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India deserve No.1 spot: Murali
India remain top Test side, Sehwag second
Kalmadi writes to MPs, defends himself
Kalmadi should quit if guilty: Digvijay
CWG: NZ names boxers
Indian rugby team win
Aditya ends 4th
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India-Lanka-NZ Tri-Series
Dambulla, August 10 Virender Sehwag had struggled for runs on this ground during the Asia Cup and it continued here as the two-paced nature of the pitch and the sharp movement threw his timing off-key. To his credit Sehwag tried to see the new ball away, choosing to leave them outside the off stump, as Daryl Tuffey and Kyle Mills got disconcerting bounce from a length despite not bending their backs. Dinesh Karthik looked more assured and adjusted to the pitch by marking his guard well out of the crease. He unfurled a couple of pleasing boundaries, through the covers and wide of mid on, to calm the early nerves. Sehwag cashed in on the few occasions when the seamers strayed into his business area - short and wide outside off - and India seemed to have survived the early challenge. Things were however about to change quickly. Earlier, skipper Ross Taylor and Scott Styris shared a 190-run fourth-wicket partnership to guide New Zealand to a challenging 288 against India in the first match of the triangular ODI series here today. Electing to bat, New Zealand collapsed to 28 for three in 6.5 overs but Taylor (95) and Styris (89) rescued the innings and set the platform for a huge total, before being shot out in 48.5 overs here. Newball bowlers Praveen Kumar and Ashish Nehra shared seven wickets between them to strangle the New Zealand top and lower order and helped India bowl out their rivals inside 300. New Zealand had a tottering start, losing three wickets inside seven overs with the scoreboard reading just 28 but Taylor and Styris stemmed the rot. — PTI Scoreboard
New Zealand: Ingram c Dhoni b Nehra 12 (17) Guptill c Dhoni b Praveen 11 (6) Taylor lbw Nehra 95 (113) Williamson b Praveen 0 (9) Styris b Ojha 89 (95) Oram lbw b Nehra 14 (10) Elliott st Dhoni b Yuvraj 7 (13) Hopkins c Karthik b Praveen 10 (11) Tuffey c Ojha b Nehra 19 (13) Mills run out 9 (5) McKay not out 0 (1) Extras (b 1, lb 12, w 9) 22 Total (all out; 48.5 overs) 288 Bowling: Praveen 9-3-43-3, Nehra 9.5-1-47-4, Mithun 4-0-24-0, Ojha 10-0-58-1, Yuvraj 4-0-23-1, Sehwag 3-0-17-0. India: Karthik lbw Tuffey 14 (20) Sehwag c Hopkins b Mills 19 (23) Rohit c Taylor b Tuffey 4 (11) Yuvraj c Taylor b McKay 5 (25) Raina c Styris b Tuffey 6 (6) Dhoni run out 2 (9) Jadeja c Styris b Williamson 20 (44) Praveen c Taylor b Oram 1 (8) Mithun c Taylor b Oram 4 (16) Nehra c Oram b Mills 4 (11) Ojha not out 0 (4) Extras (w 9) 9 Total (10 wickets; 29.3 overs) 88 Bowling: Mills 6.3-2-26-2, Tuffey 8-1-34-3, McKay 6-0-11-1, Oram 6-0-15-2, Williamson 3-1-2-1. |
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India deserve No.1 spot: Murali
Muralitharan, who retired last month as Test cricket's highest wicket taker, had a completely different view on the system and said it was not necessary for a team to beat all other sides on tours before becoming number one. “India deserve to be the number one Test side because they won a lot of matches. They won against Australia in Australia, they won against England in England and they drew the recent series in Sri Lanka 1-1,” he told reporters on the eve of the launch of Champions League Twenty20 here. “You can’t criticise by saying that the point system is not good. That means you are trying to find fault with everyone. When some team deserves credit it should be given, you have to be honest,” Muralitharan said. “I think you can't justify by saying that you have to win home and away and then only you can be the number one. When Australia was the number one Test side, they had lost a series against us in Sri Lanka. Only in 2004, Australia won a series against us in Sri Lanka,” he added. “I think the ICC have got a system in place and they have done it to the best of their ability. It is fair enough and whoever is number one under this, they deserve it. No system can be perfect. There are nine Test playing countries and if you try to play home and away matches by each country, it will take five-six years to rotate and it is impractical,” he said. “I don't think age should be the criteria as long as you are fit. Performance is the criteria. Sachin Tendulkar is 37 and he is getting a century, double hundred and everything. I also took lots of wicket before retiring. Experience is the advantage in Test cricket though there should be balance. A mixture of youth and experience is ideal,” he said. He said Harbhajan should not be put under undue pressure for failing to perform in the recent Sri Lanka Test series and young tweakers like Pragyan Ojha and Amit Mishra should be given time.
