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4th ODI at Kolkata Delhi Daredevils Man of the Match Gautam Gambhir (150) and Virat Kohli (107) help India chase down Sri Lanka’s 315, to wrap up the series, with 11 balls and a match to spare Kolkata, December 24 The wobbly start notwithstanding, it was a clinical chase by the Indians who cruised to 317 for three in 48.1 overs to go 3-1 up in the five-match series. Gambhir, who became the newest member of the 3000-run club, faced 137 balls in his controlled innings, hitting 14 fours in the process. Kohli’s mature 114-ball knock was studded with 11 fours and a six. Earlier, Upul Tharanga (118) hit his seventh ODI century and starred in a 126-run partnership with captain Kumar Sangakkara (60) as Sri Lanka posted 315 for six, the highest score at the venue till India overwhelmed it. After Tharanga and Sangakkara had laid the perfect platform for a late charge, debutant Thissara Perera hit a 14-ball 31 to make the most of the batting powerplay and help the visitors cross the 300-mark. Both the teams now move to Delhi for the fifth and final ODI on Sunday. India’s chase got off to a wobbly start and the Eden Gardens crowd watched in horror as the home side lost both their openers inside four overs with Suranga Lakmal, playing only his second ODI, being the party-pooper. Stand-in skipper Virender Sewag (10) had begun with a bang, sending the first ball of the innings from Perera to the rope, a treatment he repeated four balls later. Lakmal, however, had other ideas and his fourth delivery took an edge off Sehwag's blade and nestled into point fielder Tillakaratne Dilshan’s safe palms. In his next over, Lakmal induced Sachin Tendulkar (8) for a doomed cut and Suraj Randiv sent groans across the stadium when he took the catch at cover point. Their team in dire strait, Kohli and Gambhir showed tremendous maturity as they rebuilt the innings, brick by brick, with some sensible cricket. For someone who owes his place in the side to Yuvraj Singh's finger injury, Kohli asserted himself with four successive boundaries off Lasith Malinga’s first over. Subsequent overs were not equally rewarding but both ran hard to maintain the run rate. Kohli fell soon after his century but by then, India had the match in the bag. —
PTI Scoreboard
Sri Lanka Tharanga b Zaheer 118(128) Dilshan c Kohli b Nehra 9 (19) Jayasuriya c Tendulkar b Zaheer 15(15) Sangakkara st Karthik b Harbhajan 60(72) Jayawardene run out 33 (30) Perera c Jadeja b Nehra 31 (14) Kandamby not out 23(15) Samaraweera not out 13 (7) Extras (lb 3, w 10) 13 Total (6 wickets; 50 overs) 315 Fall of wickets: 1-31, 2-72, 3-198, 4-234, 5-271, 6-287. Bowling Zaheer 10-0-49-2, Nehra 9-1-68-2, Ishant 7-0-67-0, Harbhajan 10-0-53-1, Jadeja 9-1-51-0, Sehwag 3-0-15-0, Raina 2-0-9-0. India Sehwag c Dilshan b Lakmal 10 (10) Tendulkar c Randiv b Lakmal 8 (8) Gambhir not out 150 (137) Kohli c sub b Randiv 107 (114) Karthik not out 19 (22) Extras (lb 5, w 16, nb 2) 23 Total (3 wickets; 48.1 overs) 317 Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-23, 3-247. Bowling: Perera 9-0-66-0, Lakmal 10-0-55-2, Randiv 10-0-57-1, Jayasuriya 7-0-42-0, Dilshan 3-0-17-0.
