simple catch to Angelo Mathews and the Indians suffered a big jolt towards the end of the day when Dravid was adjudged leg before to Welegedara delivery which television replays showed would have missed leg stump. Resuming at the overnight score of 591 for five, the Sri Lankas carried on from where they had left and ensured that a number of batting records fell by the wayside.
— PTI Scoreboard India (!st innings) 426 Sri Lanka (1st innings) Jayawardene b Mishra 275 India (2nd innings) Gambhir not out 74 |
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Brasa dismisses ‘revolt’ reports, rules out quitting
New Delhi, November 19 “All the reports of the players’ revolt are false. They do not have even an iota of truth. I have good relations with the players and my association with Indian hockey would be for a longer period,” Brasa said. According to reports, some senior players including former captain Sandeep Singh are not happy with the Brasa’s style of functioning and have even shot a letter to Hockey India in this regard. The incident has forced HI President A K Mattoo to dash off to Pune to take stock of the situation as the players have assembled in the Baelwadi Sports Complex there for a preparatory Camp ahead of next month’s Champions Challenge tournament in Argentina. Asked whether he has spoken to the players about the reported revolt, Brasa said, “I don’t need to talk to them because I am with them 24 hours and I know what they think about me.” Brasa also said that no Hockey India official has spoken to him on the issue as yet. “No one has approached me as yet and no one has asked for any clarification and explanation,” he said. Already unhappy with the slow pace with which Sports Authority of India works, Brasa also criticised the way Indian hockey players were being treated at the ongoing camp. “I have complained many a times about the food menu for the players and no one seems to be listening. Players are getting almost same type of food everyday. The chicken given to them is no more than bones. I don’t understand this.” “I have prepared a menu for the players but no one follows that. I don’t understand when things will change,” he fumed. — PTI
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Satinder Sharma brings honour to country
Chandigarh, November 19 “It is the ultimate for an international hockey umpire to aspire for. I started my umpiring career in Sydney in 2000 when the FIH called me for duty in a four-nation tournament. Since then I have been to two Olympic games, two World Cups, five Champions Trophy tournaments, one Asian Games and two Junior World Cups. The games of Junior World Cup are, however, not counted towards the award of the golden whistle,” says Satinder Sharma, who in his college and university days represented Chandigarh Rock Rovers as a player. He got his golden whistle last week at Invercargill in New Zealand where he had gone to supervise matches in a World Cup Qualifying tournament. Pam Elgar, President, Oceania Hockey Federation, presented him the golden whistle before the start of the China-Scotland game. Satinder Sharma has so far officiated in 117 international matches, including 13 games in two Junior World Cups. He is on the world panel of umpires of the FIH and is perhaps one of the most capped South Asian. For him, the most interesting game of his career was when he was called to whistle in the Olympic games. The most exciting moment was the final of the Champions Trophy in Madrid that was between Germany and the Netherlands. Normally, the final games of prestigious tournaments like Champions Trophy are given to European umpires. Intriguingly, Satinder Sharma has been going to international tournaments on nomination from the FIH. He says that Indian umpiring is coming up with some bright umpires in Raghu and Javed. Satinder Sharma has already been nominated on the umpiring panel for the 2010 World Cup in New Delhi. Now at 44, he can continue umpiring till he attains the age of 47 after which the FIH can take him on the Judges panel or Manager Umpire panel.
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Ranji Trophy
Amritsar, November 19 At stumps, the home team was 114 for 5 in 38 overs against Tamil Nadu’s first inning score of 521 for nine in 131 overs. Left arm spinner R Srinivas made most of the spinner friendly pitch as he scalped three wickets. He clean bowled both the openers. Ravi Inder Singh fell to an in cutter while Vishwas Bhalla was caught behind the wickets by Dinesh Karthik. He got his third success in the form of Punjab captain Ankur KakKar who was caught by Yo Mahesh. Kakkar with 33 was the highest scorer for Punjab in the second innings. Off spinner R Ashwin got the remaining two wickets for the visitors. Uday Kaul was caught by R Satish on 16 while Madaan failed to judge his incoming ball and was declared LBW on 15. At the conclusion of today’s game Pankaj Dharmani was playing on 15 while Gaurav Gambhir was unbeaten on four. Earlier, Tamil Nadu resumed their first inning in the morning with its overnight batsman captain Dinesh Karthik scoring swashbuckling 117. He was caught by Khanna off Ravi Inder Singh. Brief Scores Punjab
(Ist innings) 228, J&K beat Kerala Powered by a second innings five wicket haul of Abid Nabi hosts beat Kerala by 194 runs. Visitors in their secon innings were skittled out for a paltry 81. Brief Scores J& K (1st innings): 164 Agarkar scores ton India discard Ajit Agarkar played a matured hand and scoered unbeaten 102 to take Mumbai to 335 in the second innings against Himachal Pradesh. He was ably supported by Abdullah and Jaffer. Brief Scores Mumbai (1st innings): 162
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France, Portugal through to World Cup finals
Paris, November 19 But the extra-time triumph came in controversial circumstances when French skipper Henry appeared to control the ball with his hand before his angled pass allowed William Gallas to head in the crucial 103rd-minute goal. The Portuguese, once again without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo, had won a hard-fought first leg 1-0 courtesy of a close-range header by Bruno Alves on Saturday and again had to be on their mettle. Meireles took a pass from Manchester United star Nani and slipped a low, precise shot past Kenan Hasagic in the Bosnian goal to settle the tie — AFP
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