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India remain top Test side, Sehwag second
Dubai, August 10 Sri Lanka have gained two places to be third in the latest list released today. India were earlier 11 points clear of South Africa but following their failure to win the series in Sri Lanka, the gap was reduced. Meanwhile, in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, VVS Laxman has gained four spots to occupy 12th with 761 points. India opener Virender Sehwag maintained his second position. Sangakkara, who contributed with scores of 219 and 42 not out, reclaimed the top spot which he previously occupied in 2009. Sachin Tendulkar also climbed two places to fourth in the rankings after his impressive double century in the second Test. In the ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers, Ishant Sharma has dropped one place to 22nd and Ajantha Mendis has slipped three places to 32nd. Amit Mishra has gained two places and is now 42nd, Suraj Randiv has vaulted 52 places to 50th spot and Pragyan Ojha has climbed 10 places to 51st spot. There is no change at the top of the table which is headed by South Africa's Dale Steyn followed by Pakistan Mohammad Asif. England's Stuart Broad has returned to the top 10 by climbing three places to join India's Harbhajan Singh in eighth spot. Virender Sehwag has achieved a career-best fifth position in the ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders. While Sehwag's 109 and zero allowed him to narrow the gap with Sangakkara, his match figures of 4-59 has helped him jump to 48th position in the bowling table.
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Modi submits IPL documents to ED
Mumbai, August 10 “I met one assistant director of the Enforcement Directorate and as requested by them submitted all documents pertaining to IPL,” Abdi said outside the agency office here. ED had in April this year registered a case against IPL under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) to enquire into unauthorised transfer of funds from abroad. The case was registered after the investigating agency received preliminary information that funds from abroad might have come in without the mandatory RBI permission. Modi's alleged misdeeds are also being probed by the BCCI's three-member disciplinary panel which has conducted three hearings on the matter without his presence. The panel comprises Chirayu Amin, IPL's interim Chairman, Arun Jaitley and Jyotiraditya Scindia. IPL GC to meet
on Aug 20
The Governing Council of the Indian Premier League will meet here on August 20, Cricket Board (BCCI) sources said today. “The IPL Governing Council will meet here on August 20,” said BCCI sources without revealing the agenda for the meeting. The GC is expected to get feedbacks from former India players Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri, who are all its members, on the contentious issue of retention of players by the original eight franchises for IPL IV and beyond at the upcoming players' auction. The same day the BCCI's marketing committee will also meet to open the tenders received for the upcoming season's home series title sponsorship rights, the sources said. Last month the BCCI floated tenders for title sponsorship rights for the two home series of Tests and ODIs against Australia and New Zealand. India and Australia are scheduled to play two Tests at Mohali and Bangalore and a series of three ODIs at Kochi, Vishakapatnam and Goa between October 1 and 24. India and New Zealand are scheduled to play three Tests (Ahmedabad, Kanpur and Nagpur) between November 4 and 24. They will also take part in a five-match ODI series between November 28 and December 10 with matches scheduled at Guwahati, Mohali, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai.