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Mumbai ride on Rahane’s ton
Rohtak, December 24 While Haryana pace duo Joginder Sharama and Sanjay Budhwar struck once each, Sachin Rana’s two wickets in two balls pushed Mumbai on the backfoot. However, Rahane who is in tremendous form, and seasoned Agarkar combined well to steady the rocking ship with their fighting fifth wicket stand. Rana with his medium pace was at it again when he broke the partnership in the last session of the day by trapping Agarkar. The discarded India paceman battled for 166 balls and during his almost four hour vigil at the crease he struck nine fours and a six. Rahane who came out to bat as early as in the fourth over, at the fall of opener Sahil Kukreja, was rock solid and batted through the day to rescue his side. His patient knock came off 267 balls with the help of 14 shots to the fence. Brief Scores: Mumbai (1st Innings) 238 for 5 (Rahane 116*, Agarkar 78) Kaul, Bhalla take Punjab to 292 for 9 MYSORE: Uday Kaul (68) and Vishwas Bhalla (61 batting) hit half-centuries as Punjab survived two batting collapse to reach a healthy 292 for nine on the opening day of the Ranji Trophy quarterfinals against Karnataka here today. The Karnataka pace attack used the conditions well in the morning at the Gangotri Glades to destabilise the Punjab batting as the visitors were in dire straits at 160 for five after being invited to bat first by skipper Rahul Dravid. However, a fighting 68 by Uday Kaul and rearguard action by Vishwas Bhalla (61 batting) and Harmeet Singh (11 batting) saved Punjab the blushes of being bowled out for a paltry first innings score. Abhimanyu Mithun, who consistently propels the cherry at speeds over 140, began the slide removing Sunny Sohal and Ravi Inder Singh (30) inside 14 overs. But a fighting third-wicket 46-run association between Kaul and Mayank Sidhana briefly stemmed the rot. R Vinay Kumar soon produced the breakthrough by evicting Sidhana from the crease, before accounting the scalps of skipper Pankaj Dharmani (29) and Taruwar Kohli (5) to leave the visitors tottering at 160 for five in 47.4 overs. Vinay thus took his season's tally to an impressive 36 wickets from six matches. Brief Scores: Punjab (1st innings) 292 for 9 (Kaul 68, Bhalla 61*, Joshi 4 for 62). — PTI
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Sports not ‘healthy’ for girls?
Chandigarh, December 24 Only in July this year, the manager of Indian women’s T20 cricket team, Chamundeswarnath, hawked newspaper headlines after several women players complained against sexual harassment and nepotism by him. Besides, they also accused him of sending lewd SMSs. The Andhra Pradesh government ordered an inquiry after a police case was registered against him on the complaint of a woman cricketer. Intriguingly, a minute percentage of total cases of exploitation and sexual harassment of girl and women athletes are reported to the police or highlighted in the media as the victims and their parents prefer to quit the sports scene to avoid “public disgrace”. Some years ago a male swimming coach was accused of under water sexual misconduct with girl trainees. But the case was hushed up after his transfer. It is one reason that many parents do not want their daughters to take to competitive sports. The problem is not only confined to India but is prevalent world over as even the International Olympic Committee had in February 2007 adopted a consensus position statement on sexual harassment and abuse in sport. The statement was prepared by a group of experts at a seminar in Lausanne, the headquarters of the IOC, at a seminar a year earlier. The statement not only defines the problems but also identifies the risk factors and provides guidelines for prevention and resolution. In spite of rigorous guidelines and instructions issued from time to time, male coaches, managers and other male officials continue to accompany girls and women teams for tournaments and competitions. Indian women’s’ T20 cricket team has been the glaring example. Even if one takes a wide look at the sports management infrastructure in the country, it is essentially a male bastion. Even games and sports that primarily have dominant women participation, management, including coaching, remain in the male domain. Most of these sports managers are either bureaucrats or politicians who refuse to leave the sports bodies alone even after several terms of three to five years each in office. At times, cases of exploitation of school and college girls or junior team officials get highlighted in the media. But subsequent pressures from the powerful sports managers force the complainants to withdraw. For example, cases of girl and women swimmers, tennis and badminton players from the northern region being sexually harassed, never progressed beyond the complaint. Naturally, exploitation is more in individual sports than team games. And Ruchika unfortunately wanted to be tennis player, again an individual event. |
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Godina to train Om Parkash
Ravi Dhaliwal
Bathinda, December 24 In the discipline of athletics, the Indians are not expecting much in terms of medals in the Commonwealth games as African countries are all set to win middle distance and long distance events while England and Australia will be eyeing the sprints and other short distance events. The AFI is hoping to bag just a couple of medals and this includes one in shot put from Om Parkash Singh. An AFI official disclosed that the decks had been cleared for Singh to go to Phoenix, the base of three-time world champion John Godina. A sum of Rs 15 lacs has been earmarked by the sports ministry for Singh’s 112 day oversees trip. AFI officials disclose that going by his performance in Guangzhou (China) in Asian Athletic meet held last month, where he heaved the iron ball to a distance of 19.87 meters, Singh is widely perceived to be a medal winner in his event. Sources revealed that at Phoenix, Singh will be training in the elite company of American Daniel Taylor who, at present, is ranked No 4 in the world. Om Parkash Singh came up with his personal best of 21.78 meters in the Inter State meet held at Chennai in November and this splendid performance was one factor which prompted AFI to take up his foreign tour issue with the Sports Ministry. AFI officials feel that if Singh keeps up his plus 20 meter performance can end up winning a rare athletic medal in the Commonwealth games. Godina won the silver in the 1996 Atlanta and the bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and has also been crowned champion in the 1995 Gothenburg, 1997 Edinburgh and 2001 Edmonton world championships. He is a Jesse Owens award winner and is also working as a volunteer with the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
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JCT bow out of Federation Cup
Silchar, December 24 Not that JCT did not get their chances in the Group A outing. One such opportunity came Daljit Singh's way early in the match but the JCT player shot wide. For the Kerala side, Shibin Lal was equally off-target after receiving a Karma corner inside the box. JCT nearly scored in the 20th minute when Balwant Singh played a one-two with Henry and unleashed a powerful shot which was blocked by Viva Kerala custodian EC Sharath and Baldeep Singh’s effort on the rebound ricocheted off the crossbar. On another occasion, Balwant's header off a Harish Sharma free kick missed the mark by a whisker. Realising how time was running out, JCT upped the ante in the second half and Rakinderjit Singh sent a 25-yard piledriver which was parried away by an alert Sharath. The Kerala outfit almost scored against the run of play in the 70th minute but Karma’s shot from 18 yards was well saved by JCT keeper Karanjit Singh. —
PTI JCT get three
matches at Ludhiana
NEW DELHI: JCT will get three home matches at Ludhiana in the ninth to 13th round of the ONGC I-League, resuming on January 1 with a match between Mohun Bagan and Churchill Brothers at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata. On the same day, Chirag United (Kolkata) will meet East Bengal at the Barasat stadium in Kolkata while Mumbai FC will take on Salgaocar in Mumbai. In all 35 matches will be played, and at the end of the 13th round, the current edition of the I-League will have completed 91 matches. After the conclusion of the 13th round on February 3, nine rounds more would be played before the champion football club are decided by the end of April, or the first week of May. (Leverage has been given to take care of postponement of matches due to unforseen circumstances). JCT, the only team from North India to feature in the I-League, will play their first match in the ninth round against Pune FC at Ludhiana on January 9. JCT will then travel to Calicut (Kerala) to play against Viva, take on Chirag United in Kolkata on January 24 before returning home to clash against Sporting Clube De Goa at Ludhiana on January 28. JCT play their 13th round match against Air India at Ludhiana on February 2. —
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Gautam Gambhir notched up his seventh century while Virat Kohli struck his maiden to script India’s
series -clinching seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the fourth cricket ODI here today. Chasing 316 to win the tie and seal the series with one match to go, India found themselves in the morass at 23 for two before Gambhir (150
n.o.) starred in an 224-run stand with Virat Kohli (107) to inject fresh life into the chase and then completed the formality in Dinesh Karthik’s (19
n.o.) company.
Rohtak, December 24
Bathinda, December 24