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Kalmadi writes to MPs, defends himself
“We had planned an elaborate function, but with a view to cut costs we scaled down the size of the function and decided to engage only local artists rather than fly them from India. We floated a global tender for the programme and appointed M/s Jack Morton Worldwide as event managers for the launch,” he wrote in the letter. Kalmadi, the Congress MP from Pune, said that video screens were installed at the venue of the launch in London only after the city police had insisted for that. “London police was insisting that video screens be installed at the venue to help crowd control but OC kept resisting that. After a meeting in London with the metro council on October 23, 2009, (suspended Deputy DG) Mr Sanjay Mohindroo reported that London police insisted that the video screens be installed or else the launch may not take place. “When I reached London on October 24, he gave me a hand written note, in which he mentioned that video screens were required and a payment of approximately Rs 1.2 crore needed to be cleared immediately. I asked him if it was budgeted and approved for. He said it was cleared and within budget. Then I made a noting on the handwritten note 'So late. We have no choice',” the letter said. “It was only an in-principle clearance. I have not signed on the invoice,” he added. Kalmadi, also chief of the Indian Olympic Association, denied entering into any contract with the company AM Cars and Vans for the programme held at Buckingham Palace. “Sanjay Mohindroo faxed the same note to Delhi office of the OC for processing. Payment was released after due processing, and by all concerned, including the certificate from a Chartered Accountant, through a bank transfer. This was within clearance from RBI for payments in foreign exchange,” he said. “As for there being a link between this payment and so called present contract/contracts between AM Cars and Vans and Sanjay Mohindroo, no official had lodged a copy of that contract with the OC. We are unaware of the existence of such contract,” Kalmadi said.
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Kalmadi should quit if guilty: Digvijay
Shahjahanpur/New Delhi: CWG Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalamadi today came under pressure from within the Congress over his continuance in the post in the wake of corruption allegations. Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh said Kalmadi should resign if his name figures in a CBI inquiry. “If his name is there prima facie in a CBI case, then on moral grounds he should resign,” he told reporters in Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh and demanded an inquiry by the central investigation agency. “I don't know whether there are charges... I am not demanding his resignation,” he said. Singh, who is the party in-charge of UP, is the second Congressman to speak on the raging controversy after Rajya Sabha MP Mani Shankar Aiyar's adverse comments on the holding of the Games.
Apparently targeting Kalmadi, Aiyar, a strong critic of the CWG, said that no one is indispensable and hosting "clean" Games should be the priority with less than two months to go for the event. “No one is indispensable and we should give clean Games to the world,” Aiyar told reporters outside Parliament.
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Focus on successful conduct of CWG: Milkha Singh
Chandigarh, August 10 Evidently miffed over the alleged corruption on large scale by some of the organisers, the legendary runner said if they people had character they would resign themselves from their posts. “Everybody knows about the level of damage to the our nation’s image by these shameless people. If they have character, they will resign. But I think the time is too short to think on such matters. At this moment, the concerned authorities should just focus on the successful conduct of the games,” said Milkha Singh. However, he admitted that the insult at international level had brought shame to the country and it was possible that many countries and reputed sportspersons would withdraw themselves from the games for the reasons. Milkha Singh, who is the only athlete of the country who had won the gold medal in the CWG so far, also expressed disappointment over the way of preparation of athletes for the games. “It would be considered enough if our athletes manage to win even a single medal in the forthcoming games. In athletics there are as many as 150 medals (50 each gold, silver and bronze) in athletics only. After seeing the standard of our athletes, I have serious doubt that we would be able to win even a single medal in athletics,” he said. Milkha Singh said he was sorry to say that the Indian athletes would cut a sorry figure in the sport and that would bring down the morale of the Indian youths. “The country's honour is at stake. The damage has been done. Only the successful conduct of the games could save some honours for us,” summed up Milkha Singh. |
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CWG: NZ names boxers
Wellington, August 10 The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) today named young boxer Joseph Parker in the team, which will also have the likes of Commonwealth Championship bronze medallist and world number 21, Nathan McEwen (75kg) and Angus Donaldson (60kg) who won silver at the Oceania Championships among others.
— PTI
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Indian rugby team win
Chandigarh, August 10 The 2nd Days results of the Indian team are given below. Earlier India won all its 6 games on Day 1. Indian Captain Nasser Hussain said, “All in all a great outing and the boys played really well. All seem really tired and exhausted. 10 games in 2 days. A hell of a lot of rugby!”
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Aditya ends 4th
Nurburgring, August 10 A bad start meant that Altfrid Heger and Pro driver Felix Tigges were on either side of Aditya, each trying to squeeze him out. This led to a massive pile up on the main straight with these two cars spinning in front of Aditya leaving him with damage to his steering.
— PTI
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